Lebanese News site:
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=1&categ_id=2&article_id=101002
“Lebanese author of Al-Qaeda training manuals set to stand trial”
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Christine Kearney
Reuters
SNIPPET: “NEW YORK: Jury selection began on Monday in the trial of a Lebanese-born Swedish man accused of helping set up a militant training camp in rural Oregon and operating websites showing how to assemble bombs. Oussama Abdullah Kassir, 43, who was extradited from the Czech Republic to New York in 2007, faces multiple charges, including supporting terrorism and Al-Qaeda, by attempting to set up the camp in Bly, Oregon from 1999 to early 2000.
Prosecutors say Kassir and two others involved in the case were followers of Egyptian-born Abu Hamza al-Masri, a one-armed Muslim cleric who is serving a seven-year sentence in Britain for inciting his followers to murder nonbelievers.
James Ujaama, a former community activist in Seattle, has pleaded guilty to trying to help Al-Qaeda militants and may testify at the trial in Manhattan federal court as part of a plea agreement.The other suspect in the case, Haroon Rashid Aswat, one of Masri’s chief aides, is appealing against extradition to the United States.”
SNIPPET: “Kassir, who was born in Lebanon but became a Swedish citizen in 1989, was arrested in Prague in 2005 during a layover while traveling from Stockholm to Beirut. Aswat, a British citizen, was arrested in Zambia. Masri, who also faces charges for helping plot the capture of 16 western hostages in Yemen in 1998, won an interim order in 2008 from the European Court of Human Rights blocking his extradition to the United States.
Masri and Aswat’s extradition appeals are pending before the court.”
“Swedish”? Nonsense...once a Lebanese Muslim - ALWAYS a Lebanese MUSLIM. When are people going to acknowlege that blood is thicker than water?