Posted on 10/01/2015 11:51:50 AM PDT by LRoggy
NEW YORK (AP) - A mentally ill British man pleaded guilty Monday to U.S. charges he plotted to set up an al-Qaida training camp on a ranch in a remote part of Oregon that was likened to Afghanistan.
Haroon Aswat admitted he traveled to Bly, Oregon, in 1999 at the direction of Mustafa Kamel Mustafa, a double-amputee and radical cleric based in London. His orders were to help train recruits "who wanted to participate in jihad on behalf of a terrorist organization," he said in a barely audible voice at the sentencing in federal court in Manhattan.
Before pleading guilty to conspiracy and supporting terrorism, the Sheffield, England-born Aswat told U.S. District Judge Katherin Forrest that he had been diagnosed with schizophrenia at 20. The judge ruled that the sentencing could go forward because the defendant was under medical care and showing no symptoms.
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Not a lone wolf, but a mentally ill man. Is this going to be the new theme from now on? Mentally ill will describe sharia types?
Is it anywhere near Umpqua?
Some FReepers really crack me up. Still laughing.
That’s oneless camp for the Donald to look into.
Is the media going to apologize to Trump on this one?
I wrote my post to the wrong thread.
So sorry.
Based on Google it’s about 3 1/2 hours away
Kinda makes one wonder how many training camps have been set up on the QT and haven’t been noticed by anyone....
Immigration moratorium for a few years is the step in the right direction to get out of this mess.
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