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(03-26) 12:44 PST (AP) -- In the documents filed in U.S. District Court in suburban Alexandria, Va., the FBI said that El-Yacoubi was carrying a four-page letter, written in Arabic, apparently from his younger brother, Abdalmuhssin El-Yacoubi, a student at the University of Virginia at Charlottesville, Va.
The pair also was carrying $2,000 in cash, a cellular telephone, a compass, calculator and video camera, the bureau said in its affidavit.
Although U.S. investigators allowed them to board the El Al flight from JFK International Airport in New York, authorities in Israel denied them entry, and they were forced to return to the United States, the papers said.
The affidavit quoted a passage from what it described as a suspicious letter: "When I heard what you are going to carry out, my heart was filled with the feeling of grief and joy because you are the closest human being to my heart."
The letter also said: "It is incumbent upon me to encourage you and help you, because Islam urges Jihad for the sake of Allah," according to the FBI.
"I believe that Abdalmuhssin drafted this extraordinary letter to his brother under these circumstances because, based on his conversations with Mohammed, he believed that his brother was about to engage in terrorist activity that he might not survive," wrote FBI Special Agent John V. Wyman, in the affidavit, submitted in support of a criminal complaint.
©2002 Associated Press
"It is incumbent upon me to encourage you and help you, because Islam urges Jihad for the sake of Allah," according to the FBI.
Sheees what ever happened to "Wish you were here!??"
How impotent must your political views be if you insist that your own family members pop their own heads off like dandelions in order to get people to listen ? ?
... Although U.S. investigators allowed them to board the El Al flight from JFK International Airport in New York, authorities in Israel denied them entry, and they were forced to return to the United States, the papers said."
Ever so slowly, the connection between Arafat's Black September hijackers and 9/11 becomes public...
Hmmmmmmmmmmm.............Inquiring minds want to know:
ahe6d@virginia.edu
Phone: (434)243-3118
My lord, it sounds like me on a trip....such dastardly devices....well at least they don't allow telescoping walking sticks anymore.