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Sheikh Abu Hamza, the extremist Muslim cleric, is facing imminent arrest on a US extradition warrant after a former close associate pleaded guilty to helping the Taliban. Hamza claimed yesterday that James Ujaama, an American convert to Islam, had been coerced into giving evidence against him that would lead to "a gross miscarriage of justice". Ujaama, 37, who ran Hamza's website and worshipped at his Finsbury Park mosque in north London, has struck a plea bargain agreement to give evidence against Hamza on terrorist allegations. He has already supplied the US authorities, who have designated Hamza as a key al-Qa'eda...

To the cheers of immigrant-rights advocates, the Seattle City Council yesterday adopted a "don't ask" policy prohibiting police and other city workers from asking about the immigration status of people they come in contact with. The ordinance, sponsored by City Councilman Nick Licata, was touted as a symbolic rejoinder to the Bush administration's war on terrorism, which critics argue has eroded important civil liberties, especially for recent immigrants, both legal and illegal. "It is just an incredibly frightening time," said City Councilwoman Judy Nicastro. While there was no visible opposition to the ordinance yesterday, some police officers have questioned the...

Sheikh Abu Hamza al-Masri, the imam of Finsbury Park mosque, stands accused in the United States of attempting to establish a terrorist cell there to "engage in violent global jihad". Hamza, 45, is the key figure in a federal grand jury investigation in Seattle which accuses him of being a terrorist recruiter and names one of his followers as an al-Qa'eda agent in the US. James Ujaama, a black Muslim activist, faces trial later this year on charges of trying to set up a terrorist training camp in Bly, Oregon. Hamza is not named on the indictment against Ujaama but...

Pentagon blocks use of witnesses in Ujaama caseBy Mike Carter and Ray RiveraSeattle Times staff reporters As federal prosecutors in Seattle prepare their case against American terrorism suspect James Ujaama, their access to three key witnesses is being denied — by other federal officials. The Justice Department and the Pentagon are in a tense standoff over the use of so-called "enemy combatants" who are in the custody of the Department of Defense at bases in Cuba, Afghanistan and Pakistan. Prosecutors want to be able to use some detainees as witnesses in terror-related criminal cases filed in U.S. courts — including...

Update on the "Jehad is Crap" operation -- it turns out one of the people on the video tapes was Ujaama. This story keeps getting more interesting. Wednesday, November 13, 2002 - 01:19 p.m. Pacific Video shows Ujaama talking about jihad By Ray RiveraSeattle Times staff reporter James Ujaama A newly released videotape shows James Ujaama, a Seattle man accused of conspiring to help al-Qaida, sitting side-by-side with suspected al-Qaida recruiter Abu Hamza al-Masri and participating in a discussion of jihad. Ujaama's supporters have downplayed his connections to radical Islam. But the video, shot in a London mosque sometime before...

Monday, November 4, 2002 Muslim community under a lens Sniper suspect's connection to Islam worries some followers By REBECCA COOK THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The arrest of John Muhammad in the D.C.-area sniper shootings sent shock waves through the Puget Sound region's Muslim community. Not because they knew him, but because they'd never heard of this guy who called himself a Muslim. For a religious community that started with three Seattle families in the 1960s and has increased to about 30,000 people today, Muhammad's tenuous connection felt like a slap in the face. Muhammad, who lived in Tacoma and Bellingham, converted...

Feds raid homes in South County - Pacific, Federal Way residences searched for drugs and guns 2002-11-06 by Jamie Swift Journal Reporter A 70-member federal task force raided two south King County homes early Tuesday morning searching for weapons and drugs. FBI officials offered little information Tuesday afternoon about the raids conducted in Federal Way and Pacific. Ray Lauer, spokesman for the FBI, would not discuss what may have been seized or the individuals the investigation targets. Agents from the FBI, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms and the Secret Service knocked on the front door at 301 Third Ave....

Jewish World Review July 31, 2002 / 22 Menachem-Av, 5762 Michelle Malkin The friends of James Ujaama http://www.NewsAndOpinion.com | Just when you think you know somebody, he goes and gets himself detained by the FBI for questioning in connection with alleged ties to the terrorist network of Osama bin Laden. So, who do you stand by: your country or an individual who you've known all your life-but who may not be what he seems to be? Such is the predicament of the friends and relatives of James Ujaama, a 36-year-old American black Muslim convert also known as James Earnest Thompson...

Tuesday, October 1, 2002 Ujaama ordered held without bail THE ASSOCIATED PRESS A federal magistrate on Tuesday ordered an American Muslim held without bail on charges of trying to set up a terrorist training camp in Oregon, saying the court had no other way of ensuring he would appear for trial. James Ujaama, who grew up in Seattle, was arrested July 22 in Denver. He was held as a material witness until Aug. 29, when a grand jury in Seattle indicted him on one count of conspiracy to provide material support and resources for the al-Qaida terrorist network, and another...

September 10, 2002 Watch this story in Windows Media.Report raises questions about Northwest ties to terrorism PORTLAND - A report published Tuesday questions whether the Portland Islamic Center--a place where a Portland Muslim recently arrested by a terrorism task-force preached--raised money for a charity linked to Osama bin Laden. The charity was headed by bin Laden's personal secretary, Wadih el Hage, who ran it from Texas before he was convicted for his role in the bombings of two U.S. embassies in Africa. A court document from Hage's indictment reveals an Oregon connection. In fact, Oregon has been tied to...

<p>DENVER (AP) --  A man accused of trying to help Islamic terrorists was injured in a fight with another prisoner at a Virginia jail, officials said.</p> <p>James Ujaama, 36, and an unidentified inmate got into a fight Wednesday in the gymnasium, Justice Department spokesman Drew Wade said Thursday. He said the men were fighting over a newspaper. Ujaama, an American Muslim activist from Seattle, suffered a lump on his forehead and an abrasion on a cheek, Wade said.</p>

'I love bin Laden ... I hate Bush': Man connected to Ujaama, hijacking suspect speaks out By David Heath Seattle Times staff reporter A Swedish citizen suspected of conspiring with a former Seattle man to open a terrorist training camp in Oregon also has links to a Swede suspected of planning to hijack an airliner in Europe last week. Oussama Kassir, 36, an unemployed engineer in Stockholm, was an unnamed and uncharged co-conspirator in the indictment of James Ujaama last week. Federal officials say Kassir and another man went to Bly, Ore., with Ujaama in late 1999 to scout out...

Tuesday, September 03, 2002, 12:00 a.m. Pacific'I love bin Laden ... I hate Bush': Man connected to Ujaama, hijacking suspect speaks outBy David HeathSeattle Times staff reporter A Swedish citizen suspected of conspiring with a former Seattle man to open a terrorist training camp in Oregon also has links to a Swede suspected of planning to hijack an airliner in Europe last week. Oussama Kassir, 36, an unemployed engineer in Stockholm, was an unnamed and uncharged co-conspirator in the indictment of James Ujaama last week. Federal officials say Kassir and another man went to Bly, Ore., with Ujaama in late...

Man indicted in Seattle on charges of setting up Oregon training camp for al Qaeda members. Details to come. For the latest news, watch CNN or log on to

A former Seattle man's alleged attempt to profit from a plan to build terrorist training camps in the United States apparently landed members of his family and his mosque in the middle of a global terrorism investigation.After the effort failed, James Ujaama reportedly had to fend off death threats from one of two al-Qaida operatives who arrived expecting to conduct training exercises at a ranch in the Oregon desert, only to discover there were no recruits waiting to join the jihad, or holy war.     Now, three years later, the aborted scheme to help advance the cause of Islamic...

Just when you think you know somebody, he goes and gets himself detained by the FBI for questioning in connection with alleged ties to the terrorist network of Osama bin Laden. So, whom do you stand by: your country or an individual who you've known all your life -- but who may not be what he seems to be? Such is the predicament of the friends and relatives of James Ujaama, a 36-year-old American black Muslim convert also known as James Earnest Thompson and Ahmed Bilal, who was born in Denver, raised in Seattle, and moved to London in...

Just when you think you know somebody, he goes and gets himself detained by the FBI for questioning in connection with alleged ties to the terrorist network of Osama bin Laden. So, who do you stand by: your country or an individual who you've known all your life-but who may not be what he seems to be? Such is the predicament of the friends and relatives of James Ujaama, a 36-year-old American black Muslim convert also known as James Earnest Thompson and Ahmed Bilal, who was born in Denver, raised in Seattle, and moved to London in 1996 to worship...

<p>July 30, 2002 -- Two suspected al Qaeda terrorists who were arrested last week by federal officials were planning to poison the country's water supplies, it was reported last night.</p> <p>One of the suspects, James Ujaama, 36, was arrested last week in Denver.</p>

An Algerian who infiltrated a London mosque for the British intelligence service has shed new light on suspected links between the 1999 activities at an Oregon ranch and the al-Qaida terror network. In a telephone interview from London yesterday, Reda Hassaine said two Egyptian-born men known to have visited the Bly, Ore., ranch and are suspected of inspecting it as a possible terror-training camp are direct subordinates of the London-based Muslim radical Abu Hamza. The two men came to Hamza's mosque in 1998 directly from terror-training camps in Afghanistan, he said.Hamza, a London cleric who lost both hands and an...

<p>WASHINGTON — Federal officials have arrested two Al Qaeda terror suspects in the U.S. with documents in their possession about how to poison the country's water supplies, Fox News has learned.</p> <p>The first case involves James Ujaama, who surrendered to the FBI last week in Denver. Sources say they found documents about water poisoning among several other terrorism-related documents in his Denver residence.</p>