One of the prime Oregon connections with Captain Hook was/is James Ujaama, one of the Portland 7. He rolled over on Captain Hook last April. It has taken this long to arrest him. I have the feeling that Brit Intel and our Intel have been monitoring any contacts made by him or with him.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/893967/posts
Ex-associate paves the way for Abu Hamza's arrest
The Daily Telegraph ^ | April 16, 2003 | Sean O'Neill
Posted on 04/15/2003 5:03:52 PM PDT by MadIvan
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 recruiter in Europe, with information that they hope to use to indict the cleric.
Ujaama admitted to a court in Seattle that in late 2000, under orders from Hamza, he escorted Feroz Abbasi, a student from Croydon now detained at Guantanamo Bay, to an al-Qa'eda camp in Afghanistan "to undergo violent jihad training". While in Afghanistan, Ujaama also delivered cash and installed software programmes on computers belonging to Taliban officials.
Ujaama pleaded guilty to conspiring to support the Taliban. Prosecutors in Seattle have asked that he be jailed for two years instead of the 10-year term applicable for the offence. Other charges against him were dropped.
John Ashcroft, the US attorney general, said he expected that Ujaama's decision to co-operate with the authorities would "lead to the arrest of additional terrorists and the disruption of future terrorist activity".
But in a statement issued through his solicitors, Hamza said the American prosecutors had been "exerting pressure" on Ujaama "in order to coerce him to facilitate evidence of the nature that they wished to be provided with".
He added: "It comes as no surprise that James Ujaama under such pressure whilst on remand away from his family in the UK is likely to provide evidence which is tainted."
My guess is the TerrorSlob and/or Padilla are singing, and we are starting to be able to connect the dots in the global terror network.
Some people are going to be deeply saddened.
They worked too hard to connect the dots. I'm sure this guy applied for tax exempt status for his camp and all we have to do is check Mayor Katz's files to see it was granted! < /only slightly sarcastic>
