Wasn't this guy from Toledo?
Posted on 02/21/2006 4:43:47 PM PST by iPod Shuffle
Three charged in conspiracy against US troops
Tue Feb 21, 2006 4:09 PM ET
By Deborah Charles
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A federal grand jury in Ohio indicted three men with plotting to kill people overseas, including U.S. troops in Iraq, and one was charged with threatening President George W. Bush, court documents showed on Tuesday.
The indictment said the three men -- Mohammad Zaki Amawi, 26, Marwan Othman el-Hindi, 42, and Wassim Mazloum, 24 -- were part of a conspiracy that began in November 2004.
"It was part of the conspiracy that one or more conspirators would recruit others to train for violent jihad against the United States and its allies in Iraq, and elsewhere, and would propose potential training sites for use in providing ongoing firearms, hand-to-hand combat, explosives and other paramilitary training to prospective recruits," the indictment said.
The men were arrested over the weekend and indicted in the U.S. District Court in Ohio.
"These defendants have been living in the United States where they have been engaging in weapons training and seeking to provide help in order to kill people abroad, including our troops," U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said.
He told a news conference the men face a possible sentence of life in prison if convicted.
Gonzales would not give any details when asked how far the men had gotten in carrying out possible attacks or whether they had actually obtained any explosive devices.
According to the indictment, Amawi is a citizen of Jordan and the United States, Mazloum is a legal U.S. resident and el-Hindi is a naturalized U.S. citizen born in Jordan. All three had lived in the Toledo, Ohio, area.
'THE TRAINER'
They worked with a U.S. citizen identified in the indictment only as "the Trainer." The indictment said the Trainer, who was not charged in the case, had a U.S. military background and was recruited by el-Hindi in 2002 to help provide security and bodyguard training.
U.S. Attorney Greg White said information about the three men came from the community. He said the Trainer was one source of the information.
As part of the conspiracy, the men researched and solicited potential funding sources for jihad training, the indictment said.
The men were also accused of gathering and viewing training materials, some from Web sites, for use in training sessions.
Amawi was charged with downloading a video, "Martyrdom Operation Vest Preparation," on how to make a suicide bomb vest. He was also charged with two counts of making verbal threats against President George W. Bush.
The indictment said the men used code words to communicate with co-conspirators in the Middle East. It said they tried to find and provide various resources and materials requested by the co-conspirators for use in fighting against the U.S. military and coalition forces in Iraq and elsewhere.
The resources included money, training, explosives, communications equipment, computers or personnel.
YES - let them choose, firing squad or hanging. Both public.
Venting is a good thing. :-)
Was that Al Gore by any chance? :-)
Oh my, your senario would be "cruelty" wouldn't it? Tisk, tisk! :-)
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