U.S. Recruit Reveals How Qaeda Screens Foreigners
Bryant Neal Vinas, the once-aimless young man who journeyed from Long Island to Pakistan to join Al Qaeda, agreed to carry out a suicide bomb attack last year....
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/24/nyregion/24terror.html?_r=1&pagewanted=2
Police Arrest Jakarta Blast Suspect With Follow-Up Bomb
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A National Police counterterrorism source told the Jakarta Globe that authorities believed Noordin, a Malaysian who is suspected in last week’s attacks and other bombings in Jakarta and Bali since 2002, planned to hijack an aircraft and crash it into one of Jakarta’s high-rise buildings....
http://thejakartaglobe.com/home/police-arrest-jakarta-blast-suspect-with-follow-up-bomb/319921