Suspect in Soldier Attack Was Once Detained in Yemen (The almost forgotten terrorist attack)

NY Times ^ | 6/3/2009 | JAMES DAO and DAVID JOHNSTON

[tobyhill]

A 23-year-old man charged with killing one soldier and seriously wounding another in a shooting outside an Army recruiting office in Little Rock, Ark., was once detained in Yemen for possessing a fake Somali passport and other counterfeit documents, law enforcement officials said Tuesday.

The episode in Yemen prompted a preliminary inquiry by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and other American law enforcement agencies into whether the man, Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad, had ties to extremist groups, the officials said. But that investigation was inconclusive, they said, leaving the bureau with insufficient evidence to wiretap his phone or put him under surveillance.

It is not clear when Mr. Muhammad, an American convert to Islam who was traveling on a valid United States passport, was detained in Yemen or why he would have been carrying counterfeit documents. His detention in Yemen was first reported Tuesday by ABC News.

[Marine_Uncle]

In short. Our Intel agencies are not performing as what GWB and others a short time back had envisioned. We are screwed.

[SoCalPol]

I posted this on Mark’s thread.

bottom line, not so much line not connected as
not wanting to connect.