Excerpts from
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/722854/posts
SAMI SAMIR EL-KASSEM, born 1970 in Sierra Leone; alias SEMI OSMAN, permanent legal resident living in Tacoma, Washington; alias Daniel Anthony McClellan of Washington state; alias Michael McClellan of Washington state
DECEMBER 1988 : Semi Osman apparently first entered the US in 1988 with a British passport through New York City.
FEBRUARY - MARCH 1988 (early) : Osman reportedly served briefly in the Army, undergoing basic training at Fort Benning, Ga.and was discharged as an E-2. Army officials contacted at Fort Benning could not locate records pertaining to Osman's Army service, saying they likely had been transferred to permanent storage.
The region is home to about 35,000 sailors and their families, spread out among four major Navy bases: Naval Submarine Base Bangor, Naval Station Bremerton/Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Naval Station Everett and Naval Air Station Whidbey Island. Other smaller Navy facilities also are in the region, with the Army's Fort Lewis, which provides small-arms training and other facilities to sailors in the region, and McChord Air Force Base. Pending the outcome of his arrest, Osman has been transferred to a non-drilling, non-paid status in a Volunteer Training Unit, Filostrat said.
He was arrested in May.
My theory is that the whole story about the letters and the ransom was an elaborate psyop designed to either make the cell members turn against each other or to convince Osman to talk. Looks like it worked to me. Somebody got real upset about the prospect of someone collecting 10M dollars and talked. Since Osman is sitting in jail, I figure it may be him. The rest are falling like dominoes as we speak :)