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Title of thread shortened to fit: Oregon woman claim 'carloads' radical Muslims turned her Oregon ranch into a training camp for terror Testifying in Manhattan federal court Tuesday, Eva Hatley swore she never meant for her Oregon ranch to become a training camp for al Qaeda. Her plan, she claimed, was to teach local Muslims to grow and can vegetables. But as 'carloads' of fellow Muslims she'd met through her mosque began arriving at the 160-acre ranch in 1999, she and her husband were helpless to stop their home from becoming a magnet for terrorists-in-training.

U.S.: Cleric Tried to Start Terror Camp 1 minute ago Add U.S. National - AP to My Yahoo! By LARRY NEUMEISTER, Associated Press Writer NEW YORK - A radical Muslim cleric, arrested Thursday in London, is accused in a U.S. indictment of trying to establish a terrorist training camp in Oregon while providing aid to both al-Qaida and the Taliban. Mustafa Kamel Mustafa, 47, also is charged in the 11-count indictment with hostage-taking and conspiracy in connection with a December 1998 incident that left four tourists dead in Yemen. "Those who support our terrorist enemies anywhere in the world must...

Oregon has been a hub of terrorist fund-raising, particularly Corvallis and Portland State University, U.S. Sen. Gordon Smith says, and he has asked the U.S. Justice Department to take action. Smith says he was relaying unclassified information he learned in confidential security briefings with Justice Department and FBI officials since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. "We have had in our state for some time a significant fund-raising apparatus for al-Qaida," Smith told The Oregonian's editorial board. "I'll leave it there." Al-Qaida is the terrorist network tied to Osama bin Laden and thought to be responsible for the suicide attacks that ...

-- Several individuals with alleged ties to al Qaeda have been arrested in Oregon and elsewhere, CNN has learned. Watch CNN or log on to http://CNN.com /AOL Keyword: CNN for the latest news.