Free Republic

Late Wednesday night authorities began searching for two "people of interest" in relation to the Beltway Sniper. What's interesting is that one of the two "persons of interest" was identified as a Tacoma, Washington man connected with Fort Lewis. Stuck in the middle of this story is something even more interesting. The FBI is also searching a militia training camp in Marion, Alabama, in possible connection to the sniper case. Step back for a moment. What's the common link between Tacoma, Washington and Marion, Alabama? It could be James Ujaama, Zain-ul-abidin, and Abu Hamza. James Ujaama is currently being held...

Tuesday, October 1, 2002 Ujaama ordered held without bail THE ASSOCIATED PRESS A federal magistrate on Tuesday ordered an American Muslim held without bail on charges of trying to set up a terrorist training camp in Oregon, saying the court had no other way of ensuring he would appear for trial. James Ujaama, who grew up in Seattle, was arrested July 22 in Denver. He was held as a material witness until Aug. 29, when a grand jury in Seattle indicted him on one count of conspiracy to provide material support and resources for the al-Qaida terrorist network, and another...

August 29, 2002 4 Men Charged With Being in Terrorist Cell in Detroit AreaBy DANNY HAKIM ETROIT, Aug. 28 — The government indicted four Arab men in federal court here today, saying they were part of a terrorist cell operating in the Detroit area and were planning attacks in the United States, Jordan and Turkey. The men functioned as a support group for terrorist activity and a "sleeper operational combat cell," the indictment said. The cell's mission was to obtain weaponry and intelligence and establish a support network for terrorist activity, including mail drops and safe houses as well as...

Tuesday, September 03, 2002, 12:00 a.m. Pacific'I love bin Laden ... I hate Bush': Man connected to Ujaama, hijacking suspect speaks outBy David HeathSeattle Times staff reporter A Swedish citizen suspected of conspiring with a former Seattle man to open a terrorist training camp in Oregon also has links to a Swede suspected of planning to hijack an airliner in Europe last week. Oussama Kassir, 36, an unemployed engineer in Stockholm, was an unnamed and uncharged co-conspirator in the indictment of James Ujaama last week. Federal officials say Kassir and another man went to Bly, Ore., with Ujaama in late...

Man indicted in Seattle on charges of setting up Oregon training camp for al Qaeda members. Details to come. For the latest news, watch CNN or log on to

A former Seattle man's alleged attempt to profit from a plan to build terrorist training camps in the United States apparently landed members of his family and his mosque in the middle of a global terrorism investigation.After the effort failed, James Ujaama reportedly had to fend off death threats from one of two al-Qaida operatives who arrived expecting to conduct training exercises at a ranch in the Oregon desert, only to discover there were no recruits waiting to join the jihad, or holy war.     Now, three years later, the aborted scheme to help advance the cause of Islamic...

A BRITON being held at Camp X-Ray, the high-security US prison for Al-Qaeda suspects, has blamed a radical Muslim cleric living in London for turning him to terrorism. In a confession to British and American investigators, Feroz Abbasi claimed that members of Finsbury Park mosque — the base of cleric Abu Hamza — helped to organise his terrorist training and provided him with air tickets to Afghanistan.Abbasi, 22, has also said that at one stage he wanted to be a suicide bomber to die a martyr.The confession, the first to emerge from the five British prisoners at Camp X-Ray in...

Just when you think you know somebody, he goes and gets himself detained by the FBI for questioning in connection with alleged ties to the terrorist network of Osama bin Laden. So, who do you stand by: your country or an individual who you've known all your life-but who may not be what he seems to be? Such is the predicament of the friends and relatives of James Ujaama, a 36-year-old American black Muslim convert also known as James Earnest Thompson and Ahmed Bilal, who was born in Denver, raised in Seattle, and moved to London in 1996 to worship...

<p>July 30, 2002 -- Two suspected al Qaeda terrorists who were arrested last week by federal officials were planning to poison the country's water supplies, it was reported last night.</p> <p>One of the suspects, James Ujaama, 36, was arrested last week in Denver.</p>

An Algerian who infiltrated a London mosque for the British intelligence service has shed new light on suspected links between the 1999 activities at an Oregon ranch and the al-Qaida terror network. In a telephone interview from London yesterday, Reda Hassaine said two Egyptian-born men known to have visited the Bly, Ore., ranch and are suspected of inspecting it as a possible terror-training camp are direct subordinates of the London-based Muslim radical Abu Hamza. The two men came to Hamza's mosque in 1998 directly from terror-training camps in Afghanistan, he said.Hamza, a London cleric who lost both hands and an...

<p>In November, Spain indicted eight men connected to the al Qaeda terrorist network. Judge Baltasar Garzon said the men were "directly linked to the preparation and the carrying out of the attacks perpetrated by suicide pilots on September 11." The indictment described one Abu Qutadah of London as "the supreme leader at the European level of the mujahideen."</p>

<p>WASHINGTON — Federal officials have arrested two Al Qaeda terror suspects in the U.S. with documents in their possession about how to poison the country's water supplies, Fox News has learned.</p> <p>The first case involves James Ujaama, who surrendered to the FBI last week in Denver. Sources say they found documents about water poisoning among several other terrorism-related documents in his Denver residence.</p>

LAND OF THE FREE? EXCLUSIVEBy Gary Jones And Jon Clements AL-QAEDA suspects left locked up in the hell of Guantanamo Bay without legal help make a mockery of America's claim to be the land of the free. Seven Brits are among 564 men held as "unlawful combatants" at America's notorious Camp X-Ray in Cuba in the wake of the Afghan campaign. Feroz Abbasi, the longest serving, has been caged for 200 days. But no charges or evidence have been brought against the suspects who US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld branded the "hardest of the hardcore". Human rights groups and religious...

<p>U.S. intelligence agencies are watching several groups of Middle Eastern men thought to be part of an infrastructure of as many as 5,000 al Qaeda terrorists and their supporters in the United States, The Washington Times has learned.</p> <p>Small groups of about a half-dozen men in Seattle, Chicago, Detroit and Atlanta are under surveillance by FBI and other intelligence agencies and are thought to be part of Osama bin Laden's terrorist network, said intelligence officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity.</p>

Not for commercial use. Solely to be used for the educational purposes of research and open discussion. Computers seized from activist's relatives The Houston Chronicle SECTION: A; Pg. 17 July 27, 2002, Saturday 3 STAR EDITION DENVER - Federal agents on Thursday seized two computers and two floppy disks from a house where an American Muslim activist had been staying when he was arrested as a material witness to terrorist activity, his brother said. Federal authorities speaking on condition of anonymity have said authorities believe James Ujaama, 36, took computer equipment to an al-Qaida terrorist camp in Afghanistan. James Ujaama...

Sheikh Abu Hamza al-Masri, the radical London imam, is at the centre of an FBI investigation into an alleged plot to recruit young American Muslims into an al-Qa'eda cell in the United States. Sheikh Abu Hamza al-Masri is at the centre of the FBI's investigation. The US authorities have arrested two Muslim activists from Seattle with links to Hamza or his mosque in Finsbury Park, north London. They claim the men were involved with Hamza in organising a "jihad training camp". US sources confirmed to The Telegraph yesterday that Hamza's activities were at the core of their investigation. Agents were...

London imam faces FBI inquiry over al-Qa'eda training camp By Sean O'Neill (Filed: 25/07/2002) Sheikh Abu Hamza al-Masri, the radical London imam, is at the centre of an FBI investigation into an alleged plot to recruit young American Muslims into an al-Qa'eda cell in the United States. Sheikh Abu Hamza al-Masri is at the centre of the FBI's investigation The US authorities have arrested two Muslim activists from Seattle with links to Hamza or his mosque in Finsbury Park, north London. They claim the men were involved with Hamza in organising a "jihad training camp". US sources confirmed to The...

Militant Seattle Muslims, most of them American citizens, are under investigation by the FBI and a federal grand jury for allegedly supporting the al-Qaida terrorist network. Sources say members of the group — described as a "cell" by law-enforcement sources — have ties to Sheik Abu Hamza al-Masri of London, a radical Islamic cleric suspected by Western officials of recruiting for al-Qaida. Additionally, federal investigators believe members of the group scouted a ranch in southern Oregon as a potential site for a terrorist training camp. About 15 of the militants visited the sagebrush-covered property near Bly, Ore., in fall 1999...

<p>LONDON (AP) --  A cadre of militant Muslim leaders, including some linked to al-Qaida or accused by the United States of supporting terrorism, held a conference Friday to condemn the United States in a show of defiance.</p> <p>Among the speakers at the event were Egyptian activist Yasser el-Sirri, who is facing extradition to the United States for allegedly sending terror money to Afghanistan, and Abu Hamza al-Masri, a cleric whose funds were frozen by the U.S. Treasury for his alleged membership in the Islamic Army of Aden. The organization is linked to Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida network and claimed responsibility for the bombing of the USS Cole in Yemen in October 2000 in which 17 U.S sailors were killed.</p>

WASHINGTON, July 12 — The hunt for terrorist “cells” in the United States is increasingly focused on American citizens, including a group in Seattle linked to a firebrand London cleric who U.S. counterterrorism experts believe is an al-Qaida recruiter, it was reported Friday. Meanwhile, investigators also are searching for Americans who may be acting as behind-the-scenes advisers to the terrorists, including a “wise man” referred to in al-Qaida documents seized in Afghanistan. A DAY AFTER Attorney General John Ashcroft testified that “sleeper terrorists” were at work inside the United States, published reports indicated that law enforcement agencies are actively seeking...