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Homegrown terrorist Jeffrey Leon Battle considered America the “land of the kaffirs,” or unbelievers, and the American people “pigs.” He once lamented to an acquaintance—who happened to be a government informant—that the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks did not sufficiently damage the U.S. economy. “This is the land of the enemy,” he said of his own country in a May 8, 2002, conversation secretly recorded by the government. He explained to a friend how his “burning desire” to become an Islamic martyr had inspired his aborted quest to join forces with al Qaeda in Afghanistan, where he could kill American...

FBI affidavit alleges imam bankrolled plot 08/23/03 LES ZAITZ One of six men charged with trying to join the Taliban and kill U.S. soldiers said Mohamed Abdirahman Kariye, leader of Portland's largest mosque, funded the overseas trip with $12,000 that came from mosque members, according to a newly released FBI affidavit. Defendant Jeffrey Battle also was secretly recorded telling how Kariye, religious leader of the Islamic Center of Portland, participated in a prayer session at the mosque with the group just before the men left and later directed them to return if they couldn't get into Afghanistan, the affidavit said....

<p>Four suspected terrorist cell members - including a former U.S. Army reservist - were busted yesterday on charges of trying to travel to Afghanistan to join al Qaeda after the Sept. 11 attacks.</p> <p>Two other suspects are being hunted overseas.</p>

Oregon News Lebanese man who trained at guerrilla camps arrested in Portland By WILLIAM McCALL The Associated Press 12/11/01 9:01 PM PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- Police and federal agents arrested a Lebanese man on a weapons charge and in a subsequent search found two guns in his car and a calendar at his home with Sept. 11 highlighted, police Chief Mark Kroeker said Tuesday. It was not clear whether the suspect had highlighted the date before or after the attacks on Sept. 11, or whether he had any links to the attacks, Kroeker said. "The connections he has to ...