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MINNEAPOLIS — A man accused of providing support to al-Qaida trained in martial arts and with weapons, taught English to al-Qaida members and joined the Taliban front lines, according to an FBI affidavit. Terror suspect Mohammed Warsame, 30, twice saw combat with front line units of the Taliban while in Afghanistan and once sat next to Osama bin Laden at a meal, said the affidavit, which investigators said was based on interviews with Warsame. “The defendant stated that bin Laden was very inspirational,” according to the affidavit. Prosecutors argued Monday that Warsame, a Somali with Canadian citizenship, is a flight...

The public court file against Mohammed A. Warsame, the Minneapolis college student accused of supporting Al-Qaida, is conspicuously void of detail. It alleges that he conspired to provide "material support and resources" to the terrorist organization starting in 2000 and says that he admitted going to an Afghanistan training camp with Osama bin Laden. For a handful of defense attorneys near Lackawanna, N.Y., the case has a familiar ring. There, six men of Yemeni descent who also attended a training camp were charged under the same federal material support law in the fall of 2002. Though the cases contain key...

A man accused of providing support to al-Qaida trained in martial arts and with weapons, taught English to al-Qaida members and even joined the Taliban front lines, according to an FBI affidavit. Terror suspect Mohammed Warsame, 30, twice saw combat with front line units of the Taliban while in Afghanistan and once sat next to Osama bin Laden at a meal, said the affidavit, which investigators said was based on interviews with Warsame. ``The defendant stated that bin Laden was very inspirational,'' according to the affidavit from FBI Special Agent Kiann Vandenover. Prosecutors argued Monday that Warsame, a Somali with...

<p>MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A federal indictment unsealed yesterday charged a Minnesota man with conspiracy to support the al Qaeda terrorist network.</p> <p>Mohammed Abdullah Warsame, 30, a Canadian citizen of Somali descent, was charged in an indictment returned Tuesday by a grand jury in Minneapolis.</p>

The Minneapolis student arrested as a material witness in a terrorism investigation last month has been charged by a Minneapolis federal grand jury with conspiracy to provide material support to Al-Qaida. A one-page indictment unsealed Wednesday gives no details about what the government suspects Mohammed Warsame of doing except to say that Warsame, who also went by the names Abu Maryam and Abu Zaynab, conspired starting no later than March 2000 through December 8, 2003. An affidavit released in the U.S. District Court in the Southern District of New York says Warsame told FBI agents on Dec. 8 that he...

<p>MINNEAPOLIS — The man arrested in Minneapolis (search) on suspicion of associating with Al Qaeda (search) has been identified as a Canadian citizen and college student of Somali descent, a newspaper reported.</p> <p>The man arrested Tuesday was Mohammed A. Warsame, the (Minneapolis) Star Tribune reported on its Web site early Friday, citing law enforcement officials who requested anonymity.</p>

MINNEAPOLIS - The man arrested in Minneapolis on suspicion of associating with al-Qaida has been identified as a Canadian citizen and college student of Somali descent, a newspaper reported. The man arrested Tuesday was Mohammed A. Warsame, the (Minneapolis) Star Tribune reported in Friday editions, citing law enforcement officials who requested anonymity. Warsame is suspected of having knowledge of some of the activities of Zacarias Moussaoui — who is accused of being a Sept. 11 conspirator — when he was in Minneapolis. The newspaper said Warsame had been arrested as a material witness, but did not disclose whether he would...