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"While in the U.S. military, [he] taught soldiers in the Special Forces
about Muslim culture. Prosecutors say he LATER lent his military expertise to
terrorists ..."
Ex-Sgt. Indicted in Terror Campaign
By LARRY NEUMEISTER
.c The Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) -- A former Army sergeant was indicted Wednesday on federal
charges that he trained members of Osama bin Laden's terrorist organization
and Islamic militants who were implicated in the World Trade Center bombing.
Ali Mohamed, 46, a native of Egypt who left the Army in 1989, was added to a
broad conspiracy case that includes bin Laden, the suspected architect of
last summer's bombings of the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.
Mohamed has been jailed in New York since he was arrested Sept. 11 on a
sealed complaint in federal court in Manhattan. A message left Wednesday with
Mohamed's lawyer, James Roth, was not immediately returned.
Mohamed, a former Egyptian military officer, moved to the United States in
1985 and became a permanent resident. He was honorably discharged from the
Army in 1989 after serving three years at the Special Forces base in Fort
Bragg, N.C.
While in the U.S. military, Mohamed taught soldiers in the special forces
about Muslim culture. Prosecutors say he later lent his military expertise to
terrorists intent on destroying the United States to retaliate for its
support of Israel and involvement in the Middle East.
The indictment said Mohamed trained members of bin Laden's al Qaeda terrorist
organization and helped move bin Laden from Pakistan to Sudan in 1991. He
also allegedly discussed as early as 1993 with other members of al Qaeda how
to attack the U.S. embassy in Nairobi and other Israeli, British and French
targets in Kenya.
Mohamed also allegedly provided training to a group of Islamic militants who
were later implicated in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and in a plot to
blow up New York City landmarks.
Court records say that while Mohamed was in the Army, he gave tapes and books
on military techniques and weapons to a group of young men who wanted to help
Afghan rebels.
Some of the materials were later recovered from the apartment of El Sayyid
Nosair, the Egyptian immigrant convicted of conspiracy in the killing of
Jewish Defense League founder Rabbi Meir Kahane in 1990.
The Kahane killing was once believed to be an isolated attack, but
investigators now see it as the start of a U.S. terrorism campaign by Islamic
fundamentalists.
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