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FBI: Osama Sought Sheik's Assassination
Tue Feb 8,11:27 AM ET
White House - AP Cabinet & State
By MICHAEL WEISSENSTEIN, Associated Press Writer
NEW YORK - A Yemeni sheik accused of funding terrorism said Osama bin
Laden (news - web sites) was initally a faithful pupil but later
called for his assassination, an FBI (news - web sites) investigator
testified.
Sheik Mohammed Ali Hasan al-Moayad told the FBI that bin Laden issued
a religious edict demanding his execution after the two men argued
about Islamic democracy, Special Agent Brian Murphy said Monday.
Al-Moayad is accused of supporting and conspiring to support al-Qaida
and the Palestinian militant group Hamas, and faces 60 years in prison
if convicted of all charges.
Murphy told jurors in federal court in Brooklyn that during a
three-hour interview in 2003, al-Moayad said he and bin Laden met in
Pakistan during the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan (news - web sites)
in the 1980s.
The sheik said he corrected bin Laden's interpretation of Islamic
theology and bin Laden was so impressed that he called al-Moayad "my
sheik," Murphy said. But the relationship later fractured over the
political argument, Murphy said al-Moayad told him.
The case against al-Moayad had been trumpeted as a major blow against
bin Laden's group, before the FBI informant who made some of the most
serious al-Qaida allegations set himself on fire outside the White
House last November.
The informant was dropped from the prosecution case, which has since
focused largely on al-Moayad's alleged Hamas ties.
Prosecutors and defense attorneys agree no evidence has been found of
a bin Laden edict against al-Moayad. But defense attorneys said the
Saudi terror leader issued such an edict against many of the sheik's
associates in Yemen's Islah party.
Al-Moayad's assistant, Mohammed Mohsen Yahya Zayed, is also accused of
conspiring and attempting to support terrorism, and faces 30 years
behind bars if convicted.
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