(AP) `Supermax' inmate sent letters allegedly used to recruit terrorists

FLORENCE, Colo.

A man convicted in the 1993 World Trade Center sent letters suspected of
being used by a Spanish tcell to recruit suicide, despite his being
incarcerated at the U.S. Penitentiary-Administrative Maximum Facility, or
"Supermax," NBC News reported Monday.

Letters from Mohammed Salameh were found on Mohamed Achraf, one of 17 people
charged in October in Spain for an alleged plot to blow up that country's
National Court.

One of the letters to Achraf, the alleged leader of the, obtained by the
network reads: "Oh God! Make us live with happiness, make us die as martyrs,
may we be united on the day of Judgment."

One of those also faces charges for allegedly using letters from World Trade
Center to recruit, the network reported.

A letter sent by Salameh from prison was published in the Al-Quds newspaper,
which read in part, "Osama Bin Laden is my hero of this generation."

Inmates at "Supermax" and other top security federal penitentiaries have
strict restrictions, including having their mail inspected.

It was unclear how Salameh was able to send the letters. Wendy Montgomery, a
spokeswoman at "Supermax," did not immediately return a phone call.

U.S. Department of Justice officials in Washington referred calls to the
Bureau of Prisons.

According to the Spanish court documents obtained by NBC, at least 14
letters went back and forth between the World Trade Center and the Spanish
cell.

"Supermax" or "Alcatraz of the Rockies" opened in Florence in 1994 as a
place to put problem prisoners.

Convicted "Unabomber" Ted Kaczynski and Ramzi Yousef, mastermind of the 1993
of the World Trade Center in New York City were sent here.

 



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