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'Hookhands' collaborator faces new charges in Seattle
SEATTLE (AP) -- A convicted Taliban collaborator who was arrested in Belize - despite orders that he not leave the U.S. - could face a new trial on charges of offering support to terrorists if he's found guilty of violating his probation, a federal prosecutor said. James Ujaama, a Muslim convert, was in federal custody without bail after a court hearing Tuesday. Authorities say he fled to Belize, where he was arrested in mid-December with a fake Mexican passport.
Must have had his fake Pakistani passport in his other pants.
Ujaama served two years in prison after pleading guilty in 2003 to conspiring to provide cash, computers and fighters to the Taliban. During three years of probation, he was to surrender his passport and needed written permission from the U.S. attorney's office in Seattle to travel internationally. "I don't know what he was thinking," Assistant U.S. Attorney Todd Greenberg said after the hearing.
I think I do.
Ujaama denied the accusations in his brief court appearance.
(Mistaken identity?Â…Racial ProfilingÂ…or maybe another trumped up bunko charge?)
"Lies! All lies!"
He faces as many as two years in prison if a judge agrees he violated his probation, and more serious consequences if the government backs out of its plea agreement. In that event, the government could file new charges that he offered support to terrorists, and any statements Ujaama has made to U.S. authorities could be used against him in the new case, Greenberg said.

Peter Offenbecher, Ujaama's attorney, said only: "I'm investigating the facts to determine the appropriate course of action." U.S. Magistrate Monica J. Benton set an evidentiary hearing for Feb. 1.

Ujaama, who was born James Earnest Thompson, was charged in 2002 with trying to set up a terrorist training camp for Muslim cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri. As part of his plea agreement, he agreed to cooperate with terrorism investigations until 2013. Federal officials have said Ujaama's help was crucial in the 2004 indictment of al-Masri on charges of trying to establish the training camp in Bly, Ore., and providing aid to al-Qaida.
Posted by: DepotGuy 2007-01-17
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