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Terrorist from KC falls prey to fraud scheme
 As a Kansas City man learned, joining the global jihad against godless imperialism is harder than you'd think. Especially when the al-Qaeda leaders you're dealing with are just as adept at conning their own recruits as they are at instigating mass murder.The FBI's recent disclosure that a Kansas City man's terror cell once had cased the New York Stock Exchange was meant to demonstrate that the government's electronic surveillance programs have disrupted real threats to the homeland. But the case's hundreds of pages of court records in Kansas City and New York also show that federal investigators broke up a long-running fraud scheme in which an al-Qaeda leader in Yemen was less interested in stoking his recruits' passion for holy war than exploiting their bank accounts for his own gain. In a recent letter to a New York federal judge, the lawyer representing cell member Sabirhan Hasanoff acknowledged that his client once had dreamed of jihad glory, only to get rolled by a Yemeni bunco terrorist. "The defendants never had any authentic access to terrorism networks or Islamic extremists, and were victims of a rudimentary fraud," the lawyer wrote. Fraud or not, the defendants had contributed money, time and material to men involved in global terrorism, government lawyers responded in their own letter to the judge. Posted by: tipper 2013-06-30 |
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