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| 2004-02-12 | ||
| A prominent Yemeni sheik came to Brooklyn in 1999, raised money at mosques that was ostensibly for charity and then went to Italy, where he met with a top operative of Al Qaeda, according to federal prosecutors in Brooklyn. The sheik, Abdullah Satar, then made a speech in Italy calling upon people to join the jihad and denounced the United States for pursuing a terrorism suspect "to curry favor with the Jewish population and to project hatred upon Muslims,’’ according to testimony of an F.B.I. agent at a trial of a New Jersey man in Federal District Court in Brooklyn that began on Tuesday. Prosecutors say the man, Numan Maflahi, was an associate of Sheik Satar’s. The trial, on a charge of making false statements to federal agents, is peeling back the secrecy surrounding a wide-ranging investigation of what prosecutors have described as a network with shadowy roots in Brooklyn that raises and transfers money for terrorists. The sheik who raised the money was identified as a member of Yemen’s parliament. There are no known charges against him. My guess is that he’s from the al-Islah Party.
Federal prosecutors say Mr. Maflahi, 30, a gas station owner who lives in Little Ferry, N.J., was Sheik Satar’s personal assistant and driver during the 1999 trip. The prosecutors say Mr. Maflahi, originally from Yemen, made false statements to the F.B.I. in 2003 when he was asked about a fund-raising trip by Sheik Satar. The allegations in Mr. Maflahi’s case and details that emerged from the testimony showed that federal investigators have found connections they had not revealed publicly among the handful of cases arising from their terrorism-financing investigation. Yesterday and on Tuesday, an F.B.I. antiterrorism agent described Sheik Satar’s visit to Brooklyn. The agent, Brian Murphy, said the sheik was under surveillance by federal agents as he made a series of visits to Brooklyn mosques with Mr. Maflahi. The connection between the sheik’s fund-raising and terrorism financing in New York was merely implied. But the agent described to the jurors the sheik’s trip to Italy after he left Brooklyn and met with people identified as terrorists. Outside of the jury’s hearing, the prosecutor, Kelly A. Moore, told the judge, Nina Gershon, that one man the sheik visited after he left the United States was "the No. 1 operative for Al Qaeda in Italy.’’
The deputy chief of Yemen’s mission in Washington, Yahya Alshawkani, said in an interview yesterday that he had heard of Sheik Satar but knew little of him and did not know how he could be reached. He said he knew nothing about any prosecution claims that the sheik might have been involved in terrorism financing. Prosecutors say that in one interview with federal agents last year, Mr. Maflahi provided false information about his role during the 1999 trip, saying that his interaction was limited to seeing the sheik by chance and giving him occasional car rides. Mr. Murphy said that during the interviews, Mr. Maflahi described the sheik as an eminent Yemeni with "a reputation comparable to Hillary Clinton or Chuck Schumer,’’ the senators from New York. Mr. Murphy also testified that information from Sheik Moayad’s telephone book led to people in Brooklyn who had been investigated in the inquiry. | ||
| Posted by:Dan Darling |
| #14 Op, mikenotnot does use the slobs style and I was thinking the samething. Anyway, he hasn't said anything today that makes any points, to bad as some quality content would be fun. I don't think it's in him. |
| Posted by: Lucky 2004-2-12 11:28:36 PM |
| #13 I'd kill for my baby cat, don't compare Yog to slime balls. |
| Posted by: AntiPasto 2004-2-12 4:38:02 PM |
| #12 I'm beginning to wonder if "NMM" isn't really Mike Moore, using this idiotic moniker as an attempt to hide himself, while still grabbing all the 'glory' he can get. The two spew the same The two illustrate a comparable mental deficiency. The two seem to provide support (moral? emotional? theosophical?) for one another, either through specific quotes or referrences. I'd also expect them to look similar, if not alike, and they both exhibit the same inexhaustive capacity for self-deception. Either one or both (the same?) take up space and consume resources that would better be used by their intellectual superior - a six-month old house cat. |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2004-2-12 1:22:56 PM |
| #11 "#3 I dunno Old Spook but I wouldn't want my prez to be an AWOL Texas National Guard Liar" That's a lie. " that stole an election because his daddy's cronys on the Supreme Court selected him" That's a lie. Ummm, you just made two blatant lies with only 2 statements... that makes you a bit of a hypocrite doesn't it? |
| Posted by: Damn_Proud_American 2004-2-12 9:39:54 AM |
| #10 I think we all need to take a minute and step back from our bashing of NotMikeMoore(but just as fat and stupid). He/she/it is obviously a very mentally challenged person. Can any of us really imagine the sheer level of self-delusion and denial of reality it takes to maintain these Lefty Lies? It's unfathomable! I conjecture that idiots such as NMM and the real fat man Mike Moore all live within a localized Reality Disjunction. I can already hear the screams and indignation when Geoge W Bush is elected, by a huge margin, for his second term. The LLL's will probably implode. Hopefully breaking the effect of the Reality Disjunction. |
| Posted by: AllahHateMe 2004-2-12 9:36:37 AM |
| #9 Man oh Man, with Dean gone and Kerry's war credentials swirling down the shitter, lefties are reading the writing on the wall. It's gonna be an ANGRY BITTER LIE SPEWING 4-1/2 years for them, and I'll enjoy every second of it. Mike Moores next book is about 9/11 and Bush. SHOCKER! |
| Posted by: Nonnymus 2004-2-12 8:29:13 AM |
| #8 The AWOL lie is now a religious issue with the left; they'll no more give that up than they'll give up the Rosenbergs' innocence. |
| Posted by: Robert Crawford 2004-2-12 7:09:26 AM |
| #7 Hey NMM do you actually bother to read the posts on rantburg and the other blogs or newsites at all? You and the rest of the lefties "Bush was AWOL" theory has been so shot to ribbons I got to wonder if you guys are drinking pure LSD at this point to keep up that line. |
| Posted by: Valentine 2004-2-12 6:21:35 AM |
| #6 Ah, so the Left is back to picking on John Ashcroft's deep personal Christianity again...hmmmm. NMM, Faisal, Antiwar, whoever you are, wouldn't you be happier posting your LLL crap at DUH.com (Democrat Underground) than here? |
| Posted by: Jennie Taliaferro 2004-2-12 3:38:06 AM |
| #5 Yeah NMN and we'll be much better off with a guy who called his brothers in uniform rapists and war criminals. While they were still in the field, no less. What a great American. |
| Posted by: RMcLeod 2004-2-12 3:28:58 AM |
| #4 And of course we're all safer thanks to an AG who handles snakes and drinks poison and speaks in tongues |
| Posted by: NotMike Moore 2004-2-12 2:06:18 AM |
| #3 I dunno Old Spook but I wouldn't want my prez to be an AWOL Texas National Guard Liar that stole an election because his daddy's cronys on the Supreme Court selected him |
| Posted by: NotMike Moore 2004-2-12 2:04:22 AM |
| #2 ...reputation comparable to Hillary Clinton or Chuck Schumer... I dunno about you, but I sure wouldnt want my rep compared to dishonest scum like Whitewater/Stocktrader Hillary and totalitarianist Gun-Ban Chuckie Schumer. |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2004-2-12 12:59:28 AM |
| #1 ... Mr. Maflahi, 30, a gas station owner ... I'd like to know Mr. Maflahi's legal status for living and working here in our country. |
| Posted by: Mike Sylwester 2004-2-12 12:20:25 AM |