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Home Front: WoT
Queens man admits to ferrying al-Qaeda supplies
2004-08-11
A Queens man has admitted to smuggling money, night vision goggles and other military gear to a senior Qaeda leader in Pakistan near the border with Afghanistan, where he also set up a training camp for Islamic extremists and worked to aid a plot to blow up pubs, train stations and restaurants in Britain. The man, Mohammed Junaid Babar, 29, made the admissions in Federal District Court in Manhattan June 3, when he pleaded guilty to five counts of conspiring to provide material support to terrorists and providing the support, according to a transcript of the court proceeding, which was made public yesterday.
Another horrific case of the Patriot Act run amok. I blame John Ashcroft.
Mr. Babar, who agreed to rat out his pals cooperate with federal authorities and may apply to the witness security program, told Judge Victor Marrero of United States District Court that he sent military gear and money to South Waziristan, a tribal area near the border with Afghanistan, in the summer of 2003 and then traveled there himself with equipment and money in March 2004. There, he said, he met the unnamed Qaeda leader and turned over equipment including sleeping bags, waterproof socks and ponchos. He also admitted buying aluminum powder and trying to buy ammonium nitrate fertilizer, which can be used to make explosives. "I understood that the money and supplies that I had given to Al Qaeda was supposed to be used in Afghanistan you know, against U.S. or international, international forces, or the Northern Alliance," he said. The Northern Alliance fought the Taliban.
Posted by:Dan Darling

#1  Q: Isn't there a children's elephant book named "Babar"?

A: I don't know. I don't have any.

Q: Children?

A: No. Elephant books.


[from Fletch--sorry couldn't resist!]
Posted by: Fresh Air   2004-08-11 10:20  

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