It's Ay Pee, so here's the summary:
Christopher Paul, of Columbus, Ohio, had connections to
o Guantanamo Bay detainee Mohamedou Ould Salahi, Al Qaeda recruiter, met with him in Afghanistan in 1992, in Germany in 1998, and requested advice by fax in 1997 about where to send wannabe jihadis for training. Three of the men Mr. Salahi sent to Afghanistan were future 9/11 hijackers (Mohamed Atta, Ziad Jarrah, Marwan al Shehhi). The fourth was Ramzi Binalshibh, who helped coordinate the 9/11 attack.
o Mr. Paul also met with Moroccan Karim Mehdi in Germany in 1993 and in 1997 or 1998, who was also connected (how incestuous this all is!) to Binalshibh and Jarrah, sentenced to French prison for plotting a terror attack against the French island of Reunion.
o Mr. Paul, part of a cell of three men based in Columbus, was the last of them to plead guilty to charges of plotting terror attacks. He was sentenced to twenty years. Co-conspirator Nuradin Abdi pled guilty to plotting to blow up an Ohio shopping mall; co-conspirator Iyman Faris pled guilty to a plot to destroy the Brooklyn Bridge. |
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