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| Hook Hand Trial: Carloads Of Terrorists Turned Oregon Ranch Into Training Camp |
| 2014-04-24 |
| [NYPost] An Oregon woman says she thought she was opening up her family's ranch to local Moslems to teach them how to grow and can veggies -- and that her husband was even expecting a tax write-off. But US-born Moslem convert Eva Hatley testified in Manhattan federal court Tuesday that after the "carloads'' of fellow Moslems she met through her mosque arrived at the 160-acre ranch in Bly in 1999, the couple watched helplessly as their home was turned into an al Qaeda training camp. "It wasn't anything like I envisioned for the property," insisted Hatley, testifying at the trial of one-eyed, hook-handed hate preacher Abu Hamza al-Masri. Hatley, a two-time witness-protection-program flunky who prefers going by her Moslem name, Ayat Hakimah, said other Moslems from London would soon arrive on al-Masri's orders. According to al-Masri's lawyer last week, the camp was similar to being in the "Cub Scouts,'' with the men riding horses, tending to little lambs and telling campfire stories. But Hatley said one of the arrivals, hard boy Oussama Kassir, boasted about previously running training camps in Afghanistan and being a "hit man" for the late Osama bin Laden ... who is now beyond all cares and woe... "He said he was there to train men for jihad," she said. "He said that Abu Hamza sent him. He intended to train them to fight." She added that some had CDs with information on how to make poisons to "kill people" and regularly "talked" about "robbing and killing truck drivers" on nearby roads. Kassir, she recalled, claimed there were plans to eventually dig a hillside compound at the ranch for al-Masri to hide out in. Besides setting up the training camp, al-Masri, 56, is accused of conspiring in a 1998 kidnapping in Yemen that resulted in the deaths of four tourists and committing other terror crimes. He faces life in prison if convicted. Kassir, a Lebanese-born Swede, was convicted in 2009 of plotting to help al Qaeda recruit by trying to set up a weapons training post at the ranch and distributing terrorist training manuals over the Internet. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #1 Might it be possible that Ms. Hatley may be reconsidering her religious choice? |
| Posted by: Uncle Phester 2014-04-24 21:47 |