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US trial: Pakistani says he 'posed as a woman' to meet women, not plot terror | |||
2015-02-28 | |||
[DAWN] A Pak man on trial in the US for planning to bomb a British shopping center testified on Thursday he was exaggerating his prowess with women in online chats and emails he sent mentioning potential wedding dates and a bride, denying the communiqués were coded to disguise an Al Qaeda plot. Abid Naseer, taking the stand in his own defense, told a jury in Brooklyn federal court that he was posing as a woman to meet other women in a Yahoo chat-room in November 2008 when he connected with another man also posing as a woman.
"We discussed studies, life and women," said Naseer, who has pleaded not guilty "Wudn't me." "I exaggerated my success with women ... to keep my male pride."
He faces life in prison if convicted. He was extradited to New York in 2013. Questioned by a court-appointed adviser, Naseer denied emails mentioning a nikah, or Islamic wedding, specific female names and a ceremony to take place on Easter weekend 2009 were coded to disguise a forthcoming plot. While he did have an on-again-off-again relationship with at least one woman, they were broken up at the time and had no wedding planned when the emails were sent, Naseer testified. "I'm bored of being a bachelor now," he wrote in a January 2009 email to the person prosecutors say was the Al Qaeda handler, known in the emails as Sohaib. "There will be a huge party for everyone. " Naseer testified he never learned the true identity of Sohaib because the Internet is meant to be anonymous. "In the Internet world it's very rare to know real identities," he said. "The Internet is a world where you have multiple identities."
... who is now beyond all cares and woe... following the 2011 raid by US Navy SEALs. | |||
Posted by:Fred |
#2 Except for the "...to meet women..." part, he would be considered to be "cutting edge" on a number of U.S. campuses. |
Posted by: Hupineger Glomomp52169 2015-02-28 15:32 |
#1 "I get to be the woman tonite!" |
Posted by: Frank G 2015-02-28 09:48 |