The 240-pound Kuwaiti engineer said he feared he was "a little chunky" for riding a motorbike into Afghanistan on his mission to arrange humanitarian aid.
| Part of the "Arms and Ammunition for the Poor" operation... |
But just when Fouad Al Rabia's story takes a comic turn, he admits to having four meetings with Osama bin Laden, who he describes as "an eccentric millionaire who became a revolutionary."
| "Oh, yeah. I just popped in to say 'hello.' It ain't like I was a terrorist or nothin'!" |
Turkish national Murat Kurnaz complained that he was captured in Pakistan and turned over to U.S. forces because a friend from Germany may have been a suicide bomber: "I don't need friends like that."
| Yeah. They're not there when you need 'em, are they? |
And Martin Mubanga, a British businessman, denied having any ties with al-Qaida after he was arrested in Zambia. But according to a summary of classified evidence, Mubanga was preparing for "possible terrorist attacks against 33 Jewish organizations based in New York City."
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