USA detains man accused of aiding Al Qaeda; will face terrorism charges
USA has detained a man guilty of aiding Al Qaeda
A US citizen accused of training with al Qaeda and conspiring to kill Americans abroad appeared in federal court in New York on Thursday to face terrorism charges.
Muhanad Mahmoud Al Farekh, who was detained in Pakistan and recently transferred into US custody, was clad in blue jail garb and sporting short brown hair and a long beard as he made a brief court appearance in Brooklyn. His court-appointed lawyer, Sean Maher, made no request for bail and did not enter a plea on Farekh’s behalf but asked that he be given medical attention while detained.
In a complaint filed in court earlier, prosecutors said Farekh was charged with ‘conspiracy to provide material support to terrorists’. The Justice Department said in a statement that Farekh had been deported from Pakistan to the United States and arrested on a pending warrant that was unsealed on Thursday.
The complaint said that Farekh, who was born in Texas, had conspired with others to provide personnel to be used by al Qaeda in support of efforts to kill American citizens and members of the US military abroad.
The document said that in or around 2007, Farekh, a man named Ferid Imam and a third unnamed individual, all of whom were students at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg, Canada, decided to leave school and travel to tribal areas along Pakistan’s border with Afghanistan to train with Al Qaeda.
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