Word: boyd
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...clear from the indictment that the overt acts in the conspiracy were escalating." - U.S. Attorney George E.B. Holding, accusing Boyd of practicing military tactics with his sons and other recruits on private property near Raleigh over the past two months (USA Today, July...
...many Christians you see standing in the yard praying five times a day? They just believed more than anyone else." - Jeremy Kuhn, Boyd's neighbor, on the family's devotion to Islam in a community of mostly Presybterians and Baptists (New York Times, July...
...husband was not plotting. It's premature for everyone to jump on the guilty bandwagon." - Daniel Boyd's wife, Sabrina, calling the charges bogus (North Carolina Raleigh-Observer, July...
...Moved to Pakistan in 1989 to do relief work with Afghanistan's mujaheddin rebels. According to the indictment, Boyd spent the following three years training in Pakistan and Afghanistan with the guerillas attempting to topple the Soviet-backed government in Kabul. (See pictures of Pakistan's vulnerable border with Afghanistan...
...Allegedly traveled to Israel with one of his sons in 2006 and again in 2007. During their second trip, they were denied entry and detained for two days. Boyd's wife insists the trip was a holy pilgrimage, but U.S. authorities claim Boyd was attempting to contact radical jihadists in Palestine. That same year, his 16-year-old son, Luqman, was killed in a car accident near the family's home...