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...arrest of four alleged terrorism plotters in the Riverdale section of New York City was the culmination of a painstaking 10-month FBI investigation. Each of the four men is charged with one count of conspiracy to use weapons of mass destruction within the U.S., which carries a maximum penalty of life in prison, and one count of conspiracy to acquire and use anti-aircraft missiles, which carries a maximum penalty of life in prison and a mandatory minimum of 25 years in prison. According to officials in the FBI and New York City, here's how the plot unfolded...
...June 2008, James Cromitie, a.k.a. Abdul Rahman, allegedly told an FBI informant in Newburgh, N.Y., that he wanted to join the jihad, or holy war, and strike a target in the U.S. Cromitie, whose parents had lived in Afghanistan, claimed he was angry about the war there; the U.S. military, he told the informant, was killing many Muslims in Afghanistan and Pakistan. He talked about possibly traveling to Afghanistan to become a "martyr" and go to paradise. He added that he was interested in doing "something to America." (See pictures of the life of Osama bin Laden...
...then, because this is Miami, there's fraud. Miami-Dade in recent years has seen a boom in Medicare and Medicaid scams. Last week Spain arrested - and sent back to the U.S. - a Miami man wanted by the FBI for allegedly submitting more than $10 million in false claims for his Hialeah medical-supply company. Last month the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services reported that while only 2% of the nation's Medicare recipients live in South Florida, the area received the highest reimbursements for medical supplies like inhalation drugs - about 20% more than the second highest recipient...
...denied the allegations and refused calls to temporarily step down. "There is no proof, aside from the recording, which I discredit completely," he said. Colom also asked for assistance from international bodies, including a U.N.-backed investigatory body and the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigations. Embassy officials said an FBI agent arrived in Guatemala on Wednesday to help the government...
...posturing nearly drowned out the testimony of the only man at the hearing who had real experience extracting vital information from al-Qaeda terrorists: former FBI interrogator Ali Soufan. With cameras turned away from his face in order to protect his identity, Soufan gave a detailed account of the interrogation of Abu Zubaydah. The suspected al-Qaeda operative, he said, was giving up actionable intelligence - including the identities of 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and the so-called dirty bomber, Jose Padilla - long before the controversial interrogation techniques were applied. Once the harsh methods were used, Abu Zubaydah just shut...