Word: mehanna
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Federal authorities charged Tarek Mehanna, a 27-year-old U.S. citizen from Massachusetts, with conspiring to provide material support to terrorists, alleging he planned to carry out a "violent jihad" by killing U.S. politicians, attacking American troops in Iraq and targeting customers at U.S. shopping malls. U.S. attorneys claim that Mehanna sought terrorist training in the Middle East in 2004 and worked with two other men on various plots designed to "kill, kidnap, maim or injure" U.S. citizens and soldiers from 2001 to 2008. Mehanna was indicted in January for lying to the FBI during another terrorist investigation...
...According to U.S. attorneys, Mehanna's current plot had two co-conspirators - a man named Ahmad Abousamra and a third person, who is cooperating with authorities and has so far been unnamed. The three men met before the Sept. 11 attacks and attempted to join terrorist groups in Pakistan, Syria, Iraq and Yemen...
Quotes About: "If this is the FBI's idea of a terrorist, they are using a net that is designed to catch minnows instead of sharks." - J.W. Carney, Mehanna's lawyer, after his 2008 arrest (Boston Globe...
...killing of civilians was considered O.K. because civilians are taxpayers and are non-believers." - U.S. Attorney Michael Loucks, on Mehanna's beliefs (Bloomberg...
...definitely not." - Ahmed Mehanna, father of the accused, when asked if he believed the charges filed against his son had any merit (Associated Press...