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Swedish Man To Face Charges In U.S. Of Aiding TerroristsFederal authorities in New York announced that a Swede of Lebanese descent, wanted in connection with establishing a terrorist training camp in Bly, Ore. in 1999, was extradited to the United States on Tuesday. Officials said the defendant, Oussama Abdullah Kassir, was taken into custody in the Czech Republic by F.B.I. agents and returned to the United States to face charges of providing material support to terrorists. He was arrested on Dec. 11, 2005 during a layover in Prague while traveling from Stockholm to Beirut, officials said. The extradition of Mr. Kassir, 41, is another chapter in the sprawling investigations related to the camp in Bly that have touched three continents and have led to the 2003 guilty plea of James Ujaama, a convert to Islam who owned a computer business in Seattle, where he also worked as a motivational speaker. Two other suspects, Abu Hamza al-Masri, a blind, one-armed Islamic cleric, and Haroon Rashid Aswat, one of Mr. Masris chief aides, are in custody in Britain awaiting extradition.. Federal officials said the nearly two years it took for the extradition of Mr. Kassir was part of the normal process and was not a result of undue delay. In November 1999, the authorities said, Mr. Kassir and Mr. Aswat traveled on an Air India flight from London to Kennedy Airport and embarked on a bus trip to Seattle. Working on behalf of Mr. Masri, they then went on to Bly, officials said, to establish a jihadi training camp. In the two months before they left Bly, the two men set up a security perimeter around the proposed site of their camp and produced a series of CDs that were to be used to teach recruits how to make poisons and construct bombs, said Michael J. Garcia, the United States attorney in Manhattan. In a fax sent between Mr. Kassir and Mr. Aswat, the property in Bly was described as being in a pro-militia and firearms state that looks just like Afghanistan, officials said. After leaving Oregon, Mr. Kassir spent the next six years creating and operating at least three terrorist Web sites that contained information on how to make bombs and poisons, Mr. Garcia said. Posted on the Web sites, he said, were training manuals with titles like The Mujahedeen Explosives Handbook and The Mujahedeen Poisons Handbook. One of Mr. Kassirs Web sites was run from an Internet server based, at the time, in White Plains, N.Y., the authorities said. Tag CloudExternal InformationAdditional InformationBush warns of more troop deaths in last-ditch plan...’Rent-a-womb’ baby trade faces curbs amid fears for surrogates... Chinese envoy hit by London Olympic torch row... Labor Suffers Losses in British Local Elections... Where Am I?News Main Page - Business - Swedish Man To Face Charges In U.S. Of Aiding Terrorists |
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