Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was captured in early March 2003 in Pakistan and subsequently disappeared into the secret prison network before being transferred to Guantanamo in 2006. At the time of Mohammed's capture, the CIA had had his minor children in custody for some months, raising the question whether John Yoo's later-revealed enthusiasm for Presidential threats against children was entirely hypothetical.
Almost immediately upon Mohammed's capture, US officials raised the spectre of attacks against US infra-structure such as bridges. Allegedly based on Mohammed's interrogations, the Feds immediately approached Lyman Faris in March 2003 and rather quickly indicted him for a supposed plot to cut the cables on the Brooklyn Bridge, and after threatening to detain him as an enemy combatant, obtained a guilty plea in May 2003 and used him as a double agent briefly during the summer before in October he was sentenced to twenty years after trying unsuccesfully in September to revert to an innocent plea. It is credible that the threat of being labelled an enemy combatant had some effect on Faris, since the Padilla case had garnered some publicity since the night in June 2002 when the President ordered Padilla removed into DoD custody. In his fist conversations
In November 2003, after Faris was sentenced, federal agents arrested another person who attended the same mosque, Nuradin Abdi, and held him on immigration charges. In March 2004, an immigration judger ordered his deportation within 90 days. When the deadline expired in June 2004, Ashcroft suddenly announced that Abdi and Faris had conspired to bomb shopping malls in Columbus. Abdi is still awaiting trial on these charges.
Faris allegedly involved Abdi and Paul in the supposed Columbus mall plot in March 2003 conversations with the FBI. It is rather curious that Paul is now charged, more than four years after supposedly being named and three and a half years after the last arrest of his alleged co-conspirators.
Officials: Alleged al Qaeda paymaster in custody
U.S. hunts al Qaeda operatives in U.S.
Tuesday, March 4, 2003 Posted: 9:33 AM EST (1433 GMT)
http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/asiapcf/south/03/03/pakistan.arrests/'High-Value' Detainees Transferred to Guantanamo
By JONATHAN KARL
Sept. 6, 2006 — ~snip~
http://abcnews.go.com/International/story?id=2400470We have your sons: CIA
March 10 2003
By Olga Craig
Kuwait
Two young sons of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the suspected mastermind of the September 11 attacks, are being used by the CIA to force their father to talk. Yousef al-Khalid, 9, and his brother, Abed al-Khalid, 7, were taken into custody in Pakistan in September when intelligence officers raided a flat in Karachi where their father had been hiding. ~snip~
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/03/09/1047144871928.htmlBush Advisor Says President Has Legal Power to Torture Children
By Philip Watts
01/08/06 "revcom.us" -- -- John Yoo publicly argued there is no law that could prevent the President from ordering the torture of a child of a suspect in custody – including by crushing that child’s testicles. ~snip~
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11488.htmTerrorism inquiry expected to spread
Federal agents question Bay Area residents associated with suspects arrested in Lodi
Christian Berthelsen, Mark Martin, Jaxon Van Derbeken, Chronicle Staff Writers
Thursday, June 9, 2005
~snip~ Lyman Faris: In May 2003, Faris, an Ohio truck driver, pleaded guilty to training with Osama bin Laden and plotting to blow up the Brooklyn Bridge. He had been arrested after being named by captured al Qaeda leader Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and was sentenced to 20 years in jail. ~snip~
Nuradin Abdi: A Somali native charged in November 2003 with conspiring to strike an unnamed Columbus, Ohio-area mall. According to the FBI, the plot was devised shortly after Abdi returned to the United States after attending an al Qaeda training camp in 1999. He has pleaded not guilty and is awaiting trial in an Ohio jail. ~snip~
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/06/09/MNG7GD5RNH1.DTLKashmiri terrorist cooperating with FBI
June 23, 2003 23:10 IST
Lyman Faris, the alleged Kashmiri terrorist, who pleaded guilty to felony charges in the United States is fully cooperating with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Time reported on Monday. Faris, whose real name is Mohammad Rauf, is making calls to FBI agents from a safe house in Virgina, even as they directed and monitored his each and every communication, including cell phone talks and e-mail messages to his bosses, the magazine said. ~snip~
http://www.rediff.com/us/2003/jun/23us1.htm~snip~ In 2003 Lyman Faris was arrested for threatening to blow up the Brooklyn Bridge. He was also threatened with the prospect of being labeled an “enemy combatant.” He pled guilty and in October 2003 was sentenced to 20 years in prison. ~snip~
http://www.johntfloyd.com/anti-terrorism-lawyer.htmRUMSFELD, SECRETARY OF DEFENSE v. PADILLA
http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=US&vol=000&invol=03-1027Published on Monday, June 21, 2004 by the Free Press / Columbus, Ohio
Did Ashcroft 'Behead' an Innocent Man in an Ohio Election-terror Scam?
by Harvey Wasserman and Bob Fitrakis
On Monday, June 14, the eve of Kerry's two-day visit here, Attorney-General Ashcroft dramatically seized national headlines by unsealing a month-old four-count indictment of Abdi, a Somali native living in Columbus. "The American heartland was targeted for death and destruction by an al-Qaeda cell allegedly which included a Somali immigrant who will now face justice," Ashcroft boasted. Ashcroft failed to point out that Abdi had been in custody since November 28, 2003. Federal investigators claim Abdi allegedly bragged that he wanted to blow up a mall. But according to CBSNEWS.com, "no specific mall was targeted. No explosives were in hand. And it was unclear that the alleged terrorist had the wherewithal to do it." Abdi faces up to 80 years in prison and $1 million in fines. According to U.S. immigration records, Abdi first entered the United States in 1995, resided in Canada, then re-entered the U.S. in August 1997. Official statements say the US granted Abdi asylum as a refugee in January 1999 after Abdi gave false information to immigration officials. His November 2003 arrest was on immigration charges. He has been held in prison under extremely dubious circumstances. ~snip~
http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0621-01.htmSomali Man Charged in Plot to Bomb Ohio Mall
Prosecutors Allege Conspiracy With Al Qaeda Operative, Jihad Training in Ethiopia
By Susan Schmidt
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, June 15, 2004; Page A06
~snip~ Attorney General John D. Ashcroft said that Nuradin M. Abdi, 32, a cell phone company employee in Columbus, was charged with conspiring with al Qaeda operatives, including Ohio truck driver Iyman Faris, who was convicted last year of plotting to sever cables on the Brooklyn Bridge. A four-count indictment, unsealed yesterday in Ohio, said Abdi obtained and used fraudulent travel documents and conspired to provide material support to al Qaeda. Abdi, in custody since the day after Thanksgiving, had lost his political asylum status and was facing deportation that is now stayed by the indictment. ~snip~
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A41805-2004Jun14.htmlPsych Exam For Accused Terrorist
June 16, 2004
~snip~ According to the Detroit Free Press, Abdi was ordered deported by a federal judge in March. He did not contest his deportation, meaning the U.S. had 90 days to carry out the move. That period ended last week. ~snip~
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/06/14/terror/main622950.shtml
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