PHOENIX — A former U.S. sailor who sent e-mail messages to a radical Islamic Internet site while a crewman on a Navy destroyer in the Middle East was identified Friday as a communications specialist and Muslim convert, according to sources familiar with the investigation and Navy records.
But a woman speaking on behalf of Hassan Abujihaad, who left the Navy in January 2002, denied Friday that he had posted anti-American views on the site, as authorities assert, or did anything wrong.
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He is a cousin of suspected Al Qaeda member Mohammed Naeem Noor Khan, whose arrest in Pakistan triggered terrorism alerts this month in New York, New Jersey and Washington.
Federal agents are trying to determine how Ahmad ended up in possession of detailed and highly classified information about the San Diego-based aircraft carrier battle group that the Benfold was part of, including its classified travel plans and its vulnerability to attack.
On Friday, Lt. Mike Kafka, a Navy spokesman, said, "There is currently no tie between the former sailor and the documents recovered during the raid in London" that contained details on the ships accompanying the aircraft carrier Constellation.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-na-sailor14aug14,1,4032470.story?coll=la-home-headlines"no tie", yet they suddenly release his name. Feeding the beast?
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