Tuesday, March 18, 2014

Jihad needs a website? Allah built the website? Really?






NEW HAVEN, Connecticut (AP) (click here) A man convicted in a failed 2001 shoe-bomb plot to bring down an airplane will be allowed to testify at the sentencing of two British citizens who pleaded guilty in Connecticut to supporting terrorists through websites.

Judge Janet Hall on Monday granted prosecutors' request to have the witness testify by video from Britain. She ordered the government to pay travel expenses of attorneys for defendants Babar Ahmad and Syed Talha Ahsan to attend the deposition.

Prosecutors say the witness is expected to testify that Ahmad sent him to Afghanistan to train for violent jihad and that he moved on from Ahmad and was trained by al-Qaida members for the shoe bomb plot. The man also is expected to testify that he saw nearly two dozen others that Ahmad sent from the United Kingdom to train in Afghanistan, prosecutors said....