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 Posted: Wed Oct 11, 2006 3:22 am Post subject: Terror trial verdict reached (Albany , NY) |
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Couple of local terrorist types got caught in an FBI sting. They were middle men seeking shoulder-fired missiles to sell to other terrorists (the Pakistan-based Islamic militant group Jaish-e-Mohammed) who were planning an attack in New York City
.....'cept the guy that was selling to these guys was an FBI informant. 
One is an illegal immigrant who will likely be deported. The other is a naturalized American citizen. The sentence they face is up to 400 years in prison. We'll know for sure once the jury makes its recommendations to the judge.
They lied their way through this trial, claiming they thought they were purchasing plumbing supplies.
FBI is quietly doing it's job here, and elsewhere across the country, for the WOT
Albany Times Union
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Terror trial verdict reached
Yassin Aref found guilty of 10 of 30 terrorism-related counts; Mohammed Hossain guilty on all 27 counts
By BRENDAN J. LYONS, Senior writer
Last updated: 5:21 p.m., Tuesday, October 10, 2006
ALBANY -- A federal court jury this afternoon found the leader of a Central Avenue mosque guilty of 10 of 30 terrorism-related counts against him and his co-defendant guilty on all 27 counts he faced.
Yassin M. Aref, the religious leader, and Mohammed M. Hossain are accused of taking part in a fictitious plot to help launder money from the sale of a shoulder-fired missile to terrorists plotting an attack in New York City.
Aref faced separate charges for allegedly lying on a green card application and while being interviewed by FBI agents about his ties to a Kurdish political party.
The verdicts came in the fourth day of deliberations in U.S. District Court. Jurors were sent home for the weekend late Friday afternoon and resumed deliberations this morning after the three-day holiday weekend.
Jurors on Friday asked to watch an FBI surveillance videotape of a key meeting between an undercover informant and Aref. At the meeting, which took place in January 2004, about six months after the sting began, the two men discussed the informant's plan to ``legalize'' money that he was loaning to Hossain.
At the end of the day Friday, the jury also asked U.S. District Judge Thomas J. McAvoy to clarify two charges in the 30-count indictment. Jurors wanted to know whether the charges, as written, require that the defendants knew the informant was making money from the illicit smuggling of any firearms, or, specifically making money off the sale of the shoulder-fired missile that was used in the sting and shown to jurors during the trial.
The informant showed Hossain the missile launcher during a meeting in November 2003. Aref never saw the missile launcher. At another meeting with both men, in January 2004, the informant pulled out a missile-triggering device.
Aref said he never saw it because he was counting money as the informant flashed the foot-long device.
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