Monday 6 April 2009
Paul R. Hall, who has apparently changed his name to Hassan Abu-Jihaad, was arrested in Phoenix in 2007 and charged with terrorism
Paul R. Hall, who has apparently changed his name to Hassan Abu-Jihaad, was arrested in Phoenix in 2007 and charged with terrorism- and espionage-related crimes. Hall/Abu-Jihaad was convicted a year ago, but in early March a judge dropped the terrorism charge, delaying his sentencing.Hall was a bona fide rat in the grain house -- the kind of spy Americans can only hope rank in small numbers. While serving on the U.S.S. Benfold in 2000, the former sailor e-mailed detailed instructions on how jihadists could launch an attack similar to the one of the U.S.S. Cole in Yemen. At the other end of the e-mails was Ahmad Babar, a Pakistani man who moved to London in the 1960s and has a master's degree in engineering. Babar, who ran Web sites for an Al-Qaeda propaganda group, was supposedly in on the scheme to use the the details for an actual attack. He's fighting extradition to the United States.
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