Jihad in America: Al Qaeda in Ohio

How long can we be so lucky? It's got to get tougher with the Democrats increasingly become the party of the jihad.

U.S. man accused of plot to bomb resorts AP hat tip wnc

COLUMBUS, Ohio - A federal grand jury indicted a U.S. citizen on charges of joining al-Qaida and conspiring to bomb European tourist resorts and U.S. government facilities and military bases overseas.

Christopher Paul, 43, of Columbus, trained with al-Qaida in the early 1990s, the indictment issued Wednesday says. The indictment says he told al-Qaida members in Pakistan and        Afghanistan that he was dedicated to committing violent jihad.

Paul is charged with providing material support to terrorists, conspiracy to provide support to terrorists and conspiracy to use a weapon of mass destruction.

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The indictment says Paul traveled to Germany about April 1999 to train co-conspirators to use explosives to attack European and U.S. targets, including government buildings and vacation spots frequented by American tourists.

It does not address specific resorts or buildings that might have been targeted, but it gives U.S. embassies, military bases and consular premises in Europe as examples.

Paul was born Paul Kenyatta Laws. He legally changed his name to Abdulmalek Kenyatta in 1989, then to Christopher Paul in 1994, according to the indictment.

Two other Columbus men have been charged in federal investigators' terrorism investigation. Iyman Faris was sentenced in 2003 to 20 years in prison for a plot to topple the Brooklyn Bridge. Nuradin Abdi, accused of plotting to blow up a Columbus-area shopping mall, is awaiting trial on charges including conspiring to aid terrorists.

Comments

[Wellstone]

Hmmm.. kinda makes ya wish we still had a Justice Department that was more than the Political Police arm of the White House, don't it? Lol!

[willyp1954]

I live in a suburb of Columbus, and I know the federal agent in charge of security for Abdi's trial. He is one of the folks with the inside scoop and has offered some titles of books to read. Apparently Columbus may have the largest group of Somalis outside of Somalia, and I think I heard that the former mayor and police chief of Mogadishu are here in Klumbus. The suggestion of an AR-15 as a birthday present to myself was also thrown out in a recent conversation. I better move on that quick before Pelosi posts Muslims at the gun stores so they know who not to mess with!