U.S. Recruit Reveals How Qaeda Trains Foreigners
By MICHAEL POWELL
NYT
This article was reported by Alison Leigh Cowan, Alain Delaquérière, Souad Mekhennet, Michael Powell and William K. Rashbaum and was written by Mr. Powell.
Bryant Neal Vinas, the once-aimless young man who journeyed from Long Island to Pakistan to join Al Qaeda, agreed to carry out a suicide bomb attack last year.
Later the young man, who went by the nom de guerre of Bashir al-Ameriki, took a side trip to a Pakistani city in search of a wife. It was there, in Peshawar, that Pakistani agents captured this American convert to Islam last November.
These chapters in Mr. Vinas’s unlikely odyssey, replete with details on how Al Qaeda uses applications and written evaluations of students, directs terrorist camp life, and trains recruits to handle silencers and build suicide bomb vests, are found in a Belgian defense lawyer’s transcription of an official summary of parts of Mr. Vinas’s F.B.I. interrogation.
(More here.)
NYT
This article was reported by Alison Leigh Cowan, Alain Delaquérière, Souad Mekhennet, Michael Powell and William K. Rashbaum and was written by Mr. Powell.
Bryant Neal Vinas, the once-aimless young man who journeyed from Long Island to Pakistan to join Al Qaeda, agreed to carry out a suicide bomb attack last year.
Later the young man, who went by the nom de guerre of Bashir al-Ameriki, took a side trip to a Pakistani city in search of a wife. It was there, in Peshawar, that Pakistani agents captured this American convert to Islam last November.
These chapters in Mr. Vinas’s unlikely odyssey, replete with details on how Al Qaeda uses applications and written evaluations of students, directs terrorist camp life, and trains recruits to handle silencers and build suicide bomb vests, are found in a Belgian defense lawyer’s transcription of an official summary of parts of Mr. Vinas’s F.B.I. interrogation.
(More here.)
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