According to the criminal complaint, one of the co-conspirators, Ferid Imam, trained three men on how to use AK-47s and other weapons at an al Qaeda training camp in 2008.
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By The South Asia Daily | April 3, 2015
Muhanad Mahmoud Al Farekh, a U.S. citizen that allegedly traveled from Canada to Pakistan to train with al Qaeda and carry out jihad, appeared before a federal judge on Thursday on a charge of conspiring to kill American soldiers, according to Reuters News Service.
Farekh said nothing and entered no plea during the brief court appearance, and his lawyer did not comment on the proceedings. If convicted, Farekh faces a maximum of 15 years in prison.
Farekh, who was born in Texas, traveled from Winnipeg, Canada to Karachi, Pakistan with two other co-conspirators in 2007. According to the criminal complaint, one of the co-conspirators, Ferid Imam, trained three men on how to use AK-47s and other weapons at an al Qaeda training camp in 2008. Those men – Najibullah Zazi, Zerin Ahmedzay, and Adis Medunjanin – were later convicted of plotting to bomb New York City’s subway system and are cooperating with federal authorities, it has been reported by The Associated Press.
The Washington Post’s Adam Goldman and Tim Craig reported on Thursday that Farekh had been nominated by the U.S. Department of Defense to a “kill list” of suspected terrorists by 2013, but noted that the Obama administration decided not to authorize his killing as there were questions about how prominent a role Farekh played in al Qaeda, The Washington Post has reported.
Goldman and Craig added that Farekh “is the second terrorism suspect with U.S. ties to be captured or killed in Pakistan in recent months.” In December 2014, Pakistani forces killed Adnan el Shukrijumah, a senior al Qaeda operative on the FBI’s Most Wanted Terrorists list and a naturalized U.S. citizen.
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