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FEDS: Suspects Were Told of Attacks
Saturday, September 28, 2002
The Associated Press

John Molloy, Al-Bakri's lawyer, said his client didn't accept what he was told at the camp in Afghanistan. "There was no showing in the government's proffer that Mr. Al-Bakri bought into any of the propaganda or was willing or able to put any of the training offered into practice."

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- AP
At an Afghan training camp attended by suspected members of a New York terror cell, Osama bin Laden declared before Sept. 11 that there "is going to be a fight against Americans," prosecutors said in court papers filed Friday.

The papers, in the case involving six suspected terrorists in Lackawanna, N.Y., said none of the men, all Americans of Yemeni origin, could give any details regarding any of the mosques or schools they visited for what they said was religious training in Pakistan.

Filed in federal court in Buffalo, N.Y., the government documents ask that the six men continue to be held without bail.

According to the prosecutors, the men went to the Al Farooq training camp, where "bin Laden told them in unequivocal terms that there 'is going to be a fight against Americans.'" When one of the six, Mukhtar al-Bakri, asked the trainers at the camp whom he was going to fight, "they would say, 'Americans,'" said the court papers.
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The subj line (article headline) is misleading. The west has been threatened regarding "attacks" for decades. Why shouldn't these six men simply consider it a continuation of Middle East propaganda?



Dan