Local al-Qaida bomb suspect appears in court
Christopher Paul, 43, is charged with conspiring to support terrorists,
conspiring to use a weapon of mass destruction and providing support to
terrorists.Yesterday's arrest was the culmination of a four-year,
eight-country investigation of Paul, said Tim Murphy, special agent in charge of
the FBI's Cincinnati office, which oversees Columbus.Paul is the third man from central Ohio to be charged with terrorism. In 2003, Columbus truck driver Iyman Faris, who is serving a 20-year sentence after admitting he scouted the Brooklyn Bridge for al-Qaida, tipped authorities to Paul and Somali immigrant Nuradin Abdi.
Faris told investigators that he and Paul were at an Upper
Arlington coffee shop with Abdi when Abdi, frustrated with U.S. military
operations in Agfhanistan and Iraq, said they ought to shoot up a shopping
mall.Abdi was not charged with plotting against a mall but with lying to
obtain travel papers to leave the U.S. and with attempting to go to a terrorist
training camp in Ethiopia. His trial is scheduled for September.At today's hearing, Assistant U.S. Attorney Dana Peters explained the charges against Paul. Asked by U.S. Magistrate Terence P. Kemp if he understood the charges, Paul responded, “Yes, sir."
Serving Allah by blowing up a Victoria's Secret. Using a thong bomb of course.
I don't go to malls anymore. They're too dangerous. That's why my God made catalogues and the Internet (with aLgore's help).
