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| Trial Witness Says Al-Qaida Official Lived in California |
| Thursday, March 16, 2006 |
An FBI informant testified that a top al-Qaida official lived in California's Central Valley in the years before the 2001 terrorist attacks, but the statements were attacked immediately as unreliable.
The testimony came during an ongoing terrorism-related trial involving a father and son from Lodi, a small agricultural town south of Sacramento.
The Government informant, Naseem Khan, testified that he often saw Ayman al-Zawhri, Osama bin Laden's physician and top deputy, attending a mosque in Lodi in 1998 and 1999. Khan was living there at the time.
"Every time I would go to the mosque, (al-Zawahri) would be coming or going," Khan testified, according to a story posted yesterday on The Sacramento Bee newspaper's Web site. "He would quietly come to the mosque and leave."
Prosecutors offered the testimony to show why the FBI began investigating Lodi's Islamic community. The agency recruited Khan in December 2001, and he initially focused his undercover efforts on two Muslim clerics. |
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