30 December 2011
Alleged wannabe jihadist from Staten Island chatty for interrogators, report says
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- A former Staten Islander who authorities say took a trip to Pakistan in an attempt to join the Taliban spilled his guts for interrogators, ratted out dozens of New Yorkers he felt were pro-jihadists, according to a published report.
Abdel Hameed Shehada, 22, formerly of Annadale and Prince's Bay, apparently had a lot to say when he was questioned after his arrest by the FBI-NYPD Joint Terrorist Task Force, the Daily News reported, citing information from court papers filed in Brooklyn Federal Court.
The alleged pro-jihadists he described include a College of Staten Island student who attended a fund-raiser at Brooklyn College for a terrorist, according to the report. Also included are Brooklyn teachers of the Islamic orthodoxy Salafism, a livery cab driver and an Ethiopian Muslim in the Army.
Shehadeh's lawyer is trying to suppress the 22-page FBI report, according to the News.
Last October, federal prosecutors charged Shehadah, accusing him of lying when he told authorities that he took a trip to Pakistan in 2008 to attend a religious school. In fact, prosecutors allege, he was trying to join the Taliban.
A criminal complaint alleged the FBI and the NYPD had been investigating Shehadeh "and several other individuals in connection with a plot to travel overseas and wage violent jihad against the United States and other coalition military forces."
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