Once Shared a Meal with Bin Laden.

[IRONm@N]

Terror suspect Mohammed Warsame, 31, was charged last year with conspiracy to provide material support to al-Qaida. He remained in custody Wednesday, said Karen Bailey, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Attorney's Office.

Warsame, a Somali with Canadian citizenship, was arrested in Minneapolis in December 2003. He had been living in Minnesota since 2002, with his wife and daughter, who was 5 when he was arrested.

An FBI agent's affidavit filed in conjunction with the original charge said Warsame traveled to Pakistan and Afghanistan in 2000 and 2001. In early 2001, prosecutors say, Warsame asked al-Qaida for money to move his family to Afghanistan.

Instead, an al-Qaida leader paid for Warsame's airplane ticket back to North America, and gave him $1,700 in travel money, according to the affidavit.

The affidavit states that Warsame claimed to have twice seen combat with front line units of the Taliban while in Afghanistan. He also said he had seen bin Laden on several occasions at one of the camps, including sharing a meal with the al-Qaida chief.

The executive director of the St. Paul-based Somali Justice Advocacy Center, Omar Jamal, said Warsame maintains his innocence. Jamal has been a spokesman for Warsame's family in Minneapolis.

"The charges are more about fear and to scare him to break him down more. We're very much concerned. We'll repeat our call to give him his
chance in court," Jamal told the St. Paul Pioneer Press.

http://www.kstp.com/article/stories/S8937.html?cat=1

[Adanna]

[quote]Warsame, a Somali with Canadian citizenship, was arrested in Minneapolis in December 2003. He had been living in Minnesota since 2002, with his wife and daughter, who was 5 when he was arrested. [/quote]

wow A somali sheekh with ONE wife who doesn't make use of his God given right to marry four fourteen year olds and only ONE kid (who'se five, in theory, he could have had atleast 25 kids by now).

He is obviously innocent.

[Ina-Geel_Wase]

QABIIL ANAA WASA.

[Steeler [Crawler2]]

What was he doing in Afghanistan in 2001??? Any non-Afghan Muslim in Afghanistan at that time is suspect.

[Padishah]

Makes no difference what he was doing there.

The Taliban offered to hand him over to the Saudi's in February, BEFORE the 9/11 attacks. This was swept under the rug until the tragedy, where it was used to bash Clinton for his apparant inaction on bin Laden, and as a figurehead of this monstrous hydra called 'Al Qaeda' and the person to take all the blame.

Both the reason for the refusal and any subsequent actions are suspect.

[Grant]

"The Taliban offered to hand him over to the Saudi's in February, BEFORE the 9/11 attacks."

This is confusing. Why did the Saudis want him, and was it Clinton or the Saudis that refused the Taliban?

[gurey25]

The saudis wanted him since 1993 becuase he fell out with the royal family and declared them all kaafir puppets, that should be killed(which 99% of muslims agree on).

He went to sudan where he satyed for some years.