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Two Yemenis charged with helping al-Qaida and plotting to kill Americans
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Two Yemeni nationals were charged in the US with conspiring to murder Americans abroad and providing material support to al-Qaida, according to a complaint and arrest warrant unsealed on Tuesday.
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Saddiq al-Abbadi and Ali Alvi were arrested in Saudi Arabia and expelled to the US, the US Justice Department said. Alvi appeared in a federal court in Brooklyn on Sunday and Al-Abbadi was scheduled to be arraigned on Tuesday afternoon, the department said.
The two Yemenis engaged in attacks against US military forces in Afghanistan in the summer of 2008 and had travelled in March of that year to Pakistan to train and fight with al-Qaida, prosecutors said in the complaint.
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The pair also helped an American citizen join al-Qaida, according to the complaint.
Originally filed under seal in April 2009, the complaint describes a cooperating witness who travelled to Pakistan in 2007 with the intention of “waging violent jihad” against the US, and who was able to join al-Qaida in Pakistan with the help of al-Abbadi and Alvi.
The witness, who previously pleaded guilty to conspiring to murder Americans abroad, providing material support to al-Qaida, and receiving military-type training from the group, told prosecutors of training in Pakistan’s tribal areas in a basic weapons course and advancing to explosives and projectile weapons training, according to the complaint.
The complaint also alleges that a second confidential source who travelled from Saudi Arabia to Iran and then to Pakistan corroborated information about the two Yemeni defendants.
