A Vietnamese immigrant has been charged in New York over an alleged role in helping al-Qaida in Yemen.
Minh Quang Pham was arrested in Britain. He is accused of traveling to Yemen to train with members of al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, or AQAP.
Pham is also accused of helping the group with its online propaganda efforts. Investigators said he was in Yemen from December 2010 through July 2011.
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Sources familiar with the case said he met with numerous leaders of AQAP in Yemen, including the terror group's then leader, Anwar al-Awlaki, and Samir Khan, editor of its English-language magazine "Inspire," and took a loyalty oath. Both Americans-turned-terror leaders were killed in a drone strike last September.
"The defendant not only pledged an oath to al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, and received military training from AQAP, he also helped design and disseminate its propaganda,"New York FBI Assistant Director-in-Charge Janice K. Fedarcyk said.
Security officials have said AQAP has become the leading overseas terror threat to the U.S.
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Two underwear bomb plots, including one that targeted a Detroit-bound jetliner, as well as a plot to bomb cargo planes in 2010, originated in Yemen.
As for Pham, the court papers said he played a role in creating online propaganda for AQAP. He is charged with conspiracy to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization.
Jonathan Dienst is WNBC's chief investigative reporter. Shimon Prokupecz is WNBC's investigative producer.
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This takes the cake.
If he had spied for the chinese, I wouldnt have been surprised (there are precedents). WTF was this guys problem?
Logical...I think he's angry that Angelina Jolie pass him up for adoption over the other Vietnamese kid, namely.. Pax-Thien!
In all seriousness, I am pretty sure he's either ethnic Cham or grew up with friends who are Cham that he sympathized with. The Chams are a Muslim, ethnic minority group that reside in Vietnam. Their original empire consisted much of middle/southern Vietnam and parts of Cambodia, before we Vietnamese came down from China and did to them what the Jews are doing to the Palestinean around the time when the pilgrims started settling Plymouth Rock.
Can the drones man up and stop lollygagging.
the lollygagging drones are unmanned...
Hey now plain bob I said it first..
Vietnam is still mad that the U.S. didn't win the war for them.
Oh ho! So Vietnam supports them!
This has nothing to do with the Vietnam War , I was with the First Cav in An Khe we supported the Government of South Vietnam and fought against the Communist Government of North Vietnam. One must wonder if Mr Pham was maybe a Plant put there to gather Info.
if the charges are found to be true, feet first into the wood chipper with mr pham....
I wonder what was Mr. Pham's motivations were to get involved - religion, financial gain, what? This goes to show one cannot do racial profiling.
Julie... probably not the best last name to have. Oh, look at me! I'm stereotyping! I'm sure you are a sweet kid.
Such a small world. My cousins are the Phams too.
John, that's a terrible thing to say.
Hatchet - I like my last name 'cause I can put "Phamily" on Christmas cards.
Now there are Vietnamese Muslims?? Who would have thought. Can't trust anybody anymore.
Why not? There are a lot of Christians in Korea.
One of the biggest terrorists in Al Qaeda is a white, born-and-bred in the USA citizen—Adam Gadahn.
Anyways, there are large number of Muslims in Southeast Asian countries like Thailand, Indonesia, Malyasia.
Buddhism is catching on abroad as well, but nobody thinks about it because they are know for being docile (partially a false stereotype, by the way).
And there are also lots of people in the USA who follow "New Age" philosophies which tend to be a form of Hinduism.
It's called Muzrum Brudderhood. True.
I'll bet that there are No Muslims in North Korea. The dear Leader would never allow that to start. The Muslim brotherhood wouldn't last two seconds. Political Correctness is unheard of in North Korea.
Tarzan7 Like you, I didn't think know that until I read the post above by cons2p8ted then I found this on Wiki...
The Cham people (Vietnamese: người Chăm or người Chàm, Cham: Urang Campa[7]) are an ethnic group in Southeast Asia. They are concentrated between the Kampong Cham Province in Cambodia and central Vietnam's Phan Rang-Thap Cham, Phan Thiết, Ho Chi Minh City and An Giang areas. Approximately 4,000 Chams also live in Thailand; many of whom have moved south to the Pattani, Narathiwat, Yala, and Songkhla Provinces for work. Cham form the core of the Muslim communities in both Cambodia and Vietnam.[4]
Tarzan7 - Sooo funny
@Julie - Um I don't think this is the best example of why profiling shouldn't be used. I mean let's face it - it DOES save time.
How does a man from mostly a Buddhist country (there is a Christian minority) get involved with Islamic terrorists? This is like Bobby Lindal becoming a Democrat.
@Harry - you mean Bobby Jindal, may I add is a huge Catholic as well.
I am Vietnamese and very ashamed of this news. Who could have thought of a Vietnamese Muslim. If this guy is found guilty, we would love to see this guy hanged. We don't tolerate terrorists in our community, period!!!
You are an idiot. When Timothy McVeigh blew up the Oklahoma building. Did whites feel ashamed for being white. Race has nothing to do with it.
BTW, i am Vietnamese American
Welcome to the community, Tim & Mike from Vietnam!
Tim, you, me and the rest of america are ashamed of him!
Et tu Charlie?
In this case MTA would be Muslim Terrorist Authority. thanks for the nostalgia trip.
Being a Muslim is one thing, even from a country largely Buddhist or Catholic. But this guy deserved to be plowed under
For those of you unfamiliar with the practice, the Viet Cong would make examples of suspected nationalist sympathizers by burying them up to their necks and then dragging an ox- drawn plow over their heads. It would be compulsory viewing for the rest of the villagers.
I guess that would get your attention, hope you did not have to see/deal with the aftermath-
Next up, Full Metal Jacket (Haji Edition).................
We need to shut-down immagration into our country for good !
And increase education... immigration not immagration.
Wow, John you are smart not!
John -
let's converse. I am one of the world's best "fat-finger" typists, but you are just objectionable.
Propaganda illegal?!
All part of the manipulation cooptation strategy. Everyone everywhere uses some sort of propaganda. Politicians, businessmen, stock markets, marketeers, military and advertising agencies ect...
I'd never think you could be held criminally for using it?
Yes ,this is what we get for having a onetime great society.Fill it up with people who could care less about my beloved land.In it only for what they can get out of it.I am sure that this person would complain about racial bias from me,right up until they did their deed.Like the 911 bombers,or the illegals,whose treachery come in the form of financial drain and dilution of our culture.Yeas,America is so much better now than it was.We still have 19th century laws on the books about immigration volumes that make no sense now.Like the anchor babies,all are a threat to America
All Kinds of SHlT,but it all Smells the Same! al-Quaida! NAZIS Were No Different!
That's where you're wrong. The Nazis had Wagner's music and snazzy uniforms, not to mention rockets and jet aircraft. Al-Quaida is pretty much camel jocks with bombs
Nazi's were German - highly intelligent and seriously goal oriented: Al Queda is nothing but a buncha backwater sh--heads with single digit IQ's.
Vietnamese on the other hand ... no, they're a bunch a dumbf==ks too.
Oh really SoCal...judging from your sophmoric English..I doubt you are of this Aryan group. Do the research about a San Diego University in the late 1980s that show that the Vietnamese tied with the East Indian in GPA and SAT score in all of southern California. In addition, the first asian in space was a Vietnamese cosmonaut and the first Asian-American in space was a NASA astronaut. How's that for being goal oriented?
This al qaeda turd from NY is probably a cham minority. We have lots of them in our county..remnants from the previous centuries of us moving down from China and conquering them and the Cambodians. The Chams are the only remnant of a Islam based group in the former Indochina. 80% of Vietnamese are peaceful Budhist..and about 10% are Catholics.
Just started" Black Banners" Great read so far. Author was on the Daily Show a couple weeks back. Very interesting, can't wait to find a shade tree by a lake and get lost in the story very soon.
The US is paying Al-Qaida to fight in syria so what wrong with others helping
Another week and a another new terrorist , and it always because they hate our way of life , does anyone have stats on how many of them hate us because we killed their innocent children or had family member held for years with no charges because of unsupported Intel from the CIA .
It took my dad yrs to get over ww2 , he held a deep hatred for Germans and japs , people who killed friends and comrades , so why is the US allowed to harbor the hatred of 9/11 and yet a Afghanistan father is not allow to hate when his son that is picking up firewood is killed by a faceless drone controlled by a kid eating hot pockets sitting 6000 miles away . real morality left america when we dropped the bombs.
seemssoobvious I do understand your point I guess but what would you have the United States do when it's been attacked? Should we just say to our attackers that we understand why they hate us and we are sorry so we will forgive this attack and move forward and try to be a better nation? Then when the next attack comes do we turn the other cheek again and again and when does it stop? A nation that does not make the proper prperations for war and is not prepared to defend ones self is soon to cease to exist. War is a last resort but a nation must always be prepared to wage it. The reason Europe has been so prosperous in the past is because America stood ready to defend it. Were it not for the United States Europe and nations within it would have had to maintain a military defense which would have taken away from it's wealth. I for one would rather a drone kill an enemy than to risk a soldiers life. It is sad that non-combatants die as well but we can't help it that the enemey surrounds himself with women and children. Thats what terrorist do. They go home to their neighborhoods and surround themselfs with women and children. It's a cowards way if you really think about it. But the terrorist are quickly learning that it will not protect them. Good Day, Joe.
I hate Kentucky Fried Chicken. Guess that gives me the right to blow up a few.
Dumb ass
Apocalypse Now!
and Obama just granted him amnesty and invited him to the White House to kiss his ring and all.
And Jokebama gave him a job and free health insurance and free education and food stamps and a free cell phone...but only if he votes for him.
Yeah yeah, we get it, You have a blind hatred for the president. But to say he is soft on al qaeda is just stupid. Even the repubs in office dont go there. They know how dumb that sounds.
There is something very wrong here, when 9/11 was coming, the police, the FBI and the CIA, Criminals In Action, the white house and his mafia men were being directed by Sgt Schultz of Hogan's Heroes, the I see nothing, I hear nothing crowd and 9/11 was allowed to happen. Fast forward to now, and Al Qaeda can't make a hit anymore, they look like they have been taken over by the keystone cops. This and I'm quoting Arte Johnson (RIP) of laugh in, "this is very interesting."
Interesting construct, Hellno. Your first sentence rambles, ambles, and yet, I was strangely drawn to see what you were trying to say. I was sadly disappointed - nothing worth reading . . .
To decode a code, you have to know all the parts that form a whole. Let me explain, if I may, this puzzle a la the enigma of the sphinx that only one person could understand.
It's, was reported by the media, not by Wikileaks, the media that the FBI in several cities, from Arizona to Florida, had found out many instances of Arab, Muslim looking men trying to learn to fly planes, but didn't want to learn how to land. This was not a once in a lifetime deal, but many deals that the retard pervert from Texas refused to heed. And it gets worse, now it has come to be known that everybody in the administration knew the MO of the "terrorsts" and that MO included, yes Virginia, flying planes into NYC, the Pentagon and other government buildings. Are you still with me? Now comes the kicker, there is a record of the retard pervert telling those sources about the impending 9/11 attacks and him stating: "O.K. you covgered your asses", which in my book, it infers: Now leave me alone, I know what I'm doing and how am I supposed to destroy our Constitution if I can't blame it on the Muslims? Remember, the Muslims were originally everybody thought they had planted the bombs at OKC so making them the new boogiemen won't be so hard to do and the rest as they say is history. And since you must be from Missouri, let me give the reddest of all those red flags cited before. When the victims' relatives felt that the retard pervert didn't want to appoint a "commission" to "investigate", they huff, puff and blow and the retard pervert had to give in, but with conditions and what were those obvious conditions? Elementary Dr. Watson, no subpoenas, no statements under oath, ergo, a toothless "commission", more for show and tell than finding out the truth. Remember Watergate? And how we came to find out the truth, the facts ma'am, just the facts? Oh yeah, subpoena powers and statement under oath. If this becomes the theory of relativity for you, please see your mother and father, cause I didn't have any thing to do with that. Every time I "rant", those with one track minds or special agendas are also lost and not just lost, but Jimmy Hoffa's body lost.
One thing I do see, specially from people like you, why go after the messenger when the message is so clear? Well, let me quote Jack Nicholson: You can't handle the truth and that, my sgt Schultz is your problem. Can you hear me now?
Another disaffected, attention-seeking, crybaby Muslim convert bites the dust. Seriously, why can't these little girly-boys just join a martial arts school, take boxing lessons or have a heterosexual relationship? Like Islam and terrorism will give them purpose in life?
This guy is bound to posses a wealth of information- although, he has no intelligence.
The children of Ishmael ... AKA brainless sh--heads. Now they're spreading to Asia? No, just to Vietnam ... go figure.