Two With Alleged Links to Dirty Bomb Suspect Indicted

The U.S. Justice Department yesterday announced the indictment of two men for allegedly providing financial support and recruitment assistance to al-Qaeda, including helping suspected “dirty bomb” plotter Jose Padilla attend terrorist training camps in Afghanistan, the Washington Post reported (see GSN, June 10).

Adham Amin Hassoun and Mohamed Hesham Youssef were each charged in a Florida court with two counts of providing material support to terrorists. Hassoun also faces eight previously filed charges, while Youssef is serving a sentence in Egypt on other terrorism-related charges.

While “enjoying all the freedoms that our society has to offer,” Hassoun was “secretly plotting to support murder and terror by violent jihadists overseas,” Attorney General John Ashcroft said yesterday in a news conference (Dan Eggen, Washington Post, Sept. 17).

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