Lebonese-Swede terror suspect extradicted from Europe

AP/Washington Times:

A European terrorism suspect facing charges in the United States planned to set up a camp in Oregon to teach followers how to make bombs, poison people and slit throats, a federal prosecutor said today.

Oussama Kassir, a Lebanese-born Swede, also offered bomb and poison-making tips on several Web sites, U.S. Attorney Michael Garcia said in announcing the suspect's extradition to New York from the Czech Republic.

One of the Web sites was located on an Internet server in suburban White Plains, the prosecutor said.

"The purpose of the camp was to identify and further radicalize individuals that would be willing to carry out attacks against the United States at home or abroad," said Richard Falkenrath, deputy commissioner for counterterrorism at the New York Police Department.

Kassir was scheduled to appear in court for arraignment later today.

Prosecutors say Kassir and others wanted to set up the camp in Bly, Ore., to teach military-style methods so a community of Muslims could move to Afghanistan to fight or receive further training there. The camp was never realized.

Kassir also discussed hijacking trucks and killing the drivers to raise money to support the camp, Garcia said.

Kassir is accused of operating at least three Web sites that sought to recruit terrorists from December 2001 until his arrest Dec. 11, 2005, at Prague's Ruzyne international airport while flying from Stockholm, Sweden, to Beirut, Lebanon.

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Do you think it is possible that we were reading his email and listening to his calls. I hope so. It would be a further demonstration of the importance of the terrorist surveillance program and another example of the threat posed to the US by the Democrats terrorist rights campaign.