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    Texas man's terrorism trial to start Monday

    HOUSTON (AP) — A Texas man accused of trying to sneak out of the U.S. to join al-Qaida fighters in the Middle East and provide the group with money, equipment and U.S. military documents will be tried Monday on terrorism charges.

    Prosecutors allege that Barry Walter Bujol Jr., 30, said he wanted to "die with the brothers for the cause of Allah, and to be in Heaven." A U.S. citizen, he was arrested in May 2010 after using fake identification to sneak into a Houston port and board a ship bound for the Middle East, authorities said.

    An FBI informant had given Bujol a bag filled with GPS receivers, two nonpublic restricted-access Army manuals and other items he had allegedly agreed to courier to al-Qaida operatives in the Middle East. Authorities say Bujol believed the informant was a recruiter for al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula.

    An FBI task force claims that Bujol had been emailing Anwar al-Awlaki, a U.S.-born cleric with ties to al-Qaida, and is believed to have exchanged emails with Nidal Malik Hasan, the Army psychiatrist accused of killing 13 people in the November 2009 Fort Hood shootings.

    Al-Awlaki was killed in a U.S. drone strike in late September in Yemen.

    Authorities say Bujol made three unsuccessful attempts during February and March 2009 to travel overseas to Yemen or the Middle East.

    He was arrested after a two-year investigation by the FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force. He faces up to 20 years in prison if convicted on charges of attempting to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization and aggravated identity theft.

    Bujol, from Hempstead, northwest of Houston, had been set to plead guilty in the case in October 2010, but he changed his mind. He fired two attorneys, decided to represent himself and has elected to have a judge, not a jury, decide his case.

    According to court documents, Bujol used at least 14 email addresses to hide his activities from authorities and advocated attacking U.S. facilities where military weapons were manufactured.

     
    • noname  •  6 mths ago
      Stupid...jihad his #$%$...., go jihad in your country and get 72 virgins, Im sick of the kardashian jihad as well......
      • ewok 6 mths ago
        Ya mean there are Kardashian virgins?
      • blackram 6 mths ago
        Recycled virgins maybe.
    • Ralph M  •  Seattle, United States  •  6 mths ago
      He's gonna have to be content to rot in jail until he dies of old age... He can dream of his 72 virgin piglets until then.
      • blackram 6 mths ago
        He's 30 and COULD get up to 20 years in prison. He won't die of old age in prison. Do your math.
    • dapeck  •  Wall, United States  •  6 mths ago
      we let them in and they show their appreciation by plotting to kill us. i am sorry but any religion which advocates hiding women's faces/bodies, and blowing themselves up for allah to kill his enemies so he can get his 100 virgins or whatever is sick. they wonder why we profile them. the so called good muslim americans do not even speak out against it.
      • Westin 6 mths ago
        Number one, he is an American. There is no "letting him in." He was already in. Number 2, profiling him would have done no good because, well, look at him and look at his name. Profiling would have been worthless.

        I could add a number 3 which criticizes your Islamophobia, but it would be pointless, I'm sure as your ethnocentric bigotry runs too deep.
      • Joe 6 mths ago
        It's not bigotry when they have declared war (jihad) on you.
    • Jerry  •  San Angelo, United States  •  6 mths ago
      Too bad he can't have judge Roy Bean But let's hang the jerk any way --FORGET SUPPORTING HIM IN JAIL!!!!!!
    • Cromulent  •  6 mths ago
      These are just the wages of Islam. Its been this way for 1400 years.
    • joseph  •  6 mths ago
      He wants to go to heaven so bad...take him out in the back yard and blow his head off. End of one problem!
    • Nicholas  •  Sioux Falls, United States  •  6 mths ago
      The Muslims are a sick twisted hate filled group who corupt the followers into thinking that killing is the best way to heaven and if it infants,children ,women or old men thats a bonus!
    • Hook  •  6 mths ago
      Stupid sick mind and why we can not let our guard down
    • James  •  6 mths ago
      He sounds like a threat to national security. Just kill him and be done with it.
    • MrBoogers  •  Miami, United States  •  6 mths ago
      Isn't it illegal to kill buffalo in Texas?
    • Joe  •  Trenton, United States  •  6 mths ago
      Do to him like they do to our killed/captured servicemen (and women). Strip him naked and drag his body all around the city streets.
    • Hector  •  6 mths ago
      Sean Penn has done same thing and hes not on trial
    • SL  •  6 mths ago
      The sentence should be "A Short Drop with a Quick Stop!"
    • JohnS  •  6 mths ago
      This is another reason Obama will be a One Term President - Rick Perry
    • Conservative  •  6 mths ago
      Personally, I am sick of the crazy "muslim Americans". This use to be a great country, full of proud Amnericans, now we are the laughing stock of the world and have been overtaken by the lazy and crazy immigrants that either want a free ride on our backs, or want to kill us all off in the name of gihad!
      • NIX 6 mths ago
        Do not blame Immigrants because you are a migrant too-infact an offspring of a migrant. Unless you are a native American. Blame American borns just like you. No evidencein the news above that shows : those crazy immigrants you are talking about are immigrants in the report above . It is clear that they are American borns that is it, stop being prejudicial, stop your misjudment and face the truth man.
      • Joe 6 mths ago
        Nix go bang a cat or something.
      • WITHELD 6 mths ago
        nix, don't like it leave
    • Conservative  •  6 mths ago
      U.S. citizen? Was he born here, or did the libs grant him his citizenship? If he was caught red-handed, why are we wasting millions of tax payer dollars on his trial? Why not let the military try him and then execute him is a swift and expedient manner?
    • Brent  •  6 mths ago
      pop a cap and waste him
    • Robert  •  Tampa, United States  •  6 mths ago
      Drag him behind a Texas pick-up truck!
    • RealityCheck  •  6 mths ago
      Doesn't the Army have any Predator UAVs flying around the Houston, TX area ??? Gentlemen, start your engines .... Bubba, Vrooooooom, TX
    • Yahoo user  •  6 mths ago
      There is just NO limit to the "CRAZY" that comes out of Texas...
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