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Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/10/AR2006071001223.html
New York Tunnel Plot Suspects Linked to Al-Qaeda
[Washington Post] Spencer S. Hsu and Robin Wright - Assem Hammoud, the Lebanese man arrested in an alleged plot to bomb New York transit tunnels under the Hudson River, had been recruited by al-Qaeda three years ago and members of his cell had been attempting to seek help from the organization for the attack, U.S. and Lebanese officials said Monday. Maj.-Gen. Ashraf Rifi, commander of Lebanon's Internal Security Forces, said Hammoud was recruited to al-Qaeda in 2003 by a Syrian who later took him twice to Lebanon's largest Palestinian refugee camp, Ain al-Hilweh, for weapons training.