FBI Sting Nets Yemeni Al Qaeda Funder

(Washington Post) Peter Finn - Sheik Mohammed Ali Hassan Moayad, 54, had come to Frankfurt to meet a wealthy American Muslim from New York said to be interested in donating funds to charities that Moayad oversaw in the Middle East. The rich American Muslim was in fact an undercover agent, a key figure in an elaborate transnational sting engineered by the FBI to lure Moayad from Yemen, and he was arrested by German police on Jan. 10.


2003-02-28 00:00:00

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