FD Editors Note: I dunno, seems to me that if this huge network existed the way they are telling us it did… we’d all be toast by now. Our Constitution certainly is..
Sources Tie Nuke Plant Worker to Yemeni Cleric Called ‘a Fixture of Jihad 101′
A New Jersey nuclear plant laborer arrested in Yemen with 10 other suspected al Qaeda members was in contact with the same radical Yemeni-American cleric tied to Fort Hood shooting suspect Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, federal law enforcement officials told ABC News.
The New Jersey man, Sharif Mobley, was detained by Yemeni security forces earlier this month and taken to a hospital for medical treatment. He allegedly tried to escape from the hospital over the past weekend by grabbing a security guard’s gun and engaging in a gunfight that killed one of the guards.
Mohammed Albasha, a spokesman for the Yemeni embassy in Washington, told ABC News that details of Mobley’s case “will be clearer in a couple of days.”
Asked about Mobley’s apparent connections with the cleric, Anwar al-Awlaki, Albasha said he was not surprised because radicals and extremists in Yemen seek Awlaki out.
Officials are not aware of any security related incidents concerning Mobley’s employment as a laborer. He was not believed to have had access to critical parts of the nuclear plants.
