Washington: A federal jury on Tuesday convicted a US man of conspiring to kill American soldiers in Iraq.
Prosecutors alleged that Tarek Mehanna, who hails from the Boston suburb of Sudbury, travelled to Yemen in 2004 seeking terrorism training, Xinhua reported.
Mehanna, an Egyptian descent, has been held without bail since he was indicted on terrorism charges in November 2009.
After failing to get training there, he returned to the US and started distributing propaganda materials of Al Qaeda.
But a number of Mehanna's former friends testified against him that he had promoted extreme ideology, endorsed the Sep 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
Prosecutors alleged that Tarek Mehanna, who hails from the Boston suburb of Sudbury, travelled to Yemen in 2004 seeking terrorism training, Xinhua reported.
Mehanna, an Egyptian descent, has been held without bail since he was indicted on terrorism charges in November 2009.
After failing to get training there, he returned to the US and started distributing propaganda materials of Al Qaeda.
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But a number of Mehanna's former friends testified against him that he had promoted extreme ideology, endorsed the Sep 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
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