Jeremy Roseback at the Philadelphia Inquirer offers a piece on the Afghan doctor accused by the government of passing coded messages to a terror group.
A 62-year-old Afghan doctor detained in Philadelphia this week on immigration fraud charges received and passed along coded messages from an anti-Western terror group with ties to al-Qaeda, federal prosecutors said.
At a court hearing Friday, Assistant U.S. Attorney Jennifer Arbittier Williams said FBI agents discovered the documents written in Pashto and hidden between glued pages of religious tracts mailed to Hayatullah Dawari's Northeast Philadelphia home.
The package, intercepted during a January raid, came from Pakistan and included instructions to forward several books inside to various people across the United States.
At a court hearing Friday, Assistant U.S. Attorney Jennifer Arbittier Williams said FBI agents discovered the documents written in Pashto and hidden between glued pages of religious tracts mailed to Hayatullah Dawari's Northeast Philadelphia home.
The package, intercepted during a January raid, came from Pakistan and included instructions to forward several books inside to various people across the United States.
A later search uncovered a coded message similar to that found in Dawari's possession at the home of another associate in Philadelphia.
"The note, when translated from Pashto to English, appears to contain a message directing some urgent action," Williams said.
She would not describe the content of the messages, citing national security concerns, but quoted excerpts in court filings Friday.
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http://articles.philly.com/2014-08-09/news/52624587_1_immigration-fraud-u-s-citizenship-court-hearing
"The note, when translated from Pashto to English, appears to contain a message directing some urgent action," Williams said.
She would not describe the content of the messages, citing national security concerns, but quoted excerpts in court filings Friday.
You can read the rest of the piece via the below link:
http://articles.philly.com/2014-08-09/news/52624587_1_immigration-fraud-u-s-citizenship-court-hearing
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