American al Qaeda suspect faces new US terrorism charges
Federal prosecutors in New York unveiled new criminal charges on Wednesday against a US citizen believed to have once been an al Qaeda operative, accusing him of involvement in a 2009 car bomb attack on a US military base in Afghanistan.
According to a nine-count indictment, Muhanad Mahmoud Al Farekh, 30, helped prepare one of two explosive devices for use in the Jan. 19, 2009 attack.
Prosecutors said an accomplice detonated one device, while Al Farekh's fingerprints were found on packing tape for the second device, which a second accomplice carried and did not detonate. The military base was not identified.
