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Grand jury indicts Sudbury man in terror plot
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November 5, 2009 07:48 PM
Two weeks after a Sudbury man was arrested in an alleged terror plot to kill Americans in the US and overseas, federal authorities announced today an indictment of him and a former Mansfield man they say fled to Syria.
 Tarek Mehanna |
Tarek Mehanna, 27, of Sudbury, and Ahmad Abousamra, 28, who last lived in Mansfield, were charged in a 10-count indictment with providing and conspiring to provide material support to terrorists, conspiracy to kill in a foreign country, and other charges.
Federal prosecutors in Boston also released two undated photographs of a Mehanna smiling at Ground Zero in New York City with friends, as well as excerpts of conversations he allegedly had with friends online in which he expressd his admiration for Al Qaeda, the 19 hijackers who participated in the 9/11 attacks, and Osama bin Laden.
"I look to him ... as being my real father, in a sense," he allegedly wrote in an online chat on April 28, 2006.
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