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Yemen trip called a search for schooling
Defense contends Al Qaeda had no camps there in ’04
A witness for the defense team of accused terrorism-supporter Tarek Mehanna testified in federal court yesterday that Al Qaeda had no significant presence and there were no training camps in Yemen at around 2004, when Mehanna allegedly travelled to the Middle Eastern country seeking paramilitary training. The defense lawyers had sought to use the testimony of Gregory Johnsen, a doctorate candidate at Princeton University who was a Fullbright Fellow in Yemen from 2003 to 2004, to argue that Mehanna travelled to the country legitimately to seek schooling, as he has maintained.
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