PhotoIn January 2009, two trucks packed with explosives careened toward the front gate of a remote United States Army base in the Khost Province of Afghanistan. But the terrorist plot to kill American soldiers was foiled when the second truck crashed into the blast crater left by the initial explosion. On Friday, a Texas-born man, Muhanad Mahmoud Al Farekh, was convicted of having helped to plan the attack as an operative of Al Qaeda. After a weeklong trial in Federal District Court in Brooklyn, Mr. Farekh was found guilty on charges of providing material aid to terrorists. After being questioned by a team of elite terrorism investigators, he was eventually brought to Brooklyn to stand trial.

Source: New York Times September 29, 2017 23:30 UTC