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This is our Key Ally? ------------------------------------------------------------ In a potential embarrassment for a key U.S. ally, an alleged Al Qaeda supporter claims that the group has built a major training facility inside Pakistan—and that recruits are being taught how to kill Americans.
By Michael Isikoff and Mark Hosenball Newsweek
Updated: 6:26 p.m. ET June 8, 2005June 8 - An FBI investigation into a suspected Islamic jihad group in California has produced sensitive new evidence that Al Qaeda may have reconstituted a major terrorist training camp inside Pakistan after the 9/11 attacks—a subject that the U.S. government has been reluctant to publicly talk about. The assertion that Al Qaeda—which President Bush recently claimed is “on the run”—was still capable of operating a significant training facility inside Pakistan is contained in an FBI affidavit released Tuesday night in connection with the arrests of Hamid Hayat, 24, a U.S. citizen, and his father, Umer Hayat, 47, an ice-cream truck driver, in Lodi, Calif., south of Sacramento. The two men are accused of lying to the FBI about a two-year sojourn that Hamid Hayat made to Pakistan between April 2003 and this year....
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