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BENJAMIN WEISER
June 30, 2012
A
man being held in Britain has been indicted in Manhattan on charges that he
helped to develop online propaganda for Al Qaeda’s affiliate in Yemen, federal
prosecutors said Friday. He is expected to be sent soon to New York.
The defendant, Minh Quang Pham, 29, traveled
to Yemen and took an oath of allegiance to the affiliate, Al Qaeda in the
Arabian Peninsula, received training from the group and provided it with expert
advice and assistance in photography and graphic design, an indictment says. It
also says that in April 2011, he worked with an American citizen in Yemen on
the propaganda effort, and met with another American as well.
The
indictment does not identify the Americans, but their descriptions suggest they
might be Anwar al-Awlaki, the American-born radical Muslim cleric, and Samir
Khan, who helped to produce Inspire, an English-language online magazine
published by the group in Yemen. Both men were killed in a drone strike last
September.
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