Dog Cry Ranch
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The Dog Cry Ranch
was a sheep ranch near Bly, Oregon
that American security officials assert was to be the location
of a jihad training camp.
James Uyaama, an American convert to Islam has admitted he met Abu Hamza al Masri in 1999, and convinced him that together they could set up a military training camp where American recruits would be trained for jihad.
Abu Hamza was to provide funds and experienced trainers. Uyaama was to provide a safe location for the camp, weapons and the American recruits.
The KOMO News reported "According to court records, the whole setup was a hustle by petty crook James Ujaama of Seattle."
British men Oussama Kassir
and Haroon Rashid Aswat
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two men who said the had attended training camps in Afghanistan, were to the camp's trainers.
When the two men arrived to set up the camp in December 1999 they found there were just rwo recruits, Sami Osman and his teenage brother in law.
They found Ujaama had supplied just two old guns and inadequate housing.
Ujaama abandoned the camp and the British men, the night of the complaint-filled day they arrived.
At Kassir's trial he and Aswat were described as trying to provide training to Osman and his brother-in-law,
until they got a phone cal from al Masri. Because they feared al Masri's phone call had been monitored,
and had tipped off the American officials, they too fled the camp.
In fact American security officials had been monitoring the developing plans since the first contact between al Masri and Ujaam.
According to American law enforcement officials who tried to extradite al Masri he could have faced a sentence of 100 years.
In return for pleading guilty to providing material support for terrorism
, and agreeing to cooperate in helping to convict the British men Ujaama received a two year sentence.
The owner of the ranch and his wife were believed to have been unaware of any criminal or terrorist connection, and were not charged.
was a sheep ranch near Bly, Oregon
Bly, Oregon
Bly is an unincorporated community in Klamath County, Oregon, United States. It is about east of Klamath Falls. , the population was 486.- History :...
that American security officials assert was to be the location
of a jihad training camp.
James Uyaama, an American convert to Islam has admitted he met Abu Hamza al Masri in 1999, and convinced him that together they could set up a military training camp where American recruits would be trained for jihad.
Abu Hamza was to provide funds and experienced trainers. Uyaama was to provide a safe location for the camp, weapons and the American recruits.
The KOMO News reported "According to court records, the whole setup was a hustle by petty crook James Ujaama of Seattle."
British men Oussama Kassir
Oussama Kassir
Oussama Abdallah Kassir is a Lebanese-born Swedish militant Islamist.- Early life :Kassir was born in Beirut, Lebanon. He came to Sweden in 1984 and was granted Swedish citizenship in 1989. He participated in the Lebanese Civil War during the 1980s and was hurt in battle...
and Haroon Rashid Aswat
Haroon Rashid Aswat
Haroon Rashid Aswat is a British citizen of Indian origin. He is alleged to have ties to al Qaeda.-Possible role in the London transit bombing of July 7th, 2005:In the first two weeks following the July 7, 2005 bombings...
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two men who said the had attended training camps in Afghanistan, were to the camp's trainers.
When the two men arrived to set up the camp in December 1999 they found there were just rwo recruits, Sami Osman and his teenage brother in law.
They found Ujaama had supplied just two old guns and inadequate housing.
Ujaama abandoned the camp and the British men, the night of the complaint-filled day they arrived.
At Kassir's trial he and Aswat were described as trying to provide training to Osman and his brother-in-law,
until they got a phone cal from al Masri. Because they feared al Masri's phone call had been monitored,
and had tipped off the American officials, they too fled the camp.
In fact American security officials had been monitoring the developing plans since the first contact between al Masri and Ujaam.
According to American law enforcement officials who tried to extradite al Masri he could have faced a sentence of 100 years.
In return for pleading guilty to providing material support for terrorism
Providing material support for terrorism
Providing material support for terrorism is a provision of the USA PATRIOT Act which prohibits material support to groups designated as terrorists. The four types of support described are “training,” “expert advice or assistance,” “service,” and “personnel.” In June 2010 the United States Supreme...
, and agreeing to cooperate in helping to convict the British men Ujaama received a two year sentence.
The owner of the ranch and his wife were believed to have been unaware of any criminal or terrorist connection, and were not charged.