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The Al Qaeda Operative in a Brooklyn Court

IN THE DOCK

On Sunday, Saddiq Al-Abbadi and another wanted Yemeni were at large in Saudi Arabia. On Tuesday, the ‘longtime al Qaeda operative’ was cuffed in a U.S. court facing terrorism charges.

A doe-eyed al Qaeda terrorist accused of conspiring to murder Americans sauntered into the second-floor courtroom in downtown Brooklyn clad in blue scrubs and shackled from his ankles to his hands.

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