On Sunday, Saddiq Al-Abbadi and another wanted Yemeni were at large in Saudi Arabia. On Tuesday, the ‘longtime al Qaeda operativ’e 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. Saddiq Al-Abbadi, 36, wore a long, dark beard, had on a brown knit cap, and was flanked by an Arabic interpreter, his attorney William Stampur, and over a half dozen FBI agents and federal marshals. The security detail was a clear indication that the prisoner was nothing like the preceding a case—a run-of-the-mill...
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