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NEW YORK, May 13 (UPI) -- A federal jury in New York found Oussama Abdullah Kassir guilty of providing support to al-Qaida by setting up a militant training camp in the United States.
Prosecutors said Kassir went to Bly, Ore., in late 1999 to establish a military-style facility under the direction of Muslim cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri, designated a terrorist by the United States.
Kassir's conviction Tuesday was the same day prosecutors in Miami won guilty verdicts against five men accused of conspiring to blow up Chicago's Sears Tower, a case that twice ended in mistrial, The Washington Post reported Wednesday.
In the New York trial, the indictment said Kassir taught techniques for waging jihad, including "how to kill a person by slitting their throat with a knife and how to fight with a knife in hand-to-hand combat." Kassir left the United States after two months, expressing disappointment at the low number of people attracted to the camp, the Post said.
Kassir was arrested in Prague in 2005. U.S. officials spent two years trying to get him to the United States to stand trial.
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