SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — A California man charged with attempting to join al-Qaida and lying on a U.S. passport application to aid international terrorism was planning to travel to Pakistan before he was arrested, according to a court document.
A federal court order to detain Sinh Vinh Ngo Nguyen, 24, of Garden Grove states that arresting agents said he was due to travel to Mexico City by bus and then board a flight to Pakistan. [More]
Nguyen, who is also known as Hasan Abu Omar Ghannoum, has a lawyer called Yasmin Cader.
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The Facebook descriptions recount traveling across difficult terrain, preparing to "fight against Assad and his minions" and avoiding snipers before arriving at a village in central Syria in December. Family paints different picture of terrorist suspect, By Adolfo Flores and Anh Do, Los Angeles Times, October 14, 2013
