Possible error in case against mosque leaders

 Federal prosecutors have admitted a possible error in a key piece of evidence used to arrest and detain two Albany mosque leaders accused of supporting terrorism. In a letter, prosecutors told the judge in the case that a phrase in a notebook being used as evidence against the mosque leaders might have been mistranslated. U.S. soldiers found the notebook last summer in northern Iraq, in what prosecutors deemed a "terrorist training camp." An entry in the notebook, prosecutors said, contains the name of one of the suspects, Yassin Muhiddin Aref, 34, and lists his address and phone number in Albany. The entry, in Arabic, refers to him as "commander," according to a Defense Department translation. [more ]