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 ]
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