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-- recorded conversations in which "Mehanna admitted to other individuals that he lied to the FBI" regarding Maldonado;
-- the November 2008 charge of lying about Maldonado during JTTF interrogations;
-- the December 2006 charge that Abousamra lied during JTTF interrogations in claiming his 2004 Yemen trip was to study Arabic and Islam;
-- Williams' assertion that both defendants went to Yemen in 2004 "to learn how to conduct, and to subsequently engage in, jihad;" to Pakistan twice in 2002 for the same purpose;
-- that defendants "continued in their efforts to train for jihad (and) received information and assistance from an individual (referred to) as Individual A, about who to see and where to go to find terrorist training camps in Yemen;"
-- in February 2004, Abousamra also entered Iraq, stayed for about "15 days" and two months later went to Syria and Jordan before returning to the US in August 2004; he subsequently visited Syria "multiple times;" he "made fictitious and fraudulent statements to the FBI" that he went to Jordan to "look for colleges," to Iraq "to look for a job" and to Syria "to visit his wife."
The lengthy 55-page affidavit, plus attachments, also claimed:
-- CW 2 was a coconspirator;
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