Jihad in Baltimore
The great Post reporter Richard Leiby profiles Abu Mujahid, ne Aukai Collins, in the Washington Post. Mujahid is a Euro-American prison convert to Islam who fought in Chechnya and southeastern Europe. According to the post, in his book memoir, My Jihad, he angrily rebukes the idea that terrorism can have any legitimate function in Holy War as he conceives it.
Mujahid currently lives in a Baltimore slum. He worked for years as an informant for the FBI and CIA. There was a falling out. He now gets strip-searched every time he enters the country. He says he tried to warn the FBI about 9/11 hijacker Hanji Hanjour. The FBI says Mujahid never mentioned Hanjour.
Fascinating story.
