NEW YORK (AP) — A New York City police unit that tracks terror threats on the Internet played a key role in the arrest of a New York man accused of trying to join the Taliban by enlisting in the U.S. military.
Abdel Hameed Shehadeh was arrested last week in Hawaii on charges he made false statements in a terror probe. He is in federal custody and will appear eventually in New York. His attorney didn’t return messages.
NYPD detectives began surfing the Internet for information about Shehadeh the same day he arrived at New York’s Kennedy Airport in 2008 with a one-way ticket to Pakistan.
The investigators found evidence against Shehadeh that helped make a homegrown terror case against him.
