California Conservative

We didn’t call it Camp al Lodi for nothing.

L.A. Times reports: “In a surprising twist, the FBI informant in the terrorism case against a Lodi man and his father said in federal court Monday that he encountered Al Qaeda’s No. 2 leader in the small Central Valley farm town a few years before the Sept. 11 attacks.”

“Defense attorneys for Hamid Hayat and his father, Umer, said outside court that the statement by the government’s key witness raised serious questions about the informant’s credibility. And a former president of the Lodi mosque said terrorist leader Ayman Zawahiri was never there.

Naseem Khan, a convenience store manager turned government informant, said he told the FBI in late 2001 that he spotted Zawahiri at a Lodi mosque in 1998 and 1999.”

Zawahiri is among the FBI’s top most wanted.

Michelle Malkin has more.

RELATED: Our earlier coverage
Camp al Lodi: The Trial Begins
for Suspected Terrorists in California
Suspected Terrorists In Lodi: Ties To A Jihadist Network?

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