Christopher Paul was arrested last year, outside his Worthington, Ohio apartment and accused of planning to bomb European tourist resorts popular with Americans.
According to papers filed in the U.S. District Court in Columbus, Ohio, Christopher “Kenyatta” Paul has agreed to plead guilty to a charge of conspiracy to use weapons of mass destruction.
Paul worked with two other men, Iyman Faris and Nuradin Abdi, who plotted to help raise money and provide equipment for al-Qaeda.
Abdi and Faris are both serving time in Federal prison after both pleaded guilty. Faris plead guilty in May of 2003 and is serving 20 years and Abdi will serve 10 years and then he will be deported.
Christopher Paul was originally born as Paul Kenyetta Laws and in 1989 he converted to Islam and changed his name to Abdulmalek Kenyetta.
According to police officials he went to Pakistan and Afghanistan to receive training to be a terrorist and then returned to America and changed his name again to Christopher Paul.
He is accused of traveling to Germany in 1999 to train others in explosives and of buying night-vision goggles, a laser range-finder and global-positioning watches for al-Qaida.
From an Associated Press article:
Christopher Paul, 44, a U.S. citizen who grew up in the Columbus suburb of Worthington, is expected to plead guilty Tuesday to one count of conspiracy to use a weapon of mass destruction, specifically bombs, in terrorist attacks, documents show.
According to Central Ohioans Against Terrorism, who has been following this case very closely, court documents from the cases against Paul Abdi and Faris, have provided information "at least 10 others known to have been involved in the Columbus Al-Qaeda cell that have not yet been charged."
For those unaware, this is not the first time terrorism and Ohio have gone hand in hand, as evidenced by a report that was done on CBN News, last October, detailing that Ohio is no stranger to radical Islam.
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