Jury selection begins this morning in the second of back-to-back terrorism trials in lower Manhattan where a religious leader is accused of urging young Muslim men to join the fight with al Qaeda and attack the United States and the West.
Mustafa Kamel Mustafa is charged with exhorting men to train for jihad, or holy war, and taking part in kidnapping plots in Yemen. His trial comes just two weeks after a jury took six hours to convict Sulaiman Abu Ghayth of inciting people to commit acts of terrorism in his role as Osama bin Laden spokesman (NYLJ, March 27).
