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Claim of terror camp in Bly explored
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
GRANTS PASS, Ore. — Even in a
town as small and out of the way as
Bly, local folks find it hard to believe
that Islamic militants might think they
could train with assault rifles on a
sheep ranch without anyone noticing.
“Ridiculous,” said Marilyn
Thomas on Monday in a telephone
interview. Thomas runs the Pit Stop
convenience store in Bly, a tiny
ranching community in the high
desert of south central Oregon.
“I’m from Chicago, where I didn’t
even know my neighbors. Here they
know what you’re going to do before
you do it. And if you don’t do it they
get mad.”
A six-page complaint unsealed in a
New York court alleges that Haroon
Rashid Aswat, 30, a British-born citi
zen of Indian descent, spent a month
at a sheep ranch outside Bly in De
cember 1999 as a representative for a
religious leader in London to see if it
would serve as a base for training Is
lamic militants from London and the
United States to fight in Afghanistan.
A fax outlining a recruiting brochure
for the camp said people could train in
“Archery, combat, martial arts and ri
fle and handgun handing,” according
to the complaint.
Authorities have said the camp
never materialized beyond a dozen
people taking target practice in a cin
der pit, and was abandoned for un
known reasons.
Aswat is the fourth person
arrested in connection with the
camp. The complaint does not
identify the religious leader who
sent him from London or his con
tact in Seattle, but closely tracks
charges brought against Muslim
cleric Abu Hamza Al-Masri and
James Ujaama of Seattle. Ujaama
pleaded guilty to lesser charges and
authorities have said he agreed to
cooperate in the investigation.
Aswat is accused of violating a fed
eral law prohibiting conspiracies and
preparations for killing, kidnapping
and maiming people or damaging
property in a foreign countiy.
Bly is an unincorporated town of a
few hundred people located 50 miles
east of Klamath Falls. It’s name
comes from the mispronunciation of
an Indian word for a place where two
rivers come together. The high school
closed in 1968, and the town has
been struggling to survive since a
lumber mill shut down about 20
years ago.
Though a few miles outside town,
the ranch is near a highway and sur
rounded by scattered rural homes,
making it unlikely that sustained as
sault rifle fire could go on without
someone taking notice, Bly residents
said. They took notice in 1999 when
people in Middle Eastern dress living
at the ranch came to town.
An unidentified witness cooperat
ing with prosecutors who was
promoting the training camp idea to
an unidentified religious leader in
London described Oregon in a
fax as a state that supported militia
activity and firearms, and “looks
just like Afghanistan,” according to
the complaint.
Aswat was taken into custody in
Zambia last month, where he had
been detained in connection with the
July 7 bombings in London. British
officials want to question him about
20 phone calls reportedly made on
his South African cell phone to some
of the four suicide bombers who
killed 52 people in the attack.
He was brought back to London
over the weekend, and a judge on
Monday ordered him to remain
there until Thursday pending an
extradition request from U.S. au
thorities. His lawyer has proclaimed
Aswat’s innocence.
In the New York complaint, FBI
Special Agent Michael S. Butsch, a
member of the Joint Terrorist Task
Force in New York, cites witnesses
who saw Aswat at the sheep ranch in
December 1999 and one who sent a
fax to the religious leader in London.
“We can build a big following and
practice our deen to the fullest even
taking some of the external pressure
off the backs of our brothers abroad,”
the complaint quoted from the fax.
The complaint alleges that Aswat
was a follower of an unnamed reli
gious teacher in London, and flew
with another follower to New York
on an Air India flight, then took a
Greyhound bus to Seattle, where they
met up with the man proposing the
camp and traveled to Bly.
Aswat had expertise in combat
training, had previously been in a ji
had training camp in Afghanistan
and once saw Osama bin Laden, the
complaint said.
The fax called on the religious
leader to move to the camp, saying
he could not be removed “without a
serious armed fight.”
Group readies eminent domain initiative
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
SALEM, Ore. — Voters in 2006
could be asked to limit the govern
ment’s power to take private property.
Oregonians in Action, the state’s
leading property rights group, filed
paperwork Tliesday with the state
elections office for a November
2006 ballot measure that would
allow governments to condemn
property only if they plan to use
it themselves — not turn it over to
private developers.
The issue gained national atten
tion in June when the U.S. Supreme
Court ruled local governments can
force owners to sell land for eco
nomic development projects that
benefit the public.
The proposed initiative
needs 75,630 signatures to make
the ballot.
“We want to nip it in the bud be
fore it becomes a problem here,”
said David Hunnicutt, director of
Oregonians In Action. “People want
to feel somewhat secure they’re not
going to have their property taken
because the local government de
cides another business would be a
better use. ”
Hunnicutt’s group scored a major
victory in the November 2004 elec
tion, when its Measure 37 was
backed by 61 percent of voters.
The measure allows property
owners affected by land use restric
tions that were passed after they
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bought the property to either ask for
an exemption from the rules, or
compensation for any loss in
property value that was caused by
the regulations.
The condemnation issue is un
likely to be as contentious. Land
use planning advocate 1000 Friends
of Oregon is fine with limiting
condemnation power — depending
on the details, director Bob Stacey
said Tuesday.
The initiative would protect
homes, businesses, farms and
forests from condemnation for
private projects. Governments could
still buy land for utilities or
transportation facilities that are
privately operated.
Legislators considered similar bill
in the session that ended last week.
The bill cleared the House, but
senators said the issue needed
more deliberation.
“It was too complicated, too
late,” said Sen. Charlie Ringo,
D-Beaverton.
Legislators who supported the
condemnation bill are likely to cam
paign for it during election season.
Rep. Wayne Krieger, R-Gold Beach,
said he doesn’t want private compa
nies pressuring government officials
for land.
“It’s a horrible situation to put
these people in,” Krieger said. “We
need to stop it, and we were in a po
sition to do that.”
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