A Canadian al-Qaeda suspect who pleaded guilty in 2002 to plotting to bomb US embassies is to face a US court, in a case that has been shrouded in secrecy.
Prosecutors are expected to seek a life sentence when Mohammed Mansour Jabarah, 26, appears before a judge in New York.
Officials say Jabarah struck a plea deal in 2002, agreeing to work as an informant, but that his attitude has changed markedly in recent years.
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The case was made public on Thursday, more than five years after his capture.
Newly revealed court documents say Jabarah is of Iraqi descent and lived in Kuwait until the age of 12, when his family moved to Canada.
After leaving secondary school in 2001, he travelled to al-Qaeda camps in Afghanistan, where he met Osama Bin Laden, according to prosecutors.
They say he became a co-ordinator in a failed plot to bomb US embassies in the Philippines and Singapore in late 2001.
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Jabarah was arrested in Oman in 2002 and deported to Canada, before pleading guilty in the US over the bomb plot.
Prosecutors say the case was kept secret because he had agreed to provide information about militants.
He lived an FBI housing facility rather than a prison, while working as an informant.
However, prosecutors say his attitude changed following the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003.
They say he planned to kill FBI agents and officials assigned to his case.
"Jabarah's... post-plea jihadist scheming justify a life sentence," prosecutors wrote in their sentencing memo.
(BBC)
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