Al Qaeda Suspects Are Denied Bail
Two U.S. citizens accused of being Al Qaeda loyalists were each ordered held without bail when they appeared in federal courtrooms in New York and Florida.
Tarik Shah, 42, waved and smiled at supporters and appeared relaxed at his preliminary hearing in U.S. District Court in Manhattan before Magistrate Judge Theodore Katz.
In Fort Pierce, Fla., Rafiq Abdus Sabir, 50, told U.S. District Judge James Hopkins that he had not hired a lawyer. The judge set the next hearing in his case for June 6.
Neither defendant entered a plea on the single charge of conspiring to provide material support to Al Qaeda.
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