FBI Almost Didn’t Question Terror Suspect
FBI agents testified Friday that a Lodi father on trial for terrorism-related charges was interrogated as an afterthought because he refused to leave while agents questioned his son.
Umer Hayat volunteered to drive his son, Hamid, to the FBI’s regional headquarters in Sacramento for questioning June 4. He then declined to leave while they conducted the interview.
The agents said in court that they then questioned the father and that led to his admission that he had toured several camps and knew of his son’s training at one of them.
Umer Hayat is charged with two counts of making false statements to the FBI.
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