In secretly recorded phone calls that rang through a quiet courtroom, an ex-U.S. Navy sailor laughs with a friend as a sniper tears U.S. soldiers’ bodies apart, and lauds the “psychological anxiety” wreaked on the USA by his coded hero (pictured), “Under the Black Leaves.”
“Under the Black Leaves” was a thinly veiled name for Usama (Osama) Bin Laden—the man Hassan Abu-Jihaad was supposed to be fighting with his naval battle group back in 2000 and 2001.
Instead of helping the U.S. fight Bin Laden, government prosecutors charge, the former sailor leaked sensitive information about the Navy’s movements to people involved in a London-based terrorist cell.
Click here to continue reading Melissa’s report from US District Court in New Haven.
