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Witness says Mehanna sought terror training

Witness says Mehanna sought terror training

By Milton J. Valencia and Martin Finucane

 |  Globe Staff  

  November 15, 2011

A former close friend of Sudbury terror suspect Tarek Mehanna testified today that he drove Mehanna and two associates to the airport in 2004, where they planned to embark on a trip to Yemen to seek terrorist training. “They found someone who was going to help them in Yemen. They wanted to go to Yemen to look for training camps there,” said Hassan Masood, who was testifying for the prosecution in Mehanna’s trial in federal court in Boston.

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