Mohamed Alanssi
Mohamed Alanssi is a Yemeni national who has worked as an informant for the FBI in over 20 terrorism-related federal prosecutions, starting in November 2001. Alanssi set himself on fire in front of the White House on November 15, 2004. A note he wrote to his FBI handler at the time said he had to travel to Yemen to see his sick wife before he testified in a major terrorism prosecution in 2005. Alanssi was the sole informant in that case, which involved various counts of material support of terrorism against Mohammed Ali Hassan Al-Moayad and his assistant. At the trial, Alanssi was not called by the prosecution, but appeared as a hostile witness for Al-Moayad's defense.
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- http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/17/nyregion/17terror.html
- http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/18/nyregion/18terror.html
- http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/27/nyregion/27terror.html
- http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/18/nyregion/18sheik.html
- http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/23/nyregion/23sheik.html
- http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/18/nyregion/18terror.html
- http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A813-2004Nov20.html