Informant Says No. 2 Al Qaeda Lived in Lodi

(Sacramento, California) In the fifth week of the Lodi terror trial, FBI informant Naseem Khan testified that Ayman al-Zawahri lived in Lodi and was seen at a mosque there in 1998 and 1999.

From SacBee.com:

Ayman al-Zawahri, 54, known to the FBI as bin Laden's personal physician and al-Qaida's second-in-command, made frequent visits to the Lodi Muslim mosque and seemed to be a man of few words, said Naseem Khan, who also lived in Lodi during the same period.

"Every time I would go to the mosque (al-Zawahri) would be coming or going," said Khan, a critical prosecution witness against Umer Hayat and his son, Hamid Hayat, two Lodi men being tried on terrorist-related charges.

"He would quietly come to the mosque and leave," Khan recalled.

Then, al-Zawahri "disappeared" from Lodi sometime in 1999, Khan said.

If true, this information places Lodi into a different light. No longer is Lodi simply a peaceful community of law-abiding Muslims, as has been claimed. It's a place where at least a few seeds of al-Qaeda philosophy have been planted.