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Bryant Neal Vinas (born December 4, 1983; also Ibrahim, Bashir al-Ameriki and Ben Yameen al-Kanadeeis) is a Hispanic Muslim American convicted of participating in and supporting Al-Qaeda plots in Afghanistan and the U.S.〔〔Rashbaum, William K. and Souad Mekhennet. (L.I. Man Pleaded Guilty in Attack on U.S. Base in Afghanistan ). ''New York Times'' July 22, 2009〕〔 After converting to Islam in 2004, he traveled to Waziristan, Pakistan in 2007 with the intention of meeting and joining a ''jihadist'' group to fight U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan. He was accepted into al-Qaeda and received training in general combat and military explosives.〔 He also volunteered detailed information about the operation of the Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) system to a senior al-Qaeda leader to help plan a bomb attack on an LIRR commuter train in New York's Penn Station. Subsequently, he participated in two al-Qaeda rocket attacks on U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan in September 2008.〔 He was captured by Pakistani forces in 2008 and transferred to FBI custody.〔 In January 2009 he pled guilty to all three charges against him.〔 ==Early life== Vinas lived on Long Island, with his parents and his sister, Lina.〔 His parents had both immigrated to the U.S., his mother from Argentina and his father, now a retired engineer, from Peru.〔〔 A one-time Boy Scout who grew up in Medford, New York, Vinas was raised Catholic.〔 His parents divorced in 2000. He joined the U.S. Army at age 18 in 2002, but was discharged after just three weeks of basic training at Fort Jackson in South Carolina.〔 While first living with his mother in Medford, Vinas had a dispute with her and moved in with his father in Patchogue, New York, in approximately 2005.〔〔 He worked as a licensed truck driver and at a car wash,〔 and sporadically attended technical college.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bryant Neal Vinas」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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