He recorded the demand statement earlier this month and told an undercover FBI employee, “I feel like [Osama] BinLaden,” the deceased Al Qaeda leader. The affidavit describes Yener as unhoused.
At 77, he became the oldest person to travel in space. In 2004, OsamabinLaden, in a videotape to the American people, said he ordered the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States.