[In response to their questions, Keenan told jurors they could not convict Haouari of terrorism conspiracy merely] by association ... knowing or intending that his support or resources were to be used in the preparation for or in the carrying out of the terrorist act or the concealment or escape from that act.

Important and dangerous business.

Get the money to carry out an operation in America.

They stopped me. They asked me, 'Where are you going to,' from what I understood. ... They said, 'Open the car,' and started searching. I ran.

I said, Mokhtar, I am not going to America for tourism. I am going on some very important and dangerous business.

Because it was sensitive politically and economically.

It was an enemy of Islam and that if one is to carry out an operation it would be better to hit the biggest enemy.

It would have been preferable to carry it out in the country itself, inside America. He was in agreement.

I did not tell him precisely and I did not give him the target.