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ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) - Prosecutors have charged a Nigerian man with receiving hundreds of thousands of dollars from al-Qaida and using the funds to send young men off for terrorism training elsewhere in West Africa.
State Prosecutor Abdullahi Mukaillu told a federal court in the Nigerian capital, Abuja, on Tuesday that Mohammed Damagun received $300,000 in a London bank in late 2002.
Damagun, 50, of Abuja, is accused of using the funds last year to sponsor a trip for 17 youths from Nigeria's Muslim north to the Arab-dominated nation of Mauritania, where they were to learn terror tactics, the prosecutor said.
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