Former US resident pleads guilty at Guantanamo

By Ben Fox

Associated Press

Published: Wednesday, Feb. 29 2012 4:25 p.m. MST

Prosecutors say Khan later traveled with his wife, Rabia, to Bangkok, Thailand, where he delivered $50,000 to the Southeast Asian terror group Jemaah Islamiyah, an al-Qaida affiliate, to help fund the Aug. 5, 2003, suicide bombing of the J.W. Marriott hotel in Jakarta, Indonesia. The attack killed 11 people and wounded at least 81.

An American woman who was injured in the attack, Pat Pond, was an observer at the hearing and said she was satisfied with the outcome.

Pond, a resident of Park City, Utah, who was on a business trip for GE at the time of the Jakarta attack, said she was burned and damaged her hand in the blast and contracted HIV from a contaminated needle while being treated for her wounds at a hospital in Singapore.

"I don't feel any anger or any need for vengeance," she said.

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