RALEIGH, North Carolina (Reuters) - Jury selection began on Monday in a federal trial of three North Carolina men accused of plotting to assist Islamist militants in unfamiliar countries.Mohammad Omar Aly Hassan, Ziyad Yaghi as well as Hysen Sherifi have been being attempted in federal court in New Bern, North Carolina, on multiple counts of plotting to wage "violent jihad" abroad. A fourth defendant, Anes Subasic, will be attempted following a conclusion of a current trial.Three other defendants in a case, including a plot's ringleader, Daniel Patrick Boyd, as well as his two sons, Dylan as well as Zakariya Boyd, have certified guilt to some charges as part of plea agreements as well as have been awaiting sentencing.All a men were indicted in Jul 2009 following an review by a FBI's Raleigh-Durham Joint Terrorism Task Force.The indictment said that Daniel Patrick Boyd, a Muslim convert as well as drywall contractor from Willow Spring, North Carolina, drew his sons as well as a other men into a plan to travel abroad to help Islamist militants.It said that Boyd had traveled between 1989 as well as 1992 to Pakistan as well as Afghanistan, "where he received military style training in terrorist training camps for a purpose of engaging in violent jihad."The indictment adds that from at least November 2006, when a federal review began, by Jul 2009, Boyd conspired with a other defendants "to provide material support as well as resources to terrorists, including currency, training, transportation as well as personnel."Federal prosecutors said a box is based on secretly recorded conversations as well as reports from an informant.The elder Boyd had also been indicted on accusations of plotting an attack by a group on a U.S. Marine Corps base in Quantico, Virginia, but his plea did not include that specific charge.Following a arrests of a defendants, investigators raided Daniel Patrick Boyd's home as well as found a cache of weapons as well as $13,000 in cash.Seven men were arrested in a case. An eighth man charged! , Jude K enan Mohammad, is thought to be overseas as well as has not been taken into custody.(Edited by Colleen Jenkins as well as Cynthia Johnston)
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