PHOENIX (AP) – Prosecutors on Wednesday grilled an Arizona man charged with plotting an attack on a Prophet Muhammad cartoon contest in Texas about why he never told investigators that his friend who carried out the thwarted shooting had been watching Internet videos of people being beheaded.
Abdul Malik Abdul Kareem took the witness stand for a second day at his trial on charges that he planned the attack last spring in a Dallas suburb. Prosecutors asked him about two friends who were killed in a police shootout outside the May 3 event.
Kareem acknowledged he volunteered to investigators that he kicked Elton Simpson out of his home because he believed Simpson had planted a tracking device in his car.
Prosecutor Joseph Koehler asked why Kareem didn’t think it was important to tell investigators, who interviewed him twice after the attack, about the videos Simpson had been watching.
“The question was never asked,” Kareem said.