Qaeda plot guy ‘turned back on U.S.’: feds

A HOUSTON-BORN man betrayed his country to become an Al Qaeda terrorist and plot to kill fellow Americans, Brooklyn federal prosecutors told a jury Tuesday.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Saritha Komatireddy opened the case against Muhanad Mahmoud al Farekh by describing the sudden 2009 blast at a military base in Afghanistan A DISTURBED man slashed a vendor in the arm Tuesday as he set up for the Feast of San Gennaro in Little Italy, witnesses said.

The vendor, who didn’t give his name, said he was headed to a store to buy pork that knocked over an American soldier in a watchtower and left his head pounding.

Although one truck bomb blew up the base gate, a second truck fell into the crater the first explosive created and never detonated.

Experts found fingerprints on brown packing tape — “the fingerprints of that man,” Komatireddy said, pointing at Farekh, “an American citizen who chops and rice when he came across the man, lying down and blocking the sidewalk, around 7:45 p.m.

“I told the guy to get up off the floor,” he said. “He pulled out a razor and cut me.”

Police took the man into custody. turned his back on country.”

Farekh, 32, stared ahead and occasionally looked down as prosecutors laid out a case that could land him in prison for life if convicted. The balding man with a trim beard wore a blue blazer, blue button-up shirt and khakis.

Farekh was “uniquely qualified” for the team as an American-born English this speaker, Komatireddy told the six men and six women of the jury.

But Farekh’s lawyer, David Ruhnke, said prosecutors couldn’t definitively prove his client had a hand in the attack.

He also said prosecutors would be calling witnesses who are hoping for leniency.