Monday, June 07, 2010

Father of New Jersey terror suspect Carlos Almonte says he's not supporting his son

My guess is that this father, who says he doesn't want to talk to his jailed son, also wasn't much interested in talking to his son when the boy was growing up.

Father of New Jersey terror suspect Carlos Almonte says he's not supporting his son
BY Barry Paddock, Robert Gearty, Henrick Karoliszyn and Helen Kennedy
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS
June 7th 2010

The father of one of the two accused Jersey jihadists says he is so disgusted with his son that he didn't attend his court appearance Monday.

"I'm not supporting anybody that does something wrong," Pedro Almonte said of his 24-year-old son, Carlos, in an interview with the Daily News.

The Dominican immigrant from Elmwood Park, N.J., said he doesn't know what to make of Carlos, who converted to militant Islam and changed his name to Omar after high school when he fell in with Mohamed Alessa, 20.

"I don't want to talk to anybody - even him," the father said...

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