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1. 1. Conflict in Iraq :: spokesmanreview.com

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   Published on: 6/16/2006   Last Visited: 6/16/2006

   Ryan Anderson, a sergeant with the 81st Armored Brigade, is back home in Spokane Valley.

2. 2. News/Activism | latest threads

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   Last Visited: 2/17/2004

   Ryan G. Anderson is the man. He's a tank crew member of the 81st Armor Brigade, training at Fort Lewis near Tacoma, Wash. Four-thousand strong, they're preparing to leave for Iraq this week.Anderson won't be with them.He's under arrest.The Army says he was taken into custody and will stay...

3. 3. Warbloggers Against Kerry - John Kerry for President (of the Jane Fonda Fan Club)

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   Published on: 6/18/2004   Last Visited: 11/6/2006

   Ryan G. Anderson, a Fort Lewis-based National Guardsman and Muslim convert.
   
   Anderson, 26, faces five counts of trying to provide the terrorist network with information about U.S. troop strength and tactics as well as methods for killing American soldiers.
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   Last year Rossmiller's work led her to a posting from Anderson, who was using the name "Amir Abdul Rashid."
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   The "Article 32" hearing is to decide whether Anderson should face a court martial.If tried, he could face the death penalty. . . .
   
   Rossmiller had been corresponding with Anderson since October.
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   Timothy MacDonnell showed a nearly hour-long videotape of a meeting between Anderson and two investigators posing as al-Qaida members.
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   On the tape, Anderson told the two about weaknesses in the M1A1 Abrams, the Army's main battle tank, and provided sketches of it.
   
   "While I love my country, I think the leaders have taken this horrible road," Anderson said on the video."I have no belief in what the American Army has asked me to do.They have sent me to die."
   
   The meeting took place in a vehicle near Seattle's Space Needle Feb. 9; Anderson was to be deployed to Iraq within days.
   
   Initially, Anderson was charged with four counts of trying to communicate with terrorists.The Army added a fifth charge last month, which was not disclosed publicly until Wednesday.It alleges that at one point, Anderson told undercover military personnel: "I wish to desert from the U.S. Army.I wish to defect from the United States.I wish to join al-Qaida, train its members and conduct terrorist attacks."
   
   Anderson has been jailed the past three months at the Regional Corrections Facility at Fort Lewis, where his brigade was based.
   
   He was raised a Lutheran and later converted to Islam.Anderson grew up in Everett, Wash., where classmates at Cascade High School described him as a paramilitary enthusiast who was passionate about guns.
   
   He began studying while attending Washington State University.He graduated from WSU with a history degree in 2002 and joined the National Guard.
   
   He is a tank crewmember with the 81st Brigade, which is deployed in Iraq.