Vietnamese man pleads not guilty in NY terror case
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A Vietnamese man who was extradited this week to the United States has pleaded not guilty to charges that he supported al-Qaeda.
Minh Quang Pham made the plea during an arraignment Wednesday in federal court in New York. A 2012 indictment accuses him of traveling from the United Kingdom to Yemen in 2010 and receiving training from al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula.
Authorities say he had told his wife he was going to Ireland. After six months in Yemen, Pham returned to London and was arrested.
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Defense attorney Steven Frankel said outside court his client never harmed anyone and never did things described in the indictment.
Federal Judge Alison Nathan set April 9 for the next court conference. She said it was too early to set a trial date.