A man charged with being an al Qaeda terrorist failed to appear at a court hearing yesterday after questions arose about his mental health because of his aggressive behavior.
Ibrahim Suleiman Adnan Adam Harun, 43, is charged with attacking US forces in Afghanistan and plotting bomb strikes against American diplomatic facilities in Nigeria, in a case unveiled publicly earlier this week.
Although he provided information to US investigators after his arrest in Italy in 2011, Harun has become combative and angry — and at times has spit at officials while being locked up in federal detention facilities, sources told The Post.
At a court hearing yesterday, defense lawyer Susan Kellman told a Brooklyn federal judge that her client would not appear because he was “not feeling well.”
Judge Brian Cogan said he was ordering the transcript sealed and ruled that experts needed to assess Harun’s condition.