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Sources told CNN that Vinas has come away from his radical views and is cooperating willingly.
But, according to Juan Vinas, they masked their true reasons for inquiring about his son.
With such a prized asset in custody, authorities took extraordinary measures to keep Vinas' arrest secret.
U.S. counterterrorism officials will not comment on whether intelligence from Vinas helped with any specific strike.
On July 22, 2009, news broke of Vinas' arrest after federal authorities unsealed his guilty plea.
He was told Vinas was picked up by Pakistani police in a Peshawar market.
But as Vinas walked around the bustling bazaars of Peshawar, U.S. intelligence agencies were closing in on him.
Vinas faces a maximum of life in prison but could receive a lower sentence if he continues to cooperate.
What officials do acknowledge, however, is that Vinas became a powerful resource in the U.S. war against al Qaeda.
Vinas, for his part, was arrested by Pakistani police in Peshawar in November 2008 and transferred into American custody.
After a tip from their U.S. counterparts, Pakistani security services arrested Vinas in Peshawar and transferred him into American custody.
For Vinas' mother and sister, the shock of his arrest has been replaced by terrible disappointment and flashes of anger.
"They made it sound like it was for a visa violation and that he would be deported, " Juan Vinas recalled.
Back in the United States, Vinas' father received a call from the FBI, saying that Pakistani authorities had apprehended his son.
That month, FBI agents visited Vinas' father, Juan Vinas, on Long Island, telling him they believed his son was in Pakistan.
The FBI agents then asked if they could search his son's computer and look through his e-mail, which Juan Vinas allowed.
The insider descriptions provided by Vinas and Othmani indicate that these violent extremists are as motivated as any of their predecessors.
Back on Long Island, Vinas approached his Muslim faith with renewed vigor.
Vinas' friend Qayyum said he learned of the arrest through the grapevine.
Other friends of Vinas', however, feel no anger about what he did.
Although he initially pleaded not guilty, Vinas started cooperating with U.S. investigators.
He began spending time at the Selden mosque in the company of Ahmad Zarinni, who took Vinas under his wing, according to one mosque member.
Vinas, Acevedo said, became convinced that Muslims would be the target.
Vinas was no different from most other American teenagers, they said.
It was during this time that Vinas became disillusioned with the apolitical worldview of the Tablighi Jamaat and attracted to a more "hard-line" interpretation of Islam.
Around 2004, Vinas started working as a forklift truck operator.
Vinas was not able to return to Cuba a third time and was forced to end a relationship he'd begun with a young woman there, he would later tell investigators.
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