Patrice Lumumba Ford, named for the Congolese African resistance leader, is one of those accused of being members of a terrorist cell trying to join al Qaeda. The WaPo describes him as a 31-year-old with handsome features (here's pic) who

impressed many in Portland with his intelligence and command of Mandarin Chinese. According to family members, he graduated from a local high school in 1989 and enrolled in Portland State University, excelling in international relations with a focus on East Asia, an interest stemming from his pursuit of martial arts as a child.

He spent a year at a prestigious language program in China, the Johns Hopkins Nanjing Center for Chinese and American Studies.

In the summer of 1998 and again in September 1999, he was an international relations intern for Portland Mayor Vera Katz. He had also interned for the previous mayor, Bud Clark, in 1996.

He had yet another internship in the mayor's office of Portland's sister city in Taiwan, Kaohsiung, (pronounced Gao-chung), said Linda Walton, of the Institute for Asian Studies at the university.

Geez, I wonder if I ever saw him there. And by the way, it's pronounced more like Gow sheeung. Sounds like some Chinese food, hunh?