A man from a New York City suburb has been charged with joining al Qaeda and taking part in a rocket attack against a U.S. base in Afghanistan. Bryant Neal Vinas has worked as a truck driver and for the Long Island Rail Road, a major commuter rail line in and out of New York City. Vinas initially was arrested in November in Pakistan by security services there and extradited back to the United States in November 2008, according to a U.S. law enforcement official. Vinas was captured in Pakistan about a month after the September 2008 rocket attack on the U.S. base according to one official. Click here for more.