| Name |
Affiliation |
Description |
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1993 World Trade Center Bombing
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Al Qaeda |
[SDNY] In May 1994, four men--Mohammed Salameh, Nidal Ayyad, Mahmud Abouhalima and Ahmad Ajaj--were sentenced to life for bombing the World Trade Center on February 26, 1993, which killed six people and injured 100. Ramzi Yousef, the mastermind of the attacks was captured in Pakistan in February 2005 and received 240 years for the WTC bombing. In October 1995 Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman, a blind cleric who preached at mosques in Brooklyn and Jersey City, was sentenced to life for masterminding the plot. Rahman was also found guilty of the murder of extremist Rabbi Meir Kahane and a scheme to assasinate Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak during a trip to New York in 1993. |
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Abousfian Abdelrazik
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al Qaeda |
An Ottawa federal court judge ruled that the Canadian government violated Abousian Abdelrazik's constitutional rights by refusing to allow him to return to Canada and ordered the government to repatriate Abdelrazik. Abdelrazik , a dual Canadian-Sudanese citizen, was arrested while visiting his ailing mother in Sudan in 2003. In July 2006 Abdelrazik was designated by the US Treasury Department for his ties to al Qaeda. |
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Adnan el-Shukrijumah
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Al Qaeda |
Adnan el-Shukrijumah, aka "Jafar the Pilot," is a Saudi-born permanent US resident alien dentified by al Qaeda mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed as an operative with permission to attack targets in the United States previously approved by Osama bin Laden. His suspected activities range from surveillance of high-profile targets in New York's financial district to looking for weaknesses in the Panama Canal, to plotting with Jose Padilla to blow up apartment buildings in the United States. His friends included Imran Mandhai, who was convicted in Forida of conspiring to bomb a National Guard Armory among other targets. El-Shukrijumah allegedly attended a terrorist summit in Pakistan in March 2004 where he met with a number of key al Qaeda members. He remains a high-priority al Qaeda suspect at large. |
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Ali Abdul-Karim Farhat, et al.
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Hizballah |
[EDMI] In January 2004, federal authorities arrested two more Dearborn residents, Ali Abdul-Karim Farhat and Hassan Farhat, on cocaine distribution charges. Ali, a U.S. citizen, and Hassan, his brother and a Lebanese student, are believed by federal authorities to possibly have financially supported Hezbollah. |
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Ali Hasan Abu Kamal
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Palestinian/Homegrown |
In February 2007, Palestinian national Ali Hasan Abu Kamal shot seven tourists at the Empire State Building before fatally shooting himself. In a letter Kamal declared Zionists were his "first enemy" and that "my restless aspiration is to murder as many of them as possible." |
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Ashton v. Al Qaeda Islamic Army
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Al Qaeda |
[SDNY] Lawsuit arising out of the terrorist attacks on 9-11. Defendants include the Rabita Trust, International Islamic Relief Organization (IIRO), and Abdurahman Alamoudi. |
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Boim, et al. v. QLI, et al.
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Hamas |
[NDIL] The parents of David Boim, a 17-year old New Yorker who was killed in a Hamas terrorist attack in the West Bank, filed a lawsuit against U.S.-based organizations and individuals that provided support and contributions to Hamas. In December 2008 a federal appeals court ruling upheld the $156 million judgment against three Palestinian charities accused of funneling money to terrorist groups. |
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Ellis, et al. v.Iran, et al.
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Hamas |
[DDC] American victims of a triple Hamas suicide bombing in Jerusalem filed a lawsuit against Hamas and the government of Iran. |
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Federal Insurance Co, et al. v. Saudi Arabia
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Al Qaeda |
[SDNY] A consortium of insurance companies filed a lawsuit to seek damages of over $300 billion for losses incurred in the 9/11 attacks. The Justice Department filed a brief before the Supreme Court saying the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia could not be sued in American court over accusations by families of 9/11 victims that the royal family had helped finance al Qaeda. |
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Ghazi Ibrahim Abu Maizar
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Palestinian/Homegrown |
[EDNY] On March 1, 1999, a federal district court in Brooklyn sentenced Ghazi Ibrahim Abu Maizar, an immigrant Palestinian who was born and raised in the West Bank, to life imprisonment for plotting to explode a powerful pipe bomb in New York City subway. Abu Maizar testified that he wanted to kill as many Jews as possible in suicide attack. Maizar also denounced Israeli treatment of the Palestinian people and United States support for Israel. |
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Global Relief Foundation
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Al Qaeda, Taliban, Hamas |
The Global Relief Foundation (GRF) has connections to and has provided assistance to Osama Bin Laden, the al Qaeda network and other terrorist groups. Rabih Haddad, a co-founder of GRF, was previously a member of the Makhtab Al-Khidamat, the precursor organization to al Qaeda. GRF has received funding from individuals associated with al Qaeda. GRF officials have had extensive contacts with a close associate of Osama Bin Ladin, who has been convicted in a U.S. court for his role in the 1998 bombings of the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. GRF has also had dealings with the Taliban. GRF has also received funding from the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development (HLF), a Texas-based Islamic charity whose top officials were convicted in 2008 on all counts of providing support to a designated terrorist organization (Hamas). |
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Hamaas Abdul Khaalis
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Homegrown |
[DDC] On March 9, 1997 a group of 12 armed men, all African American converts who called themselves Hanafi Muslims (a more traditional form of Sunni Islam) seized three buildings in Washington, DC, including the Islamic Center, City Council chambers, and the headquarters of B'nai B'rith, America's oldest Jewish organization. The men, led by Hamaas Abdil Khaalis, took about 150 people hostage. All 12 men were convicted with Khaalis receiving 21 to 120 years. |
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Hamdan v. Gonzales
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Hamas |
[CDCA] Abdel Jabber Hamdan served as primary spokesman and fundraiser for the Texas-based Islamic charity and Hamas front group, the Holy Land Foundation (HLF). In April 2006 an appeals board ruled that Hamdan should be deported to Jordan based on his ties to HLF. Hamdan has appealed the decision. |
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Hatem Fariz
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Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) |
Hatem Fariz plead guilty in federal court to providing nonviolent services to associates of Palestinian Islamic Jihad, a terrorist organization. His case was part of a series of cases against PIJ supporters, including Sami Al-Arian, Hammoudeh and Ghassan Ballut, in South Florida. Five other defendants were named in the indictments, but they remained at large overseas and were not arrested. Fariz was sentenced to 37 months, the low end of the sentencing guideline range of 37 to 46 months. |
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Hesham Mohamed Hadayat
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Homegrown |
On July 4, 2002 Hesham Mohamed Hadayet, an Egyptian-American from Irvine, California, killed two Israeli nationals at the El Al Israel airlines ticket counter at Los Angeles Airport. Four other individuals were wounded including the security guard who eventually killed Hadayet. |
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Holy Land Foundation v. Ashcroft, et al.
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Hamas |
[DDC] On December 4, 2001, the U.S. Treasury designated the Holy Land Foundation as a terrorist organization and blocked its assets. In a lawsuit filed in March 2002, the Islamic charity challenged its designation as a terrorist organization and the resulting blocking of its assets. |
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Infocom
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Hamas |
[NDTX] The Elashi brothers and their webhosting company, Infocom, were convicted of laundering money for Hamas chief Musa abu Marzook and violating sanctions against Libya and Syria. They received sentences ranging from four to seven years in prison.
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Iran, et al. v. Heiser, et al.
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Hizballah |
[DDC] In September 2000, a lawsuit was brought against the Islamic Republic of Iran by family members and estates of servicemen killed in the 1996 terrorist attack on Khobar Towers, a U.S. military housing complex near Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. |
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Ismail Selim Elbarasse
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Hamas |
[EDVA] In August 2004 Ismail Selim Elbarasse of Annandale, VA was arrested after authorities witnessed his wife videotaping Maryland's Chesapeake Bay Bridge from their SUV as Elbarasse drove. The images captured by Elbarasse's wife included close-ups of cables and other features that were "integral to the structural integrity of the bridge." Elbarasse is a former board member of the Islamic Association for Palestine (IAP) and Hamas activist. |
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Jamil Abdullah al-Amin
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Homegrown, Black Panthers |
An Atlanta jury found former Black Panther member Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin guilty of murder of March 2000 shooting that killed one Fulton County sheriff's deputy and wounded another. |
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Kindhearts v. Paulson et al.
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Hamas |
[NDOH] KindHearts is an Islamic charity incorporated in Toledo, Ohio in 2002. The U.S. Treasury Department froze the assets of KindHearts on February 19, 2006 and accused the charity of being a progeny of the Hamas-affiliated Holy Land Foundation and the al-Qaeda-linked Global Relief Foundation. In October 2008, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed a lawsuit on behalf of Kindhearts. The lawsuit sought to lift a freeze order on the financial assets of the charity that had been frozen by the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) while it investigated the charity's links to the terrorist group Hamas. A federal court has issued a restraining order barring the government from designating the charity as a terrorist organization while a lawsuit to unfreeze its assets is pending. |
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Majid Mahummud Al-Massari
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Al Qaeda |
Majid Al-Massari, a Seattle-area computer security specialist who used his cyber skills to engage in terrorist activity was ordered removed back to his native country of Saudi Arabia. |
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Marzook, Salah, Ashqar
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Hamas |
[NDIL] Senior Hamas operatives, Muhammad Salah and Abdel Haleem al-Ashqar, along with Deputy Political Leader of Hamas, Mousa Abu Marzook, were indicted on Hamas-related racketeering charges in Chicago in August 2004. Salah was sentenced to 21 months and Ashqar to 11 years in prison. |
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Mir Aimal Kasi
|
|
On January 23, 1993, Mir Aimal Kasi, a Pakistani national, killed two CIA employees and wounded three others outside CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia. He flew to Pakistan the next day but was arrested four years later, convicted and sentenced to death. The Supreme Court turned down Kasi's appeal. Kasi was executed November 14, 2002, by lethal injection in Virginia. |
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Mohammad Momin Khwaja
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Al Qaeda |
Canadian software developer Mohammed Momin Khwaja was found guilty in a trial linked to a foiled fertilizer bomb plot in Britain linked to al Qaeda. He was sentenced to ten years and six months in prison. |
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Murray v. Geithner, et al.
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[EDMI] A federal judge in Michigan declined to dismiss a lawsuit that insurance giant AIG is using tax dollars to promote Islamic Sharia law and charities that maybe funneling money to terrorist groups. |
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O'Neill v. Al Baraka, et al.
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Al Qaeda |
[SDNY] Lawsuit by estate of former head of FBI counterterrorism division, killed in World Trade Center on 9-11. Defendants include the Council on American-Islamic Relations. |
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PA v. Saperstein, et al.
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Al Aqsa Brigades |
[SDFL] A U.S. district court in Miami ruled the Palestinian Authority (PA) pay Moshe Saperstein $16 million. Saperstein, a dual U.S.-Israeli citizen, was attacked in 2002 by the Al Aqsa Brigades, a Palestinian terrorist organization backed by the PA. |
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Palestine Monetary Authority v. Strachman
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PLO |
The Ungar estate won a $116 million award against the PLO and Palestinian Authority in June 2004 after Ungar and his Israeli wife, Efrat, were shot and killed in a 1996 terrorist attack in Israel. In Feb 2009 a New York appeals court reversed a lower court ruling preventing the estate of the American terror victim from collecting the multimillion-dollar judgment. |
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Raed Hijazi
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Al Qaeda |
Raed Hijazi trained at the al Qaeda military training camp in Khalden, Afghanistan and was part of the al Qaeda Boston cell. Hijazi was convicted in absentia in Jordan for masterminding the failed millennium bombing plot that had targeted American and Israeli tourists in the country. He was later arrested in Syria and sent to Jordan where he was sentenced to death. |
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Rajah et al. v. Mukasey
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On Sept. 4, 2008 an appeals court said that a post Sept. 11, 2001 rule that required visitors from two dozen Arab and Muslim countries and North Korea to register with immigration authorities was constitutional. |
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Ramadan, et al. v. Chertoff, et al.
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Other |
[SDNY] Tariq Ramadan,a Swiss-national and Muslim Brotherhood-linked professor, sued the U.S. Department of Homeland Security over revocation of his U.S. visa. |
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Rashid Baz
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Homegrown |
[EDNY] On March 1, 1994 Lebanese cab driver Rashid Baz opened fire on a van full of Hasidic Jewish boys on the Brooklyn Bridge, killing one and wounding several others. Baz was convicted of second-degree murder of Ari Halberstam, a 16-year-old Jewish yeshiva student, along with fourteen counts of attempted murder with intent to cause death. Baz was sentenced to 141 years in prison. |
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Rubin, et al. v. Hamas, et al.
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Hamas |
[WDWA] Lawsuit filed by Americans wounded in a terrorist attack by Hamas on the Ben Yehuda Mall in Jerusalem in 1997. |
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Rubin, et al. v. Iran, et al.
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Hamas, Iran |
[EDNY] Lawsuit filed by Americans wounded in an attack by Hamas terrorists at the Ben Yehuda mall in Jerusalem in 1997. The plaintiffs won damages totaling $423.5 million by showing that the bomb maker in the attack, Mahmoud Abu Hanoud, had been trained by Iranian agents. |
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SAAR Network
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Al Qaeda, Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) |
Federal investigations have alleged that the SAAR Network or SAFA Group is a network of up to one hundred nonprofit and for-profit organizations that are interrelated through corporate officers and holding companies to facilitate the funding of terrorist operations. A large number of these organizations share the same address in Herndon, Virginia.The investigation of this network by Operation Green Quest uncovered evidence of material support to terrorists. |
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Safia Jilani
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Safia Jilani, a Muslim student who said a masked gunman assaulted her after he wrote anti-Muslim slurs in a women's restroom at Elmhurst College was arrested for filing a false police report. Jilani was charged on a single count of filing a false report, punishable by one to three years in prison. |
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Sokolow et al. v. PLO et al.
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PLO |
[SDNY] The 2004 lawsuit by victims of bombings in Israel seeks up to $3 billion in damages from attacks between January 2001 and February 2004 by the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). In Sept 2008 U.S. District Judge George Daniels rejected the PLO's argument that the attacks were acts of war rather than terrorism. |
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State of Michigan v. Zorkot
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Homegrown, Hizballah |
[Michigan] Houssein Zorkot, a medical student at Wayne State in Dearborn, Michigan, was charged on multiple felony charges, including carrying a dangerous weapon with unlawful intent. A Web site created by Zorkot contains videos and other propaganda materials related to Hizballah. |
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State v Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad
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Homegrown |
Abdulhakem Mujahid Muhammad (a/k/a Carlos Bledsoe), a Muslim convert who said he was opposed to the U.S. military, shot two soldiers outside an Army recruiting center in Arkansas. Mujahid has been charged with one count of murder and 15 counts of commiting terrorist attacks. |
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State v. Taheri-Azar
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Homegrown |
[North Carolina] Charged with assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill. Taheri-Azar drove a rented Jeep through a crowd of students at University of North Carolina (UNC), Chapel Hill, claiming that he was trying to avenge the deaths of Muslims overseas. |
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Tamam et al. v. Fransabank et al.
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Hizballah |
[SDNY] In July 2008, several Israeli victims of terrorist attacks in Israel filed a lawsuit accusing Lebanese banks for aiding Hizballah. The banks identified were Fransabank Sal, Banque Libanese Pour Le Commerce, Bank of Beirut Sal, Banque Libano-Francaise Sal and the Middle East Africa Bank. |
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US v Bin Laden, et al.
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Al Qaeda |
[SDNY] Osama bin Laden was convicted along with five other defendants for the 1998 Embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania. |
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US v Shnewer, et al. (Fort Dix Plot)
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Homegrown |
[DNJ] In May 2007, Mohamed Ibrahim Shnewer and four other defendants were charged with plotting to kill soldiers at the Fort Dix Army base in New Jersey. A sixth defendant, Agron Abdullahu, was charged with aiding and abetting the illegal possession of firearms. Abdullahu pleaded guilty to the gun charge of supplying guns to illegal aliens. In April 2009 the four remaining defendants were sentenced to life in prison on charges they plotted to kill members of the U.S. military. The fifth defendant was sentenced to 33 years in prison. |
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US v. Aafia Siddiqui
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Al Qaeda |
[SDNY] Aafia Siddiqui, a 36-year-old Pakistani woman who previously resided in the United States, was indicted on charges related to her attempted murder and assault on United States officers and employees in Afghanistan. |
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US v. Abdallah
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Hamas |
[DAZ] An indictment filed in U.S. District Court in Phoenix charged Akram Musa Abdallah (a.k.a. Abu Saiaf) of Mesa, Arizona, of lying to authorities over his involvement in fundraising for the Holy Land Foundation (HLF), an Islamic charity alleged to have provided financial support for Hamas, a designted foreign terrorist organization. Abdallah fundraised for HLF in the Phoenix metropolitan area between 1994 and 1997. Abdallah pleaded guilty to making false statments to the FBI. |
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US v. Abdhir et al.
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Jemaah Islamiyah |
[NDCA] Rahmat Abdhir (a.k.a. Sean Kasem) was indicted for providing material support to a terrorist, his brother Zulkifli Abdhir. Zulkifli Abdhir is senior member of Al Qaeda-affiliated Jemaah Islamiyah (JI), a Southeast Asian terrorist group. |
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US v. Abdi
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Al Qaeda |
[SDOH] In June 2004, Nuradin Abdi was indicted on four counts including conspiracy to blow up a Columbus, Ohio shopping mall with admitted al Qaeda terrorist, Iyman Faris. Abdi pled guilty to conspiring to provide material support to terrorists and was sentenced to 10 years in prison in November 2007. |
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US v. Abdoulah
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Al Qaeda |
[SDCA] Mohadar Mohamed Abdoulah, a Yemeni student who federal officials say provided assistance to three of the hijackers in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, was charged with two counts of lying on an application for political asylum. |
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US v. Abu Ali
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Al Qaeda |
[EDVA] In 2005, Ahmed Omar Abu Ali was convicted on all 9 charges he faced, including providing material support to Al Qaeda and conspiracy to assassinate the President of the United States. Abu Ali was sentenced to 30 years in prison in April 2006. His appeal was turned down by the U.S. Supreme Court. |
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US v. Abu-Jihaad
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Taliban |
[DCT] In April 2009, Hassan Abu-Jihaad, a former member of the U.S. Navy, was sentenced to 10 years in prison for providing material support to terrorism and disclosing previously classified information relating to the national defense as part of a larger conspiracy to kill U.S. citizens. |
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US v. Ahmad
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Taliban |
[CDC] In October 2004, Babar Ahmad was indicted on multiple counts, including conspiracy to provide material support to the Taliban. The indictment alleges that Ahmad used websites to promote jihad. |
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US v. Ahmed, et al
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Homegrown |
[NDOH] Chicago residents Zubair Ahmed and Khaleel Ahmed pleaded guilty to charges that they provided material support to terrorists and aimed to travel abroad in their quest to murder or maim U.S. military forces in Iraq and Afghanistan. |
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US v. Ahmed, et al.
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Lashkar e Taiba |
[NDGA] Syed Ahmed and another defendant were charged with conspiring to and providing material support to terrorism and to a designated foreign terrorist organization, the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT). Ahmed was found guilty on the terrorism charge. |
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US v. Ahsan
|
Al Qaeda |
[DCT] Charged with conspiracy to provide material support and resources to individuals engaged in jihad in Chechnya and Afghanistan through maintaining jihadist websites, including expert advice on military equipment. |
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US v. Akhdar, et al.
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Hizballah |
[EDMI] 11 Dearborn, Michigan-based co-defendants charged with racketeering related to a Charlotte, North Carolina cigarette smuggling scheme. Proceeds from the effort were then forwarded to Hizballah. In January, 2004, Akhdar was sentenced to 70 months in prison and was fined over $2,000,000 after having pled guilty in July, 2003. |
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US v. Al Arian
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PIJ |
[EDVA] Sami Al Arian who pled guilty in 2006 to conspiring to provide goods and services to the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), was indicted in Virginia in June 2008 on two counts of criminal contempt after refusing to testify before a federal grand jury despite a grant of immunity. |
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US v. Al Arian, et al.
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Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) |
[MDFL] Former University of South Florida professor Sami Al-Arian pled guilty to one count of conspiring to make or receive contributions of funds, goods or services for the benefit of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ). Al Arian was sentenced to 57 months in prison and will be deported afterwards. |
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US v. Al Badawi, et al.
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Al Qaeda |
[SDNY] Al-Badawi was indicted for his role in the bombing of the USS Cole, which killed 17 American sailors on October 12, 2000. He was tried for the same crime in Yemen and sentenced to death on September 29, 2004. |
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US v. Al Hussayen
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Hamas |
[DID] In March 2004, Sami Omar Al Hussayen, a Saudi national and University of Idaho student, was charged with conspiracy to provide material support to Hamas and other violent jihadists through his work at the Islamic Assembly of North America and Al-Haramain. |
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US v. Al Moayad, et al.
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Al Qaeda, Hamas |
[EDNY] In March 2005 Sheik Mohammed Ali Hassan al-Moayad and Mohammed Mohsen Zayed were convicted on charges of conspiring to support al Qaeda and Hamas. A federal appeals court however ruled in Oct 2008 that defendants Mohammed al-Moayad and Mohammed Mohsen Zayed can have new trials. |
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US v. Al Suwailem
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Homegrown |
[MDGA] Saleh Al Suwailem, an Arabic interpreter at Ft. Benning, Georgia was charged with threatening to place an explosive device on a plane. |
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US v. Al Timimi
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Taliban |
[EDVA] Ali Al Timimi was the spiritual leader of the "Virginia Paintball Jihad" network. In April 2005, he was convicted of inciting terrorist activity and sentenced to life in prison. |
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US v. Al-Hanooti, Muthanna
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Foreign Agent for Iraq |
[EDMI] A federal indictment in March 2008 accused Muthanna Al-Hanooti of working as a spy for the Iraqi government under Saddam Hussein. Al-Hanooti worked for Life for Relief and Development (LIFE), a Southfield charity raided by federal agents in September 2006. He earlier headed the Michigan branch of the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR). |
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US v. Al-Haramain Islamic Foundation, et al.
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Al Qaeda |
[DOR] In February 2005 a federal grand jury charged Al Haramain Islamic Foundation and two of its employees, Pirouz Sedaghaty and Soliman Al-Buthe, with bank fraud, tax evasion, and money laundering. Various branches of the Saudi-based charity were designated by the US in June 2004 based on evidence of the charity's ties to al Qaeda. The US-based branch of the charity in Ashland, Oregon, along with one of its directors, Suliman Al-Buthe, was designated in September 2004. A November 2008 ruling supported the US Treasury Department's determination that the Islamic charity was controlled by and provided support to designated terrorists. |
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US v. Al-Marabh, Nabil
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Al Qaeda |
[WDNY] Nabil al-Marabh, a Boston cabdriver, engaged in weapons training in Afghanistan. He also worked for the Muslim World League in the early 1990s, then an important source of al Qaeda's funds. He worked at the same Boston cab company as Mohammed Elzahabi, Raed Hijazi, and Bassam Kanj, who together constituted the Boston Al Qaeda cell. Federal investigators have also tied al-Marabh to 9/11 hijackers Ahmed al-Ghamdi and Satam al-Suqami. Al-Marabh was arrested in Chicago in September 2001 on a parole violation related to the stabbing of a man who had lived in his apartment. In 2002, he pled guilty to conspiracy to smuggle an alien into the United States and was ordered deported. |
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US v. Al-Marri
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Al Qaeda |
[CDIL] Ali Saleh Kahlah al-Marri, a dual national of Saudi Arabia and Qatar, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to provide material support to al Qaeda. Al-Marri was an al Qaeda operative working on US soil under the direction of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the chief planner of the 9/11 attacks. |
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US v. Al-Shannaq
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Al Qaeda |
[DMD] Rasmi Al-Shannaq, a Jordanian who was a roommate at two 9/11 hijackers, Hani Hanjour and Nawaz Alhazmi, was indicted for visa fraud in Baltimore in July 2002. |
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US v. Alamoudi
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Al Qaeda |
[EDVA] Former head of American Muslim Council sentenced to 23 years in prison for illegal financial dealings with Libya. Alamoudi also confessed to taking part in a Libyan plot to assassinate the then Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia. In an October 2008 ruling an appeals court granted Virginia-based federal prosecutor, Gordon Kromberg, the right to seize a Fairfax, VA home as part of the government's punishment of Alamoudi. |
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US v. Ali, et al.
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Other |
[EDCA] Amen Ahmed Ali and two associates were charged with transmitting defense secrets and exporting military equipment to Yemen. |
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US v. Alishtari
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Other |
[SDNY] In February 2007, a federal grand jury charged Abdul Tawala Ibn Ali Alishtari with terrorism financing and perpetrating massive investment fraud, including sending money to Afghanistan and Pakistan to help train terrorists. |
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US v. Alnoshan, et al.
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Muslim World League |
[EDVA] Abdullah Alnoshan, director of the Virginia office of the Muslim World League, was charged with criminal immigration violations and subsequently deported to his native Saudi Arabia. Also charged in the criminal complaint was Khalid Fadlalla, a Sudanese citizen who worked at the Muslim World League office in New York. |
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US v. Alomari, et al.
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Hizballah |
[WDNY] A February 2007 federal complaint accused Yehia Ali Ahmed Alomari and two other Yemeni men who ran groceries in Rochester, New York, of illegally sending money overseas to benefit the terrorist organization Hizballah. |
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US v. Amawi, et. al.
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Iraqi Insurgency |
[NDOH] In February 2007, a superseding indictment returned by a federal grand jury in Cleveland charged Mohammad Amawi and four others with conspiring to commit terrorist acts against Americans overseas, including U.S. military personnel in Iraq. A separate indictment charged Bilal Mazloum with making a false statement to federal agents in February 2006. In June 2008, three of the defendants including Amawi were convicted of conspiring to commit terrorist acts against Americans overseas and other terrorism-related violations. |
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US v. Aref, et al.
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Jaish-e-Mohammed |
[NDNY] In October 2006, two Albany mosque leaders, Yassin Aref and Mohammad Hossain, were convicted of conspiracy to purchase a surface-to-air missile for use in a terrorist attack in New York City and money laundering. Both Aref and Hossain appealed their convictions but a federal court rejected the appeals in July 2008. |
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US v. Arnaout
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Bosnian and Chechen Mujahideen |
[NDIL] Enaam Arnaout pled guilty to perjury and fraud, admitting he used his charity, Benevolence International Foundation (BIF), to support fighters in Bosnia and Chechnya. |
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US v. Assi
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Hizballah |
[EDMI] Fawza Mustapha Assi, a former resident of Dearborn, Michigan, pleaded guilty to providing support to a designated foreign terrorist organization and was sentenced to three years in prison. Assi attempted to provide night vision equipment and GPS technology to Hizballah. |
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US v. Babar
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Al Qaeda, Al Mujahiroun |
[SDNY] Mohammed Junaid Babar pled guilty in 2004 to five counts of conspiring to provide material support to terrorists. Babar also admitted to providing supplies to an al Qaeda official in Pakistan. Babar also was associated with the Al Mujahiroun group in London. |
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US v. Badat
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Al Qaeda |
[DMA] Saajid Mohammad Badat, a British national, was charged with conspiring with and aiding and abetting convicted "shoe bomber" Richard Reid to detonate homemade bombs hidden in shoes on American aircraft in 2001. |
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US v. Batiste, et al.
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Homegrown (Al Qaeda-inspired) |
[SDFL] Narseal Batiste and six other suspected al Qaeda sympathizers were indicted on charges of plotting to attack targets, including the Sears Tower in Chicago and the FBI building in North Miami Beach, Florida. After two mistrials, jurors convicted Batiste and four other defendants. Two defendants were acquitted. |
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US v. Battle, et al.
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Al Qaeda, Taliban |
[DOR] In 2003, Jeffrey Battle and Patrice Lumumba Ford of the "Portland 7" pled guilty to conspiracy to levy war against the U.S., conspiring to travel to Afghanistan to fight alongside Al Qaeda and the Taliban. |
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US v. Baz Mohammad, et al.
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Taliban |
[SDNY] Baz Mohammad is an Afghan drug lord who pled guilty in July 2006 to smuggling heroin into the United States. Prosecutors said he had provided financial support to the Taliban. |
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US v. Benkahla
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Lashkar e Taiba |
[EDVA] "Virginia Jihad" member convicted of perjury and obstruction of justice in case related to training with LeT in jihad camps in Afghanistan and Pakistan. |
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US v. Biheiri, Soliman
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Hamas |
[EDVA] In October 2004 a federal grand jury in Alexandria, Virginia, convicted Soliman Biheiri for illegally concealing his extensive business and social relationship with Mousa Abu Marzook, a designated terrorist and leader of Hamas. Biheiri was also known to have ties to senior members of the Muslim Brotherhood. |
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US v. Brent
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Lashkar e Taiba |
[SDNY] Mahmud Faruq Brent is a Maryland paramedic who was arrested on charges of conspiring to provide material support to the Pakistan-based Lashkar e Taiba. Brent allegedly attended a terrorist training camp in Pakistan. In July 2007, Brent was sentenced to 15 years for providing material support to a terrorist organization. |
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US v. Bushnaq
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Islamic Association for Palestine, Hamas |
[EDVA] Yaser Bushnaq, a former president of the Islamic Association for Palestine (IAP), was indicted for naturalization fraud. IAP, a fundraising arm for Hamas in the U.S., was shut down in 2005. |
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US v. Chahine et al.
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Hizballah |
[EDMI] Detroit-area based Talal Khalil Chahine and his wife Elfat el Aouar are each charged with four counts of tax evasion. In subsequent indictments Chahine has also been charged with extortion and citizenship fraud. The U.S. Attorney's Office filed documents stating that Talal Chahine has high-level connections to Hizballah. |
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US v. Chandia, et al.
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Lashkar e Taiba |
[EDVA] Ali Asad Chandia, a member of the "Virginia Paintball Jihad" network, was found guilty in June 2006 of providing material support to LeT. He was sentenced to 15 years in prison. |
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US v. Cromitie, et al.
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Other |
[SDNY] James Cromitie (a/k/a Abdul Rahman) and three other defendants were arrested on charges arising from a plot to detonate explosives near a synagogue in the Riverdale section of the Bronx, NY, and to shoot military planes located at the New York Air National Guard Base at Stewart Airport in Newburgh, NY, with Stinger surface-to-air guided missiles. |
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US v. Damrah
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Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) |
[NDOH] Fawaz Damrah, the former imam of the Islamic Center of Cleveland, was convicted in 2004 of lying on his citizenship application and failing to disclose his links to PIJ and other groups. Damrah was stripped of his U.S. citizenship. |
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US v. Darwishahmad
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Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) |
[WDTN] Bassam Darwishahmad was indicted for not disclosing to immigration authorities that he was recruited by an arm of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) in 1990 to bomb an Israeli police station in Nablus, West Bank. |
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US v. Defreitas, et al.
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Other |
[EDNY] Four individuals were charged on June 2, 2007 with conspiring to attack New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK). The plot involved an international network of Muslim extremists from the U.S., Guyana, and Trinidad. |
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US v. Delaema
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Iraqi Insurgency/Other |
[DDC] Wesam Al Delaema, an Iraqi-born Dutch national, was extradited from the Netherlands to the U.S. in January 2007 to face charges in a federal court in Washington, DC, for allegedly participating in a conspiracy to attack Americans based in Iraq. |
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US v. Dhafir
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Iraqi insurgency |
[NDNY] In February 2005, Rafil Dhafir was convicted on charges of money laundering and participating in a conspiracy to use his charity, "Help the Needy," to funnel money to Iraq in violation of U.S. sanctions. He was sentenced to 22 years in prison. |
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US v. Elfgeeh, et al.
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Al Qaeda, Hamas |
[EDNY] Aref Elfgeeh was found guilty on all five charges related to the funneling of $20 million to Al Qaeda and Hamas through his Brooklyn-based ice cream shop. |
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US v. Elzahabi
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Al Qaeda |
[DMN] In March 2008 Mohamad Kamal Elzahabi was sentenced to time served in jail for possessing fraudulent immigration documents. An FBI affidavit alleged that Elzahabi attended a jihadi training camp, taught as a sniper in Afghanistan for al Qaeda, and has connections to high-ranking members of the terrorist organization. |
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US v. Farhane
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Al Qaeda |
[SDNY] On April 16, 2007, a Manhattan federal court sentenced Abdelrahman Farhane to 13 years in prison for conspiring to provide funds to jihadists in Chechnya and Afghanistan and for making false statements in connection with a terrorism investigation. |
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US v. Faris
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Al Qaeda |
[EDVA] In 2003, Faris, a Kashmiri native, pled guilty to an al Qaeda plot to destroy the Brooklyn Bridge. Faris met with Osama Bin Laden and Al Qaeda leaders in a jihad training camp in Afghanistan in 2000. |
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US v. Fornah, Mohamed et al.
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[SDNY] Eight people were charged with trying to smuggle stolen cars from individuals and car dealerships in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland and Washington, DC. The stolen cars were then smuggled to Sierra Leone through a Sayreville shipping company. |
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US v. Gadahn
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Al Qaeda |
[CDCA] In October 2006, American citizen Adam Yahiye Gadahn, suspected of appearing in Al Qaeda propaganda tapes as "Azzam the American," was indicted on charges of treason and providing material support to Al Qaeda. |
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US v. Ghailani
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Al Qaeda |
[SDNY] Accused East African Embassy bomber Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, a Tanzanian national who has been held at the Guantanamo Bay detention facility since September 2006, will be prosecuted in federal court in the United States following a March 12, 2001, superseding indictment currently pending against him in the Southern District of New York. |
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US v. Goba et al. ("Lackwanna Six")
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Al Qaeda |
[WDNY] Six Yemeni-American men (also known as the "Lackwanna Six") were indicted on charges of providing material support to a designated terrorist organization. All the men pleaded guilty to charges of material support and were sentenced to prison terms of seven to ten years. A seventh member of the cell, Jaber Elbaneh, was arrested in Yemen in late 2003. Kamal Derwish, the cell's alleged ringleader, was killed in a CIA missile strike near Magrib, Yemen, in November 2002. |
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US v. Grecula
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Al Qaeda |
[SDTX] On February 9, 2007 Ronald Allen Grecula was sentenced to five years in prison for attempting to build and offering to sell an explosive device to a terrorist group he believed was affilated with Al Qaeda for use against Americans. |
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US v. Haji Juma Khan
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Taliban |
[SDNY] Haji Juma Kha (a/k/a Abdullah, a/k/a Haji Juma Khan Mohammadhasani), an Afghan drug trafficker, was charged with conspiracy to distribute narcotics with intent to support a terrorist organization. Khan has been closely aligned with the Taliban, which was designated a Specially Designated Terrorist Group in 2002. |
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US v. Hamdan
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al Qaeda |
[Guantanamo] A military war crimes tribunal at Guantanamo Bay convicted Salim Ahmed Hamdan, former driver of Osama bin Laden, of providing material support to terrorism but acquitted him of conspiracy charges. Hamdan was accused of transporting missiles for al Qaeda and helping bin Laden escape U.S. retribution following the September 11 attacks by driving him around Afghanistan. Hamdan was catured at a roadblock in southern Afghanistan in November 2001. |
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US v. Hamdi
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Al Qaeda |
[EDVA] Tarik Hamdi, an Iraqi immigrant living in Herndon, VA, delivered a satellite phone battery to a Bin Laden aide while he was in Afghanistan in May 1998 helping to set up an interview for ABC News. Bin Laden used that phone in connection with the deadly bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania that year. |
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US v. Hamed et al
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Palestinian/Other |
[EDMO] A federal indictment accused 14 Palestinian Americans of operating a criminal enterprise in Florissant, Missouri that illegally funneled money to the Palestinian territories. The accused were part of the "Hamed Organization" led by Bassam Hamed of Florissant that used St. Louis area convenience stores as headquarters of the criminal enterpise, selling contraband or stolen cigarettes, liquor, infant formula, computers and GPS units. The gang got the money to Israel, Palestine or Jordan with couriers who secretly carried cash, jewelry, cashiers checks, and business cards. |
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US v. Hammoud, et al.
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Hizballah |
[WDNC] In March 2001, a superseding indictment charged 25 individuals with cigarette smuggling, money laundering, credit card fraud, marriage fraud and immigration violations. Additionally, four individuals were charged with providing material support to Hizballah. Mohamad Hammoud was sentenced to 155 years in prison. |
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US v. Hashmi
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Al Qaeda |
[SDNY] Syed Hashmi (a.k.a. "Fahad) was charged with supplying money and military gear to Al Qaeda to fight American forces in Afghanistan. |
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US v. Hayat
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Al Qaeda |
[EDCA] Umer and Hamid Hayat, father and son in Lodi, California, convicted of providing material support to Al Qaeda and making false statements to the government. Hamid Hayat was sentenced to 24 years in prison. |
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US v. Holy Land Foundation
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Hamas |
[NDTX] Richardson, Texas-based Muslim charity indicted, along with several of the group's leaders, for funneling millions of dollars to the terrorist group Hamas. The judge declared a mistrial: The jury could not reach a unanimous verdict on any count with respect to five defendants; with respect to one defendant, Mohammad El-Mezain, the jury could not reach a unanimous verdict on count one which charged him with conspiracy to provide material support and resources to Hamas. In the second trial in 2008 jurors found all the defendants guilty on all counts of helping finance terrorism. |
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US v. Hupper
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Hamas |
[SDFL] Richard David Hupper was sentenced to three-and-a-half years in federal prison for aiding Hamas. Hupper admitted to giving $20,000 to Hamas while working in Israel with the International Solidarity Movement, a non-governmental organization. |
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US v. Hussein, et al.
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Al Qaeda |
[DMA] Mohammed Hussein and Liban Hussein, owners of the Barakaat North American Inc., an electronic money transferring business, allegedly transferred money to foreign countries without the required state license. FBI surveillance suspected the brothers of funding al Qaeda through money transfers ot United Arab Emirates and Somalian banks. |
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US v. IARA, et al.
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Al Qaeda |
[WDMO] The Islamic American Relief Agency (IARA) and several of its former employees and associates were indicted for illegally transferring funds to Iraq, falsely denying that an associate of Osama bin Laden had been an employee of IARA, and engaging in prohibited financial transactions for the benefit of U.S.-designated terrorist Gulbuddin Hekmatyar. Former U.S. Congressman Mark Deli Siljander was also charged with money laundering, conspiracy and obstruction of justice in the case. |
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US v. Idais
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Hamas |
[EDPA] Convicted of knowingly lying on a student visa application about membership in Hamas. Despite denial, Idais admitted he admired Hamas' "focus" on the killing of Jews. |
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US v. Iqbal and Elahwal
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Hizballah |
[SDNY] A federal indictment unsealed in November 2006 charged Javed Iqbal and Saleh Elahwal with enabling satellite broadcasts in the U.S. by Al Manar, a television station controlled by Hizballah. Both Iqbal and Elahwal pleaded guilty to providing support to Hizballah. Both Iqbal and Elahwal were sentenced to 69 and 17 months in prison respectively for providing material support to Hizballah. |
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US v. Isa
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Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) |
[NDIL] Tariq Isa, leader of a Chicago mosque linked to Sami al-Arian and PIJ, pled guilty to a conspiracy to distribute psuedoephidrine knowing it would be used to make methamphetamine. Isa was sentenced to 235 months in prison. |
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US v. Jabarah
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Al Qaeda |
[SDNY] Mohammed Mansour Jabarah was sentenced to life in prison for plotting to bomb U.S. embassies in Southeast Asia. Jabarah became an Al Qaeda operative in 2001 after training in Afghanistan and vowing allegiance to Osama bin Laden. Jabarah was arrested in Oman in February 2002 and deported to Canada. He was later extradited to the U.S. after he agreed to cooperate with authorities. In September 2008, a federal appeals court in New York affirmed Jabarah's sentence to life in prison. |
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US v. Jaber
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Palestinian Islamic Jihad |
[WDARK] Jaber was convicted in 2006 of falsely obtaining credit cards and making false statements on his naturalization forms. Jaber told his professor he was leaving school to fight for the Palestinian Islamic Jihad. |
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US v. Jamal
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Other |
[DAZ] Samih Jamal was convicted of operating a multi-million dollar fencing operation involving stolen baby formula and money laundering in the United States and Lebanon. |
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US v. James, et al.
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Jamiyaat ul-Islam Is-Saheeh (JIS) |
[CDCA] Four men indicted on charges of conspiracy to levy a war against the U.S. government. Kevin James, along with several Folsom prison inmates, established a terror cell to attack military recruitment centers, the Israeli consulate and synagogues. In December 2007, two of the defendants, Kevin James and Levar Washington, pled guilty to federal terrorism charges. Levar Washington was sentenced to 22 years and another defendant Gregory Patterson was sentenced to 151 months in prison. |
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US v. Kassir, et al.
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Al Qaeda |
[SDNY] An indictment returned by a federal grand jury in New York on September 25, 2007, charges Oussama Kassir, Mustafa Kamel Mustafa (a.k.a. "Abu Hamza"), and Haroon Rashid Aswat of conspiring to provide material support and resources to Al Qaeda, including plotting to establish a jihad training camp in Bly, Oregon. Kassir was convicted on all 11 counts against him, including providing material support to terrorists, on May 12, 2009. |
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US v. Keshari
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Iran |
[SDFL] Hassan Keshari, an Iranian-born naturalized U.S. citizen living in California, was sentenced to 17 months in prison for conspiring to violate a U.S. embargo by providing Iran with military aircraft parts. His co-defendant Traian Bujduveanu was sentenced to 35 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release. |
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US v. Khadr
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Al Qaeda |
[Guantanamo] Canadian national Omar Ahmed Khadr was charged with war crimes and providing support to terrorism after allegedly throwing a hand grenade that killed a U.S. soldier in Afghanistan in 2002. |
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US v. Khalil
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Hizballah |
[SDNY] Naji Khalil pled guilty to conspiring to provide Hizballah with night vision goggles and infrared aiming devices. |
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US v. Kiareldeen
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Al Qaeda |
Hany Mahmud Kiareldeen, a Palestinian immigrant, was arrested on March 27, 1998, for 19 months on evidence accusing him of terrorism. Immigration officials alleged Kiareldeen met in his home with one of the men who was later convicted in the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center. Kiareldeen was also accused of threatening the life of then-Attorney General Janet Reno, though he was not charged with any crime. In October 1999 the Board of Immigration Appeals supported an earlier Immigration Judge Decision that found the respondent removable as charged and denied his application for asylum. |
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US v. Kourani
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Hizballah |
[EDMI] Kourani pled guilty to conspiracy to provide material support to Hizballah and was sentenced to 54 months in prison in June 2006. A trained Hizballah fighter, Kourani illegally crossed the Mexican border on his way to Dearborn, Michigan. |
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US v. Lindh
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Al Qaeda, Taliban |
[EDVA] Walker Lindh is an American citizen, captured when U.S. forces entered Afghanistan in 2001. Lindh pled guilty to charges of serving in the Taliban army and carrying weapons. He is serving 20 years in prison. |
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US v. Maldonado
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Al Qaeda |
[SDTX] On February 13, 2007, Daniel Joseph Maldonado was charged with receiving training from Al Qaeda to "fight jihad" in Somalia. In January 2007, Maldonado was captured by the Kenyan military as he tried to flee Somalia and extradited to the U.S. |
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US v. Malki
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Iraqi insurgency |
[EDNY] Noureddine Malki pled guilty to using a false identity to obtain a position as an Arabic translator with the U.S. Army and for illegally procuring classified national defense documents concerning the Iraqi insurgency. |
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US v. Mandhai, et al.
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Al Qaeda |
[SDFL] Imran Mandhai and Shueyb Mosaa Jokhan, two Muslims from Broward County in Florida, were convicted of conspiring to bomb South Florida electrical substations and a National Guard Armory. Mandhai was also associated with Hakki Cemal Aksoy, convicted in 2002 for immigration violations but in whose apartment bomb-making manuals and notes were found. Mandhai claimed that part of his motivation for engaging in his jihad activities was his desire to free Aksoy, a fellow jihadist, from custody. |
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US v. Mehanna
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[DMA] Tarek Rehanna was arrested for lying to the FBI in a terrorism investigation involving the whereabouts and activities of Daniel Maldonado, a former resident of Metheun, Massachusetts, who was suspected of training in an Al Qaeda terrrorist camp to overthrow the Somali government. |
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US v. Mohamed
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Al Qaeda |
[SDCA] Omar Abdi Mohamed, a Saudi-financed religious preacher based in San Diego, was arrested on suspicion he was a conduit for terrorist funds. His charity set up to help famine victims in Somalia received funds from the U.S.-designated Global Relief Foundation, a terrorist-financing entity linked to al Qaeda. He was sentenced in December 2005 to 18 months in custody, followed by three years of supervised release, on each of six counts of immigration and naturalization fraud. |
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US v. Mohamed, et al.
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Other |
[MDFL] Two former USF students Ahmed Mohamed and Youssef Megahed were charged with making and distributing an instructional video on how to make full-sized remote control car bombs. Mohamed pleaded guilty to trying to help terrorists by making a toy-car video and has been sentenced to 15 years in prison. Megahed was acquitted and discharged. |
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US v. Mokhtar
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Al Qaeda, Taliban, Chechen Mujahideen |
[DNJ] Mazen Mokhtar was charged with tax evasion and filing false tax returns. Mokhtar earlier operated a Web site, identified in a July 2004 affidavit, which solicited funds for the Taliban and Chechen mujahideen. |
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US v. Moussaoui (Karim)
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Other |
[MDFL] Karim Moussaoui was found guilty of knowingly possessing a firearm in violation of the terms of his student's visa. Moussaoui is linked to University of South Florida (USF) students, Ahmed Mohamed and Youssef Megahed, who were charged with making and distributing an instructional video on how to make full-sized remote control car bombs. |
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US v. Moussaoui (Zacarias)
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Al Qaeda |
[EDVA] On May 4, 2006, Moussaoui was sentenced to life in prison without parole. Moussaoui claimed at various points in his trial to be the 20th 9/11 hijacker, though he later recanted this, saying he was part of another al Qaeda plot. |
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US v. Mubayyid, et al.
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Al Qaeda |
[DMA] Muhamed Mubayyid and Emadeddin Muntasser, former officials of a Boston-based Islamic charity, CARE International, were charged with lying to authorities investigating the organization's alleged ties to terrorist organizations. A third defendant Samir Al-Monla was added as a defendant in a superseding indictment. |
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US v. Muse
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Other |
[SDNY] Abdulwali Abdulkhadir Muse was indicted for hijacking the Maersk Alabama container ship in the Indian Ocean, and the subsequent taking of the captain of the ship as a hostage. Muse was taken into custody by the U.S. Navy on April 12, 2009, while at sea in the Indian Ocean. |
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US v. Mustafa
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Other |
[SDNY] Kamel Mustafa (a.k.a Abu Hamza al-Masri), the hook-handed cleric was convicted in the U.K. for incitement to race hatred and murder. The U.S. is attempting to extradite him on charges of hostage taking and setting up a terrorist training camp in Bly, Oregon. |
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US v. Niazi
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Al Qaeda |
[CDCA] Ahmadullah Nazi, brother-in-law of Osama bin Laden's former bodyguard, was arrested on charges he lied about ties to terrorist groups on citizenship and passport papers. In separate filings at the Superior Court of Orange County an FBI informant Craig Monteilh claimed he recorded Niazi discussing jihad, weapons and plans to blow up abandoned buildings. |
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US v. Noorzai
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Taliban |
[SDNY] Bashir Noorzai, a former Mujahideen warlord and strong ally of the Taliban, was sentenced to life in prison on heroin importation and distribution conspiracy charges. Noorzai had strong ties with Taliban supreme leader Mullah Mohammed Omar. In 2001, after the U.S. began military operations in Afghanistan, Noorzai provided the Taliban with fighters to wage a battle against Afghanistan's Northern Alliance in Mazar-e-Sharif. |
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US v. Omar Jamal
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Somali |
[WDTN] Minnesota-based Somali activist Omar Jamal was convicted of immigration fraud in Tennessee in 2005. Jamal appealed the conviction but his appeal was denied. Jamal received a one year probation and was ordered to report to immigration authorities for deportation proceedings. |
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US v. Padilla, Hassoun, Jayyousi
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Al Qaeda |
[SDFL] Hassoun, Mohamed Hesham Youssef and Kifah Jayyousi, along with Jose Padilla, were charged with financial support and recruitment for Al Qaeda and other terrorist groups. In August 2007, a federal jury convicted Padilla, Jayyousi, and Hassoun with conspiracy to murder individuals overseas and providing material support to terrorists. |
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US v. Paracha
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Al Qaeda |
[SDNY] Uzair Paracha, a Pakistani national and permanent resident alien of the United States, was convicted of falsifying travel documents for an Al Qaeda operative to enter the U.S. and commit a terrorist attack. |
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US v. Paul, Christopher
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Al Qaeda |
[SDOH] A member of Al Qaeda Christopher Paul (a.k.a. Paul Kenyatta Laws) traveled overseas to fight with mujahideen in Afghanistan in the early 1990s. After fighting in Afghanistan he returned to the United States and instructed individuals in martial arts at a mosque in Columbus, Ohio. In June 2008 he pled guilty to conspiring to use weapons of mass destruction against targets in Europe and the United States. He was sentenced to 20 years in prison in February 2008. |
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US v. Prouty, Nada Nadim, et al.
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Hizballah |
[EDMI] Samar Khalil Spinelli, a captain in the United States Marine Corps, conspired with former FBI agent and CIA employee Nada Nadim Prouty to commit citizenship fraud. Prouty pleaded guilty to charges of fraudulently obtaining U.S. citizenship, which she later used to gain employment at the FBI and CIA; and accessing a federal computer system to unlawfully query information about the terrorist organization Hizballah. |
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US v. Rahal, et al.
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Hizballah |
[EDMI] Nemr Ali Rahal pled guilty to aiding and abetting bank fraud. Rahal's wife, Rania Fawaz Rahal, also pled guilty to conspiracy to commit bank fraud and credit fraud. FBI agents found a videotape of Rahal at a 2002 Hizballah rally in Lebanon. |
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US v. Ranjha, et al.
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Al Qaeda |
[DMD] In four separate indictments unsealed September 20, 2007, a federal jury charged 39 people in money laundering and bribery schemes. The defendants were arrested following sting operations, collectively called Operation Cash-Out, that yielded evidence of four separate money laundering schemes. One of the defendants, Saifullah Ranjha, was also charged with attempting to finance Al Qaeda. |
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US v. Rashid, et al.
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Al Qaeda, Taliban, Jaish-e-Mohammad |
[DCO] On March 26, 2003, Haroon Rashid, Irfam Kamran, Sajjad Nasser, Chris Marie Warren, Abdul Qayyum, and Saima Saima were charged in the District of Colorado with making various false statements in order to obtain a visa permitting Imran Khan, Qayyum's nephew, to immigrate to the United States and otherwise cover up his illegal presence in the United States. Kamran and Nasser allegedly said to a cooperating source that they supported the Taliban, Al-Qaeda, jihad and were awaiting a signal that would cause them to harm U.S. interests. Nasser attended a terrorist training camp sponsored by the Jaish-e-Mohammad (Army of Muhammad) on the Pakistan/Afghanistan border in August 2001. |
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US v. Rasool
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Other |
Fairfax County Police Sgt. Weiss Rasool illegally accessed federal databases to search license tag numbers for an acquaintance who was under FBI surveillance in a terrorism-related investigation. Rasool also went into the FBI's National Crime Information Center 15 times, checking his own name and others to see if they were listed in the Violent Crime and Terrorist Offender File. Rasool pleaded guilty and was sentenced in April 2008 to two years probation. |
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US v. Reid (Shoe Bomber)
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Al Qaeda |
[DMA] Richard Reid, the "Shoe Bomber", was sentenced to life imprisonment for attempting to blowup an airplane mid-flight by igniting explosives hidden in his shoes on December 22, 2001. Reid claims to be affiliated with Al Qaeda. |
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US v. Ressam
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Al Qaeda |
[WDWA] Ressam, "the millenium bomber," was convicted and sentenced to 22 years in prison for a plot to bomb Los Angeles Int'l Airport on New Year's Eve 1999. He was caught entering the U.S. from Canada with nitroglycerin and four timing devices. In August 2008 a federal appeals court rejected the 22-year sentence imposed on Ressam. |
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US v. Reynolds
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Al Qaeda |
[MDPA] A federal grand jury in the Middle District of Pennsylvania charged Michael Curtis Reynolds with offering to help al Qaeda blow up oil pipelines and refineries, a plot he allegedly hatched in a Yahoo Internet chat group. Reynolds was convicted of attempting to provide material support to al Qaeda. |
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US v. Rizvi
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Homegrown |
Rizvi plead guilty to state charges of illegal firearm possession. Rizvi was sentenced to time already served and three years of probation for a Federal firearms charge. He is being held by the US immigration and Naturalisation Service in preparation for deportation. |
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US v. Royer, et al.
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Lashkar eTaiba |
[EDVA] Virginia "Paintball Jihad" Case. Royer and co-conspirators were found guilty of firearms violations and conspiracy to contribute material support to the terrorist group Lashkar e Taiba. Royer was sentenced to 20 years in prison. |
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US v. Sarsour
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Hamas |
Jamil Salem Sarsour (a/k/a "Jim Salem" and "Abu Salem") was a Milwaukee businessman who was charged with evading the currency transaction reporting requirements that cash transfers in excess of $10,000 be reported to the Internal Revenue Service. Sarsour structured a $25,000 transfer on October 22, 1998, and was arrested upon his arrival in Israel. There, he pled guilty to aiding Hamas, served a multiple year sentence, and was deported to the United States. He was arrested in the US on a criminal complaint on December 27, 2002. |
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US v. Sattar, et al.
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Al Gama'at al Islamiya (The Islamic Group) |
[SDNY] Four associates of Sheikh Abdel Rahman, a leader of the designated terrorist organization the Islamic Group, were charged with aiding Rahman in continuing to direct the terrorist activities of the Islamic Group from his prison cell in the United States. The indictment charges that Rahman used communications with Lynne Stewart, translated by Mohammed Yousry, to pass messages to and receive messages from Ahmed Abdel Sattar, Yassir Al-Sirri, and other Islamic Group members. In Feburary 2005, a federal jury convicted Stewart, Sattar, and Yousry of helping terrorists and lying to the U.S. government. |
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US v. Shaaban
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Other |
[SDIN] Pled guilty to acting as a foreign agent for Iraq. |
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US v. Shah
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Other |
[SDTX] Syed Maaz Shah, a Pakistani national in the United States on a student visa, was sentenced on two counts of possession of a firearm. Shah was engaged in firearms training. He viewed American forces in Iraq as "invaders" and felt it was his duty to prepare for "jihad." |
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US v. Shah et al.
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Taliban, Al Qaeda |
[CDCA] Syed Mustajab Shah and two other co-defendants conspired to use funds obtained from selling drugs to purchase "Stinger" anti-aircraft missiles from funds for the purpose of selling to the Taliban, an organization the defendants indictated was the same as Al Qaeda. |
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US v. Shah, et al.
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Al Qaeda |
[SDNY] Defendants charged with conspiring to provide martial arts training to Al Qaeda and provide wounded jihadists with medical care. One defendant pled guilty and another defendant was sentenced to 25 years for conspiring to support Al Qaeda. |
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US v. Shareef
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Other |
[NDIL] Shareef was sentenced to 35 years in prison for attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction in connection with a plot to set off hand grenades at the CherryVale shopping mall in Rockford, Illinois, in Dec 2006 as part of a plan to commit "violent jihad" against civilians. |
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US v. Shirani
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[NDIL] Mahtab Shirani, a University of Chicago (UIC) senior was accused in federal court of sending a threatening e-mail to a UIC administrator warning of a shooting. The message was sent from a school computer lab under Shirani's user ID. |
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US v. Shorbagi
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Hamas |
[NDGA] On August 28, 2006, Mohamed Shorbagi was charged with one count of providing material support to a foreign terrorist organization. In October 2006, Shorbagi pled guilty to providing material support to Hamas. |
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US v. Shqueirat
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[DMN] In Nov 2006 six Muslims imams on a US Airways flight from Minneapolis to Phoenix were removed from the flight following complaints of suspicious behavior by passengers and crew both before and on the flight. The imams subsequently filed a lawsuit alleging they had been discrminated by the airline because of their Middle Eastern appearance and Islamic faith. In a Jan 2009 letter, the U.S. Department of Transportation said that the airline did not discriminate against the imams when it removed them from the flight. |
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US v. Siraj
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Homegrown |
[EDNY] Shahwar Matin Siraj, a Pakistani immigrant, was convicted of conspiring to blow up the 34th Street subway station at Herald Square in New York City. |
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US v. Stewart, et al.
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Al Qaeda |
[SDNY] Lynne Stewart, attorney for Egyptian "Blind Sheikh" Omar Abdel-Rahman, was convicted of deceiving the U.S. government in an effort to allow her client to communicate with foreign operatives from his prison cell. |
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US v. Subeh
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Al Aqsa Brigades |
[WDNY] Muhamed Subeh pled guilty to lying to federal agents in 2003 when he denied seeing a farewell letter in which his brother, Ismail Dorgham, indicated he was traveling to the West Bank to join the Palestinian terrorist group, Al Aqsa Brigades. |
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US v. Taleb-Jedi
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Mujahedin-e Khalq (MeK) |
[EDNY] Zeinab Taleb-Jedi, a naturalized US citizen from Iran, was indicted by a federal grand jury in Brooklyn, New York, on one count of providing material support to a foreign terrorist organization. |
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US v. Ujaama
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Al Qaeda |
[WDW] Earnest Ujaama pled guilty to a conspiracy to assist the Taliban, including training in jihad camps in Afghanistan and providing money, computer software and technology to the Taliban. |
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US v. Walker
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Ittihad al Islamiyya |
Mark Robert Walker, a Wyoming Technical Institute student was charged with attempting to help terrorists in Somalia. Federal prosecutors accuse Walker of planning to supply Ittihad al Islamiyya -- which wants an Islamic government in Somalia -- with night-vision goggles and bullet-proof vests. Charging documents say he used the computer of a roommate at the Laramie school, also known as WyoTech, to make the arrangements. |
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US v. Warsame
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Al Qaeda, Taliban |
[DMN] Mohamed Abdullah Warsame is a Canadian citizen of Somali descent living in Minnesota who is accused of traveling to Afghanistan and Pakistan and attending Al Qaeda training camps. Warsame has been in custody since late 2003. In May 2009, Warsame pleaded guilty to a single charge of conspiring to provide material support and resources to al Qaeda. |
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US v. Williams, et al.
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Taliban |
[SDTX] A November 2006 federal indictment accused Kobie Williams and Adnan Mirza of wanting to join the Taliban and to fight U.S. forces in Pakistan. |
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USA v. Alsaif
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On June 4, 2009, Raed Abdul-Rahman Alsaif was arrested after he tried to board a U.S. Airways flight from Tampa to Phoenix. Security agents found a large knife hidden in his carry-on bag in a way that would have been accessible to him in flight. |
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USA v. Rendon-Herrera, et al.
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AutoDefensas Unidas de Colombia (AUC) |
[SDNY] Daniel Rendon-Herrera--a leader of the Colombian terrorist group Autodefensas Unidas de Colombia (AUC)--was charged in a superseding indictment with narco-terrorism conspiracy. Rendon-Herrera, who was designated by the President as a Foreign Narcotics Kingpin on May 29, 2009, had previously been charged with conspiring to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization and to import thousands of kilograms of cocaine into the United States. |
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Weiss, et al. v. National Westminster Bank
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Hamas |
[EDNY] Victim of Hamas suicide bomb attack sued National Westminster, British-based bank, to recover money from Hamas-linked accounts. |
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Yaron Ungar, et al.
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PLO, Hamas |
In separate lawsuits filed by estates of victims Yaron and Efrat Ungar, plaintiffs alleged the Palestinian Authority and the Islamic Republic of Iran provided material support and resources to Hamas. Yaron, an American citizen, and his wife, Efrat Ungar, were murdered on June 9, 1996 in Israel by Hamas terrorists. The court ruled in 2004 that Hamas and the Palestinian Authority owed the Ungars $116 million. |
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Yaser Abdel Said
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Honor Killing |
[Irving, TX] Yaser Abdel Said is charged with murder and non-negligent manslaughter after his teenage daughters, Sarah and Amina, were found dead on New Year's Day in a cab at the Omni Mandalay Hotel in Irving, Texas, in what is largely believed to be an "honor killing." Authorities believe Said may have fled to his native Egypt. |
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Zahavi et al. v. Bank of China Ltd.
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Hamas & PIJ |
[LA Superior Court] The lawsuit filed in Los Angeles Superior Court by victims of terrorism in Israel alleges Bank of China Ltd. transferred millions of dollars to terrorist group Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad. The suit claims the money helped fund attacks between 2004 and 2007. |
