Court Cases

1993 World Trade Center Bombing 

• List of Unindicted Coconspirators
• Indictment
• IPT Profile: Ramzi Yusuf

[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.

Abdel Jabber Hamdan 

• Judgment
• Decision of Immigration Judge
• ICE Press Release Re: Removal Order

[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.

Abousfian Abdelrazik 

• Federal Court Ruling
• Treasury Designation

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.

Adnan el-Shukrijumah 

• IPT Profile: Adnan el-Shukrijumah
• FBI "Seeking Information on Adnan G. El Shukrijumah"

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.

Ali Abdul-Karim Farhat, et al. 

• Hassan Farhat Affidavit
• Ali Farhat Criminal Complaint and Affadavit

[EDMI] In January 2004, federal authorities arrested two 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.

Ali Hasan Abu Kamal 

• Charter of Honor
• Charter of Honor (Handwritten Letter Found on Abu Kamal)

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."

Ashton v. Al Qaeda Islamic Army 

• Opinion and Order

[SDNY] Lawsuit arising out of the terrorist attacks on 9-11. Defendants include the Rabita Trust, International Islamic Relief Organization (IIRO), and Abdurahman Alamoudi.

Boim, et al. v. QLI, et al. 

• Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals Ruling
• Complaint
• Judgment
• Memorandum and Order
• IAP-HLF Fundraising Agreement
• IAP Mission and Objectives

[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.

Carpenter, Cedric, et al. 

• ICE Press Release

In May 2005, two New Orleans men, Cedric Carpenter and Lamont Ranson, were sentenced for their involvement in a conspiracy to sell false documents to people they thought were members of Abu Sayyaf, a Philippines-based group that is designated as a foreign terrorist organization. Carpenter was sentenced to 63 months and Ranson was sentenced to 29 months in prison.

Ellis, et al. v.Iran, et al. 

• Complaint

[DDC] American victims of a triple Hamas suicide bombing in Jerusalem filed a lawsuit against Hamas and the government of Iran.

Federal Insurance Co, et al. v. Saudi Arabia 

• 9/11 Families' Response to Solicitor General's Refusal to Support Petition for Writ of Certiorari
• Brief for the United States as Amicus Curiae

[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.

Ghazi Ibrahim Abu Maizar 

• New York Times Article on Subway Bomb Plot

[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.

Global Relief Foundation 

• Treasury Press Release Re: GRF Designation

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).

Hamaas Abdul Khaalis, et al. 

• Washington Examiner Article on Hanafi Siege

[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.

Hatem Fariz 

• Indictment
• Judgement
• Superseding Indictment
• Plea Agreement
• Sentencing Minutes

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.

Hesham Mohamed Hadayat 

• CNN Article on LA Airport Shooting

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.

Holy Land Foundation v. Ashcroft, et al. 

• FBI Action Memorandum
• Memorandum Opinion

[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.

Infocom 

• Indictment
• Superseding Indictment
• Conviction Press Release
• Second Conviction Press Release

[NDTX] The Elashi brothers and their webhosting company, Infocom, based in Richardson, Texas, 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.

Iran, et al. v. Heiser, et al. 

• Memorandum
• Order and Judgment

[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.

Islamic Center of Tucson 

• Complaint (WTC v. Al Baraka, et al.)
• Opinion and Order (US v. Osama bin Laden)
• Treasury Designation of Wa'el Hamza Julaidan

In the mid 1980s, the Islamic Center of Tucson (ICT) was alleged to be the US satellite office of the Mektab Al Khidmat, an organization considered to be the precursor to al Qaeda. Several leaders and attendees of this mosque became Al Qaeda leaders. Among them, former ICT president and Imam Wael Julaidan became a senior bin Laden advisor and was named a Specially Designated Global Terrorist (SDGT) because of his work with Rabita Trust, an Al Qaeda funding source. Wadih el Hage, who purportedly acted as Usama bin Laden's secretary, was convicted of conspiracy to kill U.S. nationals, conspiracy to destroy buildings and property of the U.S., perjury and murder in May of 2001.

Ismail Selim Elbarasse 

• Arrest Records
• Affidavit in Support of Search Warrant

[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.

Jamil Abdullah al-Amin 

• News Article

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.

Kindhearts 

• Order Temporarily Restraining KindHearts Designation
• District Judge's Order Finding Probable Cause Must be Established
• Declaration of OFAC Director Adam Szubin
• Treasury Department Designation of KindHearts
• Temporary Restraining Order
• Complaint

[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.

Majid Mahummud Al-Massari 

• Removal Order
• ICE Press Release Re: Almassari Removal Order

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.

Marzook, Salah, Ashqar 

• 7th Circuit Court of Appeals Upholds Ashqar Sentence
• Ashqar Sentencing Hearing Transcript-II 11.8.07
• Ashqar Sentencing Hearing Transcript-I 11.8.07
• Ashqar Sentencing Hearing Transcript 11.21.07
• Judgment re: Ashqar
• Government Sentencing Memorandum re: Ashqar
• Judgment re: Salah
• Exhibit- Hamas Genesis and Commencement
• Memorandum & Order re: Salah
• Exhibit- Sa'adon Agreement- English
• Exhibit- Sa'adon Agreement- Arabic
• Exhibit- Salah Polygraph
• Exhibit- Hamas Declaration
• Exhibit- Recommendations in lieu of Salah's Arrest
• Memorandum & Order re: Closed Hearing
• Govt's Evidentiary Proffer
• Response to Salah's Motion to Suppress
• Superseding Indictment

[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.

Mir Aimal Kasi 

• News Stories on 1993 CIA Shootings
• Appeal

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.

Mohammad Momin Khwaja 

• Ruling Against Full Disclosure to Mohammed Khwaja
• Opinion
• Exhibit--Emails
• Indictment

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.

Murray v. Geithner, et al. 

• Opinion and Order

[E.D. Mich.] 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.

Naveed Haq 

• State's Trial Memorandum
• Fourth Amended Inofrmation
• Press Release
• Information

Naveed Haq was found guilty of eight counts, including aggravated first-degree murder, in the 2006 shootings at the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle. The murder verdict carries an automatic life sentence for Haq.

O'Neill v. Al Baraka, et al. 

• Complaint
• First Amended Complaint
• Second Amended Complaint
• CAIR Motion to Dismiss
• Reply to CAIR's Motion to Dismiss

[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.

PA v. Saperstein, et al. 

• Amended Complaint
• Jury Verdict

[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.

Palestine Monetary Authority v. Strachman 

• Appellate Decision Reversing Lower Court Ruling

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.

Phoenix Memo 

• Phoenix Memo

Phoenix-based FBI agent Kenneth Williams wrote a memo to his superiors in Washington, DC two months before the 9/11 attacks, suggesting there was a coordinated effort by Osama bin Laden to send terrorists to the U.S. to attend civil aviation universities and colleges in Arizona and elsewhere in an effort to train them to conduct terror attacks on civil aviation targets.

Raed Hijazi 

• 9/11 Timeline Entries
• ICE Press Release

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.

Rajah et al. v. Mukasey 

• Appeals Court Ruling

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.

Ramadan, et al. v. Chertoff, et al. 

• 2nd Circuit Appellate Ruling
• Complaint
• Opinion and Order

[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.

Rashid Baz 

• Middle East Quarterly Article on Brooklyn Bridge Shooting
• Transcript of Trial Proceedings--Part 3
• Transcript of Trial Proceedings--Part 2
• Transcript of Trial Proceedings--Part 1

[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.

Rubin, et al. v. Hamas, et al. 

• Application for Writ of Garnishment
• Order
• Proposed Garnishment Order
• Writ of Garnishment

[WDWA] Lawsuit filed by Americans wounded in a terrorist attack by Hamas on the Ben Yehuda Mall in Jerusalem in 1997.

Rubin, et al. v. Iran, et al. 

• Order on Application for Issuance of a Writ of Execution Sale
• Complaint
• Plaintiff's Supplement of Application for Writ of Execution
• Abstract of Judgment
• Judgment (9th Circuit Court of Appeals)
• Judgment
• Findings of Fact

[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.

SAAR Network 

• Affidavit of SA David Kane
• Attachments D & E of Affidavit
• Attachment C of Affidavit

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.

Safia Jilani 

• Police Press Release

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.

Sokolow et al. v. PLO et al. 

• Memorandum Decision and Order

[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.

State of Michigan v. Zorkot 

• Complaint

[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.

State v Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad 

• Abdulhakeem Mujahid Muhammad Letter to Judge
• Arrest Report
• Search Warrant Affidavit

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.

State v. Taheri-Azar 

• Indictment
• Exhibit- Taheri-Azar Letter
• Letter to Police
• Waiver of Arraignment

[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.

Tamam et al. v. Fransabank et al. 

• Opinion and Order
• Complaint

[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.

US v. Abdallah 

• Plea Agreement
• News Release Regarding Guilty Plea
• Indictment

[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.

US v. Abdhir et al. 

• Order Re Pretrial Detention
• Indictment

[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.

US v. Abdi 

• Government Sentencing Memorandum
• Plea Agreement
• Indictment
• Opinion and Order

[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.

US v. Abdoulah 

• Superseding Indictment
• Declaration of Special Agent Daniel Gonzalez
• Judgment
• Indictment

[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.

US v. Abdow 

• Indictment
• Complaint

[D. Minn.] A federal grand jury indicted Abdow Munye Abdow on two counts of making false statements to FBI agents in a matter involving international terrorism.

US v. Abdulmutallab 

• Summary of White House Security Review
• Presidential Duirective on Corrective Actions
• DOJ Press Release
• Indictment

[EDMI] Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, a 23-year-old Nigerian national, was charged in a criminal indictment for his alleged role in the attempted Christmas day bombing of Northwest Airlines flight 253 from Amsterdam, the Netherlands, to Detroit.

US v. Abu Ali 

• Supreme Court Order
• 2008 USCIRF Report on Abu Ali's Virginia High School
• 4th Circuit Appellate Ruling on Conviction
• Indictment
• Opposition to Defendant's Motion to Suppress
• Judgment
• Sentencing
• Excerpts of Abu Ali's Interview

[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.

US v. Abu-Jihaad 

• Government Sentencing Memorandum
• Verdict
• Indictment
• Complaint
• Exhibit (1-3)
• Exhibit (4-7)

[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.

US v. Ahmad 

• Complaint
• Indictment
• Affidavit in Support of Request for Extradition of Babar Ahmad

[DCT] 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.

US v. Ahmed, et al 

• DOJ Plea Agreement Press Release
• Superseding Information
• Indictment

[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.

US v. Ahmed, et al. 

• DOJ Sentencing Press Release
• Government Sentencing Memorandum on Sadequee
• Government Sentencing Memorandum on Syed Ahmed
• DOJ Release on Sadequee Conviction
• News Release on Verdict
• Verdict
• Surveillance video at U.S. Capitol
• Pentagon night surveillance video
• Pentagon surveillance video
• Second Superseding Indictment
• Sadequee Affidavit
• Indictment
• Superseding Indictment

[NDGA] Syed Ahmed and Ehsanul Islam Sadequee were charged with conspiring to and providing material support to terrorism and to a designated foreign terrorist organization, the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT). Sadequee was sentenced to 17 years in prison and Ahmed to 13 years.

US v. Ahsan 

• Indictment

[DCT] Syed Talha Ahsan was 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.

US v. Akhdar, et al. 

• Government Written Proffer
• Government's Written Proffer in Support of its Request for Detention Pending Trial
• Dearborn Resident pleads guilty to charges
• Indictment
• DOJ Press Release Re: Mohamed Akhdar Sentencing

[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.

US v. Al Arian 

• Government's Response in Opposition to Motion to Dismiss
• Motion to Dismiss
• Response to Habeas Petition
• Petition for a Writ of Habeas Corpus
• Al-Arian Affidavit (#2)
• Al-Arian Affidavit (#1)
• Exhibit-Letters
• Indictment

[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.

US v. Al Arian, et al. 

• The Bylaws of the Islamic Jihad in Palestine
• Indictment for Criminal Contempt
• Charter: Center for Studies, Intelligence and Information
• Superseding Indictment
• Transcript of Plea Hearing
• Declaration of Sami Al Alrian
• 4th Circuit Ruling Re Grand Jury Subpoena
• Al Arian Motion to Enforce Plea Agreement
• Judgment
• ICP Articles of Incorporation
• Selected Business Cards
• Sami Al Arian Address Book
• Elehssan Association Preamble
• Ramadan Shallah Fax to Sami Al Arian
• Fariz Plea Agreement
• Fariz Judgment
• Motion to Enforce Plea Agreement
• Order Denying Motion to Enforce Plea Agreement
• WISE Trustees and Incorporators
• WISE Articles of Incorporation
• Plea Agreement
• Change of Plea Hearing Before U.S. Magistrate
• Sentencing
• Letter to Ismail al-Shatti (Arabic)
• Letter to Ismail al-Shatti (English)
• Petition for Ramdan Shallah
• Transcript of the 2nd Annual ICP Conference, Chicago, 1989
• Transcript of ICP Fundraiser, Cleveland, 1991
• Islam and Palestine Newsletter May 1989
• Letter from Qudsway (PIJ Website)
• Al-Arian Telephone Numbers
• Articles of Incorporation- Al Qassam Mosque
• Al-Arian - Damra Tapped Phone Conversation

[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.

US v. Al Badawi, et al. 

• Indictment

[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.

US v. Al Hussayen 

• FBI Affidavit
• Indictment
• Superseding Indictment

[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.

US v. Al Moayad, et al. 

• Plea Agreement Re: Mohamed Zayd
• Plea Agreement Letter
• Plea Agreement Re: Mohammed Al-Moayad
• Appeals Court Ruling
• Indictment
• Superseding Indictment
• Jury Verdict

[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 ruled in Oct 2008 that defendants Mohammed Al-Moayad and Mohammed Mohsen Zayed can have new trials. In separate plea deals August 2009 Al-Moayad and Zayed pleaded guilty only to conspiring to provide material support to Hamas. A judge sentenced both the defendants to time served and ordered them to be released and deported to Yemen.

US v. Al Suwailem 

• Complaint
• Affidavit of SA Todd Kalish

[MDGA] Saleh Al Suwailem, an Arabic interpreter at Ft. Benning, Georgia was charged with threatening to place an explosive device on a plane.

US v. Al Timimi 

• Indictment
• Conviction
• Government Exhibit 7D15 - Jihad is Over
• Government Exhibit 7A12 - Sheikh Hammoud Al-Uqlaa Fatwa on Taliban
• Government Exhibit 3A1 - Receipt for Hamdi's Purchase of AK-47 from Chapman
• Government Exhibit 7A3 - Al Timimi - "Reflections"

[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.

US v. Al-Hanooti, Muthanna 

• Indictment

[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).

US v. Al-Haramain Islamic Foundation, et al. 

• Act SMotion to Squash USA Patriotubpoena
• Opinion Re: Constitutionality of Asset Forfeiture
• Opinion
• Government's Request to Review Release Order
• Exhibit L - E-mail Confirming Donation by Egyptian in Support of Chechnya Mujahideen
• Exhibit K - Wire Transfer From Pirouz Sedaghaty to AIHF Office in Tirane, Albania
• Exhibit J - AHIF Newsletter Praising Mujahideen
• Exhibit I - E-mail Messages Glorifying Chechnya Mujahideen
• Exhibit H - Photos of Chechnya Mujahideen
• Exhibit G - Radical Items Found on Pirouz Sedaghaty's Computer
• Exhibit F - Letter From Prisoner to AHIF-US Offering Assistance to Mujahideen
• Exhibit E - Islamic Guidelines for Individual and Social Reform
• Exhibit D - Summary of US Treasury Designations
• Exhibits B & C - Excerpts from the Noble Koran
• Exhibit A - National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (Chapter 7)
• Government's Memorandum in Support of Pretrial Detention
• Government's Submission of Redacted Indictment
• Indictment

[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.

US v. Al-Marabh, Nabil 

• FBI Affidavit
• 9/11 Timeline Entries Re: Nabil Al-Marabh
• ICE Press Release
• FBI Press Release
• Judgment
• Plea Agreement
• Indictment

[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.

US v. Al-Marri 

• Plea Agreement
• DOJ Press Release Re: Plea Agreement
• Indictment

[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.

US v. Al-Shannaq 

• News Release on Indictment
• Indictment

[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.

US v. Alamoudi 

• Appeals Court Ruling
• Indictment
• Superseding Indictment
• SA Gentrup Supplemental Declaration
• Plea Agreement
• Press Release on Sentencing
• Statement of Facts

[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.

US v. Ali, et al. 

• Indictment
• Superseding Indictment

[EDCA] Amen Ahmed Ali and two associates were charged with transmitting defense secrets and exporting military equipment to Yemen.

US v. Alishtari 

• DOJ Press Release on Guilty Plea
• Superseding Indictment
• Indictment

[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. Alishtari pleaded guilty to funneling money to fund terrorist activiites in Pakistan and Afghanistan, including sending money to buy night vision goggles and other equipment for a terrorist training camp in Afghanistan. He also pleaded guilty to stealing millions of dollars from victims through his fraudulent operation of a loan investment program.

US v. Alnoshan, et al. 

• ICE Press Release Re: Abdullah Alnoshan deportation
• Order Granting Stipulated Removal
• Judgment
• Plea Agreement
• Superseding Indictment
• Complaint

[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.

US v. Alomari, et al. 

• Indictment
• Complaint

[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. Alomari and his co-defendants pled guilty to money laundering charges.

US v. Alsaif 

• Order of Detention
• Complaint

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.

US v. Amawi, et. al. 

• Audio and Video Exhibits
• Government's Sentencing Memorandum
• Order Denying Defendant's Motion for New Trial (El-Hindi)
• Order Denying Defendant's Motion for Judgment of Acquittal (El-Hindi)
• Order Denying Defendant's Motion for New Trial (Amawi)
• Order Denying Defendant's Motion for Judgment of Acquittal (Amawi)
• Verdict Re: Marwan El-Hindi
• Verdict Re: Wassim Mazloum
• Verdict Re: Mohammad Amawi
• Mazloum Indictment
• Superseding Indictment
• Indictment
• Complaint

[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. Amawi was later sentenced to 20 years in prison.

US v. Aref, et ano. 

• Complaint
• Ruling Denying Conviction Appeal
• Indictment
• Superseding Indictment
• Memo Decision and Order (refusing to grant new trial)

[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.

US v. Arnaout 

• Treasury Designation of Benevolence International Foundation
• Order Denying Sentencing Appeal
• Plea Agreement
• Complaint
• Indictment
• Second Superseding Indictment

[NDIL] Enaam Arnaout pled guilty to racketeering conspiracy, admitting he used his charity, Benevolence International Foundation (BIF), to support fighters in Bosnia and Chechnya. Evidence points to close ties between Arnaout and Osama bin Laden.

US v. Assa Corporation, et al. 

• Amended Complaint
• Complaint
• DOJ Press Release

[SDNY] The Manhattan U.S. Attorney filed an amended civil complaint seeking forfeiture of the Alavi Foundation's interest in a 36-story office tower located at 650 Fifth Avenue in Midtown Manhattan (the "Building"). The Building is owned by 650 Fifth Avenue Company, a partnership between the Alavi Foundation and Assa Corporation. The original complaint, which was filed in December 2008 and amended November 2009, sought forfeiture of Assa Corporation's interest in the Building. The amended Complaint alleges that the Alavi Foundation has been providing numerous services to the Iranian Government and transferring funds from 650 Fifth Avenue Company to Bank Melli, a bank wholly owned and controlled by the Government of Iran.

US v. Assi 

• Judgment
• Government Sentencing Memo
• DOJ Press Release on Guilty Plea
• Plea Agreement

[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.

US v. Aviation Services International, et al. 

• Complaint
• Plea of Guilty Press Release

Aviation Services Company, a Dutch aviation services company based in the Netherlands, its director and sales manager pleaded guilty to federal charges related to a conspiracy to illegally export aircraft components and other items from the United States to entities in Iran via the Netherlands, the United Arab Emirates, and Cyprus.

US v. Babar 

• Trial Transcript
• Indictment

[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.

US v. Badat 

• DOJ Press Release
• Indictment

[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.

US v. Batiste, et al. 

• U.S. Attorney's News Release on Verdicts
• Indictment

[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.

US v. Battle, et al. 

• Indictment

[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.

US v. Benkahla 

• Government Exhibit 01F6
• Government Exhibit 01F4
• Government Exhibit 01F3
• Government Exhibit 01F1
• Government Exhibit 1D29
• Government Exhibit 1D28
• Government Exhibit 1D27
• 4th Circuit Court of Appeals Upholds Conviction, Sentencing
• Government Brief
• Benkahla Conviction Press Release
• Exhibit-Testimony of Randall Royer
• Indictment

[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.

US v. Biheiri 

• 299 F.Supp.2d590
• Declaration in Support of Pre-Trial Detention
• Verdict
• Superseding Indictment
• Indictment

[EDVA] In October 2004 a federal 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. Biheiri founded an Islamic investment firm, Bait ul Mal, Inc. (BMI), in Secaucus, NJ, in March 1986. BMI's original investors included Marzook and Yasin al-Qadi, who later was designated as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist by the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control for his financial support of Hamas, al Qaeda, and Osama bin Laden. Biheiri was also known to have ties to senior members of the Muslim Brotherhood.

US v. Bin Laden, et al. 

• Indictment
• Superseding Indictment
• Opinion and Order
• Ali Mohamed Passport
• Wadih el Hage Passport

[SDNY] Osama bin Laden was convicted along with five other defendants for the 1998 Embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania.

US v. Boyd, et al. 

• Superseding Indictment Press Release
• Superseding Indictment
• Hysen Sherifi Search Warrant
• Daniel Boyd Search Warrant
• DOJ Press Release
• Indictment
• Detention Hearing Exhibits
• Audio / Video Exhibits

[EDNC] A federal grand jury in the Eastern District of North Carolina charged seven individuals with conspiring to provide material support to terrorists and conspiring to murder, kidnap, maim, and injure persons abroad. One of the defendants, Daniel Boyd, is a veteran of terrorist training camps in Pakistan and Afghanistan. The indictment alleges that in June 2007 Boyd and several other defendants traveled from the United States to Israel in an effort to engage in violent jihad but returned to the U.S. after failing in their efforts. A superseding indictment added new charges against the the terrorism suspects, including weapons charges and conspiracy to murder U.S. military personnel.

US v. Brent 

• Complaint
• Sentencing Press Release

[SDNY] Mahmud Faruq Brent, a paramedic living in the Baltimore, Maryland area, 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.

US v. Bushnaq 

• Indictment

[EDVA] Yaser Bushnaq, a resident of Dallas and 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.

US v. Chahine et al. 

• Superseding Indictment (re: Citizenship Fraud)
• Superseding Indictment (re: Extortion Charges)
• Superseding Indictment (re: Income Tax Evasion)
• Plea Agreement re: el Aouar
• Judgment re: el Aouar
• Government's Sentencing Memorandum re: el Aouar
• Indictment
• Government's Written Proffer

[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.

US v. Chandia, et al. 

• Indictment

[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.

US v. Cromitie, et al. 

• Indictment
• DOJ Press Release
• Complaint

[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.

US v. Damrah 

• 6th Circuit Court of Appeals Ruling
• Indictment
• Immigration Judge Order
• Deportation Press Release
• Appeal Ruling
• Memorandum Opinion

[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.

US v. Darwishahmad 

• Redacted Judgment
• Plea Agreement
• Redacted Indictment

[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.

US v. Defreitas, et al. 

• Indictment
• Complaint

[EDNY] Four individuals were charged on June 2, 2007 with conspiring to attack New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK) in Queens, NY. The plot involved an international network of Muslim extremists from the U.S., Guyana, and Trinidad.

US v. Delaema 

• Indictment
• Press Release

[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.

US v. Dhafir 

• Indictment
• Judgment
• Sentencing

[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.

US v. Elfgeeh, et al. 

• Indictment
• Superseding Indictment
• Verdict

[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.

US v. Elzahabi 

• DOJ Press Release Re: Elzahabi Sentencing
• Affidavit
• Government Sentencing Memorandum
• Superseding Indictment

[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.

US v. Farhane 

• Press Release

[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.

US v. Faris 

• Criminal Information
• Plea Agreement
• Statement of Facts

[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.

US v. Finton (a/k/a Talib Islam) 

• Indictment
• Complaint
• DOJ Press Release

Michael Finton (a/k/a Talib Islam) was indicted on charges of attempted murder of federal employees and attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction (explosives) in connection with a plot to detonate a vehicle at the federal building in Springfield, IL.

US v. Fornah, Mohamed et al. 

• Indictment

[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.

US v. Gadahn 

• First Superseding Indictment

[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.

US v. Ghailani 

• Press Release on Ghailani Prosecution

[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.

US v. Goba et al. ("Lackawanna Six") 

• Decision and Order
• Press Release on Shafal Mosed Plea Agreement
• Press Release on Salim Alwan Sentencing
• Press Release on Yahya Goba Plea Agreement
• Press Release on Mukhtar Al-Bakri Sentencing
• Mukhtar Al-Bakri Plea Agreement
• Joint Memorandum of Law in Support of Defendants' Motion to Revoke
• Press Release on Jaber Elbaneh Complaint
• Complaint Re: Mukhtar Al-Bakri
• Complaint Re: Yahya Goba, et al.

[WDNY] Six Yemeni-American men (also known as the "Lackawanna 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.

US v. Grecula 

• Indictment
• Superseding Indictment
• Plea Agreement
• Sentencing Data Sheet
• Judgment

[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.

US v. Haji Juma Khan 

• Superseding Indictment
• Indictment

[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.

US v. Hamdan 

• Conviction Press Release
• Chargesheet

[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.

US v. Hamdi 

• Superseding Indictment
• Indictment
• Affidavit

[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.

US v. Hamed et al 

• DOJ Press Release on Guilty Plea
• Indictment

[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. In December 2009, eight members of the criminal enterprise pleaded guilty to federal charges for selling stolen goods at convenience stores and funneling part of their profits to Palestinian territories.

US v. Hammoud, et al. 

• Indictment
• Transcript of Phone Call between Defendants
• Photos of Cigarettes
• Jury Verdict for Mohamad Hammoud
• Photo of Mohamad Darwiche (2)
• Photo of Mohamad Darwiche
• Picture of Mohamad Hammoud with Hassan Nasrallah
• Picture of Mohamad Hammoud
• Superseding Indictment
• Photo of Defendants Counting Money
• Trial Exhibits

[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.

US v. Hashmi 

• Indictment

[SDNY] Syed Hashmi (a.k.a. "Fahad) was charged with supplying money and military gear to Al Qaeda to fight American forces in Afghanistan.

US v. Hassan 

• Plea Agreement Sentencing Stipulations
• Supplemental Information

[D. Minn.] Kamal Said Hassan left Minneapolis for Somalia to train and fight with Al Shabab, a Somali group that has been identified by the U.S. State Department as a terrorist organization with ties to Al Qaeda. Hassan pleaded guilty to charges stemming from the federal investigation, including lying to federal agents about the extent of his involvement with Al Shabaab.

US v. Hayat 

• Judgment and Sentencing Transcript
• Hamid Hayat Complaint
• Hamid Hayat Conviction Press Release
• Government Motion
• Interview of Umer Hayat - 2
• Interview of Umer Hayat -1
• Interview of Hamid Hayat
• Superseding Indictment
• Indictment
• Umer Hayat Complaint
• Umer Hayat Plea Agreement

[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.

US v. Headley, et ano. 

• DOJ Press Release on Superseding Indictment
• Superseding Indictment
• Government's Memo in Support of Rana's Motion for Detention (Tahawuur Rana)
• Abdur Rehman Hashim Syed Complaint
• DOJ Press Release on Additional Charges
• David Headley Indictment
• Tahawwur Rana Amended Complaint
• DOJ Press Release
• Tahawwur Rana Complaint
• David Headley Complaint

[NDIL] Two Chicago men, David Coleman Headley and Tahawwur Hussain Rana, were arrested on federal charges for their alleged roles in conspiracies to provide material support and/or to commit terrorist acts against overseas targets, including facilities and employees of a Danish newspaper that published cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed in 2005. New charges filed in December 2009 allege strong connections between Headley and the Mumbai terror attacks in November 2008.

US v. Hodroj, et al. 

• Indictment

Hassan Hodroj and Dib Hani Harb were indicted in November 2009 on charges of conspiring to provide material support to the terrorist group Hizballah. This allegedy involves 1,200 Colt M4 Carbines (machine guns). Harb and other defendants—including Moussa Ali Hamdan and Hasan Antar Karak—were also charged with conspiring to provide material support to Hizballah in the form of proceeds from the sale of fraudulent passports, counterfeit money and stolen (genuine) money. In addition, Hamdan and several other defendants were charged with several counts of transporting stolen goods, trafficking in counterfeit goods, and making false statements to government officials.

US v. Holy Land Foundation 

• Application of Certificate of Authority as to HLF
• Handwritten Notes Regarding the Association [IAP]
• Meeting Agenda of the Financial Committee
• Occupied Land Fund Report
• Preliminary Vision fo Preparing Future Leadership
• "America Constitutes Five Fundamental Axises for the Movement" - Excerpt from the Philadelphia Meeting
• A Suggested Work Paper on Rearranging Frame of Work on the Inside
• History of Ikhwan in the U.S.
• 1992 Phone Directory
• Judgement for Mohammad El-Mezain
• Judgment for Ghassan Elashi
• Judgment for Shukri Abu-Baker
• News Release on Sentencing
• John Esposito Testimony
• Verdict
• Memo on the Brotherhood's Strategic Goals in North America
• Video Exhibits
• Audio Exhibits
• Derailing Oslo - Excerpt from Philadelphia Meeting
• War is Deception - Excerpt from Philadelphia Meeting
• We Didn't Say That to the Americans - Excerpt from Philadelphia Meeting
• Focus on Humanitarian Work - Excerpt from the Philadelphia Meeting
• Peace Shouldn't Be Endless - Excerpt from the Philadelphia Meeting
• "Sister Samah," Excerpt from Philadelphia Meeting
• Support Jihad in Palestine - Excerpt from Philadelphia Meeting
• We must form a new organization for activism - Philadelphia Meeting Transcript
• Palestinian Authority Security Work Plan in Ramallah and Al-Bireh
• Palestinian Authority Memo: Who is Financing Hamas
• Palestinian Authority Security Report on Ramallah Zakat Committee
• Palestine Committee Bylaws
• 1994 Palestine Committee Meeting Agenda
• Palestine Committee Phone list
• Suggestion to Amend the Palestine Committee Bylaws
• Handwritten Document Re: the Association
• HLF Overseas Speakers List
• 1994 wiretap shows Mousa Abu Marzook Sides with HLF in U.S. Funding Dispute
• Marzook Address Book
• Government's Second Supplemental Trial Brief
• Government's Motion to Dismiss Counts (Abdulqader and Odeh)
• Order Denying Defendants' Request for Delayed Mistrial
• ISNA, HLF Verdict Press Statement
• Memorandum Opinion and Order Denying Defendant's Motion to Dismiss Superseding Indictment
• Mistrial Order
• Verdict Re: Mohammad El-Mezain
• Superseding Indictment (Retrial 2008)
• Superseding Indictment
• Indictment
• List of Unindicted Co-conspirators
• Government's Trial Brief
• CAIR Amicus Brief
• Government's Memoradumn in Opposition to CAIR's Motion for Leave to File a Brief Amicus Curiae Instanter and Amicus Brief in Support of the Unindicted Co-Conspirator's 1st and 5th Amendment Rights
• ISNA and NAIT Brief Seeking Removal from Unindicted Co-Conspirator List
• Government's Memorandum in Opposition to ISNA and NAIT's Motion for Equitable Relief
• MB Telephone Directory 1992 Seized from Ismail Elbarasse
• Palestine Committee Org. Chart, 1991
• IAP book entitled "The Jihadist School" (w/ translation)
• Palestine Committee Report
• Shura Council Report on the Future of the Group
• Internal Memo - Islamic Association for Palestine
• Letter from Ibrahim Ghoshe to Orrin Hatch
• Zaid Noman lecture on the Brotherhood in America
• Implementation Manual For the Brotherhood's Plan for the Year 91-92

[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.

US v. Hupper 

• Judgment
• Sentencing Memorandum
• Information

[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.

US v. Hussein, et al. 

• Indictment

[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.

US v. IARA, et al. 

• Superseding Indictment
• Indictment

[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.

US v. Idais 

• Indictment
• Superseding Indictment
• Sentencing Memorandum

[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.

US v. Iqbal and Elahwal 

• Saleh Elahwal Sentencing Press Release
• Javed Iqbal Sentencing Press Release
• Government Sentencing Memorandum
• Superseding Indictment
• Plea of Guilty Press Release Re: Elahawal
• Plea of Guilty Press Release Re: Iqbal
• Indictment
• Affidavit

[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.

US v. Isa 

• Superseding Indictment
• Indictment
• Sentencing

[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.

US v. Issa et al. 

• Complaint

[SDNY] Oumar Issa, Harouna Toure and Idress Abelrahman were arrested in Africa by Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agents following a cocaine sting operation. The men were linked to al Qaeda.

US v. Isse et al. 

• Adarus Abdulle Ali Information
• Abdow Munye Abdow Indictment
• Omer Abdi Mohamed indictment
• November 2009 FBI Release on New Charges
• Plea Agreement Re: Saleh Ahmed
• Indictment

[DMN] A federal grand jury in Minneapolis charged two Somali Americans, Abdifatah Yusuf Isse and Saleh Osman Ahmed, with providing material support to terrorism. The indictment is the first public step in a sweeping federal investigation of more than 20 young Americans who are believed to have joined a militant Islamist group in Somalia, the Shabaab, that is affiliated with Al Qaeda. Both Isse and Ahmed have pleaded guilty to providing material support to terrorism.

US v. Jabarah 

• Apellate Order Affirming Life Sentence
• Exhibit Y
• Exhibit X
• Exhibit W
• Exhibit V
• Exhibit U
• Exhibit T
• Exhibit S
• Exhibit R
• Exhibit Q
• Exhibit P
• Exhibit O
• Exhibit N
• Exhibit M
• Exhibit L
• Exhibit K
• Exhibit J
• Exhibit I
• Exhibit H
• Exhibit G
• Exhibit F
• Exhibit E
• Exhibit D
• Exhibit C
• Exhibit B
• Exhibit A
• Sentencing Memorandum
• Information

[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.

US v. Jaber 

• Indictment
• Superseding Indictment
• Jury Verdict
• Judgment
• Order to Revoke Citizenship

[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.

US v. Jamal 

• Indictment
• Order
• Judgment

[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.

US v. James, et al. 

• Indictment
• Setencing Press Release Re: Gregory Patterson
• Setencing Press Release Re: Levar Washington
• Exhibit - Modes of Attack
• Exhibit - Attachment A
• Levar Washington Plea Agreement
• Exhibit - Notoriety Moves
• JIS Manifesto
• Exhibit - Blueprint 2005
• Kevin James Plea Agreement
• Plea of Guilty Press Release

[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, Gregory Patterson was sentenced to 151 months, and Hammad Riaz Samana was sentenced to 70 months in prison.

US v. Kariye 

• Affidavit

[DOR] Sheikh Mohamed Abdirahman Kariye, imam at the Islamic Center of Portland (Masjid as Sabr) was a founding director of the Global Relief Foundation, a designated al Qaeda-affiliated Islamic charity. Kariye is believed to have fought with the mujahideen against the Soviets in the early 1980s. In May 2003, Kariye was sentenced to five years' probation after pleading guilty to one count of making false statements relating to healthcare matters and misuse of a social security number. Federal prosecutors allege that Kariye likely provided money and support to a group of Portland men convicted of trying to fight U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan.

US v. Kassir, et al. 

• Sentencing Press Release
• News Release on Verdict
• Prepared Remarks of Michael Garcia, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York
• Indictment
• Complaint

[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, and sentenced to life in prison.

US v. Kaziu 

• Indictment
• DOJ Press Release

[EDNY] Betim Kaziu, a U.S. citizen and resident of Brooklyn, was charged with conspiracy to commit murder overseas and conspiracy to provide material support to terrorists. Kaziu made efforts to travel to Afghanistan, Iraq, and the Balkans to fight against U.S. armed forces. He also traveled to Egypt where he attempted to purchase weapons, to join the Somali-based Al-Shabaab (an organization which has recently pledged support to Al Qaeda), and to travel to Pakistan.

US v. Keshari 

• Sentencing Press Release
• Judgment
• Plea of Guilty Press Release
• Indictment
• Complaint

[SDFL] Hassan Keshari, an Iranian-born naturalized U.S. citizen, 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.

US v. Khadr 

• Supreme Court Decision
• Guantanamo Bay Interrogation Video
• Exhibit--Al Qaeda Terrorist Manual
• Omar Khadr Interviews
• Chargesheet

[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.

US v. Khalil 

• Indictment
• Plea Agreement Press Release
• Sentencing Press Release

[SDNY] Naji Khalil pled guilty to conspiring to provide Hizballah with night vision goggles and infrared aiming devices.

US v. Kiareldeen 

• Decision of the Board of Immigration Appeals

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.

US v. Koumaiha, et al. 

• Indictment
• DOJ Press Release

[EDPA] Sadek Koumaiha and seven other defendants purchased stolen merchandise, including Sony PlayStation 2 systems, laptop computers, and cellular telephones worth hundreds of thousands of dollars from an undercover law enforcement officer. The indictment further alleged that some of the defendants also purchased thousands of dollars worth of counterfeit goods, namely Nike shoes and a variety of brands of cellular telephones.

US v. Kourani 

• Indictment
• First Superseding Information
• Affidavit in Support of Search Warrant
• Gov't Proffer in Support of Detention
• Judgment

[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.

US v. Lindh 

• Indictment

[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.

US v. Luqman Ameen Abdullah, et. al. 

• Complaint
• News Release on Complaint

Abdullah, imam of the Masjid al-Haqq in Detroit, was killed when federal agents tried to arrest him and 10 alleged co-conspirators on Oct. 28, 2009. The group is accused of theft from interstate shipments, mail fraud involving arson and illegal possession and sale of firearms. Prosecutors say they are part of a movement of African-American converts to Islam, who want a separate Sharia-law governed state within the United States. They want that state led by Jamil Al-Amin, formerly known as H. Rapp Brown, who was convicted in 2002 of killing a Georgia police officer.

US v. Maldonado 

• Judgment
• Complaint
• Defendant Exhibit (handwritten notes)

[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.

US v. Malki 

• Indictment
• Press Release

[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.

US v. Mandhai, et al. 

• Denial of Aksoy Appeal
• Judgment
• Verdict
• Superseding Indictment
• Indictment
• Judgment Re: Shueyb Mosaa Jokhan
• Second Amended Judgment Re: Imran Mandhai
• Amended Judgment Re: Imran Mandhai
• Judgment Re: Imran Mandhai
• Indictment

[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.

US v. Masfaka 

• First Superseding Indictment
• DOJ Press Release

[EDMI] The indictment charges Mohamed Masfaka with lying to federal officials about his involvemment with the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development. The indictment alleges that Masfaka was employed by HLF in 1997 and 1998 and ran the HLF operations in the Detroit area to include organizing and participating in fundraising events for the HLF. In 2008, a federal jury found the HLF and senior officials affiliated with the organization guilty on all counts of helping finance terrorism.

US v. Mehanna 

• Government Motion for Detention
• Superseding Indictment
• Search and Seizure Warrant
• DOJ Press Release
• Affidavit
• Complaint

[DMA] Tarek Mehanna 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. A subsequent complaint affidavit alleged that Mehanna and coconspirators discussed their desire to participate in violent jihad against American interests. It was further alleged that Mehanna and two of his associates traveled to the Middle East in February 2004, seeking military-type training at a terrorist training camp that would prepare them for armed jihad against U.S. interests, including U.S. and allied forces in Iraq. One of Mehanna's coconspirators also made two similar trips to Pakistan in 2002. According to the affidavit, Mehanna and the coconspirators had multiple conversations about obtaining automatic weapons and randomly shooting people in a shopping mall.

US v. Mohamed 

• DOJ Press Release Re: Omar Abdi Mohamed Sentencing
• Judgment
• Exhibit 3--Omar Abdi Mohamed Airline Tickets (Sydney-Taiperi-LA)
• Exhibit 2--Omar Abdi Mohamed Discount Air Travel (Sydney-Taipei-LA)
• Exhibit 1--Omar Abdi Mohamed Passport
• Superseding Indictment
• Indictment

[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.

US v. Mohamed, et al. 

• Judgment of Acquittal Re: Youssef Megahed
• FBI Lab Report
• Judgment Re Ahmed Mohamed
• Prosecution Sentencing Memo on Ahmed Mohamed
• Government's Appeal Brief
• Megahed's Appeal Brief
• Mohamed Plea Agreement
• Defendant's Motion in Limine to Exclude Evidence Re: Megahed
• Superseding Indictment
• Motion to Reconsider Order Re: Megahed
• Order Denying Motion to Sever Re: Megahed
• Order Granting Motion for Detention Re: Megahed
• Search Warrant Affidavit
• Search Warrant
• Indictment

[MDFL] Two former USF students Ahmed Mohamed and Youssef Megahed were arrested in South Carolina after being pulled over for speeding about seven miles from the Goose Creek Naval Weapons Station, which houses a military prison for enemy combatants. Authorities said there was a pipe bomb in their trunk. 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.

US v. Mohammad, et al. 

• Indictment
• Exhibit- Purple Dress
• Guilty Plea Press Release
• Exhibit- Purple Dress- Pieces Removed
• Exhibit- Green Dress
• Exhibit- Green Dress Pieces Removed

[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.

US v. Mokhtar 

• Indictment

[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.

US v. Moussaoui (Karim) 

• Jury Verdict
• Indictment
• Complaint

[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.

US v. Moussaoui (Zacarias) 

• Indictment
• Moussaoui's Booking Photo
• Harry Samit Memo on Moussaoui
• Harry Samit Email
• FBI Memo on Moussaoui
• Testimony of Hambali
• Testimony of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed
• Order on Subpoena
• Jury Verdict
• Statement of Facts
• Superseding Indictment
• Photograph of Pentagon After Crash

[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.

US v. Mubayyid & Muntasser 

• Unredacted Exhibit 537 A
• Exhibits L and N Intentionally Omitted
• Exhibit White House Fact Sheet
• Exhibit Notice and Statement of Hekmatyar Designation
• Exhibit HLFRD Designation Notice
• Exhibit HLFRD Designation
• Exhibit GRF Notice and Statement
• Exhibit GRF Designation
• Exhibit Foreign Terrorists Organization List
• Exhibit Executive Order 13224
• Exhibit Designation of Hekmatyar
• Exhibit Blocking of GRF and BIF
• Exhibit BIF Notice and Statement
• Exhibit BBC Article on Hekmatyar
• Exhibit Aafia Siddiqui Seeking Information Notice
• Government's Proffer of Additional Evidence
• Superseding Indictment
• Judgment of Acquittal re: Al-Monla
• Jury Verdict
• Indictment

[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.

US v. Muse 

• Press Release on Supersding Indictment
• Superseding Indictment
• Press Release on Indictment
• Indictment
• Complaint

[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.

US v. Mustafa 

• Indictment

[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.

US v. Nayyar, et al. 

• Indictment
• DOJ Press Release

[SDNY] Patrick Nayyar and Conrad Mulholland were charged with four counts based on their agreement to provide ammunitions, and vehicles to Hizballah. Nayyar was also charged with possession of a firearm and ammunition as an illegal alien.

US v. Niazi 

• Notice of Motion to Set Aside Restraining Order & Declaration of Craig Monteilh
• Search Warrant
• Indictment

[CDCA] Ahmadullah Niazi, 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.

US v. Noorzai 

• DOJ Press Release Re: Noorzai Sentencing
• DOJ Press Release Re: Noorzai Conviction
• Superseding Indictment
• Indictment

[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.

US v. Omar Jamal 

• Order on Jury Verdict
• Order Denying Defendant's Motion of Acquittal
• Judgment
• Denial Order Re: Indictment
• U.S. 6th Circuit Appeal
• Notice of Appeal
• Circuit Court of Appeal Mandate

[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.

US v. Padilla, Hassoun, Jayyousi 

• Verdict
• Superseding Indictment
• Exhibit-Phone Conversation Between Hassoun, Daher, UF, 11.12.97
• Exhibit-Phone Conversation Between Jayyousi, Daher, LNU, 10.23.96
• Exhibit-Phone Conversation Between Hassoun, Daher, UF, 11.12.97
• Padilla Exhibit-Picture ID's
• Padilla Exhibit-Phone Book
• Padilla Exhibit-Al Qaeda Application
• Order Denying Motion to Dismiss
• Order Reinstating Count One
• Indictment
• Jayyousi Complaint

[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.

US v. Paracha 

• Criminal Complaint
• Indictment
• DOJ Press Release on Sentencing

[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.

US v. Paul, Christopher 

• Judgment
• Plea Agreement
• Government's Statement of Facts
• Indictment

[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.

US v. Prouty, Nada Nadim, et al. 

• Order of Removal to Lebanon
• Oreder Revoking United States Citizenship (Re: Prouty)
• Plea Agreement Re: Prouty
• Second Superseding Information Re: Prouty
• Plea of Guilty Press Release Re: Spinelli
• Plea Agreement Re: Spinelli
• Fourth Superseding Indictment Re: Spinelli

[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.

US v. Rahal, et al. 

• Indictment
• Plea Agreement
• Judgment

[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.

US v. Ranjha, et al. 

• Ahsan Superseding Indictment
• Rehman Superseding Indictment
• Gujjar Superseding Indictment
• Ranjha Second Superseding Indictment

[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.

US v. Rashid, et al. 

• ICE Press Release on Sajjad Nasser Removal
• Third Superseding Indictment
• Second Superseding Indictment
• Superseding Indictment
• Indictment

[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.

US v. Rasool 

• Criminal Information
• Prosecution Position on Sentencing
• Response to Defense Sentencing Memo
• Plea Agreement
• News Release
• Statement of Facts

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.

US v. Reid (Shoe Bomber) 

• Government Sentencing Memorandum
• Indictment
• Judgment
• Stipulation Regarding Richard Reid

[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.

US v. Rendon-Herrera, et al. 

• Press Release on Superseding Indictment
• Superseding Indictment

[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.

US v. Ressam 

• Second Superseding Indictment
• Order Rejecting Sentence
• Indictment
• Judgment
• Sentencing
• Letter from Ressam (Arabic)
• Letter from Ressam- Translation (English)

[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 arrested in Port Angeles, WA, on December 14, 1999, while 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.

US v. Reynolds 

• Conviction Press Release
• Letter from Reynolds to Judge
• Superseding Indictment

[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. Reynolds resided in Pocatello during the Internet discussions which led to his arrest. Reynolds possessed illegal weapons in a locker in Wilkes-Barre, PA, for which he was later convicted.

US v. Rizvi 

• Judgement 2
• Judgement 1
• Plea Agreement
• Indictment

[DCO] 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 Naturalization Service in preparation for deportation.

US v. Royer, et al. 

• Memorandum Opinion
• Indictment
• Judgment for Hammad Abdur-Raheem
• Judgment for Masoud Ahmad Khan
• Judgment for Seifullah Chapman
• Plea Agreement for Khwaja Mahmood Hasan
• Plea Agreement for Randall Royer
• Plea Agreement for Muhammed Aatique

[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.

US v. Sarsour 

• Interview of Sarsour with Israeli Police from Holy Land Relief trial

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.

US v. Sattar, et al. 

• Lynn Stewart Sentencing Opinion
• Government Sentencing Memorandum
• Opinion and Order
• Prepared Remarks of AG John Ashcroft
• Press Release on Superseding Indictment
• Superseding Indictment
• Indictment

[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.

US v. Shaaban 

• Superseding Indictment
• DOJ Press Release on Conviction
• Letter to Saddam Hussein
• Cooperation Agreement

[SDIN] Pled guilty to acting as a foreign agent for Iraq.

US v. Shah 

• Indictment
• DOJ Sentencing Press Release
• Verdict
• Government Exhibit List (exhibits attached)

[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."

US v. Shah et al. 

• Judgment (Amended) Re: Saifullah Durrani
• Judgment (Amended) Re: Ilyas Ali
• Judgment Re: Saifullah Durrani
• Judgment Re: Ilyas Ali
• Judgment Re: Syed Mustajab Shah
• Indictment

[SDCA] 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.

US v. Shah, et al. 

• Rafiq Sabir Sentencing Press Release
• Indictment- New Defendant Added
• Indictment
• Superseding Indictment
• Tarik Shah Guilty Plea Press Release

[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.

US v. Shareef 

• Judgment
• Complaint
• Indictment
• Affidavit

[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.

US v. Shirani 

• Complaint

[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.

US v. Shnewer, et al. (Fort Dix Plot) 

• DOJ Sentencing Press Release Re: Shnewer et al.
• DOJ Sentencing Press Release Re: Duka et al.
• Judgment Re: Mohamed Shnewer
• Judgment Re: Shain Duka
• Judgment Re: Sedar Tartar
• Judgment Re: Eljvir Duka
• Judgment Re: Dritan Duka
• Mohamed Shnewer Letter to Judge Kugler
• Jury Verdict
• Conviction: DOJ Press Release
• Plea Agreement Re: Abdullahu
• Superseding Indictment
• Indictment
• Government's Sentencing Brief Re: Abdullahu (Exhibit J)
• Government's Sentencing Brief Re: Abdullahu (Exhibit I)
• Government's Sentencing Brief Re: Abdullahu (Exhibit H)
• Government's Sentencing Brief Re: Abdullahu (Exhibit D)
• Government's Sentencing Brief Re: Abdullahu (Exhibit B)
• Government's Sentencing Brief Re: Abdullahu (Exhibit A)
• Government's Sentencing Brief Re: Abdullahu
• Government Brief in Opposition
• Complaint

[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. Five of the defendants lived in Cherry Hill, NJ. One member of the group conducted surveillance at Fort Dix and Fort Monmouth in New Jersey, Dover Air Force Base in Delaware and the U.S. Coast Guard in Philadelphia. The defendants also performed small-arms training at a shooting range in the Pocono Mountains in Pennsylvania. 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.

US v. Shorbagi 

• Criminal Information
• Guilty Plea and Plea Agreement

[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.

US v. Shqueirat (Fying Imams case) 

• Exhibit--US Department of Transportation Letter

[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.

US v. Siddiqui 

• DOJ Press Release on Verdict
• Jury Exclusion Order
• Indictment
• Complaint

[SDNY] Aafia Siddiqui, a Pakistani woman who previously resided in the United States, was found guilty on all charges related to her attempted murder and assault on United States officers and employees in Afghanistan.

US v. Siraj 

• Indictment
• Superseding Indictment
• Jury Verdict Form
• Sentencing Press Release

[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.

US v. Smadi 

• Complaint

[NDTX] A Jordanian citizen living illegally in the small town of Italy, Texas attempted to blow up a skyscraper in downtown Dallas. Hosam Maher Husein Smadi has been arrested and charged in a federal criminal complaint with attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction.

US v. Stewart, et al. 

• Superseding Indictment
• Indictment
• Opinion and Order -1
• Opinion and Order -2
• Government's Sentencing Memorandum

[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.

US v. Subeh 

• Plea Agreement
• Superseding Information

[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.

US v. Taleb-Jedi 

• Indictment
• Affidavit

[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.

US v. Tarraf, et al. 

• DOJ Press Release
• Complaint

[EDPA] A criminal complaint charged Dani Nemr Tarraf with conspiring to acquire anti-aircraft missiles and conspiring to possess machine guns. In addition, Tarraf and other defendants—including Douri Nemr Tarraf, Hassan Mohamad Komeiha, and Hussein Ali Asfour—were charged with conspiring to transport stolen goods. Dani Nemr Tarraf and Ali Fadel Yahfoufi were charged with conspiring to commit passport fraud.

US v. Ujaama 

• Indictment
• Plea Agreement
• Judgment of Revocation of Probation

[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.

US v. Vinas 

• Transcript of Plea of Guilty Proceedings
• Superseding Information
• Indictment

[EDNY] Bryant Neal Vinas, an American-born Long Island man who traveled to Pakistan and trained in an al Qaeda training camp, was charged with taking part in a missile attack against a U.S. base in Afghanistan. Bryant has also been charged with providing al Qaeda with information about the New York transit system.

US v. Walker 

• Sentencing
• Judgment
• Indictment
• Criminal Complaint
• USDOJ Press Release
• ICE Press Release

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.

US v. Warsame 

• DOJ Press Release on Sentencing
• Plea Hearing Minutes
• Memorandum Opinion and Order Denying Motion to Dismiss Counts 1 and 2 of Superseding Indictment
• Affidavit
• Superseding Indictment

[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. Warsame pleaded guilty to a single charge of conspiring to provide material support and resources to al Qaeda. In July 2009, Warsame was sentenced to 92 months for conspiring to aid Al Qaeda.

US v. Williams, et al. 

• Indictment

[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.

US v. Zazi, et al. 

• Mohammed Zazi Indictment (Obstruction to Justice)
• Zarein Ahmedzay Indictment
• Adis Medunjanin Indictment
• Mohammed Zazi Indictment (Making False Statements to FBI)
• Najibullah Zazi Detention Motion
• Najibullah Zazi Indictment Press Release
• Najibullah Zazi Indictment
• Mohamad Wali Zazi Complaint
• Mohamad Afzali Complaint
• Najibullah Zazi Complaint
• DOJ Press Release

[DCO] Najibullah Zazi, Mohamad Wali Zazi, and Ahmad Afzali have been charged by criminal complaint with knowingly and willfully making false statements to the FBI in a matter involving international and domestic terrorism. Najibullah Zazi admitted to receiving training in weapons and explosives at an al Qaeda training camp in Pakistan and had notes on his laptop computer on making bombs. Najibullah Zazi was later indicted for conspiracy to use explosives against persons or property in the United States. His father Mohammed Zazi was making a false statement involving national and international terrorism. Prosecutors allege that Zazi traveled with two other men, Adis Medunjanin and Zarein Ahmedzay, to Pakistan.

US v. Ziade, et ano. 

• Indictment
• Complaint
• DOJ Press Release

[D. Mass.] Oussama Ziade and Buford George Peterson, two former executives of PTech, a Massachusetts software company, were accused of concealing financial ties to Saudi Arabian Yassin Qadi, a Specially Designated Global Terrorist.

Weiss, et al. v. National Westminster Bank 

• Complaint

[EDNY] Victim of Hamas suicide bomb attack sued National Westminster, British-based bank, to recover money from Hamas-linked accounts.

Yaron Ungar, et al. v. PLO 

• Stipulation and Order
• Memorandum and Order Re: Default Judgment
• 211 F.supp.2d91
• Decision and Order

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.

Yaser Abdel Said 

• Police Media Release
• Charge Sheet

[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.

Zahavi et al. v. Bank of China Ltd. 

• Complaint

[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.