| Name |
Affiliation |
Description |
Ashton v. Al Qaeda Islamic Army
|
Al Qaeda |
[SDNY] Lawsuit arising out of the terrorist attacks on 9-11. Defendants include the Rabita Trust, International Islamic Relief Organization (IIRO), and Abdurahman Alamoudi. |
Boim, et al. v. QLI, et al.
|
Hamas |
[NDIL] The parents of David Boim, a 17-year old New Yorker who was killed in a Hamas terrorist attack in the West Bank, filed a lawsuit against U.S.-based organizations and individuals that provided support and contributions to Hamas. |
Ellis, et al. v.Iran, et al.
|
Hamas |
[DDC] American victims of a triple Hamas suicide bombing in Jerusalem filed a lawsuit against Hamas and the government of Iran. |
Holy Land Foundation v. Ashcroft, et al.
|
Hamas |
[DDC] On December 4, 2001, the U.S. Treasury designated the Holy Land Foundation as a terrorist organization and blocked its assets. In a lawsuit filed in March 2002, the Islamic charity challenged its designation as a terrorist organization and the resulting blocking of its assets. |
Infocom
|
Hamas |
[NDTX] The Elashi brothers and their webhosting company, Infocom, were convicted of laundering money for Hamas chief Musa abu Marzook and violating sanctions against Libya and Syria. They received sentences ranging from four to seven years in prison.
|
Iran, et al. v. Heiser, et al.
|
Hizballah |
[DDC] In September 2000, a lawsuit was brought against the Islamic Republic of Iran by family members and estates of servicemen killed in the 1996 terrorist attack on Khobar Towers, a U.S. military housing complex near Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. |
Marzook, Salah, Ashqar
|
Hamas |
[NDIL] Senior Hamas operatives, Muhammad Salah and Abdel Haleem al-Ashqar, along with Deputy Political Leader of Hamas, Mousa Abu Marzook, were indicted on Hamas-related racketeering charges in Chicago in August 2004. Salah was sentenced to 21 months and Ashqar to 11 years in prison. |
O'Neill v. Al Baraka, et al.
|
Al Qaeda |
[SDNY] Lawsuit by estate of former head of FBI counterterrorism division, killed in World Trade Center on 9-11. Defendants include the Council on American-Islamic Relations. |
PA v. Saperstein, et al.
|
Al Aqsa Brigades |
[SDFL] A U.S. district court in Miami ruled the Palestinian Authority (PA) pay Moshe Saperstein $16 million. Saperstein, a dual U.S.-Israeli citizen, was attacked in 2002 by the Al Aqsa Brigades, a Palestinian terrorist organization backed by the PA. |
Ramadan, et al. v. Chertoff, et al.
|
Other |
[SDNY] Tariq Ramadan,a Swiss-national and Muslim Brotherhood-linked professor, sued the U.S. Department of Homeland Security over revocation of his U.S. visa. |
State of Michigan v. Zorkot
|
Hizballah |
[Michigan] Houssein Zorkot, a medical student at Wayne State in Dearborn, Michigan, was charged on multiple felony charges, including carrying a dangerous weapon with unlawful intent. A Web site created by Zorkot contains videos and other propaganda materials related to Hizballah. |
State v. Taheri-Azar
|
Other |
[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. |
U.S.A. v. Bushnaq
|
Hamas and Muslim Brotherhood |
[EDVA] Former president of the Islamic Association for Palestine charged with immigration fraud for, amongst other ommissions on his immigration forms, failure to disclose assocations with organizations associated with Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood. |
USA v Bin Laden, et al.
|
Al Qaeda |
[SDNY] Osama bin Laden was convicted along with five other defendants for the 1998 Embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzinia. |
USA v Rahman, et al.
|
Al Qaeda |
[SDNY] Omar Ahmad Abdel Rahman, the "Blind Sheikh," spiritual leader of the group who perpetrated the 1993 World Trade Center attack, is serving a life sentence for his role in planning terrorist attacks on New York City landmarks. |
USA v Shnewer, et al.
|
Al Qaeda |
[DNJ] In May 2007, Mohamed Ibrahim Shnewer and four other defendants were charged with plotting to kill soldiers at the Fort Dix Army base in New Jersey. A sixth defendant, Agron Abdullahu, was charged with aiding and abetting the illegal possession of firearms. Abdullahu has pleaded guilty to the gun charge of supplying guns to illegal aliens. |
USA v. Reynolds
|
Al Qaeda |
[MDPA] A federal grand jury in the Middle District of Pennsylvania charged Michael Curtis Reynolds with offering to help al Qaeda blow up oil pipelines and refineries, a plot he allegedly hatched in a Yahoo Internet chat group. |
USA v. Abdhir et al.
|
Jemaah Islamiyah |
[NDCA] Rahmat Abdhir (a.k.a. Sean Kasem) was indicted for providing material support to a terrorist, his brother Zulkifli Abdhir. Zulkifli Abdhir is senior member of Al Qaeda-affiliated Jemaah Islamiyah (JI), a Southeast Asian terrorist group. |
USA v. Abdi
|
Al Qaeda |
[SDOH] In June 2004, Nuradin Abdi was indicted on four counts including conspiracy to blow up a Columbus, Ohio shopping mall with admitted al Qaeda terrorist, Iyman Faris. Abdi pled guilty to conspiring to provide material support to terrorists and was sentenced to 10 years in prison in November 2007. |
USA v. Abu Ali
|
Al Qaeda |
[EDVA] In 2005, Ahmed Omar Abu Ali was convicted on all 9 charges he faced, including providing material support to Al Qaeda and conspiracy to assassinate the President of the United States. Abu Ali was sentenced to 30 years in prison in April 2006. |
USA v. Abu-Jihaad
|
Taliban |
[DCT] In March 2008, Hassan Abu-Jihaad, a former member of the U.S. Navy, was found guilty of 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. |
USA v. Ahmad
|
Taliban |
[CDC] In October 2004, Babar Ahmad was indicted on multiple counts, including conspiracy to provide material support to the Taliban. The indictment alleges that Ahmad used websites to promote jihad. |
USA v. Ahmed, et al.
|
Al Qaeda, Lashkar e Taiba |
[NDGA] Syed Ahmed and another defendant were charged with conspiring to and providing material support to terrorism and to a designated foreign terrorist organization, the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT). |
USA v. Ahsan
|
Al Qaeda |
[DCT] Charged with conspiracy to provide material support and resources to individuals engaged in jihad in Chechnya and Afghanistan through maintaining jihadist websites, including expert advice on military equipment. |
USA v. Al Badawi, et al.
|
Al Qaeda |
[SDNY] Al-Badawi was indicted for his role in the bombing of the USS Cole, which killed 17 American sailors on October 12, 2000. He was tried for the same crime in Yemen and sentenced to death on September 29, 2004. |
USA v. Al Hussayen
|
Hamas |
[DID] In March 2004, Sami Omar Al Hussayen, a Saudi national and University of Idaho student, was charged with conspiracy to provide material support to Hamas and other violent jihadists through his work at the Islamic Assembly of North America and Al-Haramain. |
USA v. Al Moayad, et al.
|
Al Qaeda, Hamas |
[EDNY] In March 2005, Sheik Mohammed Ali Hassan al-Moayad was convicted of attempting to funnel millions of dollars to Hamas and Al Qaeda. |
USA v. Al Suwailem
|
Other |
[MDGA] Al Suwailem, an Arabic interpreter at Ft. Benning, Georgia was charged with threatening to place an explosive device on a plane. |
USA v. Al Timimi
|
Taliban |
[EDVA] Ali Al Timimi was the spiritual leader of the "Virginia Paintball Jihad" network. In April 2005, he was convicted of inciting terrorist activity and sentenced to life in prison. |
USA v. Al-Hanooti, Muthanna
|
Other |
[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). |
USA v. Al-Haramain Islamic Foundation, et al.
|
Al Qaeda |
[DOR] In February 2005 a federal grand jury charged Al Haramain Islamic Foundation and two of its employees, Pirouz Sedaghaty and Soliman Al-Buthe, with bank fraud, tax evasion, and money laundering. Various branches of the Saudi-based charity were designated by the US in June 2004 based on evidence of the charity's ties to al Qaeda. The US-based branch of the charity in Ashland, Oregon, along with one of its directors, Suliman Al-Buthe, was designated in September 2004. |
USA v. Alamoudi
|
Al Qaeda |
[EDVA] Former head of American Muslim Council sentenced to 23 years in prison for illegal financial dealings with Libya. Alamoudi also confessed to taking part in a Libyan plot to assassinate the then Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia. |
USA v. Ali, et al.
|
Other |
[EDCA] Amen Ahmed Ali and two associates were charged with transmitting defense secrets and exporting military equipment to Yemen. |
USA v. Alishtari
|
Other |
[SDNY] In February 2007, a federal grand jury charged Abdul Tawala Ibn Ali Alishtari with terrorism financing and perpetrating massive investment fraud, including sending money to Afghanistan and Pakistan to help train terrorists. |
USA v. Alomari, et al.
|
Hizballah |
[WDNY] A February 2007 federal complaint accused Yehia Ali Ahmed Alomari and two other Yemeni men who ran groceries in Rochester, New York, of illegally sending money overseas to benefit the terrorist organization Hizballah. |
USA v. Amawi, et al.
|
Other |
[NDOH] Mohammad Zaki Amawi and four other defendants were charged with conspiring to commit terrorist acts against Americans overseas. A second indictment charged Bilal Mazloum with making a false statement during the terrorism investigation and another s |
USA v. Amawi, et. al.
|
Iraqi Insurgency |
[NDOH] In February 2007, a superseding indictment returned by a federal grand jury in Cleveland charged Mohammad Amawi and four others with conspiring to commit terrorist acts against Americans overseas, including U.S. military personnel in Iraq. A separate indictment charged Bilal Mazloum with making a false statement to federal agents in February 2006. |
USA v. Aref, et al.
|
Jaish e Mohammed |
[NDNY] In October 2006, two Albany mosque leaders were convicted of conspiracy to purchase a surface-to-air missile for use in a terrorist attack in New York City and money laundering. |
USA v. Arnaout
|
Bosnian and Chechen Mujahideen |
[NDIL] Enaam Arnaout pled guilty to perjury and fraud, admitting he used his charity, Benevolence International Foundation (BIF), to support fighters in Bosnia and Chechnya. |
USA v. Aswat Haroon Rashid
|
Al Qaeda |
[SDNY] Aswat Haroon Rashid faces extradition to the US from the UK on charges relating to setting up a terrorist training camp in Bly, Oregon, and providing aid to Al Qaeda. He is also alleged to be the mastermind behind the July 7 London explosions. |
USA v. Babar
|
Al Qaeda |
[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. |
USA v. Batiste, et al.
|
Al Qaeda |
[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. |
USA v. Battle, et al.
|
Al Qaeda, Taliban |
[DOR] In 2003, Jeffrey Battle and Patrice Lumumba Ford of the "Portland 7" pled guilty to conspiracy to levy war against the U.S., conspiring to travel to Afghanistan to fight alongside Al Qaeda and the Taliban. |
USA v. Baz Mohammad, et al.
|
Taliban |
[SDNY] Baz Mohammad is an Afghan drug lord who pled guilty in July 2006 to smuggling heroin into the United States. Prosecutors said he had provided financial support to the Taliban. |
USA v. Benkahla
|
Lashkar e Taiba |
[EDVA] "Virginia Jihad" member convicted of perjury and obstruction of justice in case related to training with LeT in jihad camps in Afghanistan and Pakistan. |
USA v. Biheiri, Soliman
|
Hamas |
[EDVA] In October 2004 a federal grand jury in Alexandria, Virginia, convicted Soliman Biheiri for illegally concealing his extensive business and social relationship with Mousa Abu Marzook, a designated terrorist and leader of Hamas. Biheiri was also known to have ties to senior members of the Muslim Brotherhood. |
USA v. Brent
|
Lashkar e Taiba |
[SDNY] Mahmud Faruq Brent is a Maryland paramedic who was arrested on charges of conspiring to provide material support to the Pakistan-based Lashkar e Taiba. Brent allegedly attended a terrorist training camp in Pakistan. In July 2007, Brent was sentenced to 15 years for providing material support to a terrorist organization. |
USA v. Bushnaq
|
Islamic Association for Palestine, Hamas |
[EDVA] Yaser Bushnaq, a former president of the Islamic Association for Palestine (IAP), was indicted for naturalization fraud. IAP, a fundraising arm for Hamas in the U.S., was shut down in 2005. |
USA v. Chahine et al.
|
Hizballah |
[EDMI] Detroit-area based Talal Khalil Chahine and his wife Elfat el Aouar are each charged with four counts of tax evasion. In subsequent indictments Chahine has also been charged with extortion and citizenship fraud. The U.S. Attorney's Office filed documents stating that Talal Chahine has high-level connections to Hizballah. |
USA v. Chandia, et al.
|
Lashkar e Taiba |
[EDVA] Ali Asad Chandia, a member of the "Virginia Paintball Jihad" network, was found guilty in June 2006 of providing material support to LeT. He was sentenced to 15 years in prison. |
USA v. Damrah
|
Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) |
[NDOH] Fawaz Damrah, the former imam of the Islamic Center of Cleveland, was convicted in 2004 of lying on his citizenship application and failing to disclose his links to PIJ and other groups. Damrah was stripped of his U.S. citizenship. |
USA v. Darwishahmad
|
Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) |
[WDTN] Bassam Darwishahmad was indicted for not disclosing to immigration authorities that he was recruited by an arm of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) in 1990 to bomb an Israeli police station in Nablus, West Bank. |
USA v. Defreitas, et al.
|
Other |
[EDNY] Four individuals were charged on June 2, 2007 with conspiring to attack New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK). The plot involved an international network of Muslim extremists from the U.S., Guyana, and Trinidad. |
USA v. Delaema
|
Other |
[DDC] Wesam Al Delaema, an Iraqi-born Dutch national, was extradited from the Netherlands to the U.S. in January 2007 to face charges in a federal court in Washington, DC, for allegedly participating in a conspiracy to attack Americans based in Iraq. |
USA v. Dhafir
|
Help the Needy Endowment, Inc. |
[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. |
USA v. Elfgeeh, et al.
|
Al Qaeda, Hamas |
[EDNY] Aref Elfgeeh was found guilty on all five charges related to the funneling of $20 million to Al Qaeda and Hamas through his Brooklyn-based ice cream shop. |
USA v. Elzahabi
|
Al Qaeda |
[DMN] In March 2008 Mohamad Kamal Elzahabi was sentenced to time served in jail for possessing fraudulent immigration documents. An FBI affidavit alleged that Elzahabi attended a jihadi training camp, taught as a sniper in Afghanistan for al Qaeda, and has connections to high-ranking members of the terrorist organization. |
USA v. Farhane
|
Al Qaeda |
[SDNY] On April 16, 2007, a Manhattan federal court sentenced Abdelrahman Farhane to 13 years in prison for conspiring to provide funds to jihadists in Chechnya and Afghanistan and for making false statements in connection with a terrorism investigation. |
USA v. Faris
|
Al Qaeda |
[EDVA] In 2003, Faris, a Kashmiri native, pled guilty to an al Qaeda plot to destroy the Brooklyn Bridge. Faris met with Osama Bin Laden and Al Qaeda leaders in a jihad training camp in Afghanistan in 2000. |
USA v. Gadahn
|
Al Qaeda |
[CDCA] In October 2006, American citizen Adam Yahiye Gadahn, suspected of appearing in Al Qaeda propaganda tapes as "Azzam the American," was indicted on charges of treason and providing material support to Al Qaeda. |
USA v. Grecula
|
Al Qaeda |
[SDTX] On February 9, 2007 Ronald Allen Grecula was sentenced to five years in prison for attempting to build and offering to sell an explosive device to a terrorist group he believed was affilated with Al Qaeda for use against Americans. |
USA v. Hammoud, et al.
|
Hizballah |
[WDNC] In March 2001, a superseding indictment charged 25 individuals with cigarette smuggling, money laundering, credit card fraud, marriage fraud and immigration violations. Additionally, four individuals were charged with providing material support to Hizballah. Mohamad Hammoud was sentenced to 155 years in prison. |
USA v. Hashmi
|
Al Qaeda |
[SDNY] Syed Hashmi (a.k.a. "Fahad) was charged with supplying money and military gear to Al Qaeda to fight American forces in Afghanistan. |
USA v. Hayat
|
Al Qaeda |
[EDCA] Umer and Hamid Hayat, father and son in Lodi, California, convicted of providing material support to Al Qaeda and making false statements to the government. Hamid Hayat was sentenced to 24 years in prison. |
USA v. Holy Land Foundation
|
Hamas |
[NDTX] Richardson, Texas-based Muslim charity indicted, along with several of the group's leaders, for funneling millions of dollars to the terrorist group Hamas. The judge declared a mistrial: The jury could not reach a unanimous verdict on any count with respect to five defendants; with respect to one defendant, Mohamed 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. |
USA v. IARA, et al.
|
Al Qaeda |
[WDMO] The Islamic American Relief Agency (IARA) and several of its former employees and associates were indicted for illegally transferring funds to Iraq, falsely denying that an associate of Osama bin Laden had been an employee of IARA, and engaging in prohibited financial transactions for the benefit of U.S.-designated terrorist Gulbuddin Hekmatyar. Former U.S. Congressman Mark Deli Siljander was also charged with money laundering, conspiracy and obstruction of justice in the case. |
USA v. Idais
|
Hamas |
[EDPA] Convicted of knowingly lying on a student visa application about membership in Hamas. Despite denial, Idais admitted he admired Hamas' "focus" on the killing of Jews. |
USA v. Iqbal, et al.
|
Hizballah |
[SDNY] A federal indictment unsealed in November 2006 charged Javed Iqbal and an associate with enabling satellite broadcasts in the U.S. by Al Manar, a television station controlled by Hizballah. |
USA v. Isa
|
Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) |
[NDIL] Tariq Isa, leader of a Chicago mosque linked to Sami al-Arian and PIJ, pled guilty to a conspiracy to distribute psuedoephidrine knowing it would be used to make methamphetamine. Isa was sentenced to 235 months in prison. |
USA v. Jaber
|
Palestinian Islamic Jihad |
[WDARK] Jaber was convicted in 2006 of falsely obtaining credit cards and making false statements on his naturalization forms. Jaber told his professor he was leaving school to fight for the Palestinian Islamic Jihad. |
USA v. Jamal
|
Other |
[DAZ] Samih Jamal was convicted of operating a multi-million dollar fencing operation involving stolen baby formula and money laundering in the United States and Lebanon. |
USA v. James, et al.
|
Jamiyaat ul-Islam Is-Saheeh (JIS) |
[CDCA] Four men indicted on charges of conspiracy to levy a war against the U.S. government. Kevin James, along with several Folsom prison inmates, established a terror cell to attack military recruitment centers, the Israeli consulate and synagogues. In December 2007, two of the defendants, Kevin James and Levar Washington, pled guilty to federal terrorism charges. |
USA v. Kassir, et al.
|
Al Qaeda |
[SDNY] An indictment returned by a federal grand jury in New York on September 25, 2007, charges Oussama Kassir, Mustafa Kamel Mustafa (a.k.a. "Abu Hamza"), and Haroon Rashid Aswat of conspiring to provide material support and resources to Al Qaeda, including plotting to establish a jihad training camp in Bly, Oregon. |
USA v. Khadr
|
Al Qaeda, Taliban |
[DMA] Khadr, the son of a close associate of Osama bin Laden, allegedly smuggled munitions to Al Qaeda. In February 2006, Khadr was charged with conspiracy to commit murder abroad, conspiracy to use WMD and conspiracy to possess a destructive device. |
USA v. Khalil
|
Hizballah |
[SDNY] Naji Khalil pled guilty to conspiring to provide Hizballah with night vision goggles and infrared aiming devices. |
USA v. Kourani
|
Hizballah |
[EDMI] Kourani pled guilty to conspiracy to provide material support to Hizballah and was sentenced to 54 months in prison in June 2006. A trained Hizballah fighter, Kourani illegally crossed the Mexican border on his way to Dearborn, Michigan. |
USA v. Lindh
|
Al Qaeda, Taliban |
[EDVA] Walker Lindh is an American citizen, captured when U.S. forces entered Afghanistan in 2001. Lindh pled guilty to charges of serving in the Taliban army and carrying weapons. He is serving 20 years in prison. |
USA v. Maldonado
|
Al Qaeda |
[SDTX] On February 13, 2007, Daniel Joseph Maldonado was charged with receiving training from Al Qaeda to "fight jihad" in Somalia. In January 2007, Maldonado was captured by the Kenyan military as he tried to flee Somalia and extradited to the U.S. |
USA v. Malki
|
Iraqi insurgency |
[EDNY] Noureddine Malki pled guilty to using a false identity to obtain a position as an Arabic translator with the U.S. Army and for illegally procuring classified national defense documents concerning the Iraqi insurgency. |
USA v. Mohamed, et al.
|
Other |
[MDFL] Ahmed Mohamed and Youssef Megahed are charged with making and distributing an instructional video on how to make full-sized remote control car bombs. |
USA v. Mokhtar
|
Al Qaeda |
[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. |
USA v. Moussaoui
|
Al Qaeda |
[EDVA] On May 4, 2006, Moussaoui was sentenced to life in prison without parole. Moussaoui claimed at various points in his trial to be the 20th 9/11 hijacker, though he later recanted this, saying he was part of another al Qaeda plot. |
USA v. Moussaoui
|
Other |
[MDFL] Karim Moussaoui was found guilty of knowingly possessing a firearm in violation of the terms of his student's visa. Moussaoui is linked to University of Southern California (USF) students, Ahmed Mohamed and Youssef Megahed, who are charged with making and distributing an instructional video on how to make full-sized remote control car bombs. |
USA v. Mustafa
|
Other |
[SDNY] Kamel Mustafa (a.k.a Abu Hamza al-Masri), the hook-handed cleric was convicted in the U.K. for incitement to race hatred and murder. The U.S. is attempting to extradite him on charges of hostage taking and setting up a terrorist training camp in Bly, Oregon. |
USA v. Padilla, Hassoun, Jayyousi
|
Al Qaeda |
[SDFL] Hassoun, Mohamed Hesham Youssef and Kifah Jayyousi, along with Jose Padilla, were charged with financial support and recruitment for Al Qaeda and other terrorist groups. |
USA v. Paracha
|
Al Qaeda |
[SDNY] Uzair Paracha, a Pakistani national and permanent resident alien of the United States, was convicted of falsifying travel documents for an Al Qaeda operative to enter the U.S. and commit a terrorist attack. |
USA v. Prouty, Nada Nadim, et al.
|
Hizballah |
[EDMI] Samar Khalil Spinelli, a captain in the United States Marine Corps, conspired with former FBI agent and CIA employee Nada Nadim Prouty to commit citizenship fraud. Prouty pleaded guilty to charges of fraudulently obtaining U.S. citizenship, which she later used to gain employment at the FBI and CIA; and accessing a federal computer system to unlawfully query information about the terrorist organization Hizballah. |
USA v. Rahal, et al.
|
Hizballah |
[EDMI] Nemr Ali Rahal pled guilty to aiding and abetting bank fraud. Rahal's wife, Rania Fawaz Rahal, also pled guilty to conspiracy to commit bank fraud and credit fraud. FBI agents found a videotape of Rahal at a 2002 Hizballah rally in Lebanon. |
USA v. Ranjha, et al.
|
Al Qaeda |
[DMD] In four separate indictments unsealed September 20, 2007, a federal jury charged 39 people in money laundering and bribery schemes. The defendants were arrested following sting operations, collectively called Operation Cash-Out, that yielded evidence of four separate money laundering schemes. One of the defendants, Saifullah Ranjha, was also charged with attempting to finance Al Qaeda. |
USA v. Rasool
|
|
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. |
USA v. Reid
|
Al Qaeda |
[DMA] Richard Reid, the "Shoe Bomber", was sentenced to life imprisonment for attempting to blowup an airplane mid-flight by igniting explosives hidden in his shoes on December 22, 2001. Reid claims to be affiliated with Al Qaeda. |
USA v. Ressam
|
Al Qaeda |
[WDWA] Ressam, "the millenium bomber," was convicted and sentenced to 22 years in prison for a plot to bomb Los Angeles Int'l Airport on New Year's Eve 1999. He was caught entering the U.S. from Canada with nitroglycerin and four timing devices. |
USA v. Royer, et al.
|
Lashkar eTaiba |
[EDVA] Virginia "Paintball Jihad" Case. Royer and co-conspirators were found guilty of firearms violations and conspiracy to contribute material support to the terrorist group Lashkar e Taiba. Royer was sentenced to 20 years in prison. |
USA v. Sami Al Arian, et al.
|
Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) |
[MDFL] Former University of South Florida professor Sami al-Arian pled guilty to one count of conspiring to make or receive contributions of funds, goods or services for the benefit of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ). Al Arian was sentenced to 57 months in prison and will be deported afterwards. |
USA v. Shaaban
|
Other |
[SDIN] Pled guilty to acting as a foreign agent for Iraq. |
USA v. Shah, et al.
|
Al Qaeda |
[SDNY] Defendants charged with conspiring to provide martial arts training to Al Qaeda and provide wounded jihadists with medical care. One defendant pled guilty and another defendant was sentenced to 25 years for conspiring to support Al Qaeda. |
USA v. Shareef
|
Other |
[NDIL] On December 22, 2006, Derrick Shareef was charged with planning to set off hand grenades at the CherryVale shopping mall in Rockford, Illinois, as part of a plan to commit “violent jihad” against civilians. |
USA v. Shirani
|
|
[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. |
USA v. Shorbagi
|
Hamas |
[NDGA] On August 28, 2006, Mohamed Shorbagi was charged with one count of providing material support to a foreign terrorist organization. In October 2006, Shorbagi pled guilty to providing material support to Hamas. |
USA v. Siraj
|
Al Qaeda |
[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. |
USA v. Stewart, et al.
|
Al Qaeda |
[SDNY] Lynne Stewart, attorney for Egyptian "Blind Sheikh" Omar Abdel-Rahman, was convicted of deceiving the U.S. government in an effort to allow her client to communicate with foreign operatives from his prison cell. |
USA v. Subeh
|
Al Aqsa Brigades |
[WDNY] Muhamed Subeh pled guilty to lying to federal agents in 2003 when he denied seeing a farewell letter in which his brother, Ismail Dorgham, indicated he was traveling to the West Bank to join the Palestinian terrorist group, Al Aqsa Brigades. |
USA v. Taleb-Jedi
|
Mujahedin-e Khalq (MeK) |
[EDNY] Zeinab Taleb-Jedi, a naturalized US citizen from Iran, was indicted by a federal grand jury in Brooklyn, New York, on one count of providing material support to a foreign terrorist organization. |
USA v. Ujaama
|
Al Qaeda |
[WDW] Earnest Ujaama pled guilty to a conspiracy to assist the Taliban, including training in jihad camps in Afghanistan and providing money, computer software and technology to the Taliban. |
USA v. Warsame
|
Al Qaeda, Taliban |
[DMN] Mohamed Abdullah Warsame is a Candian citizen of Somali descent who is accused of traveling to Afghanistan and Pakistan and attending Al Qaeda training camps. Warsame has been in custody since late 2003. |
USA v. Williams, et al.
|
Taliban |
[SDTX] A November 2006 federal indictment accused Kobie Williams and Adnan Mirza of wanting to join the Taliban and to fight U.S. forces in Pakistan. |
USA, et al. v. Mubayyid, et al.
|
Al Qaeda |
[DMA] Muhamed Mubayyid and Emadeddin Muntasser, former officials of a Boston-based Islamic charity, CARE International, were charged with lying to authorities investigating the organization's alleged ties to terrorist organizations. |
Weiss, et al. v. National Westminster Bank
|
Hamas |
[EDNY] Victim of Hamas suicide bomb attack sued National Westminster, British-based bank, to recover money from Hamas-linked accounts. |
Yaron Ungar, et al.
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PLO, Hamas |
In separate lawsuits filed by estates of victims Yaron and Efrat Ungar, plaintiffs alleged the Palestinian Authority and the Islamic Republic of Iran provided material support and resources to Hamas. Yaron, an American citizen, and his wife, Efrat Ungar, were murdered on June 9, 1996 in Israel by Hamas terrorists. The court ruled in 2004 that Hamas and the Palestinian Authority owed the Ungars $116 million. |
