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Indian man jailed 27 years for funding Al Qaeda, plotting to kill US judge

2017-11-08

[DAWN] An Indian man who came to the United States to study was sentenced Monday to more than 27 years in prison for sending funds to Al Qaeda and plotting to kill the federal judge in his trial. Good. Yahya Farooq Mohammad, 39, was one of four men including his brother enjugged Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! in September 2015 and charged for sending $22,000 to US-born holy man Anwar al-Awlaki ... Born in Las Cruces, New Mexico, zapped in Yemen, al-Awlaki was a dual citizen of the U.S. and Yemen. He was an Islamic holy man who was a trainer for al-Qaeda and its franchises. His sermons were attended by three of the 9/11 hijackers, by Fort Hood murderer Nidal Malik Hussein, and Undieboomer Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab. He was the first U.S. citizen ever placed on a CIA target list... , a leader of Yemen-based Al Qaeda on the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP). Mohammad and two others travelled to Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic... in 2009 in hopes of hand-delivering the money to Awlaki, one of the most influential recruiters for Al Qaeda. They did not meet him, but had the money delivered to him by a third party. After they were arrested in 2015, Mohammad also tried to hire someone to kill the judge in his case, the Justice Department said. "He threatened the safety of our citizens, a judge and the independent judiciary. Now he is being held accountable," said US Attorney Justin Herdman. Mohammad came to the United States to study at Ohio State University in 2002. He married a US citizen in 2008. A year after the his arrest, Mohammad offered another inmate in the Lucas County, Ohio jail $15,000 to kidnap and kill US District Judge Jack Zouhary. The inmate connected Mohammad with an assassin who was in fact an undercover FBI agent. A member of Mohammad's family paid a $1,000 down payment to the "assassin." He pleaded guilty in US federal court in Toledo, Ohio to one count of conspiracy to provide and conceal material support or resources to Lions of Islam and one count of solicitation to commit a crime of violence. In a plea deal, Mohammad agreed to 27.5 years in federal prison, after which he will be deported. The three other men arrested still face trial. All pleaded not guilty "Wudn't me." to the charges.

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Idiot Jihadi Faces Additional US Terror Charges for Plot to Kill Judge

2016-07-08

[AnNahar] A grand jury in the US state of Ohio on Wednesday returned a three-count indictment against an Emirati man suspected of trying to order the killing of a federal judge. Yahya Farooq Mohammad, 37, was charged with attempted first degree murder of the judge presiding over the case that landed him in jail, as well as with committing a crime of violence and using the mail and interstate commerce facilities -- a cellphone -- to commit murder for hire, a Justice Department statement said. The charges stem from Mohammad allegedly telling another inmate that he wanted to have US District Judge Jack Zouhary kidnapped and murdered, and that he was willing to pay $15,000 for the crime, according to the indictment. The inmate then alerted the Federal Bureau of Investigation and presented Mohammad to an undercover FBI employee. Mohammad is also said to have told the undercover agent that he could use a mail courier to send a downpayment, or the undercover employee could meet Mohammad's wife in reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown ... home of Al Capone, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel,... to obtain the money. Asked about when he wanted the murder to take place, Mohammad said: "The sooner would be good, you know," according to the indictment. On May 5, Mohammad's wife, identified simply as "N.T." in the indictment, met the undercover agent at a post office in Bolingbrook, Illinois, and provided $1,000 in cash inside a white envelope, according to the indictment. On May 11, Mohammad told the inmate that the rest of the money for the murder was coming from Dubai. The undercover agent and N.T. met on May 16, and he undercover agent showed her a photograph he claimed was of Zouhary's dead body. The undercover agent then asked for the rest of the money owed to him and N.T. said she would contact Mohammad and then get back in touch with the undercover agent, the indictment said. Zouhary was presiding over a case in which Mohammad was indicted last year for conspiring with three other men to travel to Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic... to provide thousands of dollars to US-born Al-Qaeda recruiter Anwar al-Awlaki ... Born in Las Cruces, New Mexico, zapped in Yemen, al-Awlaki was a dual citizen of the U.S. and Yemen. He was an Islamic holy man who was a trainer for al-Qaeda and its franchises. His sermons were attended by three of the 9/11 hijackers, by Fort Hood murderer Nidal Malik Hussein, and Undieboomer Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab. He was the first U.S. citizen ever placed on a CIA target list... to support violent myrmidon acts against US military personnel in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere. Rantburg had an early report of the case here. "According to the charges in the indictment, this defendant not only attempted to have a federal judge murdered, but he did so to obstruct justice in a terrorism case against him," US Attorney Barbara McQuade said in a statement. "This prosecution seeks to hold the defendant accountable for attempting to victimize the judge and for trying to undermine our criminal justice system." Special Agent in Charge Stephen Anthony added: "Conspiring to have a judge killed is not the way to avoid being prosecuted -- now Mohammad will be held accountable for additional serious federal charges." If convicted on all of the new counts, Mohammad could face up to 50 years in prison.

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US federal court indicts India-born brothers for funding al Qaeda

2015-11-08

[DNAINDIA] Two India-born brothers and naturalised American citizens have been charged by a US federal court for financing al Qaeda and supporting "violent jihad against the US, the US military in Iraq, Afghanistan, and throughout the world". Yahya Farooq Mohammad (37) and Ibrahim Zubair Mohammad (36) were indicted for raising thousands of dollars and making wire transfers to slain al Qaeda leader Anwar al-Awlaki ... Born in Las Cruces, New Mexico, zapped in Yemen, al-Awlaki was a dual citizen of the U.S. and Yemen. He was an Islamic holy man who was a trainer for al-Qaeda and its franchises. His sermons were attended by three of the 9/11 hijackers, by Fort Hood murderer Nidal Malik Hussein, and Undieboomer Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab. He was the first U.S. citizen ever placed on a CIA target list... .

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