Hassan Abu-Jihaad is a 32 year old man who provided material support to terrorists and disclosed classified national defense information. He was a sailor in the US Military.
April 3, 2009 Jihad Watch
“Not with America but with the American enemies”
Ten years for treason — and then the judge said he hoped the sentence would be a deterrent! Hassan Abu-Jihaad Update: “Ex-sailor sentenced to 10 years in terror case,” by John Christoffersen for AP , April 3 (thanks to all who sent this in):
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) — A former Navy sailor convicted of leaking details about ship movements and the best ways to attack them was sentenced Friday to the maximum 10... Read Full Story
A former Navy sailor convicted of leaking details about ship movements and the best ways to attack them was sentenced Friday to the maximum 10 years in prison. U.S. District Judge Mark Kravitz said Hassan Abu-Jihaad, of Phoenix, betrayed his country and endangered his fellow sailors. "I cannot really overstate the seriousness of this crime," Kravitz said. The leak "does constitute a fundamental betrayal of your country and of your oath. You endangered your colleagues, you endangered your... Read Full Story
A former US sailor was sentenced to 10 years in jail Friday for disclosing secret information about a US Navy battle group's movements months after the 2000 attack on USS Cole. Hassan Abu-Jihaad "provided classified information to others with the understanding that it could be used to endanger the lives of hundreds of members of the United States Navy," acting US Attorney for Connecticut Nora R. Dannehy said in a statement. On March 5, 2008, a Connecticut jury found Abu-Jihaad, 33, formerly... Read Full Story
A British terror suspect fighting extradition to the United States was awarded thousands of pounds (dollars) in compensation Wednesday for being assaulted by police during his 2003 arrest. Computer specialist Babar Ahmad, 34, will receive 60,000 pounds (more than $80,000) in damages after lawyers for Scotland Yard acknowledged that he was subject to gratuitous violence and religious abuse by officers who burst into his southwest London home in a dawn raid on Dec. 2, 2003. The police admitted... Read Full Story
A federal judge has thrown out a former Navy sailor's conviction on providing support to terrorists. But upheld Wednesday was Hassan Abu Jihaad's (hah-SAHN' AH'-boo zhee-HAHD) conviction for disclosing classified information. Prosecutors say they are reviewing the ruling. Abu-Jihaad's conviction was hailed last year by top national security officials and federal investigators as a model of cooperation among government agencies. Abu-Jihaad was a signalman aboard the USS Benfold. He was... Read Full Story
As a bevy of U.S. battleships steamed towards the Middle East in the spring of 2001 on a mission to patrol the Persian Gulf, a sailor aboard one of those vessels was pursuing an entirely different mission. His name was Hassan Abu-Jihaad , and he was serving as a signalman aboard the USS Benfold . Little did anyone know at the time, he was also a homegrown radical who was secretly in touch with al Qaeda financiers, sharing classified details about the vulnerabilities and movements of the... Read Full Story
by Eric Dondero Newsbusters is reporting this morning that: Former Navy signalman Hassan Abu-Jihaad was convicted today on charges "of leaking information about the movements and vulnerabilities of ships in his battle group to suspected terrorism supporters" in spring 2001, months before 9/11. These secrets were sent via e-mail to a pro-Taliban Web site. But in reporting the story, MSNBC.com ran an Associated Press story that failed to note Abu-Jihaad is an American born convert to Islam... Read Full Story
Yesterday U.S. Navy seaman Paul R. Hall was convicted of passing sensitive Navy documents to those who are sympathetic with radical Islam . Mr. Hall who changed his name to Hassan Abu-Jihaad when he converted to Islam had passed along information on ship deployment , and formation . You know this is why i feel the way i do about the " one true faith ". Since Sept. 11th many different aspects of Islam have come to light . One being that the only difference between radical and moderate is that... Read Full Story
Paul R. Hall, who has apparently changed his name to Hassan Abu-Jihaad, was arrested in Phoenix in 2007 and charged with terrorism- and espionage-related crimes. Hall/Abu-Jihaad was convicted a year ago, but in early March a judge dropped the terrorism charge, delaying his sentencing.Hall was a bona fide rat in the grain house -- the kind of spy Americans can only hope rank in small numbers. While serving on the U.S.S. Benfold in 2000, the former sailor e-mailed detailed instructions on how... Read Full Story
From the International Herald Tribune :
A former Navy sailor was convicted Wednesday of leaking details about ship movements to suspected terrorism supporters, an act that could have endangered his own crewmates.
Jurors convicted Hassan Abu-Jihaad, 32, of Phoenix of providing material support to terrorists and disclosing classified national defense information on the second day of deliberations.
The American-born Muslim convert formerly known as Paul R. Hall faces up to 25 years in... Read Full Story
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