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Indian engineer in US pleads guilty to raising money for top al-Qaeda leader

A 38-year-old Indian engineer in the US state of Ohio, accused of funding a top al-Qaeda leader, has pleaded guilty to concealing financing terrorism. Ibrahim Zubair Mohammad is accused of sending money to Anwar al-Awlaki in Yemen. Al-Awlaki was later designated a terrorist and killed by a US drone in 2011.

Mohammad is to receive an agreed-upon prison sentence of 60 months, although he would receive credit for the 30 months he has already spent in the Lucas County jail awaiting trial, The Blade newspaper reported on Wednesday.

US District Judge Jeffrey Helmick told him that due to his plea and conviction, he would be deported to India. “You ultimately will be removed from this country and told you are not welcome back,” the judge said.

Mohammad had studied at the University of Illinois and lived in Toledo since 2006.

Two co-defendants, Sultane Roome Salim, 43, and his brother Asif Ahmed Salim, 37, are scheduled for a change of plea hearing before Judge Helmick later on Thursday.

Michael Freeman, an assistant US attorney, outlined the factual basis for the charge to which Ibrahim Mohammad pleaded guilty. Freeman said Mohammad’s brother and others raised money in 2009 in the United Arab Emirates to deliver to al-Awlaki in Yemen.

Freeman said Farooq raised some funds through credit card fraud, sought funds from others he knew, and enlisted his brother in the United States to help. Two associates of Farooq delivered $7,000 to an associate of al-Awlaki in Yemen in late January, 2009, Freeman said. In July, 2009, Farooq delivered $22,000 to an associate of al-Awlaki.

Ibrahim knew, Freeman said, that al-Awlaki had expressed support for the killing of 13 US service personnel at Fort Hood, Texas, by Nidal Hasan on November 5, 2009, and that al-Awlaki had been involved in the attempt to destroy an airliner over Detroit on December 25, 2009.
 
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Jo marzi karlo
Kashmir is something which will remain an issue.

Reason

Gain
1. If there is no kashmir Indians wouldn't be united.
2. Kashmir gives India excuse to go for defence deals
3. It gives India chance to defame Pakistan
4. The kashmir is the only muslim region which Hindu majority India will keep it underdeveloped, if they develop then they will domante the Jammu.
5. It's a strategic region
6. Training for the soldiers
7. Still claim for POK but it wont go beyond a claim

Loss
1. Revenue Loss

2. Indians have failed to move or expand outwards to take problems outside India. The reason for this is Indians believe it will be inviting danger to their existence, which is outcome of inferiority complex and sense of incapability to compete the non south Asians or the people across Indian border not just Pakistan but also Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Uzbek and further west.
 
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Jo marzi karlo
Kashmir is something which will remain an issue.

Reason

Gain
1. If there is no kashmir Indians wouldn't be united.
2. Kashmir gives India excuse to go for defence deals
3. It gives India chance to defame Pakistan
4. The kashmir is the only muslim region which Hindu majority India will keep it underdeveloped, if they develop then they will domante the Jammu.
5. It's a strategic region
6. Training for the soldiers
7. Still claim for POK but it wont go beyond a claim

Loss
1. Revenue Loss

2. Indians have failed to move or expand outwards to take problems outside India. The reason for this is Indians believe it will be inviting danger to their existence, which is outcome of inferiority complex and sense of incapability to compete the non south Asians or the people across Indian border not just Pakistan but also Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Uzbek and further west.
Brilliant reasoning Sir. Absolutely brilliant !! Do you run a blog on international diplomacy and geopolitics , by any chance . Kindly send me the link . I've never come across such original thinking before. I never believed in lateral thinking . I'm rethinking thinking about lateral thinking .
 
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