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Dubai: The US suspect arrested for soliciting the murder of a federal judge is not an Emirati, confirmed a senior ministry official.
Dr Anwar Gargash, Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, tweeted on Saturday: “On reviewing our embassy in Washington... it said the information about an Emirati citizen accused of plotting to kill a judge in America is incorrect. He is an Asian national and lived for a time in the country.”
The official website of the Judicial Department in Toledo, Ohio, revealed that the charge sheet indicates that the accused, an Indian national, lived in the UAE from 2004 to 2008, before he went to the United States and married an American citizen.
According to a news release from the US Department of Justice, the suspect, identified as Yahya Farooq Mohammad, 37, was charged on July 6 with attempted first-degree murder of a federal officer, solicitation to commit a crime of violence and use of interstate commerce facilities in commission of murder for hire.
The suspect was charged after he told an inmate at a county jail in April that he was willing to pay $15,000 (Dh55,000) for the murder of US Federal Judge Jack Zouhary.
Yahya Farooq Mohammad, an Indian national, was initially charged in 2015 for supporting violent jihad against US military personnel in Iraq, Afghanistan and throughout the world.
Mohammad was indicted last year on charges of conspiring with three other men to travel to Yemen and provide thousands of dollars to terrorists, in an effort to support violent jihad against US military personnel in Iraq, Afghanistan and throughout the world.
The case is currently pending in the US District Court of Northern Ohio.
US Attorney Barbara L. McQuade, for the Eastern District of Michigan, said in a statement issued last Wednesday: “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.
“This prosecution seeks to hold the defendant accountable for attempting to victimise the judge and for trying to undermine our criminal justice system.”
http://m.gulfnews.com/news/uae/government/us-terror-suspect-not-emirati-confirms-official-1.1859829
Dr Anwar Gargash, Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, tweeted on Saturday: “On reviewing our embassy in Washington... it said the information about an Emirati citizen accused of plotting to kill a judge in America is incorrect. He is an Asian national and lived for a time in the country.”
The official website of the Judicial Department in Toledo, Ohio, revealed that the charge sheet indicates that the accused, an Indian national, lived in the UAE from 2004 to 2008, before he went to the United States and married an American citizen.
According to a news release from the US Department of Justice, the suspect, identified as Yahya Farooq Mohammad, 37, was charged on July 6 with attempted first-degree murder of a federal officer, solicitation to commit a crime of violence and use of interstate commerce facilities in commission of murder for hire.
The suspect was charged after he told an inmate at a county jail in April that he was willing to pay $15,000 (Dh55,000) for the murder of US Federal Judge Jack Zouhary.
Yahya Farooq Mohammad, an Indian national, was initially charged in 2015 for supporting violent jihad against US military personnel in Iraq, Afghanistan and throughout the world.
Mohammad was indicted last year on charges of conspiring with three other men to travel to Yemen and provide thousands of dollars to terrorists, in an effort to support violent jihad against US military personnel in Iraq, Afghanistan and throughout the world.
The case is currently pending in the US District Court of Northern Ohio.
US Attorney Barbara L. McQuade, for the Eastern District of Michigan, said in a statement issued last Wednesday: “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.
“This prosecution seeks to hold the defendant accountable for attempting to victimise the judge and for trying to undermine our criminal justice system.”
http://m.gulfnews.com/news/uae/government/us-terror-suspect-not-emirati-confirms-official-1.1859829