- Virginia Jihad Network
The Virginia Jihad Network was a network of jihadists centered in northern
Virginia .Ali al-Timimi was convicted in 2005 of exhorting his followers to join theTaliban and fight US troops. The young men played paintball in 2000 and 2001 as a means of training for holy war around the globe. [cite news | first=Matthew | last=Barakat | coauthors= | title=Islamic scholar convicted of advocating war on US | date=2005-04-27 | publisher=The Boston Globe | url =http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2005/04/27/islamic_scholar_convicted_of_advocating_war_on_us/ | work =Associated Press | pages = | accessdate = 2008-03-08 | language = ] [cite news | first=Susan | last=Schmidt | coauthors= | title=Spreading Saudi Fundamentalism in U.S. | date=2003-10-03 | publisher= | url =http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A31402-2003Oct1?language=printer | work =The Washington Post | pages = | accessdate = 2008-03-08 | language = ] Found guilty during 2003-4 of various terrorism-related offences were Muhammed Aatique, Hammad Abdur-Raheem, Ibrahim Ahmed Al-Hamdi, Seifullah Chapman, Khwaja Hasan,Masoud Khan , Yong Kwon, Randall Todd Royer and Donald Surratt.cite news | first= | last= | coauthors= | title=RANDALL TODD ROYER AND IBRAHIM AHMED AL-HAMDI SENTENCED FOR PARTICIPATION IN VIRGINIA JIHAD NETWORK | date=2004-04-09 | publisher=United States Department of Justice | url =http://www.usdoj.gov/opa/pr/2004/April/04_crm_225.htm | work = | pages = | accessdate = 2008-03-08 | language = ]Ali Asad Chandia was a third-grade teacher at theAl-Huda School , ofDar-us-Salaam mosque , inCollege Park, Maryland .cite news
url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1929483.cms
title=Teacher jailed for aiding LeT
publisher=Times of India
date=26 August 2006
accessdate=2008-02-18
quote=A 29-year-old Maryland man has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for providing support to Pakistan-based terrorist outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba. ] Chandia provided material support toLashkar-e-Taiba , aPakistan iterrorist organization , and assisted the Network. [http://www.diamondbackonline.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2005/09/21/4331445ad0128 Terrorism suspect released on bond] Diamondback Online] OnJune 6 , 2006, a jury unanimously found Chandia guilty. He was sentenced to 15 years in prison, with three years of supervised release at the end of his incarceration [http://www.gazette.net/stories/083106/princou195032_31945.shtml Teacher at College Park school sentenced for aiding terrorists] Gazette, Maryland Community Newspapers Online] , on three counts of conspiracy and providing material support to Lashkar-e-Taiba onAugust 30 , 2006. [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/02/AR2006090201096.html?nav=rss_metro/crime Hardball Tactics in an Era of Threats] The Washington Post]Royer acknowledged that he committed his offenses to help other jihadists gain entry to the
Lashkar-e-Taiba training camp following a meeting onSeptember 16 ,2001 , at which an unindicted conspirator said that theSeptember 11, 2001 attacks , would be used as an excuse to trigger a global war against Islam, and that the time had come for them to go abroad and, if possible, join themujahideen . Three other individuals attending that meeting, Yong Kwon, Muhammed Aatique, and Khwaja Hasan - all of whom pled guilty - stated that they went to the Lashkar-e-Taiba camp to obtain combat training for the purpose engaging in violent jihad inAfghanistan against the American troops that they expected would soon invade that country. Al-Hamdi also admitted to carrying a rocket-propelled grenade in furtherance of a conspiracy to undertake a military operation againstIndia .Khan, Chapman and Hammad Abdur-Raheem all were convicted of conspiring to provide material support to Lashkar-e-Taiba, a
designated Foreign Terrorist Organization , and to attack India in violation of theNeutrality Act , as well as of various firearms related offenses, for conduct that spanned from 2000 to 2003.References
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