The final co-conspirator in the jury tampering segment of the Ahmad and Musa Jebril case was sentenced last week in Michigan. The court documents linked below from the NEFA Foundation website lay out the conspirators' ties to Saudi Sheikh Salman Al-Awdah, the extremist website AlSalafyoon.com, and a fax sent to CNN praising the 1995 Riyadh bombing. http://www.nefafoundation.org/documents.html
* Ahmad and Musa Jebril Case: - Judgment: <http://nefafoundation.org/miscellaneous/FeaturedDocs/U.S._v_AhmadJebril_Jud gment.pdf> Ahmad Musa Jebril and <http://nefafoundation.org/miscellaneous/FeaturedDocs/U.S_v_MusaJebril_Judgm ent.pdf> Musa Jebril <http://nefafoundation.org/miscellaneous/FeaturedDocs/U.S._v_AhmadJebril_Jud gment.pdf> . The Jebrils were convicted in November 2004 on an array of charges, including bank fraud, mail fraud, social security fraud, money laundering, and being felons in possession of firearms (three shotguns) and ammunition. In 1998, the Jebrils had been convicted by the State of Michigan on fraud charges related to the transfer of false titles to vehicles. - <http://nefafoundation.org/miscellaneous/FeaturedDocs/U.S._v_Jebril_USGSente ncingMemo.pdf> U.S. Government Sentencing Memorandum: According to this <http://nefafoundation.org/miscellaneous/FeaturedDocs/U.S._v_Jebril_USGSente ncingMemo.pdf> memo, "the defendants created false identities for themselves in alias names, with false social security numbers, fraudulently obtained driver's licenses, and false credit histories." The jury concluded that the "Jebrils' pattern of fraud resulted in losses of $200,000 to $400,000" and ordered "the Jebrils to disgorge illegal profits totaling $200,000 to the United States." - <http://nefafoundation.org/miscellaneous/FeaturedDocs/U.S._v_Jebril_USGSuppS entMemo.pdf> U.S. Government Supplemental Sentencing Memorandum: This memo <http://nefafoundation.org/miscellaneous/FeaturedDocs/U.S._v_Jebril_USGSuppS entMemo.pdf> reveals that the government seized a Jebril family photo album which "includes photos of Ahmad Jebril as a teenager dressed as a mujahid or holy warrior; photos of very young children holding apparently real firearms, 'playing' at holding each other hostage and aiming the weapons at each other's heads. Musa Jebril and his wife Subhieh are in some of these photographs, condoning the behavior." Moreover, "a framed emblem of HAMAS, the Star of David pierced by a bloody fist brandishing an AK-47, was displayed in Musa Jebril's house." The memo continues, "Musa Jebril permitted his son, Ahmad Jebril, to run an anti-American radical Islamic website ( AlSalafyoon.com) out of their home, and to teach classes in radical Salafism in their living room. The AlSalafyoon website contained a library of fanatically anti-American sermons by militant Islamic clerics, in English and in Arabic. From the website, Ahmad Jebril encouraged his students to spread Islam by the sword, to wage a holy war, to hate and kill non-Muslims (whom he called 'kafers' or 'kuffars')." - <http://nefafoundation.org/miscellaneous/FeaturedDocs/U.S._v_Jebril_EKArticl e.pdf> Government Exhibit A - Evan Kohlmann, "The Michigan Jihad," FrontPageMagazine.com, October 23, 2003 : Federal prosecutors entered into evidence an article, authored by NEFA Senior Investigator Evan Kohlmann, which <http://nefafoundation.org/miscellaneous/FeaturedDocs/U.S._v_Jebril_EKArticl e.pdf> points out that "over the last decade, the Jibrils have consistently endorsed violence and extremism in lectures to Muslim student groups here in the U.S. and likewise on their self-fashioned Internet mouthpiece, AlSalafyoon.com" AlSalafyoon.com included "speeches on the subject of jihad by Shaykh Abdullah Azzam (the late co-founder of Al-Qaeda and spiritual mentor to Osama bin Laden) and by Abdelrahman Al-Dosari ( a.ka. Abu Abdel Aziz 'Barbaros', deemed by the U.S. government to be a senior leader of Al-Qaeda)." Examples of pages from AlSalafyoon.com are below. Notably, Ahmad Jibril, who studied abroad in Saudi Arabia, "became a disciple and strong supporter of...Shaykh Salman Al-Awdah, who Jibril has referred to as a 'Great Imam & Scholar...[who] boldly confronted the American presence in [Saudi Arabia]...may Allah reward him the peak of heaven!' In an interview with journalist Peter Arnett, Osama bin Laden lauded Al-Awdah as a personal hero and cited him as a direct inspiration for taking up 'my duty of enjoining what is right and forbidding what is wrong.' Ahmad Jibril was in direct contract with Al-Awdah and forwarded the latter's contact information over the Internet to other likeminded zealots inside America." - <http://nefafoundation.org/miscellaneous/FeaturedDocs/U.S._v_Jebril_KhobarFa x.pdf> Government Exhibit B - Fax to CNN Following the November 1995 Riyadh Bombing: Following the November 13, 1995 bombing of a joint Saudi-U.S. facility in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia that killed five Americans and that was purportedly " <http://nefafoundation.org/miscellaneous/FeaturedDocs/911Comm_Riyadh_Bombing .pdf> inspired by Bin Laden," CNN received a fax praising the attack. According to prosecutors, that <http://nefafoundation.org/miscellaneous/FeaturedDocs/U.S._v_Jebril_KhobarFa x.pdf> fax "was sent from a fax machine connected to a telephone line subscribed to by 'Thomas Saad'...[which] is an alias used by Ahmad Jebril." The fax warned that "the bombing that happened in Riyadh...is only the beginning of a new phase that the Saudi government will go through. The first and main goal behind this first series of bombing [sic] is to kick the Jews, Christians and Infidels from the purified lands of the Arabian peninsula...There will be a series of bombings that will follow no matter how many lives of ours are taken or how many bodies are in prison." These follow-on attacks would "include attacks on members of the royal family both in and out of the boundaries of Saudi Arabia." Furthermore, the fax stated, "a second and non-direct goal is a retaliation because of the recent imprisonment of the leaders of the worldwide Islamic uprising over a year and an [sic] half ago among them are Sheik Salman Al-Odeh and Doctor Safar Al-Hawali..." Federal prosecutors <http://nefafoundation.org/miscellaneous/FeaturedDocs/U.S._v_Jebril_USGSuppS entMemo.pdf> admitted that "Ahmad Jebril was not prosecuted in connection with the Riyadh bombing, because there was no proof that the fax was not simply 'puffing,' no proof that he bore any actual responsibility for the deaths." - <http://nefafoundation.org/miscellaneous/FeaturedDocs/U.S._v_Almadrahi_Indic tment.pdf> Indictment and <http://nefafoundation.org/miscellaneous/FeaturedDocs/U.S._v_Almadrahi_SpcIn dictment.pdf> Superseding Indictment for Jury Tampering . According to federal prosecutors, during selection in the Jebrils' fraud trial, "Ahmad Jebril targeted the female juror seated as Juror Nine, and recruited his nephew Musa Odeh, his student Radwan Almadrahi, and others to approach Juror Nine at her place of business and attempt to persuade her to find the Jebrils not guilty. Almadrahi and Odeh did not locate Juror Nine; they spoke with her fiancé and offered to pay for their wedding and buy them a house if she could cause the jury to acquit the Jebrils. Instead, Juror Nine immediately came forward to Judge Rosen and reported the unlawful contact." - <http://nefafoundation.org/miscellaneous/FeaturedDocs/U.S._v_Jebril_DOJPR_In d.pdf> Department of Justice Press Release re: Indictment for Jury Tampering - <http://nefafoundation.org/miscellaneous/FeaturedDocs/U.S._v_Almadrahi_DOJPR _Sent.pdf> Department of Justice Press Release re: Radwan Almadrahi Sentencing for Jury Tampering. Almadrahi had been attending Ahmad Jebril's lectures since 2001. - <http://nefafoundation.org/miscellaneous/FeaturedDocs/AlSalafyoon_Al-Jihad.p df> AlSalafyoon.com: "Al-Jihad." This poem states, "Yes, you're neither Sheikh Osama nor Mullah Umar, But, don't forget you're a[n] Ummat of fighter Apostle. Why are you waiting to go and thrust in the lines of enemies and have them crushed. Hit them on the neck and send them to hell...Give them a knife and a bulletful of gun...Fight, Fight & Fight, it must be our aim." - <http://nefafoundation.org/miscellaneous/FeaturedDocs/AlSalafyoon_JihadAllah Cause.pdf> AlSalafyoon.com: "Jihad in Allah's Cause." This page quotes sayings by the Prophet Muhammad, including "Allah guarantees that He will admit the Mujahid in His Cause into Paradise if he is killed, otherwise He will return him to his home safely with rewards and war booty." Further, "if you are called (by the Muslim ruler) for fighting, go forth immediately." - <http://nefafoundation.org/miscellaneous/FeaturedDocs/AlSalafyoon_WageHolyWa r.pdf> AlSalafyoon.com: "Jihad and Expedition." This page notes that "When the Messenger of Allah (peace_be_upon_him) appointed anyone as leader of an army or detachment he would especially exhort him to fear Allah and to be good to the Muslims who were with him. He would say: Fight in the name of Allah and in the cause of Allah. Fight against those who do not believe in Allah. Wage a holy war: do not embezzle the spoils, do not break your pledge, do not mutilate (the dead) bodies and do not kill the children." - <http://nefafoundation.org/miscellaneous/FeaturedDocs/AlSalafyoon_WatchMeBle ed.pdf> AlSalafyoon.com: "Watch Me Bleed." An excerpt from this poem <http://nefafoundation.org/miscellaneous/FeaturedDocs/AlSalafyoon_WatchMeBle ed.pdf> follows: "You set up your conferences to 'educate others' on our situation Yet, you pick your own speakers to represent us while we lose our nation...And you with the peace signs, organizing your marches, please only yourselves....You must face reality...Reality is watching your land taken away and your relatives shot...The only thing left is for me to invite you to come watch me bleed." - <http://nefafoundation.org/miscellaneous/FeaturedDocs/AlSalafyoon_Falestine. pdf> AlSalafyoon: "From Falestine to You" - <http://nefafoundation.org/miscellaneous/FeaturedDocs/AlSalafyoon_ContactUs. pdf> AlSalafyoon.com: Sheikh Musa al-Jibril offered to provide <http://nefafoundation.org/miscellaneous/FeaturedDocs/AlSalafyoon_ContactUs. pdf> fatwas over the phone. 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