- Adham Hassoun
Adham Hassoun is detained in
United States custody and was indicted as a conspirator of Jose Padilla.ref|DoJ051122ref|Cbs020628Hassoun, who first moved to the United States in the late 1980s, was first detained on immigration charges.Sofian Abdelaziz, a member of the American Muslim Association of North America, who knew Hassoun from his activity in the Florida Muslim community, made this comment on Hassoun: "I would consider him that he's against violence, but he has a strong tongue, you know, he has a strong tongue!"ref label|Cbs020628|2|a
Hassoun has been accused of financing Jose Padilla's trip to
Egypt .ref|MilMos040715 Hassoun has also been accused of setting up a local office of the charityBenevolence International , which has fallen under suspicions of having been used as a front foral Qaeda .ref label|MilMos040715|3|aOther indicted conspirators
*Jose Padilla
*Kifah Jayyousi
*Mohomed Youssef References
#note label|Cbs020628|2|a [http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/06/27/attack/main513641.shtml Al Qaeda Network Operating In U.S.] , "
CBS News ",June 28 2002
# [http://www.usdoj.gov/ag/speeches/2005/ag_speech_051122.html Prepared Remarks of Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales at the Press Conference Regarding the Indictment of Jose Padilla] , "US Department of Justice ",November 22 2005
#note label|MilMos040715|3|a [http://www.militantislammonitor.org/article/id/219 Florida Trail of Terror: Jihad in Our Backyard] , "MilitantIslamMonitor.org ",July 15 2004
Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.
