The following table lists suspects arrested nationwide in the U.S. since
9/11. All arrested are presumed innocent unless a conviction has
been indicated, thus are alleged to have committed terrorist crimes.
| Name | Region | Details |
| Osama Awadallah | San Diego,
California |
Jordanian originally suspected of giving support to 9/11 hijacker Khalid Almihdhar and Nawaf Alhazmi. However to date, the only charges filed have been lying to a Federal Grand Jury saying he did not know hijacker Almihdar. |
| Faisal Michael
Al Salmi |
Phoenix,
Az. |
Accused of giving false statements to the FBI, claiming he did not know hijacker Hani Hanjour, however the FBI claims to have several pieces of evidence to the contrary; Also lied to FBI saying he had not spoken to Rayed Mohammed Abdullah, an associate of Hanjour. Both cases of lieing, claimed the FBI, impeded the investigation into the 9/11 hijackers. Al Salmi was convicted, served 34 days plus time served, and the Justice Department has requested he be deported. |
| Semi Osman | Seattle,
WA. |
Alleged to have attended a Seattle mosque where a plan to build a terrorist training camp was hatched (the mosque no longer exists), the camp to be built in Oregon. Osman pleaded guilty to having a firearm with an obliterated serial number. He is reported to be a material witness and being held while he cooperates with authorities, reportedly targeting London, England cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri, an alleged Al Qaeda recruiter. |
| James Ujaama | Denver,
CO. |
Attended the same mosque in Seattle where a plot was allegedly hateched to create a terrorist training camp in Oregon, is being held as a material witness targeting ondon, England cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri, an alleged Al Qaeda recruiter. |
| Ghassan Dahduli | Rchardson,
TX. |
Palestinian leader of the Islamic Association for Palestine, which Israel says is a front for the terrorist group Hamas. He is alleged to have identified as an associate of Osama Bin Laden and another man, Wadih el Hage convicted of connections to the bombings of U.S. Embassies in Africa. Dahduli was arrested and deported to Jordon where he was released a few weeks later. |
| Atallah Fuad Khoury | Houston,
TX |
Allegedly bragged to a rental car clerk that he had a new pilots license and to "watch the news". In November 2001, He plead guilty and was convicted of possessing a gun illegally and lieing on the gun dealer from about his citizenship status. |
| Mohammed Jaweed
Azmath |
Ft. Worth,
TX |
Police arrested Azmath during a random drug search on 9/12/01, indicted in Jan, 2002 on charges of selling credit cards and identification cards to an unamed third conspirator. Has pleaded not guilty |
| Ayub Ali Khan | Ft. Worth,
TX |
Police arrested Khan during a random drug search on 9/12/01, indicted in Jan, 2002 on charges of selling credit cards and identification cards to an unamed third conspirator. Plead not guilty |
| Hussein al-Attas | Norman,
OK. |
One of three students arrested at U of Oklahoma, alleged associate of Zacarias Moussaoui who was arrested in August in Minnesota while seeking training to pilot commercial airliners, following the pattern of the 9/11 terrorists. The justice deparment claims al-Attas was a roomate of Moussaoui. |
| Mohammad Yaseen
Haider |
Norman,
OK. |
President of the U of Oklahoma Pakistan Student Association was a neighbor of Moussaoui, charged with immigration violations. |
| Mukkaram Ali | Norman,
OK. |
One of three students arrested at U of Oklahoma, alleged associate of Zacarias Moussaoui who was arrested in August in Minnesota while seeking training to pilot commercial airliners, following the pattern of the 9/11 terrorists. The justice deparment claims al-Attas was a roomate of Moussaoui. |
| Adel F. Badri | Warrensburg,
MO. |
Arrested on bank fraud charges, allegedly cashing forged checks totaling $10,000, and was a student pilot, plea bargained to bank fraud and convicted, thought to be cooperating with federal authorities. |
| Youssef Hmimssa | Cedar Rapids,
Iowa |
Arrested in September of 2001 on fraud and misuse of visa and other documents charges. Lived under an assumed name, Michael Saisa, indicted in Detroit when his immigration documents were found on terrorists suspects arested there. While investigations continue, Hmimssa is being held on the document charges. |
| Zacarias Moussaoui | Eagan,
Minnesota |
Accused of conspiring with Osama Bin Laden and the 19 9/11 hijackers for the 9/11 attacks. Moussaoui is a Moroccan with French Citizenship. Moussaoui is alleged to have received funds from a financier central to the 9/11 plot and also trained at an Al Qaeda training camp in Afghanistan. Moussaoui had attended but not completed flight training in May of 2001. Moussaoui was originally arrested on immigration charges a month before the 9/11 attacks when his flight instructor (at a different school) became suspicious of the odd training requests. Moussaoui's trail is due to begin at the end of September, 2002. |
| Ollie Salem Kahlan
Al-Marri |
West Peoria,
Illinois |
AlMarri arrested in connection with telephone credit cards that belonged to Mustafa Ahmed al-Hisawi, a suspected cash distributor to 9/11 hijackers. Charged with a number of counts of credit card fraud. |
| Nabil Al-Marabh | Justice,
Illinois |
Arrested September 18, 2001 on charges he was part of a financial cash flow and support ring for 9/11 terrorists Ahmed Alghamdi and Satam Al Sugami. Involved in the investigation of Marabh is the U.S. Customs Service and the FBI. |
| Omar Shishani | Detroit,
Michigan |
Arrested in July of 2002, at the Detroit Metro Aiport, carrying $12 million of conterfeit cashier's checks. Shishani is a Chechnyan with Jordanian documents. He has plead not guilty to possession of counterfeit securities and smuggling charges. He remains in jail while investigations continue. |
| Karim Koubriti | Detroit,
Michigan |
Arrested a few days after 9/11 for fraud and misuse of various immigration documents (See Youssef Hmimssa). Arresting officials were alarmed by airport drawings in his possession. Terrorism charges have since been dropped and he faces trial only on the immigration charges. |
| Ahmed Hannan | Detroit,
Michigan |
Arrested a few days after 9/11 for fraud and misuse of various immigration documents (See Youssef Hmimssa). Arresting officials were alarmed by airport drawings in his possession. Terrorism charges have since been dropped and he faces trial only on the immigration charges. |
| Vincente Pierre | Roanoke,
Virginia |
Convicted in December of 2001, on weapons charges and making false statements, after indictment a few days after 9/11/01. Alleged member of terrorist group al-Fuqra seeking to "purify Islam through violence". |
| Traci Upshur | Roanoke,
Virgina |
Convicted in December of 2001, on weapons charges and making false statements, after indictment a few days after 9/11/01. Alleged member of terrorist group al-Fuqra seeking to "purify Islam through violence". |
| Bilal Adullah Ben
Benu |
Roanoke,
Virginia |
Charged with illegally transporting ammunctionfor AK-47 automatic rifles. Alleged member of terrorist group al-Fuqra seeking to "purify Islam through violence". |
| Mohammed Osman
Idris |
Arlington,
Virginia |
Idris and Mohammed El-Yacoubi were stopped by authorities while trying to fly to Jerusalm in December 2001, and found to be carrying a letter which indicated they were about to conduct suicide attacks in Israel. Idris is charged with lying to a Grand Jury and is being held pending investigation of ties to terrorist groups. |
| Mohammed
El-Yacoubi |
Fairfax,
Virginia |
Mohammed El-Yacoubi and Mohammad Osman Idris were stopped by authorities while trying to fly to Jerusalm in December 2001, and found to be carrying a letter which indicated they were about to conduct suicide attacks in Israel. El-Yaciybu is being held pending investigation of ties to terrorist groups. |
| Nabil Sarama | Orlando,
Florida |
Palestinian arrested a few days after 9/11, found near a pay phone used to make bomb threats. Charged with misuse or fraud involving immigration and identification documents. Sarama is well known in the immigration database, moving in and out of the country numerous times using Palestinian Authority, Israeli, or Jordanian passports. |
| Abdel Rahman Omar
Tawfiq Alfauru |
Arlington,
Virginia |
Charged by FBI allegedly participating in a fake identification ring, documents associated with 9/11 hijacker Hani Hanjour. |
| Agus Budima | Arlington,
Virginia |
Indoneisan National charged in November 2001 of helping Mohamad Bin Nasser Belfas -- a contact of Osam Bin Laden -- to falsely obtain a Virginia driver's license. Plead guilty to document fraud charges. Budiman is alleged to be a contact of 9/11 ring leader and hijacker Mohamed Atta. Budiman's visa shows he arrived from Germany in 2000. An associate, Belfas, is still at large. Budima has not been charged as a terrorist. |
| Mohamed Abdi | Alexandria,
Virginia |
Arrested nearly two weeks after 9/11/01, Abdi pleaded guilty to forging a signature on a housing subsidy check, and sentenced to four months in prison. Authorities were led to Abdi by a map with his misspelled name and phone number on a Washington, D.C. map found in 9/11 hijacker Nawaf Alhazmi's car parked at Dulles Airport. Abdi has not been charged with terrorist offenses. |
| Kenys Galicia | Arlington,
Virginia |
Sentened to a year in jail for assisting two hijackers in obtaining false Virginia documents. Authorities however, say he had no prior knowlege of the acts the hijackers were going to commit. |
| Luis Martinez-Flores | Arlington,
Virginia |
Sentened to almost a year in jail for assisting two hijackers in obtaining false Virginia documents. Authorities however, say he had no prior knowlege of the acts the hijackers were going to commit. |
| Herbet Villalobos | Arlington,
Virginia |
Sentened to almost a year in jail for assisting two hijackers in obtaining false Virginia documents. Authorities however, say he had no prior knowlege of the acts the hijackers were going to commit. |
| Victor Lopez-Flores | Arlington,
Virginia |
Sentened to almost a year in jail for assisting two hijackers in obtaining false Virginia documents. Authorities however, say he had no prior knowlege of the acts the hijackers were going to commit. |
| Hhalid al-Draibi | Washington,
D.C. |
Detained near Dulles International Airport on 9/11. Search revealed licensees from eight states, flight manuals for small aircraft. However, authorities did not press for terrorist charges. Draibi was sentenced to four months in jail and ordered to be deporated at release. |
| Rasmi Subhi Salah
al Shannaq |
Baltimore,
Maryland |
Jordanian arrested for overstaying his visa, then indicted for obtaininga counterfeit and illegaly obtained visa from the embassy in Doha, Qatar. The nvestigation includes some 70 other people who used false identification from Qatar to enter the U.S. and possible U.S. Embassy at Qatar employees participation. |
| Mohammad Pervez | Jersey City,
New Jersey |
Arrested a few days after 9/11/01, harged with lying to an FBI agent about checks he wrote and deposited. Pervez lived with two Ft. Worth, TX. suspects (see Mohammed Jaweed Azmath and Ayub Ali Khan), as Pervez was found living at their Jersey CIty address |
| Mustafa Kilfat | Elizabeth,
New Jersey |
Among a group of alleged co-conspirators in the 9/11 attacks (1 of 3) taken into custody on September 13, 2001 -- This suspect was carrying one way ticket to Syria and large amounts of cash -- charged with credit card fraud, and carrying a false Greek passport. No terrorist charges have been filed. |
| Ahmad Kilfat | Elizabeth,
New Jersey |
Among a group of alleged co-conspirators in the 9/11 attacks (2 of 3) taken into custody on September 13, 2001 -- This suspect was carrying one way ticket to Syria and large amounts of cash -- charged with credit card fraud, but has not been charged with terrorist activities. |
| Mohammed Mahmous
Al Raqqad |
Elizabeth,
New Jersey |
Among a group of alleged co-conspirators in the 9/11 attacks 3 of 3) taken into custody on September 13, 2001 -- This suspect was carrying one way ticket to Syria and large amounts of cash. He has not been charged with any offense. |
| Abdallah Higazy | New York,
NY |
Egyptian charged in January 2002 of making false statements to investigators -- denying knowlege of radio found in his hotel room, but later cleared when another hotel guest claimed the radio, Higazy was released. |
| Khalid Sharaf-
Alsubiani |
New York,
NY |
Arrested in October in New York, paid cash for flight lessons which he did not complete (1999) and failed to appear in court on minor charges in North Carolina and Georgia. Also attended flight school in Texas. |
| Shafal A. Mosed | Lackawanna,
NY |
Charged with providing material support to terrorists, could spend 15 years in federal prison. Arrested on 9/14/02. Suspected of training at the al-Farouq training camp in Afghanistan. |
| Faysal H. Galab | Lackawanna,
NY |
Charged with providing material support to terrorists, could spend 15 years in federal prison. Arrested on 9/14/02. Suspected of training at the al-Farouq training camp in Afghanistan. |
| Yahya Goba | Lackawanna,
NY |
Charged with providing material support to terrorists, could spend 15 years in federal prison. Arrested on 9/14/02. Suspected of training at the al-Farouq training camp in Afghanistan. |
| Yasein A. Taher | Lackawanna,
NY |
Charged with providing material support to terrorists, could spend 15 years in federal prison. Arrested on 9/14/02. Suspected of training at the al-Farouq training camp in Afghanistan. |
| Sahim A. Alwan | Lackawanna,
NY |
Charged with providing material support to terrorists, could spend 15 years in federal prison. Arrested on 9/14/02. Suspected of training at the al-Farouq training camp in Afghanistan. |
| Richard Reid | Boston,
Massachusetts |
a.k.a. Abdel Rahim, arrested in December 2001 when he tried to set his shoes on fire on an aircraft between Paris to Miami, plane diverted to Logan Airport and Reid turned over to authorities. Passengers responded to stewardess who requested help in subduing Reid. Subsequently Reid was indicted on nine counts of various charges from explosives to specific terrorist activites including attempted destruction of a mass transportation vehicle, although a later judge ruled, amazingly, that an airliner is not a vehicle of mass transportation. There is also an alleged contact between Reid and Zacarias Moussaoui (also listed in this table). |
| Mohamed Hussein | Dorchester,
Massachusetts |
The Hussein` brothers operated the Barakaat North America Inc. offices, Dorchester Massachusetts, charged with operating an unlicensed Dubai based money transfer service with other offices in Seattle, WA; Minneapolis,, MN. and Columbus, Ohio. Federal authorities claim part of the fee charged for wire transfers was diverted to use by Osama Bin Laden and the Al Qaeda network. |
| Liban Hussein | Dorchester,
Massachusetts |
The Hussein brothers operated the Barakaat North America Inc. offices, Dorchester Massachusetts, charged with operating an unlicensed Dubai based money transfer service with other offices in Seattle, WA; Minneapolis,, MN. and Columbus, Ohio. Federal authorities claim part of the fee charged for wire transfers was diverted to use by Osama Bin Laden and the Al Qaeda network. |
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