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Associations of the Lodi Five

Age:	22
Occupation:	Farm Worker (picking cherries)
Born:	San Joaquin County, 1982
Migrated	Born in U.S., living in Lodi, California, at least one trip to Pakistan
Current Charges:	Lying to FBI about attending a Jihadist camp (1st said no camp, and no training, then recanted after a lie detector test indicatd deception).
Possible Further Charges:	According to the FBI Arrest Affadavit and the Indictment, Hamid admitted to attending "jihadi" religious training in a Madrasah run by his grand-father in Pakistan, attending a "jihadi" training camp where he learned to "kill americans" (use of weapons, bomb making, tactics), and chose to return to the U.S. to await instructions). All his admissions are capital offenses under the Anti-Terrorism and Death Penalty Act of 1996.
Status:	In custody, Sacramento County Jail, being held pending status hearing in U.S. District Court Magistrate Judge Garland Burrell's court on July 1, 2005.
Associations:	Grandfather is Qari Saeed-ur-Rehman, a fairly well known cleric and head of the Jamia Islamia madrassahin Rawlipindi, Pakistan. ⁶ Rehman and and an uncle are mentioned prominently in the government's affadavit. Uncle Atiq ur Rahman who was a Mujhadeen fighter in Afghanistan fighting against the Russians. "Rehman is believed to be Maulana Fazlur Rehman Khalil, a Hezbi mujahedeen, who vowed revenge against the United States in 1998 after U.S. cruise missiles hit a training camp he operated in Pakistan in an attempt to kill al Qaeda founder Osama bin Laden. " ³ According to his admission, his grandfather sends students from his Madrasah to the Jihadist training camp. Also, the camp is run by Maulana Fazlur Rehman, a close personal friend of the cleric Rehman (grandfather). Also, associated with Mohammad Adil Khan, a former Imam at the Lodi Mosque who broke with that Mosque and is named in a lawsuit alleging fraud ($100,000+) and Imam Shabbir Ahmed who has admitted to preaching against the U.S. in Pakistan (his statement that the vitoral was only intended to stop the Post 9/11 bombing by the U.S. in Afghanistan) which led to riots. Ahmed is also alleged to be a student of one of the clerics who signed the Fatah used by Al Qaeda to justify its killing of Americans. Khan and Ahmed are being held on immigration chartes (failure to satisfy the terms of their visas). The Hayat's receive undisclosed financial support (and perhaps legal help) from CAIR - Council for American-Islamic Relations - whose membership includes a board member who has preached that the U.S. should become a caliphite of Islam as well as numerous other anti-American statements, and a convicted terrorist supporter.
Other Facts of Interest:	Umer, as Hamid was returning from Pakistan, had just completed the build on a new house in Pakistan, and he had just returned from Pakistan where he was living temporarily, leading officials to believe Hamid could flee the U.S. and live in Pakistan. U.S. Federal District Court Judge Peter A. Nowinski refused to grant bail to Umer and Hamid Hayat saying, "is both a flight risk and a danger to the community." ³Assistant U.S. Attorney R. Stephen Lapham is qouted as saying, "Hayat stopped going to school in this country after the sixth grade, and "has little chance of getting a job that would support him." ⁴Hamid is also said to have been married while in Pakistan. ^{6,7 and Detention Order Hamid Hayat}