Adham Hassoun
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Adham Amin Hassoun is detained in United States
custody and was indicted as a conspirator of José Padilla
.
Hassoun, 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!"
Hassoun has been accused of financing Jose Padilla's trip to Egypt
. Hassoun has also been accused of setting up a local office of the charity
Benevolence International, which has fallen under suspicions of having been used as a front for al Qaeda.
A 2011 NPR
report claimed he was in a highly restrictive Communication Management Unit
.
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
custody and was indicted as a conspirator of José Padilla
José Padilla (alleged terrorist)
José Padilla , also known as Abdullah al-Muhajir or Muhajir Abdullah, is a United States citizen convicted of aiding terrorists....
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Hassoun, 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!"
Hassoun has been accused of financing Jose Padilla's trip to Egypt
Egypt
Egypt , officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, Arabic: , is a country mainly in North Africa, with the Sinai Peninsula forming a land bridge in Southwest Asia. Egypt is thus a transcontinental country, and a major power in Africa, the Mediterranean Basin, the Middle East and the Muslim world...
. Hassoun has also been accused of setting up a local office of the charity
Benevolence International, which has fallen under suspicions of having been used as a front for al Qaeda.
A 2011 NPR
NPR
NPR, formerly National Public Radio, is a privately and publicly funded non-profit membership media organization that serves as a national syndicator to a network of 900 public radio stations in the United States. NPR was created in 1970, following congressional passage of the Public Broadcasting...
report claimed he was in a highly restrictive Communication Management Unit
Communication Management Unit
Communication Management Unit is a recent designation for a self-contained group within a facility in the United States Federal Bureau of Prisons that severely restricts, manages and monitors all outside communication of inmates in the unit.-Origins:As part of the Bush Administration's War on...
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