US deports Hyderabad man who was jailed for helping brother in al Qaeda terror financing
New Delhi/IBNS: The United States has deported Ibrahim Zubair Mohammad, a 40-year-old engineer from Telangana capital Hyderabad, after several years in jail following his conviction in terror financing of al Qaeda, official sources said.
Ibrahim Zubair Mohammad, who was arrested in 2011 for providing material support to al Qaeda leader Anwar al-Awlaki in 2009, had studied in Osmania University in Hyderabad and then got admission in University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign for Masters degree in Structural Engineering.
Ibrahim Mohammad was sentenced to five years in jail after he pleaded guilty while brother Yahya Mohammad was sentenced to 27 years because he had also hired a hitman to kill a judge associated with their case.
Both brothers used to share speeches and literature of Awlaki who was designated as a terrorist in USA in 2009 and later killed in a drone attack in Yemen in 2011. He was leader of al Qaeda Arabian Peninsula.
According to documents, Yahya, who had moved to UAE, in 2009 had handed over $22,000 to an associate of Awlaki to carry out terror attacks. The money was received from Pakistani associates Sultan Salim and Asif Salim. Yahya with two other friends in UAE had also visited Yemen to meet Awlaki but could not meet him in person.
Imrahim Zubair Mohammad used to collect cheques from Sultan Salim and Asif Salim and deposit it into his brother's account.
Between 2004 and 2009, approximately 50-60 transactions were made by Ibrahim Mohammad in his brother Yahya Farooq Mohammad's account, a Hindustan Times report said.
Deportation:
According to the Hindustan Times report, Ibrahim Mohammad arrived in Amritsar on Wednesday along with other Indian nationals deported from the United States.
He has been sent to a quarantine facility for 14 days and will be extensively questioned by Indian security officials to ascertain any possible terror links in India, the report said.
Ibrahim Zubair Mohammad after his studies in Osmania University in 2001 joined his elder brother Yahya Farooq Mohammad to the US for higher studies. After his structural engineering studies at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign from 2001 through 2005, he was living in Toledo in Ohio and had got married.
Indian security officials who have questioned Ibrahim Mohammad said he appeared to have been self-radicalised after watching videos of al Qaeda leader Anwar al-Awlaki, according to HT.
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