US deports al Qaeda terrorist Mohammed Ibrahim Zubair to India
The United States has deported al Qaeda terrorist Mohammed Ibrahim Zubair to India, sources said on Thursday. He was convicted in america for providing material support and resources to terrorists.
Zubair reached Amritsar on Wednesday morning and he is has been put under quarantine, according to Telangana State Police higher officials.
The 40-year-old, who comes from Telangana's capital Hyderabad, did his Bachelor's in Civil engineering from Osmania University and got admission for a Masters’ degree in structural engineering in the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, reports ANI.
Around 2006, he moved to Toledo, Ohio, and married a US citizen. He became a long term resident of the United States in or about 2007.
He's a brother of Yahya Farooq Mohammad. Both brothers used to talk about literature and speeches of al Qaeda leader Anwar Al-Awlaki, who was simply later killed in a drone strike in 2011 in Yemen. These were influenced by Awlaki. Yahya Farooq also shared videos of Taliban and Chechen militants.
Zubair was arrested in 2015. He, Yahya plus some others were booked by US authorities under various charges including terror funding case.
Yahya was convicted for 27 years and Zubair was convicted to 5 years imprisonment by US district court for the northern district of Ohio western division.
In its judgement, the Ohio district court in November 2015 had said: "Yahya Farooq Mohammad, 37; Ibrahim Zubair Mohammad, 36; Asif Ahmed Salim, 35; and Sultane Room Salim, 40, were each indicted on one count of conspiracy to supply and conceal material support and resources to terrorists, one count of providing material support and resources to terrorists and one count of conspiracy to obstruct justice."
Yahya Farooq and Ibrahim Mohammed (Zubair) both faced yet another count of conspiracy to commit bank fraud.
"In line with the allegations in the indictment, Farooq Mohammad, Ibrahim Mohammad (Zubair), Asif Salim and Sultane Salim conspired to provide and did provide material support to Anwar Al-Awlaki in response to his calls to support violent jihad," Assistant Attorney John P. Carlin had said.
"The National Security Division's highest priority is counter-terrorism and we will continue steadily to pursue justice against those that seek to supply material support to terrorists," he added.
