Biography
A spiritual leader and lecturer at Dar Al-Arqam, Ali Al-Timimi was an unindicted co-conspirator in the Virginia jihad network. He was charged with inciting their training and supporting the Taliban. He attended a meeting on September 16, 2001, and proclaimed that “the time had come for them to go abroad and join the mujahedin.”
Case characteristics: FBI confidential informant, FISA surveillance, cooperated with prosecutors. Organization referenced in charging documents: Taliban.
Case data and description from The Intercept's Trial and Terror project (Trevor Aaronson and Margot Williams), licensed CC BY-NC. Source: https://github.com/theintercept/trial-and-terror-data
Documented case history
The public judgment records life imprisonment with additional consecutive terms, pronounced July 13, 2005. The 360-month firearms term and life term are distinct components; concurrent terms must not be counted twice. Remand is ordered but the executed return is blank. The public file contains seven pages; a referenced eighth page is sealed and omitted. No first admission or actual release endpoint is supplied.
In a May 21, 2018 response, federal prosecutors opposed Al-Timimi’s motion for acquittal on firearms Counts 7 and 8 after Sessions v. Dimaya. They argued that the convictions remained valid under the force clause or a conduct-specific interpretation, and that any jury-instruction error was harmless. The filing records the Fourth Circuit’s July 2016 expansion of a remand to address the Johnson challenge. It is the government’s argument, rather than a ruling granting or denying relief.
The documented September 1, 2020 departure from physical prison to home confinement is recorded with day precision.
