Biography
Ali Asad Chandia was a third-grade teacher who provided material support to Lashkar-e-Taiba. He was a driver for Lashkar officer Mohammed Khan, a member of the Virginia jihad network, and helped ship $50,000 worth of paintball pellets from the United States to Pakistan. Prosecutors allege that he was trained at the Lashkar-e-Taiba camp, but he was not convicted on training charges.
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
Birth-date sources
Photograph source: An undated family photograph of Ali Asad Chandia, expressly named and credited to the Ali Asad Support Committee in the source caption. The original photograph is retained without alteration; it is not a booking photograph. The source's editorial characterizations are not adopted as case evidence. No open-license claim is made.
