Biography
Enaam M. Arnaout, an Illinois man believed to have had connections to Osama bin Laden, ran a charity that the government alleged was a source of terrorist financing.
Case characteristics: FISA surveillance. Organization referenced in charging documents: Al Qaeda.
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
Photo: FedRAP Network; original photographer not identified. Original-image crop; identified by the source (portrait attached to ENAAM M ARNAOUT, prisoner 14504-424). Source: https://fedrap.com/terror . Non-free image used at low resolution under this site's educational/memorial fair-use rationale; not an open-license or permission claim.
FBI official John S. Pistole’s April 14, 2004 statement identifies Benevolence International Foundation director Enaam Arnaout with the alias Samir Motaleb and dates an indictment to October 9, 2002. His description of alleged support and financing is the FBI’s account. The indictment date is not an arrest date, and the statement provides no actual discharge or completed custody total. Source: https://www.globalsecurity.org/security/library/congress/9-11_commission/040414-pistole.pdf#page=12
Arnaout pleaded guilty to racketeering conspiracy on February 10, 2003, according to the Justice Department’s 2006 account.
The documented case chronology records custody endpoint February 8, 2011. This is the actual administrative end of the Bureau of Prisons term. Its last listed unit was a residential reentry management office; that record does not establish when physical prison ended. An exact physical-imprisonment total is therefore not stated.
