Mousa Abu Marzook
Biography
Mousa Abu Marzook was detained by the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service at New York’s JFK Airport on July 25, 1995. The FBI’s 1996 report describes extradition proceedings sought by Israel and rulings on May 8 and October 9, 1996, while noting that he remained detained and the ultimate extradition decision was unresolved when the report was written. Those rulings are not treated as a criminal conviction, jail release or actual extradition date; his later custody endpoint is not established by this source.
Verified source and chronology limits
Mousa Abu Marzook was detained by the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service at New York’s JFK Airport on July 25, 1995. The FBI’s 1996 report describes extradition proceedings sought by Israel and rulings on May 8 and October 9, 1996, while noting that he remained detained and the ultimate extradition decision was unresolved when the report was written. Those rulings are not treated as a criminal conviction, jail release or actual extradition date; his later custody endpoint is not established by this source.
This is the FBI’s contemporary prosecution account, not an independent finding about every allegation. A foreign arrest or transfer, an indictment, a jury verdict and sentencing are distinct events. No U.S. prison-admission day is inferred from the foreign arrest or court appearance. No release date is calculated from a sentence. Birth and death dates remain unverified; no race or religious identity is inferred. The BOP locator was checked October 22, 2026; no-result searches are not treated as proof of release or death.
FBI, Terrorism in the United States 1996; Bureau of Prisons Inmate Locator.
The documented case chronology records custody endpoint May 5, 1997. The documented US detention ended with actual deportation to Jordan on May 5, 1997; later Jordanian custody is separate.
