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Omar Abdi Mohamed

Released
Gender:Male
Race:Black
Era:2000s
State:California
Time Imprisoned:
1 Year
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Biography

Omar Abdi Mohamed was a Somali preacher paid $1,700 a month by the Saudi government to promote Wahhabism at a Somali social center. He set up a small charity to help famine victims in Somalia, and the charity received more than $326,000 from the Global Relief foundation, a terrorist-financing entity linked to Al Qaeda. He also received $5,000 from Al Haramain Islamic Foundation, a Saudi-supported charity.

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

Case

San Diego MCC
Charges: immigration violations
Arrested: Jan 20, 2004
Sentenced: Dec 20, 2005
Incarcerated: Dec 19, 2005
Released: Dec 19, 2006
Sentence: 1 Year and 6 Months
Prosecutor: Steven R. Cook; John N. Parmley
Judge: Houston (U.S. District Court, Southern District of California)
Convicted: Yes
Institution State: California