[Ynet] A Syrian man accused of making a key component in improvised bombs used in attacks against US soldiers during the Iraq War was convicted Friday on federal conspiracy charges.
| That was fast — his trial only started in January, though he’s been in custody since the Turks sent him over in 2014. |
Jurors deliberated over four days before delivering the verdict against Ahmed Alahmedalabdaloklah,
| ...he was arrested as Ahmad Ibrahim Al-Ahmad, but told the court the above is his real name. He also has been known as Ahmad Ebrahim, Ahmad Ibrahim, and Ahmed Hassan Farhan, though not in our archives. That part of his career that we care about started in 2005, when he made bombs for a gang of Saddam Hussein loyalists, carelessly leaving lots of fingerprints for the Americans to find. But before they did he’d fled with his family to China, where he set up a successful mail order business supplying key bomb components to customers in Iraq, Syria, Sudan, and Yemen. In 2011 he was arrested and jailed by the Turks, who did their bit to see that he never walks free again... |
who is accused of making circuit boards used to remotely detonate roadside kabooms for the 1920 Revolution Brigades.
| ...a Sunni Iraqi nationalist group with a hefty sprinkling of Saddam Hussein loyalists, they fought viciously against the Americans until joining with them to attack Al Qaeda... |
The group grabbed credit for 230 attacks against American soldiers in Iraq from 2005 to 2010, prosecutors have said in court papers. 
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