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Syrian man sentenced in U.S. for making
bomb parts
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 [November 08, 2018]
(Reuters) - A Syrian man accused in
2011 of designing and assembling electronic parts for radio-controlled
roadside bombs for attacks on U.S. military forces in Iraq was convicted
on Wednesday in an Arizona federal court, U.S. officials said.
Ahmed Alahmedalabdaloklah, 41, also known as Ahmad Ibrahim Al-Ahmad, was
sentenced to life in prison plus 30 years, after a jury found him guilty
on March 16 on six terrorism-related charges, the U.S. Department of
Justice said on Wednesday.
Alahmedalabdaloklah was arrested under an Interpol warrant in Turkey in
2011, under the name Al-Ahmad, and detained there until his extradition
in August 2014 to the United States, officials said.
The initial indictment accused Alahmedalabdaloklah of designing and
assembling parts for wireless detonators and circuit boards used in
roadside bombs planted for attacks on American forces in Iraq.
According to that indictment, he built the wireless systems in a house
in Baghdad with components he procured from 2005 to 2010 from an
unspecified company based in Arizona.
"Alahmedalabdaloklah sought to harm American soldiers by conspiring with
others to construct and supply improvised explosive device (IED) parts
for bombs that were used in Iraq. He will now serve the rest of his life
in prison," John C. Demers, Assistant U.S. Attorney General for National
Security, said in a press release.
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His convictions are: conspiracy to use a weapon of mass destruction,
conspiring to maliciously damage or destroy U.S. property by means
of an explosive, aiding and abetting other persons to possess a
destructive device in furtherance of a crime of violence, and
conspiracy to possess a destructive device in furtherance of a crime
of violence.
(Reporting by Rich McKay in Atlanta; editing by Darren Schuettler)
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