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Engineer Ibrahim Zubair Convicted in US as Fund Raiser for Qaeda Deported to India.

US deports Qaeda's Financial aide to India.

Context

In April 2018, Mohammed Ibrahim Zubair alleged with charges of doing financial aid to a terrorist organization and was sentenced to 60 months in prison. The court recently ordered his deportation to India. He has been convicted in the United States for Financing activities of the slain Yemeni preacher and al-Qaeda leader Anwar al-Awlaki, has been deported to India. He has now been sent to 14 days quarantine in Amritsar. 

Mohammed Ibrahim Zubair

Mohammed Ibrahim Zubair, 41, a resident of Toledo in Ohio, US. He is Sharjah born, but is an Indian National, with his parents tracing their roots to Hyderabad. He was among 167 deportees by arrived in Amritsar from the US. According to central agency sources, Zubair comes from a well-to-do family which migrated to Sharjah and then to the US while he was still a child. Both he and his brother graduated from the University of Illinois as Engineers. They were engaged in well paying jobs. After graduating, Zubair moved to Toledo and married an American Citizen in 2006, following which he became a permanent resident of the US. While their father is dead now, the two brothers had bought a property in Hyderabad and sent back their mother to India a few years ago.

Case Study

In July 2015, Zubair was arrested by US authorities for helping send around $22,000 in 2009 to al-Awlaki in Yemen. The money was allegedly carried by his brother Farooq Mohammed, Who was then based in the United Arab Emirates. Farooq is currently serving a 29-year sentence in the US for both terror links and for conspiring to kill the judge who was hearing his case. Al-Awlaki who was killed in a drone strike ordered by President Barack Obama in Yemen in September 2011.
In April 2018, Zubair pleaded guilty to charges of concealing financial aid to a terrorist organization and was sentenced to 60 months in prison. The Court recently ordered his deportation to India.

India's View

Punjab Director General of Police Dinkar Gupta said that during his questioning by the Counter Intelligence wing of the state police, Zubair had revealed that he was radicalized after he started following the preaching of al-Awlaki, who was calling for jihad against the US.
"The FBI detained Zubair on November 5, 2015... He was sentenced to 60 months jail in April 2018 but was supposed to spend 30 months only taking into account the 30 months he had already spent in detention," Gupta said.

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