N.Y. Detainee Allegedly Hosted Riyadh Bomb Plotter on U.S. Visit

By Evan Kohlmann

Several interesting pieces of information have surfaced in legal documents relating to the immigration case of Mourad El Hamyani, a permanent U.S. resident who is currently detained in New York. In February, a federal immigration judge denied the government's request to deport El Hamyani, but DHS is challenging that ruling. According to a recently released DHS document (available on the NEFA Foundation website), El Hamyani "attended a terrorist training camp in Afghanistan...assisted in the planning and execution of an armed robbery...intended to fund terrorist activities...[and] hosted a terrorist, Abdelkarim Mejjati, during two trips Mejjati made to the United States."

In light of the recent court proceedings involving El-Hamyani, the NEFA Foundation is releasing a 2007 Sawt al-Jihad ("Voice of Jihad") interview with Karim el-Mejjatti. When asked by Sawt al-Jihad about "the most famous commanders" he fought under, Mejjati responds, "I will not forget my brothers Ibn Shaykh al-Liby and Abu Zubaydah al-Falastini who supervised me during my military training and taught me about glory. I will not forget my Muslim brother Shaykh Abu Qatada al-Falastini who taught me my ideology. I will not forget my brother al-Mukhtar al-Baluchi (Khalid Sheikh Mohammed) who revived our spirit of sacrifice for this religion and who was in charge of me in Pakistan."

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