http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/crime/fl-terrorism-charges-dropped-20120613,0,6911229.story
“Feds drop terrorism charges against South Florida imam’s son, accused of helping Taliban”
By Paula McMahon, Sun Sentinel
6:15 p.m. EDT, June 13, 2012
SNIPPET: “Federal prosecutors dropped all terrorism charges against one member of a South Florida family accused of sending tens of thousands of dollars to the Pakistani Taliban terrorist group, according to court documents filed Wednesday in Miami.
No reason was given in prosecutors’ one-paragraph filing dismissing the charges against Irfan Khan, 39, of Miami.”
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http://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/2012/06/doj-secretly-drops-terrorism-charges-in-taliban-case
“DOJ Secretly Drops Terrorism Charges In Taliban Case”
June 19, 2012
SNIPPET: “The Department of Justice (DOJ) refuses to explain why it has abruptly dropped terrorism charges against a member of a Middle Eastern family indicted in south Florida last year with providing material support for the Pakistani Taliban.
In all, six people were charged with sending tens of thousands of dollars to the terrorist organization, which is associated with Al-Qaeda and has claimed responsibility for numerous attacks against American interests, including a 2009 suicide bombing at a U.S. military base in Afghanistan. The ringleader in this case is a Pakistani imam (Hafiz Muhammed Sher Ali Khan) who ran a mosque in Miami. The others include his sons, daughter and grandson.”
http://www.investigativeproject.org/3936/miami-imam-convicted-of-supporting-pakistani
For The Record - The IPT Blog
“Miami Imam Convicted of Supporting Pakistani Taliban”
by IPT News • Mar 4, 2013 at 6:13 pm
SNIPPET: “The 77-year-old former leader of Miami’s oldest mosque was convicted Monday of providing material support to the Pakistani Taliban and of aiding a conspiracy to murder, maim and kidnap people abroad.
Hafiz Khan faces up to 15 years in prison for each of the four counts on which he was convicted and is scheduled to be sentenced in May. He sent $50,000 overseas, including money that went to a madrassa where children “learn to kill Americans in Afghanistan,” the indictment said.
He had been imam at Miami’s Flagler Mosque since 1999. Though supporters decried his 2011 indictment, evidence showed he wanted Pakistan’s government replaced by one adhering to strict Islamic law and that he wished that “all opponents of Islam [need] to be destroyed.”
He also praised the failed 2010 Times Square bombing attempt by Faisal Shahzad.
The Pakistani Taliban is suspected of training Shahzad.”
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“Fla. imam convicted in Pakistani Taliban case”
By Curt Anderson - AP Legal Affairs Writer
Posted : Monday Mar 4, 2013 11:13:34 EST
MIAMI —
SNIPPET: “The case began with six defendants indicted in May 2011 but ended with only Khan on trial. Two of Khan’s sons, Izhar and Irfan, were cleared of all charges, and three more defendants have remained free in Pakistan, which does not extradite its citizens to face U.S. criminal charges.”