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SNIPPET: "Two U.S. planes have flown radical Muslim preacher Abu Hamza al-Masri and four other suspected terrorists to the United States, hours after Britain's High Court cleared the way for their extradition. The planes departed a Royal Air Force base immediately after the British High Court rejected last-minute appeals by Hamza and the others. The five had raised legal questions about human rights and prison conditions they expected to face in the United States. In rejecting the appeals, the British court cited an “overwhelming public interest” in seeing the extraditions carried out. Hamza is wanted on U.S. charges that include...

British citizen facing extradition to the United States on terrorism charges was found in possession of detailed military plans for a US Navy battle group in the Gulf, federal prosecutors said. AFP/File Photo An indictment unsealed in Connecticut also accused Babar Ahmad, 30, of operating two US-based web sites that solicited financial support for terrorist organizations, including the Taliban and Chechen rebels. "In order to dismantle terrorist organizations, we must attack them at their roots, so it is critical that we uncover and sever the financing stream and communication that supports the terrorists' violent intentions," said US Attorney Kevin O'Connor....

NEW HAVEN, Conn. — A former Navy sailor convicted of leaking details about ship movements and the best ways to attack them was sentenced Friday to the maximum 10 years in prison. U.S. District Judge Mark Kravitz said Hassan Abu-Jihaad, of Phoenix, betrayed his country and endangered his fellow sailors.

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) - A federal judge has thrown out a former Navy sailor's conviction on providing support to terrorists. But upheld Wednesday was Hassan Abu Jihaad's (hah-SAHN' AH'-boo zhee-HAHD) conviction for disclosing classified information. Prosecutors say they are reviewing the ruling. Abu-Jihaad's conviction was hailed last year by top national security officials and federal investigators as a model of cooperation among government agencies. Abu-Jihaad was a signalman aboard the USS Benfold. He was accused of passing along information a drawing of the formation the group would use to pass through the dangerous Strait of Hormuz

Ex-Sailor Found Guilty of Leaking Ship Movements FEATURE STORY   by IPT IPT News March 3, 2008*Updated NEW HAVEN - Months after the October 2000 attack on the USS Cole that killed 17 American sailors docked in Yemen, a battle group led by the USS Constellation prepared to sail for the Persian Gulf. The U.S. was saber rattling. Retaliation against the Taliban in Afghanistan and Al Qaeda for the Cole attack was anticipated. Unbeknownst to Navy leadership, a signalman on the destroyer Benfold was in direct communication at the time with a British-based publishing house openly supporting the Taliban and...

"A former Navy sailor was convicted Wednesday of leaking details about ship movements to suspected terrorism supporters, an act that could have endangered his own crewmates.... ...The American-born Muslim convert formerly known as Paul R. Hall faces up to 25 years in federal prison when he is sentenced May 23."

NEW HAVEN, Conn. - A former Navy sailor has been convicted of leaking details of ship movements to suspected terrorism supporters. Jurors were in their second day of deliberations when they convicted Hassan Abu-Jihaad of Phoenix of providing material support to terrorists and disclosing classified national defense information. Federal prosecutors had urged a jury to convict the 32-year-old of leaking ship movements to suspected terrorists, saying he sympathized with the enemy and admitted disclosing military intelligence. But his attorney said an investigation that spanned two continents over four years failed to turn up proof that Abu-Jihaad leaked details of ship...

New Haven (AP) _ A federal judge says prosecutors may not introduce at trial a claim that a former Navy sailor plotted to attack military personnel. Hassan Abu-Jihaad is charged with disclosing the location of Navy ships to terrorism supporters. The 31-year-old Abu-Jihaad of Phoenix pleaded not guilty in April to charges he provided material support to terrorists with intent to kill U.S. citizens and disclosed classified information relating to national defense. He is accused of disclosing the location of Navy ships and the best ways to attack them. During a hearing in November, prosecutors played secretly recorded phone calls...

Treason by any other Name By M. Zuhdi Jasser [FSM Contributing Editor M. Zuhdi Jasser, a Muslim, believes that if Petty Officer Hassan Abujihaad, also a Muslim and recently arrested for supporting terrorism, is convicted, he should suffer the utmost in punishment. But since Abujihaad’s arrest, why have Islamist organizations like CAIR and MAS been silent? ] Our local Arzona Republic and the national mainstream media widely reported March 8 about the March 7, 2007 arrest here in Phoenix, Arizona, of Hassan Abujihaad, formerly Paul Hall, “for taking part in a conspiracy to kill military personnel by supplying terror suspects...

PHOENIX (Reuters) - A U.S. federal grand jury has indicted a former U.S. Navy sailor on charges of spying and providing material support to terrorists in a case going back six years, authorities said on Wednesday. Hassan Abujihaad, 31, formerly known as Paul Hall, was indicted by a federal grand jury in Bridgeport, Connecticut, the U.S. attorney's office in the state said in a statement. Police arrested Abujihaad in Phoenix this month. He is suspected of providing classified information to a London-based organization called Azzam Publications and knowing that it was to be used in a conspiracy to kill U.S....

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut (CNN) -- A former member of the U.S. Navy was arrested Wednesday in Phoenix, Arizona, on charges of espionage and providing material support to terrorists, the Department of Justice said. Hassan Abujihaad, formerly known as Paul R. Hall, 31, was arrested on a federal criminal complaint. He is alleged to have provided classified information to a London-based group called Azzam Publications about a U.S. Navy battle group as it traveled from California to the Persian Gulf region in 2001.

WASHINGTON — A former Navy sailor was arrested on terrorism charges Wednesday for alleging mishandling classified information that ended up in the hands of a suspected terrorism financier. Hassan Abujihaad, 31, of Phoenix, was arrested in a case that began in Connecticut and has stretched across the country and into Europe and the Middle East. Abujihaad, who is also known as Paul R. Hall, is charged in the same case as Babar Ahmad, a British computer specialist accused of running Web sites to raise money for terrorism. He is schedule be extradited to the U.S. to face trial. Abujihaad was...

March 7, 2007 — A former U.S. Navy sailor has been charged with allegedly passing military secrets about U.S. Navy movements through waters in the Middle East to al Qaeda-related Web sites during the spring of 2001, just months after the USS Cole was attacked in Yemen. Hassan Abujihaad, formerly known as Paul R. Hall, allegedly passed information about U.S. Navy warship movements in the Straits of Hormuz in April 2001 while he was a member of the Navy. The information passed along contained details about vulnerabilites of U.S. vessels — including susceptibility to small boat attacks by terrorists. Abujihaad...

A 30-year-old British computer expert, accused of running several Web sites to promote holy war and funnel money to terrorist organizations, was in a London court yesterday to fight a U.S. extradition request. Extradition papers filed in the case said that when Mr. Ahmad was arrested Aug. 5, he possessed classified documents describing movements of a U.S. Navy battle group in the Middle East — and instructions on how best to attack those vessels with rocket-propelled grenades from small boats. The papers said he also had communications with a U.S. Navy enlistee aboard the USS Benfold, a guided missile destroyer,...