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  • Student faces more charges in 'battlefield jihad' case

    10/21/2007 10:34:21 AM PDT · by 3AngelaD · 9 replies · 283+ views
    Houston Chronicle ^ | Oct. 19, 2007 | CINDY GEORGE
    Federal prosecutors have filed additional charges against Adnan Mirza, one of the four Muslim students accused of preparing to join the Taliban to fight U.S.-led forces overseas. Mirza, 30, was accused of planning to engage in "battlefield jihad" in the Middle East and financially supporting the terrorism group. Here on a student visa, the Pakistani originally was charged in a four-count indictment with Kobie Williams, a U.S. citizen attending the University of Houston-Downtown. Williams, 34, pleaded guilty to a conspiracy charge and awaits sentencing. The new 13-count indictment names Mirza alone and more completely outlines the allegations against him. The...
  • Two Houston men charged with aiding Taliban

    11/28/2006 5:12:13 PM PST · by SwinneySwitch · 15 replies · 855+ views
    Houston Chronicle ^ | Nov. 28, 2006 | CINDY GEORGE
    One of two Houston men accused of training to fight with the Taliban pleaded guilty this afternoon in federal court. Kobie Diallo Williams, 33, a U.S. citizen who was a student at the University of Houston Downtown, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to assist a terrorist group. His help included withdrawing cash from an ATM to send to the Middle East. Another man, Adnan Babar Mirza, 29, a Pakistani national who was in the country on an expired student visa, faces a similar conspiracy charges as well as three federal weapons violations. Mirza appeared today before a U.S. magistrate judge. Mirza...