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A former US navy sailor has been convicted of spying and supplying a pro-al-Qaeda website with information on American warship movements. Hassan Abujihaad, 32, was found guilty of providing material support to terrorists and disclosing secret national defence information. He was arrested last year in Phoenix, Arizona. Abujihaad, a Muslim convert previously known as Paul Hall, faces 25 years in jail when he is sentenced on 23 May. He showed no emotion as he was convicted of passing classified details of US navy ships to Azzam.com by a jury at the US District Court in New Haven, Connecticut. Azzam was...

"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."

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....

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...