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Ali Al-Tamimi is an American biologist and Islamic teacher. He was convicted of inciting terrorism in connection with the Virginia Jihad Network.
Al-Tamimi was born in Washington, DC, and raised in a predominantly Catholic neighborhood. His father, a lawyer, worked at the Iraqi embassy, and his mother was a noted scholar of psychology. When he was 15 his family moved to Saudi Arabia, where he became interested in Islam. On returning to the U.S. two years later, he attended The George Washington University and the University of Maryland, College Park. He received a doctorate in computational biology from George Mason University on the topic of "Chaos and Complexity in Cancer".
In the early 1990's, Al-Tamimi led a five person delegation from the Islamic Assembly of North America in the United Nations 4th World Conference on Women, held in Beijing, China. Al-Tamimi contacted Shaikh Abdel Rahaman Abdel Khaliq, who wrote a book about women in Islam, which Al-Tamimi translated into English.
He lectured often at the Center for Islamic Information and Education in Falls Church, Virginia. He was a founding member of the Center, which is also known as Dar al-Arqam.
Prior to al-Tammi's prosecution, 11 members of the Virginia Jihad Network were charged with a number of charges related to their participation in a terrorist enterprise. Although the group trained with paintguns they also were convicted of using and possessing various firearms, rocket propelled grenades and explosives. Nine members of the group were found guilty.
Mr. al-Timmi remained under Grand Jury investigation as an unindicted co-conspirator during the trial of the Network members. After the conclusion of the Virginia Jihad Network trials, prosecutors then successfully proved that al-Timmi was the spirtual leader of the group and had encouraged them to wage Jihad on India and the US.
Federal Prosecution
On April 26, 2005, he was convicted in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia of soliciting others to levy war against the United States and inducing others to use firearms in violation of federal law. Soon after the September 11, 2001 attacks he allegedly told a small group of young men to join the Taliban and fight the United States. On July 13, 2005, he was sentenced to life in prison plus 70 years without parole.
Jonathan Turley, who is representing Ali al-Tamimi, persuaded the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals to halt appellate proceedings January 24 2006. The appellate court is considering whether to send the case back to the trial court to discover if the NSA warrantless surveillance was used to monitor Ali. If it does, Turley said, "the government would have to establish whether Dr. Al-Tamimi was intercepted under this or any other undisclosed operation, and the court could have to look at the legality of the whole operation." New York Times
External links
- April 2004 Dept of Justice Press Release
- "The Education of Ali Al-Timimi" (Registration required) by Milton Viorst, The Atlantic Monthly, June 2006
- Tracing the Case of "Virginia Jihad"
- Ali al-Tamimi Audio Lectures
- Muslim man convicted of urging holy war
- Prosecution Called 'Overzealous'
- Muslim cleric convicted
- Spreading Saudi Fundamentalism in the US
- Muslim lecturer fits easily in two worlds
- Dr. Ali Al-Timimi's Support Committee Website
- Center for Islamic Information and Education
- "Prosecuted, Not Persecuted: Why a Muslim scholar probably crossed the First Amendment line" - by Rod Smolla, Slate.com, July 27, 2005
- The Case of Ali al-Timimi: How America Is Feathering Her Enemies’ Arrows
- Ali al-Timimi's message to the Muslim Community (Audio of his final speech before being taken into custody)