2006 Toledo terror plot

FBI investigation In February 2006, three men in Toledo, Ohio (Mohammad Zaki Amawi, Marwan Othman El-Hindi, and Wassim Mazloum) were arrested and charged with conspiracy to provide material support to terrorists in Iraq and engage in violent jihad in their home town, as well as making verbal threats against the President of the United States. The investigation was conducted by the FBI and the Toledo Joint Terrorism Task Force, with the cooperation of an informant called 'The Trainer' who has a U.S. military background in security.http://www.wtol.com/Global/story.asp?S=4530676 https://web.archive.org/web/20060316094051/http://www.wtol.com/Global/story.asp?S=4530676 March 16, 2006 dead WTOL-TV Toledo, OH: Toledo-Area Men Arrested for Terrorist Activity wtol.com February 23, 2006 The Cleveland FBI Special Agent in Charge C. Frank Figliuzzi and the U.S. attorney's general office credited the local Muslim and Arab-American community for passing along the information that led to the arrest of the three terror suspects.http://www.toledomuslims.com/Criterion/Article.asp?ID=248 https://web.archive.org/web/20060414085435/http://www.toledomuslims.com/Criterion/Article.asp?ID=248 2006-04-14 dead Toledo Muslim terrorists terror suspects Toledomuslims.com 2010-09-10 During a February 2006 press briefing in Washington, DC, in the presence of the Deputy Director of the FBI John Pistole, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales accused the men of educating themselves on how to make and use explosives and suicide bomb vests by downloading videos off the internet, seeking firearm training, conspiring to provide terrorist funds abroad by using Mazloum's car dealership as a cover for traveling to and from Iraq, and making verbal threats against the President of the United States.http://www.usdoj.gov/ag/speeches/2006/ag_speech_060221.html https://web.archive.org/web/20060530191813/http://www.usdoj.gov/ag/speeches/2006/ag_speech_060221.html May 30, 2006 dead Prepared Remarks for Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales at the Ohio Terrorism Indictments Press Conference US DOJ February 21, 2006 Three Ohio men indicted for terrorist plot against U.S. military in Iraq This plot was mentioned as one of three examples of homegrown terrorism in a speech by the director of the FBI Robert Mueller on 23 June 2006 on the morning that the Miami bomb plot to attack the Sears Tower was announced.https://www.fbi.gov/pressrel/speeches/mueller062306.htm https://web.archive.org/web/20060705064818/http://www.fbi.gov/pressrel/speeches/mueller062306.htm July 5, 2006 dead Remarks Prepared for Delivery by Director Robert S. Mueller, III. Federal Bureau of Investigation. The City Club of Cleveland FBI Robert S. Mueller, III June 23, 2006 December 26, 2015 On 15 December 2007 Mohammad Zaki and two cousins Zubair Ahmed, Khaleel Ahmed, received indictments on further terrorism charges of conspiring to kill, kidnap or maim persons outside of the United States, including US military personnel in Iraq and Afghanistan, including taking weapons training, doing bodybuilding exercises and taking steroids, allegedly to prepare for attacks.http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5hPwocgKeK6VjQ_Vt-vD6yq3YqSfQ https://web.archive.org/web/20080620063106/http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5hPwocgKeK6VjQ_Vt-vD6yq3YqSfQ 2008-06-20 dead AFP: US men charged with plotting attacks 2007-12-14 A 2011 NPR report claimed some of the people associated with this group were imprisoned in a highly restrictive communication management unit. References DATA & GRAPHICS: Population Of The Communications Management Units, Margot Williams and Alyson Hurt, NPR, 3-3-11, retrieved 2011 03 04 from npr.org External links https://web.archive.org/web/20070310233428/http://www.newsnet5.com/news/7292487/detail.html March 10, 2007 Newsnet5 in Ohio report and analysis of the incident https://web.archive.org/web/20070312113109/http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060301/NEWS02/603010371 March 12, 2007 Toledo Blade report on Amawi bail hearing Category:February 2006 crimes in the United States Category:2006 in Ohio Category:Islamic terrorism in Ohio Category:United States in the Iraq War Category:Islamic terrorist incidents in 2006 Category:History of Toledo, Ohio Category:Terrorist incidents in the United States in 2006 Category:Terrorist incidents during the Iraq War Category:Crime in Toledo, Ohio