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Iraqi refugees controversial admits targeting American soldiers
On: Sun 12/18/2011 10:16
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said the U.S. Justice Department, said an Iraqi resident in the United States, pleaded guilty after being accused of trying to kill U.S. soldiers in Iraq and helping the militants in the al-Qaeda and trained on how to make bombs at home. The Head of the Department of Homeland Security U.S. Department of Justice Lisa Monaco in a statement that "the successful investigation after the arrest on the promise of Ramadan Alwan and interrogation show the effectiveness of the intelligence services and law enforcement in bringing these terrorists to be brought to justice."
And approved Alwan in federal court in Kentucky yesterday (16 December) pleaded guilty, been charged to participate in the bomb attacks homemade against U.S. forces in Iraq in the period between the years 2003 to 2006 and came to prove his involvement in these incidents after they discovered U.S. troops fingerprints on the bomb did not explode.
The case has sparked harsh criticism from Republicans in Congress demanded the trial of suspected terrorists before military courts in the U.S. base at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, but the administration of U.S. President Barack Obama has rejected these demands and said that the courts Federal has jurisdiction also in dealing with these issues, major terrorist.
It is said that the FBI initiated an investigation in order Alwan through September 2009, after nearly a year used the client confidential talk with him about his activities in Iraq and included the use of improvised bombs and sniper rifles to target U.S. troops.
She to Alwan and another Iraqi named Muhannad Sheriff Hammadi charged with attempting to provide support and weapons for the militant al-Qaeda in Iraq through a trap installed by his American authorities, knowing that Hammadi pleaded not guilty to the charges.
The Alwan and Hammadi entered the United States in 2009 after having obtained the right of political asylum and arrested in May in Bowling Green, Ky., and Alwan is facing jail for not less than 25 years and up to life in prison under a deal with prosecutors in which he recognizes the guilty verdict is due on the third of next April.
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