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Hassoun is now being held on an immigration charge at an INS facility and is considered a flight risk. U.S. officials describe him as an 'important link' not only to the Padilla investigation, but possibly to a suspected U.S.-based al Qaeda network awaiting orders for future attacks.
Prosecutors contended that Adham Amin Hassoun, 45, a computer programmer of Palestinian descent, recruited Padilla, 37, at a mosque in Broward County, Florida. The government argued that both Hassoun and Kifah Wael Jayyousi, 46, an engineer and schools administrator originally from Jordan, provided supplies, recruits and money to radical Islamic jihadists abroad.
Cooke sentenced Padilla's recruiter, 45-year-old Adham Amin Hassoun, to 15 years and eight months in prison and 46-year-old Kifah Wael Jayyousi to 12 years and eight months.
Sentenced to 15 years in federal prison, Hassoun should have been a free man in 2017. Instead, he found himself in the custody of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which locked him up in western New York. It was there that Hassoun's case turned extraordinary.
Hassoun is now being held on an immigration charge at an INS facility and is considered a flight risk. U.S. officials describe him as an 'important link' not only to the Padilla investigation, but possibly to a suspected U.S.-based al Qaeda network awaiting orders for future attacks.
Prosecutors contended that Adham Amin Hassoun, 45, a computer programmer of Palestinian descent, recruited Padilla, 37, at a mosque in Broward County, Florida. The government argued that both Hassoun and Kifah Wael Jayyousi, 46, an engineer and schools administrator originally from Jordan, provided supplies, recruits and money to radical Islamic jihadists abroad.
