The Cornerstone Report: Volume 2, Issue 1

ICE Investigation Leads To Prison Sentence
For Terror Financier

(Washington, D.C.)—A prominent leader of American-Islamic political and charitable organizations was sentenced to 23 years in prison October for his role in a bizarre scheme to assassinate a prominent member of the ruling family of Saudi Arabia.

Abdurahman Alamoudi, a naturalized American citizen originally born in Eritrea, pleaded guilty to charges that he had violated U.S. terrorism-related sanctions when he traveled to and engaged in unlicensed commerce with Libya. In addition, Alamoudi was charged for his role in helping to transfer hundreds of thousands of dollars from Libya to finance the assassination plot and for making false statements on his naturalization application.

According to court documents, Alamoudi, the founder of the American Muslim Council and the American Muslim Foundation, had made at least 10 illegal trips to Libya since 1995. In several of these trips, Alamoudi had met with officials of the Libyan government to discuss a plot to assassinate Crown Prince Abdullah, the de facto ruler of Saudi Arabia, by financing and supporting two Saudi dissidents living in London.

ICE investigators worked with the Internal Revenue Service, the FBI and other components of the Department of Justice to investigate Alamoudi’s dealings and to bring the case to conclusion.

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