A federal jury in Detroit on Tuesday convicted two Muslim immigrants of conspiring to help others get into the USA to commit possible terrorist attacks. The jury also acquitted two others of the same charges in what was the first trial to arise from the security crackdown that followed 9/11. Abdel-Ilah Elmardoudi, 37, of Minneapolis and Karim Koubriti, 24, were found guilty of conspiring to support terrorism and conspiring to commit document and visa fraud. Ahmed Hannan, 34, and Farouk Ali-Haimoud, 22, also of Detroit, were acquitted of the terrorism charge. Hannan was found guilty of visa fraud. Prosecutors charged that the men plotted from the late 1990s — before they immigrated — to bring in cohorts to the USA for potential terrorist activities. Ali-Haimoud came from Algeria. The others are from Morocco. Full Story
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