updated Mon. February 26, 2024
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ImmigrationReform.com
February 26, 2018
Mahmud Abouhalima, entered on a tourist visa and applied for and gained amnesty under the agricultural worker provision of the 1986 IRCA amnesty despite living in New York and working as a taxi driver. Abouhalima fled to Saudi Arabia. He was extradited back to the United States and was convictedÃâà...
amNY
February 23, 2018
The trial for four of the defendants — Mahmud Abouhalima, Ahmad Ajaj, Nidal Ayyad and Mohammed Salameh — began on Oct. 4, 1993. They were convicted five months later on March 4, 1994, and sentenced to 240 years each. Judge Kevin Thomas Duffy said at the sentencing that the number 240 wasÃâà...
Oxygen (blog)
November 20, 2017
In May, 1994, Mohammed A. Salameh, Nidal A. Ayyad, Mahmud Abouhalima and Ahmad M. Ajaj were sentenced to 240 years each for their part in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. The New York Times reported at the time that Judge Duffy arrived at the sentence by estimating the life expectancies ofÃâà...
HuffPost
August 31, 2017
I've interviewed Sheikh Ahmed Yassin and Doctor Abdel Aziz al-Rantissi, leaders of Hamas; Mahmud Abouhalima, one of the key organizers of the 1993 attack on the World Trade Center; Rabbi Meir Kahane, leader of the anti-Palestinian Koch Party; Rev Michael Bray, convicted of bombing clinics thatÃâà...
Huffington Post
January 26, 2016
Mahmud Abouhalima was a six-foot-two redheaded Egyptian who did two tours in Afghanistan. Dubbed “the Red,” Abouhalima, was a disciple of Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman, leader of the al Gamm'a Islamiya, or IG, one of the most virulent Egyptian terror groups. These Afghan connections would proveÃâà...
The Hill (blog)
March 5, 2015
The fraud was so significant that The New York Times called the amnesty "one of the most extensive immigration frauds ever perpetrated against the United States Government." One of the beneficiaries was illegal alien Mahmud Abouhalima, who overstayed a tourist visa and then falsely claimed to be anÃâà...
Solitary Watch
November 23, 2013
The excerpts that follow come from a declaration by Mahmud Abouhalima, who was convicted of taking part in the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center (a charge he still denies). Sentenced to 240 years, he initially spent most of his time in the general population at federal maximum security prisons,Ãâà...
Immigration Blog (blog)
February 26, 2013
Mahmud Abouhalima: Mahmud Abouhalima overstayed a tourist visa, becoming an illegal alien, and later received amnesty under the 1986 Immigration and Reform and Control Act (IRCA), by falsely claiming to be an agricultural worker even though he worked as a cab driver. Given the limited resources ofÃâà...
