Pretrial Rescheduled For Iraqi National

• {Bowling Green, Kentucky}...U.S. District Judge Thomas Russell set a February 8th pretrial conference for 24 year old Mohanad Shareef Hammadi, an Iraqi national arrested in Bowling Green in May along with Waad Ramadan Alwan. Both were charged with conspiring to send weapons and money to al-Qaida in Iraq. The two Iraqi refugees both pleaded not guilty to the charges, but on December 16th, Alwan pleaded guilty to all 23 counts in an indictment against him. Hammadi has been granted more time to review the charges against him.