Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Delay Sought In Iraqi Case

{Bowling Green, Kentucky}...Court papers filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Bowling Green ask U.S. District Judge Thomas B. Russell to reset the sentencing date for Iraqi national Waad Ramadan Alwan. Alwan, who pleaded guilty to 23 terrorism-related charges in December, was to be sentenced April 3rd. Co-defendant, 24 year old Mohanad Shareef Hammadi, faces trial July 30th on charges he tried to funnel weapons and cash to Al-Qaida operatives in Iraq and that he lied to get into the United States as a refugee. The FBI arrested the pair in May in Bowling Green.