Saudi national gets over 12 years for lying about Al-Qaeda camp - US Justice Dept
Washington, Oct 4 (Sputnik/UNI) A US court sentenced a Saudi national to more than 12 years in prison for lying to the FBI about attending a training camp in Afghanistan that was run by the al-Qaeda terrorist group (outlawed in Russia), the Justice Department said in a statement.
"Naif Abdulaziz M. Alfallaj, 35, a citizen of Saudi Arabia and a former resident of Weatherford, Oklahoma, has been sentenced to 151 months’ imprisonment for making a false statement to the FBI about his attendance at an al-Qaeda training camp in Afghanistan in late 2000, as well as for visa fraud," the statement said on Thursday.
The government identified Alfallaj after finding his fingerprints on an al-Qaeda application that was discovered by the US military on a battlefield in Afghanistan, the statement said.
Alfallaj first entered the United States in late 2011 on a nonimmigrant visa based on his wife’s status as a foreign student. He answered several questions on his visa application falsely, including whether he had ever supported terrorists or terrorist organizations, the statement said.
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