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  NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Wadih el Hage
Wadih el-Hage (born 1960) was an Al-Qaida member accused of conspiring in the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania.
Wadih El-Hage worked at several minimum wage jobs, inculding being a custodian, when he returned to Arizona.
A man named El Sayyid Nosair used the assault rifle that El-Hage bought in the 1991 death of rabbi Meir Kahane.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Wadih-el-Hage   (1351 words)

  
 CNN.com - Prosecutors say defendant lied about bin Laden - March 27, 2001
El Hage, 40, a Lebanese-born naturalized American, and his three co-defendants are accused of participating in a decade-long conspiracy to kill Americans and destroy U.S. property.
El Hage told the grand jury that he did not know bin Laden's military commander, Mohamed Atef, by a code name, "Taysir." But FBI crime lab specialist Mitchell Hallars testified Monday that el Hage fingerprints are on a letter that refers to Taysir.
El Hage, who lived in Nairobi from 1994 to 1997, told the grand jury and an FBI agent he never knew Odeh and could not identify his photograph.
www.cnn.com /2001/LAW/03/27/embassy.bomb.trial.02/index.html   (812 words)

  
 frontline: hunting bin laden: two terrorists: a portrait of wadih el hage, accused terrorist | PBS
El Hage's lawyer requested the February hearing to discuss the restrictive conditions of El Hage's jailing and to ask the judge for a decision on bail.
El Hage and his wife returned to Pakistan several times over the next few years, and for about a year, his mother-in-law and her husband accompanied them.
El Hage's real name is evident in the letter, as is his assumed name from Afghanistan, Abd'al Sabur, which means "servant of the most patient." The letter seems to imply that El Hage is an "engineer" of the cell.
www.pbs.org /wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/binladen/upclose/elhage.html   (3138 words)

  
 CNN.com - Four embassy bombers get life - October 21, 2001
El Hage, 41, a naturalized American from Lebanon, was found guilty of belonging to a worldwide conspiracy to kill Americans and destroy U.S. property, as were his three co-defendants.
El Hage's attorneys argued that their client, not convicted of any violent act, did not deserve as severe punishment as the convicted bombers.
El Hage, who said he was a devout, nonviolent activist, spent more than 20 minutes reading a treatise on Islam and religious freedom -- one of the reasons, El Hage said, that he immigrated to the United States in 1978.
edition.cnn.com /2001/LAW/10/19/embassy.bombings   (780 words)

  
 Wadih el Hage   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Wadih not actually fight but acted as an My husband went with Wadih to deliver and Korans to the young people.
A man named El Sayyid Nosair used the assault rifle that El-Hage in the 1991 death of rabbi Meir Kahane.
Prosecutors say that El-Hage was called to Brooklyn New York New York on March 1 1991 to help direct the Alkifah Refugee a Brooklyn-based charity that raised money to support veterans the 1980's war against the Soviets in The group had an office in Tucson was in contact with an Arlington mosque.
www.freeglossary.com /Wadih_El_Hage   (1384 words)

  
 Osama Bin Laden
Wadih El Hage, born in Lebanon in 1960, had come to the United States in the late 1970's to attend school at the University of Southwestern Louisiana in Lafayette.
El Hage admitted before the grand jury that he never reported this visit to the authorities even though Khalifa was later found murdered.
El Hage would rise to such a senior position that he was anointed the successor to Al Kifah Director Shalabi, who had planned on leaving Al Kifah in Brooklyn and returning to Peshawar in March 1991.
www.iacsp.com /itobli2.html   (3014 words)

  
 CNN.com - Witness offers alibi for bombings trial defendant - April 17, 2001
El Hage's friend, who spent his second day on the witness stand Tuesday, is Mohamed Ali Muraweh Saleh Odeh, a Nairobi, Kenya-based businessman who engaged in the gemstone trade and other business ventures with el Hage, according to his testimony.
The point of his appearance seemed to be to show the jury that el Hage was busy in lawful business activities, not in setting up a terrorist cell, during the time he lived with his family in Kenya from mid-1994 to fall 1997.
El Hage has consistently claimed that although he worked for Saudi exile Osama bin Laden, he had nothing to do with any violent activities led by bin Laden or carried out by his Islamic militant group, al Qaeda.
www.cnn.com /2001/LAW/04/17/embassy.bombing/index.html   (714 words)

  
 frontline: hunting bin laden: the trail of evidence: warnings to the fbi | PBS
Summer, 1997 -- Wadih El Hage, who worked as a secretary for bin Laden in the Sudan, was found to be living in Nairobi, Kenya.
El Hage's computer, according to El Hage's mother-in-law, who was present during the raid.
El Hage took them seriously and returned to the United States with his family in September of 1997.
www.pbs.org /wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/binladen/bombings/warnings.html   (805 words)

  
 Jury Finds Embassy Bombers Guilty on All Counts - News from the Washington File
Wadih El Hage, along with the three other defendants, was found guilty of three counts of conspiracy to murder Americans, especially U.S. Government employees, and destroying government property.
We have an uphill battle with the appeal." Sam Schmidt, attorney for El Hage, said that he felt the government had not proved criminal intent on the part of his client, but the weight of the evidence presented against the others rubbed off on El Hage.
El Hage, 40, a naturalized U.S. citizen born in Lebanon, was not charged in the bombings.
www.iwar.org.uk /news-archive/2001/terrorism/05-30-01.htm   (1342 words)

  
 Legal Dockets Online © - Your Best Source for Case Information and News
Defendant Wadih El-Hage appeals from an order of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (Sand, J.) that denied his motion to be released on bail, denied his application for modification of the condition of his confinement, and denied his application for an evidentiary hearing.
Defendant Wadih El-Hage appeals from an order entered orally on January 10, 2000 and by written endorsement January 13, 2000 in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (Sand, J.).
Wadih El-Hage is a 39-year old United States citizen who, until his arrest, resided in Arlington, Texas with his wife and seven children.
www.legaldockets.com /files/1025opn.html   (3089 words)

  
 Tucson Gem and Mineral Show
The newspaper cited a day planner confiscated by the FBI from Wadih el Hage, convicted of conspiracy and sentenced to life in prison last year in the 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.
El Hage lived in Tucson in the mid-1980s and married an American Muslim woman from Tucson.
He said the entries in El Hage's diary indicate he may have bought and tried to sell some tanzanite, but that doesn't mean there's an underground tanzanite supply network benefiting terrorists.
www.azstarnet.com /gemshow02/20127TANZANITE.html   (1194 words)

  
 Court TV: Driven mad until (maybe) proven guilty
The man's name is Wadih El-Hage, and to his supporters, the only thing more troubling than the allegations he faces — that he was a front man for notorious terrorist Osama Bin Laden — is the way this Arab-American is being treated by his own country.
El Hage's attorney says that while intelligent people may disagree about the place of solitary confinement in disciplining convicts or punishing the worst offenders, there is hardly a good argument for its use in pretrial detention.
Wadih El-Hage is accused of being a front man for notorious terrorist Osama Bin Laden.
www.courttv.com /national/1999/1223/hage_ctv.html   (1735 words)

  
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The evidence will show that Wadih El Hage was hired by Bin Laden to work in the Sudan, not only because he was well- educated, a hard worker, honest, responsible and a devout Muslim, but, yes, he was an American free to travel throughout the world on American passport.
This was obviously the case with Wadih El Hage who, with his American passport, was able to pass in and out of the United States and into regions in Africa, the Middle East and Asia on instructions from Bin Laden himself.
Mohammed was introduced to El Sayyid Nosair by Khalid Ibrahim, an Egyptian born Islamic fundamentalist in New Jersey.
judiciary.senate.gov /testimony.cfm?id=128&wit_id=81   (5285 words)

  
 CRIMINAL DOCKET FOR CASE #: 98-CR-1023-ALLUSA v. Hage, et al
CJA 20 as to Wadih El Hage : Appointment of Attorney Bruce McIntyre.
El Hage is arraigned and pleads not guilty on each of counts 1 and 228 thru 238 as charged on S Indictment.
El Hage is arraigned on S(2) indictment and pleads not guilty on counts 1 and counts 228 thur 238 as charged.
www.ict.org.il /documents/documentdet.cfm?docid=24   (1409 words)

  
 WSJ Claims Proof of Tanzanite/al Qaeda Link, U.S.Task Force Says No Evidence Yet
The article refers to a diary belonging to Wadih el Hage, who was arrested following the 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in Nairobi, Kenya and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
El Hage's diary, chronicling his efforts to sell tanzanite, was seized by the FBI a year before the bombings.
El Hage later went to London jewelry store Holts, "the only one at Hatton Garden that deals with semi-precious stones like tanz," says the diary.
www.professionaljeweler.com /archives/news/2002/011802story.html   (474 words)

  
 Diary Offers More Evidence of Tanzanite Ties to Terrorism
El Hage’s journal entries chronicle his efforts to find tanzanite buyers in Europe before eventually finding a jewelry store in London – Holts – that was interested.
The day-planner was seized by the FBI in 1997 during investigations that eventually led to el Hage and three other men being convicted last year of conspiracy in connection with the 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in Tanzania and Kenya.
El Hage is currently serving a life sentence in a federal prison in Colorado.
www.diamonds.net /news/newsitem.asp?num=6203&type=all&topic=Conflict   (465 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
TEXT: The federal government says Osama bin-Laden's former secretary, Wadih el Hage, had contact with Global Relief offices in Belgium and the Chicago suburb of Bridgeview in 1996 and 97, when he was working with the al-Qaida terrorist organization in Kenya.
El Hage was sentenced to life in prison last year for his role in the 1998 bombings of two U-S embassies in East Africa.
Global Relief attorney Roger Simmons says the contacts with el Hage prove nothing, because he probably spoke to thousands of people in the mid-1990's.
www.help-for-you.com /news/Mar2002/scripts/2d994d59.html   (434 words)

  
 The EastAfrican
El Hage, a US citizen of Lebanese descent, lived in Nairobi from 1994 until 1997.
El Hage, described by prosecutors as a close associate of bin Laden, was arrested soon after the attacks in which he allegedly played a co-ordinating role.
Disclosure of the 1996-97 Nairobi telephone monitoring of suspected bin Laden operatives came as a result of defendant El Hage's motion to suppress evidence obtained through eavesdropping.
www.nationaudio.com /News/EastAfrican/08012001/Regional/Regional26.html   (1093 words)

  
 Professional Jeweler Archive: Tanzanite Sleuth
A lawyer for el Hage confirmed the gem dealer’s assessment.
el Hage may have received as payment for tanzanite was ever used or transferred for the purpose of use for terrorist or illegal activity,” says Joshua L. Dratel, el Hage’s attorney, in a letter to Avram.
Prosecutors were trying to establish how el Hage aided the terrorist cell that bombed the U.S. Embassies in East Africa, but U.S. investigators and trial lawyers said tanzanite was not determined to have been a financial vehicle for the cell.
www.professionaljeweler.com /archives/articles/2002/may02/0502gn.html   (1543 words)

  
 The terrors of Putte (Metro Times Detroit)
Another accusation against Sayadi and GRF are communications with Wadih el Hage, who was bin Laden’s personal secretary and is now serving a life sentence in connection with the bombings of U.S. embassies in East Africa in 1998.
Sayadi says between 1995 and 1997, el Hage called him to ask GRF to assist him with a project to reduce mosquitoes and therefore stem malaria in Africa.
He says el Hage tried to interest him in a business venture involving the sale of spices and tea, but Sayadi declined.
www.metrotimes.com /editorial/story.asp?id=6059   (2463 words)

  
 El Sayyid Nosair   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
El Sayyid Nosair is an Egyptian Islamic militant involved in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.
According to prosecutors a man named Wadih el Hage purchased the assault rifle used by Nosair.
There were dozens of bomb-making and documents related to terrorist plots found the apartment but they had not been into the English language from the Arabic language.
www.freeglossary.com /El_Sayyid_Nosair   (505 words)

  
 Hiding Out in the U.S.A.? - NW-1001WTCEXC - MSNBC.com
He also helped to represent El Sayyid Nosair, convicted of the 1990 murder of the militant Jewish leader Rabbi Meir Kahane, as well as “untouchable” radical groups ranging from the Japanese Red Army to the Puerto Rican FALN.
El Hage is an American citizen who admitted being a former bin Laden secretary, but maintains his innocence.
Theories about El Hage abound—whether he became radicalized later, whether he was always a radical, whether he was a sleeper....
msnbc.msn.com /id/3067514   (1602 words)

  
 Context of 'September 20, 1998'
Sudan also has files on Wadih al-Hage and Mamdouh Mahmoud Salim, both of whom have contact with members of the Hamburg al-Qaeda cell (see September 20, 1998; Late 1998; 1993).
Wadih El-Hage, a former personal secretary to bin Laden, is also arrested in the wake of the embassy bombings.
An investigation reportedly begins, at the insistence of the US, though Germany has claimed the request for the investigation was rejected [Agence France-Presse, 10/28/2001; New York Times, 1/18/2003] German investigators also learn of a connection between Salim and Mohammed Haydar Zammar, who is already identified by police in 1997 as a suspected extremist.
www.cooperativeresearch.net /context.jsp?item=a092098salim   (1042 words)

  
 Odyssey Into Jihad
April Ray's husband, Wadih El-Hage, is now serving a life sentence in a maximum-security prison for conspiracy to commit terrorism in the August 1998 bombings of two American Embassies in East Africa.
Ray was presented with the photograph of the man she was to marry.
Wadih El-Hage, 25, was slight, dark and squinting.
www.rickross.com /reference/alqaeda/alqaeda37.html   (3181 words)

  
 Bombing Trial Witness Describes Nairobi Surveillance Mission
On trial in New York are Wadih El Hage, a naturalized U.S. citizen born in Lebanon; Mohamed Sadeek Odeh, a Jordanian; Mohamed Rashed Daoud Al-'Owali, a Saudi Arabian; and Khalfan Khamis Mohamed, a Tanzanian.
In an intense cross-examination of another witness earlier in the week, El Hage defense lawyer Sam Schmidt attempted to discredit Jamal Ahmed al-Fadl, the government's main witness to date.
Al-Fadl, one of the earliest members of al Qaeda, has identified El Hage as a member of the alleged terrorist organization and a close aide to bin Laden.
www.fromthewilderness.com /timeline/2001/statedepartment022201.html   (1336 words)

  
 KKTV | Inmates Claim Rights Denied
The one-time personal secretary for Osama bin Laden is serving a life sentence for conspiring in the 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in Africa.
Wadih El Hage arrived at the Florence prison in 2001, but claims he cannot watch television stations that broadcast news, lives in solitary confinement and cannot talk to other inmates.
In a federal court filing in Denver, El Hage says he's seen one month-old newspaper since he arrived, and that letters from his family sometimes take months to get through the FBI.
www.kktv.com /news/headlines/931052.html   (159 words)

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