Jude Kenan Mohammad
Jude Kenan Mohammad | |
|---|---|
| Born | 4 November 1988 |
| Died | 16 November 2011 (aged 23) Babar Ghar, South Waziristan, Pakistan |
| Citizenship | United States |
| Allegiance | Al-Qaeda |
Jude Kenan Mohammad (November 4, 1988 – November 16, 2011) was an American suspected terrorist charged by the U.S. government in 2009 for being a member of the Raleigh jihad group. Prior to the indictment, he had left the United States for Pakistan, and was thus the only indicted member of the cell who was not arrested. He was killed in Waziristan, Pakistan in 2011, the fourth American citizen killed by a drone strike overseas since 2009.
Early life
Mohammad was born on November 4, 1988 in Florida.[1][2] Mohammad's father is from Darra Adam Khel, near Peshawar, Pakistan. His mother is American who converted from Catholicism to Islam. The couple had five children and lived in Pakistan. In the late 1990s, Mohammad moved with mother and siblings to Raleigh, North Carolina.[3]
Travel to Pakistan
In early 2008, friends reported that Kenan had become a more observant Muslim. He stopped drinking and partying, and traveled to be with his father in Darra Adam Khel in October 2008.[3] He left Raleigh around October 7, weeks before his 20th birthday, at the urging of Daniel Patrick Boyd.[1]
U.S. criminal charges
Around the same time, the FBI was investigating Daniel Patrick Boyd, who had traveled to Pakistan in the 1980s to participate in the Soviet–Afghan War, for possible terrorist activity.[3]
On August 4, 2009, the FBI indicted Mohammad as the eighth member of the Raleigh jihad group, led by Daniel Patrick Boyd, that allegedly plotted to commit murder and conduct kidnappings overseas and against the U.S. Marines base in Quantico, Virginia.[3][4] Mohammad was the only member of the cell not yet in custody, and the FBI alleged that Mohammad had traveled to Pakistan to engage in "violent jihad".[5]
According to Seth Jones of the RAND Corporation, U.S. officials believed that Mohammad had also helped to persuade 5 people from Virginia to travel to Pakistan.[1]
The FBI added Mohammad to its Most Wanted list.[2]
Death
He was killed in a CIA
The
References
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- ^ a b c d Khan, Riaz (2013-05-23). "Pakistan arrested American who was killed by drone". Associated Press. Retrieved 12 September 2023.
- ^ "Authorities ask for help in finding terrorism suspect". CNN. 2009-08-13. Retrieved 12 September 2023.
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- ^ Windrem, Robert (2015-04-23). "Only One of Six Al Qaeda-Linked Americans Killed by Drone on Purpose". NBC News. Retrieved 12 September 2023.