WASHINGTON
Dr. Muhammad Masood, a Pakistani living in the American state of Minnesota, has been sentenced to 18 years in prison on charges of terrorism.
A 31-year-old Pakistani doctor has confessed his intention to work for the terrorist organization ISIS.
It has been reported that Pakistani Dr. Muhammad Masood, who was working for a Minnesota medical company, expressed his intention to go to Jordan to join and work for the terrorist organization ISIS from January to March 2020.
Muhammad Masood was arrested in March 2020 at the Minneapolis Airport. It is learned that while in custody, the Pakistani doctor admitted that he intended to support the terrorist organization, after which a Minnesota court sentenced Pakistani doctor Muhammad Masood to 18 years in prison.
On the other hand, the Saudi engineer who was arrested in Faisalabad, Pakistan, was released from American prison after 21 years. 48-year-old.
Ghassan al-Sharbi was detained along with his partner in March 2002, but now the United States has announced the release of the Saudi engineer. He was caught as a suspect more than two decades ago but never charged.
It has been reported that 48-year-old Ghassan al-Sharbi was detained in Faisalabad, Pakistan for his involvement in the 9/11 attacks in March 2002.
The Saudi national was arrested because he attended an aeronautical university in Arizona where two of the hijackers involved in the 9/11 attacks attended flight school with him.
The U.S. military reportedly filed charges against Sharbi and several others, but they were dismissed in 2008, but the Saudi national is still being held, however, in a February 2022 Pentagon review dealing with release requests. The board decided that the Saudi national from Jeddah can be released.
The verdict said that there was no evidence of Saudi Arabia’s involvement in the attacks and that he was suffering from unspecified physical and mental health problems, so the 48-year-old engineer was sent to his home country under Saudi security measures. Where he can join Saudi Arabia’s rehabilitation program for radicalized militants, which will ensure he is supervised as he returns to society as a normal person.
