Yassin M. Aref (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Yassin M. Aref is a resident of Albany, New York, who was arrested by Federal authorities in August 2004 as part of a counter-terrorism sting operation, convicted in October 2006 of conspiring to aid a terrorist group and provide support for a weapon of mass destruction, as well as money-laundering and supporting a foreign terrorist organization, Jaish-e-Mohammed, and sentenced to 15 years in prison in March 2007. In July 2008 the appellate court upheld the convictions, rejecting all of the defense's arguments. Aref wrote a memoir, Son of Mountains: My Life as a Kurd and a Terror Suspect (2008). US forces found Aref's name, address, and phone number in a notebook in a bombed-out Iraqi encampment. The information was classified, and the defense, despite defense counsel having received security clearances, was provided with almost no information about the notebook.