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Steven Emerson,
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March 13, 2015
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South
Florida Jihadist Now On ICE
by IPT News • Mar 13, 2015 at
4:48 pm
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His prison sentence complete, a Pakistani man who plotted a series of
prospective terrorist attacks in South Florida has been moved from a
federal penitentiary to the custody of U.S. immigration officials pending
deportation from the United States.
Imran Mandhai lived in Broward County Florida from the
late 1990s into the early 2000s. He attended the Darul Uloom Institute mosque in Pembroke Pines, the
same mosque where al-Qaida notable and Mandhai associate Adnan el-Shukrijumah sought spiritual solace. Mandhai
and codefendant Shueyb Mosaa Jokhan were investigated by the Miami
Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF).
The two men conspired to commit jihad in South Florida by blowing up
power stations, synagogues and a National Guard armory. The JTTF introduced
an undercover informant to the two wannabe jihadis and foiled their plans.
Mandhai initially was arrested by special agents of what was then the Immigration
and Naturalization Service (INS) assigned to the JTTF in February of 2002
on terrorism-related deportation charges. Subsequently, the U.S. Attorney's
Office in Miami indicted Mandhai and Jokhan and the two ultimately
pleaded guilty to conspiracy to destroy property affecting interstate
commerce. Mandhai was sentenced to 14 years in prison.
The court further ordered that Mandhai would be surrendered to
federal immigration authorities upon completion of his prison sentence.
That happened Monday, when Mandhai completed his term of incarceration with the Bureau of
Prisons and was turned over to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)
agents for removal (deportation) proceedings. A spokeswoman for ICE
confirmed Mandhai's custody status with the agency with the following
statement, "Imran Farooq Mandhai was transferred to ICE custody March
9, 2015 from the Bureau of Prisons after completing his federal prison
sentence. He will remain in ICE custody pending removal proceedings."
As an alien convicted of a federal terrorism-related felony, Mandhai is
subject to mandatory detention during those removal proceedings and likely
would be ineligible for any form of relief from deportation, said Dan Vara, the former Chief Counsel for INS and ICE in
Miami and Orlando who prosecuted Mandhai in the initial deportation case in
2002.
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