Ahemeid, 44, besides known arsenic “Ibrahim Idress” and “Ibrahim Dix,” appeared successful a national tribunal successful Brooklyn, wherever U.S. Magistrate Judge James R. Cho ordered him to beryllium detained, pending trial. Samuel Jacobson, 1 of Ahemeid’s national nationalist defenders, said they had nary remark astatine this time.
Ahemeid was antecedently sentenced to decease successful 2020 by a Malian tribunal for his relation successful the aforesaid attacks. A spokesperson for U.S. Attorney’s Office said the Malian authorities agreed to crook him implicit to U.S. authorities.
Alex Thurston, adjunct prof astatine the University of Cincinnati, said “accountability for the organizers of violent attacks is important.” He noted “the lawsuit is improbable to person overmuch of an interaction backmost successful Mali, however, wherever astir jihadist unit occurs acold from the capital,” referring to much caller attacks successful the West African nation.
Ahemeid is charged with the execution of Anita Ashok Datar, the U.S. national who was among the 20 victims of a Nov. 20, 2015 onslaught connected the Radisson Blu Hotel successful Bamako, the superior of Mali. Datar, a 41-year-old nationalist wellness adept from Takoma Park, Md., was a impermanent astatine the edifice and had been moving for an planetary processing steadfast helping the U.S. Agency for International Development.
Ahemeid besides faces charges of unlawful usage of firearms and explosives and helping supply enactment to the violent groups al-Mourabitoun and al-Qaida successful the Islamic Maghreb, a radical helium allegedly joined successful oregon astir 2007.
The charges besides subordinate to the March 7, 2015, onslaught connected the La Terrasse edifice successful Bamako, Mali, wherever a masked gunman sprayed bullets successful a edifice fashionable with foreigners, sidesplitting 5 people, including French and Belgium nationals. Documents filed by prosecutors impeach Ahemeid of personally committing the attack, equipped with 2 battle rifles, a pistol and grenades. The radical al-Mourabitoun publically claimed work that time for the attack.
The 3rd onslaught occurred connected Aug. 7, 2015, astatine the Hotel Byblos successful Sevare, Mali, wherever 13 individuals, including the 5 U.N. workers, were killed aft a gunman equipped with an battle firearm and wearing a termination vest opened fire. Al-Mourabitoun claimed work for that onslaught arsenic well.
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