Tarek Mehanna, a Sudbury, Massachusetts man convicted last year on charges that he conspired to kill Americans, was sentenced today to 17.5 years in federal prison.

Agron Hasbajrami, an Albanian citizen and resident of Brooklyn, pled guilty to attempting to provide material support to terrorists and agreed to be deported. "According to court documents, Hasbajrami attempted to travel to the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan (the FATA) for the purpose of joining a radical jihadist insurgent group. In addition, Hasbajrami sent over $1,000 in multiple...

Jubair Ahmad, 24, a native of Pakistan and resident of Woodbridge, Virginia, was sentenced to 144 months in prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for providing material support to Lashkar-e-Tayyiba (LeT), a designated foreign terrorist organization.

Antonio Martinez was sentenced to 25 years in prison for attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction against federal property, in connection with a scheme to attack an Armed Forces recruiting station in Catonsville, Maryland. He was arrested on December 8, 2010, after he attempted to detonate what he believed to be explosives at the Armed Forces recruiting station.

On April 4, 2012, DoD "announced...that the convening authority, Office of Military Commissions, referred charges to a military commission in the case of 'United States v. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed...

International arms dealer Viktor Bout was convicted in New York federal court of conspiring to sell millions of dollars worth of weapons to the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (FARC)...

DOJ announced that Patrick Nayyar "a citizen of India who had been residing illegally in the United States, was found guilty...in Manhattan federal court of five counts related to support he attempted to provide Hizballah, a designated foreign terrorist organization...

DOJ announced that "Syed Ghulam Nabi Fai, 62, a U.S. citizen and resident of Fairfax, Va., was sentenced...to 24 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for conspiracy and tax violations in connection with a decades-long scheme to conceal the transfer of at least $3.5 million from the government of Pakistan to fund his lobbying efforts in America related to Kashmir...

On March 27, 2012, the spokesman for the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (the Taliban) issued a statement that detailed several “successful operations” against United States forces, which were carried out in response to “the pre-planned atrocity in [Kandahar]…where [America] brutally murdered seventeen innocent children.” In the statement, the spokesman claimed responsibility for a “martyrdom attack” in Uruzgan province that killed “eighteen American invaders...

On March 20, 2012, the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (the Taliban) released a press statement containing a detailed analysis of battlefield statistics from February to support its claim that the Taliban has made unprecedented “achievements of the Jihad on both the military and political front.” The Taliban’s statement included an examination of the International Security Assistance Force’s (ISAF) “death toll” and its “material losses”, including “several dozen” armored...

On March 15, 2012, the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (the Taliban) announced that it “has decided to suspend all talks with Americans taking place in Qatar.” According to the statement, the Taliban based their decision on the Americans’ “alternating and ever changing position” and “shaky, erratic and vague standpoint” with regard to preliminary confidence-building measures including a prison exchange. The Taliban claimed that the Americans recently presented...

On March 14, 2012, the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (the Taliban) issued a press release commemorating the anniversary of the 1979 popular uprising in Herat, in which, according to the statement, the Soviets martyred 25,000 Muslims “in cold blood.” The statement likened the “nature and objectives” of the “current US occupation” to that of the Soviets’ and predicted that the American mission is similarly “destined with the same embarrassing fate that befell the Red Army and...

Bakhtiyor Jumaev, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was arrested and charged with conspiracy to provide material support to the Islamic Jihad Union (IJU). According to DOJ, "The FBI has been conducting an investigation into the activities of Jumaev and his associate, Jamshid Muhtorov, who was arrested in January 2012 on similar charges. According to the affidavit in support of the criminal complaint, Jumaev and Muhtorov pledged support for the IJU and Jumaev sent funds to Muhtorov specifically intended for the IJU.