Reminder: Prominent terror cases with ties to Florida…

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• Reports say that at least 14 out of the 19 terrorists responsible for Sept. 11 spent time in South Florida, with at least 12 of them in Palm Beach County…
• A Saudi family that left their Sarasota home weeks before Sept. 11 had ties to those associated with the terrorist attacks…
• Former University of South Florida professor Sami Al-Arian was indicted, alleged to be a leader of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad and complicit in the murder of civilians…
• Former South Florida resident Jose Padilla was indicted on charges of conspiring to commit terrorist acts…
• Ahmed Mohamed and his friend Youssef Megahed, were arrested on terrorism-related charges in South Carolina… Megahed applied for citizenship two weeks before his arrest. Tampa immigration officials denied his request…
• Rafiq Sabir, a doctor who had lived west of Boca Raton, was sentenced to 25 years in prison after being convicted of conspiring to help and treat injured al-Qaida fighters…
• Five men were convicted in Miami on charges of conspiring to start a war against the United States by planning attacks in places including the Sears Tower and federal buildings in Florida…
• Shelton Thomas Bell from Jacksonville was charged with conspiring to fight in an overseas holy war…
• Moner Mohammad Abu-Salha, a 22-year-old man from Florida, detonated a truck full of explosives during what was believed to be the first American suicide bombing in Syria. The last address listed for him was in Fort Pierce…
• Raees Alam Qazi and Sheheryar Alam Qazi, two brothers from Oakland Park, pleaded guilty to planning a terrorist attack in New York City and assaulting two U.S. marshals… The duo was arrested three years earlier in Broward County…
• Harlem Suarez was charged with attempting to use a backpack bomb on a beach in Key West…
• Pinellas Park resident Sami Osmakac was sentenced to 40 years in prison. He was convicted of attempting to use weapons of mass destruction…
• James Gonzalo Medina of Hollywood was arrested on charges of conspiring to use “a weapon of mass destruction” at a synagogue close to Miami…
• Omar Mateen entered an Orlando nightclub and killed 49 people, leaving another 53 injured. Mateen was a resident of Port St. Lucie…

Other Notable Connections directly tied with Broward County Florida:
Nikolas Cruz
Cesar Sayoc
Mohammod Atta
Raees Alam and Sheheryar Alam Qazi
Jose Padilla
Imran Farooq Mandhai
Sami Al-Arian
James Gonzalo Medina
Officials & Agents
Scott Israel
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
David Hogg