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Al-Tamimi was born in Washington, DC , and raised in a predominantly Catholic neighborhood. His father, a lawyer, worked at the Iraq i embassy, and his mother was a noted scholar of psychology. When he was 15 his family moved to Saudi Arabia , where he became interested in Islam. On returning to the U.S. two years later, he attended The George Washington University and the University Of Maryland, College Park . He received a doctorate in Computational Biology from George Mason University on the topic of " Chaos and Complexity in Cancer ". In the early 1990 's, Al-Tamimi led a five person delegation from the Islamic Assembly Of North America in the United Nations 4th World Conference on Women, held in Beijing , China . Al-Tamimi contacted Shaikh Abdel Rahaman Abdel Khaliq , who wrote a book about women in Islam, which Al-Tamimi translated into English . He lectured often at the Center For Islamic Information And Education in Falls Church, Virginia . He was a founding member of the Center, which is also known as Dar Al-Arqam . FEDERAL PROSECUTION On April 26 , 2005 , he was convicted in the U.S. District Court For The Eastern District Of Virginia of soliciting others to levy war against the United States and inducing others to use Firearm s in violation of Federal Law . Soon after the September 11, 2001 Attacks he allegedly told a small group of young men to join the Taliban and fight the United States. On July 13 , 2005 , he was sentenced to Life In Prison plus 70 years without parole. Jonathan Turley , who is representing Ali Al-Timimi , persuaded the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals to halt appellate proceedings January 24 2006 . The appellate court is considering whether to send the case back to the trial court to discover if the NSA Warrantless Surveillance was used to monitor Ali. If it does, Turley said, "the government would have to establish whether Dr. Al-Timimi was intercepted under this or any other undisclosed operation, and the court could have to look at the legality of the whole operation." New York Times EXTERNAL LINKS
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