This story is from May 25, 2020

Cops to bring Al-Qaeda operative to Hyderabad

A 40-year-old engineer from the city, who had been convicted for having links with Al-Qaeda, will be shifted to Hyderabad on Monday after being deported from the United States on May 19. A Cyberabad police team has left from here to shift the convict, Mohammad Ibrahim Zubair, to his residence in Alwal.
Cops to bring Al-Qaeda operative to Hyderabad
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HYDERABAD: A 40-year-old engineer from the city, who had been convicted for having links with Al-Qaeda, will be shifted to Hyderabad on Monday after being deported from the United States on May 19. A Cyberabad police team has left from here to shift the convict, Mohammad Ibrahim Zubair, to his residence in Alwal.
Zubair had landed in Amritsar after being deported from the United States along with other Indian nationals.
He was then sent to a quarantine centre. He was brought to Nagpur two days ago. The city police there contacted his family members. “We have sent our team to Maharashtra to shift Zubair to Telangana” said a senior official of Cyberabad police.
An engineering graduate from Osmania University, Zubair originally hails from Moghalpura area in Old City. He moved to US to study engineering at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign from 2001 through 2005 and moved to Toledo in Ohio around 2006 He was convicted by the US Grand jury in 2011 and sentences to five years in jail after he pleaded guilty or providing material support to Al-Qaeda leader Anwar al-Awlaki two years earlier. According to officials, he appeared to have been self-radicalised after watching videos of Anwar al-Awlaki.
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