San Jose Man Held For Aiding Terrorists

A judge ruled in favor of federal prosecutors, stating that a San Jose man charged with aiding terrorist must remain in jail pending his trial. Rahmat Abdhir was arrested on August 2nd after a federal grand jury indicted him for aiding terrorists. Abdhir, a computer engineer, was caught sending weapons, camouflage clothing and thirty radios to his brother, Zulkifli Abdhir, 41, a high ranking members of an Al-Qaeda off shoot group. Zulkifli Abdhir is designated as a “specially designated global terrorist” by the US government. Parts of the radios that were sent were used as a detonator in a terrorist bomb blast that killed five people in the Philippines last year.