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Hujrah Wahhaj

Clerics & Preachers

Pro-Mamdani PAC took donation from Islamist cleric who vouched for terror plot mastermind

July 10, 2025 Hudson Crozier  

(Daily Caller) A super PAC supporting Zohran Mamdani’s campaign for New York City mayor accepted $1,000 from a Muslim cleric linked to the architects of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and other terrorist plots. Imam Siraj Wahhaj donated to the super […]

Children & Teens

Judge sentences 4 defendants in US terrorism and kidnapping case to life in prison, appeals planned

March 6, 2024 Susan Montoya Bryan  

(AP) A U.S. judge on Wednesday sentenced four family members to life in prison for convictions stemming from a federal terrorism and kidnapping case that began in 2017 with the search for a toddler who went missing from Georgia and was later […]

Children & Teens

Father and other family members are convicted in New Mexico kidnapping and terrorism case

October 17, 2023 Susan Montoya Bryan  

(AP) Jurors on Tuesday convicted a father of terrorism charges in a case that stemmed from the search for a 3-year-old boy who went missing from Georgia and was found dead hundreds of miles away at a squalid compound in northern New […]

Children & Teens

Teen testifies about boy’s death and firearms training at New Mexico compound

September 27, 2023 Susan Montoya Bryan  

(AP) With his hand placed on his son’s neck, Siraj Ibn Wahhaj recited verses of the Quran as part of a ritual meant to rid the toddler of evil spirits that Wahhaj and members of his extended family believed were causing the […]

Children & Teens

Abduction and terrorism trial after boy found dead at New Mexico compound opens with mom’s testimony

September 26, 2023 Morgan Lee  

(AP) Federal prosecutors presented tearful testimony Tuesday from the mother of a sickly toddler who was whisked away from his Georgia home by relatives without her permission to a remote desert encampment in northern New Mexico where he died. Four family members, […]

Children & Teens

Opening statements in Taos compound trial

September 26, 2023 Andres Valle  

(KOAT) A jury has been selected in the Taos compound trial and opening statements and the first witness took the stand today. The case made national headlines after it was tied to terrorist activity allegations. Five adults — Jany Leveille, Lucas Morton, […]

Children & Teens

Jury selection opens in terrorism trial of extended family members dating to 2018 New Mexico raid

September 25, 2023 Morgan Lee  

(AP) Jury selection began Monday in federal court as members of an extended family confronted kidnapping and terrorism charges stemming from the search for a missing 3-year-old boy by agents who raided a squalid New Mexico encampment in 2018. The boy’s badly […]

Children & Teens

Weapons charges dropped in 2018 raid on family compound in desert that turned up child’s remains

September 21, 2023 Morgan Lee  

(AP) Two firearms charges were dismissed Thursday amid preparations for a trial against an extended family arrested in a 2018 law enforcement raid on a ramshackle desert compound in northern New Mexico and the discovery of a young boy’s decomposed body. The […]

Children & Teens

Taos compound case heading to trial in September

July 11, 2023 Unlisted Author  

(KOB) It’s been nearly five years since law enforcement raided a compound in Taos County, initially saying they moved in to save 11 starving children. Five suspects were arrested. After plea deals fell through both sides are getting ready to select a […]

Children & Teens

Trial looms in case of boy’s death at remote, armed compound

February 24, 2023 Morgan Lee  

(AP) Three defendants from an extended family arrested in a 2018 law enforcement raid on a ramshackle desert encampment rejected compromise offers from prosecutors to resolve kidnapping, terrorism and weapons charges in proceedings Friday at U.S. District Court in Albuquerque. The U.S. […]

Children & Teens

New Mexico compound leader pleads guilty in suspected terrorism case

February 10, 2023 Chris McKee  

(KRQE) A woman at the center of the 2018 Taos County compound case is expected to spend more than a decade in federal prison amid accusations she led adults and children in an effort to prepare for violent attacks in the U.S. […]

Children & Teens

Defendants protest trial delays in New Mexico compound raid

April 7, 2022 Morgan Lee  

(AP) A second defendant is invoking the right to a speedy trial in the 2018 raid on a squalid family compound in northern New Mexico that uncovered the remains of a 3-year-old boy and led to charges of kidnapping, firearms and terrorism […]

Children & Teens

New Mexico terror trial in limbo years after compound raid

March 10, 2022 Morgan Lee  

(AP) A federal judge on Thursday sought to evaluate the mental health of a woman charged with kidnapping, firearms and terrorism-related counts — nearly four years after authorities arrested her and four other adults from an extended family at a squalid New […]

Children & Teens

New Mexico compound suspects face new conspiracy charges

March 14, 2019 Mary Hudetz  

(AP) Five extended family members who had been living on a remote New Mexico compound where a 3-year-old boy died before it was raided have been indicted on terrorism-related charges that accuse them of conspiring to attack U.S. law enforcement officers, military […]

Children & Teens

Taos 5 may face federal terrorism charges

December 2, 2018 Ryan Boetel  

(Albuquerque Journal) The five defendants arrested after authorities found a dead child at a compound north of Taos in August are now under investigation for a specific terrorism-related charge that has never before been filed in New Mexico, according to a court […]

Children & Teens

Grand jury indicts NM compound defendants on federal charges Defendants had allegedly established 'training ground' to prepare for 'violent attacks'

September 11, 2018 John Miller  

(Taos News) A grand jury in Albuquerque indicted Jany Leveille, 35, Siraj Ibn Wahhaj, 40, Hujrah Wahhaj, 37, [Subhanah] Wahhaj, 35, and Lucas Morton, 40, on federal charges Tuesday (Sept. 11), according to an announcement from U.S. Attorney John C. Anderson and […]

Children & Teens

Dad, partner plead not guilty in toddler’s compound death

August 29, 2018 Morgan Lee  

(AP) The father of a 3-year-old boy found dead in a filthy New Mexico compound and his partner pleaded not guilty Wednesday to new charges of child abuse resulting in death after lesser charges were dismissed against them and other members of […]

Academics & Education

Judge in New Mexico compound case accuses prosecutors of anti-Muslim discrimination

August 14, 2018 Scott Morefield  

(Daily Caller) The New Mexico judge overseeing the case against five alleged Muslim extremists essentially accused prosecutors of discriminating against Muslims in her Monday court order granting bail to the defendants. The defendants, Siraj Wahhaj, Hujrah Wahhaj, Jany Leveille, [Subhanah] Wahhaj, and […]

Children & Teens

The Wahhaj family compound and their Dem-connected father The open extremists operating in the Democratic Party's midst.

August 13, 2018 Matthew Vadum  

(FrontPage) It turns out the man arrested for running a Muslim terrorist training compound in rural New Mexico is the son of an influential Democrat-connected jihadist imam who was close to the Blind Sheikh who orchestrated the bombing of the World Trade […]

Academics & Education

Patriarch of New Mexico terror center clan called cops on his son and two daughters

August 9, 2018 Emilie Ruscoe and Larry McShane  

(NY Daily News) A Brooklyn imam once linked to the 1993 World Trade Center blast steered police to a terrorist training center for kids run by his son in New Mexico. Imam [Siraj] Wahhaj, an unindicted co-conspirator of terrorist bomber Sheik Omar […]

Children & Teens

Sickos busted for abusing kids at compound linked to controversial imam

August 6, 2018 Nick Fugallo and Max Jaeger  

(NY Post) The five people arrested for child abuse in New Mexico after they were found living with 11 children in “Third World” conditions are related to a controversial Muslim faith leader in Brooklyn who has been linked to the 1993 World […]

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