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Do cellphone records prove Sacramento ISIS terror suspect is falsely accused of murder? [The Sacramento Bee :: BC-ISLAMICSTATE-ARREST:SA]
SACRAMENTO, Calif. For more than a year, federal defenders in Sacramento have been working to get records out of Turkey that they say will prove their case that Omar Ameen, a Sacramento truck mechanic arrested in August 2018 and accused of murdering an Iraqi police officer in 2014, is innocent.
Now, as Ameen sits in the Sacramento County Jail awaiting word on whether he will be extradited to face trial in Iraq and, possibly, executed, his lawyers have what they’ve been waiting for: cellphones records from Turkey that they say prove he could not have been in Iraq the day police Major Ihsan Abdulhafiz Jasim was slain by an ISIS convoy.
Do cellphone records prove Sacramento ISIS terror suspect is falsely accused of murder?
SACRAMENTO For more than a year, federal defenders in Sacramento have been working to get records out of Turkey that they say will prove their case that Omar Ameen, a Sacramento truck mechanic arrested in August 2018 and accused of murdering an Iraqi police officer in 2014, is innocent.
Now, as Ameen sits in the Sacramento County Jail awaiting word on whether he will be extradited to face trial in Iraq and, possibly, executed, his lawyers have what they’ve been waiting for: cellphones records from Turkey that they say prove he could not have been in Iraq the day police Major Ihsan Abdulhafiz Jasim was slain by an ISIS convoy.