Background
Abujihaad grew up in Southern California.
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Hassan Abujihaad
Edit Profilehonorably discharged United States Navy sailor (1998 to 2002
Career
He legally changed his name from Paul Raphael Hall to Hassan Abujihaad in 1997, and enlisted in the Navy in January 1998. He was honorably discharged in 2002. Abujihaad married Takia Haji in 2000.
He occasionally attended the Islamic Community Center of Phoenix, which is also the mosque that Elton Simpson, one of the gunmen shot dead in the attempted Curtis Culwell Center attack of May 2015, attended.
Police arrested Abujihaad in March 2007 in Phoenix, Arizona. He entered a plea of not guilty on April 4, 2007.
On March 5, 2008, he was convicted by a jury in New Haven, Connecticut. Federal prosecutors said the then-32-year-old had admitted disclosing military intelligence.
He was sentenced to ten years in prison, the maximum penalty for the crime.
In 2009, the Sunday Mercury reported that Abujihaad"s first link to terrorism came at the Maktabah First Rate (at Lloyd's) Ansar bookstore in Sparkhill, Birmingham, England. He is imprisoned at United States Penitentiary, Coleman in Florida.
