By Dan Modlin
Bowling Green, KY – A detention hearing will be held today for two Iraqi nationals who are facing federal terrorism charges in Kentucky. The men face life in prison if they are convicted on all accounts.
30 year old Waad Ramadan Alwan and 23 year old Mohaned Shareef Hamadi have been living in the United States since 2009, and were recently arrested in Bowling Green, Kentucky. Prosecutors say the men were involved in several attempts to send machine guns, plastic explosives, cash, and even stinger missiles to what they believed to be the group "Al Qaeda in Iraq." Court documents indicate that the two men told undercover agents they had been involved in building improvised explosive devices to be used against American soldiers before they left Iraq. The case has raised a number of questions about how the men were able to get into the US. Senator Rand Paul has called for congressional hearings to investigate the matter.