Ali al-Tamimi

Ali Al-Tamimi (also Ali Al-Timimi; born December 14, 1963, in Washington, DC) is a former Fairfax County resident, biologist, and Islamic teacher. Once regarded as a "person of interest" in the 2001 Anthrax scare, he was subsequently convicted of inciting terrorism in connection with the Virginia Jihad Network and sentenced to life imprisonment.

Early life

Al-Tamimi was born and raised in the Washington area, and was raised in a predominantly Catholic neighborhood. His father, a lawyer, worked at the Iraqi embassy, and his mother was a scholar of psychology. When he was 15 his family moved to Saudi Arabia, where he became interested in Islam. On returning to the U.S. two years later, he attended The George Washington University and the University of Maryland, College Park. In 2004 he received a doctorate in computational biology from George Mason University on the topic of "Chaos and Complexity in Cancer".<!-- Deleted image removed: -->

Islamic activities

In the early 1990s, Al-Tamimi led a five-person delegation from the Islamic Assembly of North America in the United Nations 4th World Conference on Women, held in Beijing, China. Al-Tamimi contacted Shaikh Abdel Rahaman Abdel Khaliq, who wrote a book about women in Islam, which Al-Tamimi translated into English.

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