{{Short description|American purported jihadist (born 1984)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=December 2024}} {{Infobox criminal | name = Sharif Mobley | image_name = | image_size = | image_alt = | image_caption = Mobley in 2002. | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1984|01|19}} | birth_place = Buena, New Jersey, U.S. | death_date = | death_place = | charge = No formal charges filed. Allegations of murdering a guard and wounding another guard during an escape attempt.<ref name=MothersJones2011-09/><ref name="nbc mace">{{cite news|last1=Simmons|first1=Keir|last2=Gubash|first2=Charlene|title=American Sharif Mobley Hasn't Appeared in Yemen Court for a Year|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/american-sharif-mobley-hasnt-appeared-yemen-court-year-n288856|work=NBC News|date=January 20, 2015|access-date=March 1, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150310162752/https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/american-sharif-mobley-hasnt-appeared-yemen-court-year-n288856|archive-date=March 10, 2015|url-status=live}}</ref> | conviction = | conviction_penalty = | conviction_status = | parents = Charles and Cynthia Mobley | children = 3 known children }}
'''Sharif Mobley''' ({{langx|ar|شريف موبلي}}; born January 19, 1984)<ref>''U.S. Public Records Index'' Vol 2 (Provo, UT: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.), 2010.</ref> is an American purported jihadist who was initially arrested in Yemen January 26, 2010<ref name="WP 2010">{{cite news|last1=Finn|first1=Peter|title=The post-9/11 life of an American charged with murder|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09/04/AR2010090403328.html|newspaper=Washington Post|date=September 4, 2010|access-date=September 11, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181001023247/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09/04/AR2010090403328.html|archive-date=October 1, 2018|url-status=live}}</ref> by Yemeni counter-terrorism officers and charged with terrorism. There was a shooting during his arrest in which he was injured and taken to the hospital.<ref name="WP 2010"/> During his initial stay at the hospital, two members of the US Government interviewed him.<ref name="Guardian FBI">{{cite news|last1=Ackerman|first1=Spencer|title=American citizen Sharif Mobley is missing in Yemen|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/10/american-citizen-sharif-mobley-missing-yemen|newspaper=The Guardian|date=April 10, 2014|access-date=December 16, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170202191422/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/10/american-citizen-sharif-mobley-missing-yemen|archive-date=February 2, 2017|url-status=live}}</ref> The US Embassy told his family they did not know his whereabouts.<ref name="MJ FBI Interview">{{cite news|last1=Baumann|first1=Nick|title=Document Shows US Government Knew About American Locked Up in Yemen|url=https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/06/sharif-mobley-yemen-fbi-proxy-detention|magazine=Mother Jones|date=June 20, 2012|access-date=July 9, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181001023200/https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/06/sharif-mobley-yemen-fbi-proxy-detention/|archive-date=October 1, 2018|url-status=live}}</ref> During the interviews with officials from the American government, he requested that information be passed on to his family. His family has reportedly not received any updates on his situation.<ref name="MJ FBI Interview"/> After his recovery from a gun shot to the leg he was released into the custody of the Yemeni prison authorities. All charges of terrorism were dropped but he was not released from prison.<ref name="Guardian FBI"/> Later he was charged with murdering a prison guard during an alleged escape attempt while at a follow-up visit to the hospital for complications from his initial arrest March 7, 2010.<ref name="Guardian FBI"/> Mobley had moved to Yemen in 2008 and was in process getting visa updates from the US Embassy in preparation for returning to the US with his family when he was arrested. His family was able to return to the US shortly after his arrest.<ref name="WP 2010"/>
During his incarceration in Yemen, his whereabouts have been in question. While he was in the custody of the normal Yemeni prison authorities, he was not brought to a number of trial dates and his lawyers do not have access to him. He was not present for four trial dates and the Yemeni prison authorities indicated he is no longer in their custody. The Yemeni Attorney General told the trial judge that he did not know where Sharif Mobley was physically located.<ref name="Yemen AG">{{cite news|last1=Ackerman|first1=Spencer|title=Yemeni officials fail to produce 'disappeared' American for fourth time|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/21/yemeni-officials-disappeared-american-sharif-mobley|newspaper=The Guardian|date=August 21, 2014|access-date=December 16, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170225131904/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/21/yemeni-officials-disappeared-american-sharif-mobley|archive-date=February 25, 2017|url-status=live}}</ref> US Embassy official William Lesh, said that the US Embassy had been in touch with him at an undisclosed location but would not reveal his whereabouts or which law enforcement group had him in their custody nor would the US Embassy assist his lawyers in contacting him.<ref name="William Lesh">{{cite news|last1=Ackerman|first1=Spencer|title=US diplomats admit contact in Yemen with missing citizen Sharif Mobley|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/25/us-diplomats-contact-yemen-citizen-sharif-mobley|newspaper=The Guardian|date=July 25, 2014|access-date=December 16, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170202191403/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/25/us-diplomats-contact-yemen-citizen-sharif-mobley|archive-date=February 2, 2017|url-status=live}}</ref>
Mobley is an American citizen who was raised as a Muslim. He stated he had traveled to Yemen for the purpose of studying Arabic and Islam, although U.S. officials initially claimed his purpose was to join a militant group. After his arrest, two US Government agents<ref name="WP 2010"/> interviewed him several times and agreed that he was not a terrorist and he had no knowledge or information about activities of interest to the US Government.<ref name="MJ FBI Log">{{cite web|last1=Baumann|first1=Nick|title=Sharif Mobley Hospital Visit Jan 31 2010|url=https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/06/sharif-mobley-yemen-fbi-proxy-detention|magazine=Mother Jones|date=January 31, 2010|access-date=July 9, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181001023200/https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/06/sharif-mobley-yemen-fbi-proxy-detention/|archive-date=October 1, 2018|url-status=live}}</ref> After charges of terrorism were dropped he was not released from prison. During a follow-up hospital visit for complications from the initial gunshot wound received during his arrest, he allegedly made an escape attempt, during which he allegedly shot two guards, one fatally, and was charged with murder.<ref name="WP 2010"/>
Mobley's wife, Nzinga Islam, received a clandestine phone call from Sharif Mobley on September 15, 2014. Mobley has not appeared at a number of pre-trial hearings.<ref name="Nzinga Islam spoke with SharifM"/> It is unknown what happened to him after 2015.
==Biography== Mobley's parents were both born in the United States. Following his arrest, he was reported to have been of Somali descent, however law enforcement officials and family friends indicated that this information was incorrect.<ref name="correction"/> Mobley was raised in Atlantic County, New Jersey. He was a member of his high school wrestling team and practiced karate, earning a black belt, and graduated from high school in 2002. He moved to Philadelphia<ref name="Huffington"/> and then to Newark, Delaware.<ref name="The Lede"/> He is married, and has a daughter.<ref name="Huffington"/> In 2005, he earned $75 as an election day worker for the campaign of Governor Jon Corzine.<ref name="al-qaeda sweep"/>
Mobley received an Islamic upbringing,<ref name="Declassified"/> and as a child, studied Islamic philosophy and Arabic language classes at Masjid Quba in Philadelphia, according to the imam, Anas Muhaimin.<ref name="alw"/> Mobley was described by former high school classmates as having had "strong religious views" at the time, and having become more radical following graduation.{{citation needed|date=May 2012}} A former colleague who went on to do a military tour in Iraq, Roman Castro, said the last time he saw Mobley, in 2006, Mobley yelled at him: "Get the hell away from me, you Muslim killer!"<ref name="Huffington"/>
In Newark, Delaware, an imam, Abdel-Hadi Shehata, said Mobley had lived in the same apartment complex in the area and occasionally attended the Islamic Society of Delaware (ISD).<ref name="The Lede"/> Shehata said Mobley never discussed his political or religious perspectives with him, and would sometimes ask advice about Islamic religious rituals.<ref name="Huffington"/> Before 2008, he organized religious pilgrimages to the Middle East. Umar Hassan-El, assistant imam at, ISD's mosque in Wilmington, Delaware who shared a room with Mobley during the Hajj in 2004, said, "He gave no indication that he would join a group that he's alleged to be a part of right now. I never heard that boy ever talk about shooting anybody, killing anybody."<ref name="Huffington"/> The FBI and another law-enforcement stated that they did not know of any criminal charges against Mobley in the U.S.<ref name="CNN Justice"/>
==Yemen== In 2007, Mobley returned to Masjid Quba, attending on occasion and consulting the imam there about his plans to study in Yemen.<ref name="alw"/> The imam says he tried to discourage him from going to Yemen, suggesting that he instead go to Egypt or Morocco, but Mobley refused his advice<ref name="alw"/> and has not returned to the mosque for three years.<ref name="WP trick"/>
According to one report, Mobley had been in Yemen "for at least a year" prior to the shooting.<ref name="WP"/> At first he studied Arabic at a language institute in Sana'a and then Al-Eman University, which is run by Sheikh Abdul Majeed al-Zindani.<ref name="WP"/> A later report indicated he had traveled to Yemen two years prior.<ref name="WP trick"/> Two years before the shooting, he moved to Yemen supposedly to study Arabic and Islam,<ref name="The Lede"/> but a law enforcement official said he had traveled overseas for the purpose of joining a terrorist organization.<ref name="alw"/> The last time his mother Cynthia spoke to him was in January.<ref name="trick"/> A U.S. law enforcement official said the government had been aware of Mobley's possible extremist ties "long before" he was arrested.<ref name="alw"/><ref name="CNN"/>
Mobley was in contact with Anwar al-Awlaki, the al-Qaeda former imam now based in Yemen who was also in contact with three of the September 11 attacks hijackers, the Christmas Day Bomber, and Nidal Malik Hasan, the Fort Hood shooter, according to officials from the U.S. and Yemen.<ref name="alw"/> He hoped al-Awlaki would become his al Qaeda mentor, according to senior U.S. security officials.<ref name="CNN jihad"/>
===Initial detention=== Mobley was detained in early March 2010 in Sana'a, the capital of Yemen, one of 11 suspected al-Qaeda<ref name="Huffington"/><ref name="The Lede"/> and al-Shabab<ref name="alw"/> affiliated militants; one suspected militant was killed during the raid resulting in the arrests.<ref name="News Yemen Eng"/> On Tuesday, March 3 (three days prior to the shooting<ref name="News Yemen Eng"/>), Yemeni security forces arrested 11 members of al-Qaeda during a raid on a location frequented by that cell in the Sawad Hansh area of Sana'a. A Yemeni source reported that following a thorough investigation and surveillance, Yemeni security forces raided a residence belonging to the father of one of the wanted militants. During the raid, the suspect's father opened fire on the security forces hitting one of the officers. The suspect's father was killed in the ensuing firefight.<ref name="News Yemen 2"/>
Mobley was initially incorrectly identified in the Yemeni press as being a German citizen of African origin.<ref name="CNN Arabic"/> On the day of the shooting, Mobley was incorrectly identified by ''News Yemen'', a Yemeni English language newspaper, as "Shareef Mubaili, ... a German of Somali origin."<ref name="News Yemen Eng"/> ''CNN Arabic'' reported that the "German Mubaili" was severely injured during a shootout at the Republican Hospital after stealing a guard's gun.<ref name="CNN Arabic"/> According to a "senior official", he was detained at a high security intelligence prison several months ago while the Yemeni Embassy in Washington, D.C., said he had been detained earlier this month.<ref name="trick"/> He is suspected of being a member of the same al-Qaeda branch as Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, who failed in his attempt to bomb a passenger plane on Christmas Day, 2009.<ref name="associated press"/>
===Missed court dates===
No formal charges have been brought against Sharif Mobley or presented to his legal advisors.<ref name="nbc mace" /> The initial allegations relating to terrorism were dropped. There are no legal proceedings against him for any previously asserted connections to terrorism or terrorist-related activities, or for any association with any terrorist or alleged terrorists. There are no legal proceedings against him for any association with any terrorist organization or any terrorism-related conspiracies.<ref name="William Lesh"/> Mobley is currently alleged to have killed a guard while attempting an escape from a hospital where he was being treated while in custody of the Yemen prison authorities.<ref name="WP 2010"/>
His is currently in the custody of the Yemen National Security Bureau (NSB). His physical location is officially unknown.<ref name="Urine Glass is just a Dirty Glass">{{cite news|last1=Ackerman|first1=Spencer|title=Family of 'disappeared' American fight to learn his condition in Yemen|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/10/sharif-mobley-yemen-urine-family-us-disappeared|newspaper=The Guardian|date=October 10, 2014|access-date=December 16, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170225034436/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/10/sharif-mobley-yemen-urine-family-us-disappeared|archive-date=February 25, 2017|url-status=live}}</ref> Although consular staff have seen and talked with him they are not able to disclose his location as US State Department Privacy Act rules prohibit disclosing information regarding U.S Citizens Missing Abroad.<ref name=Missing>{{cite web|title=U.S. Citizens Missing Abroad|url=https://travel.state.gov/content/passports/english/emergencies/missing.html|website=travel.state.gov|publisher=US Department of State|access-date=June 25, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150905083947/http://travel.state.gov/content/passports/english/emergencies/missing.html|archive-date=September 5, 2015|url-status=dead}}</ref>
<blockquote>A U.S. law called the Privacy Act is designed to protect the privacy rights of U.S. citizens. The Act states that we may not reveal information regarding a U.S. citizen's location, welfare, intentions, or problems to anyone, including the citizen's family members and Congressional representatives, without the written consent of that individual. Although we recognize that this law may occasionally cause distress to concerned families, we must comply with the provisions of the Privacy Act if the individual has asked us not to share information about him or her.<ref name=Missing/></blockquote>
Mobley has not been brought to the following trial dates.
{| class="wikitable" |- ! Missed Court Date !! Additional information |- | April 2, 2014 ||Due to judicial strike.<ref name="Court1">{{cite news|last1=Gearan|first1=Anne|title=American jailed in Yemen, Sharif Mobley, has disappeared and is in danger, his lawyers say|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/american-jailed-in-yemen-sharif-mobley-has-disappeared-and-is-in-danger-his-lawyers-say/2014/04/11/50124c26-c1c0-11e3-bcec-b71ee10e9bc3_story.html|newspaper=Washington Post|date=April 11, 2014|access-date=September 11, 2017|archive-url=https://archive.today/20140414183017/http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/american-jailed-in-yemen-sharif-mobley-has-disappeared-and-is-in-danger-his-lawyers-say/2014/04/11/50124c26-c1c0-11e3-bcec-b71ee10e9bc3_story.html|archive-date=April 14, 2014|url-status=live}}</ref> |- | June 11, 2014 || <ref name="Court2and3">{{cite news|last1=Ackerman|first1=Spencer|title=Yemeni judge orders that 'disappeared' US citizen be produced in court|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/25/yemeni-judge-orders-disappeared-us-citizen-sharif-mobley|newspaper=The Guardian|date=June 25, 2014|access-date=December 16, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304083021/http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/25/yemeni-judge-orders-disappeared-us-citizen-sharif-mobley|archive-date=March 4, 2016|url-status=live}}</ref> |- | June 25, 2014 || Judge Abdelwali al-Shaabani orders Yemen Attorney General Ali Alwash to bring Mobley to court.<ref name="Court2and3"/> |- | August 20, 2014 || Yemen Attorney General Ali Alwash tells Judge Abdelwali al-Shaabani he is unsure where Mobley is located<ref name="Yemen AG"/> |- | September 10, 2014 || <ref name="Court5">{{cite news|last1=Morello|first1=Carol|title=Mystery continues to surround American held in Yemen|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/mystery-continues-to-surround-american-held-in-yemen/2014/10/03/fcd13aba-4b10-11e4-891d-713f052086a0_story.html?tid=hpModule_04941f10-8a79-11e2-98d9-3012c1cd8d1e|newspaper=Washington Post|date=October 3, 2014|access-date=September 11, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181001023220/https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/mystery-continues-to-surround-american-held-in-yemen/2014/10/03/fcd13aba-4b10-11e4-891d-713f052086a0_story.html?tid=hpModule_04941f10-8a79-11e2-98d9-3012c1cd8d1e|archive-date=October 1, 2018|url-status=live}}</ref> |}
===Continued detention=== Mobley was initially held in the Yemen Central Prison located in Sana'a. Sometime after February 27, 2014<ref name="Proxy Detention">{{cite news|last1=Baumann|first1=Nick|title=An American Just Disappeared From a Prison in Yemen, and No One Will Say What Happened|url=https://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2014/04/sharif-mobley-american-al-qaeda-yemen-missing|magazine=Mother Jones|date=April 7, 2014|access-date=July 9, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161224233243/http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2014/04/sharif-mobley-american-al-qaeda-yemen-missing|archive-date=December 24, 2016|url-status=live}}</ref> when he was last seen by his lawyers at the Central Prison, he was moved to an unknown location but believed to be a prison run by the Yemen National Security Bureau (NSB)<ref name="Urine Glass is just a Dirty Glass"/> and is now under control of the Yemen Specialized Criminal Court.<ref name="Yemen AG"/>
On September 26, 2014, Nzinga Islam learned her husband was believed to be in the custody of the Yemen NSB.<ref name="Urine Glass is just a Dirty Glass"/>
====Allegations of unsanitary conditions==== On September 11, 2014, Sharif Mobley made an unapproved/unofficial cellphone call to his wife. During a 10-minute conversation, Mobley described enduring acts of brutality and torture. One of these, was being forced to drink "water out of bottles that had contained urine".<ref name="Nzinga Islam spoke with SharifM"/>
Carlton Benson, a consular officer at the US embassy in Yemen, confirmed that Mobley is held in unsanitary conditions and did have to drink from a "dirty" glass. In an email dated September 29, 2014, he also disclosed that Mobley is not allowed any utensils.<ref name="Urine Glass is just a Dirty Glass"/> Without utensils Mobley would have to eat with his hands or if his hands are shackled, directly with his mouth. Benson requested the Mobley family send a care package to the US State Department for Mobley, with clean cups and plastic utensils. He was uncertain if he could persuade the prison authorities to allow Mobley the plastic utensils. A U.S. consular officer, during a consular visit to Mobley in mid/late September, questioned a guard who confirmed the mistreatment.<ref name="Urine Glass is just a Dirty Glass"/>
====UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights==== In October 2014 the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights OHCHR, Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances, questioned Yemen and the US regarding Mr Mobley's disappearance. Following an investigation that started in May 2014, the OHCHR requested that Yemen ensure that Mr. Mobley would not be detained arbitrarily or subject to unfair legal proceedings.<ref>{{cite web|author1=UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances|title=UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights|url=http://www.ohchr.org/Documents/Issues/Disappearances/A.HRC.WGEID.103.1.doc|website=ohchr.org|date=October 2014|quote=The UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances has submitted a dossier of facts on the case to Yemen and the US regarding Mr Mobley's disappearance. The submission, made earlier this month, follows the group's launching of an investigation in May, and a request that Yemen ensure Mr Mobley would not be detained arbitrarily, or subject to unfair legal proceedings.|access-date=November 2, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141102231227/http://www.ohchr.org/Documents/Issues/Disappearances/A.HRC.WGEID.103.1.doc|archive-date=November 2, 2014|url-status=live}}</ref>
===Yemen=== In January 2015, an uprising by Houthi/Shiite groups opposed to the Yemeni government led to their takeover of the capital city, Sana'a.<ref name=Y-Uprising-2015>{{cite news|last1=Naylor|first1=Hugh|title=Shiite insurgents control Yemen's presidential palace and residence|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/shiite-insurgents-control-yemens-presidential-palace-and-residence/2015/01/21/f8f3cbd0-a0f4-11e4-b146-577832eafcb4_story.html|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=January 21, 2015|access-date=September 11, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181001023051/https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/shiite-insurgents-control-yemens-presidential-palace-and-residence/2015/01/21/f8f3cbd0-a0f4-11e4-b146-577832eafcb4_story.html|archive-date=October 1, 2018|url-status=live}}</ref> The situation deteriorated further in February 2015 when the government of President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi collapsed following the Houthis' seizure of the capital. As a result, the United States closed its embassy in Sana'a and evacuated all diplomatic staff, according to US State Department spokesperson Jen Psaki.<ref name="US Embassy Closed">{{cite news|last1=Norland|first1=Rod|last2=Almosawa|first2=Shuaib|title=U.S. Embassy Shuts in Yemen, Even as Militant Leader Reaches Out|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/11/world/middleeast/yemen-houthi-leader-pledges-to-pursue-power-sharing-accord.html|newspaper=New York Times|date=February 10, 2015|access-date=February 25, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161218063956/http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/11/world/middleeast/yemen-houthi-leader-pledges-to-pursue-power-sharing-accord.html|archive-date=December 18, 2016|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="CIA still active in Yemen">{{cite news|last1=Miller|first1=Greg|title=U.S. is closing its embassy in Yemen as security concerns mount|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/us-is-closing-its-embassy-in-yemen-as-security-concerns-mount/2015/02/10/47bf37dc-b16b-11e4-854b-a38d13486ba1_story.html|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=February 11, 2015|access-date=September 11, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181001023124/https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/us-is-closing-its-embassy-in-yemen-as-security-concerns-mount/2015/02/10/47bf37dc-b16b-11e4-854b-a38d13486ba1_story.html|archive-date=October 1, 2018|url-status=live}}</ref> By May 2015, the conflict had escalated significantly, prompting Saudi Arabia to launch airstrikes on Sana'a. Among the targets hit was the prison complex where Mobley was reportedly being held unofficially. Reports from May 30 indicated that Mobley, along with other Americans still in Yemen, may have fallen into Houthi custody.<ref name="Houthi Custody">{{cite news|title=Four Americans held in Yemen by Houthi rebels|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/30/four-americans-held-yemen-houthi-rebels|agency=Associated Press in Washington|newspaper=The Guardian|date=May 30, 2015|access-date=December 16, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170313113940/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/30/four-americans-held-yemen-houthi-rebels|archive-date=March 13, 2017|url-status=live}}</ref>
==Shooting== Following his arrest, he claimed he was sick and was transferred to the Republican Hospital,<ref name="al-qaeda sweep"/><ref name="WSJ"/> also in Sana'a. He was treated for complications involving a metal rod which had previously been implanted in his leg. He spent a week at the hospital, where he befriended the guards assigned to him, praying with them, reading Qur'an together, and asking them to teach him Arabic.<ref name="trick"/>
thumb|220px|The shooting occurred in the Republican Hospital in Sana'a. On March 7, 2010, he persuaded a guard to unshackle him at prayer time. The guard then went into the washroom to perform the ablution required for prayers, and reportedly left his gun unattended<ref name="trick"/> on a chair. At this time, a second guard who had been present left the room<ref name="CNN Arabic"/> and Mobley picked up the gun, and as the first guard exited the washroom Mobley shot him once in the head and then in the chest, killing him almost instantly. Another guard heard the gunshots and entered the room and was shot by Mobley in the kidney and abdomen<ref name="trick"/> but had called for reinforcements prior to entering the room and survived.<ref name="CNN Arabic"/>
The entire sixth floor of the hospital was sealed until the arrival of additional security forces accompanied by members of the anti-terrorism unit.<ref name="CNN Arabic"/> He was chased through the hospital,<ref name="trick"/> and engaged in a shootout that ended with his capture after he had barricaded himself in one of the rooms in the hospital by anti-terrorism police<ref name="Huffington"/> whose smoke grenades ignited a small fire.<ref name="The Lede"/><ref name="alw"/><ref name="WSJ"/> The siege lasted for three hours before Mobley was captured after being severely wounded<ref name="CNN Arabic"/> and "a number of other individuals" were shot by him.<ref name="News Yemen"/> According to Albasha, the embassy spokesman, the guard who had been wounded in the shootout was in serious condition.<ref name="trick"/>
According to the Arabic version of ''CNN'', Mobley allegedly killed two Yemeni guards during the shootout and critically wounded a third. ''CNN Arabic'' reported that this "was contributed by a Yemeni official in statement to ''CNN''".<ref name="CNN Arabic"/> This, however, contradicts numerous English sources, including ''The New York Times'',<ref name="The Lede"/><ref name="al-qaeda sweep"/><ref name="alw"/> ''The Wall Street Journal'',<ref name="WSJ"/> ''Newsweek'',<ref name="Declassified"/> ''Associated Press'',<ref name="associated press"/> ''ABC News'',<ref name="abc yemen ties"/> as well as the English version of ''CNN'',<ref name="CNN Justice"/><ref name="CNN"/> and ''News Yemen'',<ref name="News Yemen"/> which all state that one guard was killed and another critically wounded. The same article in ''Arabic CNN'', in a detailed description of the shooting, also mentioned only one guard being killed.<ref name="CNN Arabic"/>
==Investigation== The U.S. government was previously aware of Mobley's extremist ties, but Yemeni officials claimed he had not been on their list of wanted militants.<ref name="trick"/> According to a senior official involved in the case, the attack demonstrates that Mobley "is highly trained in the use of firearms", and according to ''The New York Times'', the attack indicates that he had a "level of training and cunning characteristic of the terror network."<ref name="trick"/>
The official also criticized the guards for their negligence in handling Mobley.<ref name="trick"/> He is likely to be tried in Yemen as opposed to being returned to the U.S., a U.S. official stated.<ref name="Declassified"/> According to Yemeni law, killing a guard could be punishable by execution by firing squad.<ref name="Huffington"/> The Baltimore, Maryland office of the FBI is working on the case.<ref name="The Lede"/> An unnamed U.S. law-enforcement official described the investigation:
<blockquote>The U.S. government is in the process of reviewing his past activities in the United States, including his employment as a contract laborer at several U.S. nuclear power plants between 2002 and 2008. At this time, we are not aware of any security-related concerns or incidents related to Mr. Mobley's employment at these locations; however we continue to review his past activities.<ref name="Declassified"/></blockquote>
Mobley's parents were interviewed by the FBI.<ref name="CNN"/> His mother denied the accusations against her son,<ref name="WSJ"/> describing him as "an excellent person who's never been in trouble" and "a good Muslim".<ref name="Huffington"/> His father, Charles Mobley, said he knew nothing of his son's current situation, adding, "I can tell you this: He's no terrorist."<ref name="The Lede"/> Sharif Mobley has not issued any public statement since the incident.<ref name="Declassified"/> Asked about Mobley's apparent links to al-Awlaki, a Yemeni embassy spokesman in Washington, D.C., said he was not surprised, because al-Awlaki: "is a fixture in jihad 101."<ref name="abc yemen ties"/> Mobley remained in the custody of the Yemeni government on charges of capital murder until October 2010,<ref name="worker jihad">{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/05/us/05mobley.html?ref=us|title=Worker Spoke of Jihad, Agency Says|last=Shane|first=Scott|date=October 4, 2010|work=The New York Times|access-date=October 5, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120309124633/http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/05/us/05mobley.html?ref=us|archive-date=March 9, 2012|url-status=live}}</ref> and was charged with killing one guard and wounding another by a criminal court on October 27.<ref name="murdercharge"/>
Two U.S. government agents<ref name="MJ FBI Log"/> interrogated Mobley after his arrest. "Matt" from the FBI and "Khan" from the DOD conducted a number of interviews with Mobley while he was hospitalized and recovering from being shot during his arrest by Yemeni Security Agents. The un-redacted portions FBI report log shows the Mr. Mobley was concerned for the safety of his family and requested that the US Agents and US Embassy in Yemen assist his family in leaving the country. {{citation needed|date=February 2015}}
From the un-redacted portion of FBI report log of the January 31, 2010, hospital visit:
<blockquote>Mobley also repeatedly asked to use a phone and for a lawyer. During the course of the interview, Mobley repeatedly expressed concern for his wife.... Mobley repeatedly instructed [redacted] to tell his wife that he ordered her to leave the country with the children and return to the us .... Mobley initially requested that the USG visit his house; [redacted] ...<ref name="MJ FBI Log"/></blockquote>
Additional topics reported by Mobley's lawyers<ref name="Reprieve PR 08142014">{{cite web|last1=Reprieve|first1=Press Release|title=Court hears missing US citizen has been transferred to secretive, US-funded Yemeni court|url=http://www.reprieve.org/2014_08_20_pub-court-hears-missing-us-citizen-has-been-transferred-to-secretive-us-funded-yemeni-court.html|website=reprieve.org|access-date=December 21, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141221213023/http://www.reprieve.org/2014_08_20_pub-court-hears-missing-us-citizen-has-been-transferred-to-secretive-us-funded-yemeni-court.html|archive-date=December 21, 2014|url-status=dead}}</ref> at Reprieve include "threats" made against his family if he did not cooperate with the interrogators. {{citation needed|date=February 2015}}
<blockquote>While in secret detention he was interrogated by two US agents, threatened with further abuse (including rape, and the rape of his wife)...<ref name="Reprieve PR 08142014"/></blockquote>
The Senate Intelligence Committee report on CIA torture released December 9, 2014, contains passages that confirm that threats of rape and family harm were given during interrogations. Reports and analysis from the release report include:
{{quote|CIA interrogators, the committee charged, told detainees they would hurt their children and "sexually assault" or kill their wives."<ref name="CIA Abuse A">{{cite news|last1=McCarthy|first1=Tom|title=CIA torture program: Senate report details abuse of detainees – as it happened|url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2014/dec/09/cia-torture-report-released-senate|newspaper=The Guardian|date=December 8, 2014|access-date=2016-12-16|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170103100348/https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2014/dec/09/cia-torture-report-released-senate|archive-date=2017-01-03|url-status=live}}</ref>
And CIA interrogators, the committee charged, told detainees they would hurt detainees' children and "sexually assault" or "cut a [detainee's] mother's throat".<ref name="CIA Abuse B">{{cite news|last1=Ackerman|first1=Spencer|last2=Rushe|first2=Dominic|title=Senate report on CIA torture claims spy agency lied about 'ineffective' program|url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2014/dec/09/cia-torture-report-released|newspaper=The Guardian|date=December 9, 2014|access-date=December 16, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141209171323/http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2014/dec/09/cia-torture-report-released|archive-date=December 9, 2014|url-status=live}}</ref>}}
News reports from 2010 include statements of similar threats made to Mobley's family and his children.
<blockquote>"They held up the keys to his house in front of his face," Cori Crider [his lawyer] said. "They told him his wife would go to prison and the kids would go to an orphanage. He was terrified that she was going to be assaulted."<ref name="WP 2010"/></blockquote>
Virginia lawyer and executive director of National Security Counselors, {{clarify|date=February 2015}} Kel McClanahan, filed a lawsuit on March 21, 2014, in U.S. federal court in Washington, D.C. demanding records under the Freedom of Information Act FOIA to help him determine whether the FBI tapped into his law firm's computers as part of an investigation into how he came to possess classified documents.<ref name="FBI spies on US Lawyer">{{cite news|last1=Baron|first1=Adam|title=Lawyer sues after FBI foils his quest to learn if he was spied on|url=http://www.kansascity.com/2014/03/25/4915194/lawyer-sues-after-fbi-foils-his.html|newspaper=The Kansas City Star|date=March 25, 2014|access-date=September 30, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140421195004/http://www.kansascity.com/2014/03/25/4915194/lawyer-sues-after-fbi-foils-his.html|archive-date=April 21, 2014|url-status=live}}</ref> McClanahan claims that the FBI targeted his law firm because of his assistance in the Mobley case on behalf of the British Human Rights organization Reprieve. His law firm had been retained to handle all FOIA litigation related to several cases, including Mobley. The FBI interest in McClanahan's law firm pertained to several sets of documents obtained with FOIA requests. Some of these documents had been released without proper redactions and he contacted the authorities to inform them of the errors. The documents are unrelated to Sharif Mobley.<ref name="FBI spies on US Lawyer"/>
The document relating to Mobley was a copy of an FBI account of an April 7, 2010, interview that U.S. agents had conducted with Mobley in Yemen.<ref name="MJ FBI Log"/> The FBI had given the un-redacted version of the document to the Yemeni government, and this version was filed in the Yemeni courts on May 23, 2012. Mobley's Yemeni lawyers passed the document to the UK Reprieve legal team and the Reprieve legal team passed it to McClanahan as part of their court documentation package.<ref name="FBI spies on US Lawyer"/>
Upon comparing the document officially filed with the Yemeni Courts and the redacted version obtained under the FOIA request, McClanahan alleged that the redactions were done to hide FBI misconduct and possible violations of the law, not because it revealed sensitive national security information.<ref name="FBI spies on US Lawyer"/> McClanahan contacted the Department of Justice regarding these alleged violations. He also met numerous times with the FBI to resolve issues over the documents. The FBI demanded he delete all documents, surrender his computers, allow review/access to his email and subject his premises to search without warrants.{{citation needed|date=April 2016}} After several meetings with the FBI, they provided a new redacted version of the FBI Mobley Interview.<ref name="MJ FBI Log"/> McClanahan became concerned that the FBI was taping his email and interfering with his internet connection, after the agents had requested specific information about his Internet service provider and details about his email account.<ref name="FBI spies on US Lawyer"/> Under the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, the FBI does not require a court order to obtain emails from an Internet provider that are older than 180 days and McClanahan suspected that the FBI had issued an administrative subpoena for his emails.<ref name="FBI spies on US Lawyer"/>
During a February 8, 2013, meeting a government prosecutor told McClanahan that neither he nor the National Security Counselors group were the target of any ongoing investigations but McClanahan remained unconvinced and filed his own FOIA request seeking information about the FBI Mobley Interview document and related investigations. As of March 25, 2014, all of these requests have been denied on the grounds that they would interfere with an ongoing investigation.<ref name="FBI spies on US Lawyer"/>
==See also== *Homegrown terrorism *List of people who disappeared mysteriously (2000–present) *Proxy detention
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<ref name="correction">{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/01/pageoneplus/01correx0-001.html?scp=4&sq=sharif%20mobley&st=cse|title=Corrections|date=April 1, 2010|newspaper=The New York Times|access-date=April 6, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181001023146/https://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/01/pageoneplus/01correx0-001.html?scp=4&sq=sharif%20mobley&st=cse|archive-date=October 1, 2018|url-status=live}}</ref> <ref name="Declassified ">{{cite news|url=http://blog.newsweek.com/blogs/declassified/archive/2010/03/12/former-three-mile-island-worker-with-alleged-al-qaeda-ties-likely-to-be-held-by-yemeni-authorities.aspx|title=Former Three Mile Island Worker with Alleged 'Al Qaeda' Ties Likely to Be Held by Yemeni Authorities|last=Hosenball|first=Mark|date=March 12, 2010|publisher=Declassified Blog at Newsweek|access-date=March 14, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100315093421/http://blog.newsweek.com/blogs/declassified/archive/2010/03/12/former-three-mile-island-worker-with-alleged-al-qaeda-ties-likely-to-be-held-by-yemeni-authorities.aspx|archive-date=March 15, 2010|url-status=dead}}</ref>
<ref name="The Lede">{{cite news|url=http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/11/american-held-in-yemen-after-shootout/?hp|title=American Held in Yemen After Shootout|last=Mackey|first=Robert|date=March 11, 2010|publisher=The Lede, The New York Times News Blog|access-date=March 12, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120326073059/http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/11/american-held-in-yemen-after-shootout/?hp|archive-date=March 26, 2012|url-status=live}}</ref>
<ref name="Huffington">{{cite news|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/11/sharif-mobley-fbi-investi_n_495172.html|title=Sharif Mobley: FBI Investigating New Jersey-Born Alleged Al Qaeda Member Who Tried To Shoot Way Out Of Hospital|author1=Wayne Perry|author2=Geoff Mulvihill|name-list-style=amp|date=March 11, 2010|work=The Huffington Post|access-date=March 12, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100314084007/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/11/sharif-mobley-fbi-investi_n_495172.html|archive-date=March 14, 2010|url-status=live}}</ref>
<ref name="murdercharge">{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/28/world/middleeast/28briefs-MURDERCHARGE_BRF.html?_r=1&ref=world|title=Yemen: Murder Charge for U.S. Man|date=October 27, 2010|work=The New York Times|access-date=October 28, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110601065532/http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/28/world/middleeast/28briefs-MURDERCHARGE_BRF.html?_r=1&ref=world|archive-date=June 1, 2011|url-status=live}}</ref>
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<ref name="WP">{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/12/AR2010031203565.html?waporef=obinsite|title=U.S. man arrested in Yemen worked in nuclear plants|author1=Mohamed Sudam |author2=Scott DiSavino |name-list-style=amp |date=March 12, 2010|newspaper=The Washington Post|access-date=March 17, 2010}}{{dead link|date=June 2021|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}} </ref>
<ref name="WP trick">{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/13/AR2010031300968.html?waporef=obinsite|title=Al-Qaida suspect from US tricked his Yemeni guard|last=Al-Haj|first=Ahmed|date=March 14, 2010|newspaper=The Washington Post|access-date=March 17, 2010}}{{dead link|date=June 2021|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref>
<ref name="WSJ">{{cite news|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748703625304575115462980209230?KEYWORDS=sharif+mobley |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181120061713/https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748703625304575115462980209230?KEYWORDS=sharif+mobley |url-status=dead |archive-date=November 20, 2018 |title=FBI Probes New Jersey Man Over Yemen Attack |date=March 11, 2010 |newspaper=The Wall Street Journal |access-date=March 12, 2010 }}</ref>
<ref name="Nzinga Islam spoke with SharifM">{{cite news|last1=Ackerman|first1=Spencer|title=US man imprisoned in Yemen makes emotional plea: 'They're gonna kill me in here'|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/15/us-man-yemen-contact-wife-sharif-mosley|newspaper=The Guardian|date=September 15, 2014|access-date=December 16, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170225032331/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/15/us-man-yemen-contact-wife-sharif-mosley|archive-date=February 25, 2017|url-status=live}}</ref>
<ref name=MothersJones2011-09>{{cite news |url = https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2011/07/proxy-detention-gulet-mohamed/ |title = Locked Up Abroad—for the FBI |work = Mother Jones magazine |author = Nick Baumann |date = September 2011 |access-date = June 25, 2017 |quote = In prison, Mobley told Crider, he was beaten and dragged down stairs before eventually blacking out on a metal slab while the blood from his penis soaked through the front of his prison garment. He was later taken to a second hospital, where, he said, Matt and Khan returned to interrogate him at least once more. Eventually, he tried to escape. ''{{'}}Imagine for a minute you were shot and held in secret for weeks on end, beaten up, threatened with rape, and told that your wife and two babies would face the same fate you had,{{'}}'' Crider says. ''{{'}}Most of us in that situation would go to extraordinary lengths to protect our families.{{'}}'' |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170623101614/http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2011/07/proxy-detention-gulet-mohamed/ |archive-date = June 23, 2017 |url-status = live }}</ref> }}
==External links== * [https://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/06/opinion/06Faddis.html Op-Ed: Al Qaeda’s Nuclear Plant, by Charles Faddis] * [http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/world/7188415.html The post-9/11 life of an American charged with murder; from Chron.com]
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