23 Facts About Wadih el-Hage

In 1996 and 1997, after Bin Laden left Sudan for Afghanistan, el-Hage worked in Nairobi, Kenya.

Wadih el-Hage's sentence was overturned in 2008 because it was based on federal mandatory sentencing guidelines invalidated by the US Supreme Court in 2005.

Wadih el-Hage was re-sentenced to life without parole in 2013.

Wadih el-Hage's family was so angered by his conversion that he was forced to leave home and was taken in by a Kuwaiti sheikh who paid for his education, including college.

Wadih el-Hage married 18 year old April Ray, an American citizen who had recently converted to Islam, gaining American citizenship in 1989.

Wadih el-Hage hold French citizenship since 1971 through his father who's lived in France.

Wadih el-Hage was reportedly under Abdullah Yusuf Azzam, an important figure in the early history of al-Qaeda.

Wadih el-Hage became a naturalized citizen of the United States in 1989.

Wadih el-Hage did not actually fight, but acted as an educator.

My husband went with Wadih el-Hage to deliver textbooks and Qur'ans to the young people.

At an Islamic conference in Oklahoma in December 1989, Wadih el-Hage met Mahmud Abouhalima, who was later convicted for his part in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.

At some later point, Wadih el-Hage moved with his family to Arlington, Texas.

Wadih el-Hage was called to the Brooklyn charity Alkifah Refugee Center, by the group's office in Tucson, via el-Hage's mosque in Arlington.

In January 1992, Wadih el-Hage was arrested for writing false checks.

Shortly thereafter, Wadih el-Hage moved his family to Sudan and worked as a secretary for Osama bin Laden, who operated a network of businesses and charities, some of them fronts, in East Africa at the time.

Prosecutors believe that Wadih el-Hage became a key aide to Bin Laden.

In 1994, his wife April convinced Wadih el-Hage to leave Sudan and stop working for Bin Laden's organization there.

Wadih el-Hage is Muslim, but she is American, and she wouldn't stand for it.

Wadih el-Hage was away in Afghanistan during the raid and documents and a computer were taken from the home.

Two days later, Wadih el-Hage was questioned upon his return from Afghanistan and told to leave Kenya.

Two weeks after the attacks, the FBI interviewed Wadih el-Hage and questioned him about his connection to Osama bin Laden.

Wadih el-Hage testified before a grand jury investigating the embassy attacks where he claimed to have never known al-Banshiri, Odeh or other associates of bin-Laden.

Wadih el-Hage's resentencing was scheduled for 2009, but his defense asked that the date be pushed back.