Ali Asad Chandia (born 1976 in Lahore, Pakistan) is a Pakistani[3] former teacher at al-Huda elementary school[4] in Maryland, United States.
[6] Special Agent Christopher Mamula led the Washington, D.C. and Baltimore field offices of the FBI, in conjunction with the Anti-Terrorist Branch of New Scotland Yard in the United Kingdom, in investigating the case.
FBI agents found a CD on the front seat of Chandia's Dodge Neon showing the September 11 attacks with voices dubbed in shouting "God is Great" in Arabic.
Ali Asad Chandia was a member of that network for Lashkar-e-Taiba, and he will now spend a very long period of time in prison for providing material support in furtherance of its violent agenda.
"[6] Chandia quit his job at Costco between September and November 2001, giving a handwritten explanation to his boss that said, "I have to leave now due to some family emergency."
In February 2002, Chandia picked up Mohammed Ajmal Khan, a Lashkar-e-Taiba official now serving nine years in prison in Britain,[7] at Reagan National Airport.
[8] Chandia allowed Khan to use his computer to buy unmanned aerial vehicles, night vision equipment, wireless video cameras and $17,000 of Kevlar anti-ballistic material.
[7] Federal prosecutor David Laufman told U.S. District Judge Claude M. Hilton at sentencing on August 25, 2006 that "the defendant portrays himself as a mild-mannered, kind individual."
"[8] Minhaj Hason, a spokesperson for Dar-Us-Salaam, the umbrella organization for Al-Huda, said Chandia was "one of our best teachers" in the boys section of the Muslim school.
"[8] Timimi told the FBI in a voluntary interview prior to his arrest in 2004, that, "In those days, young men [in the D.C. area] were very interested in jihad and martyrdom."