Rafiq Abdus Sabir is an American doctor convicted of supporting terrorism, for agreeing to provide medical treatment to insurgents wounded in the US-led Invasion of Iraq.
[1] He graduated from Columbia University[1] and worked as an emergency room physician in Boca Raton, Florida, (including at Glades General Hospital[1]) and Saudi Arabia,[2] paying off $750,000 in medical school debts, living with his common-law wife, Arlene Morgan, and their two sons.
[5] He was approached by undercover FBI agent Ali Soufan, who pretended to be a member of al-Qaeda wanting to set up medical care for injured fighters.
[4] Sabir is a friend of Tarik Shah, a New York jazz musician and martial-arts expert who was convicted of agreeing to provide training to Iraqi insurgents.
Brooklyn bookstore owner Abdulrahman Farhane and Washington D.C. cabdriver Mahmud al-Mutazzim received 13 and 15 years' imprisonment, respectively, in the same FBI sting operation.