Biography
Ahmed Bilal was named among the Portland defendants in John S. Pistole’s April 14, 2004 FBI statement. The group was indicted October 3, 2002. The statement says he was apprehended in Malaysia several days after the October 4 arrests and returned to the United States; it gives no exact U.S. admission day. The FBI reported guilty pleas and sentences ranging from three to eighteen years across the group, without identifying each person’s exact sentence or actual discharge. Allegations of efforts to aid Al Qaeda and the Taliban are attributed to the FBI. No completed served total or present custody status is inferred. Source: https://www.globalsecurity.org/security/library/congress/9-11_commission/040414-pistole.pdf#page=13
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FBI testimony documents apprehension in Malaysia during October 2002; the exact day is not established. DOJ’s February 9, 2004 release records the individual ten-year sentence and guilty plea. The official BOP locator identifies Ahmed Ibrahim Bilal, register 96640-011, with actual release June 27, 2011. This supplies a documented endpoint, not an endpoint inferred from the ten-year sentence. Initial U.S. admission and complete custody continuity remain unresolved, so the unknown-total flag is preserved.
