Albany Attorneys for a former Albany imam convicted of laundering money from a fictitious terror plot said they will seek a new trial because documents released by the U.S. Justice Department indicate the FBI may have wrongly believed he was a member of al-Qaida. The documents were obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request filed by supporters of Yassin M. Aref, a Kurdish refugee from northern Iraq who is serving a 15-year federal prison term. Aref's co-defendant, Mohammed M. Hossain, a naturalized U.S. citizen from Bangladesh, also was convicted and sentenced to a 15-year term. A heavily redacted 2002 FBI intelligence report, attributed to...
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