Ali Asad Chandia

Who is Ali Asad Chandia?

Ali Asad Chandia was a third-grade teacher at the Al-Huda School, of Dar-us-Salaam mosque, in College Park, Maryland in the USA. Chandia was alleged to have provided material support to Lashkar-e-Taiba, a Pakistani terrorist organization, and assisted the Virginia Jihad Network. On June 6, 2006, a jury, though with insufficient evidence to back up their verdict, unanimously found Chandia guilty. He was sentenced to 15 years in prison, with three years of supervised release at the end of his incarceration, on three counts of conspiracy and providing material support to Lashkar-e-Taiba on August 30, 2006. Assistant U.S. Attorney David H. Laufman and Department of Justice Trial Attorney John T. Gibbs, who prosecuted the case, had sought a sentence of 30 years to life.