Sayfildin Tahir-Sharif, a Canadian citizen, was indicted in Brooklyn on charges relating to the deaths of five US soldiers in a suicide bombing in Iraq in April 2009. He remains in Canadian custody after his arrest in Edmonton in January 2011; the US seeks his extradition. A Canadian prosecutor said the suspect’s real name was Faruq Khalil Muhammad ‘Isa and that he had jihadist connections abroad.
