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Daniel Maldonado (born c.1979〔), aka his adopted Muslim name Daniel Aljughaifi, is a U.S. citizen who in February 2007 became the first to face charges in federal court for training with Al-Shabaab, a terrorist organization in Somalia.〔 Maldonado was born in Pelham, New Hampshire. After dropping out of high school before his junior year, in 2000 he converted to fundamentalist Islam and adopted the Arab surname of ''Aljughaifi''. By 2005 he had married and was living in Houston, Texas with his wife and children; they moved that year to Cairo, Egypt. The following year, they went to Somalia, where he joined Al-Shabaab with another American Muslim, Omar Hammami. The group is classified by United States law enforcement as a terrorist organization. After being captured by Kenyan forces in January 2007, Maldonado was turned over to United States officials and brought back to the US by agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). He was charged in a US District Court in February 2007 in Houston, Texas for receiving military training from a terrorist organization.〔 〕〔 In April 2007, Maldonado pleaded guilty to the charges. On July 20, 2007, he was sentenced to ten years in prison, with an additional three years of supervised release and a $1000 fine.〔("US Citizen Sentenced to Prison for Receiving Military Training from a Terrorist Organization" ), Press Release, 20 July 2007, FBI, Houston Field Division, accessed 15 January 2013〕 ==Early life and education== Maldonado was born in Pelham, New Hampshire, to Jose and Rena Maldonado. He has an older brother Scott and sister Tamra, and younger brother Joshua.〔(CINDY GEORGE and RACHEL GRAVES, "Terrorist suspect's unexpected journey to Houston jail" ), ''Houston Chronicle'', 16 February 2007, accessed 15 January 2013〕 In 1995 as a freshman in high school, he was the only one to wear dreadlocks; friends said he liked attention in the suburban town.〔 While remembered by teachers as bright and outspoken, he dropped out of high school before his junior year.〔 Maldonado lived in other places in New Hampshire and Massachusetts, including Methuen. The ''Boston Globe'' reported that, as a youth, Maldonado had minor brushes with the law, but nothing serious.〔 In Methuen, Maldonado started attending the Selimiye Mosque, where he asked to learn about Islam and converted in 2000. He took an Arab surname, calling himself Daniel ''Aljughaifi.''〔 Another member, Matthew Yusuf Trombly, who also converted to Islam from Christianity, said of Maldonado after his arrest on terrorism charges that he "fell victim to 'the zeal of the convert'."〔 Members of the mosque feared Maldonado's actions would cause people to think ill of Islam. According to the ''Boston Globe,'' Maldonado's views became so extreme that the imam of the mosque asked the young man either to stop criticizing the other members, or to leave. His friend Soner Uguz of Lawrence, Massachusetts, said: :"He was arrogant; he knew the book (Koran ) better than anyone, He went from loving rap to hating poetry."〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Daniel Maldonado」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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