Mohammad Youssef Abdulazeez’s uncle is not being detained in Jordan because he is connected to the attack, a family spokesperson, who does not want to be identified, told the Times Free Press.
But Jordanian officials are holding Asaad Ibrahim Asaad Haj Ali so he can be questioned about his contact with his nephew, the spokesperson said.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation has finished interviewing the immediate family. Each member was questioned for many, many hours. Friends have been extensively questioned as well. FBI investigators raided a local apartment complex on Mountain Creek Road on Monday from 6 p.m. to 2 a.m., neighbors told the Times Free Press.
And all of Abdulazeez’s electronic communications and personal writings have been reviewed, the spokesperson said.
FILE – This Oct. 2008 file photo shows Imam Anwar al-Awlaki in Yemen, who was killed in a U.S. drone strike. A federal judge said Friday, July 19, 2013, that she finds “disconcerting” the Obama administration’s position that courts have no role in a lawsuit over the 2011 drone-strike killings of three U.S. citizens in Yemen, including the al-Qaida cleric. (AP Photo/Muhammad ud-Deen, File)In that search, officials found that he had sympathized with an Al Quaeda leader named Anwar al-Awlaki, an American al Qaeda leader who has been linked to other U.S. attacks, including the attacks on Fort Hood. Al-Awlaki was killed in a drone attack in 2011.