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By Steven Nelson
A Kuwaiti religious leader who allegedly raised money for jihadist rebels in Syria appears poised to become the first person served a U.S. lawsuit via Twitter.
Hajjaj bin Fahd al-Ajmi has been a hard man to reach for a lawyer seek- ing compensation in a northern California feder- al court on behalf of hun- dreds of thousands of Assyrian Christians who own property in Iraq and Syria.
U.S. Magistrate Judge Laurel Beeler, resolving the impasse, found al- Ajmi has “an active Twitter account and con- tinues to use it,” offering the “method of service most likely to reach" him to satisfy the service of process requirement for the case to move for- ward.
Al-Ajmi is accused by both the U.S. govern- ment and the U.N. Security Council of fun- neling money to armed terrorists.
Service via social net- work is not unprecedent- ed, and Beeler leaned on rulings in at least two other cases to justify the novel delivery mecha- nism.
Previously, a federal judge in New York in 2014 allowed service via Facebook, LinkedIn and email to a Turkish citizen in a trademark dispute. In 2013, a federal judge in Virginia allowed the Federal Trade Commission to serve notice on five alleged fraudsters living in India via Facebook and email.
“I think it’s going to have a tremendous effect,” says Mogeeb Weiss, who represents the plaintiffs on behalf of the California-based non- profit St. Francis Assisi, which is made up of affil- iated churches.
“You have a Twitter account and are trying to avoid service? Now I can just get you on Twitter, it’s huge. You can just serve them there on the
spot," he says, noting though that attorneys still will have to show first that more traditional methods failed.
Al-Ajmi is a co-defendant in the pending lawsuit along with two banks he allegedly used to funnel money, sometimes raised with video and tweeted appeals, to Syria's Nusra Front.
The Nusra Front, a pow- erful rebel army formed in 2011, was originally a project of the al-Qaida- affiliated Islamic State of Iraq. It split in 2013 from its parent, with the rebranded Islamic State proclaiming a caliphate the next year over wide swaths of Iraq and Syria while Nusra continued to partner with other Syrian rebels, remaining loyal to al-Qaida until at least July.
The original relationship between Nusra and Islamic State terrorists entitles Assyrian victims of the latter to financial compensation, Weiss tells U.S. News.
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