United States v. Awadallah

On October 10 and 15, 2001, Osama Awadallah ("Awadallah") testified before a grand jury sitting in the Southern District of New York investigating the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. Awadallah was subsequently indicted on two counts of perjury. See 18 U.S.C. § 1623. Count One alleged that he falsely denied knowing the name Khalid Al-Mihdhar ("Al-Mihdhar"), who had been identified as one of the hijackers of the airplane flown into the Pentagon on September 11. Count Two alleged that, on October 15, after Awadallah was confronted with a handwritten examination booklet from one of his college courses containing Al-Mihdhars name, he falsely denied that the handwriting was his own.