in prison. Lawal Babafemi, a Nigerian Al Qaeda recruiter extradited to the United States. Babafemi pleaded guilty in 2014 and was sentenced to 22 years in prison the following year. Ahmad also prosecuted Faruq Khalil Muhammad 'Isa, a Canadian national affiliated with ISIS charged with murdering five U.S. servicemen in a 2009 suicide bombing attack in Iraq. Muhammad 'Isa has pleaded not guilty and is awaiting trial. Ahmad also prosecuted Muhanad al-Farekh, an American charged with having provided material support to al Qaeda in Afghanistan. Al-Farekh has pleaded not guilty and is awaiting trial. In the spring of 2016, Ahmad took a leave from the U.S. Attorney's Office in E.D.N.Y to work at Justice Department headquarters ("Main Justice"), at the request of Attorney General Loretta Lynch, dealing with transnational organized crime and international affairs. She returned to the E.D.N.Y. in April 2017, remaining there until July 2017, when she was selected by special counsel Robert Mueller to join the Special Counsel for the United States Department of Justice team assembled to probe Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections and related matters. Ahmad was one of the team members responsible for handling the case against Michael Flynn, appearing in court on behalf of the Special Counsel for Flynn's plea bargain. Personal life Ahmad "was briefly married, to a lawyer from Jordan" before getting divorced. Ahmad is a Muslim, and says that "the primary relevance of my ethnic background to the work I do is its irrelevance", citing the rejection of terrorism by "the broader American-Muslim community". References Further reading 1980 births Assistant United States Attorneys Lawyers from New York City Law clerks Columbia Law School alumni Living people Cornell University College of Human Ecology alumni American Muslims American people of Pakistani descent American people of Punjabi descent Members of the 2017 Special Counsel investigation team Punjabi people