Life Before Arrest
Hussein ran two businesses in Ottawa. The first was a cleaning company he started in the hopes of being able to offer his family employment, improving their chances of successful immigration to Canada. The second was a hawala money transfer business named Barakaat North America Inc. which his brother managed in Massachusetts. When it was announced that al-Qaeda was believed to have ties to the Somali money service which Hussein contracted, his brother was arrested in Boston and the cleaning franchise revoked Hussein's license.
Hussein went to the Ottawa police department, where he was arrested at the request of the United States. He was later represented by lawyer Michael Edelson.
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