From the New York Times in January 2002.
Mr. (Raed) Hijazi, now 32, shared that conviction. Born in California to relative privilege, he had grown up mostly in Saudi Arabia and Jordan. He told prosecutors that he had been converted to the Islamic cause while studying business at California State University in Sacramento. Mr. Hijazi began attending a mosque and cultural group in Sacramento called the Islamic Assistance Organization. It was there, he told Jordanian investigators, that he met a Muslim from the Fiji Islands who schooled him in radical Islamic philososophy and persuaded him to go to Afghanistan. The mosque, he told investigators, helped arrange his training at the Khaldan camp near Khost in eastern Afghanistan. Mr. Hijazi proved an excellent student, especially with mortars, a favorite weapon of the Afghans. He became known by his noms de guerre, Abu Ahmed the Mortarman and Abu Ahmed the American, according to Mr. abu Hoshar's statement to the prosecutors.
This just seems to be too much of a coincidence with the name of "Hijazi" and a first name aka for "Raed" Hijazi being "Abu Ahmed", and then reports of an American citizen named "Hijazi" killed in Yemen, who had the first name of "Ahmed" (albeit without the Abu). Can anyone share insight on this?
We just have to disprove that Raeda Hijazi is still in custody/jail in Amman, Jordan and then I think it is fairly well established this was one and the same person, IMHO. We certainly CAN prove it is NOT the same person if Raed Hijazi is still alive and in custody. That seems to be the challenge.