Mohamed

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, 

Plaintiff-Appellee, No. 05-50253 v. ZAMEER NOORALLA MOHAMED, aka  D.C. No.

CR-04-00609-PA

Al, aka Samier Hussain, aka

OPINION

Zameer Mohamed, Defendant-Appellant.  Appeal from the United States District Court for the Central District of California Percy Anderson, District Judge, Presiding

Argued and Submitted February 17, 2006—Pasadena, California

Filed August 11, 2006

Before: Betty B. Fletcher, A. Wallace Tashima, and Consuelo M. Callahan, Circuit Judges.

Opinion by Judge B. Fletcher

9399 9402 UNITED STATES v. MOHAMED

COUNSEL

Michael Tanaka, Deputy Federal Public Defender, Los Ange- les, California, for the defendant-appellant.

Erik M. Silber, Assistant United States Attorney, Los Ange- les, California, for the plaintiff-appellee.

OPINION

B. FLETCHER, Circuit Judge:

On April 23, 2004, Zameer Nooralla Mohamed telephoned the Department of Homeland Security from a hotel room in Calgary, Canada, and made a phony bomb threat, claiming that four of his acquaintances were terrorists involved in a plot to bomb several shopping malls…