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Ammon News - By Haneen Qawasmi

AMMONNEWS - The Jordanian-American who was convicted in the end of July 2010 of mailing a bomb threat to a Jewish school in Chicago will be released on Monday, a security Source told Ammon News.

Muhammad Alkaramla, 26-year old wad convicted after a two-day bench trial before U.S. District Court Judge Rebecca Pallmeyer.

The source said that Karamla ended his jail sentence, and he will be free by the end of this day.

Karamla father, Tawfiq Katamla Expressed his happiness of seeing his son free from prison.

A federal judge had revoked bond for Alkaramla and ordered him detained pending sentencing, scheduled for September 29th 2010, The Chicago Tribune reported on statements by spokesperson for the U.S. Attorney's office, Randall Samborn.

Alkaramla was arrested in March 2009 for mailing a letter on December 30, 2008 2008 addressed to Rabbis and Jewish leaders threatening to set off explosives and kill, injure and intimidate individuals and destroy the Ida Crown Jewish Academy if the Israeli offensive on Gaza didn't stop by January 15, 2009.

FBI agents raided the home of Alkarmala and searched his laptop computer, claiming to have found a draft of the threatening letter, and google searches for terms including "bomb attack+Israel+letters" and "Jewish elementary schools in Chicago."

Alkaramla had maintained that he was targeted by authorities for being Muslim and having an Arabic name.