Ammon News - AMMONNEWS - Government sources said that the Jordanian Embassy in Washington is following up on the case of Muhammad Alkaramla, a Jordanian-American who was convicted on Tuesday of mailing a bomb threat to a Jewish school in Chicago.

Sources told 'Ammon News' that the Foreign Ministry began communicating with concerned authorities as soon as it learned of the case, and directed the Jordanian Embassy in Washington to follow up on the case and the ministry on all new developments.

A federal judge had convicted 26-year old Muhammad Alkaramla after a two-day bench trial before U.S. District Court Judge Rebecca Pallmeyer.

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

Alkaramla faces a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.

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.