KSP Special Response Team to be honored after arresting men connected to Al Qaida

LEXINGTON, Ky. (WTVQ)- The KSP Special Response Team was honored to receive a token of commemoration for assisting with a joint tactical operation that included the FBI, Louisville SWAT and KSP.

KSP says this operation occurred on May 25, 2011 resulting in the arrest and federal conviction of Waad Ramadan Alwan and Mohanad Shareef Hammadi on charges of providing material support to a Foreign Terror Organization (al Qaida in Iraq.)