A United States federal court on Thursday indicted two Indian brothers, and two others, on charges of providing material support to slain Al-Qaeda leader Anwar al-Awlaki, the Press Trust of India reported. Yahya Farooq Mohammad, 37, and Ibrahim Zubair Mohammad, 36, also face charges of conspiracy and bank fraud. They, along with the two others, had conspired to send money, equipment and other assistance to al-Awlaki in response to his calls to support violent Jihad, said Assistant Attorney General John Carlin.

Both brothers had come to the country as engineering students, married US citizens and obtained citizenship there. Between 2008 and 2009, they collected the money by drawing from different credit cards with no intention to pay the dues, officials said. The indictment also alleged that in 2009, Farooq travelled to Yemen with two others to meet al-Awlaki. They were unable to find him, but met one of his associates and gave him approximately $22,000. Al-Awlaki was killed in a US drone strike in 2011.