Adelaide-raised Sabirhan Hasanoff, facing terrorist charges in New York, is a family man, cousin says A court sketch showing Sabirhan Hasanoff, centre, his attorney Anthony Ricco, right, and US judge James Francis. An artist's drawing of Wesam El-Hanafi and Sabirhan Hasanoff during their initial appearance on terrorism charges at a US District Court in April. Picture: William Hennessy, Jr./AP Source: AP A FORMER Adelaide man who could face a prison sentence in the US for terrorism offences is a nice guy and a family man, his South Australian cousin says. Sabirhan Hasanoff, 37, who was raised in Adelaide, is accused of helping an Egyptian terrorism suspect known as the Doctor to scout out the New York Stock Exchange for a possible attack . The Doctor was allegedly a member of Egyptian Islamic Jihad, which has merged with al Qaida. Sayed Ahmed Abdelmaksoud Abdellatif, the subject of an Interpol red notice who was housed at Inverbrackie, has been accused of being part of the same group. Last week, Prime Minister Julia Gillard launched an inquiry into how Mr Abdellatif (also called Maksoud Abdel Latif) was left in the low-security Adelaide Hills detention centre for months after authorities knew he was accused of terrorism. Mr Hasanoff's cousin Nighmat Hasanoff told The Advertiser yesterday he wouldn't have had any idea that Sabirhan Hasanoff, a former accountant, would be involved in anything to do with terrorism. I've met him a few times, he said. He was quite nice, a good family man - nothing out of the ordinary. Sabirhan Hasanoff still has family here and in Melbourne but is now a dual US/Australian citizen. He was arrested in 2010 and will be sentenced next week. Last year, the New York Times reported that he admitted that he "agreed with other people to provide material support to a designated foreign terrorist organisation." "The organisation was al Qaida," he said. He allegedly collated information on the stock exchange and gave it to an al Qaida leader, who then passed it on to the Doctor. He is also accused of wanting to undergo jihadi training in Pakistan. Assistant US attorney Glen Kopp told the court he wanted the maximum sentence of 20 years. "The offence conducted in this case is enormously serious - providing material support to al Qaida that included money, technical advice and equipment sought by the terrorist group to engage in further violence against Americans, and surveilling a potential target in New York City for a domestic terror attack," he said.