US Muslims convicted of violating anti-terror laws

They were convicted in Texas of selling computer equipment to Libya and Syria, among other things. From the BBC, with thanks to Twostellas:

The men - Ghassan, Basman, Bayan, Hazim and Ihsan Elashi - ran a computer business in Richardson, Texas.

They were tried on more than 20 counts of money-laundering and false statements on export documents.

Three of the brothers are facing separate charges of funnelling money to the militant Palestinian group Hamas.

The five ran a firm called InfoCom.

On Wednesday, they were found guilty of shipping money to countries regarded by the US as sponsors of terrorism, and could face up to 10 years in jail.

During the trial, prosecutors said they repeatedly filed false export forms to deceive the authorities about the nature of their business.

The defence argued that the brothers did not knowingly break laws and that the equipment sent to the Middle East consisted only of low-grade computers.

UPDATE: Daniel Pipes (thanks to Mentat) notes that one of these men, Ghassan Elashi, was a founding board member of CAIR's Texas chapter. I am somewhat abashed at not noticing his name before Mentat pointed it out: just last week I was writing about Elashi and other CAIR officials who have been arrested on terrorism-related charges in a piece for my forthcoming essay collection, The Myth of Islamic Tolerance.

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As they were selling only "low grade" computers, perhaps we should send them to a "low grade" prison.

Gitmo comes to mind.

The article leaves out a very important fact - one of those charged was a founding board member of CAIR's Texas branch. Please see Daniel Pipe's website for this important information.

http://www.danielpipes.org/blog/32

July 7, 2004 update: Ghassan Elashi – a founding board member of CAIR's Texas chapter – was convicted today of terrorism-related charges, along with four of his brothers (Bayan, Basman, Hazim and Ihsan). Specifically, they conspired to use their Dallas-are computer services business, InfoCom Corporation, to send seven illegal high-tech shipments to Libya and four to Syria, both of whose governments are declared state-sponsors of terrorism. In addition, InfoCom stood accused of undervaluing the value of shipments to help Middle Eastern customers avoid paying customs duties. As the Dallas Morning News sums up the three weeks of testimony, government witnesses established that the Elashi brothers "had run their company, InfoCom Corp., like an outlaw enterprise with little or no regard for export laws or lying to the government." Ghassan, InfoCom's vice president of international marketing, was convicted of three counts of conspiracy, one county of money laundering and two counts of making false statements about shipments. Another CAIR link to terrorism is thus established. Looking ahead, Ghassan and two brothers (Basman and Bayan) face another federal trial on charges alleging they knowingly did business with Mousa Abu Marzook of the terrorist group Hamas.

Andrew Whitehead at Anti-Cair must be very interested in this news.

Whao! one caught!
Yet there are still many to be caught!
Although not an American.
I'll still say "God bless America, Isreal, and all peace and justice loving countries"!

Bob
Have a good prison here in the god old USA if they want to send them to AZ.

More on the Sheriff:

Ya gotta love this guy. For what it's worth, I checked out the story on snopes.com and it checks out true. ~T

Sheriff Joe Arpaio (in Arizona) is doing it RIGHT!!:

He has jail meals down to 40 cents a serving and charges the inmates for them.
He stopped smoking and porno magazines in the jails.
Took away their weights.
Cut off all but "G" movies.
He started chain gangs so the inmates could do free work on county and city projects. Then he started chain gangs for women so he wouldn't get sued for discrimination.
He took away cable TV until he found out there was a federal court order that required cable TV for jails. So he hooked up the cable TV again but only let in the Disney channel and the weather channel. When asked why the weather channel he replied, so they will know how hot it's gonna be while they are working on my chain gangs.
He cut off coffee since it has zero nutritional value. When the inmates complained, he told them.....this is a good one......"This isn't the Ritz/Carlton. If you don't like it, don't come back."
He bought Newt Gingrich' lecture series on videotape that he pipes into the jails. When asked by a reporter if he had any lecture series by a Democrat, he replied that a democratic lecture series might explain why a lot of the inmates were in his jails in the first place.
You have to love this guy!!

With temperatures being even hotter than usual in Phoenix (116 degrees just set a new record), the Associated Press reports: About 2,000 inmates living in a barbed-wire-surrounded tent encampment at the Maricopa County Jail have been given permission to strip down to their government-issued pink boxer shorts. On Wednesday, hundreds of men wearing boxers were either curled up on their bunk beds or chatted in the tents, which reached 138 degrees inside the week before. Many were also swathed in wet, pink towels as sweat collected on their chests and dripped down to their pink socks. "It feels like we are in a furnace," said James Zanzot, an inmate who has lived in the tents for 1 1/2 years. "It's inhumane." Joe Arpaio, the tough-guy sheriff who created the tent city and long ago started making his prisoners wear pink, and eat green bologna sandwiches, is not one bit sympathetic. He said Wednesday that he told all of the inmates:

"It's 120 degrees in Iraq and our soldiers are living in tents too, and they have to wear full battle gear, but they didn't commit any crimes . . . so shut your damned mouths."

KIND OF PUTS THINGS IN PERSPECTIVE DOESN'T IT?


Part of the American Tribe
God Bless the USA and her Fighting Forces and All who Fight with her give them Strength and Courage to stay the course to Victory Amen

How I wish they do what they are doing to others in Muslims countries to these guys( i.e., cut off their hands)!
However, things are not like that in America, because they are God-fearing people, which is what these guys are backing on and are using to sponsor terrorist!
I am sure that their defence lawyer will still have reasons why these men should not be sent to jail.

Oiko~ I think most of us who post here are getting those emails. I send them all to Spam. I don't know how Yahoo handles it but I hope it is by banning use of the ISP.

Everybody,
I posted a comment on the islam-NASAs' Issue I think you should please read it.
Dase.

oikonomakis:

The article is over on Dhimmi Watch, the July 7 "CAIR gives NASA ... " thread.

This is nothing but a witch hunt. A disgraceful attempt to profile and defile the good Muslim name. Islam is a religion of peace, and no Muslim, of any age, gender, or financial status can ever be wrong, at any time.

Muslims are perfect in every way. They are peaceful and loving. It is such a shame that the Great Satan American Government (Beelzebub Bush and his little demons) feel the need to target innocent Muslims because of the fact that they follow the teachings of the Prophet Mohammed.

The Great Satan is vile, racist, and always tagets innocent, peaceful Muslims for their own hypocritical propoganda.

PS-If you believe one shred of what I've just written, you must be a typical mentally deficient Muslim.

Thanks a lot for taking the time to read the post.
In addition to that, I wish to tell you this about these people, they are "dead serious, determined, and dangerous"
America, needs to know that these people wake up before any other person (as early as 5:00am). Go to the mosque, pray again around 11, 2 etc until it is 6 or 7 pm in the evening.
Hence, this is to say they are incited about 5 times a day to hate you and me since we are not muslims or no longer a muslim.
So we need to be more serious, determined, principled, and focused in handling them.
Thank you for taking time to read.
God bless America and all other freedom loving Countries!

Dase, I agree with you that they're incited 5 times per day. I also agree their hatred can't stop bullets. The best thing that could happen to America right now, is to either pen these people up until we truly sort out the bad from the terrible, or mass deport every damn on of them back to their hellholes.

The muslims wiped out the Isis cult.
You did know that, of course.

Afra~ That Does sound familiar to me. I may need to study it further... I am sure Hugh or one of the others has that info at ready fingers, tho.

Be advised that if John F'ing Kerry is elected these wrongful racist Islamophobic witch hunts will be a thing of the past! Hang in there all you CAIR members and supporters. John F'ing Kerry is coming to your rescue.

And, that's the 'french looking candidate' and 'self described war criminal and perpetrator of crimes against humanity either that or he lied under oath when he made these admissions against interest before that US Senate Committee (which makes him an admitted perjurer).

And if you weren't aware he's also a self-proclaimed war hero who received 3 purple hearts for cutting himself shaving 3 separate times so he could get his 'Get Out Of Vietnam Free Card'.

So... If John F'ing Kerry is elected, CAIR gets a free pass on all their 'benevolent' activities for 4 long years.

DC,
Upon reading the first few lines of your July 6 4:26pm post, I could have sworn it was our islamofascist buddy Reza piping up again.

The money scams are just a way of islamofascists who visit this site finding out the email addresses of the regulars here. If just one is gullible enough to fall for it they have the bank account details of an infadel, and also know exactly where in the world they are.This is just a guess, so correct me if I'm wrong.
Back on topic (sort of) maybe in time muslims will evolve into a race of people without hands as there are so many theives among them.

Dase,
I've read your post over on Dhimmi Watch, and I have to say people who've had such first hand experiences of the horror of islam have my deepest respect. You would be welcome in the UK .

"The muslims wiped out the Isis cult."

Not to mention, they also destroyed Zoroastrianism in Iran. The majority of survivors are in diaspora in India, USA, UK, Australia, Cabada, and elsewhere.

Islam is a cult of destruction and is detrimental to the human race. They need to stop killing people in the name of their arab moon god.

*nod* An affront to Ahura Mazda.

"Islam is a cult of destruction and is detrimental to the human race."

hmm, destroying a major section of the human race... for some reason, abad, that kind of reminds me what you all are trying to do- wipe out the muslim race. well, then again, it could possibly just be me...

Muslims are a Race? Are you serious? What does that make arabs who chose Not to be muslim?







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