Now here's a twist: Majid al-Massari is charged with various ties to Al-Qaeda, but he is fighting deportation to Saudi Arabia on the grounds that his father supports Osama's desire to overthrow the House of Saud, and that therefore he will be tortured and killed there. So he is asking the United States to protect an Al-Qaeda sympathizer.
From the Seattle Times, with thanks to Anthony:
To his co-workers at the University of Washington School of Nursing, Majid al-Massari was a happy guy who bounced down the halls and seemed like a "big teddy bear."What his friends didn't know about the burly, bearded 34-year-old computer-security specialist was that he had helped set up a Web site for a group linked to al-Qaida, quoted Osama bin Laden in his own Internet postings, lashed out against American policies on his father's London-based radio show and had landed in the sights of U.S. terrorism investigators.
Now the Saudi national is being targeted for deportation, but immigration officials say it's not because he's a terrorist. Instead, they cite a nearly 2-year-old misdemeanor drug conviction that, under immigration law, is considered an "aggravated felony" and the basis for deportation.
In response, al-Massari is seeking asylum in the United States, claiming he would be tortured in his home country because his father, a prominent bin Laden supporter, has openly called for the overthrow of the Saudi monarchy and has praised terrorist attacks against Saudi and Western targets. The son's hearing, which is closed to the public, began earlier this month in Seattle and will continue, after a break, in February.
While his friends and former co-workers rally for his release, al-Massari awaits his fate in federal detention near Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. In his deportation case in Immigration Court, federal lawyers have filed thousands of pages of pleadings, including posters of bin Laden, that focus not on al-Massari's crack-cocaine conviction but on his father and his al-Qaida connections.
Majid al-Massari has not been charged as a terrorist. His Seattle attorney, Cheryl Nance, said his case is "purely guilt by association."
There is nothing in the government's filings that leads her to believe her client is anything more than a Muslim with unpopular opinions about America's role in Iraq and the rest of the Middle East, she said.
Nance thinks the U.S. and Saudi governments are targeting the senior al-Massari and "using my client as bait." Al-Massari, through Nance, declined to be interviewed.
If Majid al-Massari could travel on a Sa'udi passport, he's probably in no danger from the Wahabbi kingdom. I'm sure he can cut a deal with the authorities there.
"Al-Massari, who was born in Saudi Arabia in 1970, earned degrees there in physics and astronomy. He came to the U.S. in 1994 for an advanced physics degree and seven years later began working at the UW School of Nursing, where his passion was detecting computer viruses."
So much for the theory that Islamic radicals and their legions of sympathizers are uneducated, impressionable people only yearning to breath free air.
Another example from the same article:
"Dr. Muhammad al-Massari, a theoretical physicist who lives in London, is suspected in a recently revealed plot to assassinate Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah..."
It is clear that most of the worst of these Islamists are the educated ones residing in the West who know well of its liberty, tolerance and respect for others. They simply reject this as Mohammad Atta, another educated Egyptian son of a Lawyer who was certainally offered every opportunity to settle in Western society but preferred rather to murder 3000 in the name of Allah.
That the WTC butchers attended strip clubs the night before was the final act of hypocracy Moslems can justify by their many complex rules which refer to the jihadist warrior martyer's who are allowed to trick the unsuspecting infidel in order thet they be slayed.
Neighbors paying this mans rent and moving his car and putting his belongings into storage seems an entirely unexpected action by useful, good-hearted schmucks who would be killed as easily as swatting a fly by Islamists like Mr. Al Massari if given a chance. Yey, we enable, excuse, defend and promote those who will use this weakness to eventually enslave us all.
I guess he figures this works in the UK, what with them giving asylum to Taliban, so he may as well try this scam on the US. Only I hope the US isn't as stupid as the UK.
Perhaps he would prefer to live in a cage in Guantanamo?
Majid al-Massari is a teddy bear at work, ergo, what the hey, any musings which might go along with those of the folks who are trying to kill us are just the juvenile thoughts of a cute furry animal. Before long, Smokey the Bear will be out there protesting al-Massari's treatment. As expected, poor Majid is just another victim of the close minded West.
Why, I wonder, do the al-Massari's of the world - you know, the one's who would love us to live under Sharia - hate to face Sharia themselves? Certainly, the prospect of a nice Islamic beheading would trump living among us heathen in the West. After all, Majid, Mecca is in Saudi Arabia - what could be more thrilling for a Muslim than a good day of torture and beheading in Mecca? Or, is that just something Muslims feel only Westerners are worthy of enjoying? Al-Massari's co-workers seem to hold that point of view.
What his friends didn't know about the burly, bearded 34-year-old computer-security specialist was that he had helped set up a Web site for a group linked to al-Qaida, quoted Osama bin Laden in his own Internet postings, lashed out against American policies on his father's London-based radio show and had landed in the sights of U.S. terrorism investigators
SEND HIM TO THE SAUDIS THEY KNOW WHAT TO DO WITH TERRORIST!!
In his deportation case in Immigration Court, federal lawyers have filed thousands of pages of pleadings, including posters of bin Laden, that focus not on al-Massari's crack-cocaine conviction but on his father and his al-Qaida connections.
GOOD ENOUGH FOR ME!!
Part of the American Tribe
Squirrel Hunter
Spider Killer
God Bless the USA and her Fighting Forces and ALL who Fight with her give them Strength,Wisdom,Sight, and Courage to stay the course to Crush ALL Islamic Terrorist and ALL who Support them Open the Worlds Eyes to their Threat give the World Courage to Stand and Fight them Amen
Wha? First he wants to destroy America and now he wants asylum? They should play his oral contributions to his father's radio program in court. Plus, I think that we, as patriotic Americans who embrace diversity and multiculturism should donate to get Majid "Teddy" al-Massari a first class ticket to Saudi Arabia! I'm feeling generous...
Just thinking about the poor mussies in gitmo,may they would very much like a Teddy to cuddle up to
Shiva
You might want to look up the script with your guy and John Gibsion??
Part of the American Tribe
Squirrel Hunter
Spider Killer
God Bless the USA and her Fighting Forces and ALL who Fight with them give them Strength,Wisdom,Sight and Courage to Crush ALL Islamic Terrorist and ALL who Support them Amen
PS
Ramis Clark[Jimmy Carters boy] is to defend saddam[ FOUND IN A HOLE DON'T SHOOT I'M A YELLOW COWARD] in Court??
The son's hearing, which is closed to the public, began earlier this month in Seattle and will continue, after a break, in February.
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Why behind closed doors????? Is this touchy,touchy,for us???
ONE SHOULD NOT PLAY WITH FIRE IF HE PREFERS TO NOT GET BURNT.
Drum Roll please (Bill).........98 bottles of beer on the wall, 98 bottles of beer, take one down pass it around(to saudi)97 ?????????
"When nothing is sure, every thing is possible". Margaret Drabble ( English Novelist)
I had some hope until I saw the word "Seattle"-
...now I feel that there is less chance this citizen of the 'holiest place on Earth' will be returned there to bask in the glories of Sharia Law at work.
A t.v. in the hall playing videos of Saudi justice would keep the prisoner in the right frame of mind.
Then, once primed, I say give him the 'frugal way out'.
A 'forgotten' length of rope-like material (spool of telephone wire? roll of duct tape?) left near his cell door.
No need to have to feed or fly this jihadist fool any further.
Only a pigskin-lined coffin for his funeral.