Update on this Keystone Kops terror prosecution — a luxury we can ill afford these days, but which seems to be in no short supply. From AP, :
DETROIT - An immigrant who was once tried on terrorism charges in a case marred by prosecutorial misconduct plans to plead guilty next week to unrelated insurance fraud charges and be deported, his lawyer said.Ahmed Hannan, 36, of Detroit is tired of fighting the legal system, defense lawyer James Thomas said Thursday.
"After coming to court for five bond hearings and not being able to obtain a bond — and after having been assaulted by another inmate at Wayne County Jail and losing his front teeth — he decided that continuing the legal battle wasn't worth it anymore and he wants to go home," Thomas told the Detroit Free Press.
Thomas said Hannan will admit to his role in the fraud case, and is expected to be sentenced to time already spent in custody and be deported promptly to his homeland of Morocco.
Thomas said the plea is set to be entered Tuesday before U.S. District Judge Gerald Rosen. He will not be required to testify against his co-defendant, Karim Koubriti, 26, also of Morocco.
Hannan, Koubriti and two other immigrants were accused of being part of a "sleeper" cell and charged with conspiracy to provide material support or resources to terrorists. The charges stemmed from a raid on a Detroit apartment six days after the Sept. 11 attacks.
Koubriti and Abdel-Ilah Elmardoudi were convicted in 2003 of conspiring to provide material support to terrorists. Hannan was acquitted of that charge but was convicted, along with Koubriti and Elmardoudi, of document fraud. The fourth man was acquitted.
Their trial was the first in the United States for an alleged terror cell detected following the attacks.
But in September, the U.S. attorney's office admitted widespread prosecutorial misconduct in the case, saying potentially exculpatory evidence was not shared with the defense. At the government's request, Rosen dismissed the terrorism charges and ordered a new trial on the document fraud charges.
Found this interesting piece on the ISNA
website and Hooper won't like this one at all,seems that apostates are in far more danger than what CAIR will admit to.
This "True" religion of peace has about 41 percent of new converts reject it within a 5 year period,this proves the claim that Islam is falsely portrayed in the West and John Walker Lind
made it to the "Brainwashing" stage and then the
Automatron-Jihadist.
It now makes sense on why a survey showed that 1 in 4 Americans don't trust Muslims,seems the converts saw the light and found the hateful parts in the quran and the little sex-capades
by Muhammed and the Pedophilia issue.
The paper on 'Muslim Population of Illinois' by Ilyas Ba- Yunus is very informative and presents some original data obtained through extensive research and sampling. Interestingly, Ba- Yunus estimates that 41% of those who convert to Islam eventually reject it (over a five-year period). He also calculates that the Muslim community of some 320,000 will double in about 16 years. Belkeis Altareb's article, 'Development of a Scale to Measure Attitude Towards Muslims', provides a novel approach to empirically measure attitudes towards Muslims of Middle Eastern origin. The study seems, to be in its early stages and in the article only covered undergraduate students as the sample. The study identified factors that may affect people's perceptions of Islam and Muslims. It will be very interesting to see how this study develops and to examine its future findings. In addition to such academic contributions, the collection also deals with some very pertinent, practical issues. The fact that there are two articles devoted to education shows the fixation of the migrant Muslim communities, and perhaps rightly so, with this subject. One of the articles, 'The Social Problems of Educating Muslim Children in America', by Asma Hasan, contains a brief but topical discussion pertaining to the advantages/disadvantages of Muslim schools.
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NO CAIR - DON'T CARE
"After coming to court for five bond hearings and not being able to obtain a bond — and after having been assaulted by another inmate at Wayne County Jail and losing his front teeth — he decided that continuing the legal battle wasn't worth it anymore and he wants to go home," Thomas told the Detroit Free Press.
Good.... we are wearing them down.. Very, very good. Go home, you islamic scum bag.
He's lucky all he lost was his front teeth... if put in front of me, he'd have lost his entire face. And I'm just "An American Girl"!
DEATH TO ALL JIHADI'S.... you play, you PAY!
As strong as I support the war-on-terror, I also support due process. Another cause celebre is brewing, re tactical prosecution. I know little of the merits of this case. However, the Chomskyite interest should interest us.
http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=43&ItemID=7414
The Bush administration has cancelled the Visa of Narendra Modi, an Indian political leader and critic of jihadism.
http://www.reuters.co.in/locales/c_newsArticle.jsp?type=topNews&localeKey=en_IN&storyID=7942917
Modi has never made an anti-American statement, and is a staunch proponent of the War on Terror. So why the mistreatment? This is another concession to the Muslim lobby. This Muslim has had better luck with US immigration, in spite of his anti semitism.
http://khutbah.com/index.php?type=3&id=530&language=8
http://www.sunnahonline.com/ilm/jihaad/0006.htm
A U.S. embassy spokeswoman said Modi's tourist/business visa had been revoked under a section of the Immigration and Nationality Act.
"This section makes any foreign government official who 'was responsible for or directly carried out, at any time, particularly severe violations of religious freedom' ineligible for a visa," she said.
And yet Saudi officials, "royalty" and politicians are welcomed to the US.
It would be interesting to know why the majority of those 41% apostate muslim converts(as mentioned above)apostated themselves. The majority of muslims world wide are illiterate, jungle folk ect...if the 41% are comming from the Islamic intellectual elite...That is, those who can read and write, conceptualize and think critically, then Islam as a whole must be dumbing down in proportion to better minds fleeing it. Dont know if this is good or bad,if it gets dumb enough it will become harmless but also more manipulative to the clever mullahs still in charge...no one with any brain at all becomes a suicide bomber...For a while at least it appears that politcal Islam and it's jihadology is depending on the sheer stupidity and easilly manipulated emotions of numbed muslims to carry out attacks. It seems that apostating thinkers work in Islams favor ( an unintended consequence) because Islam can then castigate these individuals, strip them of credibility and order their execution, thus eliminating rationality and reinforcing the pool of Islamic ignorance....swami's
it must be nice to cop a plea and get transferred to front line (deported).
i have some inside sources who tell me the muslims have swelled in prisons and have become more confrontational. 35 of my friends and aquaintances were arrested in a international sweep and some have been aquitted and freed, some appeals are being granted, all this in 2002,and we transfer terrorists back to their front lines by deporting them?