Arwah Jaber Update. From the Jerusalem Post: "US Palestinian accused of aiding Jihad"
A former graduate student testified he used a fake Social Security number to obtain credit cards but denied accusations that he tried to help terrorists.
A naturalized US citizen born in the West Bank, Arwah Jaber said he was "trying to survive" and did not believe at the time that it was against the law to provide false information on credit card applications.
Jaber, 34, who received a doctorate in chemistry from the University of Arkansas, was arrested June 16, 2005, as he waited to board a flight at an Arkansas airport.
During the trial that began Monday, federal prosecutors said Jaber tried to help the Islamic Jihad, which the US government has labeled a terrorist organization.
The prosecution presented testimony that Jaber told several people he was going to join the Palestinian resistance movement, that his personality changed from a smiling, happy student to an intense person interested in fighting Israel, that Jaber consulted a spiritual adviser in the Palestinian territories by phone just days before his arrest, and that he planned to return to the Palestinian territories and fight.
Defense attorneys called several federal experts who testified they did not think Jaber was a terrorist.
"A real terrorist wouldn't announce his intentions to the world by sending an e-mail or telling people," said former CIA officer Frank Anderson, who testified as an expert on Middle Eastern terror groups.
Sure, they do. They just usually funnel videotapes to Al-Jazeera.
Patricia Koski, associate dean of the university's graduate school, said Jaber's e-mail to a professor threatening to join the Islamic Jihad struck her as another grad student being dramatic.
Sure gives lie to the "poor, starving arab" theory doesn't it? One minute a smiling, unobservant Muslim, the next a jihad warrior.
I read this one twice - sloooowly. Nothing to add, but a shaking of the head.
Jihad in Bill Clinton's homestate. Nothing suprises me anymore.
It is the unwillingness of we comfortable and compassionate Americans to believe anyone capable of such perversity of thought and deed that allows this evil "religion" and its practitioners to operate with absolute assurance throughout the nation. More used to cinema than reality, we expect reason will sway them, or a cuddly puppy prove them to be warm and caring. And with the left carefully censoring our news, editing out all reference to the existence of anyone more objectionable than Americans, we can count on Islam to retain its guise of global religion of peace. Thankfully, a majority is aware of the scam Islamist apologists are working. Mistrust continues to grow and that is a positive sign. But until we recognize the true, almost indescribable depravity of this foe, close its mosques and medrassas and deport these peddlars of hate and murder, we will invite an ever widening community of vermin whose goal it is to preside over our demise.
Thanks be to Allah that Frank Anderson is a "former" CIA officer.
(Is he now a CAIR official?)
Why would he be pandering for this jr. jihadist?
Shekels, perhaps?
Consultant's fees?
Bill Abu Clinton is raking them in.
Why not all of our former employees, from former presidents, vice-presidents and CIA officers?
Pimps, one and all.
Abetting the undermining of their Civilization.
For a mess of pottage.
(AKA a fat deposit in a Swiss account.)
Jaber should be allowed to join his pals in the West Bank, put a bulls eye on his head, and let the Israeli's find him. send him off to allah. for a man who has a degree, he sure is acting the stupid arab very well!
Jihadi:
"I am going to kill you."
Western dumb bell:
"Now, now, you don't relly mean that."
and then blammo!! (apologies to the LGF poster by that name):)
The case against Dr. Jaber is very weak. The FBI has admitted it consists entirely of his public statements, which he has since recanted. There's not one hard piece of evidence, apparently.
On the other hand, Dr. Jaber's claim that he didn't know it was illegal to falsify credit card applications doesn't ring true, given how bright and educated this guy is. Via Google, I found Dr. Jaber's resume:
http://www.freewebs.com/ajaber/resumeAJ_02.doc
(you need Microsoft Word)
and his website:
http://www.freewebs.com/ajaber/
This is a very bright fellow, who has written a dissertation on “Matrix Assisted Laser Desorption Ionization Fourier Transform Mass Spectrometry for Polymer and Copolymer Characterization”, and who has published scientific papers in peer-reviewed scientific journals. I don't see how he can claim ignorance when it comes to applying for a credit card. Besides, he's married; he could always have asked his wife about that.
He also claims that the reason he emailed those statements to his professor was because he was frustrated about the delays in approving his degree:
http://www.nwaonline.net/articles/2006/06/17/news/02fzjaber.txt
"If you don't approve my Ph.D, then I'm going to join Islamic Jihad" is a strange way to express one's frustration.
There are moments in grad school where things look bleak enough-- magnified by stress and sleep deprivation-- where one may start to formulate a "plan B" for one's livelihood.
One may also turn to one's deity of choice and ask, "Is this really what I should be doing with my life? If not, this would be a fabulous time to say something."
However, if one's deity of choice is Allah, with all of Allah's commands to fight and kill to gain salvation-- an eternity in heaven dwarfing a Ph.D. and "all the rights and privileges pertaining thereto"-- the nature of "plan B" obviously includes some rather different possibilities.
Then, one can see where Arwah's threat to join Islamic Jihad was tied, in his mind, to his success or failure in the doctoral program, though it seems the decision to wage jihad was more persuasive in the end anyway.
Regarding credit card fraud, isn't there some statement.. swearing the above information is true...where you sign your name?
Thou shalt not lie.
And who's social security card did he use?
Thou shalt not steal.
I thought they followed Moses?
so, some person who is smart enough to get into and succeed in a PhD program
"did not believe at the time that it was against the law to provide false information on credit card applications."
and he needed to perpetrate this criminal fraud because "trying to survive".
I guess this PhD could not master the concept of getting a JOB.
Anyway, he seemed to have enough money to buy an airline ticket. (and those are not cheap)
Maybe we should have let the bugger deport himself.
so, some person who is smart enough to get into and succeed in a PhD program
"did not believe at the time that it was against the law to provide false information on credit card applications."
and he needed to perpetrate this criminal fraud because "trying to survive".
I guess this PhD could not master the concept of getting a JOB.
Anyway, he seemed to have enough money to buy an airline ticket. (and those are not cheap)
Maybe we should have let the bugger deport himself.
We'd better be finding all university students either here legally or otherwise from a certain 'hot list' of countries... also we'd better be checking out all 'naturalized citizens' from the 'hot list' of countries, especially those which own stores ( financial jihad ) or which attend post-graduate programs or are graduates of those programs. These people are capable of much damage due to intelligence and training. All should be checked out.
the persons currently in the United States who are not 'naturalized citizens' and who have come from the 'hot list' of countries should be found... their visas invalidated and they should be sent back to their respective countries of origin. All temporary visas: tourist, student, visiting family, et cetera ( I'm don't know all the variations ) the H1-B worker visas for persons from the 'hot list' need to be invalidated and those 'guests' should be sent home to their respective countries of origin.
Those persons which we can't locate due to expired visas or who have 'dropped through the cracks' of INS need to be found and removed from this host nation, much like lice and their nits need to be removed from scalps of host humans.
We don't need no education, we don't need no thought control. We don't need no guests from the 'hot list' since they've overstayed their welcome and quite possibly could be parasitic in nature.
It's a little late so I don't know if anyone will read this, but I'll try to give y'all an idea of what it's like here at the U of A.
We have the King Fahd center for islamic propaganda. Last I knew it was called the center for middle eastern studies. But Israel wasn't included in their idea of the middle east, and they did include north african countries as well as Indonesia and Maylasia. I heard they were changing the name to Islamic studies or something like that, but I haven't kept up with it.
King Fahd donated something like $20million to set it up. The money was first offered to Harvard, but they rejected it for ethical reasons. Not an issue here.
They have programs on a regular basis "issustrating" the plight of the arabs oppressed by Israel and America. After 9/11 they had the "why they hate us" pannel discussion (answer: Israel and America oppress people). I think the most openly hateful professor here is Ted Swedenburg. He's white so he doesn't have to bite his tounge as much as the arab profs. You can really see him foam at the mouth with it comes to Israel.
And who stands up to the propaganda? Basically, no one. Hillel is very small here, with something like 8 active members. There are several muslim groups on campus as there are a lot of forein students. The local jewish community, which has be around for quite a while, still doesn't have their own building. They rent a house from the university to hold services in. But there is a new mosque just across the street from the university. There's a lot of muslim money here.
There are a few rednecks in the area who don't buy into their crap, but there is no serious and respected voice on campus that offers any resistance. Political correctness is rotting the brains of my peers. People aren't allowed to make observations and judgements in specific areas. Is it expecting to much from humanity to have people distinguesh between invalid racism and making moral judgements about cultural values?