Abdullah al-Muhajir, aka Jose Padilla, Trial Update. The defense is making as much as they can out of the meaning of jihad, trying to convince jurors that when al-Muhajir and the others spoke of jihad, they meant an interior spiritual struggle, or at most a struggle they hope to portray as a legitimate self-determination for Chechnya, Bosnia, etc. But of course this strategy founders when bin Laden starts coming up in the conversations.
"Padilla jury hears Osama's name in call," by Matt Sedensky for Associated Press (thanks to the Constantinopolitan Irredentist):
Jurors in Jose Padilla's trial heard intercepted phone calls Thursday in which Osama bin Laden is mentioned, as prosecutors tried to cement a link between the al-Qaida leader and the accused terrorist operative.In a call on Sept. 3, 2000, co-defendant Adham Amin Hassoun asks Mohamed Hesham Youssef the whereabouts of Padilla, whom he identifies by an alias, Ibrahim.
"Ibrahim is a little farther south," Youssef tells Hassoun, according to an FBI translation from Arabic. "He is supposed to be at Osama's and then he might be able to go from Osama's ... to go a little farther north."...
Less than six weeks after the call, Hassoun reaches two unidentified men prosecutors say were staying at a guest house in the Republic of Georgia, where mujahadeen are suspected of waiting to enter Chechnya and engage in violent jihad....
Prosecutors say Padilla filled out a form to attend an al-Qaida training camp in Afghanistan that purportedly produced hundreds of potential terrorist operatives. Defense attorneys say the presence of Padilla's fingerprints only on the outside of the first and last pages suggests he was simply handed the form.
The defense unsuccessfully sought to prevent jurors from hearing conversations about bin Laden and other well-known Islamic extremist leaders, claiming it would make Padilla, Hassoun and the third defendant, Kifah Wael Jayyousi, appear more guilty....
Kavanaugh has offered definitions for words used on the wiretaps: tourism meant jihad, clubs indicated mujahadeen units, sports equipment was weaponry, and so on. But Swartz noted the agent does not speak Arabic and badgered him on the definitions he offered.
"I could tell you what it looks like to me," Kavanaugh said, "but I can't tell you what was in his head."
Padilla, 36, a former Chicago gang member and Muslim convert, has been in federal custody since his May 2002 arrest at O'Hare International Airport. He was held for 3 1/2 years at a Navy brig as an enemy combatant.
He was initially accused of plotting to detonate a radioactive "dirty bomb" inside the United States, but those allegations are not part of the Miami case.
..I can hear hear the whining liberals now:
"Just because he was caught on the plane with explosives in his shoe and he was trying to light the fuse (and fortunate for the other passengers, he failed)...just because you have tapes proving he had conversations with known terrorists...just because he traveled to known terrorist camps to learn the ways of the jihadist...just because you have proof of his application to enlist in jihad..just because he claimed to be nonviolent (yet, he once killed a gang member by kicking him in the head),...despite the fact that Padilla arrives at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport after an overseas trip, carrying $10,526, a cell phone and e-mail addresses for al-Qaida operatives....despite that Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, purported mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks and Al-Qaida's operational planner and organizer, allegedly suggests José Padilla target up to three high-rise buildings that use natural gas with a radiological "dirty bomb.. and
He went to the Masjid Al-Iman mosque in Fort Lauderdale, Florida with Adham Amin Hassoun, who at that time was the registered agent for the (now banned) terrorist charity[3] Benevolence International Foundation. Padilla and Hassoun became friends. U.S. authorities accuse Hassoun of consorting with radical Islamic fundamentalists, including Al-Qaeda. Hassoun was arrested in 2002 for overstaying his visa[4] and was charged in 2004 with providing material support to terrorists.[5] By that time Hassoun had already been charged with perjury, a weapons offence, and other offenses.....
....hey this is all circumstantial and does not amount to a hill of beans as the dhimmicrat liberals will claim....
Islam is for losers...Padilla is proof that converting to Islam says something about you....
would make Padilla, Hassoun and the third defendant, Kifah Wael Jayyousi, appear more guilty....
Padilla's lawyers not only want the juror to understand that Padilla is assumed innoncent until
proven guilty, but one step more with found innocent with guilty evidence. these sharks, oops lawyers should be trailed for treason.
Maybe jose could use an all expence payed vacation, a one way ticket to saudi arabia, wake up at 5:30 in the morning with megaphone blairing for morning worship of allah.
I can only hope there is a death penalty for treason and terrorism at the end of this all-too-expensive process.
I would gladly pay for his tombstone.
A common brick with the word Loser written on it in bacon grease.
just because the police witnessed him stabbing someone doen't make him guilty...(sarc off)
Padilla is involved in more than this,
http://intelwire.egoplex.com/padillaOKC011104.html
OT, but only a little:
Too many immigrants in the UK?
Read the comments, they tell the real story...it's not "eastern europeans" that are the problem.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/06/15/nimm115.xml
Padilla should be tried by military tribunal, as an unlawful combatant, No lawyer, no fancy word trickery, just swift justice. I dont know that we are losing any war's, but this crap is one of the reason's it's hard to win any.
Padilla should be tried by military tribunal, as an unlawful combatant, No lawyer, no fancy word trickery, just swift justice. I dont know that we are losing any war's, but this crap is one of the reason's it's hard to win any.
Sorry for the double post, but Padilla, has it comming. I would double post him in a second if I could...
"...jury hears Osama's name in call"
Oh, I mistakenly read that headline as, "...Obama's name..."
Needless to say, I was quite disappointed...
Cheers,
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