Seattle jihad terror suspect wants evidence against him thrown out

Courtroom Jihad in Seattle: he was arrested when he went to pick up machine guns and grenades that he intended to use to commit mass murder for Allah. But he wants a good part of the evidence thrown out because he is not the agent of a foreign power, and therefore could not be targeted by a FISA surveillance warrant. Of course, he is the agent of an ideology that is inimical to many of our freedoms, but our existing laws do not imagine such a thing.

"Seattle terror suspect wants evidence tossed," from the Associated Press, June 5:

Lawyers for a man accused of plotting to attack a military office in Seattle last year want some of the evidence against him thrown out, saying the government should not have been able to obtain a secret warrant because there was no indication he was involved in international terrorism.

Abu Khalid Abdul-Latif, 34, was arrested June 22, 2011, along with an acquaintance from Los Angeles, when authorities said they arrived at a Seattle warehouse garage to pick up machine guns and grenades to use in the attack. In conversations recorded by the FBI with the help of a confidential informant, Abdul-Latif and his co-defendant, Walli Mujahidh, discussed how they wanted to gun down people in the Military Entrance Processing Station as revenge for atrocities by U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan, prosecutors said.

Weeks before the arrests _ apparently on June 9, 2011 _ investigators obtained a secret warrant under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, defense attorneys said in recent court filings. Investigators used wiretaps to intercept about 70 of Abdul-Latif's phone calls, as well as four years of emails _ more than 1,800 pages _ and YouTube messages.

The motion to suppress the evidence, filed late last month, was based on information turned over to defense lawyers Jennifer Wellman, Erik Levin and Vicki Lai by federal prosecutors, the lawyers wrote.

"Discovery confirms that law enforcement was aware that Mr. Abdul-Latif was not `an agent of a foreign power' and therefore could not be targeted by a FISA surveillance warrant," they wrote.

Indeed, Abdul-Latif is not an agent of a foreign power, unless Allah and Muhammad count as a foreign power. He is not acting on behalf of an existing state. He is an Islamic jihadist.

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Courtroom Jihad in Seattle: he was arrested when he went to pick up machine guns and grenades that he intended to use to commit mass murder for Allah. But he wants a good part of the evidence thrown out because he is not the agent of a foreign power...
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*Of course* Abu Khalid Abdul-Latif is the agent of a "foreign power"—Islam. He's just not the agent of a foreign *state*.

Oh yes, of course, evidence against him should be thrown out!
Why not? After all... it's only evidence, and evidence doesn't count for much these days as the truth is a frequent casualty of political correctness. Yes, let's disregard the evidence and whilst we're at it, let's acquit him immediately, after all, who are we non-Muslims to judge him in the first place?

Jeesh, these Muslims make me sick. Who do they think they are? Their arrogance is astounding. We are never going to win this war until we start treating Islam for what it is, a twisted ideology, not a religion, but a criminal and immoral gangster philosophy!

Investigators used wiretaps to intercept about 70 of Abdul-Latif's phone calls, as well as four years of emails _ more than 1,800 pages _ and YouTube messages.


It's the infidel's Internet, you clowns! But keep using it! :))

Problem is Bob that if you survey the names of the lawyers not one appears to have a muslim name. Indeed one seems to have a Jewish name.
The "defence" being presented could not possibly be at the instruction of a lay defendant and particularly a muslim because they are most unlikely to have sufficient legal knowledge. No that one is entirely thought up by the lawyers. Although "innocent until proven guilty" applies they are attempting to have destroyed the very evidence which points to guilty. They should be ashamed at conniving to free terrorists.

Lawyers everywhere seem driven by greed and show little regard to the common good. Perhaps they do have a technical legal point - in which case the law needs to be changed - just as it also needs changing here in the UK. al Quaeda and the Taliban , and other islamic terrorists, don't abide by the Geneva Convention which in today's warfare seems outdated anyway.
Capital offence? Unless I'm wrong doesn't the Geneva Convention allow summary execution of un-uniformed combatants? In which case militant Islam and all terrorists should be declared as enemy combatants. "War on Terror" in other words (where DID I hear that before?) Perhaps I've expressed this badly but you know what I mean.

He is an Enforcer of the Ummah, or Mohammedan Mob, which can be viewed as being *both* a Death Cult - the only major 'religion' or cult currently practising human sacrifice (see all those 'honor' murders, and the ritual beheadings of bound captives, and the incessant cases of ritualistic murder-'martyr' bombings causing the immolation of large numbers of infidels and deemed-insufficiently-islamic Muslims) - *and* an organised crime 'family' on a global scale. The Mob is subdivided into two main factions - Sunni and Shiite - but this does not hinder members of either faction from preying upon everybody who is not a member of the Mob.

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