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Grossly exaggerated. See, they really only intended to blow up half of the airport.
"Three deny JFK terror plot claims," from the BBC, June 26 (thanks to Charles Martel):
Three men from the Caribbean have appeared in court in the United States, accused of plotting an attack on New York's John F Kennedy airport.Kareem Ibrahim, 62, Abdel Nur, 57, and Abdul Kadir, 59, who all pleaded not guilty, were extradited from Trinidad on Wednesday.
A fourth man, Russell De Freitas, is awaiting trial. He denies conspiracy.
Prosecutors say the four men plotted to blow up buildings, fuel tanks and pipelines at the airport last year.
'Exaggerated claims'
Abdul Nur's lawyer, Daniel Nobel, said the charges were completely unsubstantiated and a trial would prove his client's innocence.
"I'm confident that we'll be able to demonstrate that this is one more in a significant chain of cases in which charges of this nature have been grossly exaggerated," he said.
Abdul Kadir's lawyer, Kafahni Nkrumah, said that the men were victims of post-9/11 hysteria.
"I think that if you see what has occurred since 9/11 and what's happening to the detainees in Cuba and the like, I would characterise this in that vein," he said....
Posted by Robert at June 26, 2008 5:06 AM
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Abdul Kadir's lawyer, Kafahni Nkrumah, said that the men were victims of post-9/11 hysteria.
As if 11,000 plus Islamic inspired terror attacks since 9/11 would not be an inspiration for this hysteria.
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at June 26, 2008 6:40 AM
lawyers like this Nobel make want to distrust all lawyers, and have them thrown out of the country. are there any lawyers for freedom and justice anymore?
Posted by: ZenaWarriorPrincess at June 26, 2008 7:31 AM
Maybe they intended to blow up only Saudi, Iranian, and Syrian national airlines.
Posted by: PersonOfTheBook at June 26, 2008 7:52 AM
I don't know about you, but I am so sick of hearing about all these Christian and Jewish terrorists, constantly carrying out violent attacks in the name of their religion.....
Oh, wait. Never mind.
Posted by: shortfattexan at June 26, 2008 7:57 AM
Hmm, what are shysters for?
Reminds me of this legal eagle about gang rapist Bilal Skaf:
"There was no significant harm caused to the complainant. No significant physical injury.''
Posted by: sheik yer'mami at June 26, 2008 8:00 AM
Trinidad has a large Muslim population -- the fruit of Da'wa among the kind of disaffected locals who seek a Complete Explanation of the Universe (some, no doubt, might otherwise be embracing Black Power stuff). But Muslims still make up no more than 10-15% of the population. The existence and growth of that Muslim population endangers the other non-Muslims in two ways:
First, parents must worry about their children falling for the campaigns of Da'wa (every Muslim is supposed to be a missionary), and all that that would mean for the intellectual and moral development of their children.
Second, any place such as Trinidad that has a significant Muslim population will be avoided, sooner or later, by non-Muslim tourists. It only takes the knowledge of this growing Muslim population, and possibly an attack, foiled or carried out (and the article above may be just as subliminally effective, in changing the travel plans of many in the West, as an attack in Trinidad -- or Tobago -- itself.
It is therefore in the intellectual, moral, and economic interests of the non-Muslim Trinidadians -- who may not realize quite how they will suffer from the Muslims active in their midst -- to do what they can to carry on campaigns of counter-Da'wa, on behalf of Christianity (and using whatever truthful arguments, about the full extent of the Arab slave trade and Muhammad as a slave-owner, which permanently legitimizes slavery in Arab and Muslim eyes, about the ban on almost all music -- there go those Trinidadian drums, and every other conceivable argument that will appeal, and will be true.
Posted by: Hugh at June 26, 2008 9:02 AM
"...post-9/11 hysteria."
Great--another phrase for my Newspeak Dictionary!
at June 26, 2008 9:09 AM
Since 9/11, the U.S. has:
1) allowed ever-increasing Moslem immigration
2) increased its reliance on OPEC energy, at ever-increasing cost, and with virtually no effort to develop domestic oil resources
3) dished out billions in "aid" to Islamic countries
4) refused to admit that Islam is any threat
That's not hysteria, but it is madness.
at June 26, 2008 10:00 AM
'They was framed, I tell ya, framed...'
Sounds good as a movie line, but does not work out so well in reality...
Posted by: duh_swami at June 26, 2008 10:06 AM
To add to ebonystone's list
Since 9/11, the US has
6. Relied upon, and continues to rely upon, islamic organizations, adherents and sympathizers as information resources without evaluating the reliability of what they say. CAIR, Grover Norquist, Hesham Islam come to mind
7. Under the guise of making peace, etc, shown the same organizations anti-terrorism procedures at airports, etc that should not be divulged to anyone other than on a need to know basis. CAIR again at some mid-west airport, IIRC
8. Have made it difficult for analysts like Major Coughlin to come to pc-free conclusions on how to name and identify the threat we are currently facing and will likely face for decades.
Posted by: eve_anne_gelical at June 26, 2008 10:41 AM
The Supreme Courts' recent habeas corpus ruling
-in which the Court exceeded its Constitutional "war powers" mandate by declaring that the U.S., in effect, is no longer at war-
agrees with the terrorists' "logic" in this case eeriely well:
The SCOTUS' "post 9/11" world was one of "hysteria", too, -and not a rational course of self-defense by a nation under attack.
Which, as everyone who takes their shoes off at every airport realizes, is an ongoing war.
Supreme Court, or no.
(I hope that juries retain more instincts for survival than these disembodied judges.)
at June 26, 2008 11:21 AM
".. the men were victims of post 9-11 hysteria.."
And may their numbers increase exponentially.
at June 26, 2008 11:46 AM
The "exaggerated" line sounds just like CAIR after those two USF students got arrested. Now, CAIR is quiet, verry quiet, on that incident. Those lawyers are so slimy, it's a wonder their shoes stay on their feet.
Posted by: lightlysalted at June 27, 2008 1:07 AM
Poor Muslims! Always wrongly blamed.
Posted by: IndianTiger at June 27, 2008 12:13 PM
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