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Connecticut: Muslim to be sentenced for sending recruits to jihad terror training camps

Feb 18, 2014 2:27 pm By Robert Spencer

Babar2Despite the fact that Babar Ahmad has been found guilty, he has his supporters — people who believe that any Muslim accused of anything by the federal government must be the victim of “racism,” “bigotry” and “Islamophobia.” Such charges form a swift one-two punch with violent jihad attacks, making it almost impossible to fight back by stigmatizing those who do so.

“Feds want man convicted in failed 2001 shoe bomb plot to testify in Conn. terrorism case,” from the Associated Press, February 17:

NEW HAVEN, Conn. – Federal prosecutors want a man convicted in a failed 2001 shoe bomb plot to bring down an airplane to testify at the sentencing of two British citizens who pleaded guilty in Connecticut to supporting terrorists through websites.

The testimony reflects an effort by prosecutors to show that Babar Ahmad, one of the two men facing sentencing in Connecticut, had an active role in sending recruits to terrorism training camps beyond appealing for support on the websites.

Prosecutors say the witness is expected to testify that Ahmad sent him to Afghanistan to train for violent jihad and that he ultimately moved on from Ahmad and came under the mentorship and training of al-Qaida members who prepared him for the shoe bomb plot. The man also is expected to testify that he saw nearly two dozen others that Ahmad sent from the United Kingdom to train in Afghanistan, and he would describe camping trips and training exercises that Ahmad organized in England to groom recruits for violent jihad abroad, prosecutors said.

“Ahmad’s conduct went beyond cyberspace and included real world effects and consequences flowing from the criminal activity, regardless of the media used to plan, coordinate and execute some of the conduct,” prosecutors wrote in court papers last week, citing his efforts to send people to Afghanistan to train for violent jihad and emails discussing night vision goggles and safe routes into Afghanistan.

Ahmad’s attorneys say they’ll respond in court objecting to the request to have the man testify by a videotaped deposition.

Prosecutors didn’t name the man they want to testify, but his description matches that of Saajid Badat, a British citizen whose videotaped testimony was shown at the 2012 New York City trial of a man convicted in a foiled plot to attack the New York City subway system in 2009. A spokesman for the prosecutors declined to comment to The Associated Press on the witness’s identity.

Badat was convicted in London in a plot to down an American Airlines flight from Paris to Miami with explosives hidden in his shoes. He said at that trial that he refused a request to testify in person in the U.S. because he remains under indictment in Boston on charges he conspired with failed shoe bomber Richard Reid and has been told he’d be arrested if he set foot in the United States.

Prosecutors said the man they want to testify at Ahmad’s sentencing had testified by videotape at the trial for the foiled subway plot, was indicted in Massachusetts on charges related to the shoe bomb plot, refuses to testify in the U.S. and expects to be arrested upon arrival in the country.

Reid was caught aboard a plane with explosives; Badat backed out.

Badat was sentenced to 13 years in prison. But British authorities later said that in 2009, a judge secretly reduced his sentence to 11 years to reward him for his cooperation in terror investigations.

Ahmad and Syed Talha Ahsan pleaded guilty in December to terrorism charges. Ahmad admitted he sought recruits, cash and equipment such as gas masks for the Taliban regime in Afghanistan through the websites.

The two men, who were living in Britain at the time, faced charges in Connecticut because authorities said they used an Internet service provider in the state to run one of the websites.

A prosecutor said Ahsan traveled to Afghanistan with Ahmad’s assistance to fight and attend a training camp run by al-Qaida, but Ahsan didn’t admit that.

The cooperating witness, believed to be Badat, is expected to testify that Ahmad originally recruited and radicalized him before sending him to the camp in Afghanistan. He said he took an explosives training class with Ahsan and stayed at a safe house in Kandahar in January 2001 during which Osama bin Laden visited the location multiple times, prosecutors said….

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  1. Salah says

    Feb 18, 2014 at 2:34 pm

    “He said he took an explosives training class with Ahsan and stayed at a safe house in Kandahar … ”

    In a Muslim explosive training class:
    Rule #1: After putting the bomb in a hole, don’t tamp the ground too much.
    Rule #2: Don’t forget Rule #1.

    http://crossmuslims.blogspot.ca/2011/02/72-virgins-express.html

    • mariam rove says

      Feb 18, 2014 at 3:42 pm

      Great video! thanks for posting it!!!! M

  2. WakaingWest says

    Feb 18, 2014 at 3:14 pm

    What burden islam and muslims are to America. This time the cost, so far, can be measured in the millions of dollars in legal fees and incarceration costs and not in the blood and limbs of ordinary citizens .
    Tomorrow will islam find a way to aggrieve the rest of mankind? The last 1400 years and the last 12 hours answer this question with the certainty of the sun rising tomorrow. Can it not be then be established with equal assurance that somehow our government’s responsibility to provide us with protection is catastrophically failing ? If so does this not thus leave us and no one else with the responsibility to face and resist the creeping growth of islam inside our soil?

  3. Beagle says

    Feb 19, 2014 at 1:30 am

    Is there anything from my childhood Islam can’t ruin? Babar? Really?

  4. Inchoate says

    Feb 19, 2014 at 7:05 am

    Re: WakaingWest:
    …..thoughtful comment; but let’s take it a bit further and narrow our problem to one of being so tied up with our trendy superficial political correctness that we’ve lost sight of the fact that we are indeed immersed in this new Muslim guerrilla World War with our trans-national and trans-border Muslim enemies literally embedded and sleeping within our own country.

    Our Muslim enemy repeatedly reminds us that they are at War with us Americans. This Muslim enemy says over and over again that they’re obligated to slit our American throats.
    But we insist on maintaining “equal opportunity” for anyone anywhere to continue to attempt to slit our throats. Due process and all that.

    So, let’s not get too huffy and puffy about our N.S.A. and their Arabic linguists’ abilities to monitor telephone numbers used in Arabic conversations, locations of these numbers and frequency of these callers’ contacts, and who exactly these resident Muslims are talking with overseas. Particularly, when we insist upon the “freedom” to publish pictures of our genitals via the Internet.
    Golly, Gee……equal opportunity for everything, right?

  5. Wakingwest says

    Feb 20, 2014 at 4:02 pm

    Re. Inchoate,
    I agree, the NSA is mostly trying to help out by weeding out from a colossal amount of data the identify of those who are engaged in the business of killing as many of us as as possible. The potential infringement on my privacy and any other embarrassing details is not the major problem. The real problem lies in not using the “data” or anything which clearly signals danger. From the 911 hijackers down to the Boston massacre bombers, the danger they presented was plain and simple to discern. The stupidity of not being to immediately take note of these characters and to jail and deport them, much less having allowed their immigration into to our country in the first place, is by far the greatest intelligence failure and problem we face.

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