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Oregon: Muslim pleads guilty to funding jihad murderer

Feb 13, 2015 6:35 pm By Robert Spencer

Reaz KhanThe ACLU just joined his case — but then Khan up and pleaded guilty. His friend Jaleel murdered over thirty people in his jihad attack. “Portland sanitation worker pleads guilty to role in funding terrorist suicide bomber in Pakistan,” by Bryan Denson, The Oregonian, February 13, 2015 (thanks to Darcy):

In a surprise move, a Portland sanitation worker pleaded guilty Friday to providing money to a terrorist who died in a 2009 suicide bombing outside an office of Pakistan’s spy service.

The suicide bombing in Lahore killed more than 30 people.

A Portland federal grand jury indicted Reaz Khan just after Christmas 2012, accusing him of taking part in a conspiracy to provide material support to terrorists. Khan’s lawyers vigorously denied the allegations.

Less than two months ago, the American Civil Liberties Union joined the defense team and appeared ready to challenge the constitutionality of surveillance operations that helped U.S. government agents make their case against Khan.

It was expected that Khan’s legal team would target the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, known as FISA, which allowed the government to electronically eavesdrop on Khan.

In an odd twist, the federal judge presiding in Khan’s case, Michael W. Mosman, also sits as a member of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, in Washington, D.C., which authorized some of the government’s warrantless spying on Khan.

Khan’s lawyers had scheduled a status conference in the case for Friday, usually a time to wrangle over the scheduling of legal arguments and other judicial housekeeping before trial.

But in an abrupt turnabout, Khan’s primary lawyer, Amy Baggio, told the court that she had reached a plea deal with government prosecutors that would allow for a reduced sentence.

Khan, 51, a Pakistani-born naturalized U.S. citizen, admitted to Mosman that he was guilty of being an accessory after the fact in a conspiracy to provide material support to terrorists that resulted in death.

Speaking in a soft voice, Khan acknowledged that he had last seen suicide bomber Ali Jaleel at the turn into the 21st century. But they had shared emails in 2005 and 2006.

In the fall of 2008, Khan said, Jaleel emailed him in Oregon and said it was imperative he leave the Maldives to go to Pakistan. This begat a series of emails about Jaleel’s travel plans and his family.

“Although I did not know for certain what Jaleel’s plans were, I believe it was a possibility that he was traveling to Pakistan for the purpose of committing violence with other persons,” Khan said. “In November 2008, at Jaleel’s request … I arranged for Jaleel to receive $2,450 inside Pakistan where he had traveled.”

Jaleel, a fellow Sunni Muslim, was killed in the May 27, 2009, bombing and small-arms attack at a compound in Lahore, near offices of police and Pakistan’s spy service, the Inter-Services Intelligence agency.

Khan also admitted to Mosman that he provided advice and financial assistance to Jaleel’s wives after the bombing.

In the highly structured plea deal, Khan is expected to receive a sentence of seven years and three months in federal prison. The charge carries a maximum sentence of 15 years and a $125,000 fine….

Khan, a wastewater treatment operator on unpaid leave from his job, was accused of wiring money to Jaleel, part of an old pact to seek martyrdom in the name of Allah.

Prosecutors won’t say when they think Khan grew close to Jaleel, a native of the Maldive Islands and more than a decade Khan’s junior, but Jaleel left home for a Pakistani madrassa as a teenager and returned to the country repeatedly….

A line from the email appears to be Jaleel quoting Khan’s own words: “This world is of no use to us so let’s sacrifice ourself for the pleasure of Allah in his way???”…

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Filed Under: American jihadis, Featured, Leftist/Islamic Alliance, Pakistan Tagged With: American Civil Liberties Union, Amy Baggio, Michael W. Mosman, Reaz Khan


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  1. Angemon says

    Feb 13, 2015 at 6:40 pm

    Khan, 51, a Pakistani-born naturalized U.S. citizen

    You know what to do – strip him of his US citizenship, send him over to Pakistan, and make sure the families of the victims know his face and his date of arrival.

    • M S case says

      Feb 14, 2015 at 7:23 pm

      Once again you see muslims using our freedoms against us…When will our government ever see this to be a fact

    • M S case says

      Feb 14, 2015 at 7:31 pm

      No Angemon we are a compassionate people we would not send him to be killed This escapee from the funny farm of islam will be fed, housed clothed, medicated and pampered, at our expense, for the next ????? years

      • Angemon says

        Feb 14, 2015 at 8:09 pm

        M S case posted:

        “No Angemon we are a compassionate people we would not send him to be killed”

        I believe you’re being a bit facetious, but I can’t resist relying that, IMO, that’s not being compassionated, that’s naiveness. You were compassionated when you took him in, and he responded by siding with, and promoting, an ideology that would have you reduced to sub-human slaves. He’s proven to be no more worthy of compassion than a rabid wild animal.

  2. gravenimage says

    Feb 13, 2015 at 7:49 pm

    The ACLU? Because what is more an exercise of one’s “civil liberties” than murdering people in the name of Allah? sarc/off

  3. Don McKellar says

    Feb 13, 2015 at 9:17 pm

    I wonder if Obama will interviene on his behalf? It’s not too late! A presidential pardon for confessed Islamic supremacist enablers MUST be on the way in the last moments of Obama’s presidency! I wonder how many Islamic supremacist killer on death row he will also pardon? Maybe that’s how he’s planning to clear out Gitmo? Seriously.

  4. jack Holan says

    Feb 13, 2015 at 10:08 pm

    7 years, yes 7 years for how many dead for murders assisted by this financier terrorist. It doesn’t say but I’d bet he will get his pension. He will be only age 58. These young attorneys at DOJ just want successfully closed cases and it doesn’t matter to them if they make a deal, avoid a trial with uncertainty, and this terrorist is out 7 years from now with perhaps a hardened view of the Great Satan and we will have to live with him possibly for Round 2

  5. Brian says

    Feb 14, 2015 at 5:34 pm

    There sure seems to be a lot more activity concerning the muslims in my home town I live in NE Portland and have noticed a sharp rise in very devout dressing muslims not to friendly of folks…

    • M S case says

      Feb 14, 2015 at 7:36 pm

      Coming to your friendly neighborhood soon………. people who want to kill you because their constitution (THE KORAN) permits it.

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