Poor victim. He should be forced to make his case before a courtroom full of the people he would have killed in his jihad if he had gotten a chance.
“Terror convict: My mother and the FBI violated my rights,” by Matthew Barakat, Associated Press, March 25, 2015:
McLEAN, Va. (AP) — Muslim convert Zachary Chesser of Virginia was very much on law enforcement’s radar after posting threats against the creators of “South Park” for cartoons he felt insulted the prophet Muhammad.
Then he tried to join a terror group in Somalia, and went to the airport with his baby, hoping that would make him appear less suspicious.
It didn’t work — stopped by the no-fly list, he was arrested and sentenced to 25 years in prison for attempting to support terrorist groups. He also pleaded guilty to threatening violence online.
Chesser, 25, now lives in the Supermax prison in Florence, Colorado. His wife, a Ugandan diplomat’s daughter named Proscovia Nzabanita, had to leave the United States in early 2011 after pleading guilty to lying about his plans the year before.
The fate of their baby, Talhah, now 5 years old, remains at the center of a dispute being heard in federal appellate court on Thursday.
Chesser is suing the FBI and his own mother, alleging that agents interfered with his parental rights by conspiring with his mother and her partner to ensure that the boy could not travel to Jordan to live with his wife.
Instead, the boy is being raised by his mother, Barbara Chesser, a senior lawyer in the Office of the Attorney General in the District of Columbia, and her partner, who also is named as a defendant.
Chesser was behind bars and Nzabanita was facing deportation when his mother initiated custody proceedings, but both still enjoyed full parental rights, and they “opposed placing the young boy with his grandparents, who did not share Chesser and his wife’s conservative Islamic beliefs,” his court-appointed attorney, Wayne LaFond, says in their appeal.
But Chesser isn’t seeking custody. Instead, he wants monetary damages.
Talhah was born in November 2009 to Chesser and his wife, a woman he met at a Washington, D.C., area mosque. They planned to travel together to Somalia where he would join al-Shabab, but Nzabanita’s mother hid her passport.
Then, in the summer of 2010, they tried again. This time, Nzabanita dropped off Chesser and the baby to make the trip without her. Soon, they were both arrested. Chesser was facing a lengthy prison sentence, and Nzabanita struck a plea deal requiring her to leave the country, likely for good.
According to Chesser’s complaint, agents monitoring his prison conversations in January 2011 tipped off Barbara Chesser that the young couple was making plans for a friend to take the boy to Jordan and join Nzabanita there.
Chesser’s complaint states that agents went to the airport to stop that trip. Soon thereafter, Barbara Chesser won full custody of the boy after a judge declared Chesser and Nzabanita to be unfit parents.
LaFond argues that the FBI had no business disclosing the content of his conversations to intervene in a family custody dispute.
“Prisoners largely lose the right to keep secrets from the government,” he wrote, but “they retain the right to keep those secrets from those outside the government.”…
mariam rove says
Another idiot converting to Islam. m
john spielman says
that child has NO CHANCE for happiness and peace if he is sent to the House of ISLAM for it will destroy his spirit
Bezelel says
Strange, very very strange.
Mahendra Singh says
On the contrary, perfectly normal Islamic behavior.
voegelinian says
Notice in the details of the report a feature of Mohammedan society — its cosmopolitan nature, transcending the international borders by which the West has organized the map of the global economy and its geopolitcs: the devout Muslima this airhead redneck married, was Ugandan; they tried to join the international jihad in Somalia, she is now in Jordan.
The bloody mirror image of “Doctors Without Borders” — Jihadists Without Borders
mortimer says
Conspiring to commit murder for Allah. Typical jihadist.
How many Muslims wanted to help him and would have helped him if asked? I’m guessing at least 200,000 Muslims in the US would support a jihad attack, but not initiate one. There must be a few hundred who would commit a jihad attack if they thought it would be successful.
Pete says
Obviously his upbringing in poverty and need inspired him to become a jihadi. He felt he had no other options, and nothing to lose.
KrazyKafir says
“Instead, the boy is being raised by his mother, Barbara Chesser”
Lets hope she does a better job the second time around.
voytech says
Well played sir lmfao smh
jay says
He should cry racism, since it’s racist to deny a Muslim any of their little whims. Watch some liberals head pop trying to defend it.
Oliver says
Jay,
I often spell words wrong, or leave out a letter, as do others.
But, in this case, I FEEL I MUST COMMENT.
In your second sentence, you said ” some liberals head pop——“. You LEDT OUT AN “O’.
IT SHOUDL READ ” SOME LIBERALS HEAD POOP—-“.
However, I agree with you
William Lucas Harvey Jr. says
Typical Islamic Jihadist Terrorist.
Forcing, under Bloody penalty of Death if necessary, Islam and Sharia Law on the World.
With Islam’s Forced “Blasphemy” Laws, attempting to make it illegal to speak the TRUTH about Bloody Islam, or about Islam’s Blood thirsty “Pedophile” Prophet Mohammed, while Islam in turn “Blasphemes”, and Silences others, and other Religions, with impunity.
But NOW, once caught, attempting to use Amertica’s Freedoms and “Rights”, as an excuse to blame America, and everyone else, for HIS Bloody, Butchering, Islamic stupidity.
Kenneth T. Tellis says
If Zachary Chesser had even a rudimentary brain, he would have caught on the Fairy Tales that his Islamic tutors were teaching him. This IIDIOT is no more than a person that lacks a brain, and is liable to conversion by trickery. No more false prophets like Muhammed Ibn Abdullah the mindless Dervish from Makka, Arabia.Who would screw anything he could find! LA la Muhmmed is a RUS GOOLAH!i
EYESOPEN says
“… opposed placing the young boy with his grandparents, who did not share Chesser and his wife’s conservative Islamic beliefs,” his court-appointed attorney, Wayne LaFond, says in their appeal.”
They can remove the word “conservative” as an adjective to the OTHER adjective: “izlamic”. izlam does NOT want to “conserve” anything – only to destroy. It destroys minds, it destroys property, it destroys peoples’ spirits, it destroys peoples’ lives, but worst of all, it destroys peoples’ souls.
Oliver says
Why the hell should he have any rights? And, seeking monetary damages? HE SHOULD BE PAYING for his food and prayer rags, and showers. Hopefully, he will die soon, as he is a totally useless individual. And his wife seems no better.
Should have let him go, and hopefully be killed in Somalia.
Mohamed says
http://www.ifamericansknew.org/
rds says
Instead, he wants monetary damages…
Sure dimwit. The checks in the mail.
Lioness says
Islam is the greatest violation of human rights, yet Muslims always whine about their rights being violated by others. It’s getting tiresome.
lacey says
so this asshole has rights.what about those people out for a family day,