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Brooklyn: Muslim pleads guilty to aiding jihad terror group

Aug 14, 2015 10:28 am By Robert Spencer

Agron Hasbajrami“This case, like many others before it, has shown that the application of lawful surveillance can allow the United States government to detect and neutralize a terrorist in the United States.” And that lawful surveillance is just what Leftists and Islamic supremacists such as Linda Sarsour and the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations want to end.

“Brooklyn man pleads guilty to aiding terrorists, prosecutors say,” by Zachary R. Dowdy, Newsday, August 13, 2015:

An Albanian national and Brooklyn resident who pleaded guilty to aiding terrorists bent on attacking the United States has been sentenced to 16 years in prison, federal prosecutors said, but they added that the defendant will likely appeal the government’s use of the most critical evidence against him.

Agron Hasbajrami, who had pleaded guilty in June to attempting and conspiring to provide material support to terrorists, was sentenced Thursday by U.S. District Court Judge John Gleeson. After he serves that sentence, he will be deported.

“This case, like many others before it, has shown that the application of lawful surveillance can allow the United States government to detect and neutralize a terrorist in the United States,” said acting U.S. Attorney Kellie Currie of the Eastern District of New York. “The sentence imposed today leaves no question as to the defendant’s role in a very serious offense and helps ensure that he will no longer pose a threat to the United States and our allies.”

Hasbajrami’s attorneys could not be reached for comment.

His plea in June was the second one he has entered in connection with the charges. In 2013, he pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 15 years in prison, but later appealed and was allowed to withdraw his plea after finding out that the communications on which his prosecution was based were gathered through the National Security Agency’s controversial bulk-data surveillance program, authorities said.

Under a new deal reached with prosecutors, Hasbajrami will be able to challenge in a higher court — the Second Circuit Court of Appeals — Gleeson’s decision to reject Hasbajrami’s attorneys’ argument that the data collection was unlawful because it was conducted without a warrant.

Prosecutors said that Hasbajrami had bought a one-way plane ticket on Sept. 5, 2011, for travel to the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan “for the purpose of joining a radical jihadist insurgent group,” according to a news release issued by the U.S. attorney’s office. “In addition, he sent over $1,000 in multiple wire transfers abroad to support terrorist activities in Pakistan and Afghanistan.”

Hasbajrami’s communications with an individual in Pakistan who prosecutors said “was a member of an armed group that had murdered American soldiers and kidnapped Westerners” were intercepted by the National Security Agency and agents were able to arrest him on Sept. 6, 2011, at Kennedy Airport as he tried to board a plane to Turkey with the intent, they said, of ending his journey in Pakistan….

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  1. Angemon says

    Aug 14, 2015 at 10:49 am

    His plea in June was the second one he has entered in connection with the charges. In 2013, he pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 15 years in prison, but later appealed and was allowed to withdraw his plea after finding out that the communications on which his prosecution was based were gathered through the National Security Agency’s controversial bulk-data surveillance program, authorities said.

    Under a new deal reached with prosecutors, Hasbajrami will be able to challenge in a higher court — the Second Circuit Court of Appeals — Gleeson’s decision to reject Hasbajrami’s attorneys’ argument that the data collection was unlawful because it was conducted without a warrant.

    Basically, he’s guilty and he’s trying to get away on a technicality. Hope they still can boot him, regardless.

  2. mortimer says

    Aug 14, 2015 at 11:30 am

    Law enforcement is treating jihadism as an exceptional crime, rather than a normative part of Islam.

    Things will not substantively changed until their there is a common knowledge in Western society of the standard jihad doctrine of Islam.

  3. pdxnag says

    Aug 14, 2015 at 12:28 pm

    It may be too early in the morning for me but I read that headline as “Obama pleads guilty to aiding jihad terror group.”

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