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New York: Al-Qaeda jihadi convicted in civilian court of killing Americans in Afghanistan

Mar 17, 2017 9:06 am By Robert Spencer

“The Saudi-born defendant who claims Niger citizenship had insisted he was a ‘warrior’ who should face a military tribunal rather than a civilian court prosecution.”

Ibrahim Suleiman Adnan Harun is right about that: this is a war, and enemy combatants should be treated as such. He is a Saudi with Niger citizenship: why was he fighting in Afghanistan at all? Because he considers himself to be a member of the global umma, at eternal war with the Infidels. Imagine if during World War II every individual captured German and Japanese soldier was brought to the United States and given a civilian court trial. That is essentially what we are doing now. It all comes from the general unwillingness to admit that this is a war, and that there is a global jihad.

“Admitted Al Qaeda fighter convicted in NY terror case,” Associated Press, March 16, 2017:

NEW YORK – An admitted Al Qaeda fighter was convicted on Thursday of federal terrorism charges for participating in a fierce firefight in Afghanistan that left two U.S. servicemen dead.

A jury in federal court in Brooklyn deliberated for about two hours Thursday before convicting Ibrahim Suleiman Adnan Harun.

“As demonstrated by this case, the United States will be tireless in its efforts to hold Al Qaeda members accountable when they target American citizens serving their country abroad,” Acting U.S. Attorney Bridget M. Rohde said in a statement.

Harun, 46, was extradited from Italy to the United State in 2012. Prosecutors told jurors that while in Italian custody, he confessed that he threw a grenade and shot at an American military unit in a 2003 ambush that killed Army Pvt. Jerod Dennis, of Antlers, Oklahoma, and Air Force Airman Ray Losano, of Del Rio, Texas.

While on the run, Harun later masterminded a failed plot to bomb a U.S. embassy in Nigeria, the government said. He was under the direct supervision of Al Qaeda higher-ups, including some still held at Guantanamo Bay, it said.

“The defendant is a man who made terrorism his life story,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Melody Wells said in closing arguments on Thursday. “He made a career out of violent jihad.”

The Saudi-born defendant who claims Niger citizenship had insisted he was a “warrior” who should face a military tribunal rather than a civilian court prosecution. He refused to attend his trial, and his lawyers took the usual step of not giving a closing argument and focusing on post-trial motions challenging a conviction….

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  1. Halal Bacon says

    Mar 17, 2017 at 9:49 am

    the only proven way to stop jihadi is to prevent access to the 72 virgins – so give them a proper burial in a pig skin coffin or similar

    • mortimer says

      Mar 17, 2017 at 10:08 am

      HB, civilized people put away such wicked thoughts. Desecrating human remains is uncivilized and beneath us. Please purify your heart.

      The way to fight Islam is IDEOLOGICALLY by deprogramming Muslims. This is what ROBERT SPENCER is doing. Are you man enough to be a REAL man like Robert Spencer? A civilized man is a real man.

      • mustapha crap says

        Mar 17, 2017 at 2:29 pm

        Execute him by dipping hollow point rounds in pigs blood in front of him, then use a firing squad comprised of women & gays, rather than burying him chuck his corpse through a wood chipper with a barrel of over ripened apples sprayed into a pig farm.
        Film the entire process & bombard all the foul jihadi websites with the footage.

      • Jeanette says

        Mar 19, 2017 at 5:05 pm

        Civilization has been losing to Islam for 1,400 years, while the Muslims practiced herd breeding so that they could get their numbers high enough to threaten the rest of the world.

        Here is Brigitte Gabriel explaining that the current savagery of the Muslims is not new, but the continuation of their 1,400 years of the same.

        youtube.com/watch?v=Uj8J62BqRMo

        I doubt that we have time left to experiment with deprogramming efforts for years, maybe decades. Many non-Muslims, including me, would like to stop the butchery ASAP, albeit without burning people alive, crucifying small children, raping girls to death, etc., as the Muslims do to non-Muslims.

    • Mark Spahn (West Seneca, NY) says

      Mar 17, 2017 at 10:27 am

      Hello, Halal Bacon. Have you thought this through? What, according to Islamic doctrine, will be the effect of burying a jihadi in pigskin? This sounds like a superstition that only a kafir would believe. Do you not imagine that there is a fatwa covering this possibility, offering a “necessity” argument to nullify the contact with swine products? (Any clarification about actual Islamic doctrine about this is welcome.)

      • Jeanette says

        Mar 19, 2017 at 5:11 pm

        If here isn’t already such a “rule,” there soon would be, jlike the rule that allows otherwise illegal prostitution (one-hour “marriages”), and the rule that Allah doesn’t see what Muslims do on Thursdays, so they can go ahead and have rape-little-boy-orgies on that day (which is how we got one of the big gun terrorists – caught him with his pants down, so to speak).

        See shortly after 35:00 about that last:

        bing.com/videos/search?q=ann+barnhardt+video+islam+sexual&view=detail&mid=78659C23DF2A43376AC778659C23DF2A43376AC7&FORM=VIRE

  2. mortimer says

    Mar 17, 2017 at 10:05 am

    The jihadists hate Americans, but all want to live in the land of plenty and freedom. Such hypocrites.

    • Jeanette says

      Mar 19, 2017 at 5:18 pm

      They want our real estate because so much of it isn’t desert.

      They have no intention of living in freedom, since they hate it (Islam means “submit,” people who are addicted to a system called “submit” aren’t likely to value freedom).

      As to plenty, the tax that non-Muslims are forced to pay Muslims after they take over a country takes care of them quite nicely.

      And they can also kill you and your family, move into your house, and start driving your car(s). Murder of non-Muslims is allowed. So is rape, so they could kill you, but save your wife and little children for treats, later.

      These are NOT nice people; in fact, I often wonder if they might be descendants of the evil (non-human) Nephilim. That would explain everything.

      • Jeanette says

        Mar 19, 2017 at 5:18 pm

        Pardon, PART non-human Nephilim.

  3. Stan Lee says

    Mar 17, 2017 at 12:35 pm

    I think he should have been tried in a military court, but as what? He is identified as a Saudi, but indicates that he maintains his identity as a “warrior” with citizenship of Niger. If he is tried as a “warrior,” for whom was he a warrior? Saudi Arabia, nor Niger are at war with the USA, but this “warrior” was under orders by what nation? Is Al Qaeda a nation?….obviously not. And, what is Al Qaeda classified as by the United States? It is a terrorist organization. Therefore, he is a terrorist calling himself a warrior, probably with a lawyer’s instructions in order to complicate the issue in a liberal court in Brooklyn, USA, and the whole case wreaks of Obama who never saw a terrorist, especially against the USA, whom he would not play every angle to see the terrorist given all advantages over American civil law.

    Sure, the issue was diverted from military to civil….but this prisoner insists that he is warrior, and if we don’t allow him that title, he is in the least a hostile combatant for a terror organization fighting against the USA. Let us call him a hostile combatant, which I believe to be most accurate.
    This hostile combatant has been in a U.S. holding tank since 2013, WTH for? Why was he not in Guantanamo? The answer to that is Obama, but it’s just as well he wasn’t because Obama would have released him to Niger, I’ll take this present situation now. Warrior? No! He’s was a fighter against the USA as a member of a dangerous terrorist operation and his actions caused the deaths of two Americans.

    This perpetrator has spent many years feeding his hate for the United States and now he’s seeking a way out so he can go elsewhere to repeat his activities. Military courts will issue the death sentence. A court in Brooklyn, NYC, NY, USA will sentence according to NY state law. I don’t think NY has a death sentence….but I could be wrong. NY is a very left-wing state.

  4. frederick King says

    Mar 18, 2017 at 3:54 am

    He will look grand in an orange jump suit. Maybe stripes would be better ? If they don’t give him the injection, the rock pile for life will do very well.

    • Jeanette says

      Mar 19, 2017 at 5:26 pm

      He was extradited to the US in 2012, so we’ve already been forced to feed and clothe this monster for five years.

      Enough – let the military try him and rid us of him.

  5. Angemon says

    Mar 18, 2017 at 6:19 pm

    Harun, 46, was extradited from Italy to the United State in 2012.

    Let me guess: he asked for refuge/asylum?…

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