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American Shaboob gets prison for lying
A Somali man who admitted lying during immigration proceedings and a terrorism investigation was sentenced Thursday in San Antonio to eight years in prison, as he steadfastly denied any link to a suspect in bombings in Uganda six years ago that killed more than 70 people.

Abdullah Omar Fidse has never been charged with terrorism but the FBI says it has tied him to al-Shabab, an Islamic militant group in East Africa aligned with Al Qaeda.
Good enough for me...
Prosecutors said a phone number agents found in Fidse’s cell phone’s memory card link him to Mohamed Suleiman, a suspect facing trial in Uganda over the deadly, simultaneous bombings that took place in that country in July 2010 during the World Cup final. Militants with al-Shabab took responsibility for the attack, which also killed and injured Americans.

In December 2012, Fidse pleaded guilty to lying on an asylum application he submitted after he and a woman he traveled with were detained at the Hidalgo port of entry on the Texas-Mexico border in January 2008. He also pleaded guilty to lying to FBI agents who were investigating his alleged affiliation with terrorists.
But we don't need any security on our southern border according to Champ and Loretta...
The terrorism investigation was opened after one of Fidse’s fellow inmates at an immigration jail in Pearsall told the feds
That's Wally the Weasel, reducing his 10 to 20 down to a 3 to 5...
that Fidse had made statements supportive of terrorists and saying he had paid for a $100,000 armed “technical” vehicle for al-Shabaab that was destroyed in a 2006 battle in Somalia. So-called “technicals” are often pickups mounted with a machine gun. He was later recorded “advocating for global jihad against infidels,” prosecutors claim.
If Wally wore a wire he's out on parole this very day...
“Without any doubt, the FBI was conducting a terrorism investigation into the defendant’s past terrorism activities and current potential terrorism activity; had it not done so, the FBI would have been neglecting its duty to protect the homeland from a terrorist in its midst,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Mark Roomberg wrote in a sentencing memorandum in Fidse’s case.

At Thursday’s hearing, Roomberg told U.S. District Judge Fred Biery that when confronted by the FBI, Fidse lied about his past and his affiliations and by doing so, obstructed the FBI’s efforts to learn about potential terrorist plots.

“I will admit we are speculating that maybe the (bombing) plan could have been disrupted, but at least we could have passed the information on,” Roomberg said.

Fidse’s lawyer, assistant federal public defender Molly Roth, said her client disputes “many, many facts in this case.”
"Lies, all lies! Your honor."
For instance, she said there is no evidence Fidse put the number linked to Suleiman in the memory card, and said the informants or someone else said the things the FBI accuses Fidse of saying in detention.

“This case is about words and words alone,” Roth argued. “Mr. Fidse … is not a terrorist. There is no evidence he intended to promote (terrorism) directly or by obstruction.”

Roth asked Biery to sentence Fidse to the time he’s already spent behind bars, which includes time in jail awaiting immigration asylum proceedings. She argued that without a terrorism enhancement, a measure that increases a defendant’s sentence, Fidse only faced up to six months in jail.

But Biery enhanced the sentence, giving Fidse four years on each count, stacked.

It was the second time Biery had sentenced Fidse to eight years. After the first time in 2013, Fidse appealed and the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals vacated Fidse’s sentence because it said Biery didn’t clearly state his rationale for a terrorism enhancement to raise Fidse’s sentence.

This time, Biery made sure said the government had established sufficient evidence and noted findings supporting the enhancement, including that Fidse made statements linking him to terrorists and the technical vehicle and that the disputed phone number was that of the bombing suspect Suleiman.
Posted by: Steve White 2016-03-13
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