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Home Front: WoT
U.S. Man Held in British Attack Plot Pleads Guilty
2004-06-17
A Pakistani-American man pleaded guilty in a closed U.S. court hearing to helping Islamic militants in a plot to blow up London train stations and pubs, law enforcement sources said on Thursday. The man, identified as Mohammed Junaid Babar, 29, was arrested in April in New York and no specific charges have been made public. Babar, a Pakistani-American who grew up in the New York borough of Queens, pleaded guilty in Manhattan federal court sometime after his arrest, but the hearing was sealed, a law enforcement source said. The U.S. attorney's office in Manhattan declined comment.
"I can say no more."
British authorities told U.S. officials they believed Babar was involved in a plot by a London group known as al Muhajiroun to bomb pubs and train stations in London, a law enforcement source said. British authorities said they broke up the plot in March and arrested eight men. Babar was being held in New York and was cooperating with officials in the investigation, a law enforcement source said.
Sniff, sniff, smells like a plea deal to me.
Posted by:Steve

#6  I just can't get the hang of the whole hyphen thing especially when it comes to Muslims. I don't believe they have any intention of being both Muslim and American in any meaningful way. Being American is just a tactical convenience for them. Can you picture a Muslim becoming enraged and defending the honor of, say, Stonewall Jackson? (Take your pick of any American hero of the past if he offends your sensibility. Try Frederick Douglas if it suits you.) Do any of our past battles to become American mean anything to them?

Muslim-American? I think not. To paraphrase Abe Lincoln, they must become either one or the other, either they must become all free or all slave, they can not do both. And for that matter, so must the rest of us. If they want to be Mooselimb first, they should live in Mooselimbland.
Posted by: Zpaz   2004-06-17 3:32:15 PM  

#5  Add another one to the list of convictions Ashcroft hasn't gotten.
Posted by: Robert Crawford   2004-06-17 2:57:32 PM  

#4  Zpaz---Muslim American is a Muslim first and an American second, with some exceptions, so it seems from past actions.
Posted by: Alaska Paul   2004-06-17 2:44:43 PM  

#3  British authorities told U.S. officials they believed Babar was involved in a plot..

I dunno, but I just can't get the thought of an elephant with a crown out of my mind...
Posted by: Bomb-a-rama   2004-06-17 2:29:57 PM  

#2  Pakistani-American. The only oxymoron to top that one is Muslim-American.
Posted by: Zpaz   2004-06-17 2:02:51 PM  

#1  Sounds like another witness against Capt. Hook.
Posted by: danking70   2004-06-17 1:47:59 PM  

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