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Home Front: WoT
US: Muslims object to terror plot verdict
2008-12-24
(AKI) - Muslim leaders have objected to a US court decision to convict five Muslims for plotting a terror attack on an American military base at Fort Dix in the state of New Jersey.
Object and be damned ...
After an eight-week trial, a jury on Monday ruled that three ethnic-Albanian brothers, Shain, Dritan and Eljvir Duka, and two others - Turkish-born Serdar Tatar and Mohammed Shnewer from Jordan - were found guilty of planning an attack on the base in a bid to kill as many American soldiers as possible.

The jury, however, acquitted the group of charges of attempted murder.

Mohamad Younes, president of the American Muslim Union, questioned the jury's decision. "I don't think they actually mean to do anything," he said. "I think they were acting stupid, like they thought the whole thing was a joke."
Not a good idea to act stupid like that. You could end up in prison ...
Jim Sues, executive director of the New Jersey chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, attended five days of testimony during the trial. "Many people in the Muslim community will see this as a case of entrapment," he told local media.
So why don't you educate them otherwise ...
The five foreign-born residents lived in the northeastern cities of Cherry Hill in New Jersey and Philadelphia in the state of Pennsylvania. They were arrested in May 2007 after the group was infiltrated by Federal Bureau of Investigation agents. The prosecutors described their activities as an attempt to wage Islamist holy war against America, inspired by Al-Qaeda.

Defence lawyers had argued that the five were just bragging about their plans and also challenged the credibility of the government informants. One Egyptian-born informant was paid 230,000 dollars by the FBI for his undercover work, said the defence lawyers. They also said he was on probation for bank fraud.

Defence lawyers also claimed that the men were coaxed by the government informants into making controversial and incendiary remarks which were recorded.

However, police discovered propaganda material, maps, hundreds of secretly taped conversations and video material.

Dritan and Shain Duka were also found guilty of possessing weapons to be used in the planned attack that was never executed.

Sentencing has been set for April 2009 and acting US Attorney Ralph Marra said prosecutors will demand a life sentence without the possibility of parole. Defence lawyers said they would consider an appeal after hearing the sentence.
Posted by:Fred

#9  "Muslim leaders have objected to a US court decision to convict five Muslims for plotting a terror attack"

Of course they do.

In other breaking news, water is wet.
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut   2008-12-24 19:03  

#8  I still don't understand why they weren't cut loose to do the deed, then cut down at the gate.
Posted by: Last Breath Farm Resident   2008-12-24 16:04  

#7  "Defence lawyers said they would consider an appeal after hearing the sentence."

Isn't the purpose of an appeal only to consider whether the law is applied / interpreted correctly?

So if no procedural errors are uncovered, the verdict stands, right?
Posted by: USN, Ret.   2008-12-24 12:42  

#6  if they don't like it they can all move too sucj paradises on earth such as pakistan, afghanitstan yemen saudi arabia or so on and not be able too co0me back. bet they would shut up then. and don't worry obama will pardon them in 4 years anyway
Posted by: rabid whitetail   2008-12-24 11:43  

#5  Well the US Muslims haven't started threatening to execute the jury.

Yet.
Posted by: mhw   2008-12-24 10:47  

#4  
Posted by: William Marcy Tweed   2008-12-24 10:14  

#3  They might not have actually done the planned assault and killings if they had not been arrested but that was not required for the conspiracy charge (I could see the jury's position on the attempted murder charge though.)
They might not have actually actively planned the conspiracy if they had not been incited/inspired by the FBI informants (whom I did not and do not trust as witnesses), but since they proved that they COULD be inspired to plan an assault on Americans I figure they would have been inspired/incited sooner or later by some imam or another.
Lock 'em up. After all, we lock up little kids with toy cap pistols in school.
Posted by: Glenmore   2008-12-24 10:06  

#2  they can FOAD.
Posted by: 3dc   2008-12-24 01:09  

#1  Of course they do. They object to anything other than infidels dying.
Posted by: DarthVader   2008-12-24 00:24  

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