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2003-08-07 Home Front

Portland Man Strikes Plea Deal on Terror Charges

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Posted by Domingo 2003-08-07 9:56:28 AM|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 No, no, no! How are we supposed to defend you against the opressive zionist unelected warmongering US government if you keep pleading guilty?

Posted by Steve 2003-8-7 10:37:17 AM|| 2003-8-7 10:37:17 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Is anybody keeping count on the number of 'Wrongly Accused' Arab-Americans that have now plead GUILTY? And what does the Arab-American peace group ?CAIR? have to say? I remember hearing the group leader calling this and other arrests 'Witchhunts'. Are they ready to jump on board and root out these cells?

Posted by Cyber Sarge (VRWC CA Chapter) 2003-8-7 11:30:07 AM|| 2003-8-7 11:30:07 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Cyber Sarge, here's a news story from CAIR's web site that explains why they plead guilty:

AMERICAN MUSLIM NEWS BRIEF | 7/29/2003
(Michael Powell, Washington Post) - LACKAWANNA, N.Y. -- Even now, after the arrests and the anger and the world media spotlight, the mystery for neighbors in this old steel town remains this: Why would six of their young men so readily agree to plead guilty to terror charges, accepting long prison terms far from home? "These knuckleheads betrayed our trust, and we're disgusted with their attendance at the camps in Afghanistan," Mohammed Albanna, 52, a leader in the Yemeni community here, said of the six men who have admitted to attending an al Qaeda training camp two years ago. "But the punishment doesn't fit the crime, or the government's rhetoric. It's ridiculous."
But defense attorneys say the answer is straightforward: The federal government implicitly threatened to toss the defendants into a secret military prison without trial, where they could languish indefinitely without access to courts or lawyers. That prospect terrified the men. They accepted prison terms of 61/2 to 9 years...

They pled guilty to avoid the Gitmo death camp.

Posted by Steve 2003-8-7 11:56:56 AM|| 2003-8-7 11:56:56 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 Gitmo strikes again! Ooooohhh! Gitmo! Ooooohhh!

Posted by Â·com 2003-8-7 1:08:05 PM|| 2003-8-7 1:08:05 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 Here's the link to the plea agreement, it's posted on the Free Mike Hawash website. Snicker.

Posted by Steve 2003-8-7 2:46:45 PM|| 2003-8-7 2:46:45 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 Steve, you're too harsh! I suggest we return this young man to his Palestinian homeland, so he can add his support to the new Palestinian State. I suggest a C-130 drop from 15,000 feet. He'll have to buy and pack his own 'chute, though... Maybe he can get a deal on some of those surplus ones from Fort Benning.

Posted by Old Patriot 2003-8-7 3:05:20 PM|| [http://users.codenet.net/mweather/default.htm] 2003-8-7 3:05:20 PM|| Front Page Top

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