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2006-08-26 Home Front: WoT

Maryland teacher gets 15 years for aiding terrorists

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Posted by Fred 2006-08-26 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 "With Allah as my witness, I tell everyone that I am innocent."

Invoking the name of Allah in an American courtroom may not be the most convincing strategy these days.

Posted by Zenster 2006-08-26 04:13|| 2006-08-26 04:13|| Front Page Top

#2 Yer 'sposed to call yer witnesses before the verdict is issued, LOL.

Posted by flyover 2006-08-26 04:17|| 2006-08-26 04:17|| Front Page Top

#3 Good 'un, flyover!

Posted by Zenster 2006-08-26 04:27|| 2006-08-26 04:27|| Front Page Top

#4 Yer 'sposed to call yer witnesses before the verdict is issued, LOL.

Posted by flyover 2006-08-26 04:29|| 2006-08-26 04:29|| Front Page Top

#5 Invoking the name of Allah in an American courtroom may not be the most convincing strategy these days.

I also hear that Allah doesn't like his name to be used in vain. I wonder what might happen.

Posted by gorb 2006-08-26 06:02|| 2006-08-26 06:02|| Front Page Top

#6 will Allah swear on a bible? I thought not

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2006-08-26 07:32|| 2006-08-26 07:32|| Front Page Top

#7 A Pakistan-born resident of the US state of Maryland was sentenced Friday to 15 years in prison for supporting a terrorist group blamed for an attack in Mumbai, India, that killed 180 people, justice officials said. Ali Asad Chandia, 29, who taught third-graders at an Islamic school in College Park, Maryland, was found guilty in June of providing material support and resources to Lashkar-e-Toiba.

At Friday's sentencing, he insisted he was not guilty of the charges.

Indian security agencies suspect that the group he supported, which is allegedly based in Pakistan, was behind the serial attacks on the train system in Mumbai last month.

Chandia was charged with giving "safe harbour" to a convicted British terrorist, Mohammed Ajmal Khan, who is currently serving a 9- year sentence in Britain for procuring military goods for Lashkar-e- Toiba, or Army of the Pure.

Khan apparently visited the United States in 2002 and 2003, where he used Chandia's computer to shop for unmanned aerial craft, night vision equipment and wireless video cameras, US Attorney Chuck Rosenberg said in a statement.

The FBI found audiotapes and other materials "manifesting his commitment to violent jihad" during a search of his home in 2003, the statement said.

Other evidence included CD-ROMs found in his car that glorified the September 11, 2001 attacks on the US and showed still photographs of persons jumping to their deaths from the World Trade Center towers.

"Terrorist organizations like Lashkar-e-Toiba rely on a network of individuals to carry out their deadly operations," Rosenberg said. "Ali Asad Chandia was a member of that network for Lashkar-e-Toiba, and he will now spend a very long period of time in prison for providing material support in furtherance of its violent agenda."

According to a sophisticated website dedicated to Chandia's support, the young man was born in Pakistan and moved with his family at age 17 to Maryland, outside Washington, the US capital.

His father, an attorney in Lahore, Pakistan, remained behind to practice law. In a letter to the US court in Virginia that sentenced his son, Noor Mohammed Khan Chandia said he had sent his children to the US "for the freedom that it provided ... and excellent education."

The website says Chandia was a star student at Watkins Mill High School in Gaithersburg, Maryland.

"Our family believes in friendship with India," the father wrote, according to the letter posted on the website. "I myself visited India twice in the year 2005 for vacations. If the government of India has any grievance against me or the family no visa could have been granted to me."

Prosecutors claimed Chandia had travelled to Pakistan in 2001-2002 to meet Khan. Chandia's website claims he attended his brother's wedding on that trip.

Posted by john 2006-08-26 12:02|| 2006-08-26 12:02|| Front Page Top

#8 If you can't trust someone who swears by allan he doesn't really want to randomly kill the likes of you, who can you trust?

Posted by anonymous5089 2006-08-26 12:04|| 2006-08-26 12:04|| Front Page Top

#9 still photographs of persons jumping to their deaths from the World Trade Center towers

This sick SOB needs to be assigned some very "special" cell mates.

I myself visited India twice in the year 2005 for vacations

I think the Indian IB needs to check exactly who he "vacationed" with and what he visited (bridges, train stations, nuke plants etc)

Posted by john 2006-08-26 12:05|| 2006-08-26 12:05|| Front Page Top

#10 he young man was born in Pakistan and moved with his family at age 17 to Maryland, outside Washington, the US capital. His father, an attorney in Lahore, Pakistan, remained behind to practice law

The father must've been doing awfully well to be able to support his family in an American lifestyle on Pakistani wages.

Posted by trailing wife 2006-08-26 12:24|| 2006-08-26 12:24|| Front Page Top

#11 Pak Punjabi Feudals are quite wealthy.

Posted by john 2006-08-26 12:49|| 2006-08-26 12:49|| Front Page Top

#12 According to a sophisticated website dedicated to Chandia's support, the young man was born in Pakistan and moved with his family at age 17 to Maryland, outside Washington, the US capital. How the heck did his family get immigrant visas without the father and wage earner also immigrating?

Posted by ed 2006-08-26 13:25|| 2006-08-26 13:25|| Front Page Top

#13 That tells you the sort of money this family has.

The Punjabi Feudals strongly backed partition. They feared the promised land reforms of Gandhi and the Congress party and wanted to keep their estates, complete with bonded peasant laborers and private jails (where uppity peasants are incarcerated).

Posted by john 2006-08-26 13:31|| 2006-08-26 13:31|| Front Page Top

#14 Al Huda School

Got it.

Posted by 6 2006-08-26 13:40|| 2006-08-26 13:40|| Front Page Top

#15 "Pak Punjabi Feudals are quite wealthy."

And most of that wealth was stolen from the Punjabi Hindus, when they were driven out at the time of partition.

Posted by Texas Redneck 2006-08-26 13:59|| 2006-08-26 13:59|| Front Page Top

#16 BTW, for the record, I didn't post #4.

Posted by flyover 2006-08-26 15:28|| 2006-08-26 15:28|| Front Page Top

#17 The IPs are the same, flyover.

Posted by Steve White">Steve White 2006-08-26 16:06|| 2006-08-26 16:06|| Front Page Top

#18 Hmmm. A hiccup 12 minutes apart? Now I'm stumped. I did not come back to this page, enter the same comment, and hit submit again - 12 minutes later. Funky stuff happening in HTTP, LOL.

Posted by flyover 2006-08-26 16:18|| 2006-08-26 16:18|| Front Page Top

#19 Put fown the tequila and walk away from the keyboard.

Posted by ed 2006-08-26 16:44|| 2006-08-26 16:44|| Front Page Top

#20 or down.... :-)

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2006-08-26 17:21|| 2006-08-26 17:21|| Front Page Top

#21 Ima call fugue state. No big deal tho.

Posted by Bach 2006-08-26 17:34|| 2006-08-26 17:34|| Front Page Top

#22 Hmmm. A hiccup 12 minutes apart?

I've duped a couple of times, best proximate cause: using the back button after submission. Doesn't happen every time, but anyway I don't do that anymore.

Posted by KBK 2006-08-26 18:06|| 2006-08-26 18:06|| Front Page Top

#23 using the back button after submission

Doesn't Islam label that as "apostasy"?

Posted by Zenster 2006-08-26 18:24|| 2006-08-26 18:24|| Front Page Top

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