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Terror Networks
Wife of terror suspect helped out of U.S. by Saudi Embassy
2003-02-05
The wife of a man suspected of having links to terrorists was given a passport and helped out of the country by the Saudi Embassy, despite a grand jury subpoena requesting testimony from the woman, it was reported Wednesday. The Washington Post said federal officials were outraged when they learned that Maha Hafeez Marri and her five children had been flown to Saudi Arabia in November. The officials claim the woman's departure hampers the investigation of Ali S. Marri, a Qatari who has been charged with lying to the FBI regarding telephone calls made after Sept. 11, 2001. Maha Marri had her passport confiscated by the FBI after her husband was arrested in late 2001 in Illinois, the Post said. The newspaper said she was given a new passport by the Saudi Embassy, which told the State Department of her departure one day after she left. The embassy told the Post that the women left after waiting for nearly about 11 months for the FBI to interview her.
Sounds at first like she was patient, but, of course, a lawyer was involved...

"You get a grand jury subpoena, you can't sit here for a year doing nothing," Nail A. Jubeir, a Saudi spokesman, told the newspaper.
Of course not, you obfuscate, delay, and then head for the hills. Jubeir is an accomplished lawyer liar spokesman who also has misrepresented the facts on American children held by ex-spouses in Soddy against U.S. court orders

Federal authorities told the newspaper they had been in negotiations with the woman's lawyers to set up an interview, rather than having Maha Marri appear in person before the grand jury. An attorney for the woman was quoted as saying they "did not believe there was any legal impediment to her departure" because the grand jury had recessed.
Righhhhtttt. Delayed long enough did they?

Officials from the Saudi Embassy sent the State Department a note requesting assistance with her passport, but that agency told the Saudis they could not clear the way to let the woman leave the United States and suggested the FBI be contacted, the Post said.
Obviously there was no problem then, hmm

An attorney hired by the embassy to represent Maha Marri said her client was under various hardships -- such as being ill and having her children out of school for several months -- making her return to Saudi Arabia imperative.
They'd forgotten much of the hateful spew learned in Soddy schools and needed reindoctrination

"All of the relevant parties were informed before the fact and after the fact that the interview had to take place because her situation was deteriorating legally and otherwise," the attorney, Malea Kiblan, told the Post.
But negotiations were continuing, weren't they?

Federal authorities said that Ali Marri, who arrived in the United States with his family on Sept. 10, 2001, to pursue a graduate degree at Bradley University, contacted Mustafa Ahmed Hawsawi, a suspected al Qaida member. Hawsawi, the government alleges, had received calls from several of the men suspected of carrying out the 9/11 hijackings and managed a bank account the men had used. Ali Mari has pleaded innocent to charges filed against him.
Our friends, the Saudis.....
Riyadh Delende Este
Posted by:Frank G

#4  "The idea that someone would say we are not cooperating is simply not true. There is full cooperation," said Tariq Aziz...
Posted by: Fred   2003-02-05 15:09:09  

#3  Update via Little Green Footballs

The bald-faced arrogance of the oil ticks is just amazing. Here’s what the FBI discovered when they raided her apartment:

Tips to the FBI led to a search of Marri's apartment. There, agents found audio files of Osama bin Ladin, photographs of the Sept. 11 attacks and a computer folder labeled "chem" that contained bookmarked Web sites with fact sheets on hazardous chemicals "immediately dangerous to life or health," according to court documents. Marri also had information on the purchase of such chemicals, bookmarked Web sites on weapons and satellite equipment, and an almanac in which U.S. dams, waterways and railroads were bookmarked, according to the documents.
And in spite of the fact that they sneaked this woman out of the US even after being told she could not be granted a passport, the Saudis continue to laugh in our faces:

Jubeir, the Saudi spokesman, bristled at suggestions yesterday that the Saudis had failed to assist law enforcement in the Marri case. "The idea that someone would say we are not cooperating is simply not true. There is full cooperation," he said.
Posted by: Frank G   2003-02-05 14:36:55  

#2  Law students? Study the division of powers as provided in the following link to the second highest legal authority in America, after the federal constitution, and try to find a legal basis for discretionary authority as exercised by federal bureaucrats in this case. If you can't, then take steps to ensure that these negligent swine are dis-employed, forthwith.
www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/
Posted by: Anonymous   2003-02-05 12:43:43  

#1  Dominos, think dominos. Iraq, Iran on its own, Soddi, then... Syrai or NKor.
Posted by: Chuck   2003-02-05 11:05:49  

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