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| Jailed Saudi Transferred to Max-Security Hours After Oklahoma Bombing |
| 2004-07-29 |
| From IntelWire, an article by J. M. Berger. Within hours of the Oklahoma City bombing, the federal government quietly moved Osama bin Laden's brother-in-law out of a California county jail and into administrative detention, a classification often used for "extremely dangerous" inmates. Mohammed Jamal Khalifa, an accused al Qaeda financier, was arrested near San Francisco in December 1994 on visa-related charges. He had been detained for four months at the Santa Rita jail, according to the San Francisco Chronicle. At 7:05 p.m., Khalifa was transferred into the custody of the U.S. Bureau of Prisons FCI Dublin, in Dublin, Calif. The facility is a low-security prison for women with a special wing for male administrative detainees. .... Khalifa was kept in solitary confinement in a maximum security cell. Khalifa appeared in court on April 17, where he proclaimed his innocence of terrorist activity. At that time, Khalifa filed a motion opposing an INS attempt to deport him to Jordan, where he faced indictment on charges of assisting terrorists. ... |
| Posted by:Mike Sylwester |
| #3 As per usual Jen is absolutely correct. The fire of 9 11 were started by the cheap flint and dry moss of Oklahoma City. I would be looking first at anyone who took "the day off". Thank you again for your Patriotism. |
| Posted by: A L Chappeau 2004-07-29 7:43:38 PM |
| #2 You wait...it's going to come out sooner or later that OKC was an Islamist jihadi bombing (with Iraqi ties, too) and the first hit of AQ on America. Clinton got a 2-fer: He didn't have to deal with Islamist terrorism and he got to blame the VRWC and "Far Right Wing Militias" which includes most of us, Rush Limbaugh, all Republicans, NRA members, ad nauseum--in short, all the usual Clintonian suspects. |
| Posted by: GreatestJeneration 2004-07-29 4:28:06 PM |
| #1 Great article. Khalifa's swift deportation is baffling in light of the situation at the time. Like the song..."we get by with a little help from our friends"ie. either an AQ operative in the INS OR Slick not wanting any messy loose ends in a "slam dunk" case against McVeigh and Nichols? |
| Posted by: rex 2004-07-29 1:12:02 PM |