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| Dearborn man gets 10 years for trying to help Hezbollah |
| 2008-12-13 |
| A federal judge on Friday sentenced a former Ford Motor Co. engineer to 10 years in prison for trying to supply global positioning satellite equipment and other materials to the terrorist group Hezbollah. "You allowed the depth of your feeling for what was happening in your homeland to overcome your judgment," U.S. District Judge Gerald E. Rosen told Fawzi Mustapha Assi, a Lebanese-born U.S. citizen. "These were serious misjudgments." Assi, 49, of Dearborn, who has been in custody since May 2004 and will be given credit for the time he has already served, pleaded guilty in 2007 to providing material support to terrorists. He was charged a decade ago -- in 1998 -- after federal agents stopped him at Detroit Metropolitan Airport, where he was about to board a flight to Lebanon carrying GPS equipment, night vision goggles and a thermal imaging camera. Assi was the first person indicted under a 1996 law that made it illegal to knowingly provide money or material to terrorists. The U.S. State Department designated Hezbollah a terrorist group in 1997. "I took it upon myself to help people who were under occupation," said Assi, who continued to argue the law under which he was convicted is unconstitutional. Assi's family members packed Rosen's courtroom Friday. His brother, Sami Assi, said it will be painful to know Fawzi Assi will have to spend several more years locked up. "We will pray for him to (serve) his time and come back to his family," Sami Assi said after the sentencing hearing. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #3 While I'm sorry he didn't get the death penalty, something all Hezb deserves, I hope that his sentence requires loss of citizenship and immediate deportation upon completion. I'd strip him of all assets and dump him back in Leb with nothing but the clothes on his back, but that's just me |
| Posted by: Jolutch Mussolini7800 2008-12-13 17:34 |
| #2 U.S. District Judge Gerald E. Rosen: "You allowed the depth of your feeling for what was happening in your homeland to overcome your judgment," U.S. District Judge Gerald E. Rosen told Fawzi Mustapha Assi, a Lebanese-born U.S. citizen. "These were serious misjudgments WTF??? A journalist might make that mistake BUT a District Judge? FYI U.S. District Judge Gerald E. Rosen: Fawzi Mustapha Assi is a US Citizen. That Means His Fcuking Homeland is the United States of America; Hezbollah is responsible for a large number of American lives. Hezbollah is responsible for a Vast number of Jewish lives. Hezbollah has American blood all over their organization. Hezbollah has Jewish blood all over their organization AND it has sleeper cells all over the World. |
| Posted by: Red Dawg 2008-12-13 15:28 |
| #1 He'll be moving out of Dearborn then? Bloody social climber. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2008-12-13 06:47 |