Posted on 11/21/2007 9:27:17 PM PST by america4vr
A former business professor accused of taking part in a Palestinian terrorist network was sentenced Wednesday to more than 11 years in prison for refusing to testify before a federal grand jury.
The defendant, Abdelhaleem Ashqar, 49, a former associate professor of business at Howard University in Washington, was taken into custody by federal marshals immediately after the sentencing.
In a passionate, arm-waving statement before sentencing, Dr. Ashqar painted a grim picture of the suffering of Palestinians in the occupied territories and said that some of his own relatives had been killed or jailed.
He said he would rather go to prison than betray his people as they strived to free themselves from Israeli domination. “The only option was to become a traitor or a collaborator,” Dr. Ashqar said, “and this is something that I can’t do and will never do as long as I live.”
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It's nice to see that the justice system was able to accomodate his wishes...
This poor, misguided SOB.
It was King Ibn Saud who refused resettlement of Arabs from Palestine into other Arab land post-1948. The overwhelming majority of those Arabs had been unwanted populations from neighboring nations dumped there between 1918 and 1948. Jerusalem isn’t even mentioned in the Qu’ran.
Other countries post WWII had many exchanges of populations due to ethinic or religious reasons but only the Arabs maintained that Jews BELONGED to muslim countries and couldn’t have their own nation.
The ancient land of Judea - Isreal - was miraculously morphed into Palestrina - Palestine - the Land of the Philistines. Just in an attempt to deny the Jews their homeland, first by the Roman Empire in the 1st cent a.d. and now by the Arabs.
Ok, I'll take it. I am thankful.
In prison he’ll learn the real meaning of “invasion and occupation.”
In addition to 11 years and 3 months in prison, he was fined $5,000.
bump
The extra 3 months is for what?
Smirking in the courtroom?
Muttering "Inshallah" once too often?
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