Posted on 06/04/2009 5:01:39 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
NORTH LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — The man accused of fatally shooting a soldier outside a recruiting center begged for FBI agents to free him from a Yemeni jail where he was "radicalized" by Islamic terrorists, his lawyer told The Associated Press on Thursday.
Lawyer Jim Hensley described Abdulhakim Muhammad as an impressionable youth driven to public service in an impoverished Middle Eastern country. But teachings by "hardened" terrorists in Yemen and experiences with Afghan child refugees who were missing limbs drove him to become someone his parents didn't recognize, Hensley said.
"Here comes the FBI, who may be able to help this guy or save his life, and then they leave and then he's got to go back in with these hardened terrorists. He's got to survive, how do you live with that?" Hensley said. "He absolutely feels that the FBI and anyone else associated with the United States government left him to the wolves, that's for certain."
The FBI referred calls to a spokesman who was not in his office Thursday. Pulaski County Prosecutor Larry Jegley did not immediately respond to a call for comment.
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Hensley said Muhammad was a college student in Tennessee and left early to pursue volunteer work teaching English to children in Yemen. The lawless and impoverished country on the tip of the Arabian peninsula — also the ancestral home of Osama bin Laden's family — was the scene of one of al-Qaida's most dramatic pre-9/11 attacks, the 2000 suicide bombing of the destroyer USS Cole off the Aden coast that killed 17 American sailors.
While in Yemen, Hensley said Muhammad married and converted to Islam...
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If this is in fact both true AND the motivation for his actions- wouldn't it be an example of how we SHOULD be torturing the prisoners at Gitmo before releasing them so that they would go back and kill Al Quaeda recruiters who ‘left them to the wolves’?
How come when we are accused (wrongly I submit) of torturing prisoners, we're told it's going to cause terror attacks on us; and when Muslims torture prisoners, it causes terror attacks on us?
Just asking...
Will Wallace
And it's the government's fault that the terrorists are radicalized?
And it's the government's fault that this poor yute got impressionable ideas because of the ills “we do”?
No, it is another is a sizeable list of successful jihadist attacks on America since 9-11.
Anthrax
The Tampa Teen kamikaze pilot
The DC gay sniper duo
The shooting at LAX Air Israel counter
The Seattle Jewish Community Center shooting
The guy who ran down kufir on a college campus
And these are just the ones that can't be explained away.
We also have some other shooting rampages and things.
Saying that he was a youth engaged in public service is like giving him a haircut and instructing him to put on a “blue suit” for court room appearances. It is window dressing.
Valid questions. I believe that the FBI/CIA may have assisted in funding and logistics. Ask yourself why the Feds are giving Arkansas first shot at prosecuting this guy. Remember OKC?
...pursue volunteer work teaching English to children in Yemen...
should work on the judge, yep, should do it! Another good liberal whine.
MSM never lets the facts stand in the way of good liberal pap...
Next, his lawyers will blame it on the Bossa Nova..
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