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Posted on 07/12/2011 5:28:55 AM PDT by Libloather
Federal government isn't touching Arkansas terrorism case
By Richard A. Serrano, Washington Bureau
July 11, 2011, 5:01 p.m.
Reporting from Little Rock, Ark., and Memphis - Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad insists he is an Islamic radical, has confessed to killing an Army soldier and wounding another at a Little Rock recruiting station two years ago, and wants to be tried on terrorism charges in federal court.
But in an unusual twist, state prosecutors, with the blessing of the federal government, are treating him like a common American criminal and trying him in state court next week on capital murder charges.
Either way, Muhammad could become the first person sentenced to death in the U.S. for an act of terrorism — even if that is not the charge — since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
Muhammad, 24, born Carlos Bledsoe in Memphis, Tenn., has a profile that is now familiar in home-grown terrorism cases. He converted to Islam at age 20 at a Tennessee mosque, changed his name and traveled to the Middle East.
In 2008, he was arrested in Yemen for overstaying his visa and holding false Somali papers. His father said he became radicalized in a Yemeni jail after mixing with other prisoners there.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
Muhammad’s dad files trial request
The father of confessed soldier-killer Abdulhakim Muhammad has asked that a prosecution witness not be allowed to wear a military uniform while testifying, saying that “will for sure pollute the jury pool.” Melvin Bledsoe made the request in a letter dated July 1 to Pulaski County Circuit Judge Herb Wright. The letter was filed in court Friday.
Hmmm. Would it be interesting if Nidal Hasan (Ft. Hood shooter- Muzzie Jihadist) were to be tried under Texas law instead of the military?
A trial in Texas for shooting up his fellow soldiers and a civilian contractor? I have no doubt the outcome in a civilian court. And Texas does have the death penalty.
Not to hijack the post, but here is how other countries deal with illegal immigration:
“was arrested in Yemen for overstaying his visa and holding false Somali papers”
I honestly hope our next POTUS has some sort of plan on how to limit the spread of Islam in America, like making it prohibitive in the prisons for starters.
A candidate that has the balls to stand up against Islam will very much earn respect from me.
Great! If only Hussein would do -- oh, wait....
This will let Napolitano proudly proclaim “We’ve solved the terrorism problem in America.”
One of Holder’s people..............
You should check out Herman Cain.
That would be the Honorable LTC. Allen West.
Muhammad, 24, born Carlos Bledsoe in Memphis, Tenn., has a profile that is now familiar in home-grown terrorism cases. He converted to Islam at age 20 at a Tennessee mosque, changed his name and traveled to the Middle East.
In 2008, he was arrested in Yemen for overstaying his visa and holding false Somali papers. His father said he became radicalized in a Yemeni jail after mixing with other prisoners there.
...Melvin Bledsoe, who runs a Memphis tour bus company, said he learned of his son's incarceration in Yemen from a Tennessee FBI agent who interviewed Muhammad while he was in jail there. But that was the last Bledsoe heard from the FBI. And he believes that gets at the explanation behind the federal government's strange lack of interest in trying his son.
Bledsoe charges that federal officials deferred to state prosecutors because they feared a federal trial would make them look bad — because they knew his son was a radicalized Muslim and yet did not watch him when he returned to the United States.
State Department Using ‘Diversity Visas’ to Encourage Immigration to U.S. from Terror-Ridden Yemen
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