Posted on 09/19/2001 6:08:12 PM PDT by sarcasm
Edited on 04/13/2004 2:06:49 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
WASHINGTON -- Attorney General John Ashcroft said Wednesday the terrorists behind the attacks on the United States likely received support from foreign governments and that it was too early to tell if surprise arrests in Michigan were a major break in the case.
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I disagree .. If we deport them, they are effectively 'released', and if released, they are free to continue in the direction they were headed before we 'detoured' them.
Find a charge, try, convict and sentence to maximum penalty the next day.
Ask Wen Ho Lee, he can explain it better than me.
Look, we already know that, okay? WHICH GOVERNMENTS!!??!!??
Can we PLEASE get on with a declaration of war on those states? Please?
Deport these bastards!
If they are dual citizens, deport them to both countries simultaneously.
Sorry, I had Chinese food with fortune cookies for dinner. But you get the point.
Deport these bastards!
Cohen is the lawyer for this guy. In another story, I read that this person had gotten immunity when he testified before the grand jury. This is from yesterday's Baltimore Sun. Oddly enough, two of the three men worked for an airline catering company in Detroit that was headquartered out of Arlington, Texas.
Imam Had Unusual Visit at Mosque Before Attacks
September 18, 2001
THE CLERIC
Imam Had Unusual Visit at Mosque Before Attacks
By DOUGLAS JEHL
LAUREL, Md., Sept. 17 — Two days before last week's terrorist attacks, a Muslim cleric suspected of ties to the Osama bin Laden organization led prayers at a Texas mosque at which he had agreed not to preach because of the controversy surrounding him.
The man, Moataz Al-Hallak, 41, led prayers at the Sunday night service of the Central Street mosque in Arlington, Tex. The mosque's board president, Najam Khan, said today that action broke an agreement that Mr. Al-Hallak, considered by some congregants as having an overly rigid interpretation of Muslim theology, refrain from any leadership role. Mr. Khan said Mr. Al-Hallak had otherwise not said or done anything abnormal during the prayers on the evening of Sept. 9.
But the Federal Bureau of Investigation has said it is seeking to question Mr. Al-Hallak. His lawyer, Stanley L. Cohen of New York City, said federal agents had presented him with what he called unsubstantiated claims that Mr. Al- Hallak had made comments in Texas suggesting that he may have had advance knowledge of the bombing.
Mr. Cohen said today that Mr. Al- Hallak was at home here in Laurel, having returned by rented car last week after a Tuesday flight on which he had been booked was canceled because of the attacks.
But the lawyer said that his client denied prior knowledge of the attacks and would not agree to questioning by the F.B.I., which Mr. Al- Hallak accused of showing racism by "trying to shake Muslims from a tree."
The lawyer said Mr. Al-Hallak would, however, be willing to meet with federal prosecutors or to appear before a grand jury. However that dispute is resolved, federal agents appear to be exploring whether this suburb of Washington was among the launching sites of the attacks.
Neighbors said agents showed up in large numbers last week and again on Sunday to question residents in several locations, including Mr. Al-Hallak's apartment complex, Crestleigh Gardens. The residents were shown what appeared to be surveillance photographs, marked "09-05-01" and "MD," which depicted two men who appeared to be of Arab extraction and in their 30's at what looked to be a bank teller's desk and an A.T.M.
Those questioned said they had been left with the impression that the men were suspected of being among the hijackers on American Airlines Flight 77, which crashed into the Pentagon after taking off from Dulles International Airport.
Hani Hanjour, one of the suspected hijackers, tried to take flying lessons in nearby Bowie, Md., in early August, and said he was staying at a Laurel motel.
Some residents said they had also been asked about Mr. Al-Hallak, who has lived in the apartment complex since about July 2000. During the case of Wadih el-Hage, an Arlington man who was convicted this year of conspiring with Mr. bin Laden for his role in the American Embassy bombings in Africa, Mr. Al-Hallak was accused by the prosecution of having "served as a contact between members of the bin Laden organization," which he has denied. He was never charged with wrongdoing.
Definitely prison and they should be tried for their war crimes or at least being accomplices to mass murder.
Ground center zero for Muslim immigration to America
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Should they hire a Muslim lawyer?.....If they can find one?
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