I see you've set aside this special time to humiliate yourself in public. I don't know what your problem is, but I'll bet it's hard to pronounce. Did your mother drop you on your head or was it more of a [touchdown] spike?
A Florida doctor accused of swearing allegiance to al Qaeda and agreeing to treat wounded militants has been unfairly ensnared in the scheme of a longtime friend, a defense lawyer argued on Wednesday.
Rafiq Abdus Sabir, 52, was arrested in May 2005 and later charged in a four-person conspiracy to provide material support to al Qaeda and another group listed as a foreign terrorist organization by the U.S. State Department. His trial began with opening arguments in U.S. District Court in Manhattan on Wednesday.
Sabir and his longtime friend Tarik Shah, a New York jazz musician, offered themselves as a "package," with Sabir providing skills as a doctor and Shah agreeing to train would-be warriors in hand-to-hand combat, Assistant U.S. Attorney Jennifer Rodgers told jurors. "With these unique skills, Sabir and Shah knew that they could help al Qaeda," Rodgers said.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070425/us_nm/usa_qaeda_dc_1;_ylt=AhkG_PtseQaGpIL23g.jo2EwuecA
Pamphlets distributed in Bajaur for release of ‘mujahideen’
Wednesday, April 25, 2007
KHAR: Unidentified men distributed pamphlets in the Bajaur Agency on Tuesday, demanding the release of “mujahideen-e-Islam” by May 1, and warning the government that action would be taken if the demand was not met.
The pamphlets written in Pushto were distributed early on Tuesday morning in Inayat Kalay Bazaar, seven kilometres from Khar. The unidentified writers of the pamphlets told the political agent and the assistant political agent to free Afghan and Pakistani “mujahideen” from jails, otherwise they would take extreme steps against the government and the political administration would be responsible for any untoward situation. The political administration has seized the pamphlets, but did not comment on the issue.
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2007/04/25/story_25-4-2007_pg7_14
Iran: Student pokesman Arrested
Tehran, 25 April 2007 - The spokesman of the Muslim Students Association at a Tehran polytechnic was arrested on Wednesday, Iranian news agency ILNA reports. Babak Zamanian was reportedly arrested because of interviews he gave to Farsi language radio stations that broadcast outside Iran. The students of the Amir Kabir Polytechnic made front page news around the world last December when they managed to prevent President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, on a visit to their campus, from making his speech. It was the first time since his landslide victory in June 2005 that Ahmadinejad had been challenged in public.
Dozens of protesters burned pictures of the Iranian president crying 'dictator go away', 'death to dictatorship' and threw firecrackers, forcing him to interrupt several times a speech and leave before scheduled.
"The direction of the university had been warned we didn't want Ahmadinejad here," Mehdi Hatefi, an activist with students' group Tahkim Vahdat told Adnkronos International (AKI) at the time, saying the organisers had tried to fill up the lecture hall with people from other universities.
http://www.adnki.com/index_2Level_English.php?cat=Politics&loid=8.0.408483218&par=0