Dr. Rafiq Sabir
Posted on 05/21/2007 4:17:04 PM PDT by TexKat
NEW YORK --A Florida doctor was convicted Monday of providing material support to terrorists by agreeing to treat injured al-Qaida fighters so they could return to Iraq to battle Americans.
Dr. Rafiq Abdus Sabir, 52, was convicted in federal court in Manhattan after a three-week trial that featured testimony by him and Ali Soufan, an FBI agent who posed as an al-Qaida recruiter in a sting operation that led to four arrests.
When the verdict was read, Sabir looked straight ahead. Later, as he was escorted from the courtroom, he waved to supporters, who said, "Stay strong."
His lawyer, Ed Wilford, said, "We are deeply disappointed in the verdict."
The charges against the New York-born Sabir, including conspiracy to provide material support to terrorists, carry a potential maximum sentence of 30 years in prison.
The verdict came after jurors heard audio tapes of a May 2005 ceremony in a Bronx apartment in which Sabir and his best friend, Tariq Shah, a martial arts expert and jazz musician, pledged loyalty to al-Qaida and, the government alleged, Osama bin Laden.
Shah pleaded guilty just before trial to providing material support to a terrorist organization and agreed to serve 15 years in prison, though he has not been formally sentenced.
A Brooklyn bookstore owner who pleaded guilty was sentenced to 13 years in prison. A Washington, D.C., cab driver has pleaded guilty and agreed to serve 15 years in prison.
Sabir, of Boca Raton, Fla., testified at trial that Shah never told him he was talking with an al-Qaida recruiter. At the pledge ceremony, Soufan mispronounced al-Qaida more than a dozen times, Sabir said. He also said he did not know "sheik Osama" meant bin Laden.
Dr. Rafiq Sabir
Fla. doctor convicted in terror case
Just heard this on Fox
A doctor playing the "I'm a stupid idiot" card? Hmmmm. Not too credible.
Yeesh... why are we in Florida always the scene of jerks? ha.
Just one of many already here.
Yeah, me too. Should have carried a death sentence.
Rafiq Abdus Sabir Faces Up To 30 Years In Prison For Providing Material Support To Terrorists
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/05/21/terror/main2833349.shtml
thank God we got this SOB!!
disgusting scum!!!
And we know it!
So this doctor participated in a ceremony where he pledged loyalty to a group that he didn’t know who they were, and to a guy whom he didn’t know who he was.
I always go to ceremonies and pledge loyalty to people who I have no idea about. It passes the time. Geez.
and serial killers!
How many non-muslim patients has this “doctor” killed ?
Kill the raghead and save the tax-payers a few dollars.
another one connected to Florida...
You stay strong too a-hole - in prison!
Why are so many muslim doctors terrorists? Did they not take the Hippocratic oath?
He will last maybe a year in prison....the POS!!!!
THANK YOU TexKat for the ping.
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1826963/posts?page=1008#1008
Columbia Med School.... I guess Columbia really is a hot-bed of anti-semitism.
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