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.
You are possibly correct on that. Please see my post # 60.
Here’s another interesting person [Dr. Rafiq Abdus Sabir] who attended Columbia... not sure when, though he seems to be about Obama’s age. This old scool sure seems to have a lot of radical islamicism associated with it- in this case al Qaeda and LeT.
Thank you piasa.
Noting your ping.
1970s mid : (HARLEM, NY : SABIR AND THE SON OF "MALCOLM X"AID "LIEUTENANT X" TARIQ SHAH aka TARIK JENKINS aka ABU MUSAB ARE INVOLVED IN THE GROUP "NATION OF ISLAM" -- See BOCA RATON CELL, BALTIMORE CELL, LeT) [Tariq] Shah and [FL Dr.] Sabir are friends from their days in the Nation of Islam 30 years ago in Harlem......(Excerpt) Read more at baltimoresun.com ...-------Law enforcement uncertain what arrest will mean in war on terror Baltimore Sun ^ | Saturday, August 6, 2005 | Matthew Dolan and Siobhan Gorman
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[Tarik] Shah - son of Lieutenant X, one of Malcolm X's top aides ... ------- "Two busted in Al Qaeda plot in U.S.," by ROBERT F. MOORE and BILL HUTCHINSONWith Kerry Burke, Tamer El-Ghobashy, James Gordon Meek and Greg B. Smith, NY Daily News, May 30 2005
1980 : (BROOKLYN, NY : JAMAAT AL FUQRA aka "THE COMMUNITY OF THE IMPOVERISHED" IS FORMED BY PAKISTANI SHEIKH GILANI -- See KASHMIR) In 1980, Kashmiri Sheikh Mubarak Ali Gilani began preaching at a Muslim mosque in Brooklyn seeking recruits for the Afghan Jihad. He primarily targeted black American converts from the inner city and those with criminal backgrounds... The resulting organization, al Fuqra ("the impoverished"), was formed with a goal of to purifying Islam through violence. ------Special Report: Protect Home Base First : Examine Gunman's Possible Ties to AL FUQRA (Sniper Muhammad) , SFFT.org, DefenseWatch "The Voice of the Grunt" | October 30th, 2002 | Christian M. Weber
1981 : (NY : SABIR GRADUATES FROM COLUMBIA U -- See BOCA RATON CELL, VIRGINIA JIHAD, NATION OF ISLAM) Sabir was born into a large Catholic family in New York and converted to Islam in high school. His father left the family home when he was very young and his mother was unable to care for her children, so Sabir and his siblings were placed in a group home through Sabir's high school years, Doyle said. Sabir went on to earn a medical degree from Columbia University. ......? --- freeper kcvl's source
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Sabir graduated from City College of New York with a bachelor's degree in biology and in 1981 graduated from Columbia University's medical school with a specialty in emergency medicine, according to Florida state records and Columbia's alumni Web site.-------- "Doctor faces terror charge in Palm Beach County; Feds silent about arrest in West Boca," By Shahien Nasiripour and Josh Hafenbrack, Sun-Sentinel, Posted May 29 2005 , http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/palmbeach/sfl-psabir29xmay29,0,6894311.story?page=2&coll=sfla-news-palm
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Sabir is a licensed medical doctor in Florida, New York and Pennsylvania, according to the Florida Department of Health Web site. He received his medical degree from Columbia University in 1981 and his bachelor's degree in Biology from City of New York College. Daniel McBride, spokesman for the Islamic Center of Boca Raton, said Sabir lived in a Boca Raton gated community with Arleen Morgan, a registered nurse, and their two young sons.------- 10 posted on 05/29/2005 10:41:57 PM PDT by kcvl
Guess who else is in the area around this time :
AUGUST 1981 TO JUNE 1983 : (NY : BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA ATTENDS COLUMBIA U -- see PAKISTAN) The Columbia Spectator published during bho's time on campus (Aug1981-Jun1983).
1980s : (TABLIGHI JAMAAT IS FOUNDED UNDER THE LEADERSHIP OF SHEIKH GILANI --see FRONT GROUP JAMAAT UL FUQRA, NATION OF ISLAM LEADER LOUIS FARRAKHAN {SEE TRINITY UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST REV JEREMIAH WRIGHT [see OBAMA]} -- also see JAMAAT UL FUQRA/MOA/IQOU aka INTL QURANIC OPEN UNIVESITY) This paper deals with the Tablighi Jamaat (TJ), which is the mother of all the Pakistan-based jehadi organisations active not only in the CARs, Chechnya and Dagestan, but also in other parts of the world…
Amongst the alleged members of the TJ (Tablighi Jamaat) in the Muslim community in the US is Mr.Louis Fara Khan, the Black Muslim leader. The TJ operates in the US and the Caribbean directly through its own preachers deputed from Pakistan and also recruited from the Pakistani immigrant community in the US as well as through front organisations such as the Jamaat-ul-Fuqra founded in the 1980s under the leadership of Sheikh Mubarik Ali Gilani, who generally lives in Pakistan, but travels frequently to the US and the Caribbean. LINK [http://pak-terror.freeservers.com/webarticle7.htm] VIA 36 posted on 10/25/2002 8:10:45 AM PDT by Sabertooth
Thank you for the additional info/background piasa.
Pinging myself to review tomorrow.
http://www.investigativeproject.org/documents/case_docs/520.pdf
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UPDATE:
http://www.investigativeproject.org/2564/court-upholds-florida-doctor-terror-conviction
For The Record - The IPT Blog
“Court Upholds Florida Doctor’s Terror Conviction”
by IPT News • Feb 4, 2011 at 5:20 pm
SNIPPET: “The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan on Friday upheld the terror-support conviction of Dr. Rafiq Sabir, a doctor living in Boca Raton, Fla. In 2007, he was sentenced to 25 years in prison for providing material support to al-Qaida. Sabir was convicted after a five-week trial in which prosecutors presented evidence that he and a friend, Tarik Shah, conspired to provide the terrorist group with medical assistance and martial-arts training.”
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