http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/nlg/ en-us Sat, 2 Jan 2010 13:28:29 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2419443/posts The lawyer appointed to represent the man accused of attempting to bomb Northwest Flight 253 had prior success helping to defend an alleged terrorist. Miriam Siefer, the chief public defender in Detroit, also has handled cases involving disturbances on other Northwest flights, including one in which a man pleaded guilty after illegally transporting ammunition and saying he was traveling overseas to kill Osama bin Laden. Defense lawyers with experience in terrorism-related cases say Ms. Siefer's latest job -- representing 23-year-old Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, who was charged with trying to blow up a Christmas Day flight to Detroit -- will be... Wall Street Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2419443/posts#comment Sat, 2 Jan 2010 13:28:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2419463/posts ... [M]eet Umar Abdulmutallab’s lawyer, Miriam Siefer, whose salary you are paying. [...] During the Detroit terror cell case, she represented Karim Koubriti, an Islamic terrorist in a cell, which plotted to blow up the U.S. Air Force Base in Turkey, where U.S. AWACS and Israeli F-16s are based and from where they took off. They also plotted to blow up hotels and casinos in Las Vegas and planned to detonate in Disneyland. During the course of her “representation” of terrorist Koubriti, Siefer and her fellow public defender, Richard Helfrick a/k/a Rick Helfrick (who will probably also assist her in... DebbieSchlussel.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2419463/posts#comment Sat, 2 Jan 2010 14:07:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/527802/posts <p>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.</p> AP via Boston Globe http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/527802/posts#comment Thu, 20 Sep 2001 01:08:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414195/posts NEW YORK (AP) - A federal appeals court on Wednesday took a sterner stance toward the upcoming resentencing of a former civil rights lawyer convicted in a terrorism case, saying it has "serious doubts" whether her sentence of just over two years in prison was reasonable. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals added new instructions for the judge who will resentence 70-year-old Lynne Stewart, who was convicted of letting an imprisoned Egyptian terrorist client communicate with followers. The court said the judge should consider whether Stewart's sentence should be increased because of the case's terrorism connections. "We have serious... Associated Press http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414195/posts#comment Thu, 24 Dec 2009 02:02:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2388275/posts A federal appeals court has ordered a civil rights lawyer convicted in a terrorism case that originated in Minnesota to begin serving her prison sentence. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan today also upheld Lynne Stewart's conviction, which was based in part on illegally aiding her client, Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman, during a visit with him at the federal prison in Rochester, Minn., in May 2000. She was convicted of smuggling messages between Abdel-Rahman and a terrorist group. Stewart was sentenced to a little more than two years in prison. StarTribune http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2388275/posts#comment Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:37:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2311855/posts Criminal investigation into CIA treatment of detainees by Eric Holder is expected Drudge http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2311855/posts#comment Sun, 9 Aug 2009 13:05:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1919296/posts A marathon deportation case against two Palestinian immigrants, pursued by the administrations of four U.S. Presidents over 20 years, has been dismissed. The ruling closes a Byzantine legal saga that wound its way through federal appellate courts, the U.S. Supreme Court and federal immigration boards, breaking new legal ground along the way. It ended at the Department of Homeland Security, where the dismissal order was entered Tuesday. One of the defendants, Khader Musa Hamide, said in an interview that he will never get over the experience of being under suspicion for 20 years but now "I can breathe better." A... AP on Bakersfield Californian http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1919296/posts#comment Thu, 1 Nov 2007 01:49:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1455452/posts Unrepentant, and convinced that Muslims across the world are the victims of American oppression, the mind of Richard Reid, the attempted shoe bomber from South London, was shown today in a letter published in a Scottish legal magazine. The letter, written by Reid from his prison cell in America on October 24, 2002, and published by The Firm magazine today, was sent to the magazine's US correspondent instead of an interview. In the letter, Reid, now 31, gave a rambling but cogent reply to a note sent to him by Noel Young, The Firm's journalist, who offered Reid the chance... Times Online (UK) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1455452/posts#comment Tue, 2 Aug 2005 17:06:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2164841/posts Obama pick faces questions over bombers' clemencyBy PETE YOST Associated Press Writer Originally published Wednesday, January 14, 2009 at 2:05 PM WASHINGTON — New York police detective Anthony S. Senft's life changed forever when a bomb set by Puerto Rican separatists exploded, blowing him 15 feet in the air and blinding him in one eye. Now, he's angry that Eric Holder, who played a key role in awarding clemency to the bombers, is in line to be attorney general. Holder, as President Bill Clinton's deputy attorney general, worked closely with the Justice Department's pardon attorney to raise the possibility of... Seattle Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2164841/posts#comment Thu, 15 Jan 2009 05:20:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/999347/posts A Palestinian activist and former college professor who has been in federal custody in Chicago since September has been indicted on a single criminal contempt charge for refusing to cooperate with a grand jury investigating the terrorist group Hamas. Federal prosecutors in Chicago announced the indictment Friday against Abdelhaleem Hasan Abdelraziq Ashqar, the same day U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald and Chicago FBI Agent-in-Charge Tom Kneir paid a visit to the heavily Palestinian Mosque Foundation in Bridgeview. Ashqar, 45, a Palestinian native and former adjunct business professor at Howard University, had been granted immunity from prosecution for his testimony by U.S.... Chicago Sun-Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/999347/posts#comment Sat, 11 Oct 2003 10:37:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2132851/posts Ejected at ’04 Convention, a Protester Gets $55,000 By COLIN MOYNIHAN Published: November 15, 2008 During President Bush’s acceptance speech in Madison Square Garden at the 2004 Republican National Convention, a San Francisco woman briefly interrupted the proceedings by standing on a chair and unfurling a banner that accused the president of lying. That protest set into motion a chain of events that has ended in one of the more unusual legal resolutions connected to the four days of the convention, during which more than 1,800 demonstrators and bystanders were arrested, most of them in street protests. Hundreds of them... www.nytimes.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2132851/posts#comment Sun, 16 Nov 2008 01:25:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2048067/posts Prostitution Raid links Communist Tax Lawyer, leftist voter project, and 9/11 Truther Movement You just can't make this stuff up. Louis Posner, a National Lawyers Guild affiliated Tax Attorney, is arrested for running a Strip Club, which was a front for prostitution. What makes this case unique is that the funds were laundered through Voter March, a leftist election reform organization. ABOUT VOTER MARCHBackground: Voter March began on November 14, 2000, as four founding members organizing people who wanted to express their opposition to the irregularities and egregious conduct of Election 2000 and the direction in which an illegitimate administration... NYC Right http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2048067/posts#comment Sat, 19 Jul 2008 17:33:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1126062/posts Does America need a terrorist financier to secure its “freedom”? Sami al-Arian thinks so. His National Coalition to Protect Political Freedom poses as a watchdog for the Constitution, but he has focused his lobbying efforts on repealing anti-terrorist legislation. While Sami al-Arian himself has been arrested for being a prime financier for Palestinian Islamic Jihad (and likely one of its three founders), his political movement continues to threaten homeland security. Al-Arian founded the National Coalition to Protect Political Freedom (NCPPF) in 1997 as a reaction to the Anti-Terrorism Act of 1996. The coalition’s stated goal “is to help change the... Front Page Magazine http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1126062/posts#comment Wed, 28 Apr 2004 18:02:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1909917/posts A US human rights group says it is suing private security firm Blackwater for unspecified damages for war crimes and wrongfully killing Iraqi civilians. The Center for Constitutional Rights is acting on behalf of an injured survivor and three families of men killed by Blackwater guards on 16 September. The Iraqi government said the incident in which 17 people died was unprovoked. Blackwater denies firing without cause. The case has put a spotlight on private military contractors in Iraq. BLACKWATER USA FACTS Founded in 1997 by a former US Navy Seal Headquarters in North Carolina One of at least 28... BBC News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1909917/posts#comment Thu, 11 Oct 2007 20:55:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1790786/posts Dear Friends, Colleagues and Servicemembers: Many of you may know that since June 2006, I have served as co-civilian counsel, along with Neal Puckett who is lead counsel (and Of Counsel to my law office), for SSgt Frank Wuterich, USMC. Frank is now facing multiple counts of murder for the events arising from the deaths of 24 Iraqi civilians at Haditha, Iraq on November 19, 2005. He was the squad commander for the 3/1 that tragic day. This is a highly unusual case for me. Other than the dozen or so military courts-martials I handled back in 1999-2000 dealing with... abledangerblog.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1790786/posts#comment Sun, 25 Feb 2007 08:11:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1747793/posts December 3, 2006: In the United States, a federal judge has ruled that the President does not have the authority to designate certain organizations as terrorist groups. This ruling is the latest round of lawfare against the war on terror. In this case, two foreign terrorist organizations, the Kurdistan Worker's Party (PKK) and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Elan (LTTE), were the beneficiaries of this suit. Why is this case, filed on behalf of the Humanitarian Law Project, important? After all, a number of human rights groups have still been waging lawfare, largely on behalf of al Qaeda. This suit... Strategypage http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1747793/posts#comment Sun, 3 Dec 2006 14:15:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1663896/posts Poster's note:This past Saturday, July 8, 2006, there was a pro-illegal alien/anti-illegal alien protest in LA. Some of the protesters were arrested and a LAPD officer was injured. To fully understand the context of the email I've posted below, go to this link first and read the original article and the FReeper comments. Then come back here and read this email from ANSWER. And now, for something completely different, ANSWER's version this event: On Saturday, July 8, the LAPD showed its true racist and reactionary character when it viciously attacked immigrant rights activists who were protesting against the anti-immigrant Minuteman... email from ANSWER http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1663896/posts#comment Tue, 11 Jul 2006 20:26:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1660496/posts Civil Liberties for Terrorists But Not for American TroopsBy Jacob LaksinFrontPageMagazine.com | June 21, 2006 In recent years the ranks of alleged victims championed by civil libertarians on the political Left have swollen to include everyone from the terrorist detainees at Guantanamo Bay, to anti-American radicals, to environmentalist ultras and illegal immigrants. But there’s at least one group ineligible for victim status under the legal Left’s guidelines: American troops.  This seems to be the lesson of the “Camp Pendleton Eight.” A group of seven Marines and one Navy corpsman, they are currently being held--reportedly under excessively harsh conditions--at the Camp... FrontPageMag http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1660496/posts#comment Wed, 5 Jul 2006 04:49:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1619563/posts OCEANSIDE – Representatives of a national lawyers association are calling many of Oceanside Unified's 224 protest-related suspensions potentially illegal because they stemmed from students refusing to return to class when directed by school personnel. James Lafferty, executive director of the National Lawyers Guild Los Angeles chapter, which champions the rights of minorities and seeks to protect civil rights, said the state Education Code makes it illegal to suspend students for truancy. And Kate Yavenditti, a representative for the San Diego branch, agrees that students with complaints of unjust treatment may have a basis for challenging the suspension. “Really what they're... San Diego Union - Tribune http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1619563/posts#comment Sat, 22 Apr 2006 17:20:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1555969/posts To: Assignment Desk, Daybook Editor Contact: Connie Julian, 917-449-9064, Janet Yip 212-941-8086 or commission@nion.us News Advisory: From: International Commission of Inquiry on Crimes Against Humanity Committed by the Bush Administration WHEN: January 10, 2006 at 1:30 p.m. WHERE: The White House, Walk-in Gate, across from Lafayette Park WEBSITE: http://www.bushcommission.org An unprecedented series of indictments alleging war crimes and crimes against humanity, in five separate areas, on moral, political, and legal grounds, will be delivered by a citizens' tribunal to President Bush at the front gate of the White House this Tuesday, January 10th. Named in the indictments are: President of... US newswire http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1555969/posts#comment Wed, 11 Jan 2006 14:30:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1559891/posts One "plaintiff" in the nuisance lawsuits being filed against the Director of the NSA et al is none other than the granddaughter of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg -- Rachel Meeropol.Lest we forget, the Rosenbergs were executed in 1953 for helping to pass US atom bomb secrets to the Soviet Union. (Most fittingly, Julius's KGB nom de guerre was "Liberal.")True to her roots, Rachel is a Vice President of the New York City chapter of the communist National Lawyers Guild. She is also a fixture in some of the most ultra left organizations out there, such as The Children Of Resistance.Of... Sweetness & Light http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1559891/posts#comment Tue, 17 Jan 2006 23:11:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1539909/posts An undercover informant helped investigators tape a conversation with one of the seven...radical environmentalists accused in a series of arson attacks and other crimes... Existence of the informant was disclosed last week by an investigator in U.S. District Court in Brooklyn, N.Y., during a bail hearing for Daniel McGowan, 31, who faces indictments that he and another man firebombed the office of a wood products mill in Glendale and the office and truck shop of a tree farm in Clatskanie in 2001. The Earth Liberation Front, an underground group that advocates economic sabotage to stop environmental destruction, took credit for... Associated Press...Arizona Daily Sun http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1539909/posts#comment Wed, 14 Dec 2005 02:24:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1514597/posts The Call to Drive Out the Bush Regime Sign the call now!Your government, on the basis of outrageous lies, is waging a murderous and utterly illegitimate war in Iraq, with other countries in their sights. Your government is openly torturing people, and justifying it. Your government puts people in jail on the merest suspicion, refusing them lawyers, and either holding them indefinitely or deporting them in the dead of night. Your government is moving each day closer to a theocracy, where a narrow and hateful brand of Christian fundamentalism will rule.Your government suppresses the science that doesn't fit its... why the world can't wait dot net http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1514597/posts#comment Thu, 3 Nov 2005 03:21:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1507280/posts For those of you promoting the agenda of NOT supporting Harriet Miers, take a look at where you are siding. Domain Name:BUSHCOMMISSION.ORG Created On:30-Sep-2005 19:41:00 UTC Last Updated On:03-Oct-2005 20:48:38 UTC Expiration Date:30-Sep-2006 19:41:00 UTC Sponsoring Registrar:Tucows Inc. (R11-LROR) Status:TRANSFER PROHIBITED Registrant ID:tu65xuClzUJzqkgN Registrant Name:Charles C. Kissinger Registrant Organization: Not In Our Name Project Registrant Street1: EDITED FOR POSTING Registrant Street2: Registrant Street3: Registrant City:Brooklyn Registrant State/Province:NY Registrant Postal Code:11217-1112 Registrant Country:US Registrant Phone:+1.212-EDITED FOR POSTING Not in Our Name project. They are SDS/Weatherman. From FBI Files: Weatherman or Weather Underground Organization, is a "revolutionary organization of communist men and... Net Searches http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1507280/posts#comment Sat, 22 Oct 2005 16:19:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1475674/posts Symposium: The Future of TreasonBy Jamie GlazovFrontPageMagazine.com | September 2, 2005 Jamie Glazov: When it comes to the agitations of the political left over the war in Iraq, Patriotism and Treason are the elephants in the room. And not just for the political left. Even the words “appeasement” and “capitulation” have been absent from the political debate over the war in Iraq, although although there have been prominent advocates for both. Have we seen, as Daniel Pipes has titled a recent column, “The End of Treason” because people identify with causes like Islam and Social Justice and no longer feel... FrontPage Magazine http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1475674/posts#comment Fri, 2 Sep 2005 16:31:45 GMT