Pair Charged With Terror Recruiting in U.S.

FoxNews.com ^ | 9/16/04 | AP

[JustAnotherSavage]

Pair Charged With Terror Recruiting in U.S. Thursday, September 16, 2004

WASHINGTON — Two men were charged Thursday with providing financial support to terrorists and recruiting terror group members, including one person identified by U.S. authorities as alleged "dirty bomber" Jose Padilla (search).

A 10-count grand jury indictment handed up in federal district court in Miami charges Adhan Amin Hassoun (search) and Mohamed Hesham Youssef (search) with providing material support to terrorists and conspiracy to provide support.

The indictment contends Hassoun helped recruit individuals from the United States for groups engaging in Islamic "jihad," or holy war, in countries such as Afghanistan, Somalia, Chechnya and Kosovo.

Attorney General John Ashcroft (search), who announced the charges at a news conference, said accusations against Hassoun and Youssef include a conversation in September 2000 in which they discussed supporting the travel of a U.S. citizen who had applied to attend a terrorist training camp in the Middle East. The citizen, who Ashcroft did not name, returned to the United States in May 2002.

Two federal law enforcement officials who spoke on condition of anonymity identified that person as Padilla......

[JustAnotherSavage]

One by one, Ashcroft and company are getting them rounded up. The Clinton regime did a fine job of setting up Kosovo as a Islamic terror state. Maybe Dan Rather will do an expose' on that subject that no one seems to want to address.

[RaceBannon]

bumpus!

[brownsfan]

Adhan Amin Hassoun and Mohamed Hesham Youssef

muslims? What a shock, (Not!).
Try them, prove the charges, then shoot them.
If you simply deport them, they'll be back, one way or another.
To eliminate a cockroach infestation, you have to start squishing some roaches.

[JustAnotherSavage]

I have not made my mind up about Slobadan Milosevic, and the media will not cover his trial,but his words in his trial are telling about what happens to a country with no control over illegal immigration. We have the threat of terrorists crossing the borders at will.

Rueters:

He accused the Clinton administration of supporting the separatist Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), describing them as "Islamist terrorists" and saying that support laid the foundations for the September 11, 2001 attacks on U.S. cities.

"The Clinton administration throughout its time in office applied these double standards which has turned very aggressively against themselves which can be seen by what happened on September 11," he said, speaking through an interpreter.

Milosevic, a Belgrade law school graduate, tackled the Austro-Hungarian Empire, World War One, Nazi Germany's occupation of countries in the Balkans, U.S. foreign policy and the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia in 1999 in his opening statement.

AND


“So he is holding a head, the head of a Serb that he cut off. So those are the 20.000 Mujahedin that were brought to the European theatre of war through Clinton's policy, and most of them remained there and some went to America and to other countries, and they went all around Europe. And then when they start beheading your own people in wars to come, then you will know what this is all about."


Milosevic quote from internat'l court transcript:

http://www.un.org/icty/transe54/020927ED.htm

[JustAnotherSavage]

"To eliminate a cockroach infestation, you have to start squishing some roaches."

Bump that!

[RedBloodedAmerican]

Where is FR's FREE PADILLA crowd?

[JustAnotherSavage]

"Where is FR's FREE PADILLA crowd?"

Please tell me there isn't one............

[JustAnotherSavage]

FYI

[RedBloodedAmerican]

They're hiding....

[Gucho]

"Try them, prove the charges, then shoot them."

I love logic.

[Indie]

How long until they are released?

[JustAnotherSavage]

"How long until they are released? "

I'm sure there are lawyers trying to do just that as we speak. And since lawyers are the majority in Congress and everything else, except where they belong as in the Justice Dept. , that scenario will probably get worse before it gets better.

[csvset]

Surely their civil rights have been violated by the evil Ashcroft !

/extreme sarcasm

[rdl6989]

Off to Gitmo Bay with 'em.

[Agrarian]

It didn't surprise me one bit that the Clintonites sided with the West-hating Islamic jihadists in Kosovo and Bosnia. What still amazes me is the fact that so many Republicans willingly drank Clinton's Kool-aid on this issue. Milosovic was a thug, but the Serbs have been on the front-lines of the struggle against Islamic expansionism for centuries, and one could understand why he had a zero-tolerance policy toward armed Muslims in the former Yugoslavia.

The least we could have done would have been to stay out of that mess. No reason for us to actually side with the Muslims and bomb the Christian population of Serbia into the stone-age.

But, I guess it was worth it: it made Wesley Clark into a rock-star (anyone hear Kerry today gush on and on about Wesley Clark's greatness -- he "won the war in Kosovo" don't you know.) Clark is a pig, and the zest with which he bombed Serbian churches during Easter vigil services told me all I ever needed to know about him... Doesn't surprise me that Kerry, whose bravest act in war was to run down shoot a wounded fleeing native in the back, would find Wesley Clark to be his idea of a real hero.

[endthematrix]

Unfortunately, yes there is. Donna Newman is the public defender, the lawyer, representing Jose Padilla (a/k/a Abdullah Al Muhajir).

[flashbunny]

Padilla is a US citizen, right? So he should have access to a lawyer.

Sure would hate to give president Hillary the power to hold US citizen's without access to an attorney.

[endthematrix]

Having love for justice and for the protections guaranteed under the Constitution are quite different than those who utilize our own liberties in order to establish the great Caliphate. Judge the intentions. We are at war and he is your enemy and some call for him and his allies release.

Amazing that many have the power of hindsight but seriously lack foresight.

[flashbunny]

Well, that's a bunch of flowery words that are nothing more than a nice way to dodge the issue.

If he's a US citizen, he should go through the same justice system everyone else does. Otherwise it's simply "he's a terrorist because we say he is. He can't have a lawyer. He's a terrorist. What proof do we have? We said so, that's the proof."

The honest to God truth of the matter is that there are people who think this is OK only because Bush is in office. The same people would rightly be throwing a giant fit if it was president hillary doing this to the next Branch Davidian group. Or whoever she wanted. But because Bush is noble, this is okey dokey with them.

"The Hillary clinton administration has declared the following individuals to be known terrorists. They will be held without bail and without access to an attorney for an indefinite period of time. Why? Because we're telling you they are terrorists. That should be enough".

Nobody would stand for that then.

They excuse it now.

It's called hypocrisy. And it's rather disgusting.

[endthematrix]

"It's called hypocrisy."

Only when you construct the hypothetical. Of course the case is a legal quandary in US law. The facts of his apprehension remain. The circumstances dictate wrangling to keep this guy BEHIND BARS. This is a decision of what is right, weighed not only by the thousands that perished on 9/11 but that this guy wanted to kill. He was stopped cold before damage resulted and now do-gooders clamor "What rights?" Piss on your rights, you are living. Maybe you'd think different if you were living in the high rise that he was scouting to blow up, doubt it. Thats hypocrisy.

Remember it's Hillary who releases terrorists.