Posted on 11/09/2005 6:38:10 AM PST by Actuality
2005
2005
The man was charged last month with falsifying his identity when he entered the United States seeking political asylum between 1978 and 1989. His ties to the insurgency were revealed for the first time at a bail hearing Monday in federal court in Brooklyn.
The man's attorney said he simply had been maintaining innocent relationships with Iraqi contacts approved by his military supervisors.
Using the name Almaliki Nour, the man became a legal resident of the U.S. in 1993 and went to work for a defense contractor a decade later as a translator for an intelligence unit of the 82nd Airborne Division, according to an FBI complaint.
As he worked in Iraq, the FBI and Department of Defense discovered that he had fabricated his name, birth date, native country, Lebanon, and family background as the persecuted son of a Muslim father and Catholic mother, the complaint said.
Investigators probing the fabrications then discovered that he had extensive ties to people linked to the Iraqi insurgency. His cell phone address book contained two coded entries with the numbers of known insurgents, Assistant U.S. Attorney John Buretta said Monday.
After returning to the U.S. earlier this year, the man had more than 100 cell phone conversations with numbers directly involved with the insurgency, Buretta said, including numbers found at suspected safehouses for Jordanian extremist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the leader of al-Qaida in Iraq.
The man, who has told the FBI he is a Moroccan named Noureddine Malki, also improperly took to his Brooklyn apartment classified documents about combating the insurgency, including one, Buretta said, that contained the heading "current threat."
I was long advocating to pick Arab Christians (though some are radical racists against non Arabs, but by in large could be more trusted) interpreters as opposed to Arab Muslims.
Please see:
Hang him from the Statue of Liberty for all to see.
With a comforting Imam from "moderate" C.A.I.R. by his side?
Incidently.
Whatever happend to that British idea of covering the Genocide (suicide) bombers in pig skin?
A fair number of my Arab Christian friends and acquaintances (proportionally speaking) have gone to Iraq as interpreters. I tend to think the military would prefer them because they're less likely to side with militants, but I don't think it's PC to admit it.
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First of all, not all Arab Christians are automatically anti-Muslim or anti-Jihadi (e.g. the misguided Pali arabs who front for the PA and PLO), in spite of the persecution Christians suffer at the hands of Muslim fundamentalists. Also, the interpreter in question had one Christian parent, and for that reason was considered less of a risk than other Arab interpreters (obviously a flawed assumption). It used to be the case in the uniformed intelligence services that if you were of Arab extraction, if you had converted to Islam or if you were Jewish, you didn't work the Mid-East "problem". Obviously (in view of a shortage of Arabic interpreters), the rules have been "relaxed".
Edward Said comes to mind. He was not Muslim; I think he was Episcopalian. But he was certainly anti-American and sided with the Palestinianian "nationalists."
Do they recognize "Allah" as God - no, but as of yet, I have not even heard of any Arabic Christians kidnapping and decapitating Muslims for their faith. Or, for that matter, committing any kind of crime against anyone else not of their faith.
Have you heard of such an incidents?
Only in Beirut
Were these the "crimes" that were supposed to be committed that "forced" Syria to intervene?
Nah. Normal run of the mill stuff. More like gang violence. One of the more popular ones was to slice a person's tongue with a razor.
Oh, that kind of local thing that goes on in N. Ireland all of the time between violent thugs. (Also in the U.S. between violent gang lords.)
Similar. But Muslim vs Christians. And they didn't mind getting heavy arms involved.
It looked from the article that the Catholic mother part was made up.
Lebanon was once a proud Christian nation until the unwanted influence of the boys from Damascus came to town with the backing of Iran(the Ayatollah, maybe?). Hezbollah set up a satging ground for attacks against Israel in the Golan Heights. I recently read an interview with a woman who grew up as a Christian in Lebanon -- more victims of the Religion of Peace. I think the article was on FrontPage and was done by Jamie Glazov.
"when he entered the United States seeking political asylum between 1978 and 1989"
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They need to give him one last jump.
From 5,000 feet.
No parachute.
"he had fabricated his name, birth date, native country, Lebanon, and family background as the persecuted son of a Muslim father and Catholic mother, the complaint said."
We have no idea who or what his parents were since he's finally admitted he's Moroccan not Lebanese.
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