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Jailed Terrorist: "I Want My Walkman" (and convicted al-queda murderer sues to get it)
The Smoking Gun ^
| November 6, 2007
Posted on 11/06/2007 3:42:20 PM PST by Stoat
Jailed Terrorist: "I Want My Walkman"
Convicted al-Qaeda murderer complains about life in federal prison
NOVEMBER 6--An al-Qaeda operative serving life in prison for his role in the bombing of American embassies in Africa contends that his rights are being violated by U.S. jailers who have denied him access to Arabic publications and religious books, limited his mail privileges, and no longer allow him to use a Walkman. Mohamed Al-Owhali, 32, claims that his incarceration at the "supermax" federal prison in Florence, Colorado has left him so severely depressed that he stopped eating for months, forcing Bureau of Prisons officials to feed him via a tube placed through his nose. In a new U.S. District Court lawsuit, Al-Owhali wants a judge to order prison brass to provide him with expedited mail services, expanded phone privileges, and access to radio and TV news broadcasts and English and Arabic newspapers and magazines. Currently, Al-Owhali claims, he is only provided with month-old copies of USA Today, "with several pages-sections removed." The convicted terrorist is held in virtual isolation in a special security unit at Florence, per Department of Justice guidelines known as Special Administrative Measures. Attached to Al-Owhali's handwritten October 19 lawsuit is a copy of an internal BoP complaint form filed by the inmate (a copy of which you'll find below) and a BoP memo to Al-Owhali detailing the SAM measures governing his incarceration. The Osama bin Laden disciple and three codefendants were convicted in 2001 for their roles in simultaneous car bomb attacks at U.S. embassies in Nairobi and Tanzania. Those blasts killed a total of 224 people and injured thousands of other victims. (14 pages)
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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: Colorado; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: alqueda; colorado; islamofascists; supermax; terror; terrorism; terrorists; waronterror
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To: east1234
>> just WHY THE HELL DOES HE GET NEWSPAPERS?????
He’s not just getting /any old/ newspaper, he’s getting “USA Today”.
So, the answer to your question must be, “sadistic prison guards”.
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posted on
11/06/2007 5:07:19 PM PST
by
Nervous Tick
(Retire Ron Paul! Support Chris Peden (www.chrispeden.org))
To: Nervous Tick
In Saudi Arabia, he would have been executed.
Sorry he’s having a bad day...but I have a lot more sorrow for the people who he killed and their families.
To: starlifter
>> Sorry hes having a bad day...
I hope he has a whole string of bad days, really long ones, one after another after another after another...
Bad dreams at night too.
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posted on
11/06/2007 5:26:51 PM PST
by
Nervous Tick
(Retire Ron Paul! Support Chris Peden (www.chrispeden.org))
To: doc1019; doodad; Stoat; Vigilanteman
No, no, no
give him the Walkman and dozens of tapes
No walkman. No CDs. No tapes. No batteries.
Only that damn Titanic Song sung by Celine Dion song piped into the cell.
24/7.
He is in there to be punished.
Right?
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posted on
11/06/2007 5:28:33 PM PST
by
Grizzled Bear
("Does not play well with others.")
To: east1234
He thinks it sucks now? Ask him again in thirty years and just WHY THE HELL DOES HE GET NEWSPAPERS????? I say he should be naked, in the dark, at a temperature cold enough to be uncomfortable but not cold enough to kill him, with nothing in his cell but a toilet, sink, and steel cot, 24/7/365 for the rest of his life. No TV, no books, no blankets, no pillows, no pens or pencils, no exercise, no sunshine, no newspapers, nothing but four stony walls for the rest of his life.
-ccm
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posted on
11/06/2007 5:39:00 PM PST
by
ccmay
(Too much Law; not enough Order.)
To: Stoat
Ah, so he wants a little music. Sorry pal, we can’t give you the Walkman but what we will do is play this little song for you just outside your cell. Its called People by Barbra Streisand. We’ll play it all day long, every day, as long as you are our guest here.
To: SWAMPSNIPER
It would be even better if they pumped pork through an ass tube. He wouldn’t have a problem taking the liquid pork for a change.
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posted on
11/06/2007 5:45:27 PM PST
by
peeps36
(OUTLAWED WORDS--INSURGENT,GLOBAL WARMING,UNDOCUMENTED WORKER,PALESTINIAN,TERMINATED PREGNANCY)
To: Stoat
they hate the USA, but have no shame or see the lack of pride when they use/abuse the USA’s freedoms and laws.
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posted on
11/06/2007 6:10:18 PM PST
by
RDTF
("Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear". Mark Twain)
To: doc1019
walkman? further proof they are stuck in the dark ages!
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posted on
11/06/2007 6:11:39 PM PST
by
RDTF
("Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear". Mark Twain)
To: RDTF
Great point
missed that one. LOL!
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posted on
11/06/2007 6:19:04 PM PST
by
doc1019
(Fred Thompson '08)
To: SWAMPSNIPER
Better yet, whole pork chops.
To: BunnySlippers
And just to show that we’re not cruel, we’ll give him some apple sauce first. yummy!!!!!!!1
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posted on
11/06/2007 6:35:18 PM PST
by
hondo1951
(i live in happy valley, but i'm not happy, BUT I'M TRYING)
Comment #33 Removed by Moderator
To: Stoat
Allah You Gonna Get is AM mono reception Durka Durka Boy.
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posted on
11/06/2007 8:07:50 PM PST
by
Doctor Raoul
(Columbia = Ayatollah U.)
To: Stoat
I say cut off the congital visits with his goat.
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posted on
11/06/2007 8:12:27 PM PST
by
Doctor Raoul
(Columbia = Ayatollah U.)
To: Nervous Tick
That’s why we should take no prisoners.
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posted on
11/06/2007 8:18:50 PM PST
by
mimaw
To: Stoat
“supermax” federal prison in Florence, Colorado
It aint supermax unless you trap and break the mind and the heart .
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posted on
11/06/2007 8:28:16 PM PST
by
Ben Bolt
( " The Spenders " ..)
To: doc1019; G8 Diplomat
give him the Walkman and dozens of tapes,
Give him the batteries with some Amway tapes .. -)
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posted on
11/06/2007 8:33:50 PM PST
by
Ben Bolt
( " The Spenders " ..)
To: dorben
Now that is a positive idea, pain without legal recourse. LOL!
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posted on
11/06/2007 8:38:00 PM PST
by
doc1019
(Fred Thompson '08)
To: doc1019
At least it’s not defining what is is .. And it wont be a debate on wether waterboarding is torture . Hell , everyone wins ..
No legal recourse bump !
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posted on
11/06/2007 9:14:00 PM PST
by
Ben Bolt
( " The Spenders " ..)
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