Posted on 05/02/2009 2:47:33 PM PDT by SmartInsight
Accused Al Qaeda sleeper agent Ali Saleh Kahlah Marri on Thursday pleaded guilty to supporting the architects of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
In a plea agreement entered before U.S. District Judge Michael Mihm in Peoria, Ill., Marri admitted to one count of conspiring to provide material support or resources to a foreign terrorist organization.
"Ali al-Marri today admitted that he came here . . . as an Al Qaeda operative the day before the Sept. 11 attacks to plan and prepare for future acts of terrorism within the United States," said Jeffrey Lang, acting U.S. attorney for the Central District of Illinois.
Appearing Thursday ... Marri admitted to having associations with Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the self-proclaimed Sept. 11 mastermind, and Mustafa Ahmed Hawsawi, chief financier of the attacks, before arriving in the U.S. on Sept. 10, 2001.
....But soon after President Obama took office, the government pulled Marri out of the military brig and opted to charge him in federal court instead.
The charge against Marri carries up to 15 years in prison. Sentencing is scheduled for July 30.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
That's what happens when you don't consider terrorists "enemy combatants", just mere criminals, as the Obama administration is doing.
I say he'll get nine years and serve three.
Al-Qaeda used Hotmail, phone codes
In the days after the Sept. 11 attacks, alleged al-Qaeda operations mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed intended to use his free Hotmail account to direct a U.S.-based operative to carry out an attack, according to a guilty-plea agreement filed by Ali al-Marri in federal court. The document shows how al-Qaeda, at least in 2001, embraced prosaic technologies like prepaid calling cards, public phones, computer search engines, and simplistic codes to communicate, plan, and carry out its operations.
Marri also surfed the Internet to research cyanide gas, using software to cover his tracks, according to the document filed Thursday in federal court in Peoria, Ill. He marked locations of dams, waterways, and tunnels in the United States in an almanac. The government says this reflects intelligence that al-Qaeda planned to use cyanide gas to attack those sites.
Marri sent e-mail messages to Mohammed's Hotmail account addressed to "Muk" and signed "Abdo." The details of that code were included in an address book found in an al-Qaeda safe house in Pakistan.
“I say he’ll get nine years and serve three”
I wouldn’t be surprised.
I suppose we should be glad that Obama didn’t just turn him loose in the US — see the other article I just posted on this thread, about Marri being in constant communications with KSM.
I vote for fifteen years of daily waterboarding.
Hang him.
Well I guess Ali Saleh Kahlah Marri will now have ‘peace’ rallies run by the usual marxist suspects. He will also be a guest on the morning shows as well as Letterman, be a commencment speaker at colleges and universities, be invited to speak to the the traitorous congressional black caucus, and have his own reality show on BET/MTV (which seem to be one and the same these days). They can call his show ‘Pimp My Hijacked Airliner’.
kill him. now. slowly.
Cut his head off.
Put him in a DEA or ICE uniform and drop him into some of the volatile areas of Mexico....let them deal with him. There, problem solved ;-)
. . . as he sits in a tub of warm bacon grease.
Why didn't President Bush take care of this guy, instead of passing him off to Obama?
Accused Al Qaeda sleeper agent Ali Saleh Kahlah Marri on Thursday pleaded guilty to supporting the architects of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
He is seeking to serve his time in Qatar?
Oh, by all means...and here, have an ice cream.
Why didn't he take care of Scooter Libby? I fully expected that if he did not issue blanket pardons to key people in his administration, the political trials wold begin. Looks like they could.
i’m in ...
life with no possibility of parole.
death in prison by a nazi skinhead who loves america more than her president.
i like the long shot.
teeman
STARCHAMBER!!
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