The terrorist that wasn't
"What happened next is a study in America?s ability to ride roughshod over Europe?s sovereign governments and its international human rights apparatus. It also showcases the U.S. justice system?s willingness, in its prosecution of terrorism cases, to rewrite history, distort Islam, inflate evidence, and manufacture threats where they quite clearly do not exist."
http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/07/16/ ... hat-wasnt/
Yet here was a terrorism case about non-operational terrorism ? about a website, and Ahmad?s visit to an Afghan training camp in 1999, and ultimately about over-aggressive prosecutors seeking 25 and 15 years, respectively
No, Judge Janet Hall was not willing to entertain the Fox News-ification of terrorism. ?There is no way to rationalize the sentences? the government had recommended, she said, at least not based on claims that two men promoted ?violent jihad? and provided what is known as ?material support? for terrorists. ?In my view,? the judge said, ?jihad does not equal terrorism. In a perversion of what Islam teaches, terrorists have misappropriated the concept of jihad from its true meaning ? struggle. But jihad is not what happened on 9/11.?
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfre ... abar-ahmad
CAGE interview with Hamja Ahsan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0WUYMx ... hsjdBaCfyw
Press TV interview with the parents of Talha Ahsan
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2014/07/25 ... ax-prison/
17 Jul 2014, 6:57 pm
