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Current Events => Breaking News => Topic started by: bijou on June 14, 2008, 08:39:40 AM
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CLEVELAND — Three Ohio men were convicted Friday of plotting to recruit and train terrorists to kill American soldiers in Iraq, a case put together with help from a former soldier who posed as a radical bent on violence.
Mohammad Amawi, 28, Marwan El-Hindi, 45, and Wassim Mazloum, 27, face maximum sentences of life in prison. Prosecutors said the men were learning to shoot guns and make explosives while raising money to fund their plans to wage a holy war against U.S. troops.
The federal jury in Toledo returned its verdict after three days of deliberations. U.S. District Judge James G. Carr did not set a sentencing date, said acting U.S. attorney Bill Edwards.
...Messages seeking comment from the other defense attorneys were not immediately returned. At trial they claimed that the three defendants, who all lived in the Toledo area, were manipulated by the government's star witness, Darren Griffin.
The undercover FBI informant and former Army Special Forces soldier recorded the men for about two years beginning in 2004 while they talked about training in explosives, guns, and sniper tactics. They often met in their homes and at a tiny storefront mosque where they prayed together.
Defense attorneys noted that Griffin was involved in all conversations the prosecution presented to the jury, and that there was no evidence of telephone conversations or e-mails dealing with the alleged plot among only the defendants.
Griffin won the trust of the men by posing as a former soldier who grew disenchanted with U.S. foreign policy who was now intent on violence against America. Prosecutors said even Griffin's family had been under the impression that he had become a radical.
Griffin said most people at the mosque shunned him and that no one raised any threats until El-Hindi began talking about kidnapping Israeli soldiers. Amawi, Griffin said, asked him to help him train two recruits from Chicago for holy war.
According to one secret recording made by Griffin, Amawi said he was troubled by the loss of life in New York in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, but he quickly added: "Killing Americans in Iraq is OK."
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http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,366963,00.html
Great work by Darren Griffin and the FBI.
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They should take these guys out and shoot them outside the court building with bullets dipped in pig's blood.
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They should take these guys out and shoot them outside the court building with bullets dipped in pig's blood.
At the very least.
KC
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We, as Americans, have lost our intestinal fortitude and have been emasculated. Just 60 years ago, they would have faced a firing squad. I suppose we can thanks our bleeding heart liberal population, the druggies, etc for our decline and our demise. They don't have the will to fight for this country or support it in any way.
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The jury deleberated for three days???? Oh my.
And yes, thank goodness for Griffin and the FBI. Doing the work libtards don't want us to do.
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They should take these guys out and shoot them outside the court building with bullets dipped in pig's blood.
Damn right they should.
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Hanging them with pigs squealing below would have worked for me.
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They should take these guys out and shoot them outside the court building with bullets dipped in pig's blood.
Bury them alive. Same goes with any terrorist sympathizers.