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thepeel
Joined: 08 Aug 2004
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 Posted: Thu Sep 13, 2007 1:29 am Post subject: Canadian gets 14 years for funding terrorists |
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TORONTO � A Canadian immigration consultant convicted of fraud and supporting overseas terrorism was sentenced yesterday to 14 years in prison, years after authorities picked him up in 9/11 sweeps around New York.
Khalid Awan, a Muslim and naturalized Canadian of Pakistani descent, wasn't ultimately convicted of any links to al-Qaeda. Rather, U.S. authorities in the Eastern District of New York used a series of elaborate in-prison stings to establish he supported a terrorist group of another religion, Sikh militants known in India as the Khalistan Commando Force.
U.S. officials alleged the 45-year-old was known during frequent travels to Pakistan as a "silent mujahed," which means holy warrior in Islam - although in this case the suspect was said to be a kind of free-floating radical, with links to Sikh and Muslim extremists, as well as Pakistani intelligence.
A New York jury last year convicted Mr. Awan of lending financial and other forms of support to KCF members who had staged deadly attacks against Indian civilians. This conviction led to the sentence meted yesterday.
He once faced very different allegations. Mr. Awan was first arrested in a New York suburb in October, 2001, and held as a material witness to the 9/11 attacks. FBI officers would later testify an anonymous tip accused Mr. Awan and men he knew of having links to one of the hijackers.
That allegation went nowhere, but the tip led to searches of a property east of New York, which in turn led to Mr. Awan's 2004 conviction on a credit-card fraud conspiracy. Police claimed they unearthed a scheme in which he allegedly stole identity profiles from immigrants who came to him seeking his help getting Canadian citizenship. As Mr. Awan was about to complete his fraud sentence in 2006, U.S. officials laid new charges against him: supporting terrorism.
Mr. Awan placed several calls from jail to The Globe and Mail last summer. He claimed to be the victim of "creative legal theories" and religious profiling. He said he had operated a legitimate immigration business with branches in Pakistan, New York, and Markham, Ont. |
http://www.theglobeandmail.com
A terrorist funding muslim Canadian immigration consultant. Ain't it grand? |
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igotthisguitar
Joined: 08 Apr 2003
Location: South Korea (Permanent Vacation)
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| Posted: Thu Sep 13, 2007 11:41 am Post subject: |
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| Immigration politics = legislative control & $$$ |
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Pyongshin Sangja
Joined: 20 Apr 2003
Location: I love baby!
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On the other hand
Joined: 19 Apr 2003
Location: I walk along the avenue
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| Posted: Fri Sep 14, 2007 11:15 am Post subject: |
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| Hey, up yours you Yank trash. |
Who are you addressing here? |
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thepeel
Joined: 08 Aug 2004
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| Posted: Fri Sep 14, 2007 1:29 pm Post subject: |
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I'm from Canada. My post had nothing to do with the USA.
Defensive Canadian scum. |
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thepeel
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'We Came To You With Slaughter'
Quebec Terror Suspect; Berated Muslims online for not fighting jihad
Stewart Bell And Graeme Hamilton, National Post
Published: Saturday, September 15, 2007
MONTREAL - On the Internet, he was known as Ashraf. It means noble in Arabic.
But the hundreds of incendiary messages he posted to pro-al-Qaeda Web sites were anything but.
From his computer in Quebec, Ashraf disseminated articles that berated Muslims for not fighting jihad; called for war until "religion will be for Allah alone"; and bluntly advised the West that, "We came to you with slaughter."
Yesterday, Said Namouh, 34, a landed immigrant from Quebec, appeared briefly in a Montreal courtroom, accused of working with an Austrian extremist to plot a truck bombing in Europe.
The RCMP said Mr. Namouh used the alias Ashraf, and a U.S. terrorism research group said Mr. Namouh and the on-line Ashraf who appears regularly on jihadist Internet forums are one and the same.
"It's definitely him," said Rita Katz, Director of the SITE Institute, a terrorism research company that monitors the "on-line jihadist community" for government and corporate clients. |
http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/story.html?id=3853b9bd-c74c-4098-8a5c-c1063817b9ac |
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