Lodi Trial Begins For Traitors With Terror Ties; ACLU And CAIR To The Rescue
Posted on February 14, 2006
Hat tip: Jawa Report
The trial for two ACLU and CAIR defended men with extensive ties to terrorist supporters in Pakistan begins today.
accused in a federal criminal complaint of training in an al Qaeda camp in Pakistan to learn how to kill Americans and then lying to FBI agents about it. His training included explosives and weapons instruction and using photographs of President Bush as targets, court documents indicate.
The lawyers spin this that he is accused of lying not terrorism, but as Rusty says, don’t let this fool you. What he is accused of lying about is his terrorist ties.
Also on Thursday, a coalition of Muslim civil rights groups and other organizations announced they were filing complaints of “intimidating tactics” against the FBI along with a formal request for records of its investigation into possible terrorist connections in Lodi.
Following the arrests of a Pakistani American man and his son on charges of lying about their connection to an alleged al-Qaida training camp, agents have continued to question others in the town’s Muslim community. Three others were arrested on immigration violations during the investigation.
The tactics involve denial of medical treatment, threats of arrest or deportation to coerce people, and denied access to legal representation, said Basim Elkarra of the Council on American-Islamic Relations of Sacramento Valley.
“This must be done in a way that respects people’s rights,” said Mark Schlosberg of the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California.
According to the prosecution’s court papers, Hamid Hayat was given his Miranda rights and later failed the polygraph examination. After being questioned for several hours, the court papers allege, he “confessed to attending a jihadist training camp, indicating that it was near the town of Balakot” in Pakistan.
“Hamid also made several statements regarding individuals and groups who supported the camp he attended,” including al-Qaida, the papers allege.
The court papers quote Hamid Hayat as saying the purpose of the camp “was to train for jihad and to teach people to kill those who work against Muslims.”
He admitted that he “was being trained to and intended to commit jihad in the U.S.,” the papers say. “He did not have any orders to fight at present; however, he was awaiting such orders.”
“Violent jihad” is defined by the counterterrorism team prosecuting the Hayats as “the use of violence, including paramilitary action, against persons, property or governments deemed to be enemies of a fundamentalist version of Islam.”
Meanwhile, according to the papers, Umer Hayat told agents his son had not attended a training camp and that he, Umer, had no connections to terrorism and was unaware that there were training camps in Pakistan.
Umer Hayat was shown a small portion of his son’s videotaped confession, and then admitted that he knew his son had been to a training camp in Pakistan for up to six months in late 2003 and into 2004, the prosecution’s papers state. Umer Hayat added that he had been to at least four camps as an observer, the papers say.
The papers say Umer Hayat told the agents his son went to a camp outside Rawalpindi, which he said was underground. Umer said he was there and observed firearms, explosives, classroom and physical fitness training, the papers say.
Hamid Hayat, 23, was arrested and booked into the Sacramento County main jail June 5 at 3:20 a.m. Umer Hayat, 48, was arrested and booked into the jail the same day at 8:08 p.m. They have been held without bail since.
Hamid Hayat is charged in a grand jury indictment with providing material support to terrorists by attending the training camp and coming home “to wage violent jihad against persons and real and personal property within the United States.”
He is charged in three additional counts with making false statements to the FBI in an attempt to conceal his terrorist activity and intentions.
Umer Hayat is charged in two other counts of the same indictment with making false statements to the FBI in an attempt to conceal his son’s training and intentions and his own firsthand knowledge of terrorist training in his native Pakistan.
The Hayats, both U.S. citizens, have pleaded not guilty. If convicted, Hamid Hayat faces a 23-year prison term and Umer Hayat faces an eight-year term.
The Hayats’ attorneys say their alleged confessions were made under duress.
Translation: Treason…and the ACLU are all too happy to defend it.
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From the accusations, they should be charged with treason in war time and if convicted, hanged. But, even lesser charges that keep them in jail for years and break up their terror ring will be successful, if not really justice.
C’mon FBI go get ‘em! We need hundreds of more arrests like this. Damn the ACLU! Laptops and polygraphs full speed ahead!
Let them have their day in court. If found guilty, they should be punished at the fullest extent of the law.
Jay, do you believe that these individuals deserve any defense counsel at all?
“Jay, do you believe that these individuals deserve any defense counsel at all?”
I personally would hate to be the PD that got picked to defend these guys in court, especially if found guilty.