Miami imam convicted of federal terror charges

[Freddie Stubbs]

Source: The Miami Herald

A Miami imam was found guilty Monday on four terror-related charges.

For two months, federal prosecutors portrayed Miami imam Hafiz Khan in the worst possible light: terrorist sympathizer, Taliban supporter and pathological liar.

“His whole defense is a lie,” Assistant U.S. Attorney John Shipley told 12 jurors last week during closing arguments.

The 77-year-old Khan, with his hunched shoulders and flowing white beard, testified that he sent about $50,000 to Pakistan to help a religious school, the poor and his extended family overseas — not to arm Taliban militants bent on killing Americans and Pakistanis.

Read more: http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/03/04/3266071/miami-imam-convicted-of-federal.html

[geek tragedy]

1. Neocons must be aghast that civilian trials were used. nt

[cosmicone]

2. Good n/t

[Earth_First]

3. So two brothers and a cab driver facing similar charges were all dropped

Yet this one stuck?

Sounds like the prosecution was striking out and the DA was being leaned on to convict someone...

[The Green Manalishi]

4. Let's throw *ALL* the religious nutters into the pen

and lose the key.

People with invisible sky friends are insane and evil.

[annm4peace]

5. how sad they go after those with dementia

“They never proved that $1 went to the Taliban; they said his words supported the Taliban,” Wahid added, saying his client’s First Amendment right to free speech was criminalized by the prosecution. “They took his [recorded] statements and said to the jury that they can assume a crime’’ was committed.

Wake up American.. any of us can be tried, and found guilty of "thought crimes".


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