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Greetings! You are reading an article from The Mudville Gazette. To reach the front page, with all the latest news and views, click the logo above or "main" below. Thanks for stopping by! December 14, 2009 Home Grown (Part Two)By Greyhawk
The story received a bit of notice last September:
His father was at his side. Mohammed Wali Zazi, 53, had also been arrested and charged. Meanwhile, in New York, a hearing was underway for a third suspect involved in the case. "Ahmad Wais Afzali had for years been a popular imam in Queens," the New York Times reported.
Authorities who had been tracking Zazi's cross-country excursion had contacted the Queens, New York imam - and he, according to charges based on recorded phone conversations, warned Zazi of the investigation. But just prior to his arrest, Afzali had contacted an attorney: "Only a few weeks ago, left-leaning criminal defense lawyer Ron Kuby knew little about a popular 37-year-old Queens imam," the story begins.
Later, "during the early-morning hours of Sept. 20, Kuby got another call from Afzali, saying police were knocking at his door." I asked him to put one of the officers on the line but they declined to speak to me. They put him in handcuffs and took him away. That was his big arrest on a Sunday morning." Almost immediately, Kuby launched a campaign detailing his client's history of cooperation with the police. "The police had worked with the imam and had gone to him on a fairly regular basis. And he had done what Americans say they want Islamic religious leaders to do -- just to cooperate with the police when there's an investigation. So the imam did that."
Afzali was released after posting a $1.5 million bail bond. ("The government would not agree to release him on bail if they believed he was involved in a terrorist conspiracy," Kuby said.) Zazi was transferred from Colorado to New York.
Immediately following the arrests the Obama administration launched a media blitz to assure Americans that
...all of which led to another conclusion - key provisions of the Patriot Act can not be allowed to expire at the end of the year: ![]()
The story received a bit of attention last September, however, that bit of national security news was lost in the attention given to another story that broke at the time - the release of General McChrystal's Afghanistan assessment to the press.
And the AP reported last week that re-authorization has yet to be accomplished. "Three provisions of the anti-terrorism Patriot Act expire at the end of the year. Some Democrats want to make changes to better ensure that government surveillance doesn't violate privacy rights." Days later: "The looming deadline coincides with a growing concern among law enforcement officials that homegrown terrorism is becoming a more dangerous and immediate threat," Politics Daily reported, adding that neither the House or Senate has scheduled time to debate those provisions now set to expire on Dec. 31. Rep. Dan Lungren (R-Calif.) "blamed House leaders for allowing liberal activists to politicize the issue." So in many ways, this news doesn't sound so new after all: "U.S. officials are increasingly concerned about the threat of homegrown Islamist extremism. This concern is prompted by a spike in attacks like the Fort Hood massacre, and conspiracies broken up by law enforcement before any attacks took place." President Obama noted the increase during his speech last week at West Point explaining the Afghanistan surge:"In the last few months alone, we have apprehended extremists within our borders who were sent here from the border region of Afghanistan and Pakistan to commit new acts of terror."Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano echoed that sentiment in a speech last week. "We are seeing young Americans who are inspired by Al Qaeda and radical ideology," she said. That last quote from one of the earliest reports of five missing Americans later arrested in Pakistan, which "may end up being at least the fourth case prosecuted this year in which Muslim Americans traveled to Pakistan" to join extremist groups there." ![]() But the first to "make the papers" in such a big way. Posted by Greyhawk / December 14, 2009 1:36 PM | Permalink 1 Comment |
July 19, 2010Dawn Patrol 07/19/2010 [Greyhawk]
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I have a problem of the hypocrisy coming out of Washington DC regarding the Patriot Act with quotes like this: "But opponents of the Patriot Act say it tramples civil liberties and abuses constitutional freedom." When these folks have no issue with forced national health care and the abuses of constitutional freedom that violates .
We may just need to prepare ourselves mentally like they do in Israel and take the hits and go on with life. After all these are police actions now, miranda rights along with the constitutional rights that go with them.
KSM welcome to America, can we get you signed up for a reality TV show and a New York penthouse after you get released because your rights were violated. The kinder US of A we have no clinched fist towards anyone for any reason. Unless you do not pay for health care and then you go to jail. Hypocrisy!