Arms dealer indicted in terror plot; Feds say accused broker urged missile attacks on 15 U.S. jets

Star-Ledger ^ | Friday, December 19, 2003 | JOHN P. MARTIN

[Marysecretary]

You should. We're at a crisis point here in the judicial system. The hippies have taken over! Damn.

[endthematrix]

Is there a terrorist scorecard on FR where we could list the sentences for these nutjobs? I think that if the American public saw the variances between sentences there would (should) be an outcry. Some get 91/2 yrs some get 100 yrs. I was under the hopeful impression terrorists, supporters, finaciers and all who aid and abet will get equal punishment. That is not the case.

[Pagey]

Officials said the missile was the first of more than 50 Lakhani had promised to deliver. The terrorist was actually a cooperating witness for the FBI. The missile, sold for $86,000, was a harmless replica that Lakhani bought from Russian federal agents who posed as weapons manufacturers.

Well, at least we know that whatever Putin says publicly,he is certainly going along GWB's direction

The indictment nearly mirrored a criminal complaint filed after Lakhani's arrest...it also included new details of the 18-month sting by federal agents in Newark, Russia and Great Britain. U.S. Attorney Christopher Christie said Lakhani brazenly suggested to the FBI witness that he buy more missiles and use 10 to 15 of them to simultaneously down jetliners at airports across America.

Surely the Feds have interrogated this guy thoroughly, yes? I certainly hope so.

[Liz]

Is there a terrorist scorecard on FR where we could list the sentences for these nutjobs?

Good idea. Be my guest. Would make a good thread for FReepers review.

I think that if the American public saw the variances between sentences there would (should) be an outcry. Some get 91/2 yrs some get 100 yrs. I was under the hopeful impression terrorists, supporters, finaciers and all who aid and abet will get equal punishment. That is not the case.

You got that right.

[Liz]

I was under the.....impression terrorists, supporters, financiers.....who aid and abet will get equal punishment.

In terms of who is the most culpable, even the most determined terrorist could not do his dirty work without the financing to move it forward.

Certainly financiers of terror, the moneymen who facilitate the terror acts, are aiders and abettors of the first order, as dastardly as the driver of the bank robber's getaway car. And in penalizing bank robbery, the driver, and the lookout, are deemed as guilty as the robber.