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Former Eglin Airman Charged With Hiding Bin Laden Sympathy
AP ^ | March 25, 2005

Posted on 03/25/2005 8:09:22 AM PST by ConservativeStatement

A Yemeni immigrant who was discharged from the U.S. Air Force after expressing sympathy for Osama bin Laden following the Sept. 11 attacks faces trial next week on accusations of lying to land a job as an airport screener.

Sadeq Naji Ahmed, 25, a former airman at Eglin Air Force Base in Pensacola, Fla., faces up to five years in prison and a $250,000 fine if convicted of making false statements on a questionnaire to get a job with the Transportation Security Administration at Detroit Metropolitan Airport.

(Excerpt) Read more at local6.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Florida; US: Michigan
KEYWORDS: ahmed; airman; airport; binladen; detroit; eglin; eglinafb; fraud; immigrants; jihadinamerica; muslimtroops; obl; sadeqahmed; sympathizer; tsa; yemeni
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1 posted on 03/25/2005 8:09:25 AM PST by ConservativeStatement
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan

And my parents use that airport. That's just what I want to hear.


2 posted on 03/25/2005 8:16:08 AM PST by Dan from Michigan (Mark Sanford in 2008!!)
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan

Send him to Gitmo.


3 posted on 03/25/2005 8:17:05 AM PST by COEXERJ145 (Believing in Internet Polls is Like Believing in the Tooth Fairy)
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan
The story continues, "This is a case of vast government overkill," defense lawyer William Swor said Thursday...

On the contrary, a case of vast government underkill. Ahmed ought to be at Guantanamo for the duration of the war against Islamofascism.

4 posted on 03/25/2005 8:18:38 AM PST by omega4412
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan

Eglin AFB is not in Pensacola, Florida. It is at Fort Walton Beach, Florida....about 40 miles from Pensacola.


5 posted on 03/25/2005 8:29:27 AM PST by jch10
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To: omega4412

Who recruited this guy in the first place ? Are there no background checks anymore ?


6 posted on 03/25/2005 8:50:23 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

I hope this creep is being watched and his activities and friends carefully scrutinized. He is just the sort of sleeper agent Al Qeada would love to have around.


7 posted on 03/25/2005 9:22:55 AM PST by demnomo
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

I hope this creep is being watched and his activities and friends carefully scrutinized. He is just the sort of sleeper agent Al Qeada would love to have around.


8 posted on 03/25/2005 9:23:16 AM PST by demnomo
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

Ooops, sorry about my bandwidth hiccup, er, double post.


9 posted on 03/25/2005 9:23:55 AM PST by demnomo
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To: Dan from Michigan

Check out this, Dan:

http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2005/03/25/immigration_authorities_arrest_logan_airport_workers/


10 posted on 03/25/2005 3:19:09 PM PST by ConservativeStatement
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan

I wonder if Logan Airport has the 'no bid contracts' situation like Detroit Metro.


11 posted on 03/25/2005 3:45:06 PM PST by Dan from Michigan ("Mama, take this judgeship off of Greer, he can't use it, anymore")
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan
Just another ROP terrorist sympathizer, nothing new, but the disturbing part of this story is that the U.S. Air Force gave him an honorable discharge, enabling him to seek another security sensitive job and possibly endanger us all. Of all of the job opportunities probably available to him as an honorably discharged U.S. Air Force information systems analyst, he just happens to want to be a lowly airport screener so badly that he lied on his application, yeah sure...

He says his comments were taken out of context. This is what he said:

"The indictment said that Ahmed made statements in support of bin Laden, that he was neither for or against the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, that the United States deserved to be attacked, that he would not fight if the U.S. military took action in Iraq and that U.S. aircraft flying over Iraq should crash.

What "context" could that have been "taken out of?"

6 days after saying these things, his security clearance was revoked, five days after that he was honorably discharged?
12 posted on 03/26/2005 3:58:20 AM PST by jaykay (It's just my opinion, but I'm right.)
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To: COEXERJ145
Send him to Gitmo.

Send him to Abu Ghraib and bring back Leash Girl.

And send along whatever PC military beurocrat gave this guy an honorable discharge.
13 posted on 03/26/2005 4:03:02 AM PST by jaykay (It's just my opinion, but I'm right.)
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

The USAF actually gave him an honorable discharge after he "made statements in support of bin Laden, that he was neither for or against the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, that the United States deserved to be attacked, that he would not fight if the U.S. military took action in Iraq and that U.S. aircraft flying over Iraq should crash."

Gave him an honorable discharge! So that he could get another security sensitive job!!


14 posted on 03/26/2005 4:06:59 AM PST by jaykay (It's just my opinion, but I'm right.)
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To: COEXERJ145

"Send him to Gitmo."

My thoughts exactly.


15 posted on 03/26/2005 4:08:23 AM PST by roaddog727 (The marginal propensity to save is 1 minus the marginal propensity to consume.)
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To: MassRepublicanFlyersFan

This is very troubling. How could this guy not have been put on some FBI Watch List from the day he left the AF?

"We have met the enemy . . . "


16 posted on 03/26/2005 4:12:21 AM PST by leadpenny
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To: jaykay; 68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub

Sounds like this kid is following in the footsteps of a certain MA Senator.


17 posted on 03/26/2005 4:13:45 AM PST by Jet Jaguar
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To: jaykay

http://tinyurl.com/54ror

http://tinyurl.com/6he8a


18 posted on 03/26/2005 4:19:28 AM PST by jaykay (It's just my opinion, but I'm right.)
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To: leadpenny

The USAF actually gave him an honorable discharge instead of alerting the FBI. Cleared the way for him to get a sensitive new job. PC beurocrats assisting potential terrorsists.


19 posted on 03/26/2005 4:21:51 AM PST by jaykay (It's just my opinion, but I'm right.)
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To: jaykay; Cindy

ping to the thread and this post. Good links.


20 posted on 03/26/2005 4:23:28 AM PST by Jet Jaguar
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