Semper Fi
Posted on 01/17/2007 10:03:24 AM PST by Sopater
A Seattle man convicted of supplying Taliban fighters with cash and computers returned to federal court Tuesday to face charges that he violated his parole by traveling overseas with a false Mexican passport.
James Ujaama denied the multiple federal counts that could land him back in prison for two years. Arrested in Belize one month ago, Ujaama had only four months left on his parole stemming from the 2003 conviction.
His attorney, Peter Offenbecher, said he hadn't yet gathered all the information that led to his client's arrest. "I'm investigating the facts to determine the appropriate course of action," he said after the brief court appearance.
Federal prosecutors in the Western District Court charged Ujaama, 41, with four violations of his three-year parole agreement: making false statements to a federal officer; use of a Mexican passport under the assumed name of Jose Luis Ramirez Ramirez; failure to follow a probation officer's order; and leaving the U.S. without permission from a federal court.
Ujaama told U.S. District Magistrate Monica Benton that he understood the new charges against him.
Offenbecher, who represented Ujaama in the original case, declined to answer any additional questions about potential evidence against his client. Ujaama is scheduled to return to federal court Feb. 1 for a hearing on that evidence. Until then, he will be held without bail in the short-term federal jail in SeaTac.
Born as James Earnest Thompson, the Muslim convert originally was arrested in 2002 and charged with attempting to help set up a terrorist training camp near Bly, Ore. One year after the arrest, he pleaded guilty to lesser charges of supplying computer and cash to Taliban.
In exchange for the lesser charges, Ujaama agreed to prison time and the parole restrictions, and to aid federal investigators working on terrorism cases. The deal proved a windfall for the U.S. government, investigators have asserted, as Ujaama provided information linking the Oregon training camps to factional Muslim leader Abu Hamza al-Masri.
In 2004, British authorities arrested Al-Masri in London where he preached in a local mosque.
Ujaama also was questioned about Semi Osman, a Sierra Leone native and former Tacoma resident also suspected of helping to set up the Oregon camp.
On Tuesday, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement authorities ordered Osman's deportation. He has served time in federal prison on weapons and sex-abuse convictions.
This POS should not have been on parole in the first place. He is still up to no good. How's about 10 years in prison?
Should have set his camp up in Portland instead of Bly. Portland politicians would have welcomed him.
Anybody know how Tre Arrow is doing these days?
Ujaama Obama? Obama Yomama Osama?
(I confess. I can't keep any of these names straight.)
I wonder what is going on with the case against his brother in Denver. As I recall, he was found with a dead white man in the trunk of his car.
"use of a Mexican passport under the assumed name of Jose Luis Ramirez Ramirez"
There's what gave him away. Who ever heard of a Mexican with a passport! What a moron!
James Ujaama denied the multiple federal counts that could land him back in prison for two years. Arrested in Belize one month ago, Ujaama had only four months left on his parole stemming from the 2003 conviction.
How about new charges for travelling on a false passport, which I believe is against the law too?
Semper Fi
Osama Ujaama?? LOL.
Wasn't Ramirez the name of the serial killer in California who worked highways?
I thought Ujaama was one of the days of Kwanzaa.
The other guy was called the “rail-way killer” I can’t remember his name. To many to remember.
http://www.nefafoundation.org/miscellaneous/FeaturedDocs/NEFA_Bly0609.pdf
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http://counterterrorismblog.org/2009/06/nefa_foundation_target_america_2.php
“NEFA Foundation: “Target: America”: The Conspiracy to Establish a Terrorist Training Camp In Bly, Oregon”
By Madeleine Gruen
(June 17, 2009)
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