Posted on 05/01/2007 5:14:48 PM PDT by SJackson
US court fines brother of Palestinian who wrote vow to be suicide bomber in Israel
Published: 05.02.07, 02:05 / Israel News http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3394567,00.html
A Palestinian immigrant avoided prison time Tuesday for failing to tell the FBI about his brother's written vow to become a suicide bomber in Israel.
Mohammad Subeh, a 43-year-old grocery store owner who pleaded guilty to a felony count of concealing a material fact from the FBI, was placed on probation for a year and fined $250. After being arrested en route to Israel, in Jordan, Subeh's brother never did in fact go through with the attack. (AP)
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Brother of suicide-bomber suspect gets probation
http://www.wcax.com/Global/story.asp?S=6454882&nav=menu183_2
ROCHESTER, N.Y. A Palestinian immigrant avoided prison time today for failing to tell the F-B-I about his brother's written vow to become a suicide bomber in Israel.
Forty-three-year-old grocery store owner Mohammad Subeh (soo-BAYE') pleaded guilty to a felony count of concealing a material fact from the F-B-I. He was placed on probation for a year and fined 250-dollars.
The naturalized citizen and father of five admitted deceiving federal agents at Rochester's airport in 2003. He denied seeing a farewell letter in which his brother indicated he was traveling home to the West Bank to join the Al Aqsa ( ahl AHK'-sah) Martyrs' Brigade. The militant group has claimed credit for suicide bombings in Israel.
Subeh faced a maximum sentence of six months in prison under a plea deal reached in January,
His 21-year-old brother, Ismail Dorgham, lived in Rochester for a year before abruptly quitting his job at the store and flying back to the Middle East.
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This POS should be deported to Israel.
Wow, only 250 bucks to look the other way.
That’s pretty affordable for keeping your mouth shut when others are going to die.
I wonder if that grocery store stocked bacon and alcohol.
If a religion and culture you belonged to was trying to take over the world, would you work very hard to stop it if you knew you had nothing to lose either way?
All muslims who swear on or by the quran should be deported.
Being fined for failing to rat your own brother out to the FBI? Man, that Patriot Act, in better hands, is just what we need to roust the corrupt Beltway crowd. Lord knows the RICO law should have had ‘em all in the lockup by now.
Lying to a federal agent was a crime long before the Patriot Act. A $250 felony, he got off easy.
You said — “Lying to a federal agent was a crime long before the Patriot Act. A $250 felony, he got off easy.”
Yep, the best thing to do is simply — don’t talk. Lawyers have good advice, in that regard. So, remember, if you don’t want to get tripped up saying the wrong thing and then being accused of lying about it — simply *do not talk* (or get that lawyer first...).
Don’t talk, always an option, but he was attempting to aid his brother in a terrorist attack, so he chose to lie. Which is why this fine is inadequate.
> “Lying to a federal agent
Look where it got Martha Stewart.
And Scooter Libby.
The moral of the story, if you're a palestinian helping your terrorist brother, no big deal. After all, it's what they do
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