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Outrage As Feds Curb Shoe Bomber Prison Rules
Boston Herald ^ | 9/20/2009 | Jessica Fargen

Posted on 09/19/2009 8:42:01 PM PDT by Saije

Airplane shoe bomber Richard C. Reid no longer faces severe limits on his prison activities or communications after the Obama administration quietly ended years of hard-nosed curbs against the British-born al-Qaeda terrorist.

This summer the Justice Department halted six years of measures that kept Reid from associating or praying with fellow jailed Muslim terrorists, and limited his access to the news media and pen pals.

That move has outraged victims of al-Qaeda and security experts. The recommendation to lift the restrictions was made with input from the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Boston, which prosecuted Reid in 2002, federal officials said...

Over the last six years, the U.S. Justice Department annually renewed special restrictions on Reid, including limits on who he could call and write to and on the kinds of articles he could read or TV channels he could watch. They also banned him from group prayers.

Reid, 36, appealed the restrictions within the federal Bureau of Prisons several times, to no avail. In 2007, the London-born terrorist filed a lawsuit against the government alleging the restrictions violated his First Amendment rights.

On June 17 - after two years spent fighting Reid’s lawsuit - federal prosecutors notified the courts that the restrictions, called “special administrative measures,” or SAMs, would not be renewed.

The decision to let the SAMs lapse was based on a “collective assessment of the potential threat posed by Reid’s communications and contacts,” said Department of Justice spokesman Dean Boyd.

That assessment was made by the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Boston, the FBI and the DOJ counterterrorism section, Boyd said.

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


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: mhmmdnsm09192009; obama; prison; shoebomber; terrorist
I'm surprised the Obama people aren't just releasing him on "compassionate" grounds.
1 posted on 09/19/2009 8:42:03 PM PDT by Saije
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To: Saije

OFGoshS

Why doesn’t Zero just come out and admit he’s a terrorist lover.


2 posted on 09/19/2009 8:43:54 PM PDT by Reddy
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To: Saije

Refresh my memory —how much did we pay for each of those Uighurs to go swim and live on the beach in the BAHAMAS...?

I remember this fool at his sentencing —he was arrogant as hell, and even AMUSED. He was completely “in your face” about wanted jihad, and he treated the proceedings like some kind of joke.


3 posted on 09/19/2009 8:44:09 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: gaijin

“Free as a bird and guitly as sin, what a country..!” —Bill Ayers


4 posted on 09/19/2009 8:44:52 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: Saije

This administration has spent its whole time easing restrictions on terrorists, seeking to make them more comfortable, and all the while, restricting our abilities to fight them in the middle east. He has done everything he possibly can to coddle our enemies while weaking our own abilities. Can there be any doubt that he shares the ideas and feelings of Jerimiah Wright???


5 posted on 09/19/2009 8:48:21 PM PDT by Bulldawg Fan (Victory is the last thing Murtha and his fellow Defeatists want.)
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To: Saije

But have we sent him an apology yet? Otherwise he should continue his lawsuit until we submit or pay tribute.


6 posted on 09/19/2009 8:50:00 PM PDT by IrishCatholic (No local Communist or Socialist Party Chapter? Join the Democrats, it's the same thing!)
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To: gaijin
With apologies for hyper-pickiosity...

...however the quote from domestic terrorist and Marxist Obama BFF is...

“Guilty as hell, free as a bird—America is a great country...”

(No difference in contemptuous, anti-American meaning, n'est ce pas?)

.

7 posted on 09/19/2009 8:51:32 PM PDT by Seaplaner (Never give in. Never give in. Never...except to convictions of honour and good sense. W. Churchill)
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To: Saije

Reid should be thrown in a hole and covered up permanently just for TSA’s resulting requirement that we all now have to take our shoes off at the screening checkpoints and walk through bare-footed on the nasty airport floors.


8 posted on 09/19/2009 8:51:59 PM PDT by Virginia Ridgerunner (Sarah Palin has crossed the Rubicon!)
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To: Saije

zero just has so much thuggery which he chooses to use against Americans....


9 posted on 09/19/2009 8:55:51 PM PDT by God luvs America (When the silent majority speaks the earth trembles!)
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To: Saije

Look for the “Mumia and Reid” talk show coming soon on NPR.


10 posted on 09/19/2009 9:00:17 PM PDT by montag813 (During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. -George Orwell)
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To: Saije

How soon we forget how many children were on that 747 that night. And he wanted to kill them all.


11 posted on 09/19/2009 9:01:14 PM PDT by montag813 (During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. -George Orwell)
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To: Reddy
Well, you're 1/2 right.

Hubby and I are beginning to watch, “Liberty - An American Revolution” and IT IS INCREDIBLE. WORD FOR WORD WHAT’S GOING ON RIGHT NOW. ...Down to Glenn Beck at Tom Payne. If you exchange England for Obama and you’ve got the same feelings/passions/determination of the masses to stop the insanity that’s going on right now. It’s like a road map for our future. It’s remarkably similar!!!! PLEASE EVERYONE WATCH THIS.

12 posted on 09/19/2009 9:04:17 PM PDT by NordP (Democrats: Break the Law (like Bill) ... Not The Rules (like Joe) !!!)
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To: Saije

“I’m surprised the Obama people aren’t just releasing him on “compassionate” grounds.”

Don’t give ‘em any ideas;)


13 posted on 09/19/2009 9:15:43 PM PDT by Frank_2001
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To: Saije

If this keeps up, Reid may end up with an invite for a guest appearance on one of BO’s Beer With Barry “teachable moments”.


14 posted on 09/19/2009 9:19:07 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Americans! "Behaving badly" since April 19, 1775!)
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To: Saije

This has got to Stop: The Racist America Hating Government is out of Control!!


15 posted on 09/19/2009 9:22:13 PM PDT by Cheetahcat (Zero the Wright kind of Racist! We are in a state of War with Democrats)
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To: gaijin
Refresh my memory —how much did we pay for each of those Uighurs to go swim and live on the beach in the BAHAMAS

What were they guilty of, or even accused of?

16 posted on 09/19/2009 9:25:30 PM PDT by Doe Eyes
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To: Saije

Put him in stocks near a security check point of a busy Airport. Sell rotten vegetables.


17 posted on 09/19/2009 9:32:10 PM PDT by Grizzled Bear ("Does not play well with others.")
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To: Doe Eyes
What were they guilty of, or even accused of?

If the really obscure concept of aiding, abetting, and practicing terrorism escapes you, how about that they did their damndest to eventually bring about the situation where you, personally, would be made to kneel and accept Allah, on pain of sawing your precious head off?

Clear yet?

18 posted on 09/19/2009 10:04:11 PM PDT by Talisker (When you find a turtle on top of a fence post, you can be damn sure it didn't get there on it's own.)
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To: Grizzled Bear

Sell fire ants and scorpions.


19 posted on 09/19/2009 10:11:54 PM PDT by GnuHere
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To: GnuHere
Sell fire ants and scorpions.

We want him to tour ALL the busy Airports. We'll do the fire ants/scorpion thingy at the last Airport.

;-)

20 posted on 09/19/2009 10:18:42 PM PDT by Grizzled Bear ("Does not play well with others.")
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To: Saije

The understanding is that Reid, being a Hallowed MUSLIM for HIS ILL-FATED Attempt at the Mass Atrocity against the Infidels, will be moved to House Arrest at The Grand Mosque in D.C. for 6 Months, before assuming the Office of W.H. CZAR of Refurbished Muslim Shoe Bombers!......./s/


21 posted on 09/19/2009 10:32:22 PM PDT by True Republican Patriot (May GOD Continue to BLESS Our Great President George W. Bush!!)
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To: Saije

The Islamic world will take this as a sign of weakness and walk all over Obama.


22 posted on 09/19/2009 10:36:55 PM PDT by Anti-Bubba182
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To: Saije

Another HORRIFIC OUTRAGE PERPETRATED ON AMERICA!! by America’s Own ALLEGED TOTUS...! UNBELIEVABLE!!


23 posted on 09/19/2009 10:37:50 PM PDT by True Republican Patriot (May GOD Continue to BLESS Our Great President George W. Bush!!)
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To: Saije; potlatch; devolve; PhilDragoo; bitt; Lady Jag; MeekOneGOP; Lancey Howard; Reddy; gaijin; ...

Richard Reid is at Supermax, Florence, SC, where you get sent when you are too dangerous to be allowed to communicate with other terrorists.

Here are some details on why this is important.

http://maggiesnotebook.blogspot.com/2009/07/shoe-bomber-richard-reid-wins-terrorism.html

From the link:

“The fellows Reid will be praying with are Ramzi Yousef and Zacarias Moussaoui convicted of conspiring on the 1993 World Trade Center bombing; Ahmed Ressam the ‘Millenium’ bomber; Jose Padilla the ‘Dirty bomber’; and Osama Bin Laden’s personal secretary, convicted in the 1998 U.S. Embassy bombing that killed 247 people, Wadih el-Hage.”

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If you haven’t done so, now’s the time to read some of Peter Lance’s books: Cover Up, 1000 Years for Revenge, and Triple Cross. The detailed time lines that lead to 9/11 are included in the latter two books, and are worth the price. Also check out www.peterlance.org.


24 posted on 09/19/2009 11:03:55 PM PDT by ntnychik
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To: Virginia Ridgerunner

You have no idea how much I agree with your comment!


25 posted on 09/20/2009 1:50:35 AM PDT by Sarajevo (You're jealous because the voices only talk to me.)
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To: Talisker
Clear yet?

The Uighurs (Chinese Muslims) had been in detention since 2001, despite the U.S. military having admitted that they were never members of Al Qaeda or the Taliban, and pose no danger to the United States.

26 posted on 09/20/2009 3:14:37 AM PDT by Doe Eyes
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To: Saije

The only rights he should have at all are the right to a damp dank dark hard floored cell in the basement of the prison. No radio, TV, books or other people to converse with.


27 posted on 09/20/2009 5:33:43 AM PDT by BuffaloJack (Obama, you stop lying; we'll stop callin' you a LIAR.)
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To: ntnychik

Thanks for the link.


28 posted on 09/20/2009 8:13:34 AM PDT by Cheetahcat (Zero the Wright kind of Racist! We are in a state of War with Democrats)
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To: Saije

Isn’t Reid in Supermax? When is Zero going to have him transferred to the County Farm?


29 posted on 09/20/2009 8:15:23 AM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: Saije

Coming soon, news stories Reid that call him a “respected elder statesman” among Muslim inmates, followed by a sympathetic 60 Minutes profile.


30 posted on 09/20/2009 8:22:01 AM PDT by denydenydeny ("I'm sure this goes against everything you've been taught, but right and wrong do exist"-Dr House)
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To: Doe Eyes
The Uighurs (Chinese Muslims) had been in detention since 2001, despite the U.S. military having admitted that they were never members of Al Qaeda or the Taliban, and pose no danger to the United States.

Uighurs in China have been stabbing hundreds of people with apparently poisoned needles, causing riots of thousands of people demanding China stop these maniacs.

As well, your blanket claim of dismissal of all harm by the military is ridiculously untrue - it is a lie made big so as to try to block being challenged. Nevertheless, and just off hand, exactly what do you think Chinese Muslims were doing in the middle of a Middle East war zone when they were picked up, hmm? Attending weddings in the middle of the night? Buying needles? Expressing gentle, spiritual cultural behaviors white people can't possibly hope to understand because of our bigoted patriarchal dominance and blind aggression against "the other"?

Can't hurt the US? If Uighurs help smuggle nuclear bomb materials from the Middle East into China, does that "hurt the US"? How about into Europe? How about Canada or Mexico? When do liberal calculations rise up out of the dope smoke and say, "dude, this is getting serious"? Does a white hot flash have to take out an American city first? Is that the level of blood sacrifice you'd find sufficient?

But thanks for your example anyway - it shows that Muslims, worldwide, are dedicated to mass terroristic attacks. Bottom line is that you are refusing to acknowledge Muslim terrorism. And the only people your denial helps is - Muslim terrorists.

31 posted on 09/20/2009 11:07:45 AM PDT by Talisker (When you find a turtle on top of a fence post, you can be damn sure it didn't get there on it's own.)
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