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Posted on 08/11/2004 8:31:10 AM PDT by esryle
NEW YORK (CNN) -- A New York man has admitted to smuggling money and military supplies to a senior member of al Qaeda in Pakistan, setting up a jihad training camp and assisting in a bombing plot in the United Kingdom. Mohammed Junaid Babar, a naturalized American originally from Pakistan, pleaded guilty June 2 to five counts of conspiring to provide material support to terrorists, as well as providing the support, according to a court transcript made public Tuesday.
Babar is being held without bail and faces up to 70 years in prison, but Federal Judge Victor Marrero indicated Babar will serve less jail time under a plea deal. Babar has agreed to cooperate fully with any investigation or prosecution by the U.S. Attorney's Office and he may apply to the witness security program, which would relocate his family under a new identity.
Babar told Marrero he provided night-vision goggles, sleeping bags, waterproof socks, waterproof ponchos and money to a high-ranking al Qaeda official in South Waziristan, a Pakistani region near the Afghan border.
Babar said he delivered the supplies personally in January and February 2004 and someone else transported the items in the summer of 2003. "I understood that the money and supplies that I had given to al Qaeda was supposed to be used in Afghanistan ... against U.S. or ... international forces or against the Northern Alliance," Babar said.
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Plea deal?
Ummm... I think the only choice should be: Needle or chair?
Wow! And we thought initially that it was "just" money laundering. This is serious stuff here.
Good job Ashcroft!
Ping for your neck of the woods!
Thanks for the ping
RELOCATION under the Witness Protection Program?
Who wants to sign up for this terrorist to be living near you and yours?
Time to put all the moslem naturalized citizens under the immigration fraud microscope.
"...faces up to 70 years in prison, but Federal Judge Victor Marrero indicated Babar will serve less jail time under a plea deal."
Screw the plea deal. Kill him. Recall the judge and imprison him for treason. Case closed.
I am confused, when was the last time we executed someone for treason or sedition? The Rosenbergs?
Why have these laws on the books if we wont use them. We are not going to achieve any deterrence with this willy nilly approach.
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