Posted on 11/29/2004 5:47:43 AM PST by miltonim
ELKTON, Ohio (AP) - The leader of Ohio's largest mosque entered a low-security prison where he is expected to serve two months for lying about connections to terrorist groups.
Imam Fawaz Damra, 43, must serve four months of house arrest after completing his prison term.
He turned himself in Monday morning at the Federal Correctional Institution in Elkton, in northeast Ohio about 30 kilometers (20 miles) south of Youngstown.
Damra was convicted in June of concealing ties to three groups - Afghan Refugee Services, the Islamic Committee for Palestine and Palestinian Islamic Jihad - when he applied for U.S. citizenship in 1994.
The U.S. government classifies those groups as terrorist organizations. Damra also faces possible deportation.
Damra, of Strongsville in suburban Cleveland, was the spiritual leader of the Islamic Center of Cleveland, Ohio's largest Islamic congregation. - AP
Time to wake up about the mosques(terrorists hideouts) in the US.
Damra was convicted in June of concealing ties to three groups - Afghan Refugee Services, the Islamic Committee for Palestine and Palestinian Islamic Jihad - when he applied for U.S. citizenship in 1994.Possible??? POSSIBLE???The U.S. government classifies those groups as terrorist organizations. Damra also faces possible deportation.
Was he stripped of his citizenship yet?
Dinner tonite. Polk Chops.
Oh well, get rid of one "spiritual leader" and there's another one to take his place. Same mosque, same agenda.
Not yet.
>> The U.S. government classifies those groups as terrorist organizations. Damra also faces possible deportation. <<
POSSIBLE deportation? If he is not a citizen, why on Earth would there be any hesitance to throw him out?! I just do not understand why President Bush believes that all immigrants have the right to be in America, regardless of their terrorist sympathies. I remember a while back, a terrorist was found innocent on technicalities. They noted he WAS guilty of fraud which enabled his illegal entry to the U.S. IN SPITE OF THE FACT THAT THEY BELIEVED HIM TO BE A TERRORIST ENOUGH TO HAVE TRIED HIM FOR TERROR-RELATED CRIME, FOR WHICH HE WAS FOUND NOT GUILTY ONLY ON TECHNICALITY, THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION REFUSED TO DEPORT HIM.
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