[bootless]

Hold muh beer.

[bootless]

Seriously, I'm glad this scum has been caught. How dare he.

[boofus]

15 years my ass, he should get the firing squad or gallows if he is guilty of aiding the enemy in terrorism.

[Bullish]

15 years in prison?

This should be a death penalty case.

[peacebaby]

Guess we know where Grecula will be for the rest of his life.

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

Is this the same man?


A court presided by Justice Raymond C. Pace last week awarded sole custody to Mrs Grecula after she had successfully filed an application for provisional care and custody. The mother claims that her ex-husband, Ronald Grecula had violated the terms of a custody order for the children - 10-year-old Berenger and three-year-old Emilie - issued by a Pennsylvania Court on the 26th of October 2000. She says that Mr. Grecula fled the United States with the children the following November. The US Court has since revoked his access rights and has found the father to be in contempt of court.

[GiveEmDubya]

If convicted, he could receive a sentence of up to 15 years in prison and a fine of $250,000.

That's it?

[dead]

A quick Google shows that this guy was also wanted for kidnapping his own children. I wonder what the hell he was doing out there if they knew who he was.

And I wonder where the kids are.

http://www.courttv.com/archive/missingchildren/

[The G Man]

Someone set him up the bomb?

[Blood of Tyrants]

Want to bet which party he most associates himself with?

[raivyn]

doh!

[lexington minuteman 1775]

OK, so we have people willing to stuff that goes bang to bad guys, but would not it have made more sense to have actually paid him with marked money besides the taped convos or actually let him build a prototype for better chance of getting conviction. And why only 15 years it would seem under Patriot act or something this sort of charge is more than just building a bomb to blow up a place or work or something, this was a terrorist act and he knew it.

[Incorrigible]

Hey WideAWake!

What was the bump about on the other thread?

[theDentist]

Should be beaten to death....

[Irontank]

This guy must have something wrong with him...a bomb?

Did it ever occur to him that Al Qaeda probably knows how to build their own bombs?

[LouD]

If convicted, he could receive a sentence of up to 15 years in prison and a fine of $250,000.

Not nearly enough. Obviously, criminal penalties for aiding and abetting terrorists need to catch up with reality.

[JimSEA]

There are a number of things that would have been serious crimes when I was a kid that are either less serious or legal now.

He has been charged with attempting to provide material support and resources to a designated foreign terrorist organization, specifically al-Qaida, a news release from Shelby's office said.

This would have been treason. Of course, "threatening the violent overthrow of the United States" is also now commonplace and apparently largely legal (some question of immediacy).

[Dog Gone]

I think it's pretty cool that the FBI has agents in Houston that appear to be al-Qaida operatives.

Good job, FBI!

[alloysteel]

Wasn't this something of the opening plot in "Back to the Future", where "Doc" Elliot Brown is trying to pass off some pinball machine parts as essential parts of a trigger for an atomic bomb, and had taken some plutonium so he could power the DeLorean time machine. As I understand the story, the Libyan nationalists were pretty troubled that they had been taken advantage of, and came after Doc and Marty McFly.

What an eerily realistic and highly prescient scene that was. This guy was just trying to get some cash together to conduct his time machine experiments.

[Syntyr]

Seriously these wackos like to play with explosives... Put him in a 2x2x6 cell so he can't lay down, and put a grenade in each hand, pull the pins, close the door and wait.