[Uncledave]

Be Bop --- Booom!

[Onelifetogive]

The Bronx martial arts expert arrested in an alleged plot to build a secret al-Qaida training camp is a well-known city jazz musician...

I wouldn't have thought jazz was any more popular with the Islamics than it is with Mormons....Oh, nevermind. They named their basketball team after it.....

[Old Sarge]

Pork fat skin treatment for him.

[b4its2late]

"The only thing we know is he is a devout Muslim, loves God. He loves his family."

Paraphrasing the SOB - Smiling and yucking it up with someone one second, then slitting their throats the next.

This is what we are dealing with in the war on terror.

[Publius6961]

"He wouldn't be here if he wasn't a Muslim," Ricco said. "This is an orchestrated prosecution."

Does this mean that the charges are total fiction and none of it happened?
Faked telephone conversations?

I wonder if I'm retarded, or this so-called attorney is. Hard to tell, any more.

[martin_fierro]

Tarik Shah, 42, has played bass at local clubs for years, and fellow musicians said they've never heard him espouse an allegiance to Osama bin Laden.

I've heard him.

He da bomb.

[DoctorMichael]

Weren't the 14 Muzzlimbs that caused the uproar on that plane awhile back, when they appeared to be casing the onboard procedures, 'Musicians'?

[conservativeharleyguy]

Yeah, sure, and all John Gacy ever talked about was clown make-up, and all Jeffrey Dahmer talked about were recipes, and their neighbors were just shocked when they turned out to be scum ("he seemed like such a nice young man").

Just like the brilliant idiots of Los Alamos who still resolutely believe that Wen Ho Lee could never be a spy, because "he makes such great green chile chicken enchiladas".

Most people can never quite grasp the reality that their personal judgment wasn't acute enough to alert them to a "bad" person even in the face of overwhelming (and often fatal) evidence to the contrary.

[Zeppelin]

***"He's a wonderful musician and a wonderful person," said friend and jazz saxophone player Salim Washington, 48, noting Shah has recorded albums with Lincoln and Carter. "He is not in any way tied with things that have been alleged."***

WTF?

[jackieaxe]

Is he related to Cat Stevens?

[IronJack]

The Bronx martial arts expert arrested in an alleged plot to build a secret al-Qaida training camp is a well-known city jazz musician who has backed greats like Abbey Lincoln and Betty Carter, friends said Tuesday.

Oh, well, I guess there's no need for a trial. There's no WAY he could be a terrorist, is there?

[Ajnin]

Muslim martial arts expert. Tooth Fairy. Santa Clause. Easter bunny etc.

[drpix]

"I characterize this as desperate prosecution on the part of the government," Shah's attorney, Anthony Ricco, said..."

Any doubts of his guilt? Just checkout the track record of who he picked for his lawyer!

"Anthony Ricco makes his closing statements Monday, disputing the allegation that Odeh was a technical adviser in the Kenya bombing."
CNN.COM (May 7, 2001)