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Fazal M. Cheema
NORMAN, Okla. (AP) -- The Pakistani roommate of a man authorities say died when he detonated an explosive device outside a crowded football stadium was led in handcuffs from a party shortly after Saturday's explosion, the head of an Islamic student group said.
Fazal M. Cheema, a finance major, shared a university-owned apartment with Joel Hinrichs III, 21, who died Saturday when a device attached to his body exploded as he sat on a bench outside George Lynn Cross Hall.
Cheema and three other Muslim students were led in handcuffs from a party by police after the blast, Ashraf Hussein, president of the Muslim Student Association, said Tuesday. They later were released...
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Khalil has also been associated in Tulsa with Mujeeb Cheema, a Pakistani and organizer of a radical campus student group. There are several high level officials in the Pakistani Intelligence services close to Bin Laden and Sadam Hussein who have the same last name Cheema. It is not known if they are related but Pakistanis are believed to have been hired by Sadam Hussein to help McVeigh. Cheema was employed in Tulsa by a company owned in part by Terry Lenzner, a close friend and investigator for Bill and Hillary Clinton.
Cheema is a strong backer and promoter of a Tulsa mosque that could have aided two pilots who lived in Tulsa and were involved in the suicide attacks on the WTC. The Tulsa World reported on 9/18/2001 in the article “Possible Spartan Link Investigated” that one of the pilots in the WTC attack trained at the Spartan Flight school in Tulsa and another pilot used a Tulsa address as his residence on hi pilot’s license.
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also this...
Sikh activist, Harpal Cheema
New York Sun
Reporter/Editor: Josh Gerstein
Date: 12/4/2003
COAST COURT STRIKES DOWN KEY PART OF FEDERAL ARSENAL AGAINST TERROR
A federal appeals court yesterday struck down as unconstitutional parts of an anti-terrorism law that has been a key element of the government's legal arsenal in the war on terror.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled that a 1996 criminal statute barring the provision of "training" and "personnel" to terrorist groups was too vague to be enforced, rejecting the Justice Department's efforts to offer definitions for the terms.
The court also made it harder for the government to win a conviction under the remaining parts of the law by declaring that the prosecutors have to prove that a defendant knew that the group was on an official list of terrorist organizations or of the illegal activities which led to that designation.
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The case involved a Sikh activist, Harpal Cheema, and his wife. The government claims they have ties to the Khalistan Commando Force and the Sikh Student Federation Faction, organizations that have engaged in bombings, murders and kidnappings to wrest their homeland from Indian control. However, neither group has been formally designated by the State Department as a terrorist organization. Mr. Cheema was accused of connecting phone calls for members of the groups and of fundraising for them. He claims to have been repeatedly tortured by Indian authorities and that he and his wife would face the same fate if forced to return there.
Judge Noonan, who was appointed by President Reagan, and Judge Margaret McKeown, who was appointed by President Clinton, ordered the release of Mr. Cheema, who has been jailed for six years.The judges also ordered a Justice Department panel to reconsider the couple's applications for asylum.
ACLU Files Lawsuit to Protect Religious Liberty of Imprisoned Asylum Seeker (05/18/2005)
SAN FRANCISCO -- The American Civil Liberties Union today filed a lawsuit in federal court challenging restrictions on an asylum seeker’s right to wear a religious head covering. The plaintiff, Harpal Singh Cheema, is a devout Sikh, imprisoned since 1997 while awaiting a decision on his asylum application.
and this...
CAIR Board Member Mujeeb Cheema, an Oklahoma resident
Mujeeb Rehman Cheema chairman of the Islamic Society of Tulsa
Unbelievable!
There is a rumor floating around that the roommate fled the Country -- was on our Sports Talk Radio this afternoon. Wonder if he ever was in custody or was he missing like was reported in the early news Monday? This inquiring mind wants to know!
Wow! First I've read of the Spartan connection with 9/11 terrorists. I can say, from first-hand experience, that in 1981, 1982 and 1983 Spartan had a sizeable Muslim student population; and they were catered to - specifically, the Muslim students had an area outside the Spartan hangars that was for them to do their Mecca praying. And they also made use of the restrooms for foot-washing. The government of some Muslim country/s (If I think about it long enough, I will recall which Arab/Muslim governments) were paying Spartan to train these men as mechanics and avionics techs. (I don't recall if they had flight school at the time, but they probably did) Spartan really catered to those students and their "needs", much to the disgust of the (black, white and hispanic) American students, who were cut no slack.
"Sikh activist, Harpal Cheema
New York Sun
Reporter/Editor: Josh Gerstein
Date: 12/4/2003 "
You do know that Sikhs are not Muslims, right?
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This tribe sounds like they are trouble from Pakistan into India and here.
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Why can't these guys just run a 7-11 like every other Pakastani??? Which reminds me. Can't they get a few more last names???