NBC: U.S. citizen accused of aiding al-Zarqawi

NBC ^ | Febuary 7 2006 | Lisa Myers, Jim Popkin

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He's probably already nominated for next year's "John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage" awards.

[oceanview]

again with this story.

where are the chemicals?

[stocksthatgoup]

Time for a failed escape.

[fish hawk]

Put him in an American prison where he will win the "piece" prize.

[cmsgop]

HAHAAHAHAHAHA!!!!

[jmc1969]

They were picked up by Jordan, they were a wide array of industral chemicals that when mixed together create a toxic chemical cloud.

[oceanview]

20 tons of them? where did they get them from?

[Zeppelin]

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His lawyers said that, as an American citizen, Omar should be allowed to face charges in an American court of law. Currently, he is being held by the U.S. coalition forces in an Iraqi prison as an “enemy combatant.” He faces charges in the Central Criminal Court of Iraq.
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Looks like Omar fears the Iraqi courts. Three reasons.

1. This crap is going on in their own backyard, so they have absolutely no tolerance.

2. Would probably get death (or worse).

3. He knows that the Dims/ACLU will do everything in their power to free one of their comrades!

[spunkets]

" His lawyers said that, as an American citizen, Omar should be allowed to face charges in an American court of law."

He was commiting crimes in a foreign land. The Iraqi courts have jurisdiction.

[dirtboy]

The American, Shawqi Omar, who lived for years in Minnesota, Utah and North Carolina, allegedly met with al-Zarqawi on numerous occasions and is related to the al-Qaida leader, through marriage, new federal court documents reveal. Omar is also one of 12 people charged Oct. 17, 2004, with plotting a chemical attack in Jordan.

Lookey lookey what just popped back up on the radar screen.

[jmc1969]

It came from Iraq, I remember one of the terrorists in court said Zarqawi was planning this attack on Jordan a year before the US invaded Iraq.

[IamConservative]

We certainly don't want to listen to this guys phone calls. As Leaky would say: "Not in my America."

[SittinYonder]

Omar's family denies his terrorist connections

Would that be the family on the Zarqawi side?

[Osage Orange]

For a nano-second I thought it would be a member of Congress..........

[Brilliant]

Nothing new. The US media does it every day.

[operation clinton cleanup]

Omar traveled to Iraq in 2002, according to court records and family interviews, to pick up reconstruction business.

Didn't reconstruction business start AFTER the 2003 war?

[Moonman62]

Another citizen that Democrats want to protect from wiretaps.

[1rudeboy]

No doubt, and probably here on a MacArthur Foundation grant.

[jmc1969]

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