Posted on 03/07/2007 5:27:20 PM PST by bnelson44
March 7, 2007 A former U.S. Navy sailor has been charged with allegedly passing military secrets about U.S. Navy movements through waters in the Middle East to al Qaeda-related Web sites during the spring of 2001, just months after the USS Cole was attacked in Yemen.
Hassan Abujihaad, formerly known as Paul R. Hall, allegedly passed information about U.S. Navy warship movements in the Straits of Hormuz in April 2001 while he was a member of the Navy. The information passed along contained details about vulnerabilites of U.S. vessels including susceptibility to small boat attacks by terrorists.
Abujihaad was arrested today in Phoenix, according to a criminal complaint unsealed tonight that charged him with providing material support to terrorists who planned to kill U.S. nationals.
(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...
Cremate him, and nothing more needs to be done.
Get a rope
Amish? Mennonite? Naw, didn't think so......
I'm on a handheld that doesn't read the source site. Who made the arrest? The FBI?
From Daniel Pipes' Weblog dated August 14, 2004.
Hassan Abujihaad, 25, a convert to Islam and a former communications specialist for the U.S. Navy, he stands accused of sending e-mail messages to a pro-Taliban Internet site run by Babar Ahmad while serving on the guided-missile destroyer Benfold in the Middle East during 2000-01. As the Los Angeles Times delicately puts it, "Federal agents are trying to determine how Ahmad ended up in possession of detailed and highly classified information about the San Diego-based aircraft carrier battle group that the Benfold was part of, including its classified travel plans and its vulnerability to attack." (August 14, 2004)
ARTICLE SNIPPET (from link posted at top of thread):
"The complaint claims Abujihaad was an associate of Derrick Shareef, who allegedly tried to explode grenades at the CherryVale Mall outside Chicago during the height of the holiday shopping season last December. Shareef was arrested on Dec. 6, 2006, when he traded stereo speakers for dud grenades in an FBI sting operation."
yes
Horrible. A firing squad is in order.
ARTICLE SNIPPET (from link posted at the top of this thread):
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Abujihaad's arrest arises out of the investigation of Babar Ahmad, who is suspected of developing radical Islamic Web sites popular with members of al Qaeda and other mujahedeen. Ahmad was indicted in the United States in 2004 for allegedly providing material support to Chechen terrorist groups and the Taliban."
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "From 1997 until his arrest in 2004, Ahmad allegedly ran Web sites for Azzam Publications, which used to carry propaganda for al Qaeda, including bin Laden's 1996 Declaration of War against the United States. The Azzam Web site was a key recruitment and propaganda tool for al Qaeda and mujahedeen."
That was my first thought when I read this.
Death is too good for him!
By chance, is the former Mr. Hall a member of the "Red Bow-Tie" religion?
I'm quickly coming to the belief that NO Muslims should be allowed to serve in the Military. The security risk is just too high.
I vote to keelhaul him.
ON THE NET...
OFF TOPIC, but an interesting point:
http://www.internet-haganah.com
http://www.internet-haganah.com/haganah/internet.html
http://www.internet-haganah.com/harchives/005928.html
01 March 2007
"Myth, reality and Jihadist Use of the Internet"
ARTICLE SNIPPET:
http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=2933058&page=2
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "According to an indictment in a related case unsealed last July, a defendant named Sayed Talha Ahsan, "In or about April 2001 the defendant [Ahsan]
possessed, accessed, modified and resaved a document containing then-classified United States Navy plans of a United States Naval Battle Group operating in the Straits of Hormuz and discussing the Naval Group's vulnerabilities to terrorist attack."
According to the indictment, Ahsan allegedly helped run the Web sites with Ahmad."
First thing I asked myself was "Why?" Then I saw his name. Maximum sentence needed.
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