"Law firm withdraw baaaaad."
Here some news about James Ujaama, the Seattle man who pleaded guilty in 2003 to aiding the Taliban. He admitted to a federal judge in New York on Monday that he fled to Belize last year to avoid testifying against his alleged co-conspirators, one of who is the "Swede" Oussama Kassir.
By violating the 2003 plea agreement, Ujaama paved the way for the government to reinstate the much heftier terrorism charges it previously had dropped - among others trying to set up a training camp in Oregon for al Qaida together with Kassir.
Kassir is presently held in a prison in Prague, Czech Republic, waiting on decision whether he will be extradited to the US. Ujaama's testimony will further increase the likelihood that Kassir soon will be in the custody of US Law enforcement agencies.
For those who read swedish there are two great posts on the case on Per Gudmundson's blog: here & here.
In the second post he brings reminds us of the names of a number of politicians who worked for his release from jail. Name them and shame them.
Oh, yes, to make it a hat-trick there is this piece of news:
'Enemy combatant' lived in Sweden
This man is still anonymous in PC Swedish press, thank heavens for the net. (Who do the journalists or their editors think they are kidding?)
A Mooselimb once bit my sister!
A Mooselimb once bit my sister!
If this person is “Swedish”, then I am a Sauk Indian.
He was once in Sweden. But his parentage is firmly based in the Middle East, and he is a practitioner of the Islamic faith.
A REAL Swede would have a name ending in “sson” and be a Lutheran.
Please ping the Swedish list.
And now for some pent up frustration. The Swedish government sent their special jet plane to Cuba to collect that human garbage Ghezali back to Sweden. Also, ministers and diplomats had spent an inordinate amount of time on this thief, scoundrel, liar and terrorist wannabe - much much more than is usually spent to help other Swedes in trouble abroad.
And he has the gall to consider suing Sweden! For what? Throw him out! If Algeria doesn’t want him back then there are lots of water between here and Algiers. Let him swim....
The US government should bill him for room and board.
"Law firm withdraw baaaaad."
A lot of the (North) African Muslim refugees seeking political asylum under the Geneva Convention (as amended by the New York Protocol) in Europe belong to radical Islamist movements consisting of fanatics who are even ‘too Muslim’ to function in a fundamentalist Muslim society.
From Wikipedia;
“After independence the Algerian government asserted state control over religious activities for purposes of national consolidation and political control. Islam became the religion of the state in the new constitution (Article 2), and was the religion of its leaders. The state monopolized the building of mosques, and the Ministry of Religious Affairs controlled an estimated 5,000 public mosques by the mid-1980s. Imams were trained, appointed, and paid by the state, and the Friday khutba, or sermon, was issued to them by the Ministry of Religious Affairs. That ministry also administered religious property (the habus), provided for religious education and training in schools, and created special institutes for Islamic learning. Islamic law (sharia) principles were introduced into family law in particular, while remaining absent from most of the legal code; thus, for example, while Muslim women were banned from marrying non-Muslims (by the Algerian Family Code of 1984), wine remained legal.
Those measures, however, did not satisfy everyone. As early as 1964 a militant Islamic movement, called Al Qiyam (values), emerged and became the precursor of the Islamic Salvation Front (Islamist party) of the 1990s. Al Qiyam called for a more dominant role for Islam in Algeria’s legal and political systems and opposed what it saw as Western practices in the social and cultural life of Algerians.
Although militant Islamism was suppressed, it reappeared in the 1970s under a different name and with a new organization. The movement began spreading to university campuses, where it was encouraged by the state as a counterbalance to left-wing student movements. By the 1980s, the movement had become even stronger, and bloody clashes erupted at the Ben Aknoun campus of the University of Algiers in November 1982. The violence resulted in the state’s cracking down on the movement, a confrontation that would intensify throughout the 1980s and early 1990s.
The rise of Islamism had a significant impact on Algerian society. More women began wearing the veil, some because they had become more conservative religiously and others because the veil kept them from being harassed on the streets, on campuses, or at work. Islamists also prevented the enactment of a more liberal family code despite pressure from feminist groups and associations.
After the Islamic Salvation Front (FIS) won the 1991 elections, and was then banned after the elections’ cancellation by the military, the tensions between Islamists and the government erupted into open fighting, which lasted some 10 years in the course of which some 100,000 people were killed. However, some Islamist parties remained aboveground - notably the Movement of Society for Peace and Islamic Renaissance Movement - and were allowed by the government to contest later elections. In recent years, the Civil Harmony Act and Charter for Peace and National Reconciliation have been passed, providing an amnesty for most crimes committed in the course of the war.”
Source:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_in_Algeria#After_independence
There's plenty of journalists at the WaPo/NYT, etc. that would love to ghost write it for him. He won't have to do a thing.