Mike Gosseline, a teacher at Waterville High School, will receive two new neckties as the winner of the Ugliest Tie Contest. Gosseline collects unusual ties and has about 200 of them in his closet.
Posted on 01/15/2008 8:23:24 AM PST by 3AngelaD
When Syed Haris Ahmed first sat down with counterterrorism agents on March 10, 2006, the Georgia Tech student acted as if he had done nothing wrong. But over the next week, through 12 hours of arduous and sometimes-threatening questioning, the 21-year-old Ahmed changed his story dramatically. He admitted to taking "casing videos" of Washington landmarks, including the U.S. Capitol, that ended up on the computer of a London terrorist. He acknowledged meeting with extremists in Toronto and going to Pakistan for jihadist military training.
...Ahmed told agents, "It was nothing. It was just childish talk and stuff like that." He also admitted in a signed statement: "I hoped to be recruited into a Jihadi training camp where I could learn how to fight Muslim oppressors everywhere."
By March 17, 2006, Ahmed told agents that his jihadist thoughts led him to contemplate attacks on Dobbins Air Reserve Base in Marietta, the Masonic Temple in Washington and oil refineries in Texas. Ahmed said he contemplated attacking Dobbins because he once lived near there. He said he believed Freemasons were like the "devil." He suggested the attack on U.S. oil refineries to raise the price of oil and bring more money to the Middle East, because "it is Muslim property and it's being stolen," Ahmed told agents.
Ahmed, born in Pakistan and raised in Dawsonville, now stands indicted with co-defendant Ehsanul Islam Sadequee of Roswell of federal charges of conspiring to provide material support to terrorists. Ahmed and Sadequee, who was born in Virginia to Bangladeshi parents, have pleaded not guilty....
Ahmed...was interviewed on five occasions...FBI Special Agent Mark Richards testified that Ahmed initially lied to investigators, minimizing his involvement. Later, he divulged more and more about his activities....
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It's all fun and games until you _______________.
Where are CAIR and the ACLU when an innocent student is being mistreated like this?
And hadn’t we better take more Saudi money for Middle Eastern Studies departments in our top colleges? Then we’d understand these people better and learn how to stop provoking them.
"Muslim oppressors"? Sounds like Imams to me.
I need to become a mason. My grandfather was, but died young, didn’t pass it on.
Actually, Eastern Star, since I’m a girl.
Islam is a “religion” of violins.
I love your tag line, especially the middle item!
Actually, I think the pass-phrase now is “Ask one to be one.”
There is no such thing as a “good” tie. Horrible, vestigial anachronisms with no purpose other than cutting off air supply and providing “plumage...” not unlike peacock feathers!
Now a nice bolo with a scorpion suspended in lucite...
I’d have to know one. I don’t.
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