http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2012/09/portland_judge_rules_terrorism.html
“Portland judge rules terrorism suspect Mohamud can’t learn true identity of FBI informant”
Bryan Denson
Published: Wednesday, September 26, 2012, 11:53 AM Updated: Wednesday, September 26, 2012, 1:38 PM
By Bryan Denson, The Oregonian
SNIPPET: “A federal judge today denied terrorism suspect Mohamed Mohamud’s defense team its request to learn the true identity of a government informant identified as “Bill Smith.””
SNIPPET: “His opinion notes that the government had established a “solid and compelling interest in not disclosing Bill Smith’s true identity. If an appeal becomes necessary, the 9th Circuit can review the sealed transcript.”
“(Smith’s) identity is neither relevant nor helpful to the defense and is not essential to a fair trial,” the judge wrote. “The emails speak for themselves. ... I do not expect the government to produce any additional discovery concerning Bill Smith.””
http://www.investigativeproject.org/case/504
http://www.investigativeproject.org/documents/case_docs/2067.pdf
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http://www.investigativeproject.org/3812/jihad-references-debated-in-oregon-terror-trial
For The Record - The IPT Blog
“Jihad References Debated in Oregon Terror Trial”
by John Rossomando • Nov 16, 2012 at 11:30 am
SNIPPET: “Defense attorneys contend that allowing references to the terms “terrorist,” “violent jihad” and “martyr” would be prejudicial to their client and “blur and dilute” the facts of the case, which they claim involved entrapment, according to the Associated Press.
But in court papers, prosecutors counter that Mohamud used these terms himself in meetings with undercover agents and that they show his motivation, which they say stems from an ideology that encourages violent jihad.
The defense similarly sought to exclude evidence about the defendant’s contacts with Amr Al-Ali, listed by the Saudi government as one of its top “47 most wanted terrorists linked to al-Qaida.” It similarly wants Mahmoud’s email communications with Samir Khan, an al-Qaida terrorist killed in the drone strike that also killed terrorist mastermind Anwar al-Awlaki, excluded from the trial, along with Mohamud’s published writings in Khan’s online jihadist magazine Jihad Recollections from consideration.”