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BTTT.

I can't believe that INS can't figure a way to cancel his "permanent resident" status and deport the bum for leading the scheme to steal licenses.

Pathetic use of prosecutors funds. I only hope they tail him to see where he goes and who he contacts.

The case drew national attention when Katherine Smith, the Memphis driver's license examiner accused of being Odtllah's inside source for the licenses, died in a fiery car crash the day before her first court appearance.

Clarification: The case drew national attention when 4 arabs in the country illegally travelled from NYC to Tennesee to obtain legitimate state issued driver's licenses containted falsified names and addresses. That the state employee sold these licenses to arabs after the 9/11 attack was an act that compromised our nation's security.

Seeing as how the airlines require adults to show a driver's license to get a boarding pass and again to get on a plane, these jokers have shown that there is no safety in such precautions as the "national" IDs that FAA so treasures are worthless. Driver's licenses are a way to tax automobile drivers. If you want to use them to confirm adulthood status in the sale of alcohol so be it but there are plenty of underaged kids running around with fake IDs or real IDs that belong to someone else.

That this woman was murdered seemed to make the story disappear from the national landscape rather than elevate it's national attention.

Where's the punishment? If they had been found not guilty, they would have been punished just as harshly:

"Well, I understand that you did not commit this crime but there is really little that we can do to give you that time served back."

All this amounts to is a slap on the wrist.

"Under the circumstances I think this was the best possible outcome," Odtllah's attorney Anthony Helm said of the time-served sentence

Brilliant deduction, considering the nature of the case, the fact that they are muslims here illegally and the unsolved case of Katherine Smith is, in most likelihood, connected.

LAST LICENSE FRAUD SUSPECT SENTENCED TO TIME SERVED, PROBATION

Published on August 20, 2002.

SOURCE: Lela Garlington
The last of the driver's license fraud suspects - Sakher Hammad - was placed on two years' probation Monday and was sentenced to time served.

Four of the other defendants also were sentenced to time served earlier. Three are still being held and are facing deportation for being in the country illegally.

"I want to get on with my life," Hammad told U.S. Dist. Judge Bernice Donald.

After the Jordanian naturalized citizen was arrested in February, Hammad, 25, of...
225 words, Commercial Appeal, The (Memphis, TN

This article is © 2002- Commercial Appeal, The (Memphis, TN)

Commercial Appeal, The (Memphis, TN)
LAST LICENSE FRAUD SUSPECT SENTENCED TO TIME SERVED, PROBATION

Date:August 20, 2002
Section: Metro
Page: B2

Source: Lela Garlington

Memo: METRO & MID-SOUTH BRIEFS
Edition: Final

The last of the driver's license fraud suspects - Sakher Hammad - was placed on two years' probation Monday and was sentenced to time served.

Four of the other defendants also were sentenced to time served earlier. Three are still being held and are facing deportation for being in the country illegally.

"I want to get on with my life," Hammad told U.S. Dist. Judge Bernice Donald.

After the Jordanian naturalized citizen was arrested in February, Hammad, 25, of Brooklyn was held in prison for 51 days until he made bond. Although federal prosecutors initially hinted that the case might be tied to the World Trade Center disaster, there was no evidence any were involved in terrorist activities.

The death of Katherine Smith, the Memphis driver's license examiner accused of being the inside source for the licenses, remains unsolved. She died in a fiery car crash the day before her first court appearance in February.