[Zathras]

As someone who works at Intel, I don't think he will be the last.

[caisson71]

Isn't Portland, Oregon also known as Taliban West?

[IncPen]

On April 1st I posted a story/link to Mike Hawash's website, which was pulled.

I don't know anything about the guy outside of what he has on his website.

As of this posting he doesn't mention today's court action.

AM, if you don't think this is appropriate please pull this response.

[Grampa Dave]

We know a young fellow who was a project construction manager, and his company moved him to Beaverton in the early 1990s. He was the liason between Intel's Beaverton campus and his company for new construction projects and massive changes in older sites at Intel.

He said that he felt like he was in the Middle East or SE Asia when he visited Intel's Beaverton campus. After 6 months he convinced his company that he was a bad fit as a conservative American with NRA stickers and Bush/Quayle stickers with either a fly rod or a shot gun in the back of his pickup. They moved him out of there.

He told us after 9/11, that the FBI and CIA should do a lot of investigations of the anti Americans working at Intel in the Beaverton Campus.

When I emailed him the famous Welcome to Islamofacists to Portland photo, he agreed and said that Portland might even be worse than Seattle re the Anti Americans working and living in those two cities.

[dixiechick2000]

UPDATE WITH DETAILS:


PORTLAND - A Hillsboro man is the latest from our area to be charged with terrorism related crimes.
Mike Hawash, 39, an independent contractor who had been working for Intel was charged this morning with "conspiracy to levy war against the United States, conspiracy to provide material support and resources to al Qaeda, and conspiracy to contribute services to al Qaeda and the Taliban.

Federal authorities allege Hawash, who has been detained for more than a month, joined members of the 'Portland Six' in an attempt to enter Afghanistan and take part in a jihad against US troops.

The complaint states that Hawash left the United States on October 24, 2001 and flew to Hong Kong, where he joined Jeffrey Battle, Patrice Ford, Muhammad Bilal, Ahmed Bilal, and Habis Al Saoub, and entered into China.

According to the complaint, Hawash claimed that his travel to China was related to his personal software business.

The complaint alleges that Hawash traveled with other defendants to several provinces in western China and also to Beijing in an attempt to enter Afghanistan.

Federal authorities believe Hawash stayed at the same hotels in China on at least three occassions:


at the Shan Cheng Hotel in Urumqi
at the Chini Bagh Guest House in Kashgar in October 2001
at the Jing Hua Hotel in Beijing.
According to federal officials, Hawash shared a hotel room with Jeffrey Battle while the group stated in Kashgar.

The complaint states that Hawash returned the US in November 2001 after his unsuccessful attempt to enter Afghanistan.

On October 3, 2002, a federal grand jury in Oregon charged Battle, Ford, the Bilal brothers, Al Saoub, and October Martinique Lewis with the same charges filed against Hawash today. All but Al Saoub are in custody, and are scheduled for trial October 1, 2003.

Al Saoub remains a fugitive overseas.

Statement from the Justice Dept.

http://www.katu.com/hawash_release.pdf

[Steve_Seattle]

My daughter's leftist political science instructor at Bellevue CC (near Seattle) told her class a couple of weeks ago that Hawash had been arrested and detained "for no reason," implying that this was a random arrest based upon Hawash's ethnicity and/or religion.

[ThreeYearLurker]

Here is another set of comments from another story:


Today's affidavit states that Hawash also crossed into mainland China with the group and stayed at the same hotels at the same times as some of the others.

The affidavit also states that Hawash transferred the title to his Hillsboro home to his wife before he left for Hong Kong, had written a check to Ford in September 2001, and had helped Ahmed Bilal set up a landscaping business.

Neighbors told the FBI that after the 2001 terrorist attacks, Hawash started wearing "eastern" clothing, grew a beard, was less friendly and stayed at home more.

What a jerk!

[Cindy]

KATU.com: GOVERNMENT WILL SEEK INDICTMENT AGAINST HAWASH" (April 29, 2003)
http://www.katu.com/news/story.asp?ID=57011