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Lackawanna Six case didn't end with guilty pleas
The Associated Press ^
| 9/17/03 4:13 AM
| CAROLYN THOMPSON
Posted on 09/17/2003 7:08:36 AM PDT by freeperfromnj
Edited on 07/06/2004 6:39:09 PM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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LACKAWANNA, N.Y. (AP) -- Ahmed al-Bakri shakes his head and looks down when asked about his brother. Sharifa Galab speaks haltingly through a window about her son. At other homes, doorbells go unanswered even as eyes peer from windows.
Relatives of the so-called "Lackawanna Six" and others who live here push away uncomfortable memories of last September, when agents swarmed to round up young men on terrorism charges in the shadow of Sept. 11, 2001, remembrances. But the case is not ready to fade away.
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TOPICS: Extended News
KEYWORDS: buffalocell
To: freeperfromnj
Ahhh, the poor guys.
To: freeperfromnj
Gosh, if this happened in a Muslim country they would just shoot them and bill the families for the bullets.
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posted on
09/17/2003 7:18:29 AM PDT
by
Kenton
To: freeperfromnj
Good news/Bad news
The Good -- stopped in the process...
The Bad -- they didn't have enough sense to stop it themselves.
Cry me a river...
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posted on
09/17/2003 7:19:08 AM PDT
by
tioga
To: freeperfromnj
The community has moved on, Albanna said.I wish to h#ll it would. Move on to Gaza. You'll like there. They're your kind of people.
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posted on
09/17/2003 7:22:45 AM PDT
by
dinasour
To: freeperfromnj
Many say they were manipulated into going to the camp by high-pressure recruiters who
came to their mosque with a message of religious service -- then were pressured
again by the government to plead guilty.
Victims all the way...
No suprise there as these guys were reported to be registered Democrats
(in a news-story that wanted to paint them as nice guys who lived next door).
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posted on
09/17/2003 7:34:21 AM PDT
by
VOA
To: freeperfromnj
>>Many say they were manipulated into going to the camp by high-pressure recruiters who came to their
mosque That mosque, and those closely associated with it, should get a thorough proctological examination by the FBI and IRS. And that's on the lighter side of some of the ideas that came to mind.
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posted on
09/17/2003 7:36:59 AM PDT
by
FreedomPoster
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To: freeperfromnj
They should be called the "Lackawaaaaaahhhhhna 6".
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posted on
09/17/2003 8:32:24 AM PDT
by
Defiant
(Half a loaf is better than none. Support Arnold, and don't pinch a loaf!)
To: freeperfromnj
Many say they were manipulated into going to the camp by high-pressure recruiters who came to their mosque with a message of religious serviceI hope they tell us who they were so we can investiage and arrest (as appropriate) them too.
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