Accused killer Susan Polk goes off-course while questioning detective
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Polk, who is acting as her own attorney, is charged with stabbing her 70-year-old psychologist husband to death with a paring knife.
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Several jurors Wednesday glanced at one another with raised eyebrows as Polk questioned the detective directly about her alleged delusions.
"Didn't I accuse my husband of being a Mossad agent?" Polk asked Costa.
He agreed that she had.
"Did you follow up on that at all?" Polk asked.
"No," Costa said.
Polk then asked Costa about parts of her diary, written on a computer Costa seized, in which she accused her husband of treason and said she was shocked to learn after Sept. 11, 2001, that he had information that the World Trade Center was going to be attacked by terrorists before the event occurred.(snip)
http://www.courttv.com/trials/polk/032906_ctv.html
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DOJ: Nineteen Charged with Rackeetering to Support Terrorist Organization
To: National Desk
Contact: Susan Plochinski of the U.S. Department of Labor, 313-226-9193; Web: http:www.usdoj.gov/usao/mie
DETROIT, March 29 /U.S. Newswire/ -- An indictment charging 19 individuals with operating a global racketeering conspiracy was unsealed in federal district court today, announced United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan Stephen J. Murphy. The indictment alleges that portions of the profits made from the illegal enterprise were given to Hizballah, a foreign terrorist organization. Nine of the individuals were arrested this morning.
"Fighting terrorism and keeping our citizens safe from its reach are the number one priorities of this office," said U.S. Attorney Murphy. "The law enforcement agencies involved in the case unsealed today must be applauded for their collective effort to bring together an investigation with this sort of global reach. Together, we will use all of the legal tools available to us to disrupt criminal activity that funds terrorist organizations."
The indictment charges that between 1996 and 2004, a group of individuals worked together in a criminal enterprise to traffic in contraband cigarettes, counterfeit Zig Zag rolling papers and counterfeit Viagra to produce counterfeit cigarette tax stamps, transport stolen property and launder money. The enterprise operated from Lebanon, Canada, China, Brazil, Paraguay and the United States. The indictment, returned by a federal grand jury on April 14, 2004, was sealed pursuant to a court order until today.
Arrested this morning by members of the Detroit Joint Terrorism Task Force ("JTTF") were: Karim Hassan Nasser, 37, of Windsor, Ontario; Fadi Mohamad-Musbah Hammoud, 33, of Dearborn, Mich.; Majid Mohamad Hammoud, 39, of Dearborn Heights, Mich.; Jihad Hammoud, 47, of Dearborn, Mich.; Youssef Aoun Bakri, 36, of Dearborn Heights, Mich.; Ali Najib Berjaoui, 39, of Dearborn, Mich.; Mohammed Fawzi Zeidan, 41, of Canton, Mich.; Imad Majed Hamadeh, 51, of Dearborn Heights, Mich.; Adel Isak, 37, of Sterling Height, Mich.
Also named in the indictment, but not arrested today because they currently reside outside of the United States were Imad Mohamad- Musbah Hammoud, 37 of Lebanon, formerly of Dearborn, Mich.; Hassan Ali Al-Mosawi, 49, of Lebanon; Hassan Hassan Nasser, 36, of Windsor, Ontario; Ali Ahmad Hammoud, 64, of Lebanon; Karim Hassan Abbas, 37, formerly of Dearborn, Mich.; Hassan Mohamad Srour, 30, of Montreal, Quebec; Naji Hassan Alawie, 44, of Windsor, Ontario; and Abdel-Hamid Sinno, 52, of Montreal, Quebec.
Theodore Schenk, 73, of Miami Beach, Fla. was not arrested today but will be voluntarily surrendering himself for arraignment on April 10, 2006.
(more details at link)
http://releases.usnewswire.com/GetRelease.asp?id=63154