"I can't even think," he said. "It was political."
Mommy!
Posted on 12/20/2011 12:54:35 PM PST by Eleutheria5
BOSTON — A Massachusetts man was convicted Tuesday of conspiring to help al-Qaida and plotting to kill U.S. soldiers in Iraq.
Tarek Mehanna, 24, of Sudbury, faced four terror-related charges and three charges of lying to authorities. A federal jury found him guilty of all counts after deliberating for about 10 hours.
Prosecutors said Mehanna and two friends conspired to travel to Yemen so they could receive training at a terrorism camp and eventually go on to Iraq to fight and kill U.S. soldiers there.
When the men were unable to find such a training camp, Mehanna returned home and began to see himself as part of the al-Qaida "media wing," translating materials promoting violent jihad and distributing them over the Internet, prosecutors said.
Mehanna, who was born in the U.S. and raised in the Boston suburbs, will be sentenced April 12 and could be sent to prison for the rest of his life. His mother, Souad Mehanna, sobbed after the verdict was read and was consoled by her younger son, Tamer. Mehanna's lawyers also wept.
Mehanna's father, Ahmed, a professor at the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, said he was stunned by the verdict.
"I can't even think," he said. "It was political."
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I sure wish the Amish would control themselves. /s
Apparently they won't be paid.
Aiding AlQeada? Well I thought that was NATO/UN/USDOS’s job?
Aiding Al Queda? Well I thought that was NATO/UN/USDOS’s job?
An interesting thought just came to me....Do you suppose those who voted in and continue to worship Obama, can be charged with “aiding” him for the numerous times he has gone against our constitution? Now that would be a way to help create jobs. Think of all the manpower it would take to build a REALLY BIG jail.
"I can't even think," he said. "It was political."
Mommy!
"I can't even think," he said. "It was political."
Y-you lawyer’s aren’t really Santa’s elves?!
Now that we have that out of the way, he deserves a death sentence. Unfortunately, that won't happen here.
He turned it around, alright.
>>Mehanna’s father, Ahmed,......., said he was stunned by the verdict.<<
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Yeah, right.
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