[RaceBannon]

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[Betty Jo]

How many have been here, for how many years?

[Lion's Cub]

Sorry, FBI, you get NO sympathy from me. You've known about this guy since '93. You can move your families when he comes around. The rest of us didn't get that warning.

As cruel as it may sound, the bottom line is this:

If you insist on letting these guys walk the streets and plan their operations unimpeded, then it is only justice that your families come into harm's way first.

[PA Engineer]

bttt

[galt-jw]

justice IS served.....the incomptent morons who give no thought to natl security, lose countless laptop computers with sensitive secrets, and that is what has made the papers, only. I am sure there must be more. Well, guess what, boys. YOU, like the media, are PART of the society you place at risk with your ineptitude and bungling. And maybe, just maybe, that will open your eyes to running your organization with the same amount of precision that is the minimum accepted from the average fast food chain franchise. High school is over, honeys. Maybe now you will understand the seriousness of your criminal incompetence, without which, and no one in the media wants to point this out, NONE of the 9/11 attacks could have happened. (Terrorists infiltrate country....nope, not my job...pass me a beer and that hustler magazine....have you seen my laptop...I think I left it at hooters).....

I chuckle like hell when I think of these guys getting up infront of the camera in years gone by, with fist pounding hubris telling everyone that "we WILL catch those responsible, JUSTICE will be served", and then they dig up some poor shlub (richard jewell) who is innocent.
thats what we call IRONY, say it with me, "Iron-y."

[aculeus]

As a smart Freeper said yesterday (it's not yet picked up by the media) Moussari wants a "judge only" trial for one reason and one reason only. And it is not good.

Since judge's names -- unlike jurors' -- will be public knowledge terror threats could be made against the judge's family.

These moslem terrorists are the worst threat -- ever -- faced by our country.

[honway]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/655625/posts?page=61

Link to another Staten Island connection

One of five suspects in a drivers license fraud ring was released Thursday after his father agreed to put up property, including his Staten Island home, as bond.

Federal prosecutor Tim DiScenza dropped opposition to Sakher A. Hammad's release after his father, Peter Hansen, a civil engineer employed by New York City government, signed the $250,000 bond.

But DiScenza fought a bid for bail by co-defendant Khaled Odtllah. U.S. Dist. Judge Bernice Donald is scheduled to rule Monday on that matter.

DiScenza also told Donald that the government wants separate trials in rapid succession for the five defendants, with Odtllah, the alleged ringleader, being the last tried.

Donald set a tentative trial date of May 20 for the first of the defendants.

Hammad, like his four co-defendants, had been in federal custody since they were arrested Feb. 5 with Tennessee license examiner Katherine Smith.

A criminal complaint the next day charged all six with being part of a scam in which Smith would issue driver's licenses for a fee to New Yorkers brought to Shelby County by Odtllah.

Smith, out of jail on her own recognizance, died in a fiery car crash the night before she was scheduled to appear at a detention hearing. (She was burned alive with gasoline, nice folks practicing this religion of Peace).

The defendants were denied bail at the Feb. 11 hearing after the government cited the "mysterious" nature of Smith's death as well as what they said were connections to the World Trade Center just before the Sept. 11 terrorist attack.

Hammad had a visitor's pass for one of the towers dated Sept. 5. He has allegedly told investigators that his Brooklyn plumbing company worked on the building's sprinkler system.

One of the men, authorities say, drove from New York to Memphis on September 11 -- the day of the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center. And one of them, at the time of his arrest, was carrying in his wallet a pass to the trade center dated September 5.

Footnote: FEMA Report explaining why the Towers collapsed included as a primary reason: the sprinkler systems had been disabled.

[honway]

I believe Sakher A. Hammad's (also Sakhera Hammad) father lives 7 miles from Sattar. I wonder if Hammad and Sattar use to speak at the local Mosque.

[Gritty]

This is unbelievable!

On second thought,... no, it isn't. The FBI is full of incompetents and the Islamic terrorists are merrily hidden all over this country going about their business.

The only surprise is more Americans aren't dead, but I suppose that will come in time! After all, we refuse to profile or do anything sensible about these fanatics and handle them with kid gloves. We will reap our rewards for our PC ways. In many ways, we already have and presently are.

[mass55th]

"Supposedly all this stuff went on from the home. It's highly unlikely," she said. "Our apartment is very small. I can hear him talking on the phone."

I wonder if he speaks Arabic. If so, she wouldn't know anything he's saying.

[Mitchell]

Ping. More on the Staten Island postal worker.

[FreeTheHostages]

Kattracks, thanks for posting this. Obviously, the guy is totally innocent: after all, his wife said he was. More proof that being a federal agent or federal prosecutor is a dangerous job. I do wish those that rightly criticize Ruby Ridge would realize that most federal law enforcement agents are very good, very professional people who really do put their lives on the line.

Mr. Mertz, thanks for always making comments I agree with! :)

[Frances_Marion]

Everytime something like this happens, we should execute on of our militant prisoners. Start with the blind Sheik. Life imprisonment for his scumbag lawyer....etc etc.

[McGavin999]

Everyone seems to have missed the fact that this man was turned in by an all American, red blooded American-Arab. Three cheers for this courageous AMERICAN!

[Sal]

Kattracks, thanks for all you do with your frequent and pertinent article postings. This is not an attempt to hijack your frightening and important thread.

The security firms we're talking about create the very same type of threat as posed by the "postal worker" aide to the terrorist sheik, namely terrorist access to VERY sensitive information that can lead to blackmail and/or assassination of witnesses, agents, or anyone they consider a threat to their terrorist organizations.

[VOA]

just another "they walk among us" (thanks to the INS) bump!

[aristeides]

According to a thread on Saturday, the head of the mail handlers' union appeared at the death-to-Israel hatefest at the Mall in D.C. that day.

[fella]

When your fighting terrorists you can expect them to target your family and friends so they can gain control over you just look at how the drug cartels work.

[piasa]

Thanks to Lynne Stewart case I was reminded of this oldie

[piasa]

2000 : (FEDERAL MEDICAL CENTER, ROCHESTER, MINNESOTA : "SECRET DOVE" LYNNE STEWART & SHEIKH OMAR ABDUL RAHMAN'S CONVERSATIONS ARE TAPPED & TAPED; LYNNE'S ARABIC TRANSLATOR, MOHAMMED YOUSRY, DELIVERS MESSAGES FROM RAHMAN TO A STATEN ISLAND, NY, POSTAL WORKER NAMED AHMED ABDEL SATTAR, WHO IN TURN FACILITATES COMMUNICATION BETWEEN RAHMAN & THE ISLAMIC GROUP IN ORDER TO CONTINUE TERRORIST ACTS) Their [Lynne Stewart & Sheikh Omar Abdul Rahman's] friendship, along with Stewart’s counsel, continued after Rahman was imprisoned at the Federal Medical Center in Rochester, Minnesota. That is where Stewart, a self-proclaimed “radical activist attorney” who supporters argue is no more than a kindly 62-year-old grandmother, crossed the line into criminality. Throughout 2000, FBI agents, working under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), secretly videotaped Stewart’s legal visits with Rahman and wiretapped telephone conversations between the two. Due to federal authorities’ concerns over Rahman’s attempts to issue fatwahs and direct further the Islamic Group’s activities from prison, Stewart had to agree to a Special Administrative Measure (SAM) in order to gain access to him. The SAM meant that Stewart could only talk to Rahman about legal matters and barred her from conveying messages from the Sheikh to anyone in the outside world, including his family, friends and the media. The SAM did, however, allow an Arabic translator, Mohammed Yousry, to accompany Stewart on her visits with the Sheikh.
It was through Yousry that Rahman, according to a 19-page indictment issued by federal agents, delivered messages in Arabic to a Staten Island-based postal worker named Ahmed Abdel Sattar. While Yousry was a go-between for Rahman and Sattar, Sattar in turn facilitated communication between Rahman and Islamic Group representatives in the Middle East. Sattar, through faxes and telephone conversations, informed Islamic Group members abroad of the Sheikh’s directives and desires; they in turn carried them out. ... The messenger role played by both Yousry [an Arabic translator, Mohammed Yousry, who accompanied Lynne Stewart on her visits with Sheikh Omar Abdul Rahman in Minnesota] and Sattar [Staten Island-based postal worker named Ahmed Abdel Sattar] made the two irreplaceable cogs in the Islamic Group’s militant mission. But without Stewart, correspondence with the Sheikh would have been nonexistent.
Stewart not only allowed Yousry to communicate privately with the Sheikh in Arabic, she encouraged and actively aided the two men’s efforts to conduct IG business behind bars. An F.B.I. affidavit prepared by agent Kimberley Whittle detailed the cunning measures Stewart resorted to during her prison visits in order to protect Rahman and assist the Islamic Group’s homicidal agenda. According to the affidavit, Stewart “made random comments out loud for the [prison] guards to hear in order to conceal the real conversation" between Rahman and Yousry. During one such exchange, Stewart—all the while pretending to take notes in her legal pad—misled nearby guards by loudly inserting the nonsensical phrase, “Yes, the um...I am talking to you about...him going out on a, uh, chocolate eh...heart attack here” into a discussion between Rahman and Yousry. A wiretap captured Stewart, Rahman and Yousry joking afterwards about Stewart’s deception, with the aging Leftist lawyer saying she could “get an award for it,” and the Sheikh adding, “as long as the government is using secret evidence we will use secret doves.”
-- " Cheerleaders for Terrorism: Radical lawyer Lynne Stewart continues her support for Islamic terror ," By Erick Stakelbeck, FrontPageMagazine.com, Wednesday, June 17, 2003 posted June 18, 2003