Admitted felon Ilyas Ali, who once ran a butcher shop in Minneapolis, Minn., is also a master of political spin. When a reporter visited Ali in a Hong Kong jail last year after Ali had been arrested for trying to trade heroin and hashish for shoulder-held anti-aircraft missiles that he intended to resell to al Qaeda, Ali posed as the victim of Attorney General John Ashcroft and his over-zealous Justice Department. American law enforcement "screwed up 9/11 and now they're arresting innocent people for political purposes," Ali, a naturalized citizen born in India, told the Associated Press. "I'm very, very...