If the US is going to continue to foolishly treat terrorism as a law enforcement and justice issue, then get serious and make terrorism or support thereof a capital crime. B
Man in Houston Taliban case gets 10 months By CINDY GEORGE May 17, 2007, 9:20AM http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/4812455.html Shiraz Syed Qazi, 26, one of four Muslim men charged in the so-called Houston Taliban case, was sentenced today to 10 months in prison. The men were arrested in November and accused of training to join the Taliban's fight against U.S.-led forces overseas. Qazi was convicted in January of unlawful possession of a firearm. He waived his right to a jury trial, opting for a decision from U.S. District Judge Lee Rosenthal. She found him guilty in 15 minutes. A July 2005 camping trip in Willis, north of Conroe, was part of a government set up using two informants to nab men who talked of fighting with the terrorist group. FBI agents used Qazi's acknowledgment that "he overheard statements over that weekend" to connect him to the plot. Qazi, a Pakistani, appears in photographs with a semi-automatic weapon. At the time, he was attending Houston Community College on a student visa. While prosecutors contend that federal law prohibits someone who is not a U.S. citizen from possessing a firearm, federal public defender Brent Newton argued that his client was not criminally liable because he didn't know he could not hold or shoot a gun. Qazi's supporters say he simply went on a weekend shooting trip, which is common recreation in Texas. Kobie Williams, 34, pleaded guilty to a conspiracy charge, admitting to paramilitary training and making financial contributions to the Taliban. The U.S. citizen known as Abdul Kabir or Abdul Kabeer was a Rice University engineering technician enrolled at the University of Houston-Downtown. He is to be sentenced in October. Adnan Mirza, Qazi's cousin, is charged with conspiracy to defraud the United States by making donations to the terrorist organization and three illegal firearms possession charges. The 30-year-old former HCC student, who was born in Pakistan, is scheduled for trial in October. Syed Maaz Shah, a 19-year-old who was attending University of Texas at Dallas on a student visa, is charged with two weapons violations. Also a Pakistani, his trial is set to begin Monday. All four men remain in federal custody. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
