Pre-crime Reports

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  Portland terrorism trial: ‘This is bad … Mohamed’s been arrested,’ parents recall

  Entrapment/Manufactured Charges/Agent Provocateurs Prosecutions, Pre-crime Reports January 28, 2013 no comments

  Source: Oregon Live. Osman Barre, meanwhile, had phoned the FBI. He told agents that brainwashed Somali kids were flying overseas, and he wanted the bureau’s help. He wanted agents to prevent his boy from getting on a plane. The agents instead asked him questions about terrorism, which struck a nerve. Osman Barre told the agents he had nothing to hide and that he was grateful to have been given refuge in the U.S. after fleeing the civil war in Somalia. The defense called its first expert witness, Georgetown psychology professor Fathali Moghaddam. He testified that two undercover agents, posing as terrorists to befriend Mohamud in the FBI sting, appeared to have carefully inveigled their way into his life, isolating him from his friends and family and becoming his primary support network.

   
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  Preserve CIA prisons as evidence, lawyers for September 11 suspects ask

  Material Support/ Thought Crimes Prosecutions, Pre-crime Reports January 28, 2013 no comments

  Source: Reuters. Lawyers for five alleged conspirators who attacked America on September 11 and say they were tortured in secret CIA prisons have asked a U.S. military judge to order that the prisons be preserved as evidence.

   
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  Lawyer Claims Entrapment for Bowling Green Terrorism Suspect

  Entrapment/Manufactured Charges/Agent Provocateurs Prosecutions, Pre-crime Reports January 28, 2013 no comments

  Source: WKU Public Radio. Hoping to avoid a life sentence in prison, one of two Bowling Green Iraqi refugees set to be sentenced Tuesday for attempting to send weapons and cash to al-Qaeda in Iraq is alleging he was entrapped in a U.S. government scheme. The Louisville Courier-Journal is reporting a lawyer for Mohanad Shareef Hammadi cites a study of more than 500 terrorism prosecutions since 9/11 that found an FBI informant led more than one-third of the plots and provided all the necessary weapons, money and transportation.

   
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  Court overturns another Guantanamo conviction

  Material Support/ Thought Crimes Prosecutions, Pre-crime Reports January 25, 2013 no comments

  Source: Reuters. A U.S. appeals court on Friday overturned the Guantanamo war crimes conviction of an al Qaeda videographer, a ruling likely to lead to dismissal of conspiracy charges in the pending trial of five men accused of plotting the September 11 attacks.

   
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  Portland terrorism trial: FBI agents trace trail that led them to Mohamed Mohamud

  Material Support/ Thought Crimes Prosecutions, Pre-crime Reports January 24, 2013 no comments

  Source: Oregon Live. Mohamud’s defense team pointed out that the FBI’s attempt to record that key conversation failed, when its audio recorder malfunctioned, and that Chan wrote up an electronic report of that conversation and destroyed his original notes.

   
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  Why All Americans Should Care About the Holy Land Foundation Case

  Material Support/ Thought Crimes Prosecutions, Pre-crime Reports January 19, 2013 1 comment

  Source: WRMEA. In this decade during which our civil liberties have steadily eroded, Americans have seen their government claim, under the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), the right to hold citizens without charges indefinitely, and we’ve seen the president of the United States claim the right to assassinate American citizens anywhere in the world without due process by using a presidential “kill list.” Now the government can convict any American of terrorism crimes he or she was not even aware of committing—based on information provided by an “anonymous expert” who can be neither challenged nor confronted.

   
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  British man who ‘vanished’ after being stripped of citizenship says he was tortured and forced to sign a confession by the CIA

  Entrapment/Manufactured Charges/Agent Provocateurs Prosecutions, Material Support/ Thought Crimes Prosecutions, Pre-crime Reports January 19, 2013 no comments

  Source: Daily Mail.
  -First shocking interview with Mahdi Hashi from his New York cell
  -Told how he was made to watch a Swedish detainee being beaten
  -He was stripped and blindfolded, and told he would be sexually abused
  -Was forced to sign a confession agreeing to waive his right to silence

   
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  Who is Dr Aafia Siddiqui? And why are Algerian hostage-takers demanding her release?

  Entrapment/Manufactured Charges/Agent Provocateurs Prosecutions, Material Support/ Thought Crimes Prosecutions, Pre-crime Reports January 19, 2013 no comments

  Source: Ceasefire. A key demand of the Algerian hostage takers is the release of a Pakistani mother-of-three currently serving an 86-year sentence in a US prison. So why has her case gone virtually unmentioned in the mainstream media? Journalist Yvonne Ridley, herself a former hostage, reports.

   
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  Release ‘blind sheik’ Omar Abdel Rahman from prison, Islamists urge U.S.

  Material Support/ Thought Crimes Prosecutions, Pre-crime Reports January 18, 2013 no comments

  Source: Washington Post. Abdel Rahman, the 74-year-old spiritual leader of Gamaa Islamiya, or the Islamic Group, has been a revered figure in Islamist extremist circles since the early 1980s, when he was charged on suspicion of involvement in the 1981 assassination of Egyptian leader Anwar Sadat. He was later acquitted. But it was only after the fall of Hosni Mubarak — who kept many Islamists imprisoned or under close surveillance during his nearly 30 years as Egypt’s president — that calls for Abdel Rahman’s release have become so public and persistent.

   
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  Federal judge throws out Taliban terror case against Margate imam

  Material Support/ Thought Crimes Prosecutions, Pre-crime Reports January 17, 2013 no comments

  Source: Miami Herald. A federal judge threw out the U.S. government’s case charging that a Margate imam aided the Pakistani Taliban in a plot with his father, a Miami imam. But the trial continues against the father.