Two Americans Charged
Two Americans Charged With Aiding Al Qaeda
Authorities said Sunday that Rafiq Abdus Sabir, a Boca Raton physician, and Tarik Shah, a self-described martial arts expert in New York, conspired to treat and train terrorists. Both are American citizens.
Both men were scheduled to be arraigned Tuesday in federal court, Shah in New York and Sabir in Florida, according to a news release from U.S. Attorney David Kelley in Manhattan.
It was not immediately clear who would represent them in court. If convicted, each man faces a maximum sentence of 15 years in prison and a fine of up to $250,000.
The one-count complaint claims the men allegedly took an oath pledging their allegiance to Al Qaeda. The government said the men engaged in multiple recorded conversations with a confidential source and an FBI agent posing as an Al Qaeda operative.
During the conversations, Shah described how he and Sabir in 1998 tried to get to training camps in Afghanistan and said they were a “package” deal.
During recorded conversations, Shah also repeatedly indicated his desire to train Muslim “brothers” in the martial arts and hand-to-hand combat.
Shah took steps to find secret locations for jihad weapons training, at one point inspecting a Long Island warehouse, and described previous efforts to recruit others.
As US citizens they are traitors – - whatever happened to the days when a traitor got what was coming to them?
These two will get the ACLU on their side and will state they were framed because of racial profiling – - if they serve anything even close to the 15 years they could get I’ll be very surprised.
May 30, 2005 - 08:41 PM on May 30th, 2005
“whatever happened to the days when a traitor got what was coming to them”- When they let the Kerry’s and the Fonda’s of this country get away with it, it went downhill from there.
You bet the ACLU will be all over this. The only people getting screwed are U.S. citizen’s so who cares:roll:
May 31, 2005 - 07:32 AM on May 31st, 2005
Racial profiling..sounds about right as far as what they’ll say…so I guess these guys will be the Victims’ according to the ACLU?
May 31, 2005 - 12:28 PM on May 31st, 2005
if found guilty they should swing quickly, i mean i thought traitors got death? no maybe 15 years in jail, then they can get out and try again.
May 31, 2005 - 03:14 PM on May 31st, 2005
Perhaps we’ll get lucky and another prisoner will shiv these two like the guy in Wisconsin who killed Jeffery Dahmer to get a badass rep.
May 31, 2005 - 03:58 PM on May 31st, 2005
Maybe a guard will point at their genitals and laugh…then we can hang the guard for “abuse”
May 31, 2005 - 03:59 PM on May 31st, 2005
Maybe a guard will point at their genitals and laugh…then we can hang the guard for “abuse”