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Behind the conviction of Pakistani scientist Aafia Siddiqui
By: Anne Gamboni
U.S. government, military–the real terrorists
One of the vile byproducts of the “global war on terror,” now in its ninth year, has been the “commodification” of intelligence gathering. Information is needed, President Obama stated in a major policy speech in May 2009, not just to prosecute those who commit attacks but to prevent attacks before they happen. Such a war on terror has no physical boundaries and the demand for information no limits. A system of secret and known prisons and spy agencies like the CIA and its lackeys around the globe are needed to run this dirty business.
Muslim Community Rallies Behind Sudbury Man Charged By The FBI
To friends and family, he was a maturing leader in the Muslim community, a passionate writer who was departing for Saudi Arabia for a career as a pharmacist. But the arrest of Tariq buy levitra Mehanna in November, as he was about Kamagra Gold to board a plane at Logan International Airport for his new life in the Middle East, has cast the 26-year-old in darker terms, as a liar supporting and associating with terrorists.
With an indictment in federal court, the Sudbury man faces a maximum sentence of eight years in prison on charges of lying to investigators in a terrorism inquiry. But a community of supporters has rallied around him, questioning how Mehanna could have been ensnared in a federal case and whether he is being used a pawn in the FBI’s war on terrorism.
“They’re kind of painting the wrong picture of the Muslim community,” said S. Ahmad Zamanian of Houston, a friend of Mehanna’s. “Anyone who has met Tariq . . . would all tell you that this man is far removed from anyone’s definition of a terrorist.”
