Tuesday, June 15, 2004
Columbus, back in the big time! How big? Well, how about the Daily Times in Pakistan, the FBI Press Room and the New York Times? Bustown is apparently well known enough after the highway sniper... er, shooter incident that we no longer need to be qualified as "3 hours South of Cleveland." The headline is: Somali Is Accused of Planning a Terror Attack at a Shopping Center in Ohio. Hey, now that's a headline. But is that the story? Cut to the chase.
The mall bombing plot is glitz. It gets mentioned in a filing to prolong the detention of Nuradin M. Abdi... and thereafter in the FBI press room, and most major news outlets in the world. It is remarkably absent from his federal indictment. The meat of the government's claim is that "fraud and misuse" of INS (uh, I mean, "Homeland Security") travel documents. "Mr. Abdi was first arrested by the immigration authorities on Nov. 28, and has been held under a deportation order issued by the Department of Homeland Security. An immigration judge revoked his asylum status on Jan. 28." What this means is that they have sat on his case for more than half a year, a case that had as it's goal to kick him out of the country. Then, when he might be realeased (since he hasn't yet been convicted of anything), they indict him for bad INS docs and "material support".
All this is a tangent from the "Al Queda trucker" conviction whereby an Ohio man is serving 20 years in a Fed Pen for "material support" to Al Queda and the halfass idea to cut cables on the Brooklyn Bridge.
The mall bombing plot is glitz. It gets mentioned in a filing to prolong the detention of Nuradin M. Abdi... and thereafter in the FBI press room, and most major news outlets in the world. It is remarkably absent from his federal indictment. The meat of the government's claim is that "fraud and misuse" of INS (uh, I mean, "Homeland Security") travel documents. "Mr. Abdi was first arrested by the immigration authorities on Nov. 28, and has been held under a deportation order issued by the Department of Homeland Security. An immigration judge revoked his asylum status on Jan. 28." What this means is that they have sat on his case for more than half a year, a case that had as it's goal to kick him out of the country. Then, when he might be realeased (since he hasn't yet been convicted of anything), they indict him for bad INS docs and "material support".
All this is a tangent from the "Al Queda trucker" conviction whereby an Ohio man is serving 20 years in a Fed Pen for "material support" to Al Queda and the halfass idea to cut cables on the Brooklyn Bridge.
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