Aafia Siddiqui: Victimized by American Injustice – by Stephen Lendman
On February 3, a Department of Justice press release headlined “Aafia Siddiqui Found Guilty in Manhattan Federal Court of Attempting to Murder US Nationals in Afghanistan and Six Additional Charges.”
At her scheduled May 6 sentencing, she “faces a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison on [...]
by Amitava Kumar
Author of “Husband of a Fanatic” and professor at Vassar
What do you do if a young man who was a student in your class is thrown in prison on a terrorism charge?
Jeanne Theoharis teaches Political Science at Brooklyn College. In June 2006, when British authorities detained 26-year-old Syed Fahad Hashmi at Heathrow Airport, [...]
Restrictive Terms of Prisoner’s Confinement Add Fuel to Debate
By KAREEM FAHIM
Published: February 4, 2009
Charged with providing support to Al Qaeda, Syed Hashmi, a 28-year-old Queens man, has been held in solitary confinement for 15 months in a federal prison in Manhattan.
Syed Hashmi, a Pakistani immigrant who grew up in Queens, has awaited trial [...]
One Day We’ll All Be Terrorists
AP / Mary Altaffer
Syed Fahad Hashmi can tell you about the dark heart of America. He knows that our First Amendment rights have become a joke, that habeas corpus no longer exists and that we torture, not only in black sites such as those at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan [...]
Two Standards of Detention
By Amy Goodman
Source: Truthout
Scott Roeder, the anti-abortion zealot charged with killing Dr. George Tiller, has been busy. He called the Associated Press from the Sedgwick County Jail in Kansas, saying, “I know there are many other similar events planned around the country as long as abortion remains legal.” Charged with first-degree murder [...]
SHOCK, HORROR, DRAMA: New York media miss shock, horror, drama …
By Yvonne Ridley in New York
Dr Aafia Siddiqui is a bright, intelligent woman who has been through hell having being kidnapped, tortured in secret prisons, gunned down by US soldiers and renditioned to America where she is now facing attempted murder charges against those who [...]
The Powerful Testimony of Dr. Aafia Siddiqui
Aafia Siddiqui – a daughter, a sister, a mother of three, committed Muslim, social scientist, hafiz of Qur’an – needed to be heard. For years she had suffered in virtual silence…aching to be heard, to be understood, to have certain malicious untruths corrected and exposed for the lies they [...]
The NYPD’s Divisive Intelligence Division
By Len Levitt
No one in New York City, and arguably in the nation, has done more to combat terrorism than Ray Kelly.
Since returning as New York City Police Commissioner four months after the 9/11 attacks, he has made fighting terrorism his mission, creating a Counter-Terrorism Division, revamping the department’s [...]
Zazi Case: How Far Should FBI Go in Tracking Muslims?
By Michael B. Farrell
Muslim groups say the surveillance techniques authorized by the Patriot Act and credited with helping nab alleged New York bomb plotter Najibullah Zazi are alienating potential allies against terrorism.
Three arrests in three separate terror cases last week bolster the Obama administration’s [...]
Thoughts on the 5th anniversary of the arrest of Yassin Aref and Mohammed Hossain.
On Tuesday, August 4, 2009 over 100 people marched through the streets of Albany, New York to protest the FBI’s tricking Yassin Aref and Mohammed Hossain into doing something that could look as if it was illegal and then putting them in [...]
