Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Another Flushing-bred terrorist pleads guilty

From the Daily News:

On the eve of his terrorism trial, an American student who studied in London admitted Tuesday that he helped a friend deliver some protective clothing to an al-Qaida military commander fighting Americans in Afghanistan.

The plea by Syed Hashmi to a single count of conspiracy to provide material support to al-Qaida was entered in U.S. District Court in Manhattan, averting a trial that was supposed to begin Wednesday.

As part of a plea deal that will require prosecutors to drop three other terrorism charges at his June 7 sentencing, Hashmi agreed to serve 15 years in prison. He has already served four years, at least three of them in solitary confinement at a federal lockup in lower Manhattan.

The 30-year-old Hashmi had faced up to 70 years in prison if convicted of four criminal counts.

"He'll be out of prison before he's 40 and have his whole life in front of him," defense attorney David Ruhnke said outside court.

Hashmi, born in Karachi, Pakistan, was raised in Flushing, Queens. He obtained his bachelor's degree in political science from Brooklyn College before moving to London in 2003 to study at London Metropolitan University, where he got a master's degree in international relations in 2006.

The government's handling of Hashmi has been accompanied by an unusual outpouring of support for Hashmi from family, friends and civil rights groups that insisted he was being prosecuted because he had been outspoken against U.S. policies in the Middle East.

Prosecutors had planned at his trial to show jurors an excerpt of a five-minute videotape that they say shows Hashmi leading a June 2002 protest in Manhattan by an Islamic fundamentalist organization whose members support al-Qaida and seek the overthrow of Western society. The government said Hashmi, among other things, said "Bin Laden is not a terrorist."

12 comments:

Anonymous said...

The defesne attorney says he will be out of jail before he is 40 and have his whole life ahead of him.

Lucky us!!!

Anonymous said...

Deport this fool to Ilambad, Pak. , now. Why feed and house him till he is released?

Anonymous said...

Kill him.

Anonymous said...

Death to ALL TERRORISTS AND THEIR AIDS!

Anonymous said...

This guy is smiling at all you stupid americans! KILL THE SONOFABITCH!!!!

Anonymous said...

I agree why pay to feed and house him. Just destroy him....

Anonymous said...

"He'll be out of prison before he's 40 and have his whole life in front of him...Which will be all of a few weeks after he blows himself up inside a crowded mall out of revenge for his imprisonment"

Anonymous said...

So handsome!

Anonymous said...

Here is one guy that never bought the Machine's Kumbaya that springs forth weakly in all the weeklies.

Anonymous said...

ummm the constitution defines treason as providing "aid or comfort" to the enemy. He pled guilty to "conspiracy to provide material support". Doesn't that automatically qualify you for the death penalty (considering we are at war with Al Qaeda) at the very least he should have his citizenship revoked and he should be sent back to Pakistan. But personally I believe he should spend the next 10 years being sodomized in a US prison before he's deported. When he gets to Pakistan he'll be treated like a king.

Anonymous said...

he is a local (QUISLING) ,see wikipedia,
the Norwegians executed their local traitor,after WWll.
our Quisling lawmakers and Holder's (appointed by obama ) justice dept. must copy the Norwegians.

call Schumer. ask him to present a bill (on Sunday night t.v.) to execute traitors.

Anonymous said...

Maspeth Mom says...

Its better to keep him in a USA prison forever, than to return him to his "COUNTRY" so he can plan to annhilate more Americans.