Cyber Evidence from Library Convicts Would-Be Terrorist
The Democrats want to hamstring the law enforcement agencies of this country by killing parts of the USA Patriot Act, including the portions that allow the FBI to search public library computers for evidence of crimes. Well, one dopey moslem, in the country illegally, tried to recruit visitors to http://www.jihadwatch.org/in an attempt to develop a terrorism plan that would make 9/11 look like a ‘headache.’ He did his recruiting from a public library computer. From NBC4, the NBC station in Washington, DC- http://www.nbc4.com/news/6239477/detail.html
Va. Officer: Man Tried To Recruit Him For Terror Cause
Jordanian Lived In OhioDAYTON, Ohio — A Jordanian living in Ohio tried to recruit a Norfolk, Va., police officer for a terrorist cause, the officer testified in a federal hearing.
David Vazquez testified Wednesday in federal court that Mohammed Radwan Obeid told him in an e-mail that he was helping to start an operation that would dwarf the 2001 terrorist attacks in New York and Washington, D.C.
Vazquez said he contacted Obeid through two Web sites, including jihadwatch.org, and contacted the FBI after reading Obeid’s e-mails.
Obeid, who worked as a cashier in Dayton before his arrest last March on immigration fraud charges, was indicted in October after telling FBI agents that he hadn’t used the e-mail account.
He pleaded guilty in December to a felony count of knowingly and willfully making false material representation. He faces a maximum of five years in prison.
Reference librarian Laura Girolamo testified Wednesday that Obeid apparently sent e-mail about gun silencers and constructing hydrogen bombs on a computer at the Troy-Miami County Public Library. She contacted the FBI as well.
Obeid’s lawyer, Shawn Kelly, challenged Vazquez’s interpretation of the e-mail and said he doubted Girolamo could know for sure that Obeid sent the e-mails from the library.
I think the lawyer in this case is stupid too. All email is marked as belonging to its originating email server, and more often than not, from the originating IP address. The email evidence should say when it was sent, at what time, and from which workstation. That the moslem was so creepy that he attracted the attention of a librarian so she would remember him and want to turn him over the the FBI is notable.
Obeid’s attorneys have argued that he visited terrorist Web sites because he was conducting research for a book about terrorism and world religions.
A federal immigration judge ordered Obeid’s deportation in September, and he has not appealed the decision, said Elaine Komis, a spokeswoman for the Executive Office for Immigration Review.
Immigration officials said they believe Obeid entered the United States through marriage fraud. He married a Kansas City woman in Jordan and came to the United States in 2001, according to court papers. The marriage was annulled five months later.
Don’t get me wrong. This man was no genius. He could no more construct a hydrogen bomb than he could eat pork fried rice. He was stupid for using a computer to email people about recruiting them into his nefarious plans, and now he is going to stay behind bars until he can be deported. Good riddance. I say send his Kansas-City wife too!
hat tip to the Jawa Report.
