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American Jihadists?By Bill West
Over this Memorial Day weekend, two US citizens were arrested by Federal authorities for conspiracy to provide material support to al-Qaeda. The suspects, Tarik Ibn Osman Shah, a martial arts expert, and Rafiq Sabir, a medical doctor, were arrested in New York and Boca Raton, Florida, respectively. The arrests culminated a two-year undercover investigation by the FBI wherein, according to the criminal complaint and news reports, the suspects told an informant and an undercover FBI agent they wanted to provide martial arts training and medical treatment to jihadists in their terror war against America. The suspects allegedly swore allegiance to al-Qaeda and Osama bin Laden. If the charges are proven, one of the most disturbing aspects of this case will be the fact that two older American citizens, including a well educated medical doctor, who are hardly wild-eyed misguided youth, were lured into the violent treachery of radical Islam, enough so that they were willing to help their countrys sworn enemies wage war against it. Unfortunately, this is not something new. We had such American Jihadists in the first World Trade Center bombing case and even earlier, as with the suspected radical Islamic assassin of Ali Akbar Tabatabai, a former Iranian diplomat turned dissident killed in Washington, D.C. in July 1980. The defendants enjoy the presumption of innocence and are entitled to full due process under US law. The Governments case, however, on its face would appear strong; with what could be the suspects own words being the most damaging evidence against them. There is also a question of whether others may have been involved with these two in this scheme, and to what extent.
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