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| Former CAIR Director Sentenced |
| 2003-11-14 |
| Goodbye. The former head of an Islamic charity that was accused of having ties to terrorism was sentenced Thursday after pleading guilty to bank and visa fraud. Another guilty plea, some cops are doing a good job. U.S. District Judge Lawrence Zatkoff sentenced Bassem Khafagi, formerly of Ann Arbor, to 10 months of time already served in prison. Khafagi, 41, pleaded guilty Sept. 9. Khafagi admitted during the September hearing that he passed bad checks at two banks for thousands of dollars in 2001, U.S. Attorney Jeffrey Collins said in a statement. Collins said Khafagi also "confessed ... he made false material statements" on his nonimmigrant visa application on Nov. 8, 2000, in Kuwait City, Kuwait. Wonder what else they got on him? An immigration judge ordered Khafagi deported in August. He is expected to be deported soon to his native Egypt, where he is to join his wife and U.S.-born children, the Detroit Free Press reported. Egyptian, and applied for a visa in Kuwait? Humm. Khafagi had been in custody since January, when he was arrested in a hotel near LaGuardia Airport in New York. At the time of his arrest, he was community affairs director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, a Muslim civil rights and |
| Posted by:Steve |
| #5 Let's hear some more from Cair on how they never getinvited to the White House for substantive policy making. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2003-11-14 3:41:36 PM |
| #4 How can the Arabs continue to cry ‘VICTIM’ when their leaders plead guilty to TERRORISTS charges. I am beginning to think that maybe they are guilty and NOT victims of racial bias. No wonder the President doesn’t invite these idiots to the White House! BTW: Has everyone heard enough about Islam to last them a lifetime? |
| Posted by: Cyber Sarge (VRWC CA Chapter) 2003-11-14 11:39:05 AM |
| #3 Two or three times. |
| Posted by: Seafarious 2003-11-14 11:20:58 AM |
| #2 Why can't he fall in front of a bus on the way to the airport? |
| Posted by: Anonymous 2003-11-14 11:20:02 AM |
| #1 Why can't we keep him in US prison where we can keep an eye on him? It's not like he's gonna become less militant in Egypt... |
| Posted by: Seafarious 2003-11-14 11:17:12 AM |