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Home Front: WoT
Blind Sheik Prays to Allan Successfully for Adhesive Tape
2004-08-29
From The New York Times
The scene was captured on secretly filmed videotape shown last week in Federal District Court in Manhattan: Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman, a fundamentalist Islamic cleric and convicted terrorist, devouring Baby Ruth bars even though his prison doctors had forbidden chocolate because he is diabetic.
I think I'll take up a collection to buy him more...
The tapes, displayed at the trial of the sheik's lawyer, Lynne F. Stewart, show him pining to see a geisha girl, and railing about foul-smelling gases that he believed prison authorities had sprayed into his cell to drive him mad. ...
That might have been the chili, though...
The elderly cleric is clearly ailing and disoriented after eight years of solitary confinement in United States prisons. ...
His turban was perhaps a bit overwrapped when he went in...
In a discussion that suggested the toll his confinement had taken, the sheik tells how he battled the odors invading his cell. "They used to get to my brain. I couldn't read, pray or do anything," he says. "Oh my Lord, they messed me up." He went around his cell covering any openings with paper, and then he prayed, he says, for tape to secure it. "Lord, I need adhesive tape," he said, and soon his prayers were answered. "I found adhesive tape," he says, without explanation, and Mr. Yousry exclaims: "Praise God."
"So then I prayed for a pony and went for a ride!"
Posted by:Mike Sylwester

#13  Maybe for inspiration, we can get an arabic audio CD of the book Papillion....
Posted by: Alaska Paul   2004-08-29 11:59:29 PM  

#12  Maybe Martha Stewart was in the cell next to him?
Posted by: Brewer   2004-08-29 11:19:19 PM  

#11  the sheik tells how he battled the odors invading his cell

Gotta be those guards cooking BACON in the microwave in the lunchroom down the hall.
Posted by: BigEd   2004-08-29 9:09:12 PM  

#10  Stupid question, I know, but how would a blind Islamist read? Its not like improving the light in his cell would make a difference, and I can't imagine a braille for Arabic has been invented, or that he would have the temperament to learn it if it had.
Posted by: trailing wife   2004-08-29 6:11:09 PM  

#9  Baby Ruth bars!? That's what HELLBOY eats! Makes sense since one came from and the other is going to...
Posted by: borgboy   2004-08-29 6:07:28 PM  

#8  These guy have it good. This is not solitary confinement. It's a high security prison. You have to be very evil or a total &*^% up to end up there.

I can think of places he and his communist ACLU ( sorry to be redundant) lawyer can use that tape atarting with his nose and mouth.
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom   2004-08-29 5:30:10 PM  

#7  Maybe he's smelling Richard Ried's feet since they're residents of the same 'hotel' in Florence, CO. Eight or nine years in solitary would probably make someone yearn for a transfer to GITMO.
Posted by: GK   2004-08-29 4:28:46 PM  

#6  " I couldn’t read, pray or do anything," he says. "Oh my Lord, they messed me up."

Been there but had to pay for it
Posted by: Half   2004-08-29 3:30:58 PM  

#5  Allan Ahkbar!!!!
Posted by: anymouse   2004-08-29 2:19:05 PM  

#4  I think the court should grant the sheik conjugal visits with Lynne Steward. I think they deserve each other.
Posted by: Zhang Fei   2004-08-29 11:25:15 AM  

#3  that smell was probably Lynn Steart
Posted by: Frank G   2004-08-29 11:06:24 AM  

#2  "she tells the sheik that a kidnapping by a terrorist group in the Philippines to pressure for his release was "very, very crucial," because it would "keep your name as someone that the mujahedin consider their own hero,"
Now dosen't this sound like a cpnspiracey to comit a crime?
Posted by: raptor   2004-08-29 10:57:08 AM  

#1  Hurry up and die, ya blind bastard. And take your ugly asshat lawyer with you.
Posted by: tu3031   2004-08-29 9:59:52 AM  

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