Breaking: A Utah link to terrorism?

[ECH1969]

Counterterrorist agents pounced on five men, one in Utah and four in California, Wednesday as part of an investigation into the U.S. connections of a suspected senior al-Qaida operative imprisoned in Iraq.

The Omar family has extensive ties in Jordan, where Shawqi Omar moved his family in 1995 and where he now stands accused of helping terrorist mastermind Abu Masab al-Zarqawi plot a chemical attack.

But back in Utah, Omar's brother Gus says there is no connection. "If you're a Sunni and from Jordan and in Iraq, then you're bound to meet somebody who has met Zarqawi, but Shawqi doesn't know him," said Gus Omar, who has not been implicated in the case against his brothers.

A document filed by Omar's lawyers this week, in which they have again requested access to their client, alleged that U.S. troops tortured Omar with electric shocks and beatings.

http://www.sltrib.com/utah/ci_3755851

[Newsjock]

1. Breaking: Chimpy approval in Utah drops; dangerously close to 50%

Call out the terra!

[HuffleClaw]

2. history is going to look at these years of political racial profiling

prosecutions as a dark era indeed.

[ShockediSay]

3. and warrantless snooping, arrests and torture n/t

[regnaD kciN]

4. I can just hear some of Bush's Vaterland Security geniuses now...

"They're in Utah. Muslim? Mormon? Who cares? They both start with 'M' and they've both got lots of wives." :eyes: