"My phone is bugged, but it doesn't matter," Hassoun says on a 1995, wiretapped call. Yes it did

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http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/broward/sfl-flbhassoun0709nbjul09,0,652242.story?coll=sfla-news-broward

FBI wiretaps of Sunrise man offer look into terror case

Since the start of his trial in Miami federal court last month, all eyes have been on Jose Padilla, the former Broward resident once accused of plotting to detonate a radioactive "dirty bomb" on U.S. soil.

But it is another local man who stands at the center of the government's case: former Sunrise computer programmer Adham Amin Hassoun. snip

On the tapes, Hassoun, a prominent speaker and fundraiser in South Florida's Muslim community, can be heard urging others to join far-off conflicts involving Muslims in Ethiopia, Chechnya and Kosovo. snip

In private, Hassoun's views were something less than neighborly.On a 1996 call played for jurors, Hassoun can be heard fuming over a photo published in an Islamic newsletter of a Muslim man shaking hands with Hillary Clinton.

"The only way to deal with those people is with the sword," he says. snip

Hassoun frequently acknowledged the government was listening in. Despite his vocal disapproval of U.S. policies, he apparently was confident his adopted government would not arrest him.

"My phone is bugged, but it doesn't matter," Hassoun says on a June 25, 1995, wiretapped call.

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1. That arrogance reminds me of another well known figure.

I can imagine him saying "So what if I just admitted to war crimes on national TV. What are they gonna do about it? Nuthin' that's what."