Feds: Tarek Mehanna was al-Qaeda mouthpiece

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Source: Boston Herald

As an American-born Muslim of privilege tried to shield himself yesterday with the Constitution he’s accused of betraying, prosecutors began painting for jurors a sinister portrait of a young man the feds said both al-Qaeda and the FBI recognized was becoming a mouthpiece for jihad.

By moderating online chats from the “cushy bedroom” of his parents’ Sudbury home about the monster he thought of as his “real father,” 9/11 mastermind Osama bin Laden, and translating bin Laden’s recorded calls to arms into English subtitles, assistant U.S. Attorney Aloke Chakravarty said Mehanna, 29, “viewed himself as part of the media department of the terror group.


“It meant killing, it meant bullets, it meant martyrdom,” said Chakravarty, noting that in the summer of 2005, al-Qaeda “personally solicited” Mehanna to translate works by leader Ayman al-Zawahri.

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1. Hmmmm.....

...well if he's all that bad, why didn't we just shoot him down with a drone? I mean there's no point in wasting taxpayer dollars on due process, a trial and all that shit. Right?


- This article could have been written by http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGwUtQrnow8">Pravda in 1970......