Friends, Family Decry Shopping Mall Plot

[struggle4progress]

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Nuradin Abdi, a Somali refugee, is accused of plotting with admitted al-Qaida member Iyman Faris to blow up an unspecified shopping mall.
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People who know both men insist a friendship doesn't amount to a plot.
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Ahmad Guled, 35, said Abdi helped him get a job as a forklift driver.
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Abdi's family has seen him little since his arrest and says he appears mentally ill. A federal magistrate last week ordered a psychological evaluation to determine if he's able to stand trial.

http://www.macon.com/mld/macon/news/nation/8965421.htm

[Shadder]

1. So?

We got a wannabe president that appears mentally ill.

[struggle4progress]

3. So I'm wondering if this guy got picked up, ...

was held incommunicado and perhaps psychologically abused for months, and didn't just go off the deep end eventually in prison, all because he's been living in a town with only two mosques and happened to know another guy the FIB was after.

[Career Prole]

2. "The FBI and federal prosecutors won't discuss the evidence...

...supporting their allegation that Faris picked up Abdi at the Columbus airport in March 2000 when Abdi returned from military-style training in Ethiopia, and that another man showed Abdi how to make bombs."

I doubt seriously they have evidence of any "mall bombing plot". If there's a plot it's on the part of the administration to promote a little mid-campaign terraphobia. Ohio is a battleground state, after all.
Abdi won't see a courtroom until after the election and then will be released for insufficient evidence.

[NMDemDist2]

4. yes

Abdi won't see a courtroom until after the election and then will be released for insufficient evidence.
and the news will be buried on page B5 of the local paper

[koopie57]

5. on top of that

he won't have a job, no one will want to hire him and the town's people are scared of him and his family.

[mulethree]

6. We need an FDR - "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself"

[uptown ruler]

7. the appearance of the possibility of...

something is enough for ashcroft and his crew...

they scare me.


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[rustydog]

8. So sad, we've been lied to for so long, this could be the truth

but no one will believe it.
Name one successful prosecution of a terrorist since 9-11.

Lindh does not count, he was a soldier captured in combat, not a terror operation AND he was tortured to get a confession.