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And Then They Came For The Muslims     : Information Clearing House

And Then They Came For The Muslims     : Information Clearing House

And Then They Came For The Muslims

By Roqayah Chamseddine
April 15, 2012 "Information Clearing House" --- 29-year-old Tarek Mehanna, a United States citizen and graduate from the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, was recently sentenced to seventeen and a half years in prison, followed by seven years of supervised release, on federal criminal charges of “conspiracy to provide material support to terrorists and providing or attempting to provide material support to terrorists.”

Mehanna, through instant messages and emails, communicated his opposition of U.S. military operations in the Middle East and openly criticized what he viewed as “the oppression of Muslims in the United States”; as per his defense council, Tarek had been under investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, to his knowledge, since approximately 2005 wherein he was periodically interviewed and monitored:

“The FBI has monitored a large amount of Internet-based text conversations that involve Tarek.  The instant messages reveal that Tarek was aware of the monitoring activities, or at least believed that they were occurring.  Despite this awareness, he did not cease speaking online.  He discussed the monitoring activities with his friends and correspondents, and he was repeatedly clear as to why he would not stop his online activities:  he was breaking no laws.” 

In US v. Mehanna the State’s case largely relied on allegations of his watching videos about “jihad”, discussing his views about suicide bombings online, translating texts readily available on the Internet, and looking for information about the 9/11 attackers.

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