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Iraqi-American Imprisoned for sending money to feed his friends & family
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Iraqi-American is imprisoned by US for saving his family from US sa...
Glenn Greenwald
I'm currently traveling around the US on a speaking tour, and as I've written before, one of the prime benefits of doing that is being able to meet people and their families whose lives have been severely harmed by the post-9/11 assault on basic liberties. Doing that prevents one from regarding these injustices as abstractions, and ensures that the very real human costs from these government abuses remain vivid.
Such is the case with the treatment of Dr. Shakir Hamoodi, an Iraqi-American nuclear engineer who just began a three-year prison sentence at the Fort Leavenworth, Kansas penitentiary for the "crime" of sending sustenance money to his impoverished, sick, and suffering relatives in Iraq - including his blind mother - during the years when US sanctions (which is what caused his family's suffering) barred the sending of any money to Iraq.
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Permalink Reply by zrdm on -
Sanctions never worked, they never have and they never will. I could be sent to jail for sending plant compounds to Iran that would enable farmers to defeat a blight. I would prevent many from going hungry, and would be thus accused of being a terrorist supporter, disgraced, my family's name tarnished, and jailed.
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Permalink Reply by Chris on -
I posted the following under Human Rights, but thought I'd put it here too.
The Judge in the above article isn't following the spirit of the law. I suspect Islamophobia, or more accurately a prejudice against people from that region - Islamahatred (?)
What Is Happening to Muslims Will Happen to the Rest of Us
Posted on Oct 1, 2012
By Chris Hedges
The decision by the European Court of Human Rights last week to refuse to block the extradition of the radical Muslim cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri and four others to the United States on terrorism charges removes one of the last external checks on our emerging gulag state.
Masri and the four others, all held in British jails, will soon join hundreds of other Muslims tried in Article III federal courtsin the United States over the last decade. Fair trials are unlikely. A disturbing pattern of gross infringements on basic civil liberties, put in place in the name of national security, has poisoned our legal system. These infringements include intrusive surveillance, vague material support charges, the use of prolonged pretrial solitary confinement, classified evidence that the accused cannot review, and the use of political activities, normally protected under the First Amendment, to demonstrate mind-set and intent. Muslims caught up in the Article III courts are denied the opportunity to confront their accusers and to have their religious and political associations protected, and they rarely find a judge courageous enough to protect their rights. These violations of fundamental civil liberties will not, in the end, be reserved exclusively for Muslims once the corporate state feels under siege. What is happening to them will happen to the rest of us.
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