Muslim Terrorist Who Plotted to Destroy Brooklyn Bridge STRIPPED OF US CITIZENSHIP at Government Request

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This should be policy and not a one-off.

Faris met with Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan and worked with Sept. 11 architect Khalid Sheikh Mohammed

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Judge strips terrorist of U.S. citizenship at government request

By Andrew Welsh-Huggins – Associated Press, February 5, 2020

COLUMBUS, Ohio — A federal judge has stripped a terrorist of his naturalized U.S. citizenship, siding with the government in the case of a Pakistan-born man convicted more than 15 years ago of plotting to destroy New York’s Brooklyn Bridge.

Defendant Iyman Faris, once a truck driver in Columbus, Ohio, was sentenced in 2003 for aiding and abetting al-Qaida by scoping out the bridge as part of a plot to cut through cables that support it. His case was among the first and highest-profile terrorism cases after the Sept. 11 attacks.

Faris met with Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan and worked with Sept. 11 architect Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, although some critics questioned how realistic the plot was, given post-Sept. 11 security in New York.

The government argued that Faris lied on immigration papers before becoming a naturalized U.S. citizen in 1999 and that his terrorist affiliations demonstrated a lack of commitment to the U.S. Constitution. Faris entered the U.S. using with the passport and visa of someone he’d met in Bosnia, the government said.

“He was a wolf in sheep’s clothing who took advantage of American generosity with plans to terrorize and murder,” Steven Weinhoeft, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, said in a statement. “He does not deserve the honor of being an American citizen.”

Two years ago, Judge Staci Yanle rejected a similar request by the government, saying at the time there wasn’t enough evidence to prove Faris‘ misrepresentations influenced the decision to grant him citizenship.

In a ruling on Friday, she said the government had proved its case. “The United States of America has produced clear and unequivocal evidence that Defendant Iyman Faris obtained his naturalization unlawfully,” Yanle wrote.

Faris, 50, is currently housed in a federal prison in Marion, Illinois, with a release date in August.

Faris was known as Mohammad Rauf before becoming a U.S. citizen. He worked as a truck driver in Columbus and was married to an American woman for a while. Over the years, he talked about a book he was going to write detailing his adventures, once telling a girlfriend he was going to earn a million dollars from his writing.

Faris‘ attorney has argued that the government’s request violated the terms of Faris‘ 2003 plea agreement, which never included the possibility of denaturalization or deportation. Chicago defense attorney Thomas Durkin said Wednesday it was disappointing not to be able to make their case in a trial, which had been scheduled for next month.

At that trial, “the government’s war on terror tactics and promises could be fully aired,” Durkin said. “This is a dangerous precedent being set that could well have serious consequences for all U.S. citizens.”

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Jay Wizzy
Jay Wizzy
4 years ago

-Finding a way out of Muhammadism-
Democracy & capitalism are just crutches a healthy person shouldn’t use.
In the end democracy & capitalism hinder us from achieving the end-goal of ethical governance globally.
We need a global government focused on the ethical values of US English plus regional language, health, ecology, GLOBALFIRM (free cultivated ecological best quality basics & free support for self-realization), diet & kindness.
Democracy & capitalism are a limbo-test, have their function & obscolescence: democracy is a survey, a poll & capitalism served for cultivation of ecological best-quality standards & products.
Yet if we are on capitalism all the time & solely, it’s like fasting too much or eating nothing but broccoli all the time.

Hook
Hook
4 years ago
Reply to  Jay Wizzy

Hey Wizzy, what you’s smokin’ makin’ you dizzy

MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
4 years ago
Reply to  Jay Wizzy

Yes democracy is the worst form of government — except for all the rest.

TomSJr
TomSJr
4 years ago

@ Jay Wizzy “-Finding a way out of Muhammadism-
Democracy & capitalism are just crutches a healthy person shouldn’t use.
In the end democracy & capitalism hinder us from achieving the end-goal of ethical governance globally.

We need a global government focused on the ethical values of US English plus regional language, health, ecology, GLOBALFIRM (free cultivated ecological best quality basics & free support for self-realization), diet & kindness.”

———————————————————————————————————————-
SO, YOU THINK A GLOBAL GOVT, A MASSIVE LEVIATHAN OF PEOPLE, WILL SOLVE THE WORLD’S PROBLEMS? YOU SOUND LIKE THE ANTICHRIST.

Ah, maybe you are the ANTICHRIST because TOTALITARIANISM is what the antichrist WILL do .

Tamara Hussey-Mecklenburg
Tamara Hussey-Mecklenburg
4 years ago

Anyone committing such acts of war on Americans should be stripped of their citizenship, especially immigrants who have a homeland to return to following their incarceration period.

The charges of treason should also be included for terrorist actions by citizens.

And absolutely every attack in civilians by a terrorist or religious extremist should include war crime charges. We must stop treating these actions as disgruntled protests

An act of war is an act of war and it’s absolutely an act of war.

cylde
cylde
4 years ago

If his country refuses to take him back he should stay in prison till they do.

Tamara Hussey-Mecklenburg
Tamara Hussey-Mecklenburg
4 years ago
Reply to  cylde

Very great idea!

Laddyboy
Laddyboy
4 years ago
Reply to  cylde

@cylde: Nope! Place in in a boat and anchor it in the nearest harbor of his home country. Hopefully, there are hungry sharks in the water around the boat. Bye! Bye!!

Cauc-Asian Patriot
Cauc-Asian Patriot
4 years ago

If we start judging American Presidents for war-crimes, Dem-Rat globalists Thomas Woodrow Wilson would be at the top of the list! Also, Pres. Harry S. Truman who was just pure ignorance for the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan when the Japanese Empire was trying to come to a cessation of activities after globalist Dem-Rat Pres. Franklin Roosevelt did all he could to force the Japanese Empire to make war on the USA! He did this by his system of cutting their Empire off from oil when he closed the Panama Canal to Japan getting oil from Venezuela which was when the Japanese government fell to the Army under Gen Tojo which decided that it must acquire Indonesia and parts of Asia for its needs so must attack the USA to make sure its Navy could not stop them! This was after the USA committed 3 acts of war against its Empire in China when it set up an air force (the Flying Tigers) which attacked Japanese allied forces there for a year in 1940, Amelia Earhart’s spy mission when the Japanese discovered they were being spied on by the USA and in its trading relationships that Pres. Roosevelt interfered with to finally stop them from getting oil from Latin America! The globalists have been doing what they do for a long time!

MAS
MAS
4 years ago

He should go directly to Pakistan from his prison cell, the first of many. Islam doesn’t blend with our Constitutional Republic…

Bianca
Bianca
4 years ago
Reply to  MAS

Australia should do same with fake indiginious criminals who use loophole to stay in aust ralia. Govt should really look into vale indigenous people background we cannot let anyone just come in and stay.

DemocracyRules
DemocracyRules
4 years ago

Funding Secured For 1,000 Miles Of Border Wall, White House Officials Say
https://dailycaller.com/2020/02/09/trump-white-house-secures-funds-thousand-miles-border-wall/

Victor
Victor
4 years ago

islam is a lie and this is the fruit of the tree

ed
ed
4 years ago
Reply to  Victor

Remove the word “Pretend” from your 1st sentence, and then I believe you…..

tituspullo
tituspullo
4 years ago

one less muslim on american soil, that’s a win

Dave Jensen
Dave Jensen
4 years ago

Besides paying to support these low IQ, violent, third world savages, I wonder how much money is spent on security to keep them from doing more terrorist acts than they do now. Deport all of the filthy goat f__kers.

SFTOBEY
SFTOBEY
4 years ago
Reply to  Dave Jensen

I wouldn’t trust Dr. Jasser as far as I could throw him. He’s one of those supposedly “moderate” muslims who like to get ugly when debating Robert Spencer of JihadWatch. No thanks.

cylde
cylde
4 years ago

Every naturalized citizen should be deported if the government requests it. what the government giveth the government can taketh.

mjazzguitar
mjazzguitar
4 years ago
Reply to  cylde

If an immigrant commits a crime a lot of times the judge will give them 364 days because a year or over means they can be deported. The democяat’s New Way Forward Act would change that to five years.

Jay Dillon
Jay Dillon
4 years ago

He’s a terrorist. Why in the name of heck are we not executing convicted terrorists? I mean, once you drain them of information, that should be the end of the road for them. We are not acting responsibly. Our descendants, if any, will curse us for it. We need to make sure all terrorists who are convicted as such, in major plots, should be executed. It should be the law and we should carry it out promptly after a fair trial. That’s my opinion.

Laddyboy
Laddyboy
4 years ago
Reply to  Jay Dillon

@JD; You mean you ACTUALLY want the Constitutional Supreme Laws of America to be followed and ENFORCED?? (sic).
To the above question; I DO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

AlgorithmicAnalyst
AlgorithmicAnalyst
4 years ago

Should be policy, as Pamela said.

Also, give anyone willing to renounce their American citizenship a pension and a free trip to anywhere else in the world.

beyondculturewars
beyondculturewars
4 years ago

No pension, unless it is $1 per month state pension.

MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
4 years ago

So is this man a radical islamist? Or an islamist radical? Or maybe, just maybe he’s just another f’ing muslum….

1PierreMontagne1
1PierreMontagne1
4 years ago

Pamela says: “This should be policy and not a one-off”.

Q. So why is this not Policy?

A. That’s easy. It is because of willfully blind fools like FBI Director Wray

Q. Why is Director Wray a willfully blind fool?
A, Because Director Wray says thing like this to Congressional inquiries:

Quote:

“Our focus is on the violence,” Wray said.
“We the FBI don’t investigate the ideology, no matter how repugnant. We
investigate violence. And any extremist ideology, when it turns to violence,
we’re all over it.”
For Director Wray Terrorism is only investigated after the fact.

Instead of keeping it Secret Director Wray should also declare :

– “Murder and Terror upon non-Muslims are Religious Rights in Islam! So that is why the FBI are going to focus instead on those White Nationalists instead of Muslims. Even though Muslims have sworn to bring down our government and our nation that is their ideology speaking so we are not interested..

Director Wray is either not Woke to Islam,,,or has become a Muslim?

CharlieSeattle
CharlieSeattle
4 years ago

In 1942 Japanese Americans that never harmed anyone were interned for the war.
After 9/11 more unvetted muslims were allowed in to freely move around and attack us.

In 1942 the American Government and military took prudent action and fought back to win.
After 9/11 the American Government and military surrendered and will not fight to win.

….so there is that.

MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
4 years ago
Reply to  CharlieSeattle

Post WW2 nazis were NOT allowed to immigrate to the USA and repatriated back to Germany if caught here.

CharlieSeattle
CharlieSeattle
4 years ago

False!

Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program to Bring Nazi Scientists to America

https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/csi-publications/csi-studies/studies/vol-58-no-3/operation-paperclip-the-secret-intelligence-program-to-bring-nazi-scientists-to-america.html

Wernher Magnus Maximilian Freiherr von Braun and his small army of rocket scientist became American citizens.

CharlieSeattle
CharlieSeattle
4 years ago

The Courts protect them.
The FBI shields them.
The MSM promotes them.
Academia loves them.
Congress betrays America.
Trump is oblivious to the threat.

…so there is that.

CharlieSeattle
CharlieSeattle
4 years ago
Reply to  CharlieSeattle

Islam fuels the aggression and must be destroyed.

CharlieSeattle
CharlieSeattle
4 years ago
Reply to  CharlieSeattle

islam is NOT a race nor is it a religion.

Get a real education on your own time.

CharlieSeattle
CharlieSeattle
4 years ago
Reply to  CharlieSeattle

Self deport!

MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
4 years ago
Reply to  CharlieSeattle

LOL, yeah that’s how you defeat your enemies. You should really be Fwench.

freepetta
freepetta
4 years ago

Lock him up and when his sentence is done drop him in Yemen. Keep him the Hell out of here!! We don’t want violent criminals who seek asylum here and in reality HATE our country.
Bye Bye Mohammed

beyondculturewars
beyondculturewars
4 years ago
Reply to  freepetta

Omar is a peaceful muslim.

Babalu_EDB
Babalu_EDB
4 years ago

Exactly.

And if we spread this article to Liberal Americans they might learn that the threat is not just from violent terrorist Jihadis, but from the peaceful Jihadists.

Terrorists can not destroy America.

Peaceful Jihadis can.

And are.

In addition, I ask us to reflect on what our response is to acts of Islamic terrorism?

Some of our fellow non Muslim Americans instinctively move to clutch Muslims in an even tighter embrace than before. To reassure them.

This is noticed by Muslims and I believe they have come to expect to advance Islam every time there is a terrorist act.

Here is how I suspect the scenario goes.

Terrorist act: *Boom*.

Clueless Americans:Dont worry my dear Muslim friends. We will show you that we don’t blame ALL of you for this horrible act. And to prove to you that we are sincere and that we aren’t like those dumb Conservatives, we will give Muslims a preference in the next round of hiring at such and such organization.”

I have seen it argued that they work a Good Muslim/Bad Muslim routine on us to make us more protective when they feel we are becoming less enthralled with them.

I don’t know if I can substantiate that, but it seems like an idea to keep in mind when we finally move to substantially reduce the numbers of Muslims in America in order to reduce the threat of Islamization.

The Five Stages of Islam – American Thinker
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2011/05/the_five_stages_of_islam.htmlhttps://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2011/05/the_five_stages_of_islam.html

Forget the Five Pillars of Islam. It is the Five Stages of Islam that threaten the fundamental freedoms of Western Democracy. Freedoms which include freedom of thought, expression, and association .

Laddyboy
Laddyboy
4 years ago
Reply to  freepetta

@f: While it is in prison, the only dietary foods it gets is HAM SANDWICHES!!!!!!!

Roma Mikhasev
Roma Mikhasev
4 years ago

Well but enough.

Mogumbo
Mogumbo
4 years ago

For a foreigner, citizenship in America is a privilege, not a right, and that privilege can and should be revoked against one who intends to harm our people and property. It’s that simple… no debate, no exchanging ideas with radical liberals over the proposition! What person in his right mind would allow a guest to remain in his home when it is learned that the guest intends to kill the homeowner … no one, not even the bleeding-heart liberal, yet this is what they advocate. The urgent need to add to the fast-diminishing Democrat list of voters has deprived them of what little remaining sense they have.

dad1927
dad1927
4 years ago

Trudeau says he is what canada needs

Jim
Jim
4 years ago

The USA should very simply execute ALL these scumbags tried and convicted of terrorism. Killing “infidels” IS what they are ALL about.

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