Please support the petition to free Babar ahmad
Inthetrenches | 02.11.2011 01:50 | Repression
For seven years he has suffered. The extradition treaty with the USA is grossly one-sided.
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Inthetrenches | 02.11.2011 01:50 | Repression
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Read this first before signing.
02.11.2011 09:21
Always worth a bit of research
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02.11.2011 11:41
IMCister
Please explain
02.11.2011 12:25
Peter
Read this first before signing.
02.11.2011 13:33
Babar Ahmad was arrested in London on 5 August 2004 on charges that of providing material support to terrorism, providing illegal support to the Taliban, money laundering and conspiring to kill people. An affidavit filed with the US court details that Ahmad used aliases to operate Azzam.com, a website supporting Chechen and Taliban fighters. It further describes that items recovered from a house used by Ahmad included a British Airways Executive Club card in his name and next to it a floppy disk containing a password-protected document containing a detailed description of the US Fifth Fleet, its ships, the date and time of its expected passage through the Straits of Hormuz, and that it was vulnerable to attack by "RPG" (rocket-propelled grenade). Ahmad was later indicted by a grand jury of US citizens in October 2004. Another man Syed Talah Ahsan, was indicted in 2006 of involvement with Ahmad and with the battlegroup information in the document, and thereafter a US former navy seaman, Abu Jihad was indicted and convicted of passing this information to them.
Always worth a bit of research
Read this first before signing.
02.11.2011 13:43
Babar Ahmad was arrested in London on 5 August 2004 on charges that of providing material support to terrorism, providing illegal support to the Taliban, money laundering and conspiring to kill people. An affidavit filed with the US court details that Ahmad used aliases to operate Azzam.com, a website supporting Chechen and Taliban fighters. It further describes that items recovered from a house used by Ahmad included a British Airways Executive Club card in his name and next to it a floppy disk containing a password-protected document containing a detailed description of the US Fifth Fleet, its ships, the date and time of its expected passage through the Straits of Hormuz, and that it was vulnerable to attack by "RPG" (rocket-propelled grenade). Ahmad was later indicted by a grand jury of US citizens in October 2004. Another man Syed Talah Ahsan, was indicted in 2006 of involvement with Ahmad and with the battlegroup information in the document, and thereafter a US former navy seaman, Abu Jihad was indicted and convicted of passing this information to them.
Always worth a bit of research
Read this first before signing.
02.11.2011 14:08
Babar Ahmad was arrested in London on 5 August 2004 on charges that of providing material support to terrorism, providing illegal support to the Taliban, money laundering and conspiring to kill people. An affidavit filed with the US court details that Ahmad used aliases to operate Azzam.com, a website supporting Chechen and Taliban fighters. It further describes that items recovered from a house used by Ahmad included a British Airways Executive Club card in his name and next to it a floppy disk containing a password-protected document containing a detailed description of the US Fifth Fleet, its ships, the date and time of its expected passage through the Straits of Hormuz, and that it was vulnerable to attack by "RPG" (rocket-propelled grenade). Ahmad was later indicted by a grand jury of US citizens in October 2004. Another man Syed Talah Ahsan, was indicted in 2006 of involvement with Ahmad and with the battlegroup information in the document, and thereafter a US former navy seaman, Abu Jihad was indicted and convicted of passing this information to them.
Always worth a bit of research
Always worth a bit of research
so white people can join mercenary groups overseas...
02.11.2011 17:32
At least they believe in what they are fighting for, unlike people who just do it for money.
Why should we support a particular side in a conflict just because our government tells us to?
What if there was some armed anarchist uprising against some fascist regime overseas and people from the UK went over to help them, or provided support from here? And at the same time the UK government was supporting the regime by selling them bombs etc?
Why can't we have a bit more freedom here? - we aren't automatons that have to march in lockstep with our masters.
anon
Supporting the Taliban, huh?
02.11.2011 22:03
secularist
erm....
03.11.2011 11:06
Rob
if you read the research
03.11.2011 11:59
secularist
Yes but...
03.11.2011 12:23
Bill
Correction:
03.11.2011 13:08
WTF
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missing the point
04.11.2011 16:59
I'm not saying I like the Taliban (I don't, I'm atheist and I don't like their sexism, homophobia, etc.)
The point is that there are double standards here.
White public-school educated mercenaries can go and fight on behalf of fascist dictators in Africa and no-one here bats an eyelid. UK arms manufacturers can sell bombs to all sorts of scum round the world with no comebacks.
But one guy who allegedly raises a small amount of money for a cause he believes in and tries to help them out a bit gets the book thrown at him.
THAT is why people are fucked off, because they hate the USA's bullying, NOT because they like scumbags like the Taliban.
anon
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