Florida Doctor Convicted of Supporting Terrorists By Agreeing to Treat Wounded Al Qae

**Logan13** · 05-21-2007, 04:33 PM

Florida Doctor Convicted of Supporting Terrorists By Agreeing to Treat Wounded Al Qaeda Fighters
05/21/07
AP
NEW YORK — A Florida doctor was convicted Monday of providing material support to terrorists by agreeing to treat injured Al Qaeda fighters so they could return to Iraq to battle Americans.

Dr. Rafiq A**us Sabir, 52, was convicted in Manhattan federal court after a three-week trial that featured testimony by him and Ali Soufan, an FBI agent who posed as an Al Qaeda recruiter in a sting operation that led to four arrests.

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When the verdict was read, Sabir just looked straight ahead. Later, as he was escorted from the courtroom, he waved to supporters, who said, "Stay strong."

His lawyer, Ed Wilford, said, "We are deeply disappointed in the verdict."

The charges against the Harlem-born Sabir, including conspiracy to provide material support to terrorists, carry a potential maximum sentence of 30 years in prison.

The verdict came after jurors heard audio tapes of a May 2005 ceremony in a Bronx apartment in which Sabir and his best friend, Tariq Shah, a martial arts expert and jazz musician, pledged loyalty to Al Qaeda and, the government alleged, Usama bin Laden.

Shah pleaded guilty just before trial to providing material support to a terrorist organization and agreed to serve 15 years in prison, though he has not yet been formally sentenced. A Brooklyn bookstore owner who pleaded guilty was sentenced to 13 years in prison. A Washington, D.C., cab driver has pleaded guilty and agreed to serve 15 years in prison.

Sabir, of Boca Raton, Fla., testified at trial that Shah never told him he was talking with an Al Qaeda recruiter. At the pledge ceremony, Soufan mispronounced Al Qaeda more than a dozen times, Sabir said. He also said he did not know "sheik Usama" meant bin Laden.

**singern** · 05-22-2007, 08:49 AM

I wouldnt put him in jail, thats a waist of taxpayer money, but send him to live in an Afghan cave, where he can shit on himself with the rest of his sub-species.

**WillieDaPimp** · 05-23-2007, 11:05 AM

Originally Posted by singern

send him to live in an Afghan cave, where he can shit on himself with the rest of his sub-species.

sub-species, uh? I assume your part of the "superior White species"...if we all could be as lucky as you!

**gixxerboy1** · 05-23-2007, 11:22 AM

Originally Posted by WillieDaPimp

sub-species, uh? I assume your part of the "superior White species"...if we all could be as lucky as you!

Why does everything have to turn into race?

**Logan13** · 05-23-2007, 11:30 AM

Originally Posted by gixxerboy1

Why does everything have to turn into race?

Because ignorant people do not know any other way to communicate.

**singern** · 05-23-2007, 11:47 AM

Originally Posted by WillieDaPimp

sub-species, uh? I assume your part of the "superior White species"...if we all could be as lucky as you!

Your damned skippy, My dog is better then people who strap bombs on children and send them to kill innocent people, when it comes to people who support murder in the name of religion, when it comes to people who teach kids to hate and kill "infidels" in order to get into heaven. You bet I am better then them..........and if you support those people, and there ideology, then Im obviously better then you as well........

**BgMc31** · 05-23-2007, 03:29 PM

Originally Posted by Logan13

Because ignorant people do not know any other way to communicate.

Calling any group of people a sub-species is racist and bigotted, regarless of how you look at it, Logan. And if calling someone a racist or bigot because of that comment is ignorant, then you don't know the definition of ignorance. It's ignorant to call those people ignorant because they don't agree with your ideology, especially when they have a point.