Lawyer Tries To Get Syrian Hoaxster Off

A Syrian man on trial for giving a false tip to a New York City anti-terrorism hotline never meant to cause public alarm and believed that his identity would be kept secret, his lawyer said on Friday. Sending him to prison could have a chilling effect on other New Yorkers who wish to report suspicious activity to law enforcement, lawyer Michael Soshnick told a 12-person jury during opening arguments at New York State Court.

As his lawyer is trying to make it sound, Mr. Alkitiri was doing a noble thing, which in "lawyerspeak", means "my client is guilty as hell, so I shall try and obfuscate the issues, and confuse the jury", until no one knows what this is about!! As the old joke goes, "What's 10,000 lawyers at the bottom of the sea? A Good Start!" Even in Shakespeare's Henry VI, they say "kill all the lawyers". Anyway, just a minor divergent rant against lawyers, as I think that even though there are some good lawyers, they are rare, and the rest are a cancer that eats away at the body of this nation, and subverts justice whenever possible! I guess one more strike against their "profession," is that most of the politicians seem to be lawyers, and look how bad they've messed this country up!

And please remember that around this time there were other tips and plots. Just days after Mr. Alkatri's "tip" there was another alleged plot: On July 7, authorities said they had thwarted a terrorist plot to flood lower Manhattan by attacking train tunnels under the Hudson River used by tens of thousands of commuters. Eight suspects, including an al-Qaeda loyalist arrested in Lebanon and two others in custody elsewhere, had hoped to pull off the attack in October or November, federal officials said.


So please remember that as we go to the crux of the story:
On May 30, 2006, ALKATRI, identifying himself as Jose Rodriguez of Israel, called the New York City SAFE Hotline and told a New York Police Department (NYPD) police officer that he knew that suicide bomb attacks on New York City trains were being planned for July 4th. Rodriguez told the officer that the plot involved five “Arab people,” all Syrians working in the jewelry business. He told the officer that the conspirators had obtained powder for the bomb attacks by hiding the explosives in hollowed-out jewelry and then importing the jewelry into the United States to a store owned by one of the so-called conspirators. ALKATRI identified the conspirators and also told the Hotline officer that he had overheard two of the alleged conspirators talking, and he told the officer that one had said to the other, “Everything ready. You have to, you know, be ready.” He also told the officer that the conspirators used the expression “Allah Akbar.”

There is every reason to convict this man, and yet he only faces 2 years, yes 2 years for all of the trouble that he caused law enforcement, his former business associates, and America in general. He should be found guilty, sentenced, then do his time, and then be deported. I only wish we could deport his lawyer with him! Sorry could not resist one more slam on lawyers!!


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