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The Real Definition of Terrorism

The FBI yesterday announced it has secured an indictment against Faruq Khalil Muhammad 'Isa, a 38-year-old citizen of Iraq currently in Canada, from which the U.S. is seeking his extradition.

The FBI yesterday announced it has secured an indictment against Faruq Khalil Muhammad 'Isa, a 38-year-old citizen of Iraq currently in Canada, from which the U.S. is seeking his extradition. The headline on the FBI's Press Release tells the basic story: "Alleged Terrorist Indicted in New York for the Murder of Five American Soldiers." The criminal complaint previously filed under seal provides the details: 'Isa is charged with "providing material support to a terrorist conspiracy" because he allegedly supported a 2008 attack on a U.S. military base in Mosul that killed 5 American soldiers. In other words, if the U.S. invades and occupies your country, and you respond by fighting back against the invading army -- the ultimate definition of a "military, not civilian target" -- then you are a . . . Terrorist.

Here is how the complaint, in the first paragraph, summarizes the Terrorism charge against 'Isa:

By "outside of the United States," the Government means: inside Iraq, 'Isa's country. The bulk of the complaint details conversations 'Isa allegedly had over the Internet, while he was in Canada, with several Tunisians who wanted to engage in suicide attacks aimed at American troops in Iraq; he is not alleged to have organized the Mosul attack but merely to have provided political and religious encouragement (the network of which he was allegedly a part also carried out a suicide attack on an Iraqi police station, though 'Isa's alleged involvement is confined to the attack on the U.S. military base that killed the 5 soldiers along with several Iraqis, and the Terrorism indictment is based solely on the deaths of the U.S. soldiers).

In an effort to depict him as a crazed, Terrorist fanatic, the complaint includes this description of conversations he had while being monitored:

Is that not exactly the mindset that more or less anyone in the world would have: if a foreign army invades your country and proceeds to brutally occupy it for the next eight years, then it's your solemn duty to fight them? Indeed, isn't that exactly the mentality that caused some young Americans to enlist after the 9/11 attack and be hailed as heroes: they attacked us on our soil, and so now I want to fight them?

Read the full article at Salon.com

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The FBI yesterday announced it has secured an indictment against Faruq Khalil Muhammad 'Isa, a 38-year-old citizen of Iraq currently in Canada, from which the U.S. is seeking his extradition. The headline on the FBI's Press Release tells the basic story: "Alleged Terrorist Indicted in New York for the Murder of Five American Soldiers." The criminal complaint previously filed under seal provides the details: 'Isa is charged with "providing material support to a terrorist conspiracy" because he allegedly supported a 2008 attack on a U.S. military base in Mosul that killed 5 American soldiers. In other words, if the U.S. invades and occupies your country, and you respond by fighting back against the invading army -- the ultimate definition of a "military, not civilian target" -- then you are a . . . Terrorist.

Here is how the complaint, in the first paragraph, summarizes the Terrorism charge against 'Isa:

By "outside of the United States," the Government means: inside Iraq, 'Isa's country. The bulk of the complaint details conversations 'Isa allegedly had over the Internet, while he was in Canada, with several Tunisians who wanted to engage in suicide attacks aimed at American troops in Iraq; he is not alleged to have organized the Mosul attack but merely to have provided political and religious encouragement (the network of which he was allegedly a part also carried out a suicide attack on an Iraqi police station, though 'Isa's alleged involvement is confined to the attack on the U.S. military base that killed the 5 soldiers along with several Iraqis, and the Terrorism indictment is based solely on the deaths of the U.S. soldiers).

In an effort to depict him as a crazed, Terrorist fanatic, the complaint includes this description of conversations he had while being monitored:

Is that not exactly the mindset that more or less anyone in the world would have: if a foreign army invades your country and proceeds to brutally occupy it for the next eight years, then it's your solemn duty to fight them? Indeed, isn't that exactly the mentality that caused some young Americans to enlist after the 9/11 attack and be hailed as heroes: they attacked us on our soil, and so now I want to fight them?

Read the full article at Salon.com

The FBI yesterday announced it has secured an indictment against Faruq Khalil Muhammad 'Isa, a 38-year-old citizen of Iraq currently in Canada, from which the U.S. is seeking his extradition. The headline on the FBI's Press Release tells the basic story: "Alleged Terrorist Indicted in New York for the Murder of Five American Soldiers." The criminal complaint previously filed under seal provides the details: 'Isa is charged with "providing material support to a terrorist conspiracy" because he allegedly supported a 2008 attack on a U.S. military base in Mosul that killed 5 American soldiers. In other words, if the U.S. invades and occupies your country, and you respond by fighting back against the invading army -- the ultimate definition of a "military, not civilian target" -- then you are a . . . Terrorist.

Here is how the complaint, in the first paragraph, summarizes the Terrorism charge against 'Isa:

By "outside of the United States," the Government means: inside Iraq, 'Isa's country. The bulk of the complaint details conversations 'Isa allegedly had over the Internet, while he was in Canada, with several Tunisians who wanted to engage in suicide attacks aimed at American troops in Iraq; he is not alleged to have organized the Mosul attack but merely to have provided political and religious encouragement (the network of which he was allegedly a part also carried out a suicide attack on an Iraqi police station, though 'Isa's alleged involvement is confined to the attack on the U.S. military base that killed the 5 soldiers along with several Iraqis, and the Terrorism indictment is based solely on the deaths of the U.S. soldiers).

In an effort to depict him as a crazed, Terrorist fanatic, the complaint includes this description of conversations he had while being monitored:

Is that not exactly the mindset that more or less anyone in the world would have: if a foreign army invades your country and proceeds to brutally occupy it for the next eight years, then it's your solemn duty to fight them? Indeed, isn't that exactly the mentality that caused some young Americans to enlist after the 9/11 attack and be hailed as heroes: they attacked us on our soil, and so now I want to fight them?

Read the full article at Salon.com

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