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Former Intel Engineer Pleads Guilty To Taliban Aid

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the not-as-originally-appeared dept.

theodp writes "Following up on an earlier Slashdot story, software engineer Maher "Mike" Hawash pleaded guilty Wednesday to conspiring to provide services to the Taliban, agreeing to testify against other suspects in exchange for the dropping of other terrorism charges. He will serve at least seven years in federal prison under the deal. In March, federal agents seized Hawash from a parking lot outside Intel Corp., where he worked, and held him as a material witness until charges were filed five weeks later."

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  1. The Taliban is NOT Al Qaeda, thats the whole point by HanzoSan · · Score: 1, Troll


    The Taliban was a legit government, it had absolutely nothing to do with Al Qaeda just like Iraq had nothing to do with Al Qaeda, but terrorists were Wahabi, and the Taliban were Wahabi, and they both were around the same area, oh and the Bin Laden was friends with them.

    I guess Bin Laden was friends with Saddam too, and Saudi Arabian, South Africa, etc.

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  2. Re:Exactly, he looks like a terrorist so arrest hi by transiit · · Score: 1, Troll

    Right around the time you offer up anything to indicate he was arrested only based on his appearance.

    Pretty lucky guess, if he's pleading guilty and that's all they had to go on when they picked him up.

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    Oh, and I've noticed you've given up on your usual bifurcation sig (You know, shit like "Support transgaming or you're against games on linux".) Too many people call you on the informal fallacy, or just going for what you see as the popular sentiment?

  3. Re:Talaban != Government? by LPetrazickis · · Score: 1, Troll

    Get your dick out of your ass. The Taliban were just bullshitting us. There was plenty of proof for extradition, and everyone knew it.

    Could I please see this proof? After all, the Taliban has fallen. Surely, no US spies could be hurt by releasing whatever proof they had at the time.:P

    Anyways, the Taliban should have been taken out much earlier for violating human rights. Unfortunately, US botched the War in Afghanistan completely and those violations are still just as common.:(

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  4. Re:Furthermore... by Catbeller · · Score: 1, Troll

    Was he collaborating before or after 9-11?

    Was it illegal to talk or help the Taliban before 9-11?

    Yes it was. Bush and his crew gave them sixty million smackers. And two months before the invasion, tried to negociate rights for a gas pipeline across Afghanistan.

    So, before 9-11, Bush gave them US$60M, and tried for a pipeline for UNOCAL.

    Why isn't he in jail?