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Subscribe to RSSA man accused of a terrorist plot to gun down military recruits in Seattle last year pleaded guilty Thursday and faces a prison sentence of up to 19 years.
The man, Abu Khalid Abdul-Latif, 35, admitted to conspiring to shoot up a military processing center in an attack planned for July 5, 2011. He was arrested in June 2011 after he agreed to buy rifles and grenades that it turned out were supplied by the FBI in a sting operation, according to the indictment.
Had he been convicted, Abdul-Latif — who was born Joseph Anthony Davis but assumed the new name after he converted to Islam — could have faced life in prison. A co-conspirator, Walli Mujahidh, 33, formerly Frederick Domingue Jr., pleaded guilty in December 2011 and faces 27 to 32 years in prison.
The plea deal, in which several counts were dropped, heads off what could have been a potentially embarrassing hearing for prosecutors. Abdul-Latif's lawyers had planned to call two federal prosecutors to explain why a police detective destroyed nearly 400 email from the confidential informant who tipped off authorities to the plot.
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U.S. District Judge James Robert ruled last week that the prosecutors could be called as witnesses at the hearing and recommended that they be removed from the case, calling the deletion of the emails "a self-inflicted wound on the part of the U.S. attorney's office," NBC station KING of Seattle reported.
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19 years should be the Death Penalty that's the only way these guy will the picture!!!!
They didn't have a good case, otherwise there would have been no plea deal. I'd like to know the truth.
Mary Jones, we will never hear the truth. Similar case here in Ohio went to trial recently. Same thing, several young men were provided a dud bomb from the FBI. Makes you wonder what wouldn't have happened without the FBI egging these knuckleheads on and providing assistance. I do not condone terrorist attacks, but these 'sting' operations make you wonder if the FBI does this to justify their very exsistence and that of "Homeland Security"...name has a nice Nazi ring to it.
There may be some encouragement in same cases, but the fact is that the people are actively attempting to use the equipment to cause terrorist attacks. I'd rather the FBI keep their shop open so the terrorists don't go elsewhere to get their gear.
I am all for freedom of religion but Islam is one that should be discouraged in every legal way possible. Also whenever possible deny immigration from middle eastern Muslims as these people should remain right where they are with their medieval mindset. I mean really the only thing worse that could have happened to these two Americans would be "mad cow disease" .
The guy's name was Joe Davis, presumably Seattle was "right where he was". There is no legal way to discourage or encourage any religion here where I live in the United States, that's one of our founding principles.
Ckneely read my post I acknowledged the two idiots are Americans,you know in Germany nazi ideology is illegal,so Islam?
Islam is a 600 year old religion, Nazism was a 20 year political ideology.
Chain him to a wall in a cold dark cell, and leave him there the rest of his life to pray to Allah. No communication with the outside world, and forbid the guards from even talking to him and feed him beans and rice with pork bits mixed in for every meal and nothing else for the rest of his life.
Freedom is very enigmatic. In the U.S. we hold freedom of religion as guaranteed by the First Amendment in the Bill of Rights very near and dear as an inalienable right; as we should. But what about a religion (i.e. Islam) which holds as one of its core beliefs that others are not free to practice their religion of choice and must either be converted, subjugated (dhimmis) or exterminated? This is clearly documented in the Quaran and Muslims have proven over and over again that other religions are not to be tolerated. So what do we do? How do we resolve this paradox?? Your thoughts please...
I wouldn't say it's a paradox. Religions that punish non-believers have a lot more ability to do so in a government that establishes a state religion. The penalty for not following a particular religious system in the US is nothing. People are free to follow, or establish whatever religion they want because of the whole separation of church and state. What we do is enforce the laws set out by the state, and declare some acts performed by religions illegal (polygamy, bombings, executions, etc.). Provided you abide by the state's laws, you won't be punished at all.
Look up the Westboro Baptist Church for a fine example of those who stay well within the laws established by the state, but still manage to be what I would consider to be terrible examples of human beings.
Fronk- 100 years ago or so people were saying the same thing about the Catholics, and some people still do today!
There is nothing in Islam so horrendous and backward looking that doesn't have its origins in Judaism and its exact parallel in Christianity in the 1400s. If you insist on displaying your ignorance and prejudice, please aim it at its true target - patriarchal monotheism of the Abrahamaic variety. It *is* worthy of some contempt, but one corner of the blanket isn't any dirtier than the rest!
This is the 21st Century... wanton murder should not to be accepted by any human society...
Abu Khalid Abdul-Latif
Does anyone in this country see a pattern here... this guy is not Irish...
Our justice system needs to keep a close eye on these types of people in this country. Our citizens are at risk constantly because these people have no timeline to do any destruction or harm.
His last name was Davis, I think that's English.