Canadian Jihadist not a terrorist: Lawyer tells Court "making bombs may be criminal but not terrorism"

Opinion

Barry Artiste. Now Public Contributor

You know Lawyers being accused of being totally clueless and will make a deal with the devil incarnate, when they state semantics instead of fact, when this lawyer states his client previously is innocent of all charges, need a good slap upside the head, especially a Jewish Lawyer defending a Jihadist, who if he met his lawyer and his family on the street would not think twice of beheading the entire family and then go home for lunch as this is all in a days work for a terrorist.

Imagine that, accused Canadian Jihadist Terrorist, who claimed total innocence in the beginning to the courts and Canada, now says, well, yeah, maybe I am a bit guilty, I only had the technical info on my computer, to then later on to say, yeah, I guess I am guilty of building detonators for bombs for a British Jihad cell, but I didn’t know it was for blowing up British citizens, I thought it was meant for coalition soldiers in Afghanistan.

Then again, photos of Khawaja’s weapons cache rifles etc complete with 2 foot long bayonets, one can only assume are for hunting Natures Super Animal, such as flying squirrels and such, perhaps Canada’s Wild Bull Elephants which roam our city streets.

Now we hear 90 percent of the entire truth whereby, his wish was to go to Afghanistan and be a Jihadist soldier to go an kill most likely Canadian and US troops and innocent Afghani citizens over there instead of innocent British shoppers.

Since day one of his trial, I reported on Now Public that I did not buy his pleas of innocence as a poor culturally misunderstood immigrant making minimum wage in various jobs, who all of a sudden found a good Canadian girl to marry, a non Muslim Canadian girl, which is strange for a self professed DEVOUT Muslim to do, unless that non Muslim Canadian girl comes with a green card and eventual citizenship.

Mr. Momin Khawaja’s arrival to Canada was quite circuitous route in getting here to Canada, one wonders the real intent and purpose, which should have set alarm bells off with Immigration officials. But didn’t. Oh, and two more points to ponder.

“Point one” is that it seems terrorists like Momin Khawaja always seemed to have no problem coming into Canada when the Federal Liberal Government were in power.

Especially as more than a couple of terrorist trials are underway in Canada by those who came here under the Liberal Governments Watch.

Canadians now under the Federal Conservatives are finding out just how lax the Liberal Government was, as it took the Federal Conservatives are investigating, arresting and putting on trial those deemed a security risk to Canadians.

“Point two”, this is for all the Momin Khawaja’s supporters whose vile rants against me, stating on your “Free Khawaja” webpages of his total innocence as a terrorist and his marriage to a Non Muslim Canadian Girl was true love, will now be silent I would hope, and your continued threats against me certainly now have no merit, now that the truth in this trial has finally come out as I originally stated first in many of my posts here on Now Public and in the media elsewhere.

http://www.ottawasun.com/News/OttawaAndRegion/2008/08/20/6508076-sun.html

Wed, August 20, 2008

Jihadi soldier not a terrorist: Lawyer Court told making bombs may be criminal but not terrorism

By DONNA CASEY, SUN MEDIA

Momin Khawaja wanted to be “a front-line jihadi soldier” and built a remote-controlled detonator to use in Afghanistan, but he’s not a terrorist under Canadian law, says the Orleans man’s lawyer.

In the first day of legal arguments on a defence motion seeking to have all seven terrorism charges dismissed, lawyer Lawrence Greenspon acknowledged “there’s ample evidence that he (Khawaja) wanted to be a front-line jihadi soldier in Afghanistan.

” But he said Khawaja’s construction of the “Hi-Fi Digimonster” detonator device, which he intended to use against Canadian and U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan, isn’t a terrorist activity. “Is it okay to be making bombs in your basement? It’s not okay.

It may well be criminal, but it’s not terrorism as contained in the Criminal Code,” Greenspon told Justice Douglas Rutherford yesterday. Greenspon said the Crown has failed to show any direct evidence linking Khawaja to the 2004 fertilizer bomb plot in the U.K., the conspiracy that underpins all seven terrorism charges Khawaja faces under Canada’s Anti-Terrorism Act.

“Nowhere in all the evidence does it point to any participation of Momin in bombing a nightclub, a shopping centre, British Telecom or a railway,” Greenspon told the court, referring to the targets of the U.K. plot.

Five British men were convicted and jailed for life for their roles in the conspiracy involving 600 kg of ammonium nitrate explosives.

BRITISH MEETING

During the trial’s first five weeks, Crown prosecutors presented wiretap audio and video of Khawaja’s visit to the U.K. in February 2004, where he met with his alleged co-conspirators in the bomb plot.

During the three-day trip, Khawaja talked to the plotters about the detonator device he was building and visited an Internet cafe where he showed the British conspirators a computer photo file of the Hi-Fi Digimonster, which RCMP investigators later found during a raid on Khawaja’s home on Princess Louise Dr.

Below is a New York Times piece from beginning to end on Momin and his jihadist conspirators http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/26/world/europe/26crevice.html?_r=1&oref=slogin