Opinion
Barry Artiste
On a personal note, the many stories and op/ed pieces I have posted here and elsewhere on this trial and his obvious guilt and his continued pleas of innocence has resulted in numerous personal attacks against me by Khawaja supporters.
The last two stories I have posted showing irrefutable evidence cementing his Guilt has seemed to silence his Supporters further attacks against me, as they must sit in stunned silence know knowing of his guilt and complicity in this terrorist scheme to kill British Subjects coming to light.
His theory that “He is only answerable to God” seems a tad ludicrous as the Canadian Public are letting him know in no uncertain terms “Your God ain’t here now is he?”
http://www.ottawasun.com/News/OttawaAndRegion/2008/09/10/6718461-sun.html
Wed, September 10, 2008
Khawaja vowed ‘death, destruction’: Surveillance, e-mails link Orleans man to terror cell, Crown says in closing arguments
By DONNA CASEY, SUN MEDIA
Pulling together the threads of a landmark case for Canada’s terrorism laws, the Crown began closing arguments in Momin Khawaja’s terrorism trial yesterday.
With defence lawyer Lawrence Greenspon not calling any evidence in the computer programmer’s defence, prosecutor David Mc-Kercher launched a methodical review of key testimony, surveillance evidence and e-mails the Crown says proves the software designer knew he was part of an international Islamic extremist terror cell.
“The Crown is saying he was an important part of the conspiracy from the start,” said McKercher of Khawaja’s alleged involvement with a U.K.-based fertilizer bomb plot in 2004.
“His own writings tell of his intentions,” said McKercher of Khawaja’s e-mails in which the Orleans man vowed “to become the West’s mortal enemy” and “bring death and destruction.”
‘IDEOLOGICAL HATRED’ McKercher told Ontario Superior Court Justice Douglas Rutherford, who is hearing the case without a jury, that it was clear Khawaja viewed himself as “answerable only to God” in his battle to wage violent jihad against the West, where he “wanted to prosecute a private war.
” Khawaja’s “specific ideological hatred” for the West meant “Canada was lumped in with everybody else,” the Crown added. Khawaja faces seven charges related to facilitating and financing terrorism and building a remote-control detonator device — dubbed the Hi-Fi Digimonster — to be used to set off bombs at a London nightclub, a shopping complex and gas and electric utilities in the U.K. in 2004.
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