America - Missile smuggler Lakhani jailed for 47 years

How come this isn't getting more media coverage? After all, the leftist media keep claiming that there have been few successful prosecutions in America against suspected terrorists. I think it was Michelle who once had a good round up of all the successful prosecutions so far. I'll email her and see if she can find it, seeing as how Blogger seems to have totally screwed up the search your own blog facility.

In the report, we get the usual he was a nice man and no way could he be a terrorists. We hear it all the time. But the evidence seems pretty damning.

The case centred on the evidence of the US government's key witness, Mohammed Habib Rehman, an informant posing as a representative of the Somali-based Ogaden National Liberation Front interested in buying missiles.

The court in Newark, New Jersey, heard tape-recorded telephone conversations and viewed video surveillance of meetings between Lakhani and Mr Rehman.

One video, filmed secretly at a hotel, shows Lakhani and Mr Rehman standing by a window overlooking the airport with a disabled Russian-made Igla shoulder-fired missile in a box, discussing how missiles could be used to bring down airplanes in several locations simultaneously.

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