Tag: Haroon Aswat
Posted on Tue Oct 21, 2014 at 10:22:48 PM EST
Tags: Haroon Aswat, James Ujaama, Bly Terror Camp (all tags)
The U.S. just can't let the terrorist training camp in Bly, Oregon die, even though it never existed.
Since 2002, the U.S. has been charging and imprisoning people for acts related to the Bly camp that were committed in 1999. (New York Times article from 2002 here.) Its last conquest was Abu Hamza al Masri, the one eyed Sheikh with no hands but a hook (photo here), also extradited from the U.K.
Today, yet another suspect, mentally ill Haroon Aswat, arrived in the U.S. . He pleaded not guilty to terror charges concerning the camp. He has been in a mental hospital in the U.K. since 2008. The U.S. assured the U.K. it would provide treatment for him, and although in 2013, the European Court of Human Rights blocked his extradition, the U.K. courts approved it after receiving the U.S. assurances. [More...]
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