July 17, 2014 If you wanted to find the face – and voice – of Generation Jihad, it would be Babar Ahmad. A decade in jail fighting against conviction, he finally accepted last year that he had committed terrorist offences in 1990s London. Ahmad pleaded guilty in an American courtroom to providing support for terrorism….
July 17, 2014 A court in Cleveland sentences two Britons for supporting Muslim militants in print and online publications. Paul Chapman reports [See video here: http://nyti.ms/1trMmmB]
The government stokes fear and fails to understand the Muslim world. But inside at least one courtroom remains an unusual precedent: context can be served July 17, 2014 Sitting and waiting in US District Court here on Wednesday, you got the undeniable sense that something unusual was about to happen. Here was the end of…
Ahmad, who could be freed in a year because of time served, pleaded guilty to providing material support to the Taliban July 16, 2014 Babar Ahmad, the British citizen who was extradited to the US two years ago, has been sentenced to more than 12 years in prison for providing material support to the Taliban…
July 11, 2014 NEW HAVEN, Conn. — A federal judge preparing to sentence a British citizen for supporting terrorists in Afghanistan challenged U.S. prosecutors Friday on their claim that the defendant supported al-Qaida. Babar Ahmad’s support for the Taliban regime in Afghanistan didn’t necessarily mean he supported al-Qaida, Judge Janet Hall said during a hearing…
