StormWarning’s Counterterrorism

I am pretty tired of hearing things like this!  Frankly, I was tired of this (an American wanting to be part of the Taliban) when Johnny "Taliban" Walker Lindh was arrested in Afghanistan…and I still think he got off way too easy (in fact, might have gotten away with murder or his involvement in the death of Mike Spann).  But this BS continues!

U.S. Citizen Wanted to Join the Taliban, Officials Say
A United States citizen and a Pakistani national who overstayed his visa have been charged with planning to provide aid and financial support to the Taliban.

The two Houston-area men, Kobie Diallo Williams and Adnan Babar Mirza, have been indicted by a federal grand jury and have been charged with attempting to obtain firearms and training so they could join the Taliban and fight against U.S. and coalition forces…[more]

Houston pair accused of aiding Taliban
One who made a ‘donation’ pleads guilty; officials say both men trained to fight U.S. forces
Kobie Williams left Ramadan baskets packed with chocolate-laced trail mix on his neighbors’ doorsteps and wistfully spoke of going to Egypt to study the Quran. Adnan Mirza was active in Muslim groups and spent his Sundays at a Houston soup kitchen feeding the homeless.

To their friends and families, Williams, 33, and Mirza, 29, were enthusiastic college students dedicated to God and family.

But Justice Department officials presented a shockingly different view of the men Tuesday, branding both as Taliban supporters — one contributing $350 to terrorists — who conspired to train with weapons with the goal of fighting U.S.-led forces in the Mideast.

Williams, a University of Houston-Downtown student also known as Abdul Kabeer or Abdul Kabir, pleaded guilty to the accusations Tuesday before U.S. District Judge Ewing Werlein Jr. Scheduled for sentencing on Feb. 23, he faces up to five years in prison and a $250,000 fine.

Mirza, a Pakistani national who was in the country on an expired student visa, faces the same potential penalty if convicted. Additionally, he has been indicted on three firearms charges, each of which could bring a 10-year sentence and a $250,000 fine upon conviction…[more]

People like this live and exist in our midsts.  I don’t know how to get rid of them…and you really don’t find them until they are exposed by their actions.  The question is what do you do with someone like this who clearly intends to conspire with our enemies? 

Choices???

1) loss of citizenship
2) deportation
3) "hanging"

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