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to resolve any logistical issues," the memorandum continued. It also noted that protesters may raise
money to help pay for lawyers for those arrested...

Terror Suspect Fights Extradition to U.S.

By JEREMY HAINSWORTH
Associated Press November 24, 2003, 8:27 PM EST
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VANCOUVER, British Columbia ~ Canada's new anti-terrorism legislation should not be used
retroactively to try to extradite a man accused of plotting to bomb the.Los Angeles airport, his lawyer
argued in court Monday. Samir Ait Mohamed was arrested in Canada in November 2001, and his
extradition hearing began Monday in British Columbia Supreme'Court. He is accused of helping Ahmed
Ressam, who has been convicted of planning to bomb the airport during millennium celebrations and
awaits sentencing. Ressam was arrested in December 199# as he tried to enter Washington state from
Canada with explosives in the trunk of his car. Canada^passed new anti-terrorism legislation in 2002,
four months after U.S. officials first requested Mohanied's extradition. His lawyer, Ian Donaldson,
argued Monday in the British Columbia Supreme'Court that the case cannot proceed because the law
cannot be applied retroactively. /

Mohamed is charged in U.S. District Court in Manhattan with conspiring to commit an act of
international terrorism and conspiring-fo provide material support to a terrorist act. If extradited and
convicted, he could be sentenced to^life in prison. He also is accused of trying to obtain weapons for
Ressam and helping others get fafse credit cards and passports to enter the United States and plan for
terrorist attacks. He sat qu^e^ly with an Arabic interpreter during Monday's proceedings-

Two Sentenced for Trying to Join Taliban

Monday, November 24, 2003 Associated Press
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,103957,00.html
PORTLAND, Ore. — Two American Muslims who tried to join the Taliban were sentenced to 18
years in prison Monday during a hearing in which they denounced the Bush administration and pleaded
in song for freedom. Patrice Lumumba Ford, 32, and Jeffrey Leon Battle, 33, had pleaded guilty in
October to conspiracy to levy war against the United States. Both said that in trying to
reach Afghanistan, they were fulfilling their Islamic duty to defend fellow Muslims...Ford, once an
intern at Portland's City Hall, said he felt obliged to defend his fellow Muslims against "President Bush's
cruise-missile diplomacy." Ford also assailed the crackdown on Muslim radicals after Sept. 11, which he
said was calculated more to score political points than pursue justice...

U.S. District Judge Robert E. Jones admonished Ford by saying: "You do not represent the Muslim
faith. Muslims do not engage in the activities you engaged in. You are an insult to that faith." Jones also
brushed aside Ford's claim that he was motivated by a humanitarian desire to help Afghan civilians,
saying Ford had clearly intended to join the Taliban as a foot soldier and would have killed U.S. soldiers
if he had a chance. "If you had been on the firing line, you would have killed an American," Jones said.
Battle, a former Army reservist, also spoke of his obligations as a Muslim and concluded by singing a
10-minute song he said he had written in prison. The courtroom was silent during the song, which ended
with the stanza, "Free, free, free, for all humanity, release me."...

Arab Man Convicted of Hate Crimes in N.Y.

By Associated Press November 24, 2003, 8:03 PM EST
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