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Legal
Virginia man convicted of funding Islamic State in terrorism trial Lawyers for Mohammed Chhipa, 35, argued he was ensnared by the FBI with a fake marriage ruse.
(Washington Post) Mohammed Chhipa led a double life, by his own attorney’s telling, spreading online propaganda for the Islamic State with “bravado and bluster” while he was brooding in Northern Virginia as “a lonely, sad and deflated man” secretly being monitored by […]
Legal
Appeals court looks set to let Pentagon out of 9/11 plea deals An appeals court signaled it will override a military judge’s ruling that the agreements avoiding the death penalty were binding.
(Politico) A federal appeals court appears poised to rule that the Pentagon has the authority to withdraw from plea deals ruling out the death penalty that were negotiated with three Guantanamo Bay prisoners accused of plotting the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. […]
Clerics & Preachers
Islamist hate cleric calls for attacks on British soldiers over Prince Harry’s kill claims: report
(Breitbart) A notorious Islamist hate preacher reportedly called for Muslims to target British troops in response to Prince Harry’s claims that he killed 25 people during the Afghanistan War. Anjem Choudary, an infamous convicted hate cleric in the United Kingdom, previously imprisoned […]