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Khawaja vowed 'death, destruction': Canadian Jihad

by Barry Artiste | September 10, 2008 at 04:16 am | 284 views | 4 comments | 2 recommendations

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On a personal note, the many stories and op/ed pieces I have posted here and elsewhere on this trial and his obvious guilt and his continued pleas of innocence has resulted in numerous personal attacks against me by Khawaja supporters.

The last two stories I have posted showing irrefutable evidence cementing his Guilt has seemed to silence his Supporters further attacks against me, as they must sit in stunned silence know knowing of his guilt and complicity in this terrorist scheme to kill British Subjects coming to light.

His theory that "He is only answerable to God" seems a tad ludicrous as the Canadian Public are letting him know in no uncertain terms "Your God ain't here now is he?"

http://www.ottawasun.com/News/OttawaAndRegion/2008/09/10/6718461-sun.html

Wed, September 10, 2008

Khawaja vowed 'death, destruction': Surveillance, e-mails link Orleans man to terror cell, Crown says in closing arguments

By DONNA CASEY, SUN MEDIA

Pulling together the threads of a landmark case for Canada's terrorism laws, the Crown began closing arguments in Momin Khawaja's terrorism trial yesterday.

With defence lawyer Lawrence Greenspon not calling any evidence in the computer programmer's defence, prosecutor David Mc-Kercher launched a methodical review of key testimony, surveillance evidence and e-mails the Crown says proves the software designer knew he was part of an international Islamic extremist terror cell.

"The Crown is saying he was an important part of the conspiracy from the start," said McKercher of Khawaja's alleged involvement with a U.K.-based fertilizer bomb plot in 2004.

"His own writings tell of his intentions," said McKercher of Khawaja's e-mails in which the Orleans man vowed "to become the West's mortal enemy" and "bring death and destruction."

'IDEOLOGICAL HATRED' McKercher told Ontario Superior Court Justice Douglas Rutherford, who is hearing the case without a jury, that it was clear Khawaja viewed himself as "answerable only to God" in his battle to wage violent jihad against the West, where he "wanted to prosecute a private war.

" Khawaja's "specific ideological hatred" for the West meant "Canada was lumped in with everybody else," the Crown added. Khawaja faces seven charges related to facilitating and financing terrorism and building a remote-control detonator device -- dubbed the Hi-Fi Digimonster -- to be used to set off bombs at a London nightclub, a shopping complex and gas and electric utilities in the U.K. in 2004.

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moonwolf

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at 07:52 on September 10th, 2008

Barry Artiste,

That boy is goin' down! And the only sunlight he'll see again for the rest of his sorry life is up through the frost fence mesh in his private little 6x8 at the supermax. My only complaint about your coverage is, please let the court do it's work. You are not the judge and the jury, there will be no lynching, and your proclaiming his guilt before the court has done its job is inflammatory and prejudicial.

Barry Artiste

at 08:17 on September 10th, 2008

Thanks Moon, my only claim against his guilt is to let his long time supporters know who profess his complete innocence that he is not innocence.

He claims he was at the outset, with What,Me! I never did anything terrorisy, then later, its Oh, that, well yeah, I may have done that, to finally, I didnt know the bomb devices I designed were to blow up the people of britian, I wanted them to blow up afghanis and pakistanis.

Hello, as we learn more, we can see where his innocence lies. True he has not been convicted, so this story is more on my opinion, but I think I havea pretty valid friggin opinon, don't you think?

moonwolf

at 08:23 on September 10th, 2008

Barry,

I absolutely do. I just don't know how it serves the story to be so, shall we say, colourful in your condemnation.

Barry Artiste

at 04:40 on September 12th, 2008

Well lets just say the dozen or so emails I got from his angry supporters stating his complete innocence from the very beginning of my first op/ed on this guy since day one has a lot to do with it. And as the trial progresses it is clear he aint as innocence as his supporters now believed. To go from, I am just a man who came to Canada, found love with a Canadian Women, and just a regular joe certainly belies everything he previously said when the evidence clearly shows his intent, So if his supporters who previously proclaimed his innocence, allows me the right to proclaim his guilt, based on the mountains of evidence against him. And it looks like I am right in my OP.BIG TIME