Wednesday, February 06, 2008

WMD Documents Found In Army Translators Brooklyn Apt.


While many Muslims do serve our country faithfully in the armed services, it's that tiny minority of extremists who will get ya' every time:

How the classified military documents from Iraq, which named the coordinates of where the Army suspected weapons of mass destruction to be hidden, ended up in an Arabic translator’s apartment on Hoyt Street in Brooklyn, is clear.

Not likely to be known anytime soon is what, if anything, the army contractor did with the documents.

The U.S. attorney’s office in Brooklyn, which is prosecuting the case, appears to have little direct evidence that Noureddine Malki passed information on to the insurgency, either during his time in Iraq in 2003 and 2004, or upon his return to America in 2005. But it has raised the possibility that he may have done so. The government has said Malki regularly called phone numbers connected to insurgents and took bribes of at least $11,500 from Sunni tribal leaders.

The government, prosecutors wrote in one court filing, could “establish that the defendant had an opportunity to provide stolen classified information to anti-coalition forces.”

Yesterday, at a hearing in U.S. District Court in Brooklyn, an Army officer with the 82nd Airborne Division described some of the reports that Malki had obtained. "The information is so critical that you do not want the information to get into the hands of anyone without the need to know," Lieutenant Colonel Michele Bredenkamp said, referring to a mission analysis report for the 82nd Airborne, to which Malki was attached.

The document, among other things, described convoy routes and named known terrorists the Army was targeting. Between 60 and 70 individuals had authorization to view the document, which could be accessed through a secure computer, Colonel Bredenkamp testified.

"Would this be the type of thing for a soldier to take for a keepsake?" a prosecutor, John Buretta, asked.

"That's absurd," Colonel Bredenkamp said.

Malki has pleaded guilty to charges of unauthorized possession of national defense information. He is likely to be sentenced this spring. Prosecutors are seeking a 10-year sentence. Malki's lawyer, Mildred Whalen, is calling for him to be released on time served.

In court papers, Ms. Whalen has claimed that documents Malki "had in his possession were obtained or kept unknowingly."


If you read the rest of the article, Malki proclaims his love for this country, and his sister mentions that poor Malki one time fell into a coma.

I was starting to wipe tears from my eyes, and then I realized that neither I, nor anyone I have ever known, has ever taken confidential documents related to national security home with them for any reason whatsoever.

Oh sure, I do have some pictures of Obama and McCain engaged in sado-masochistic sex, but those were procured on the black market, and they have nothing to do with terrorism, so I'm clean.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Do we need a Star Chamber? Is this all they are charging him with? Are they so afraid of his fellow practitioners of the Religion of Peace™ that they will tippy toe on eggshells all around this? I say, if our government will not act, it won't be long before very angry and patriotic former cops, feds, soldiers and the like will simply deal with it themselves...and you will never know about it, because it never happened, and you didn't see ANYTHING. The Skidmore Rule applies.

Anonymous said...

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Pastorius said...

If the governments of the world do not take it upon themselves to protect their citizens (which is their first responsibility) then it is only natural that the people would take that responsibility upon themselves.