Thursday, September 22, 2005
What is Wrong with This Picture?
We were hit by terrorists on 9/11, right? And didn't we go to war in Afghanistan to destroy al-Qaeda and their sponsors, the Taliban? Remember the Taliban, those radical nutjobs who beat women who did not cover their bodies in burqas?
So, how come we allowed a Taliban ambassador to become an American citizen?
Former Taliban Diplomat Sentenced in New York in Tax Fraud Case
Can someone explain to me why this man will not be stripped of his citizenship (whose bright idea was it to let him become a citizen?), deported, and not allowed to ever return.
Instead he will serve 8 months in prison.
Does anyone want to bet he gets some sort of government benefits?
We were hit by terrorists on 9/11, right? And didn't we go to war in Afghanistan to destroy al-Qaeda and their sponsors, the Taliban? Remember the Taliban, those radical nutjobs who beat women who did not cover their bodies in burqas?
So, how come we allowed a Taliban ambassador to become an American citizen?
Former Taliban Diplomat Sentenced in New York in Tax Fraud Case
A former envoy for Afghanistan's Taliban leadership who pleaded guilty to cheating on his taxes and lying on a bank loan application has been sentenced to two months behind bars.
Noorullah Zadran, once a top spokesman for the Taliban in the United States, pleaded guilty June 17 to federal charges in U.S. District Court in Manhattan.
Besides the two months' imprisonment, he was also fined $5,000 Tuesday and ordered to serve three years of supervised release, the Justice Department said Wednesday. He had faced up to eight months in prison.
Zadran admitted failing to report $1,541 in income on his 2000 federal tax return. He also said he wrote on a loan application that his wife was working when she was unemployed to get a lower interest rate.
Zadran was dispatched to New York in the late 1990s to lobby for United Nations recognition of the Taliban - a task complicated by the U.S. attack on the bases of Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan in 1998 and his government's subsequent refusal to hand over the terrorist.
In interviews at the time, Zadran described bin Laden as a "guest of our country" who had promised Taliban leaders "that no act of terror would be initiated from our soil."
Zadran is now a U.S. citizen.
Can someone explain to me why this man will not be stripped of his citizenship (whose bright idea was it to let him become a citizen?), deported, and not allowed to ever return.
Instead he will serve 8 months in prison.
Does anyone want to bet he gets some sort of government benefits?
