We had Mark Hosenball on the radio show this morning, to discuss his July 3 Newsweek article on the seven Liberty City men accused of being ... ahem ... al-Qaida terrorists. His conclusion appears to be just like mine: that this case is full of ... merde.
More importantly, we had on a cousin of one of the suspects, who is also a childhood friend of one of the other defendants. He made several points: that these men are religious men, not dangerous, and not anything near terrorists. That could be called family bias. But the young man we talked to also made the following point, which I think is key:
These men are not Muslims.
Hosenball corroborates. They are members of a strange, Black nationalist religious sect called the Moorish Science Temple of Divine Soldiers, an odd sect, but not a Muslim one.
That would kinda make it tough for them to be al-Qaida...
More later.
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