Another Uzbek refugee
sentenced to prison on terrorism charges, by Ann Corcoran, 8/31/18.
Fraud alert! Now get this! If
Muhtorov was a legitimate refugee fearing persecution if returned home, why was
he going there anyway? And, more importantly I sure hope
the prosecutors set the court’s mind right on how refugees are chosen for
America….Someone here as a legitimate refugee does not go
home to help someone else get here!
We
have reported on the case of Jamshid
Muhtorov for several years, click here for
background. The other Uzbek jihadist making the newslately is Fazliddin Kurbanov. A Muslim refugee who was frustrated and angry about life in the U.S.
Yesterday
a judge in Colorado sentenced Muhtorov to 11 years for conspiring to aid a
terrorist group in Uzbekistan.
The AP story is
entitled: Uzbek refugee given 11 years for supporting terror group. What is so
noteworthy about that headline? The fact that the word refugee is used. Back in the day (LOL!
when I first started writing this blog!), the headline would have read “Colorado man given 11 years for supporting
terror group.”
The
article would have then given only his name leaving you wondering where he came
from and how he got here! Little by little the times are changing and refugees who commit crimes
are being identified.
Here
is a bit of the AP story.
Emphasis is mine. Remember that the government of Uzbekistan (described here as
“totalitarian”) is a Muslim government and not radical enough for Muhtorov and
his pals.
DENVER (AP) — A refugee from Uzbekistan convicted of conspiring to
support a terrorist group and making plans to join the organization himself in
2012 was given an 11-year prison sentence Thursday but will receive credit for
the more than six years he has been jailed in Colorado.
A
jury in June found Jamshid Muhtorov guilty of three charges: Conspiring to
provide $300 to the Islamic Jihad Union, providing or attempting to provide the
$300 and providing or attempting to provide himself as support. The organization is an extremist
splinter group that opposes the government of Uzbekistan and has been
blamed for attacks there and in Afghanistan.
Note that Uzbekistan shares a border
with Afghanistan. The Bush Administration was somehow mucking around with Uzbek
politics at the time of Muhtorov’s arrival as a ‘refugee.’ Did taking a
bunch of Uzbek troublemakers to America as refugees benefit the US State
Department somehow?
Judge
John Kane in his sentence wrote that Muhtorov’s “offenses are serious and his
rhetoric is frightening” but did not include committing or planning violent
acts in the United States.
Muhtorov’s
offenses did not warrant the 30-year sentence required by prosecutors but
demanded punishment beyond the six years and seven months he has been jailed
since federal authorities arrested him at a Chicago airport, Kane said.
“Muhtorov attempted to travel to join and to provide financial support
to a terrorist organization,” Kane wrote. “Regardless of whether his
contribution aided orphans or whether he was limited to engaging in propaganda
and recruiting, he would have furthered the illicit causes of a violent
organization.”
Muhtorov and his family arrived in Denver in 2007 through a refugee
resettlement program. [Can’t blame this
one on Obama, he was a Bush refugee.—ed] The family fled their home country of Uzbekistan, where
Muhtorov had been beaten twice for his human rights work. [Or was he beaten because he was working against the more moderate
Islamic government there?—ed]
But,
aren’t we told that they are all here for a better life?
Prosecutors argued that he soon became frustrated and angry about life
in the U.S. and emailed with the terror group, used codes to discuss the group
with a co-defendant and intended to join them when he booked a one-way ticket
to Turkey in 2012. Muhtorov’s defense attorneys, though, said he never intended
to take any action — either sending money or joining the group himself.
Prosecutors
asked Kane to sentence the 42-year-old to 30 years in prison because he acted
as a conduit between the group and other people, actively helping the
organization.
Prosecutor
Gregory Holloway suggested that a lighter sentence would fail to deter others
from communicating with terror groups, including those that try to persuade
people already living in the U.S. to plan and carry out attacks on Americans.
AP
continues: He
[Muhtorov’s attorney] said Muhtorov booked the plane ticket intending to help
his brother apply for refugee status, not to join the group himself.
What
no deportation! A Muslim who is “angry about life in the US” could be out of
prison in about five more years?
Once
Muhtorov is released, he will be transferred to immigration authorities, who
requested a hold based on the Colorado conviction.
Muhtorov fears he will be jailed or killed if he is deported to
Uzbekistan and
U.S. proceedings to address those issues could last years, his attorneys
said. [Costing the taxpayers a bundle!—ed]
What
the heck, he was willingly headed ‘home’ a few years ago! But, will be fighting
to stay here in only a few short years! More here. Go here for my growing Uzbek file.
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody
GA Tea Party Leader
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