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Soldier Tries To Provide Info to Al Quaida

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http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,111284,00.html
Feds: Soldier Tried to Give Info to Al Qaeda

Thursday, February 12, 2004



SEATTLE — A National Guardsman stationed at Fort Lewis (search) was arrested Thursday and charged by the Army with trying to provide information to the Al Qaeda (search) terrorist network, a federal law enforcement official said.

The official, speaking on condition of anonymity, told The Associated Press that Spc. Ryan G. Anderson was charged with "aiding the enemy by wrongfully attempting to communicate and give intelligence to the Al Qaeda terrorist network."

It was not immediately known what information Anderson allegedly provided.

Anderson was being held at Fort Lewis, an Army base near Tacoma.

A message left with the Army's Lt. Col. Stephen Barger at Fort Lewis was not immediately returned. Barger, however, scheduled a news conference at the base Thursday afternoon.

Anderson, 26, is a tank crew member from the National Guard's 81st Armor Brigade, a 4,200-member unit set to depart for Iraq for an 18-month deployment. It's the biggest deployment for the Washington Army National Guard since World War II.

Washington State University Charleen Taylor said Anderson was a 2002 graduate with a degree in history.

The brigade has been training at Fort Lewis since November. Eighty percent of the soldiers -- 3,200 -- are from Washington state, and 1,000 are from guard units in California and Minnesota.

It includes two tank battalions, a mechanized infantry battalion, engineers, support troops, artillery and an intelligence company.

It's due to return in March 2005, and be back under state authority by May 15, 2005.
This is one of the things that makes my blood boil. The traitorous bastard was going to help kill his fellow soldiers!

According to the TV broadcast, he was telling the undercover feds the weaknesses of the equipment being used and how to destroy it.
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Traitor, by the Constitutional Definition. HANG HEEM!!!
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Xenophobe3691 wrote:Traitor, by the Constitutional Definition. HANG HEEM!!!
If he managed to actually pass on information to real Al Queda, definitely. Otherwise, life in prison without parole.
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it makes you wonder exactly what kind of information he was passing along. too bad the report didn't say, though it's probably for security reasons.
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Darth_Zod wrote:it makes you wonder exactly what kind of information he was passing along. too bad the report didn't say, though it's probably for security reasons.
It couldn't be anything all that important, I mean what kind of classified info could a National Guardsman that isn't on active duty have access to?
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You'd be surprised.

Just because he's not on active duty, doesn't mean that he doesn't have friends that are on active duty that are helping.

I say put him in jail, and let a different solider pistol whip him every day until everyone that served in Aghanistan, or lost family and friends to 9/11 has beaten him once, then execute him
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Sheesh. Why would he do that? Is he a Fundie Muslim or just a traitor? Either way, if it was intentional, kill his ass.... slow.
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CelesKnight wrote:Sheesh. Why would he do that? Is he a Fundie Muslim or just a traitor? Either way, if it was intentional, kill his ass.... slow.
Maybe the same reason why some sold secrets to Commies,for the fucking money :?
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I saw his picture. Clean-cut white kid. Does this mean we can drop the "racial profiling would stop Al-Quaeda cold" bullshit now?
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Darth Wong wrote:I saw his picture. Clean-cut white kid. Does this mean we can drop the "racial profiling would stop Al-Quaeda cold" bullshit now?
Yeah, but supposedly he had converted to Islam last year so I guess we can replace the racial profiling with religious profiling. :roll:
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one bullet in his head
one bullet in his heart
one bullet through his throat..

treason has that reward, the stupid son of a bitch deserves it :finger:
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Darth Wong wrote:I saw his picture. Clean-cut white kid. Does this mean we can drop the "racial profiling would stop Al-Quaeda cold" bullshit now?
Nope. The Bush goverment would step up racial profiling instead.
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if he did pass intellegene to a true Al Q'aeda operative, then there is only one punishment proscribed by law. Death. I'll shed no tears for that fucker if this is true.
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Not that he shouldn't be shot...

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... but I would love to hear what he had to say for himself. I don't know why, but I just feel like knowing what motivates people to do such things - and I want a 'first-person viewpoint.' After that, he goes into a crematorium, alive :twisted:
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The Kernel wrote:
Darth_Zod wrote:it makes you wonder exactly what kind of information he was passing along. too bad the report didn't say, though it's probably for security reasons.
It couldn't be anything all that important, I mean what kind of classified info could a National Guardsman that isn't on active duty have access to?
that's what seems weird about it. he's just a low ranking guardsman. . . .what possible interest would the al qaida have in him?
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What happend to "Innocent Until Proven Guilty"?

Another man ,Chaplain James Yee, accused in the press of spying for al-Qaeda, now appears to be innocent of those charges.
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Luzifer's right hand wrote:What happend to "Innocent Until Proven Guilty"?

Another man ,Chaplain James Yee, accused in the press of spying for al-Qaeda, now appears to be innocent of those charges.
if you read everyone's posts you would have seen the liberal use of the word IF.
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Col. Crackpot wrote:
Luzifer's right hand wrote:What happend to "Innocent Until Proven Guilty"?

Another man ,Chaplain James Yee, accused in the press of spying for al-Qaeda, now appears to be innocent of those charges.
if you read everyone's posts you would have seen the liberal use of the word IF.
I should have qouted this:
one bullet in his head
one bullet in his heart
one bullet through his throat..

treason has that reward, the stupid son of a bitch deserves it
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Traitor, by the Constitutional Definition. HANG HEEM!!!
My english is not very good, however I saw the the liberl use of the wordif, I will quote the post I'm respoding to the next time.
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Considering i live in the united states of america and i know full well how the judicial system works and innocent until proven guilty. IF hes proven guilty. then what i said applys, happy now? :roll: If hes innocent i actually feel sorry for the poor guy, cause hes gonna have it rough :(
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I've just read that he'd passed on information to a FBI agent posing as an Al-Qaeda operative. The info passed on was quoted to be stuff you can find on the history channel. He has been described as rather bumbling and not circumspect at all.

I believe that his motivation is only in part due to his conversion to Islam and is mostly due to self-agrandizement (sp?). Heis much more of a fool than a traitor, but he is enough of both to warrent life imprisionment.
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Luzifer's right hand wrote:
Traitor, by the Constitutional Definition. HANG HEEM!!!
My english is not very good, however I saw the the liberl use of the wordif, I will quote the post I'm respoding to the next time.
I'm sorry, I was being a bit sarcastic and facetious, hence the deliberate misspelling of "Hang Him" and the imitation of somewhat of a Latin accent. My bad
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If he is guility, let him burn for his crimes
If he is innocent, blamin the media, sue a few random people and call it a day

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The Kernel wrote:
Darth Wong wrote:I saw his picture. Clean-cut white kid. Does this mean we can drop the "racial profiling would stop Al-Quaeda cold" bullshit now?
Yeah, but supposedly he had converted to Islam last year so I guess we can replace the racial profiling with religious profiling. :roll:
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Under which criterias can a person be sentenced to death for treason in the US?
Is it based on the sensitivity of the info?
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