I told you yesterday that sentencing was about to commence for the refugees who went back to Somalia to join al-Shabab, the al-Qaida affiliate in East Africa. I hadn’t planned to write anymore about it, partly because I am sick of it! We gave these people the ‘good life’ at great expense to the US taxpayer and they threw it back in our faces. But, this part of a long story on the sentencing from the Twin Cities Pioneer Press (hat tip: Cliff) was worth mentioning.
The Judge wonders whether this Somali, Kamal Said Hassan, might still be lying:
Each man told Davis his story, and the judge seemed to react differently to each. In the case of Hassan, the judge acknowledged that while the defendant had been an “extraordinary” help to investigators since his arrest, he didn’t know if the words he was hearing were a performance.
“I can’t take back what I did, but I can show you, the government, the Somali community, that I can do better,” Hassan told the judge.
“I know what I did was wrong and illegal and I take full responsibility for my actions,” he said. “I’m sorry to the ones I hurt.”
He apologized to his family, his adopted homeland and his fellow Somali immigrants.
“I want the American people to know I am very sorry for what I did,” he said.
When he finished speaking, Davis paused for several moments.
Finally, he spoke. “I heard a lot of sorrys,” the judge said. “And as you well know, I grilled you on the witness stand when you testified (against Omar). Your talk here has reared that ugly head, in my mind … where we have people who are very, very bright and can be very, very dangerous.”
The judge noted Hassan had been deceitful to his own family and had even not been fully truthful with the FBI when they questioned him; prosecutors even added a charge of making false statements to his two counts of providing material support to al-Shabaab.
The judge said he had to ask himself, “Why aren’t you lying today? I have no indicia that you’re not.”
About the photo: I found it here with a brief background on Hassan. I had not seen this website, Global Jihad, before but it looks like it might be useful going forward.