The Abdul Basit Javed Sheikh case. Read the Hypocrisy of the U.S. A North Carolina father said Tuesday that federal prosecutors have falsely accused his son of planning to join an al-Qaida-linked militant group that was trying to topple Syrias Bashar Assad in that countrys civil war. The Sheikh case points out the hypocrisy of prosecuting people who support an anti-Assad group the government judged as terrorists while the Obama administration favors other fighters in the same bloody conflict, said Jeff Addicott, director of the Center for Terrorism Law at St. Marys University in San Antonio. The anti-Assad forces include some that are out-and-out terrorist groups, that are designated by our state department as linked to al-Qaida. Some of them arent, Addicott said. The hypocrisy is that youre going to prosecute someone for taking up arms against the Assad regime that may simply be caught up and labeled as a member of one of these Islamic groups. If convicted, Sheikh could be sentenced to up to 15 years in prison and fined $250,000.
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