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To: Amy J who wrote (174283)	4/29/2003 2:45:19 PM
From: James H. Barnes	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

>> "I was reading the government's document on it, and with the exception of #105 in the document (which could be huge), he sounds like a guy that is the victim of assumed guilt by association. What are your thoughts on it? " Yeah, besides trying to go to Afghanistan and fight with al-Qaida and the Taliban against the US I'd agree with you...

To: Amy J who wrote (174283)	4/29/2003 8:01:34 PM
From: Road Walker	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

Amy, I'm not sure what this guy is guilty of: traveling to China to maybe go to Afganistan to maybe join the Taliban or whoever to maybe fight against Americans. If a citizen can be prosecuted for suspected intent twice removed from action, jailed for 30 days without being charged, then there isn't a lot you can't be jailed or prosecuted for. I often wonder if being against the war, and posting that on a public forum, could be interpreted as aiding the enemy? Maybe things in the US would need to swing just a bit farther towards the repressive "regimes" and "terrorist" we are fighting against, for that to happen... maybe not. Maybe in our zeal to get them we are becoming them. John

To: Amy J who wrote (174283)	4/30/2003 5:27:49 AM
From: rkral	Respond to of 186894

Amy, re " ... there's an Intel engineer that was arrested as a material witness for suspected terrorism: " And the impact on Intel, the company, or INTC, the stock, is ... ??? Ron

To: Amy J who wrote (174283)	8/7/2003 1:50:08 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Amy, JF, and all, follow-up on the former Intel engineer arrested for trying to help the Taliban: news.zdnet.co.uk Ex-Intel worker pleads guilty to trying to help Taliban Declan McCullagh CNET News.com August 07, 2003, 12:35 BST A former Intel engineer accused of aiding terrorist organisations pleaded guilty on Wednesday to conspiracy to supply services to the Taliban. Maher "Mike" Mofeid Hawash, 38, faces between seven and 10 years in federal prison after admitting that he travelled to China with five suspected terrorists and attempted to enter Afghanistan in order to fight against the United States in 2001, according to the guilty plea. In the 13-page plea agreement released on Wednesday afternoon, Hawash admitted to the charges brought against him by the Justice Department in April. "Hawash and others in the group were prepared to take up arms as martyrs if necessary to defend the Taliban government in Afghanistan," said the plea agreement, which Hawash signed. The Justice Department said it expects sentencing to occur next year after the trials of the remaining defendants are complete. The sentence, which will be set by US District Judge Robert Jones, is compounded because the offence took place when the United States was at war. After Hawash was arrested in March and detained for weeks without charges filed against him, his case became something of a cause celebre online. His friends and former boss at Intel set up the FreeMikeHawash.org Web site and said in response to the criminal charges: "Mike's friends and those who know him think the idea that Mike would have fought for the Taliban or travelled to Afghanistan is absurd. Mike's concerns were for his family in America, his family in Palestine and for his faith." Supporters even held rallies in front of the courthouse. As a lead engineer on Intel's Multimedia Extensions, or MMX, software team, Hawash worked on the MMX technology emulator and MPEG decoders. In 1997, Addison-Wesley published a book co-authored by Hawash that was titled DirectX, RDX, RSX and MMX Technology: A Jumpstart Guide to High Performance APIs. The plea agreement also sets out a $250,000 (£155,092) fine and requires Hawash to cooperate with the government in criminal prosecutions and military tribunals, including legal action against the suspects being held in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The plea states that Hawash travelled with defendants Patrice Ford, Ahmed Bilal and Muhammad Bilal to China in an attempt to enter Pakistan and then travelled to Afghanistan, but the four men were unsuccessful in obtaining a visa for Pakistan. Hawash, who was born in 1964 in Nablus, in the then-Jordainian-controlled West Bank, is a naturalised US citizen. He had lived in Hillsboro, Oregon, with his wife and three children.