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June, 25, 2010 |13 Tamuz 5770
Rubashkin Vows To Appeal 27 Year Sentence
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US, Israel Warships in Suez Canal, Prelude to Faceoff with Iran?
Times Square Bomber: I’m Going to Plead Guilty 100 Times Over
Shocked Sholom Rubashkin listening to his sentencing.
Times Square bomber hoped to be a martyr for Islam.
The former manager of an Iowa kosher slaughterhouse was sentenced to 27 years in prison and ordered to pay nearly $31 million restitution when he was sentenced Tuesday in U.S. District Court.
A Pakistani-born American citizen defiantly pleaded guilty this week to attempting to set off a car bomb in New York's Times Square, saying that Islamist extremists would continue to attack the United States.
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hief U.S. District Court Judge Linda Reade issued a sentencing memorandum outlining the sentence she imposed on Sholom Rubashkin during Tuesday’s hearing in Cedar Rapids. Reade indicated in the document she would not impose a fine. A jury found Rubashkin guilty on 86 federal f inancial fraud charges last fall. Rubashkin’s attorney Guy Cook says the sentence is unfair and excessive that that Rubashkin’s conviction and sentencing will be appealed. U.S. attorney spokesman Bob Teig declined comment. The Hon. Bob Barr announced that Rubashkin will appeal the verdict and the sentence. “This sentence is inconsistent with
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BY TZVI BEN GEDALYAHU Egypt allowed at least one Israeli and 11 American warships to pass through the Suez Canal as an Iranian flotilla is poised to sail to Gaza. Egypt closed the canal to protect the ships with thousands of soldiers, according to the British-based Arabic language newspaper Al Quds al-Arabi.
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ne day prior to the report on Saturday, Voice of Israel government radio reported that the Egyptian government denied an Israeli request not to allow
the Iranian flotilla to use the Suez Canal to reach Gaza, in violation of the Israeli sea embargo on the Hamas-controlled area. International agreements require Egypt to keep the Suez open even for warships, but the armada, led by the USS Truman with 5,000 sailors and marines, was the largest in years. Egypt closed the canal to f ishing and other boats as the armada moved through the strategic passageway that connects the Red and Mediterranean Seas. Despite Egypt’s reported refusal to
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aisal Shahzad, 30, admitted traveling to Pakistan to receive bomb-making training from the Pakistani Taliban, called Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan, and receiving $12,000 from the group to carry out the failed plot on May 1. Shahzad, who has a wife and two children living in Pakistan, pleaded guilty to 10 charges, including attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction and attempted terrorism transcending national borders. He faces mandatory life in prison. "I'm going to plead guilty 100 times over," Shahzad told the court. Until the United States stops drone aircraft attacks and the occupation of "Muslim lands," Shahzad said "we will be attacking the United States and I plead guilty to that." "One has to understand where I'm coming from," Shahzad said in a long speech frequently interrupted by U.S. District Judge Miriam Goldman Cedarbaum seek-
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