Uzbek man gets nearly 16 years in prison for plot to kill Obama

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

By Verna Gates
BIRMINGHAM, Alabama | Fri Jul 13, 2012 4:30pm EDT

(Reuters) - A federal judge sentenced an Uzbek man living illegally in the United States to nearly 16 years in prison on Friday on terrorism and weapons charges stemming from his plot to kill President Barack Obama.

Ulugbek Kodirov, who arrived in the United States in 2009 to attend medical school but never enrolled, had plotted to shoot Obama while the president campaigned for re-election this year, according to federal authorities in Alabama.

They said the 22-year-old man became "radicalized" through Internet research and believed he was acting on behalf of an Islamist militant group in his homeland.

"This case is an example of how our youth can be radicalized by misinformation and propaganda they see on the Internet," Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael Whisonant said during a sentencing hearing in Birmingham.

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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/07/13/us-usa-crime-plot-obama-idUSBRE86C14H20120713

[Turbineguy]

1. Was the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan

funded by Karl Rove?

[RedStateLiberal]

2. This idiot was caught about 30 miles from where I live

Scary stuff.

[LACarMan]

3. Oh noes!

This case is an example of how our youth can be radicalized by misinformation and propaganda they see on the Internet

These yoots are a danger to our security.

One of the biggest terrorist threats we face is the lone wolf.

in other words, if you are brown and don't speaka the english, you will go to jail.

[octothorpe]

4. I thought he was in trouble for plotting to kill the president....

Pretty messed up he got 16 years for being 'brown' and not speaking English well.

[virgogal]

8. What on earth are you talking about in your last sentence?

[may3rd]

13. ..."if you are brown and don't speaka the english, you will go to jail"....

Sounds racist to me

[muriel_volestrangler]

11. What has your last sentence got to do with this case?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-18838756

Would you say he looks 'brown'?

And why do you think a 'lone wolf' remark is about skin colour or language?

[Maynar]

5. yabbut

"We need to send a strong message that anyone who subjects themselves to propaganda, that the punishment will be serious," Kallon said.

That's pretty much all Teabaggers. I'm waiting... *taps foot*

[freshwest]

9. Tapping with you. It'd be nice to see them with this guy. They'd have a lot in common.

They might not think so, but they'd find they really do.

And the opinion of most people would be they all need to be sent to the same place.

[2ndAmForComputers]

6. Stupid terrorist.

If he did all that under Christian fanaticism instead of the Muslim one, he wouldn't even be labeled a "terrorist!"

[Downwinder]

7. Think I would be more concerned about cops with guns making threats.

[Sterling]

16. It's all pretty scary to me.

When W. was in office I really was afraid someone might try to do something to him which would have been the worst thing that could have happened for Democrats or anyone who was not a W. supporter. Can you imagine what the Neo Cons would have been able to push through if that happened?

Somehow it does not seem the same for Obama. Freaking idiots are allowed to bring guns around him and say the craziest BS. What's the deal?

[alp227]

10. Some kooks may actually want Obama to give him amnesty.

He's an illegal immigrant and a Muslim albeit a white man (coming from Uzbekistan) AND because he threatened OBAMA, he'd be a martyr to some of the kookier right wingers.

[may3rd]

14. Wonder how much welfare $$ he was given per month

to be talking so much shit about the hand that feeds him ?

[LiberalLovinLug]

15. Imagine if it was under the Bush regime that a "turrrist" was stopped

from assassinating the Commander in Chief, the Head Decider. FOX News would have an all day love fest with BushCo. and be railing on about how he's keepin us safe, and turrrists hate us for our freedom, and that's why this plot was hatched etc...ad nauseum.


"This case is an example of how our youth can be radicalized by misinformation and propaganda they see on the Internet," Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael Whisonant said during a sentencing hearing in Birmingham.

Ok, this is the scarey part. You see folks, its the Internet's fault. Because this one radicalized Muslim took things too far off of information he researched on the Internet, we've got to squash Net Neutrality laws and allow the Internet to be overseen and rationed out by our patriotic Corporate Overlords.

They use ANY story they can to slowly, drip by drip, use fear to wear away the public's resistance to harnessing the Internet and dividing it up for 3 or 4 corps.....who will make it very difficult for any of us to get onto DU and sites like it.