DC Muslim 5: 'We're being tortured. Honest. And we want Daniel Pearl's former 'go to guy' as our lawyer."

Remember those 5 DC Muslim 'yutes' that went to Pakistan to wage Jihad? Well, now they are saying that they are being tortured, poor lambs. (Note to DC 5: It's not torture, it's the Islamic nation of Pakistan! How do you like your jihad now?)

Five Americans arrested last month for allegedly plotting terror attacks told a court Monday they have been tortured while in custody.

Muhammad Ameer Khan Rokhri, the former defense lawyer for the accused, told CNN Monday the five complained to the special anti-terrorism court that they were tortured by the jail authorities. He added that the court ordered medical check-ups for the five.

Aftab Hanif, the deputy superintendent of the district jail, told CNN that the allegations were false. He said nobody touched the suspects and added that they were even receiving better food than the other prisoners.

P.S. Looks to me like they just want to set up some bogus human rights bs in order to arrange a prisoner exchange for Aafia Siddiqui (Gray Lady of al Qaeda) currently on trial here in the US. Read on, possums.

Rokhri (their former lawyer) said the five told him they didn't want to him to represent them any more but would like Human Rights activist Khalid Khawaja to be their defense counsel. Khalid Khawaja is not a lawyer. He is a former member of the Pakistan intelligence service and founder of "Defense of Human Rights," a Pakistani Human Rights organization based in Islamabad.

Rokhri said the court has allowed the accused to hire any lawyer for their defense and adjourned the case until February 2.

About Khalid Khalwaja - he's a known bad actor with a heavy whiff of muslim moonbat about him:

<--- Khalid Khalwaja -and is that a prayer bump I see? Yes it is!

After being given a tip that Mansoor Ijaz is connected to leading militant Muslims in Pakistan, reporter Daniel Pearl will connect with Khalid Khawaja, who in turn connects him with militant Muslims who kidnap and eventually kill him. A leading Pakistani newspaper will claim that at one point Newsweek is about to accuse Khawaja of involvement in the plot to kidnap Pearl, but Ijaz vouches for Khawaja and convinces Newsweek to pull back its accusations.

And did Khawaja fly Osama Bin Laden's plane at one point in his checkered past?

Khalid Khawaja, “has never hidden his links with Osama bin Laden. At one time he used to fly Osama’s personal plane.”

He says no - but you will note that he doesn't say he didn't fly WITH Osama Bin Laden.

Mr Khalid Khawaja wrote last week to complain that I had erroneously called him a Taliban apologist and a person who confesses to be the pilot of Osama bin Laden. He states he never was Osama’s pilot, as he never qualified to be a pilot. While I have not seen anything to convince me about the former, I cannot prove him wrong in the latter even though the internet and rightwing talk shows are full of this introduction.

He has also been actively involved in the Pakistani Supreme Court case involving the stripping of Presidential immunity and has been lobbying for the release of the Gray Lady of al Qaeda, Aafia Siddiqui - currently on trial here in NYC. (see here)

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Aafia Siddiqui aka The Grey Lady of al Qaeda's latest stunt.

Looks like there's been more court room shenanigans from al Qaeda's gun moll. Following her al Qaeda training manual to a tee, she continues to disrupt her trial at every turn. Just imagine what it's going to be like when KSM hits town:

From the AP:

A U.S.-trained scientist accused of shooting at FBI agents and helping al-Qaida vowed Thursday to boycott her January trial.

Aafia Siddiqui interrupted lawyers at her pretrial hearing in U.S. District Court in Manhattan to announce that she did not plan to participate in her trial, scheduled for Jan. 19.

"I am boycotting this trial," she said. "I am innocent of all the charges and I can prove it, but I will not do it in this court."

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Before he (Judge Berman) ruled on the request, Siddiqui said visits by her lawyers were "torture for me" and it was a waste of money for lawyers to go to Afghanistan to interview witnesses because she was not participating in the trial.

"I'm not dealing with them anymore," Siddiqui said of her lawyers. "They're just people coming to my door and talking, talking, talking."

During a break, Siddiqui was led out of the courtroom by U.S. marshals when she would not stop talking loudly. "Take me out," she said. "I'm not coming back."

And speaking of court room shenanigans - check out the stunts the motions her defense team put forward and then just imagine all the legal machinations and maneuvering that will toccur at the KSM trial. It's going to be a freaking zoo:

From Dawn.com:

A US Federal Court has rejected Dr Aafia Siddiqui’s defence team’s appeal to dismiss the case against her as the alleged crime was not committed on the American soil. At a pre-trial hearing Judge Richard Berman cited a congressional statute as well as past precedent to rule that the court had jurisdiction in Dr. Siddiqui's case. Siddiqui, is in a New York jail charged with attacking US interrogators in Afghanistan in July 2008 and was brought to New York in US custody the following month.

The defence argued that it was against the Geneva conventions to try Dr. Aafia Siddiqui for attempted murder in the US when the crime was allegedly committed in Afghanistan.

Siddiqui on her part protested the proceedings and was sent to another room to watch the proceedings on a closed circuit TV.

In another motion, the defence asked the court to throw out the first count of the indictment against Dr. Siddiqui on technical grounds but that motion was also dismissed

More posts detailing The Grey Lady of al Qaeda's courtroom antics can be found here.

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