Numerous False Terrorist Charges & Torture to Extract Confessions
Judge Rakoff is a lone warrior – perhaps the only man standing in the New York court system. There are other judges who are not entirely corrupt, but fear ruling against government. Judge Rakoff also handled the case of the purported terrorist who confessed according to prosecutors Mr. Abdallah Higazy, an Egyptian graduate student, was alleged by the government to have guided the planes into the towers on 911 using a special airline radio..Higazy had recently received a scholarship to study in the United States, but became a suspect in the 911 terror investigation when an employee of the Millennium Hilton Hotel in lower Manhattan, in which Higazy was staying at the time of the World Trade Center attack, claimed to have found an aviation radio inside Higazy’s room safe. Higazy denied any knowledge of the radio. He was arrested and thrown in prison and then tortured.
The government tortured Higazy and compelled him to confess to owning the radio. Higazy was then charged with lying to the FBI and was thrown into solitary confinement where many have committed suicide. The government told Judge Rakoff that Higazy had confessed so once again there would be no need for a public trial.
Then our of nowhere, the radio’s real owner, an American pilot, came forward to claim it. Obviously, Higazy confessed to a crime he did not commit that is standard practice in New York. Having been completely exonerated, Judge Rakoff ordered Higazy to be released from custody and all charges against him were dropped. The hotel employee who claimed to have found the radio in Higazy’s room then admitted he fabricated the story, but was not charged.
One must question the government’s involvement in that one as well. Higazy explained that he had falsely confessed because the polygraph operator had threatened his family. They ALWAYS threaten you family – that is how they keep their 99% conviction rate. Women are threatened with taken their children and putting them up for adoption.
Federal Judge Jed S. Rakoff ordered the U.S. Attorney’s Office to investigate how the FBI came to extract a false confession from Mr. Higazy. The government’s first response was to tell Judge Rakoff to take a hike. They bluntly told him he had no authority to order the government to investigate how it extracted an obvious false confession from an innocent kid.
Inside Source at Guantanamo
COMMENT: Martin:I am writing to confirm what you said about Guantanamo. Please do not cite me by name, but I am the military officer who wrote you previously from his …. Some of the soldiers I work with were previously stationed at Guantanamo and I spoke to them about the exchange: They confirmed through their first-hand experience what you wrote. I was told that the majority of the prisoners there were just in the wrong place at the wrong time, and that they aren’t going to trial because either there was no evidence to begin with or US forces/ISAF failed to properly collect and document the evidence. I was also told that they are desperate to get rid of these guys: They’ve made a lot of mistakes in the past(such as sending them home in Jeans and a T-shirt, leading those in their home country to mistakenly assume they were Americanized and turned into double agents) that have forced them to stop releasing detainees.
Bottom line: What you write is almost certainly true based on what I’ve been told. They’re desperate to unload them without getting burned politically and these exchanges appeared like a good way to do that.
Anonymous
REPLY: There was a so-called terrorist who happened to live next to the main guy who flew the plane into WTC. He was from Afghanistan and moved here because he had two daughters and disagreed with their religion. He was told to plead guilty by the court appointed lawyer to 17 years or he would be given life. He was reduced to tears and complied fearing he would never get a fair trial.
I also met the famed box-cutter terrorists who they arrested on a train to Texas. One was actually a Christian. The government realized they made a mistake and put them through what is called “diesel therapy”. That is when they move you from prison to prison everyday so nobody can find you and you cannot call anyone for help. They were saved by their families who contacted the press to inform them they were not terrorists.The NY Times was trying to track them. I personally read the deportation papers. They rushed him to court and told him to sign the papers and he would be deported that day. He looked absolutely terrified, starved to the point you could see the bones. He asked me to please read the papers for he did not trust the court appointed lawyers. He would be deported with no charges but could never sue the government for what was done to him. I read the papers. So I have first hand knowledge of what was going on in many ways.