WarCriminalsWatch Events

This event will be in Vanderbilt Room 220.

The Fort Dix Five. Yassin Aref. Fahad Hashmi. The Newburgh Four. "Homegrown
terrorists" stopped dead in their tracks, or victims of FBI entrapment? A
panel of speakers will discuss these cases in light of the FBI's campaign since
9/11 that includes preemptive prosecution, the targeting of Muslim communities
and the use of agent provocateurs and informants to entrap innocent people.

Panelists include:

El-Hajj Mauri’ Saalakhan - Director of Operations for The Peace and Justice
Foundation - a Muslim led grassroots human rights organization based in
Metropolitan Washington, DC, and lead convener for the May 6, 2010, mass
mobilization for political prisoner, Dr. Aafia Siddiqui.

Alicia McWilliams - Aunt of David Williams, one of the Newburgh Four, the men
charged with the attempted bombing of the Riverdale Temple.

Lejla Duka - 12 year old family member of Fort Dix Five.

Faisal Hashmi - Brother of Fahad Hashmi, who has been in pre-trial solitary
confinement for over two years under the charges of providing material aid to
Al-Qaeda.

Lynne Jackson - Volunteer and co-founder of Project SALAM, an internet group
that believes many innocent Muslims were targeted, prosecuted, and convicted
in the hysteria following 9/11 and the Bush Administration’s violations of
the US Constitution. The organization’s mission is to identify as many of these
cases as possible, to advocate for their release, and to make sure that their
names and the injustices against them are not forgotten.

Other family members and lawyers from these cases will be present.

Sponsored by: National Lawyers Guild (NLG),Middle Eastern Law Students
Association (MELSA), Islamic Law Students Association (ILSA), Law Students for
Human Rights (LSHR), WESPAC, Project SALAM, Muslim Solidarity Committee