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Ahmad Mohammad Ajaj: March 11, 2012 (We are Prohibited From Sending Greetings to our Family)

Yesterday, the CMU inmates were notified by the Unit Manager that sending simple greeting to any family
members or friends through other family members or third party will be considered a violation of the CMU rules
and a disciplinary action will be taken against the inmate.

Now, we [are] prohibited from sending greeting to our family members. Its not enough that we are deprived of contact visits with our family and friends and we [are] deprived of video-conference visits with our families who live overseas and lack all means and funds to visit with us and its not enough that written letters from family and friends may take weeks or months before it released to us, the new restriction also deprive us of even sending a simple greeting to our brothers, sisters and children!!. Most of us, receive no visits at all. For more than “20″ years, I received no visit from my dad, my sisters and other family members who live in Jerusalem and lack all means to travel to the United States and all my requests for a visit via the available video-conference systems were denied. A 15 minute telephone call cost approx. $15 and now [I] can’t even send greeting to another family member during the limited the “15″ minutes call!!.

Even the so-called out-law governments allows inmates contact visits with their families, allows inmates to freely send greeting to others, allows inmates to have video-conference visits with their childerns, brothers, sisters, parents, and others, allow the Red-Cross and other human rights organizations to monitor the conditions of confinement in their prisons … etc.

I hope this e-mail finds [you] in the best health and spirits and thank you once again for working hard to protect the rights of prisoners.

Sincerely,

Ahmad M. Ajaj
#40637-053
USP-Marion
P.O.Box 1000
Marion, IL 62959

 
 

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Ahmad Mohammad Ajaj: February 12, 2012 (‘Life’ in a CMU)

February 21, 2012
Dear Ms. Aviva Stahl:

We currently have no access to educational, vocational or rehabilitative programs available in other BOP prisons nor are there staff or inmates to provide such classes.

We are not allowed to make legal calls to attorneys except when the attorney first calls the prison and proves urgent need to speak to his client.

We are not allowed to make legal calls to human rights organizations, legal aid centers and the clerk of the court.

The CMU is completely isolated from the prison general population. We have no access to a yard and instead we only have access to cages for recreation.

We are not allowed to have contact visits with our families and communications with our families are very limited.

We are not allowed to have video-conference visits with our beloved ones despite the fact that such visits are allowed even in Bagram Prison in Afghanistan and will be allowed in GTMO according to news articles. Read the rest of this entry »

 
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Posted by on February 21, 2012 in Letters from Ahmed Mohammad Ajaj, Risala

 

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Jesse Curtis Morton: February 17, 2012* (Solitary Confinement: A First-Hand Reflection on Domestic Torture in a Time of Terror)

 

They locked me in this room, Alone, by myself, just me –
With no one to talk to except for the walls, or the face in the mirror I see.
So I sit, listen, and watch
the television in my head
Not a notion to move nor a second spared
I record everything that is said –
Absence of Kindness, Distinct Memories of Pain
Caused by the things that they took away
So I’m holding my breath,until they let me out
But I’m afraid of what might happen the next time I breathe.

I wrote that poem when I was 17.  These days I am living it; all over again.  Then it was a proverbial prison.  I was a conscious youth inside one of the most dangerous institutions of America:  the public high school.  Today, 16 years later, I am in another – the U.S.prison system where I am but one of a growing number of Muslim Americans who dared to speak out.  Today I am a pretrial federal inmate housed in solitary confinement and in conditions that best resemble those of Guantanamo Bay.

Trust me I am not alone.  In 1994, my junior year of high school, the U.S. Justice Department announced that the prison population had reached one million.  By 2009, that number had more than doubled to 2.3 million with 5 million more on probation or parole.  U.S. citizens now represent only 5% of the global population but account for 25% of the world’s prisoners.  Additionally,1 in15 Americans is in “extreme poverty” with 48% of Americans labeled “in poverty” or “working poor”, but a recent Gallup poll documented that the percentage of Americans that realize the levels of poverty are so high, has dramatically decreased.  These two seemingly distinct sets of statistics suggest something more sinister is going on.

The civil rights era included prison protests like the Attica riots of 1971 and paved a way for productive reform, but today talk of human rights tends to cover a manipulative compromise with the power elite and diverts attention away from structural cause.  Generally prisoners today have enhanced rights and services but like the starving people fed by NGO’s in Africa or refugee camps in Afghanistan, such rights and philanthropy are counterproductive where they allow society to ignore the root causes of such appalling levels of crime, punishment, hunger or war.  These contradictions become apparent with regard to civil liberties in a time of confrontation, when the citizen is reduced to an object of propaganda about domestic enemies in order to maintain public support for wars abroad.

The authors of the American constitution unanimously resented any sacrifice of civil liberties in the name of national security, but the reaction to 9/11, the immediate passage of the Patriot Act and a new approach to law enforcement the Bush Administration called a “preventative paradigm” ushered in an order of sustained national liberty sacrifice.  These changes disproportionately affected American Muslims, however while “terrorists” abroad were “disappeared”, water boarded and held without charges at Guantanamo Bay, the courts approved warrantless wiretapping, ethnic profiling, blacksite rendition and preventative detention targeting Muslims on America’s shores.  Wartime propaganda alongside a wave of arrests utilizing entrapment, where undercover agents encourage fund, and coerce potential terrorist attacks, have helped to sustain support.  Recent polling documents that two-thirds of Americans support sacrificing some privacy and freedoms in the fight against terrorism. Read the rest of this entry »

 
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Posted by on February 20, 2012 in Letters from Jesse Curtis Morton, Risala

 

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Adnan Farhan Abdul Latif: December 26, 2010 (I Say Goodbye & the Cry of Death Should Be Enough)

David Remes,

Do whatever you wish to do, the issue is over.

I am happy to express from this darkness and draw a true picture of the condition in which I exist. I am moving towards a dark cave and a dark life in the shadow of a dark prison. This is a prison that does not know humanity, and does not know except the language of power, oppression and humiliation for whoever enters it. It does not differentiate between a criminal and the innocent, and between the right of the sick or the elderly who is weak and is unable to bear and a man who is still bearing all this from the prison administration that is evil in mercy.

Hardship is the only language that is used here. Anybody who is able to die will be able to achieve happiness for himself, he has no other hope except that. The requirement is to announce the end, and challenge the self love for life and the soul that insists to end it all and leave this life which is no longer anymore called a life, instead it itself has become death and renewable torture. Ending it is a mercy and happiness for this soul.

I will not allow any more of this and I will end it. I will send it to a world that is much better than this world. There, the real life will live again that will be filled with complete happiness and be rid of all harassments. There, the environment will clear up, things will calm down and you will be able to relax and you will not see the world of evil people.

I am in need of a person who blindfolds his eyes from me and leaves me in my freedom so that I can choose my end. With all my pains, I say goodbye to you and the cry of death should be enough for you.

A world power failed to safeguard peace and human rights and from saving me. I will do whatever I am able to do to rid myself of the imposed death on me at any moment of this prison.

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12/26/2010

 
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Posted by on December 26, 2010 in Letters from Adnan Farhan Abdul Latif, Risala

 

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Adnan Farhan Abdul Latif: 2010 (To the People who Bear Responsibility of my Death Before Allah)

To Attorney David Remes who dedicated his efforts to work on my dead case. The case that has been buried by its makers under the wreckage of freedom, justice, and the malicious and cursed politics.

Testimony and Consolation

I offer my dead corpse to the coming Yemeni delegation.

They agreed on the torture and agonies that I went through all those years.

They knew that I am innocent and at the same time ill and that I left my country to seek treatment.

This is also a message to the Yemeni people who bear the responsibility of my death in front of God and the responsibility of all of the other Yemenis inside this prison. This prison is a piece of hell that kills everything, the spirit, the body and kicks away all the symptoms of health from them.

A Testimony of Death

A testimony against injustice and against the propagandists of freedom, justice and equality.

Adnan Farhan Abdulatif while in the throes of death.

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Originally Published on Andy Worthington’s site January 11, 2011

 

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Adnan Farhan Abdul Latif: 2010 (Torture That Makes a Person Call For Death Every Second)

To David who is carrying the flag of salvation in the middle of dangers, darkness, injustice, criminal laws, lost freedom, false claims and murdered justice in the hearts of the judges. This made me decide my end and write about it because of everything that happened to me.

The first and last stop, the scene that is unique and the path that takes anybody to an end that no one can expedite or delay it. It’s the injustice and the torture I am enduring. The torture that humiliates, wastes one’s dignity; that makes a person call for death every second; scream asking for it with no hesitation and without a second thought. Laying the body in the grave is better than laying it in fire and torture that I am enduring.

It is my life but who is going to leave me alone? Who is going to rescue me from what I am going through?

Who, whoever tastes death wishes not to return back. Why return?

A new year and a new death festival
156 from the heart to the heart
From a soul to a soul
From a human being to a human being
David: Send me the one I love and save me

Originally Published on Andy Worthing’s site February 10, 2011

 

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Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad: September 30, 2010 (The Good Thing is – Martyrs Don’t Die!)

To: K. Goetz

To answer your questions

1. The Shahadah (to bear witness that there’s no true god except Allah and that Muhammad’s the Messenger of Allah) or declaration of faith was said at a Masjid in Memphis called Masjid-AsSalam. Yes, it’s in Raleigh still now, though they are NOT Mujahideen or Militants or preach Jihad, but that’s where I became Muslim. You repeat the words in Arabic in front of people. The words are: Ash-haddu ala ilaha ila LLAH wa Ash-haddu ANNA Muhammad Rasoolullah. And that means what’s above. After that people normally shout Allahu Akbar! (Allah is the Greatest) 3 times and some hug and greet you to welcome you to the religion.

2. Far as my beliefs: I told you already, I went to Yemen seeking knowledge, found that knowledge and wanted to act on it, because knowledge without action is ignorance at its worst. So my teachers, scholars, mentors, brothers of Islam were all Al-Qaeda fighters from Iraq, Afghanistan, Yemen and Saudi Arabia. Scholars who books I studied, they are from all over. So it’s a process; nothing is overnight. You grow in Islam like a baby, so it’s steps. So step by step I became a religiously, devout Muslim, Mujahid- meaning one who participates in Jihad. I was a jihadist before I traveled to Yemen. I’ve loved Jihad every since I became Muslim. But here in America you have hypocrites and hypocritical sects preaching against Jihad and the Mujahideen, so I fell victim to their false knowledge and cowardly ways. But in Yemen, where I met true scholars and more knowledgeable people, I re-affirmed my beliefs, which is to fight the Muslim Haters, The Muslim Killers, The Muslim Oppressors, to fight in defense to Protect Muslims’ Blood, Honor, Respect and Land; and this is not taught on this side of the Atlantic!! And most American so-called Muslims are looked upon in the Islamic World as hypocrites and phonies.

3. Far as the attack itself: I’ve said enough regarding it to many people, so you should just go off that.

4. Far as the Martyrdom Operation: Yes, I was asked but didn’t get a chance to get trained. That’s all I’m going to say on that.

5. Yes, it should be a picture of me online. The feds came with photos of me seized from my computer but they claim it was from Facebook and MySpace. So if it’s not there then I don’t know. Why don’t you get a photo from them. I’m sure they have it and the TBI too.

6. The video will be played in court so if you’re present you can get the whole story from it. I won’t put all here what I said, but I spoke of doing retaliation attacks on: Zionists, Crusaders and slaves of the Cross, and for what happened in Guantanamo Bay, Abu Ghrayb, Bagram prisons, what’s going on in Iraq, Afghanistan and Palestine and elsewhere. I was dressed in all-white thoub (Islamic attire) and I had my face wrapped in a white Imama (Arabic head attire) with my SKS visible and the Islamic flag behind me.

7. Plan A: I was to kill and assassinate 3 Zionist Rabbis in Memphis, Little Rock, and Nashville. Then target recruitment centers from the South to the Nation’s Capital, and other Zionist organizations in the North East. That was the plan, which mostly failed. Plan B was random and unplanned attack in Little Rock, which I chose the recruitment center.

8. No, I don’t have the letter. I threw it away before my Jihadi Operation.

9. Yes, I’m locked down 23/1; no cell mate, 12×8 cell, I can’t see out the windows, I can’t go outside, the only books I have is the interpretation of the Noble Qur’an. Far as me thinking about death, I knew what I was getting into before I did it and I knew this would end with the Enemies of Allah killing me, but the good thing is – Martyrs don’t die! Allah says, “Don’t think of those who are killed for the sake of Allah as dead, Rather they are alive with their Lord and they have their provision!” (Qur’an 3:109)*

And that’s what I believe. The Jihad lives on. May Allah accept my Jihadi Operations and grant me what He promises all of the Shuhadaa (martyrs) Ameen.

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