Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem
Al hamdulillahi Rabbil ‘Alamin
As Salaamu ‘Alaykum wa Rahmatullah wa Barakatuhu
Dear Amma, Abba and Family,
I hope and ask Allah that you all are doing good by His Ni’mah. Al-hamdulillah, I’m doing good by the Grace of Allah. How is everybody?
I am currently writing to you from Greenville, Illinois, FCI, where I am in SHU (solitary confinement) waiting transfer. They brought me and another Muslim from the Marion-CMU over here on Friday, May 4, 2012.
At Marion, the warden and her crew became paranoid over some minor issues. They decided to put a Muslim in the SHU, and then the next day another, and then another the next day, and another the next day. And on the fourth day, they “deported” me and three other Muslims. So , they put at least three Muslims in the SHU and “deported” me and four Muslims, including myself. I am the only one in the SHU right now [in the new facility]. This is as far as I know, I don’t know what’s happened after Friday. Wallahul Musta’an.
Al-hamdulillah, everything is okay. I got a mushaf and am reading Quran, in preparation for the month of Ramadan.
Allah is sufficient for us, and He is the Best Wakil, Disposer of Affair.
HasbunAllahu wa Ni’maail-Wakil.
Al-Hamdulillah Rabbil ‘Alamin, the affairs all return to Allah, and He Alone is in charge. He is our Guardian and Friend, and He supports the righteous.
Keep me in your Du’a. Give everyone my salaams.
May Allah, tabaraku wa’ta’ala, deliver us and all the oppressed Muslims from the oppressors, by His own Ni’mah and Fadl. And may He united us with our families and the believers in this world and in the Al-Jannat. May Allah bless you all and rectify all your affairs and grant you success in the duniya and the Hereafter.
Wal-Hamdulillahi Rabbil Alamin
Was Salamu Alaykum wa Rahmatullah wa Barakatuhu
May 6, 2012
Ehsanul Sadequee
#1524-0006
FCI Greenville
Federal Correction Institution
PO BOX 5000
Greenville, IL 62246
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This is the fifth and the last e-mail for my trip from Seagoville Texas to USP Marion: The Air Marshall (AM) called the two of us (me and Ghassan) and told us to change our seats and move forward. They wanted us to be closer to the front of the plane so we can leave the plane faster. The plane’s next destination was the State of Ohio. I am not sure where in Ohio.
So far, it has been over six hours of tight handcuffing of the hands, chaining of the legs and ankles and the Black box that caused extreme pain and made it tremendously uncomfortable and unbearable. No matter how much I tried to move my hands to get comfortable, I found no comfort, only pain!!!. I saw the color of my wrist and it was very red and noticed a dent in my skin caused by the handcuffs. I felt the pain and kept on making duaa for this journey to end soon. I tried to occupy my mind by reminding myself that no matter how long this will last, it will end at some time. Anything has an end no matter how bad or painful it is. Also I remembered our brothers and sisters in Palestine and thorough out the world who wake up day in and day out being dragged to be tortured.
One of the most famous torture techniques used is the” ghost” where the persons’ hands are tied together behind him and then he is hanged from the ceiling for hours and days until he faints while a bag soaked in urine covers his head and tied around the neck. The pain in this position is unimaginable. So many Palestinians who get arrested in Palestine gets the special treatment of the “Ghost Torture”.
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Tags: administrative abuse, blackbox restraints, CMU, Communications Management Unit, FBI, Ghassan Elashi, Ghost Torture, HL5, Holy Land Five, Holy Land Foundation, IDF, Marion, medical negligence, Mohammad Ahmad El-Mezain, Mufid Abdulqader, SHU, solitary confinement, stress positions, War on Family, War on Islam
Now we are in Oklahoma City Detention Center recreation cage in the SHU on the seventh floor when the brother in the next cage greeted me and the first words that came out of his mouth were ‘Assalamu Alaikhum’. I have heard this beautiful Islamic Salutation/greeting in prison may be more than I have heard it in my entire lifetime. Every time you see a brother you say it or he says it. It is the message of peace and a sign of love: ‘Assalamu Alaikhum’. If you were sitting with a non Muslim and a Muslim brother stops by, he will say Asslamu Alaikhum to the brother and he will say hello/hi to the non-Muslim.
Even if you have just finished talking to one brother or have seen him just five minutes ago, you will say it again. It is so beautiful when you hear it so often. The brothers here make a point of saying it over and over because they are PROUD to say it. It is an identity symbol that says hey ‘I am a Muslim’ and that is a source of pride. They are not shy about saying it to their brothers. Even non-Muslims use it a lot when greeting Muslims. It is just an awesome feeling of brotherhood because it says: ‘from me to you, you will have nothing coming but peace and love’.
Today, I was sitting with a Muslim brother and another person who was non-Muslim sitting at a table discussing a Marketing class, a Muslim brother stopped by and said to me and the other Mulsim: ‘Assalamu Alaikhum my dear beloved two brothers’ and then turned to the other person and said: Hello and mentioned his name. In the free world, even some Muslims are embarrassed to use it at work or even in the presence of non-Muslims. Not here, the wearing of the cofi (the cofi is a netted cap that fits the head and is recognized as a Muslim symbol) is very normal and you see Muslims wearing it here all the time. No one comes to Friday prayer (Jumaa) without his cofi. In the free world Muslims put it on only after they enter the Masjed.
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Tags: FBI, CMU, medical negligence, administrative abuse, solitary confinement, SHU, Communications Management Unit, Holy Land Foundation, War on Islam, War on Family, Mohammad Ahmad El-Mezain, Shukri Abu-Baker, Mufid Abdulqader, Ghassan Elashi, HL5, Holy Land Five, Marion, Special Management Unit, blackbox restraints, Oklahoma City Detention Center, OCDC, Oklahoma City Federal Building, Oklahoma City Bombing
Now we were in Oklahoma City Detention Center and the bus just arrived and one of the guards pointed his finger at the four of us and said: ‘You, you, you, and you get up now,’ and asked the rest of the inmates to remain seated.
We were taken first into the building and they put us in a room (15 ft x15 ft) by ourselves. The room had big windows with bars so you can see what is happening outside the room. We saw as the rest of the inmates were taken to other rooms. Some of the inmates were placed in individual cages just like monkeys. I could see about six or seven cages adjacent to each other across the hall from our room. We thought that they will come to take us soon but it took them over three hours to come back.
The room had benches all around it and also had a toilet and a sink that is attached to it. The benches were one foot wide which is not enough to sleep [on]. The walls were completely covered with aluminium sheets panels so no one can write or scratch them. We talked for a while and then we prayed Thuhor and Asr prayer combined. I started singing all the songs I remembered and everyone including El-Mezain joined in dancing the Palestinian Dabkha.
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This segment will describe the trip to Oklahoma City:
[The day wa]s Friday April 25, 2010. We were still in Texarkana Prison preparing to head toward Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Oklahoma City is a transfer/holding Prison Center for all inmates from around the United States. It holds over 5,000 inmates and it is a hub where all inmates are flown in/out or bussed in/out to be transferred to their designated prison where they were assigned to serve their sentences. Some are transferred from one prison to another (for example from a High to medium security, medium to a low security prison, etc). We were getting shackled and handcuffed. Again, we were the privileged ones who received the black box special treatment. Other inmates were also shackled and handcuffed but not with the black box. You must be very special to receive that special gift from the Bureau of Prisons (BOP).
Once the shackling, chaining and handcuffing of all inmates was done, we were taken outside the Texarkana Prison and escorted to the bus like a herd of goats. It was still very dark outside (around 4:00 AM or so). We were first inline and also first seated in the bus (the four of us together). After everyone else was seated, the trip started. After the bus left the prison, it took a route of small roads and State Highways to Oklahoma City. I tried to stay awake so I would not void my wudu (wudu is the mandatory act of washing hands, face, arms and legs prior to performing prayer). I made wudu before we left the SHU in Texarkana. I pushed myself hard to stay awake because I was worried that if I dozed off that I would end up voiding my wudu and having to do it again specially when there was no water on the bus, only a jug with some cups for drinking water. And even if water was available, how would I make wudu with my hands and legs shackled and handcuffed with the black box? I couldn’t even move.
It was an impossible mission so I might as well make tayamom (this an alternate option when water is not available, Tayomom is a dry ablution). Eventually, I ended up making tayamom. I knew these are the times when Allah gave us permission for an exception under these difficult circumstances. So now I had wudu and ready for Fajr prayer. I knew that Fajr prayer Athan was at 5:45 AM in Seagoville TX and even though we were not there, I figured it would not be that different from where we were. But the question was; what time was it now? I guessed that it was not time for Fajr just by looking on the outside and seeing it was very dark. No one had any watch. The only solution was to keep looking outside the bus hoping to see one of these big Banks panel clocks that tells time and temperature. So I kept my eye on the outside hoping to see one. I finally noticed one from a distance and it was a big electronic panel that turns around in all directions. By the time the bus made it there, the panel was displaying time and temp to the opposite side of the highway, and I could not see it.
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Dear brothers and Sisters,
Our trip to USP Marion started way before Thursday April 24, 2010, the day we were moved from Seagoville to USP Marion in Illinois. The trip went from Seagoville to Texarkana, Texas to Oklahoma City to Philadelphia to Ohio to St. Louis, Missouri and finally ended when we were bussed (three hours trip) from St. Louis to USP Marion in Marion, Illinois. It was six days of pain, extreme discomfort, racist treatment by guards, singled out to be screamed at, and showed disrespect and other forms of racist/behavior at different levels.
There was no reason for us to be moved from Seagoville. It was the prosecutor who initiated the move. He may have thought it was his top national security mission to protect the country by separating us from our families, by keeping us hundreds and hundreds of miles away. He was on a mission to prevent me from hugging and kissing my ten year old daughter for that was a major concern he must address.
It may be that he just could not stand the thought of me seeing, meeting and being with my own family. He was determined to accomplish the mission. Yes, his mission was to destroy my family relationships and ties because that would make our country safer. He was so patriotic, and it was all about protecting our country. So in order to accomplish this cause, in early March, he filed a motion to have us moved from Seagoville, Texas to a prison in Marion, Illinois.
He filed the first motion and followed it with a series of motions and then followed that by involving the Bureau of Prison (BOP) when the Warden filed a declaration with the judge. All this effort was to accomplish one thing, to move us from one jail to another jail. That’s it!!! We were in jail but not in the jail of his choice. He wanted us in a specific jail that is exclusive for Muslims and mainly Muslims. A jail where Muslims were under total control and being discriminated against. Where they receive special treatment. Now that is not racism, is it?
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This is the last part of Life in the CMU:
The SHU (Special Housing Unit):
The SHU is a separate Unit of the prison where inmates who break serious rules of the BOP are housed. It is a very restricted unit where inmates are held in their cells for 23 hours with one hour of recreation only 5 days a week. The SHU’s cell has a concrete raised bed with a mattress, two sheets and that’s all.
Inmates do not have access to their property or anything else. You can have only the Holy Qur’an and two other books. You get three meals a day and no other food whatsoever. It is meant as a severe punishment for mostly inmates who fight or refuse orders or commit serious rules violations.
When Inmates are placed in the SHU, they wear red clothes. Everything is red, towels, sheets, socks, boxers, t-shirts, and pants. Inmates are handcuffed every time they leave their cell. When inmates are taken to the shower, they are handcuffed before leaving the cell and escorted by two guards. After getting placed in the shower, the shower door will be locked and then inmates place their hands out for the guards to remove the handcuffs. After finishing the shower, inmates place his hands out of the hole of the steel door to get handcuffed to be taken back to the cell.
After the cell’s door is closed, then again the inmate places his hands through the hole in the cell’s door for the handcuffs to be removed. When inmates are taken to recreation, the same procedure is followed. Any time an inmate is outside the cell, he is handcuffed and escorted by two guards.
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Tags: CMU, HL5, Holy Land Foundation, Marion, Mufid Abdulqader, Prison Life, SHU, Special Housing Unit
The following testimony, entitled “Victims of the American Inquisition” written by Zachary Chesser, is a microcosmic documentation of America’s naked and larger aggression against the religion of Islam in what Chesser terms the ‘American Inquisition.’ Since the intensification of this most recent inquisition, the global Muslim community has suffered a ruthless assault on legal rights and basic humanity, which in various arenas have been superficially designated as everything from geopolitical interests to heretical rhetoric. What Chesser exposes through details regarding his case and subsequent incarceration, is a pattern of federally sanctioned religious persecution and corrosive civil rights violations reflective of American foreign policy, shockingly common in so-called terrorism cases. He recounts how his religious beliefs designated him as a target for government surveillance, how this surveillance in turn became a means of distortion and manipulation, culminating in his incarceration and the deliberate alienation of his family, particularly the religiously charged, custodial kidnapping of his son.
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En el nombre de Alá, el Compasivo, el Misericordioso:
Mi nombre es Abu Talha al-Zacarías Amriiki (legalmente “Zachary Adám Chesser “), y lo que sigue no es para tomarse a la ligera. Si se va a saber cuánto estas palabras pueden afectar a mí ya mi familia, entonces la gravedad de este mensaje no se puede escapar. Estoy escribiendo esto con el fin de que nadie debe caer en las mismas trampas y errores como yo, para establecer la prueba para los que dudan, y para rectificar los errores determinados. Tal vez mi ignorancia de la naturaleza de mi situación era una excusa para mí, pero si no, entonces le pido a Dios que me perdone. Sin embargo, después de mí, no creo que nadie va a tener una excusa en estos asuntos si estos eventos se manifiestan a ellos.
Esta es mi historia, y dentro de ella son fragmentos de las historias de muchos otros. Es sólo una relación de lo que yo sé que es verdad a lo mejor de mi capacidad, y estoy seguro de que lo que permanece oculto para mí es mucho peor que la que se hizo claro para mí, pero lo que sí está claro es suficiente para un persona de comprensión. Por lo tanto, que estas páginas se registran en los anales de la historia en los capítulos reservados a la Inquisición estadounidense.
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The following testimony, entitled “Victims of the American Inquisition” written by Zachary Chesser, is a microcosmic documentation of America’s naked and larger aggression against the religion of Islam in what Chesser terms the ‘American Inquisition.’ Since the intensification of this most recent inquisition, the global Muslim community has suffered a ruthless assault on legal rights and basic humanity, which in various arenas have been superficially designated as everything from geopolitical interests to heretical rhetoric. What Chesser exposes through details regarding his case and subsequent incarceration, is a pattern of federally sanctioned religious persecution and corrosive civil rights violations reflective of American foreign policy, shockingly common in so-called terrorism cases. He recounts how his religious beliefs designated him as a target for government surveillance, how this surveillance in turn became a means of distortion and manipulation, culminating in his incarceration and the deliberate alienation of his family, particularly the religiously charged, custodial kidnapping of his son.
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In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful:
My name is Abu Talhah Zakariyya al-Amriiki (legally “Zachary Adam Chesser”), and what follows is not to be taken lightly. If you were to know how much these words can affect me and my family, then the gravity of this message would not escape you. I am writing this in order that nobody should fall into the same traps and mistakes as I did, to establish proof for those who doubt, and to rectify certain wrongs. Perhaps my ignorance of the nature of my situation was an excuse for me, but if not, then I ask Allah to forgive me. However, after me, I do not think that anyone will have an excuse in these matters if these events are manifested unto them.
This is my story, and within it are pieces of the stories of many others. It is only a relation of what I know to be true to the best of my ability, and I am sure that what remains hidden from me is far worse than that which was made clear to me, but that which is clear is enough for a person of understanding. Therefore, let these pages be recorded in the annals of history under the chapters reserved for the American Inquisition.
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“Now you see why we were going to sacrifice all for the sake of allah in jihad,” says the neatly handwritten note on prison-issue paper. “We weren’t able to finish.”
Left: The fake letter, Right: A real letter by Eljvir Duka
Those seemingly incriminating words are part of a letter the U.S. Attorney’s office in New Jersey says one of the defendants in the “Fort Dix Six” homegrown terror case wrote to a fellow inmate at the Federal Detention Center (FDC) in Philadelphia. It was allegedly written by Eljvir Duka, who is charged with conspiring to attack the Fort Dix military base with automatic weapons. He and four other young Muslim men who grew up in the South Jersey area have all pleaded not guilty, and the trial is set for March. The jihad letter appears, at first glance, to be a damning piece of evidence against Duka.
But a TIME investigation of the Fort Dix Six shows that little in this case is as it first appears. While carefully assembled by authorities, who collected hundreds of hours of video and audio evidence, the case is built almost entirely on the work of a paid informant with a criminal record. More and more terrorism cases are being constructed this way, and the problematic role of informants doesn’t stop after the arrests are made, as this latest plot twist reveals.
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Tags: shady informants, fabricating terrorism, SHU, Fort Dix FIve, Duka, Eljvir Duka, Fort Dix
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