The war against terrorism we have seen through the eyes of a Pakistani prisoner Khalid Awan Canadian

When he began to correspond with Khalid Awan in 2007, we had no idea what he was serving time in federal prisons in the United States. We quickly discovered Awan was one of the first of thousands of Muslims caught in the war on terror post-9/11 United States. " As the story began to manifest in our letters, we began to realize that honest, humble and sincere he was not only innocent, but injustice is being done for it provides critical information about the blind, petty, bureaucratic, yes, men driving idiocy illegal U.S. war against terrorism "(and almost everything bad in this country). At our insistence, Awan wrote its history and gave us all the documents we requested. And now, after three months of effort, the story of Khalid Awan is true. We learned Awan known as a peaceful man performing work of peace that has been falsely accused, arrested and repeatedly convicted of crimes he did not commit because he was Muslim with international ramifications and an office in New York on 9 / 11. That is presented for the faith that you will find a deeper understanding of the necessary levels of complicity in the "land of freedom "to tolerate the fake war on terror and year after year in the hope that Awan and all other prisoners of dollars or more political prisoners this country-one days will meet with their families.By Khalid Awan

My name is Khalid Awan Qayyam. My rights have been eroded in the name of "security National. Since I am Muslim, my story was written, produced, directed and choreographed and staged by the government of the United States officials.The Department of Justice and the FBI have been under pressure by the Bush administration to find "terrorists" in this country and condemn prevention before they can reach the U.S. Although there are good evidence that there is little or no potential terrorists in the Muslim communities in the United States, U.S. attorneys who are not able to find a real "terrorist" prosecute and condemn the innocent Muslims on false charges or inflated to show they are politically "loyal to the president, and to avoid being dismissed for policies, such as recent news revelations strongly suggest. These actions have destroyed families in a country known for its human rights activities worldwide.

Background'm a senior citizen of 46 years, Canada and Aboriginal Pakistan. Throughout my life, I studied in Christian schools and Catholics read the Bible every morning. I received my Masters in Political Science from the University of Karachi in Pakistan and I am a founding member of the Commission Human Rights in Pakistan. As a result of my faith in humanity and equality, I moved to Canada in 1993, becoming a Canadian citizen in 1996. In Canada, I worked as an immigration consultant and was a member of the Canadian Bar Association. As part of my business, I also had an office in New York, which is where I was on September 11, 2001.

October 10, 2001 May 25, 2001, U.S. officials came to my house in Garden City, NY, without calling and shouted at me to drop everything or they would kill me. I was forced to lie on the floor while handcuffed me and took me in arrest.They said they received an anonymous complaint that I have been an important witness of the attack 9 / 11 World Trade Center. After my arrest, I was taken before Judge Michael Mukasey of New York (now State Attorney General U.S. known for his Israeli sympathies.) After an exhaustive investigation by the FBI and the U.S. Naval Intelligence, put me in front of a grand jury. The case was dismissed on 06 November 2001.

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Before he was released on November 5, 2001, the U.S. government has imposed new charges: conspiracy to commit fraud and money laundering. "argued I won / Video identity profiles of my clients, people coming to look for visa and citizenship in the United States, but not a single complaint from any of my clients or all banks. (Note: The journalist said Dr. Paul Craig Roberts in his column on 12/11/2006, American criminal injustice system, "Justice is now the criminal justice system process by which the defendant is forced to confess to a crime to escape more severe punishment for maintaining his innocence. Many of the crimes for which people are imprisoned never occurred.)

All lawyers know that prosecutors now can purchase testimony against a defendant by granting "Witnesses" of money, drop the charges against them or reduce sentences in prison to testify against the accused. Jurors tend to trust the government and prosecutors are generally unaware that withheld exculpatory evidence and perjury and bribery of perjury to get convictions.

Months passed. After a year has passed and I am still being "detained" without trial for crimes they did not commit. My lawyer advised me to plead guilty. He said he was in my own interest would be "facing 10 years on charges of money laundering" in the current climate in the courts of New York and I am a Muslim and Pakistan. At that time, I had spent 17 months in detention, then I plead guilty to conspiracy to $ 95,000 against fraud, which led to a settlement maximum of 15-24 months. The agreement between the parties to release an honor and I do not even sentenced to five years worth about $ 2.4 billion in credit card fraud.

Call Canadain January 2005, when he was finally able to apply for a transfer of treaties in Canada. I learned my case manager that my citizenship was included in the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) computer as "Pakistan" rather than "Canadian." Canadian citizenship card All my documents passport, social security cards, health and driver's license and Canada were held by the FBI. I wrote the Consulate Canada Buffalo, New York, asking them to resolve this problem so that I could be transferred back to Canada. On March 30, 2005, sent the Canadian Consulate a letter to the jail to correct my citizenship status, but the FBOP ignored the request and did not correct the computer.I now realize that the balance of payments voluntarily I left my citizenship as' administrative Pakistanis to me may not be transferred to Canada and keep me in the U.S. U.S. government prepared new charges against me.

A year later, six weeks before my release date, which was transferred FCI Allenwood Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC) in Brooklyn, New York, reportedly in preparation for my deportation to Canada. I signed the immigration deportation papers, which, incidentally, given my correct citizenship status. Then I heard the FCI Allenwood warden had received a subpoena from the Deputy Prosecutor of the United States (AUSA) in January 2006 Ferazani Lawrence, asking for me to appear before a federal court in Brooklyn, NY, February 15, 2006.

threatenedOnce family in Brooklyn on January 31, 2006, I phoned my family in Montreal. I learned that the officer Buttazzoni the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) made contact with my sister about the fate of my wife. He said she had returned to Pakistan. Buttazzoni left your phone number with my brother-brother telling him to tell my wife to please call immediately. Buttazzoni called several times and left messages on his voicemail, then Buttazzoni told my brother-brother to say no again.Then call on February 17 May 2006, he was raised by AUSA Ferazani an office in New York to be interviewed by the FBI without a lawyer present. Me Farazani AUSA said that if I did not, they would stop my sister in Montreal and my wife, who had returned to Pakistan. He said: "We simply make a call. "

I was surprised and scared that my family knew where she lived. He said: "If I say [I want to know] that I can recommend the lethal injection to the Court of Appeal and of the press and tomorrow morning will be in all the newspapers as a major terrorist. "

Another federal agent told me that if I did not cooperate, the government become India, Pakistan's enemy, who treat me like an enemy.

At this point, I was sure my family was in danger because they lived in countries working closely with U.S. authorities and intelligence agencies. After Having seen my freedom evaporates when allowed me to be a key witness in the tragedy of the World Trade Center, had every reason to believe that the Government would ensure global power the arrest of members of my family "and impose severe penalties on them. I firmly believed that the RCMP is working with the FBI to harass me to admit charges of crimes they did not commit. I thought about how the RCMP officers have played a role in other cases of discrimination that includes the interrogation and torture of citizens Mahra Canadian Arar, Abdullah Almalki, Ahmad El Matti, whose only "crime" were Muslim Canadians.

Because I felt they had no choice, I signed the waivers of Miranda rights to the agent gave me giving up my right to an attorney present during questioning and spoke with officials U.S. February 17 and May 20, 2006.

February 17, 2006: The Interview … bribeI and was pushed to the edge during this questioning. Even if I could not answer all your questions, I was determined to offer everything they wanted, although the questions made no sense. I tried give answers that would be happy and I'm not the penalty of death or damage to my family.During questioning, the agents gave me the opportunity to work for them in a "protection building "on the outside of Pakistan and Canada. They wanted to testify against a group of Sikh people, the statements made on the basis of my association with them when I lived in Pakistan. I refused. Then they told me to keep in mind that I have wanted to testify against those who are of the Sikh religion in India, enemy of Pakistan, and because I am Muslim, I worry for them.

I said, "But they are human beings: if they did something wrong and that he knew of, I'd be more than happy to help law, but you ask me something I do not know. "

Officers waited a couple of weeks, then began to wonder, this time thanks to my lawyer. In my persistent refusal, agent Montreal Buttazzoni aa approached my family. I told them to get a lawyer and went to his office without a written legal opinion of him. They followed my advice and the RCMP arrested them call, but not before the FBI has created an incriminating statement on the basis of "evidence" I said during the interrogation without the presence of my lawyer. After that, prosecutors were able to go before a grand jury and charged me based on my own (made) statements prepared by federal agents without my signature.

Third load 2006On March 16, 1915 March 2006, me on the duration of my detention and should be returned to Canada. Before he could take to the streets, was arrested a third time and charged with "providing material support to a foreign terrorist" and money laundering "to support" terrorism, apparently supporting the organization of the Khalistan Commando Force Sikh (KCF), through a man of the Sikh religion, Paramjit Singh Panjwar (PMJ), I met once during the visit of the Pakistan.These charges emerged while I was still in jail and had no ability to provide KCF with any type of media. It was difficult for me to obtain sufficient funding to pay my legal expenses, while I was in jail for five years and I could not cash because they do not bleach I did. In the plea agreement, I signed my last money laundering "charges" noted that no more money laundering charges would be against me, so this was double jeopardy and a violation of the 5th Amendment of the Constitution.

August-December 2006: administrative detention

I appeared in court and pleaded "not guilty" for my second indictment replaces "August 2, 2006. In my firm refusal to work the government made his statements against the Sikh people, FBOP officials placed me in the box on the segregation unit (SHU), for 210 days of segregation and isolation although I have been assessed as needing level of security down to "the masculine form of the classification of government custody." segregation was continuous torture as we had the basic equipment or building respect and it was cold and leaks. I had a hunger strike four days after I filed several complaints with FBOP higher authorities, but took no action.

October 2006After my refusal to work for the government of its case against the "two people" they had identified as "potentially to join this issue, but we currently have sufficient evidence to prosecute, the government went to them and charges and give many benefits, prepared to testify against my hearing me.During interim, the first two digits of my indictment were dismissed due to lack of facts and figures. In two weeks AUSA accuse me again, probably to hide his shame enormous. This hastily drawn indictment was full of errors theories made legal and creative.

This time, knowledge of the information / indictment, including AUSA Farazani names of the following participants as co-conspirators in the plot. "

1) Khalid Awan-me2) Paramjit Singh Panjwar-leader of the Sikh Khalistan Commando Force (KFC), with registered in Pakistan (not loaded).

3) Singh-Gurbax indicted co-conspirator # 14) Baljinder Singh-defendants and co-conspirator # 2

5) Jatinder Singh resident in Texas (not loaded). 6) Dr. Pritpal Singh, a resident of California (not loaded). Except me, all the conspirators are the elected leaders of the Sikh religion, a group of people known in history books of Pakistan, for the worst murderers and rapists of the nation of Pakistan, after being killed, raped, burned and cut into pieces one hundred thousand Pakistani Muslims, women, girls and boys during the largest migration in the world India to Pakistan in 1947.

Sikh background (some history) to better understand the game of the United States Government was playing with me and the Sikh people, a brief history is necessary. In the mid 1980s to mid 1990s was a decade of violent political opposition in Punjab, a region divided between India and Pakistan. The type of illegal arrests and indiscriminate killings and during that time has left a lasting legacy of "catch and kill police practices "in the state. In the 1980s, the Indian army attacked the Sikh holy place called the Golden Temple in Punjab State India. Close 10,000 civilian lives were lost hundreds of people have been detained without charge or trial and thousands of "disappearances" and extrajudicial executions have been carried police.As out by the result, thousands of Sikhs have fled to various countries of asylum. Most Sikhs who lived near Pakistan has taken refuge in Pakistan, with the advantage of speaking the same language and the area has been the home to establish the Sikh holy places around the world have come each year to make their pilgrimage on the Pakistani side the state of Punjab. Pakistan is like the Vatican of the Sikhs, because the Sikh religion began there and is the birthplace of saint his guru.

Paramjit Singh Panjwar (PMJ)

These Sikhs, PMJ refugee also after members of his family were detained and killed by Indian police. In Pakistan, he began producing videos of attacks and killings of Sikhs by the Indian police, and began printing and distribution literature on Sikh issues in the hand of the government of India. It also began broadcasting a daily radio program and operation of charitable organizations with different Sikh families in India and Pakistan whose livelihoods family members had been killed by the Indians government.I PMJ met during a visit to Pakistan, where he lived together with my brother-in-law and invited him to a wedding. He wrote his phone number down for me on a sheet of paper. It also reduced the number of Baljinder Singh, his friend in New York because he was an ardent defender of the Sikh community, who can refer clients to me for immigration purposes. I kept the same number, but did not call.

The FBI had been following since Baljinder Singh gave a speech at the White House in the Million "From March Sikh In Washington in 2000. The FBI had been called in question in 2000-2006, but could not stop. When they took met on February 17, May 2006, I was told that I needed to testify before the judge that the Pakistani government has taken support to terrorists in Pakistan and New York. It Singh and Baljinder Singh Malhi, a close relative of the YMP, they wanted me to testify against, and since he found his phone number and PMJ during the search of my office in New York after my arrest in 2001, to supplement their paid informants Sikh, Singh Harjeet, in my unit at the MDC in 2006.

Harjeet said it would be released from Federal institution for the next six months and wanted to visit Pakistan for Sikh annual pilgrimage there. He asked me if I knew some Sikhs Pakistan, which could take care of him during his visit. I told him I do not know Panjwar Paramjit Singh, who was there on asylum and presented phone.

The FBI then Gurbax Baljinder Singh and persuaded them to testify that I had transferred $ 4,000 ($ 2,000 two operations were carried out between 1998 and 2002) of them in Pakistan, on behalf of the YMP. In return, the charges were dropped against him and the Indian government promised amnesty (for armed assault on the Indian police) and maps the U.S. Green they and their families.

PMJ has not been charged by the United States, nor convicted by the Indian courts at all. No effort has been spent for his extradition by the U.S. war of terror "ally Pakistan, but the Pakistani government, according to Amnesty International, gave Muslims 700 to the U.S. administration.

According to my lawyers, no American citizen of the Christian faith or the Sikh faith has been arrested for providing material support to KCF, even if the KCF is a Sikh organization, which draws its support to the Sikh community members.

I, however, a citizen Canadian Muslim of Pakistani origin, 12 September 2007, I am the only person in the United States to be convicted of terrorism, made false, and government bought the testimony of Sikh religious people, for transfer of $ 4,000. I was convicted and sentenced to three titles:

1) The conspiracy to provide support equipment (14 years) 2) provide material support to foreign terrorists (10 years)

3) Money capital to support terrorism (14) Total: 38 years to run at the same time (14 years imprisonment).

JailThe Government sent me to the FCI Terre Haute prison in Indiana, an "average" of the prison except an isolated unit, called Guantanamo Bay, in U.S. territory, "D-Unit, Dog Unit." According to the history of this prison, this equipment has been built in 1930s, Cubans, after of which was used for members convicted of the Ku Klux Klan. Then it was used for prisoners to death and his "closure." It has re-opened with minor repairs to Muslim detainees because they are worse than those facing death and not for their "crimes", but because of their religious beliefs.

We deprived of many privileges in accordance with the policy of balance of payments because we are Muslims. The visits should be conducted by mail and phone calls Glass and outgoing calls are made through Washington DC The buildings are old and leak when it is cold in winter, flying insects in summer and in airflow is a bad year. Lead is the infiltration of the walls and many inmates suffer from chronic joint pain.

The government is trying to lead us to act with violence to justify their claim that they are dangerous, but failed. According to prison officials for Muslim unity is the most peaceful they have ever seen in any prison anywhere and ask to be allowed to work here.

I agree that the perpetrators of terrorism must be conducted, but innocent people should not be objective. us in this dirty, old, cold, drain the building and forbidding them to embrace our children and limiting our call for will not bring peace to that country or this nation safer.

The American people: I was chosen, isolated and discriminated against because of my race and religion. I am detained here against my will in prison for crimes they did not commit. I am not a terrorist and should not be treated as one.The AUSA got a verdict against me sworn in December 2006 with the help of the idealization of the media communication "war on terrorism." I was convicted of guilt by association for the FBI avenging wrath and refusal to work for them overseas as secret evidence against members of the Sikh religion, using his statements made to be a Muslim and Pakistan.

Is not it time that all human beings equal? Is not it time that everyone is free to choose their faith? The rights protected by law? We hear, but we would like to see – In particularly in this country called the United States claiming the world as a defender of human rights.

This article edited for publication in the paper edition of the IO. The length of the full version is available online at Site E / S of the November 2008 update. Awan You may contact by writing to:

Khalid Awan, # 50959-054, Federal Correctional Institute. PO Box 33, Terre Haute, IN 47808

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