Victims of the American Inquisition
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.
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.
As for what follows…
In the summer of 2008, I became Muslim because I found that the Words
of Allah in His Book were nothing but the unblemished Truth. Allah then
blessed me to have a fierce passion for increasing myself in knowledge
and worship. After a few months, I began to take note of the plight of
the Muslims around the world, and from the standpoint of basic human
nature, or what is known in Islam as the
fitrah. It was clear
to me that under such dramatic circumstances, peace could not be
justified except by a coward or a despot. Then, when I learned about the
obligation of jihad in Islam, I made it my goal to find a way to help
the armies which were attempting to repel the invaders of the Muslim
lands and to overthrow the tyrants who were in control of many regions
in our territory.
FBI Begins to Phish
Due
to this position, the FBI began to target me in late 2008. Then, in
2010, they upped the ante in their investigation of me. Despite the fact
that I was not in contact with a “terrorist” organization or any other
group listed under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), at
the time, the FBI and other organizations used this act in order to
monitor me. They had two undercover agents give me a free apartment in
order to conduct surveillance on me more easily, and the entire purpose
of these two individuals seemed to be to try to get both me and my wife
out of this apartment so that they could raid it.
They did not even discuss issues of jihad or politics except for very
lightly in the latter category. However, we suspected what they were
doing, so it was no surprise one day to find that the FBI had locked me
out of my house not realizing that I had left the door unlocked
intentionally as I did not have my key. There are some excuses I could
make for the two individuals who were doing this; that they could have
just been duped into doing everything they did unwittingly, but these
are not realistic really, and Allah knows best.
They also began to try to entrap me with two other agents. At first I
thought the one who was sending me e-mails was just another random
brother e-mailing me about things on the websites I posted on. Once he
sent me an article on Somalia, and I posted it on a site without even
reading it. I skimmed it to make sure there were no instances of
blasphemy or other similar things in the post, but other than that I did
not pay attention to its contents.
This agent continued to e-mail me, and while I found his e-mails to
be a bit odd, I did not suspect him at first. However, after a month or
two I decided his messages were too outlandish, and concluded that he
was either a member of Al-Qaeda with no clue how to handle security or
he was FBI. Around this time he asked me to meet him. I agreed, but I
was basically just agreeing in order to verify my suspicions. I planned
on having him followed, but the person I asked to do that either forgot
or had something else to do. The prosecutors on my case initially
claimed I brought a knife to the meeting to kill him, but I had no
recollection of doing this, so my attorneys and I guessed that it might
have been something I just said in my apartment without meaning it, so
we suggested that to the prosecutor and this is what was entered into my
plea deal.
At the meeting two people showed up, one of whom appeared to have
recently bought his beard from a nearby “Party City.” He had also quite
clearly been reading things I had posted, because he seemed to be going
out of the way to mimic the specific security techniques which I
uploaded articles on. The whole meeting was like bad theatre, and it was
really quite strange. Both agents claimed to be ex-special forces (
a trend with undercover agents), and they claimed they wanted me to come do
martial arts training with
them. I asked them what I would be doing after I did the martial arts
training and they said that I could become an instructor. I thought this
was a very strange plan for a sting operation, but I briefly considered
going along with it while simply refusing to talk to them for even a
moment about jihad. I figured that if the FBI wanted to give me free
martial arts training, I might as well let them, but eventually I
decided against it and told them I had other plans. One of the agents
tried to badger me into going along with him, but I kept refusing again
and again. The whole meeting lasted just a few minutes and we all went
on our various ways.
I then got this person kicked off of a particular website after a
third time of explaining that he was an undercover agent trying to
entrap people. What was surprising is that this guy kept trying to get
me to go along with him after all of this, when supposedly the FBI knew
that I knew he was an informant. However, in another case where the
person was playing games with an undercover agent targeting him, the FBI
simply refused to declassify all of the evidence which would have
proven he knew the person was an informant, and thus they convinced a
jury that he was conspiring with a person whom he was simply using as
more or less a joke.
Stranded Stateside
In
July 2010, I tried to board a flight to Uganda, but I was stopped by
the FBI and Secret Service. A Secret Service agent on my case then
pulled me aside and interviewed me in the airport. He asked me a few
questions which all seemed to be of little consequence surrounding the
president of the United States. I am not sure if they were basing the
charge on this interview or if they decided not to try it against me due
to it, but there was a point where there was discussion of using the
fact that I invited Obama to become a Muslim to charge me with
threatening him. I assume that their argument would have been that
before a Muslim army invades a country, they invite the people to Islam,
and thus my inviting him to become a Muslim must certainly have been
along these lines. The agent effectively asked me this in the interview,
and I told him that my inviting him to become Muslim had nothing to do
with that, so this is why I am not sure if this interview was the source
of the charge or the source of its quashing, and Allah knows best.
On this trip, I was bringing my son with me to Uganda, but the rest
of the allegations stated in the media and in my plea deal surrounding
this incident with my son are inaccurate. I tried to get my lawyers to
have the prosecutor remove that statement from my deal, but they said
that it was not worth pursuing and that in some respects it fit in with
the argument they wanted to make at my sentencing anyway.
After going home, I refrained from doing anything really at all, and
stayed in the house for essentially the entire time. I was trying to
figure out a way to get out of the country, but I did not have very much
money left because I spent a lot of what I had on tickets. I started a
blog to study insurgencies which received some praise from a so-called
expert in the field, and I also downloaded Al-Qaeda magazine, because
there was something in it which I saw in the corrupted version which was
of a bit of concern to me.
I was in touch with some people in Al-Shabaab and close to them, so I
asked them about providing certain information to the government in
exchange for them letting me leave the country. They approved certain
things, so I went to the FBI with this information. The FBI initially
agreed to the idea, but this was just a lie they told me hoping I might
say something important. Actually, they apparently knew everything which
I was approved to say beforehand anyway. I asked for them to take me to
Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, or some other country, but at my bail hearing
these all turned into Somalia.
We Can’t Tape This Interview…
In
the first interview, they wrote down a whole bunch of things which I
definitely did not say. One of these allegations was that I told them I
had tried to go to Somalia the previous week, and as you can imagine,
this is a pretty central issue when one is charged with trying to go to
Somalia. Some of the other things they made up were a bit
inconsequential, and they were probably just writing those into their
notes to inflate me as being some sort of high up member of the
organization or something like that, when I was simply just very loosely
attached to them.
One of the agents kept saying things which were mentioned in the
anti-Islamic training conducted at Quantico. He spent a good deal of
time just insulting Islam, and said things like, “
Your religion allows you to lie to us, right?”
I am not totally sure, but it seems like he is the more likely
candidate for having made up the many things mentioned in the interview
notes which I did not say. I do not know
why they do not have to record their interviews when they were seemingly willing to spend thousands if not millions of dollars recording everything else I said.
In the second interview they began asking me about other things, and
it was pretty clear from the beginning that they were going to arrest
me. They expressed how they were pissed off over
a video I uploaded with the brother who carried out the
operation against the CIA agents in Afghanistan (the
implication being that they were quite convinced that I was trying to
do this to them). They tried to get me to speak about some of my
friends, but I told them I was not going to speak about any of them.
They then told me they were interested in the two undercover agents whom
they tried to entrap me with. I said, “Those guys work for you.” They
then lied and said they were really part of some terror cell, and then
told another lie and said that
Younes Abdullah Muhammad was
working for them which was really quite the silly ploy, but I guess
they were just trying to throw whatever they could at me and see if
anything stuck. They asked me to e-mail their undercover agents
insisting that they were some real group, so I told them I would do it
from Africa. I thought they were just testing me to see if I was lying
to them in the interviews. However, it would appear that they were
trying to fabricate evidence against me in order to bolster what appears
to have been a weak case.
But We Can Tape You…
Since
I had moved in, I had always assumed my apartment was being bugged and
that it was a gift from my benevolent government, so I did not say very
much in my apartment which could be easily used against me. In fact, I
used to walk around the place addressing outlandish statements to the
FBI. I used to detail elaborate plots to blow this or that thing up, and
then I would finish it all by saying, “
To the FBI: that was a joke.”
They actually tried to use one of these things against me by saying
that I told my wife that I was going to go overseas and learn how to
make bombs, then I would come back to the United States, so the
government would be thinking that I was going to blow up some important
building, but really I was going to blow her up. The summary of this
statement which I was allowed to read (I was not allowed to know what
was actually said in any of the conversations being used against me, and
I had to rely on FBI summaries of what they claimed was said) mentioned
that it sounded like I was about to go to sleep.
This was somehow supposed to be proof that I was going to Somalia to
join Al-Shabaab. I am not really sure what their argument was supposed
to be at trial. Based on what they gave me, one would be forced to
conclude that they were going to argue that I was planning on going to
Somalia to join Al-Shabaab, that I was going to fight on their front
lines, that I was going to be in their media wing, and that I was going
to learn how to make bombs so that I could come back to America and
suicide bomb my wife. If that sounds silly, then that would be because
it is.
Reasons to Plead
Regarding my other charges which they had any chance of in court,
then they would all have come down to First Amendment issues and they
were risking them being thrown out on these grounds. The prosecutor on
my case even admitted that they were almost certainly not going to be
able to convict me of everything they wanted to charge me with, but he
claimed they would be able to convict me of some of it, and he claimed
he believed that the total number of years for these charges would be
higher than what the government wanted me to plead guilty to.
Due to these factors, the government did not even have my arraignment
completely figured out, much less an indictment (I pled guilty without
being indicted). They even gave the media a copy of an affidavit which
was not actually used against me, so many of the articles about me said I
was facing thirty-five years when at the time I was only facing
fifteen. There were many more things like this which occurred in
relation to having me actually sign a plea agreement later on.
It would seem that due to these reasons, the FBI wanted me to e-mail
the two undercover agents who had tried to entrap me in some kind of
plot. Had I sent them the e-mail that they wanted me to send, they would
have then arrested me for whatever plot it was that their agents had
concocted. They would have put out a press release saying,
“Zachary Chesser was on the eve of trying to carry out a
plot with suspected members of Al-Qaeda (or maybe they would have said
they came up with the plot and that they were on top of it the entire
time). These men are currently at large, but we have disrupted their
aims, and we were on top of the matter the entire time. The public was
never in danger from Mr. Chesser, but things reached a point where it
was necessary to put and end to his efforts to strike at his own
country.”
Then, I would go to trial and I would explain that the FBI had me
send the e-mail about being willing to carry out whatever plot they had
come up with, but the prosecutor would turn to the jury and say,
“Ladies
and gentlemen, Mr. Chesser thinks that you all are stupid. I have heard
a lot of whoppers in my lifetime, but this one is just out of this
world.”
Then the FBI would testify that I was lying, and they would say that I
sent the e-mail from another location having made sure that they masked
the IP address, and they would have explained how they had bravely
saved the public from me, etc. Not only this, but they would find a copy
of Al-Qaeda’s Inspire magazine on my computer with instructions on how
to make bombs, and that article would have been under a title which was
taken from an article I wrote. I would be convicted, and nobody would
ever believe anything I said about it.
The Interview Sours
After
they mentioned their agents, they asked me about a “member of
Al-Shabaab,” whose name started with a “G.” I figured they were talking
about a young brother named
Gulet,
because I did not know very many, if any, brothers whose names started
with a “G,” so I asked if this is the person they meant, and they
confirmed it. I told him that he was not a member of Al-Shabaab, and
that he did not even sympathize with them. He was simply studying in
Kuwait, and that his trips first to Yemen and then back home to Somalia
were to look for scholars to teach him Islam. This was all the truth,
but I guess they did not care about it, and they found it necessary to
have him tortured in Kuwait and then to try to prevent him from
returning to the United States where they could not legally have him
tortured anymore. His situation was in the news around the time I was
sentenced.
When I mentioned that he had nothing to do with anything, I suppose
they did not like my answer, so they yelled at me to get on the floor.
When I complied, they handcuffed me. While I was lying on my stomach
with handcuffs on my wrists, one of the agents called me a traitor and
then kicked me in the ribs. Then he made fun of the fact that I was not
going to be able to do Hajj (the pilgrimage to Makkah which all Muslims
are required to do once in their lives). He also claimed I was going to
go to prison for thirty-five years, which I suppose was based on the
affidavit which the government gave to the media, but not to me, and
neither he nor the other agent Paula Menges said anything about what
charges I was being arrested on. I only learned about the charge I was
facing in court and the other charge I was facing in the papers after I
was arraigned in court a day or two later.
At this time, the FBI and Secret Service raided my apartment and took
my wife outside the building. One of them asked my wife if she knew I
was planning on going to Somalia, and she allegedly responded in the
negative, then said she did not want to talk to the agents. I do not
think I ever actually said anything to my wife about going to Somalia to
begin with (at least since I had cancelled previous plans), but Allah
knows best. There was not really anything new in my apartment which they
seized. I had replaced the hardrive on the laptop they gave me, so they
apparently did not even manage to obtain an image of that. However,
this may have actually harmed my case, because I do not recall anything
that could have hurt me from it, and there may have been things which
could have helped me, but Allah knows best.
False Charges
I was arraigned in court on one count of providing material support
to the group Al-Shabaab in Somalia, and the government released its
incorrect affidavit to the media which also carried a charge for
distributing bomb making materials. However, the manual which supposedly
contained the information (I never read it, so I have no clue if it had
anything at all on bombs) was a field manual for America’s “Army
Rangers,” and it was something which the government provided and was all
over the internet. I suspect that somebody in the Department of
“Justice” probably realized that it would set a very bad precedent to
prosecute someone for that.
I was facing fifteen years, but there were some elements of the
material support charge which it looked like the government could not
prove (this makes sense, because they did not occur), so I was thinking I
was more or less guaranteed to beat the charge. However, and this seems
paltry now, I was still not looking forward to spending the next few
months waiting to go to trial. This was all very difficult on my family,
and it hurt them very much, but Allah is sufficient for us.
As matters progressed, the government began to talk about having me
plead guilty. My lawyers were thinking I would plead guilty to just the
one count of material support, but the prosecution wanted me to plead
guilty to thirty years worth of charges. The government kept floating
around charges like solicitation of murder, communication of threats
(including that inviting Obama to be a Muslim was a threat),
solicitation of a hoax, and other things including the bomb making
material charge they informed the media about. I did not want to plead
guilty to more time than I was likely to get at trial, so I had my
lawyers keep investigating these issues.
Eventually the government provided us with a list of charges in a
mock indictment they planned to use against me, and it had about ninety
years worth of charges on it. Approximately forty-five of those years
were related to what they claimed were threats I made toward the
creators of South Park for mocking the Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon
him. Had I tried to kill both of the people in the alleged threat
instead, then I would have been facing five less years which is a bit
strange, but this is what happens when you put mankind in charge of
legislating these matters, and it is especially what happens if you put
the likes of Congress in charge of that. There is a statute specifically
prohibiting the unlicensed transportation of dentures across state
lines, so it should not be hard to imagine that such a government would
be able to turn a threat into a charge surpassing attempted murder.
Blackmail
As things went on, the government told my attorneys that they were
planning on prosecuting my wife. They were initially floating the idea
of saying she committed passport fraud, because we put our mailing
address on a passport application for our son instead of our living
address. The FBI claimed that this was to avoid having the document sent
to my mother-in-law’s home, but we did not live there either, so I
think this seems a bit irrelevant. The FBI simply never gave us the keys
to the mailbox at our apartment, so we could not have it mailed there.
When we asked the lady who was responsible for handling the filing of
our application whether we should put our living address or the address
we wanted the document mailed to on the form, she instructed us to put
the mailing address on it, so that is what we did.
They also threatened my wife with other charges, but none of them
involved any kind of intentional violation of the law (even according to
them), nor did anything she was accused of have the potential to harm
anybody or anything. I asked my attorneys about her chances of beating
these charges at trial, and they basically said that while the charges
were a bit petty and that she did not even allegedly mean anything
criminal in her actions, her chances of beating them were about zero
even if I took credit for all of the things which I did myself including
filling out the passport form. Furthermore, they told me that even
though someone might normally only receive community service for these
charges, my case could cause her to wind up receiving a significant time
in prison if she was convicted.
Weighing the Odds
Both my wife’s and my parents are all non-Muslims, and if we were
both in prison, then our son would have gone to one of them. This was my
biggest concern from then on out, and the government knew that they
were going to get me to plead guilty as soon they threatened to
prosecute her. They offered me that if I plead guilty to thirty years
worth of charges, that I asked for no less than twenty years at my
sentencing, that I agreed to cooperate, and that if in addition to this
my wife pled guilty to some kind of felony and agreed to leave the
country, then they would not give her any jail time.
I
was informed that the one person for whom my cooperation might be a
very big issue had already made it overseas to a safe location, but this
turned out to be incorrect, and I am not referring to the brother
Younes who worked with me on Revolution Muslim. I analyzed the damage to
the Muslims which might occur by me accepting this deal, and I analyzed
the damage that was likely to occur if I did not. I tried to change the
deal around and offered to serve more time to prevent some of these
factors, but the prosecution did not accept this. Eventually I concluded
that more damage to the Muslims was likely to occur if I did not accept
the deal. I would have made the decision quicker had the people
involved not been my family, because I was worried that my heart was
being swayed by their closeness to me and I did not want to act on that.
I tried my best to view it in terms which involved no personal
sentiments. I saw that maybe one brother would be seriously affected by
this, but I was also told he had made it to safety. I also paid
attention to the situation of the brother Younes, but I could not really
think of anything I could say about him to hurt him. I did not even
agree that I broke the law, much less that he did. Additionally, I was
told he had made it to a country which did not have an extradition
treaty with the United States.
Therefore, I had two brothers whom I thought I might potentially harm
by this if I agreed, and I had a sister and a child whom I would almost
certainly harm if I did not agree. Furthermore, the level of harm in
the two cases was different with the latter facing more years
(thirty-three) than the former, at least based on what could result from
my own actions. Also, a Muslim child being raised by non-Muslims was,
and Allah knows best, from all I could tell, more harmful than any of
what I mentioned. Additionally, the harm to the latter was certain from a
fiqhi point of view, while the harm to the two brothers seemed not only
uncertain, but unlikely based on my knowledge.
That being said, this understanding turned out to be completely
wrong, but despite all of the things that this country has done to the
Muslims it has prosecuted, I had not heard of anything like what was
done to my family, nor has anyone else here heard of it. The level of
malice in what the government later did to us was unprecedented so far
as I know, and I do not know of any clearer or more blatant assault on
Islam, than what they did to my family after I pleaded guilty. I was
under the impression that the American government upheld its deals so as
not to risk a lack of trust in future proceedings, but I was wrong in
this assumption.
The Deceptive Deal
I signed the deal with a whole host of things which I had no clue
what they were referencing. I never read the book which is listed under
the section in my “statement of facts” for distributing bomb-making
instructions. I do not have a clue what many of the videos in there are
referring to. I have no idea if I ever said anything about bringing a
knife to kill undercover agents. In fact, my attorneys told me that the
book did not have anything on bombs, but I have never been able to read
it to find out.
Despite many efforts since my arrest, my attorneys have still failed
to send me my evidence or to show it to me. They did not even take my
input on what to say at my sentencing, and I did not see the documents
they filed (I still have not seen some of them, nor have I seen what the
prosecution filed) until long after I had been sentenced, and it was
not even them who sent them to me. Some of the things they mentioned I
specifically told them not to try to argue.
Other
things were completely baseless, and I am wondering where they got
them, because they were not even things my prosecutor accused me of. All
I was shown from my discovery was a CD with some facebook data from a
page I stopped using before I became a Muslim, copies of the FBI’s notes
from the interviews they did with me before my arrest, and a few
summaries of what the FBI claimed they recorded from me.
These summaries did not even account for one percent of the total
recordings they made, and I was not allowed to hear the actual versions
of the recordings nor even read the transcripts. To this day, I still
have not seen anything else, and I have been requesting this information
since July or August of 2010.
I did not even have the statutes for
two of the charges I pleaded guilty to,
nor to one of the ones I was planning on pleading guilty to. I only
ever got to read the statute for material support of terrorism and some
other statutes I was never actually charged with. The jail I was in
would only let me use their law library after 1:00 AM, and this made it
extremely difficult to go to it to look things up on my own. For
whatever reason, my lawyers kept forgetting to bring me the relevant
statutes in my case. I would have pled guilty anyway, because I was not
considering myself when I did it, but from what I can tell it does not
look like I actually broke any of the laws which they were mentioning.
However, when I pointed this out to my attorneys, they told me that I
might be right, but that I would be convicted anyway, because of how
the jury would view me. In fact, the prosecution initially wanted me to
plead guilty to putting someone in a reasonable fear of death, but just
before my court date to enter the plea, they realized that I did not
actually put anyone in a reasonable fear of death, so they could not
even convict me of that if I admitted to it like I was planning on
doing.
At some point in October of 2010, I pled guilty to material support
of terrorism for trying to join Al-Shabaab in Somalia and for making a
video at their direction (the video is not specified in my statement of
facts nor in my criminal information, but I believe they are
referencing
a video called “First Stop Addis” which
I made. However, I did not make that at the direction of Al-Shabaab,
but at the direction of an organization which is not illegal to support.
I am not even sure if Al-Shabaab knew that the song behind the video
had made it out of Somalia), soliciting a violent or threatening act in
that I posted something calling on people to leave harmless bags in
public places to make them look like bombs (when I was arrested the
agents said that they had an increase in false bomb reports after that
post, but that could have just been another lie), and to communicating
threats against the creators of South Park.
Contrived “Connections”
As far as the brother Younes is concerned, then I told the government
what I did in the matter revolving around the show South Park, but I
also told them that they were incorrect in thinking we meant the posts
as a threat or any of the other various things they kept trying to get
me to say. I even told them that I had no clue what the law said, and
that if I learned that what I did was legal, then I was going to go back
to trial. I also mentioned that I was the one who put everything in the
documents about the Islamic ruling in the matter. If the government has
said that I told them anything else then they are lying.
Additionally, I have seen the argument they put forth in
the affidavit in
his case, and the claim that the fact that we were trying not to break
the law in fact meant that we are more guilty is ridiculous. I was the
one in charge of removing anything which was remotely threatening in the
press release Revolution Muslim did, and if I missed anything, then it
was my fault. I only vaguely remember the conversation mentioned in the
affidavit where it says I removed a line, because it might be construed
as a threat, but the FBI has made this point very clear by referencing
this. We were trying to help Islam by changing the dialogue on these
issues. My posts were the ones which were closer to crossing the line on
the matter being a threat, but Younes was definitely not trying to
threaten anybody, and he made that clear from the very beginning. [I was
in the middle of editing a final draft this document when I learned
that the brother Younes (Jesse Curtis Morton) plead guilty, so if this
was based on a belief that I was saying anything about him to harm him
or that I would, then he should know that this is not the case.]
There is also some brother who has been tied to me named
Reed Stanley Berry. I was told he used the name Asad Allah on a forum called “
Ansar.”
I am not really sure what the FBI is claiming I told them, and I am not
even sure that I am guessing at the right brother, but there are only
two Asadullahs which I know of, and I know that he is not the one who
went by the name
Asadullah al-Shishaani.
I do not recall saying anything at all to the FBI about a user named
Asad Allah on the Ansar forum, but if I did, then I might have mentioned
that the guy who invited me onto that forum had that username, but the
usernames on that forum were not hidden, so the fact that an Asad Allah
existed on that forum would not have meant anything.
The only other thing that I did involving that brother was that I had
a conversation with him in which he concluded that it was not a good
idea for him to try to do something which might be a violation of the
law, and that he should wait until he did not have to do anything
illegal to accomplish his goals. I do not remember saying either of
those things, but if the FBI said I told them anything else about
someone named Asad Allah, then they are lying or they misunderstood what
I said, but it is probably the former from my experience. I do not know
of another Asad Allah, so if this brother is a different person, then
they are definitely lying.
As
far as Al-Shishaani is concerned, all I said is that we talked about
some things not related to jihad, and that I could not picture him doing
anything on his own. I guess they did not ask me about what we said
together publicly on the forum, because they had access to all of that
already. He already pleaded guilty, but if they claimed anything beyond
this in his regard then they lied. I do not know if it was claimed that I
was helping them against him or not, but in regard to him, this is what
occurred.
There is another brother named Shakir Masri who was arrested in
Chicago right after I was. I did not realize when they were asking me
about a brother from the internet that it was him, but Allah willed that
there was nothing for me to say about him anyway. Actually, when it
comes to his case, there are some things which he did not know which I
do know, and they ought to help him. These are not the kind of things
which should be made public without him wanting them to be, so I will
not reveal them here. If the FBI is claiming anything about me in his
case then they are lying.
I recently got a letter rejected from a brother in the UK who was
supposedly with Revolution Muslim. I do not know if they are saying
similar things to him, but if they are, then they are lying.
I cannot think of anyone else whom they might be claiming I am
helping them against, but if there is anyone, then I am not, and their
lawyers or their investigators should come and find out if I even know
who their clients are. There are lots of people who might have contacted
me and that contact might have meant a lot to them, but it might not
have meant a lot to me so I would have forgotten it entirely. The FBI
exploits these kinds of things to trick people. It is a very common and
well known technique.
One of the things I was told when I was arrested was that a brother named
Ramy Zamzam was
telling them everything about me. This brother and I only met two
times, and I did not even know his name until I saw his picture in the
news. Furthermore, we never discussed anything that could be used
against me. They also tried to convince me Younes was working for them.
None of this had any validity, but these are techniques they use to try
to push people into pleading guilty. I would not be surprised if the way
they obtained a warrant to use FISA against me was by saying that their
undercover agents who gave me the apartment were members of Al-Qaeda
and that we were plotting terrorist attacks at the local kabob
restaurants and Olive Gardens. This is how the land of “freedom” and
“justice” does things.
I tried my hardest not to go into this affair blindly, and I
requested books on the Islamic ruling on this situation be sent in. I
also sent out a letter requesting a fatwah as to whether or not my
analysis of which situation was the lesser of two evils was correct.
However, I never received any response from the letter I wrote, and I
believe this to have been intentional on the part of the government. It
is also my belief that this letter could be the source of all which
follows in my story, in that the FBI began to view my son as the only
way to pressure me into cooperating. However, some of what happened
seems only to be pure and unabashed hatred of Islam, and it rises to a
level of clarity and severity which is hitherto unmatched to my
knowledge. Much of what was done with my little boy could have carried
no other motive.
Backroom Conspiracies
After my wife’s plea deal was signed, we began to look into different
countries for her to move to. She could not go back home to her native
country of
Uganda,
because I was supposed to be arriving there at about the same time that
the World Cup watchers were attacked by the group I was associated
with, and even to this day Al-Shabaab and Uganda are at war. Due to this
there was a legitimate fear of her being tortured or harmed if she
returned. At first we began looking at countries which were nearby to
keep our family close, but this turned out not to be practical.
In December, 2010, my mother, a non-Muslim as well as a federal
prosecutor, used this to file for custody of our one year old child
Talhah. The hearing was set for the day before my wife’s sentencing,
which was also the last day before she was allowed to leave the country.
She claimed that due to the fact that my wife was likely to be tortured
if forced to return to Uganda, this posed a danger to our son Talhah.
She filed this without asking in depth about our situation, and
apparently did not know that at this point we had found that Jordan was a
likely candidate to take my wife and son, because their visa laws were
less restrictive than other places. In fact, by the time we found out
about the filing, Talhah had already obtained a visa to Jordan, and
either my wife had just obtained hers or she obtained it within a day or
two of this. Despite the fact that there was no longer a danger to my
wife, my mother refused to drop the suit.
The court did not give us any orders in relation to our son Talhah,
so we decided that we might as well send him to Jordan early. This would
have proven the suit my mother filed to be invalid, because the fact
that he was in another country safely would have negated the matter
entirely. We had four different families in or from Jordan who were
hoping to help us and give my wife and child a place to stay. Also, one
of the sisters who was offering to help would have been considered
Talhah’s mother from nursing according to certain opinions in Islamic
jurisprudence. We found that the mother of this sister’s husband, was
willing to take our son with her to Jordan to stay with her family for a
few days until my wife arrived. This lady was a non-Muslim, and may
Allah guide her, but her son had accepted Islam quite some time ago. The
flight was scheduled to leave the John F. Kennedy International Airport
on January 20th, 2011.
I
did not know this until very recently when it came out in court, but
the FBI called my mother on the phone the day before this, and they
informed her about everything, and asked her whether or not she
considered it to be illegal. Apparently she told them she thought it was
illegal, and Allah knows best what else transpired between them.
On the day of the flight, this woman left her home in Tallahassee,
Florida, to pick up our son in Virginia. She was followed by law
enforcement the entire way. When she got to Virginia she picked up
Talhah and all of the proper paperwork to allow him to travel with her,
and she set off for New York.
Meanwhile, the FBI sent my lawyers and my prosecutor a letter saying
that they considered what my wife and I had decided upon was a breach of
my plea agreement, because it was illegal according to them. I asked my
attorneys what they thought, and they said that they did not see how it
could possibly be illegal, but that the FBI was very adamant about what
they were saying. In fact, even my prosecutor,
a man who has had articles about him written in major newspapers accusing him of hating Islam, said that he did not see how it could be illegal, and he said that he did not care about the matter.
Additionally, an attorney whose expertise was in child custody also
told us there was no problem with it. However, the FBI insisted that
they were convinced it was illegal and that it would violate my plea
agreement. They did not mention that their legal expert happened to be
the one filing the motion to take Talhah from us, nor that she was not
knowledgeable of child custody laws, but they were not interested in
honesty, transparency, or any other similar concept. My wife and I
debated the issue, and eventually we decided that we could not put
someone else in a precarious situation unknowingly, so we resolved to
call the matter off. However, all of this came after the woman, whom for
the purpose of this letter I will call Umm Julaybeeb, had taken Talhah
from my wife and set off for New York.
Talhah: A Matter of National Security
When
she arrived at the airport she was approached by the Secret Service,
FBI, TSA, Port Authority, and the NYPD who took her cell phone from her
and began to scream at her telling her they would not let her leave with
my son. They followed her around the airport for hours, preventing her
from making any phone calls, harassing her, and treating her very badly.
She asked them about the legality of what she was doing, and they told
her it was, in fact, legal (a contradiction of what they told my
attorneys and prosecutor), but that she still could not do it. This was
all supposedly to prevent me from being in contempt of court, getting an
extra hour or two in jail, and creating a situation where the
government could, at its own discretion, overturn my plea deal. The fact
that it did not actually violate my deal was irrelevant, and as I will
reveal later if Allah wills, this was clearly not the motivation of the
government in the actions they took against my child.
Eventually my wife got through to her, and called the matter off. Umm
Julaybeeb was still willing to go through with it, and was not swayed
by all of the pressure which was being placed on her, but my wife still
called the matter off. We did not know that the FBI was getting their
legal advice from my mother, nor that they did not
consider it to actually be illegal. Umm Julaybeeb recounts the events,
“ I … on or about January 19, 2011 picked up Talhah
Chesser from his mother, at Baltimore Airport to take him to visit
Jordan since I was going to visit my grandchildren.
When I arrived at the John F. Kennedy airport in New York, there was
about a four hour wait until our next flight. I was entertaining Talhah
and walking about the airport. A man approached me and identified
himself as Secret Service after showing a identification card. He asked
where I was going. He wanted to talk to me and said if I took baby
Talhah to Jordan, I would be kidnapping a child from the United States.
He noted that I had been watched since leaving Tallahassee, Florida and
that U.S. Marshal’s were concerned. He introduced me to around two FBI
agents that were at the airport. He wanted me to give him baby Talhah’s
passport. I told him that I would keep both the baby and his passport
with me unless his parents told me not to do so.I informed him I had
temporary custody of Talhah, signed by both his mother and father. The
Secret Service agent tried to take this document. I told him he could
read it but not have it. He finally took a picture of it with his
camera.
He, during the course of the four hour layover, kept talking to
Talhah’s mother on the phone away from me, then would walk back to me
and say that she had said to do thus and so, such and such. I replied
that I would comply with her requests only when she instructed me to do
so herself and that only after hearing from her would I follow her
instructions.
At some point the Secret Service Agent gave me his phone and Talhah’s
mother told me herself to give Talhah’s passport to the Secret Service,
which I did.
Now there was a problem. It appeared that none of the people were
officially working on this case as no one wanted responsibility of
Talhah. The Secret Service Agent tried without success to gain the
cooperation of Port Authority (airport security) to assume
responsibility of the child. The Agent claimed that he would remain with
little Talhah for a short duration until he could convince a willing
party to come pick up the baby, but that he, himself, was unable to take
responsibility. If I heard correctly, it appeared that the two FBI
agents were present solely as a personal favor to the Agent. They no
longer wanted to be involved and said it would be up to New York’s
social services.
Rather than have social services in New York, place baby Talhah in
foster care, I stayed in New York. The Secret Service agent assisted in
getting me and Talhah to a hotel. Baby Talhah’s maternal grandmother and
aunt came later and picked up Talhah. Everything written is true to the
best of my knowledge.”
Prosecutorial Persecution
The
day after this, a federal prosecutor took actions to prevent my wife
from being able to travel to Jordan without telling her, but Allah
willed that this did not wind up preventing her from settling in Jordan,
and thus being sent back to Uganda where her life would have been in
danger. This action was not done in relation to my criminal case, but
was done for personal reasons which I will refrain from mentioning in
here.
On the day before my wife’s sentencing, she went into court for my
mother’s motion and wound up signing a deal to allow her own mother to
have temporary joint custody with her until she was settled safely in
Jordan. This was in exchange for my mother dropping her motion for
custody. It was also ruled that my mother would have some visitation
rights to see my son. Part of the deal was that my wife’s mother would
bring our son to her after it was verified that she was safe. The court
also appointed a representative for me in court named David Silek. I
never wound up receiving a copy of the court order or anything else from
this hearing.
My wife left as soon as possible to get to Jordan in order that she
could be with Talhah quickly. She wanted to stay in America where she
could see me longer, but I told her that Talhah was more important than
that, so we decided on this path. I was sentenced to twenty-five years
in prison shortly after she left.
In April of 2011, my wife was interrogated by Jordanian intelligence
over the letter which was sent to them by the prosecutor following my
son’s return from the airport. My mother’s support of this was revealed,
and this caused relations between my wife’s family and my mother to
sour considerably. It also caused my wife to be forced out of a
university she was attending, and it made other matters difficult for
her in Jordan. However, eventually she obtained refugee status due to
her situation, and this was our greatest concern as it was the only
argument to prevent her from receiving our son. Things are going well
now, and we thank Allah for that.
In May of 2011, I was transferred to a
Communications Management Unit in
Marion, Illinois. There are only two such units in the prison system,
and they are mostly filled with Muslims. Almost all of the Muslims here
were locked up in the American Inquisition, so this place has taken on
the name Gitmo North. There are many aspects of our religion which they
try to restrict here including group prayer, learning Arabic, and
teaching religious subjects. I recently lost my e-mail privileges for a
month for praying in a group, as did many others. This is particularly
difficult in here, because our communications with our families are
severely limited and for people like me, e-mail is the only financially
reasonable method of communicating overseas. People have also been
threatened with being sent to the ADX facility in Colorado where they
would only be let out of their cells for one hour each day over similar
issues.
After I arrived in this unit, I began to try to contact the man who
was appointed to represent me in court, but the government seemed to be
preventing me from being able to do this. My wife and I were frustrated
over the fact that her mother had not taken Talhah to Jordan despite my
wife having been safe and settled for four months, so we were trying to
figure out how to force my mother in-law to uphold her end of the
agreement. However, around this time, my own mother began to complain
about how we would not let her take my son on vacations and sleepovers.
There was nothing in the order at all which said we had to do this, but
she began to threaten to take my mother in-law to court over these
issues.
In particular, my mother became very angry that we would not let him
go to the beach due to the overwhelming presence of things which are
considered Islamically impermissible in that environment. She also began
to threaten my mother-in-law over things which made us suspect she was
being given access to my wife’s and my private communications. This
might sound paranoid, but these suspicions were later confirmed in
court. At this point, we shifted our immediate focus from getting our
son back to removing my mother from visitation. However, I still did not
have contact with my representative and my wife was trying to do things
through her mother, because she thought this was sufficient to fulfil
the court’s order and manage things regarding it.
Summer Sojourn Sabotaged
Then,
on July 12th, 2011, the FBI called my mother and told her that my wife
and I had a secret plan to remove my son from the country. Supposedly
they were basing this off of monitoring e-mails between me and my wife,
as well as between my wife and her mother. Once again they asked my
mother if this was a violation of the court order which she had filed
for herself. She told them that it was not allowed for my son to leave
the country. They told her that the reason they were calling was that
they were trying to prevent me from violating my plea agreement, and
they wanted to make sure that I did not do this.
Ignoring the fact that the government is violating their own laws if
they were passing this kind of information to my mother outside of the
context of a necessary step in a criminal investigation, the information
they gave her was not even true. My wife’s mother was petitioning the
court to take my son to Jordan to visit her, and my wife and I were
still looking into having my mother removed from visitation by going
through the courts. If what the FBI told my mother was not just a bold
faced lie, then they were basing it on something which they
misunderstood or took out of context. I was still sending e-mails as
late as the day after this phone call in which I was saying that as soon
as the government approved my court representative as one of my
contacts, then I would be looking into how to remove my mother from
visitation. Furthermore, the FBI could have simply asked either me, my
wife, or my mother in-law about the matter if they were truly interested
in it.
Based on this information, my mother filed for custody of my child
Talhah on July 13th, 2011. She was granted an emergency hearing at which
she claimed that the FBI had called her and mentioned this “secret
plot,” and none of the other parties involved in the matter were
informed of the hearing. This information was presented without anyone
having the ability to challenge it, and based on this the court stripped
custody of my child from my wife, gave it to my wife’s mother, and gave
my own mother enhanced visitation rights. My family only learned about
the filing when my mother showed up with police to take my son Talhah
for the weekend.
During the two week period following this ruling, the Bureau of
Prisons (BOP) mysteriously stopped approving any e-mails which were sent
to me, so I was kept in the dark for quite some time as to what had
occurred. Additionally, they were still refusing to approve my court
representative as one of my contacts, so I could do nothing about the
matter at all. By Allah, there has been nothing in my life which hurt
more than finding out about this ruling, but the amount of pain which it
caused my wife was much more severe.
Finally, in August, the BOP approved my court representative, and I
began to outline to him what I wanted him to be doing, and what legal
actions I wished for him to take. He filed a motion to disqualify part
of what the judge had ruled on the 13th of July, and this was granted.
However, the matter was only over a technicality, so my mother re-filed
her motions in order to seek that the court grant her full custody of
our child.
No Attorney Client Confidentiality
I
began to work frantically to gather everything I could in the case, but
it was very difficult to do anything in the matter, because I did not
have the paperwork necessary to know what was going on. In fact, I did
not receive my mother’s petition for custody until two days before the
trial date on January 5th, 2012. Additionally, the BOP would not let my
representative call me, and the Virginia Bar Association advised him
that if he accepted the terms required to e-mail me, then the NSA would
be allowed to read all of his e-mails between him and his other clients
which would breach their privacy rights.
They also opened all of the letters he sent to me under a heading for
legal mail,
which is a violation of the law in the United States. When I inquired
as to why they were doing this, I was repeatedly given false
instructions on how he should fill out the envelopes, so they continued
to open them on grounds that he was filling the envelopes out
incorrectly. The BOP even gave him as well as my mother’s attorney false
instructions on how to fill out the envelopes, so when he followed
their instructions as he himself was informed, they still opened and
read his letters.
In fact, the prison outright rejected one such correspondence, and I
never got to see some of the evidence which was being used against me in
court because of this. When my mother’s own attorney complained about
this, she informed my representative of the instructions the BOP gave
her on how to send legal mail which could not be opened. My
representative then sent her a copy of the envelope which they returned
in order to show her that he was in full compliance with what they said.
After this I researched the federal statute governing legal mail, and I
sent him instructions based on the absolute most liberal interpretation
of that law, although he had been in compliance with its literal
wording for quite some time.
My wife repeatedly tried to contact her representative, but he did
not return any of her communications until one month before the trial.
When he finally did start responding to her, he refused to send anything
in e-mail, because he was himself afraid that the FBI would take that
information and send it to my mother. I do not know why he thought they
would not also be bugging her phone, but people usually do not
immediately know how to adjust to the paranoid lifestyle that is
necessary for people in our situation.
SHUed out of the Custody Hearing
On November 30th, 2011, I was taken out of population in my unit and I was placed into a
special housing unit (SHU)
where I could only make one fifteen minute phone call per month, where I
could not send any e-mails, and where I could not access my contacts
list to know all of the relevant addresses and information I needed to
fight my case. In the SHU, one is locked in a cell all day, they are
only allowed one or two books, and almost all of the things which might
add to their comfort are taken away from them during this time.
This is irregardless of whether or not they did something to be
placed back there, or if there was an “administrative” reason to put
them back there. The BOP told me that I was being placed in the unit in
order to assess whether or not I was safe. They later admitted to my
representative that there was no specific threat to my life, but that
they had to assess the situation. They also informed me as well as
others that the order to put me in the SHU came from Washington, D.C.,
and it was not from the prison itself.
While I was in the SHU, the BOP delayed very important mail which I
sent to my representative to use as evidence in the trial for two weeks,
so it was not able to be used. Legally they were not allowed to inspect
the mail which I was sending, so there was no reason for them to delay
it except to harm me and my family at the trial. Additionally, they
delayed mail which I sent to my wife’s mother, as she was in some
respects taking our side at the trial.
FBI Illegally Discloses Classified Emails
Two days before the trial was to occur, I finally received my
mother’s petition for custody and some other documents which exposed the
level of involvement of the FBI, and which also explained most of her
arguments to be used at the trial. Of course, this was way too late for
me to respond to, and it severely hurt our case not to have it.
Additionally, I learned that my representative had different
responsibilities than an attorney, so he decided not to file certain
things as well as to not push for the same things I wanted him to push
for. That being said, aside from these two issues, he was much better
than I would have expected a court appointed attorney to be on such a
case, and the praise belongs to Allah.
I still do not have the results from the trial, but I know that my
wife and I were declared “unfit” parents, that my mother was granted
full “legal” custody, and both she and my wife’s mother are to share
physical custody every two weeks. My mother produced evidence which was
given to her by the FBI from e-mails which it was illegal for them to
disclose, and these were brought against us in court. I have heard that
the FBI also talked to the judge before the trial, but I do not know the
veracity of this as of yet.
Judge Rules Against My Son Being a Muslim
In the hearing wherein the judge read his ruling regarding speaking
about Islam to my son or wearing traditional clothes distinguishing him
as a Muslim, he said,
“I don’t want any discussion – ‘this is not Islam’ with
these people, correct, this is radical Islam? And I make a finding this
is radical Islam. I don’t want any discussion of dressing in any Islamic
fashion, radical Islamic fashion.”
Perhaps the most shocking thing which my mother introduced as
evidence was one of the things which the FBI supposedly told her. The
following is a quote from a letter I received from my representative on
this matter:
“The Court also ordered that your son Talhah is only to
attend the respective churches of your mother and your mother-in-law. He
is not permitted to be taken by anyone else to any church or other
place of worship unless it is the place of worship of either your mother
or mother-in-law. The Court was quite clear about this being an issue
based upon the representations by your mother that the FBI or someone
had reasonable cause to believe that Talhah had been taken to Mosque at
some juncture since your incarceration and the departure of your wife
from the United States of America. Your mother-in-law testified that she
has been taking your son with her to church at All Saints Roman
Catholic Church here in Manassas.”
So this was all about me not violating my plea deal!? Where in my
plea deal does it say anything about not letting my child attend a
mosque? Where in my plea deal does it say I agree not to have my son be a
Muslim? I am not aware of any occasion on which my son was taken to a
mosque, although I would have certainly loved for it to occur, so where
are they getting this? Is the FBI following around my little two year
old? He has terrorist DNA, so they have to be ready to
pre-emptively prosecute him as
soon as they can legally put him in prison. They had better get all of
his contacts in their database too, because he might be talking in code
to the other toddlers when he tells them, “
1,2,3,” and, “
Please.“
“Welcome to America! the land of the free and the detainee. Practice any religion, just not that Mozlem belief.”
So,
what is the difference between Islam and “Radical” Islam? It is that
“Radical” Islam is the practiced form of Islam according to this ruling.
I was not there, but I seriously doubt that my Catholic mother-in-law
was strapping a fake bomb vest to my son Talhah or wrapping a cloth
around his face so that only his eyes could be seen.
If you wear a kufi, then you are a radical Muslim and the government
can take your child; if you wear a hijab, then you are a radical
Muslimah and the government can take your child; if you pray five times a
day, then you are a radical. Neither my wife nor I were even present to
challenge this information or this interpretation. The government
simply ruled that the practicing of Islam is not protected speech, and
they are using their resources to make sure our little son cannot hear
anything about it.
In case the reader is confused, the American justice system issued a
ruling that my son is not allowed to be a Muslim. Why did they do this?
The FBI thought he was probably being brought to the mosque, and this is
of course unacceptable in a liberal democratic nation; and if a two
year old child is allowed to attend a mosque, then the fabrics of their
society will be torn asunder.
Is it about terrorism, or is it about Islam? Is it about bombs, or is
it about mosques? Was the FBI bashing terrorism when they were mocking
Islam? What does Hajj have to do with terrorism? How much did the
“greatest democracy” spend to make sure my son was not with a Muslim
family? How many of their own privacy laws did they break to do this? Is
the matter clear to you, O reader? Or are you blind?
On the day before the trial, I explained in a letter to my
representative that the threat to my life would be ending the next day,
so he could expect me to be out of the SHU soon. Just as I wrote to him,
the threat to my life ended on January 5th, 2012, and the prison staff
informed me that I would be coming out as soon as the warden could sign
my release papers while the trial for my child was still ongoing. I was
never given a reason for my being placed in isolation, nor was I given
the reason why I was let out. However, I do not have any doubt as to the
reasons, and I do not think that anyone who knows my story could
either.
Civil Rights: Muslims Need Not Apply
Of
course everything which I have detailed is completely in line with
their laws, and it is all recorded under the 28th Hidden Amendment to
the Constitution of the United States which reads, “
All which was mentioned in this document carries with it the words, ‘Except for Muslims; except Islam.‘”
You have the right to the freedom of religion, unless you are a Muslim.
You have the right to bear arms, unless you are a Muslim.
You have the right not to have your privacy breached without probable cause, unless you are a Muslim.
You have the right to due process, unless you are a Muslim.
You have the right not to be subjected to cruel and unusual punishment, unless you are a Muslim.
You have equal protection under the law, unless you are a Muslim.
You have the right not to be executed without first having it
explained to you why you are being executed and then being given the
opportunity to challenge those accusations, unless you are a Muslim.
You have the right to see the evidence being used to imprison you, unless you are a Muslim.
You have the right to be Mirandized, unless you are Muslim.
You have the right to habeas corpus, unless you are Muslim.
Is there anyone who can breathe and comprehend the most fundamental
of realities who still disagrees with this? Is there anyone who still
has any doubt? The FBI, the CIA, the military, the media, the Judiciary,
Congress, and the President are all just a few bad apples right?
My representative concluded with the following words:
“Finally, let me say it has been a pleasure working with
you during this ordeal. Never in my life did I imagine that I would be
appointed as Guardian ad Litem for someone who finds themselves in the
situation which you are. It has certainly been a learning experience
trying to communicate with you since you have been incarcerated in
Marion.
I wish you a Happy New Year and I certainly wish I had better news to report to you than that which has been outlined above.
I remain,
Respectfully Yours,
‘John’ “
So let it be known to anyone who finds themselves in my position that
this is the nature of what you are dealing with. America will not keep
their word with you, and if you trust them, then you have been warned
and your account is with Allah. They are as Allah says in that they will
never be pleased with you until you follow their way. So long as you
are Muslim, then they will never rest so long as you have an ounce of
faith. If they cannot take that from you, then they will take you from
the world.
They have breached their covenant, so I am throwing it back.
Sincerely,
Abu Talhah
If there is anyone who wishes to inquire about or provide legal
assistance to my family regarding any which was mentioned herein, then I
can be contacted at the following address:
Zachary Adam Chesser
#76715-083
USP Marion
PO Box 1000
Marion, Illinois 62959
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