Terror Talk
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Terror Talk
Two lawyers and two activists from Project SALAM (Support And Legal Advocacy for Muslims) discuss critical and provocative issues from the global "War on Terror" and examine in detail some manufactured cases of preemptive prosecution in America and abroad. Who's a terrorist? Not who you might think.
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Episode 13: FBI Visitors
This episode we talk about the FBI in relation to the Aref-Hossain case—not about what they did before and during it, but afterwards. And what we did ...
Episode 12: The Appeal, Part 2: Oral Arguments
The attorneys for both Yassin Aref and Mohammed Hossain (Yassin's co-defendant) prepared appeals to the 2nd Circuit Court. At the same time, the Musli...
Episode 11: The CMU and The Appeal, Part 1
In this episode we will hear directly from Yassin about what life is like in the brutal CMU - Communications Management Unit prison in Terre Haute, In...
Episode 10: Fallout
The last episode covered Sentencing Day, March 8, 2007 and brought you readings of support letters and editorials from community members, newspapers,...
Episode 9: Sentencing Day
In the last episode we talked about all the community activity on behalf of Yassin Aref and Mohammed Hossain between their guilty verdicts on October...
Episode 8: The Verdict and the Media
This is the third and final episode of our mini-series of The Trial of Yassin Aref and Mohammed Hossain, who were caught up in an FBI sting operation...
Episode 7: The Trial Part 2 - The Defense
This is the second episode of our three-part mini-series of The Trial of Yassin Aref and Mohammed Hossain, who were caught up in an FBI sting operatio...
Episode 6: The Trial Part 1 - The Prosecution
We begin a three-part mini series on the trial of Yassin Aref and Mohammed Hossain. In this first episode of the mini-series, we present the prosecut...
Episode 5 - Ideology
The crucial aspect of the Aref-Hossain case, in order to convict Yassin, was to prove he was "predisposed" to commit terrorism, and so the government...
Episode 4: Immigrants
In this episode, we talk about the immigrant experience of Yassin Aref, and how this encouraged the government to pursue him. For the second half we'l...
Episode 3: Secret Evidence
Classified evidence was used extensively during the trial of Yassin Aref and Mohammed Hossain. Kathy Manley, one of Yassin's attorneys, tells the sto...
Episode 2: The Bail Hearing
Snipers were posted on the roof of the court house for the bail hearing for Yassin Aref and Mohammed Hossain. In this episode, details of the bail he...
Episode 1: Introducing Terror Talk - Yassin Aref and Mohammed Hossain
On August 4, 2004, two Muslim men in Albany, New York, were arrested by the FBI for a terror plot.
Did the FBI really arrest a terroris...