Step on it, will ya?
"Onetime terror suspect longs for normalcy; Cleared of charges, driving a taxi again" by Shelley Murphy, Globe Staff | October 15, 2010
Five months ago, Pir D. Khan was cleaning the windshield of his leased taxi outside an Allston hotel at dawn when federal agents surrounded him at gunpoint and arrested him on civil immigration charges as part of a sweeping investigation into the failed terrorist attack in Times Square.
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Yesterday, as he sat with his American wife in his lawyer’s office, dressed in a Red Sox jersey, Khan said he has been cleared of wrongdoing and is trying to rebuild his life. Friends have pitched in to help him buy a taxi, and last week he went back to work driving fares around Boston.
Speaking at length for the first time since his May 13 arrest, Khan, 43, said he did nothing wrong and does not know why he was questioned or why his nephew, Aftab Ali Khan, 27, who was arrested the same day, remains jailed in New York City on immigration violations. Neither of the men have been charged with any crimes.
And here AmeriKa pontificates and lectures the rest of the planet on human rights!
Oh, the STENCH of FASCIST HYPOCRISY!
“I knew I didn’t do anything,’’ said Khan, who is living in the same apartment on Waverley Avenue in Watertown that was raided the day of his arrest. “I’m just a normal person. I like to work hard and make a living.’’
Khan, who appeared briefly yesterday in US Immigration Court in Boston, is fighting deportation and was ordered to return to court Dec. 16. He entered the country illegally in 1991 and was denied political asylum. He married Rebecca May Barry, 24, nearly two years ago and is seeking permanent residency.
I say GIVE IT TO HIM!
And since when has the federal government cared about illegals?
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Unless it's "terrorists," right?
“Basically, we lived a normal life until that happened,’’ said Barry, referring to her husband’s arrest. “Everything got ripped apart, and now we’re trying to put it back together.’’
Any APOLOGY from the gummint?
The Khans and a third Pakistani man — Mohammad Shafiq ur Rahman, a 33-year-old computer programmer from South Portland, Maine — were arrested on immigration charges during the New England raids. Rahman has also been released.
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Pir Khan said he was shocked when agents asked him about Faisal Shahzad, the Bridgeport, Conn. man who was sentenced to life in prison last week after pleading guilty to the May 1 failed attack in Times Square.
“I never heard that name,’’ said Khan, adding that he did not know Shahzad and had no involvement with him. “I didn’t have a clue about any of this. They were asking me about my financial situation and banking.’’
And yet they let Wall Street crooks steal the store.
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Who are the 'terrorists" again?
After the raids, federal authorities said the detained men were suspected of funneling money to Shahzad, but it was unclear if the men knew the money would be used for terrorism....
Yesterday, Pir Khan said he often sent money to Pakistan for his mother and 19-year-old son, but always used Western Union or banks. He said he never used hawala, an informal money transfer network that authorities say the Pakistani Taliban used to funnel money to Shahzad....
The US attorney’s office in Manhattan, which led the investigation into the attempted bombing, and the Justice Department declined to comment yesterday.
Pir Khan’s wife said the government has an obligation to exonerate her husband since he was publicly linked to the terrorism investigation.
“I want people to know he had nothing to do with it,’’ Barry said. “It kind of aggravates me that they won’t say that. And I’m still fighting to get him to stay.’’
Pir Khan said immigration officials gave him permission to work about 15 years ago while his asylum application was pending, and he has been paying taxes and Social Security ever since.
Aftab Khan, the son of Pir Khan’s sister, worked at a US Army base in Kuwait as a civilian assisting with truck convoys before he came to the United States in August 2009, with plans to marry an American soldier he met overseas. The woman, however, refused to marry him when he arrived at her home in Colorado.
Last November, on the same day his visa expired, Aftab Khan married another American woman during a ceremony at Cambridge City Hall. After his arrest, Aftab Khan was ordered deported, but was then moved to a New York jail.
After Pir Khan’s arrest, he spent 76 days in solitary confinement at the Plymouth County jail, then was quietly released on July 29.
Yesterday, Barry said FBI agents told her that Pir Khan married her for citizenship, but she insisted the marriage is real.
Who is the f***ing FBI to decide what is in someone's heart?
What ASSHOLES!!!!!
Pir Khan said he bought a mobile home in South Paris, Maine, so his wife’s ailing father could live there.
That looks like love to me!
But after Pir Khan’s arrest, his father-in-law left the home because he feared a backlash.
Yup, FBI PROPAGANDA breaking up a FAMILY!
Pir Khan said he is fighting eviction from his Watertown apartment and he contended that the landlord’s son, who manages the building, called him a terrorist last week when they met in Waltham District Court for a hearing on the matter.
But Baij Joshi, who manages the Waverley Avenue building for his father, denied calling Pir Khan a terrorist and said he wanted to evict him so he can move his own family into the apartment while their home is being renovated. He also accused Pir Khan of failing to pay two months’ rent.
The squabble has escalated. Joshi said Pir Khan filed a complaint against him with the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination, and Joshi has filed complaints with local police accusing Khan of threatening him.
The court has ordered Khan to move out of the apartment by Nov. 30, Joshi said.
Since the May raids, Joshi said: “People would say to me I’m a terrorist’s landlord. It’s been very disruptive. I can’t even get a contractor to do the lawn over there because no landscaper wants to go there and do any work.’’
Gimme a break.
Not going to go cut the gra$$ becau$e there might be a "terrorist" in the house?
Pir Khan said that he wants his name cleared, but added that he is not going to worry about how people view him.
Don't hold your breath.
“I don’t know what the people think of me, but I am proud of myself, who I am, and what I do for a living,’’ he said. And, he added, there are eight friends who gave him about $1,000 each toward the downpayment on his new taxi.
“I’m going to pay them back when I get my life together,’’ Pir Khan said.
Good luck, sir!
You are a lucky guy, what with a wife who stands by you and all!
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