{"id":2727,"date":"2011-03-01T06:47:16","date_gmt":"2011-03-01T06:47:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=2727"},"modified":"2011-03-01T06:47:16","modified_gmt":"2011-03-01T06:47:16","slug":"rajib_karim_has_been_convicted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=2727","title":{"rendered":"Rajib Karim Has Been Convicted Of Plotting Terrorism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/uk\/2011\/feb\/28\/british-airways-bomb-guilty-karim\">U. K. Guardian<\/a>&nbsp;reported that Rajib Karim was convicted by a jury at Woolwich crown court of plotting to blow up a plane during the time he was working for British Airways (BA).&nbsp; Mr. Karim is described as a disciple of the Yemen-based radical cleric Anwar al-Awlaki.&nbsp; Anwar al-Awlaki was born in the United States and is of Yemeni descent.<\/p>\n<p>According to the article:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p><em>&#8220;Police took months to break encrypted messages on his computer. They found he had been in direct contact with Awlaki, who is accused of having links to the attempted bombing of a plane over Detroit during Christmas in 2009 and an attempt last year to explode ink printer bombs on freight planes heading to the US.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Karim, who worked for BA in Newcastle, studied electronics at Manchester University from 1998 to 2002 where he gained a 2.2. He then went back to his native Bangladesh, where he supported an extremist organisation.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">I don&#8217;t consider myself a violent person, but it seems to me that Awlaki is attempting to sponsor terrorism around the world.&nbsp; Could a well-placed predator drone end that effort?&nbsp; Is it better to kill one man who is declaring war on civilians in western countries than to allow the continued attempt to kill innocent civilians?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday the U. K. Guardian&nbsp;reported that Rajib Karim was convicted by a jury at Woolwich crown court of plotting to blow up a plane during the time he was working for British Airways (BA).&nbsp; Mr. Karim is described as a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=2727\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2727\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}