DemocracyNOW link | Will Potter: Secretive U.S. Prison Units Used to House Muslim, Animal Rights and Environmental Activists
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“Little Guantanamo”–Secretive “CMU” Prisons Designed to Restrict Communication of Jailed Muslims and Activists with Outside World
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We do need to believe again on the American justice, and ask President OBAMA to do the necessary to help us having our brother called: Noureddine MALKI reviewing the high sentencing he had and free him.
We are Five French citizens his family members: One brother and fourth sisters; Our brother is thrown in Jail at Marion under very special administration measurements.
He was transferred from Brooklyn where he was at the Detention center, few weeks after his sentencing to the USP Marion.
He worked as translator in Iraq and he came back home at Brooklyn with classified document in his laps top hard disk. He pleaded guilty explaining that he didn’t know that he shouldn’t keep them; he was sentenced to 121 months. The judge admitted that he had no proof of the intention of my brother using this classified document, but as he is native from Morocco and Muslim he is suspected of worse.
He refused the sentencing and asks for an appeal.
Our bother saved Americans lives and got several recommendations letters, but during Bush presidency, being Arab and Muslim was synonymous with terrorism Right now a court assigned attorney is collecting the documents from his previous one lawyer.
Our brother is in Jail since October 2005, he spent the first six months under very harsh detention conditions; we suspect that he was tortured.
We do also ask that our brother remain in USA. He spent more time in America than in his country of birth.
Please here under his message received today from prison
Dear Halima & Sonia,
Did you let the French journalists know where I’m right now?
This place, as I described it before,- is called CMU (Communication Management Unit)
This secretive place has more barbed wires than Guantanamo Bay prison.
Phone calls are only 15 minutes a week and inmates are cut off from the rest of the general population. According to the retarded genius who created or helped create it this unit was designed to house dangerous convicts to “protect the public” from us. The inmates here are labeled by the government as the most dangerous people on the face of earth. Even serial killers, rapists, mobsters, and real time career criminals who are all doing life in other jails enjoy 300-minute phone calls and are not isolated from the rest of prison population.
So are inmates here more dangerous or are they simply Muslims? The answer is so clear a legally blind person can see it.
Right now almost 90% of the inmates here are Muslims. This is no coincidence in any way or form !!
The other 10% are thrown in here just to deceive the public that this place holds non Muslims as well.
None of the 10% knows why they happen to be here in this place with Muslim inmates.
Since the new so-called TRULINCS was introduced communication problems suddenly surfaced every time I try to make my only phone call of the week.
Being in the CMU you have to request a phone call one week in advance.
Just this last Monday April 20th, 2009 at 1.00 PM, local time as I neared the 4th minute talking to my wife when the phone got disconnected. According to the person in charge I have to wait until someone in Washington determines what happened. If the person decided that the problem occurred outside the system then I would be denied my phone call for the week. I have to wait again for the other planned for the following week.
There is nothing I can do. My fate depends on the mercy of someone in Washington if I should make the call or not.
Here are resources about CMU you may need to check:
http://sjlendman.blogspot.com (articles on CMU)
http://www.democracynow.org (search archives for 04/17/09)
http://www.supportdaniel.org/cmu (04/14/09)
http://www.greenisthenewred.com
Pease spread the message wide to the French media.
Regards.
Nour.
Dea Will Potter
Could you please note this really information given by brother explaining his story. Now he is able to write his true case better than me as I have only the version of the last attorney.
Please let the media known about the torture and how was he considerate by the bush administration.
Dear sister Halima,
I read your last email dated 04/30/09. You mentioned that I came back from Iraq with classified materials in my laptop.
That’s not what happened. My laptop was in my apartment while I was deployed in Iraq. I never took it with me.
My personal laptop computer was void of any classified materials. I wouldn’t mix any work-related stuff with my personal files and folders.
The FBI agents, however, having deceptively convinced Vincent to let them into the apartment, went in with neither a search warrant from court, nor my consent. They misled Vincent into believing that I had told him previously to let them into my apartment. They took advantage of his ignorance of the rules of search and seizure. Armed with their malicious intents they ransacked the whole place and took away any thing they deemed good to construct an illusive case against me even when I served the U.S for two years in a time of war. They found -among the piles of Compact Disks I had been using as part of my daily work routine- one work-related CD that has classified information. It had been accidently taken from my work place along with all other disks I had . They consequently used that CD, not the laptop, as evidence against me. So they charged me with unauthorized possession of classified documents.
The racist prosecutor, already predisposed to enhance my sentence, used the wrong sentencing guidelines that carry the maximum prison term of 10 years. Because of my race and religion, he chose the guidelines that can only be used against those who are charged with bad intent to distribute or pass the classified information to others not authorized to have it. He said I had violent plots and criminal intents without proving any facts. If I ever had any bad intent wouldn’t I be extra careful and tend to be very calculating? If I ever had any criminal intent I would be very prudent not to leave any trace of evidence. I would have destroyed any evidence simply because I wouldn’t be that stupid to leave a trail behind. In fact, violent plots and criminal intents were found only within the prosecutor’s and the agents’ minds, certainly not mine.
I felt their prejudice from day one. The fact that I had to spend 6 months in solitary confinement is proof that my case was racially motivated. They lied to the judge when he asked why I had been placed in a solitary cell. First they said that they had nothing to with my placement and that it was the bureau of prisons’ decision to place me anywhere they wanted. Then it turned out later that they asked the prison authorities to place me in isolation to increase pressure on me to plea guilty for the purpose of depriving me of my due process right to a jury trial. They committed acts of perjury and obstruction of justice by having lied to the judge. Unfortunately nothing was done about their lies. It’s just business as usual. The question is: Can a prosecutor charge himself with perjury and Obstruction of justice? The answer is, of course, NO!! They use the law against others and the law can’t be used against them, even if they lie.
They even passed classified information to my criminal lawyer, by means of mail and hand delivery, even when she didn’t have clearance, at that time, to view secret documents which are deemed classified. So they committed a crime by passing classified information to a lawyer who was not supposed to view it until she gets clearance. Even so, they wanted to show that their duty was to protect America from people like me, whereas the truth lies in the fact that they took my case as an opportunity to save their careers by sacrificing me as a burned offering to the Bush administration. It became apparent that satisfying a political agenda was a primary criteria for them to keep their jobs.
Some good prosecutors somehow resisted pressure from the White House. They used the rule of law by deciding not to prosecute innocent people and instead used common sense, pursuant to ethical rules. Their good intentions back fired and were perceived as politically disloyal. So they were in danger of losing their jobs and being replaced. Former U.S Attorney general, Alberto Gonzales, was asked to fire so many good prosecutors simply they weren’t agressive enough to bring charges against democratic rivals and more people of the Muslim faith. those who kept their jobs and couldn’t find any real reason to prosecute Muslims, were put under pressure and urged to create any grounds or fake reasons to find Muslims and prosecute them. They used the tax payers’ money to hire informants to entrap Muslims into FBI created crimes.
All this was, of course, done to create a sense of fear and make the public believe that they’re saving America from the threat of terrorism.
Alberto Gonzales once stole highly classified information and tempered with it. He was never charged of any crime.
There is much more to talk about, more than enough to write books about the subject…I’ll stop here for now.
Please pass this information to UCLA and the French media to uncover the false persecution of innocent Muslims.
Regards.
Nour.