Harroun arrested in Virginia
Last month we discussed Eric Harroun a couple of times. Once when the Daily Mail did an article on the American veteran who was fighting with the Syrian rebels and again when the Washington Times reported rumors that he’d been killed. Fox News, in a link sent by ROS, says he’s alive and well and under arrest in Virginia;
According to court documents, FBI agents conducted three interviews with Harroun this month after he voluntarily came to the U.S. Consulate in Istanbul. Harroun allegedly told the FBI that he wound up with the Al Qaeda affiliate after his rebel group was attacked, and was treated like a prisoner before being accepted. He told agents he shot at least 10 people in Syria, but said he didn’t know how many, if any, were killed, according to prosecutors.
Harroun was last interviewed in Istanbul on March 25, and two days later flew back to the U.S. where he was arrested at Dulles International Airport after telling the FBI he had used an RPG to take down a tower on “at least one occasion.”
Harroun appeared in federal court Thursday in Alexandria, Va., before U.S. Magistrate Judge Theresa Buchanan.
He seems to be a bit of a nutball, so I’m glad he’s back in the States where he might be able to get some professional help instead of running around the Middle East with a gun.
Category: Politics
Any charges listed?
Does this mean Hasan gets a cell mate?
He’s not bashful about anything. He’s evidently spouting off about who, what, when, why, and how. I’ll await the stuff to follow.
I’d like him to share a cell with John Walker Lindh. They could be husband and wife.
http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2332a
According to interpretation 1: anyone who shoots anything larger than .50 while overseas is guilty of this US Code because they did not have lawful authority from the US Government.
According to interpretation 2: anyone who shoots anything larger than .50 while overseas is NOT guilty of this US Code because they were granted lawful authority by the country in which they fired the weapon (think of the tourism opportunities for shooting tank weapons and MIG cannons in Soviet bloc countries).
I’m thinking that he walks because they cannot prove either way.
When he was arrested at Dulles, this sh!tbird actually was galled that we didn’t treat him like a hero in secondary inspection while he was getting cuffed and searched.
“He seems to be a bit of a nutball, so I’m glad he’s back in the States where he might be able to get some professional help instead of running around the Middle East with a gun.”
Do you really think one less whack job over there is going to make a difference?
I think he walks free and clear. This guy was over there fighting alongside the very same folks that our country is training. We’ve officially said we were training them, and I’ll give you odds that when the Benghazi shit hits the fan, folks will find out that Ambassador Stevens was killed during a raid on a facility that was secretly sending arms to those same Syrian rebels.
The government can’t have it both ways. they can’t be training these guys and also be prosecuting citizens who voluntarily aid them.
His “TERRORIST HUNTING LICENSE” expired, which is why they took him into custody.
He will plead out and get …. 15 – 20 in fed lock up … they will make an example out of him!
I’m not understanding why everyone hates him. Our government, the CIA is obviously funding and Arming the Free Syrian Army. There is American Heritage of Americans fighting in others civil war. SO, if he fights the dictator Assad’s forces, which the US is against, he gets punished for it? I don’t get it. Had he fought for Assad against the FSA, he would be arrested for War Crimes here in the US, no doubt. The whole story is fishy. All of you can agree with me this country is on the wrong path, and turning socialist quick like – especially with these fools just salivating at the lips to ban all guns. I think it’s BS he got arrested personally. IF it’s really the whole Al Qaeda deal, he should have linked with a brigade, divisional or headquarters level of the FSA, clearly wearing FSA insignia. Still all stinks.
Also to reiterate what I said above, I remember reading some story on a guy from Texas that fought with the Free Libyan Army during the Libyan civil war, and they treated that guy like he was all cool, or a hero in the article. Yet this dude is arrested? Other guy must have not been in an “al Qaeda” affiliated group, and only used assault rifles (had a picture of him with AK47 slung over shoulder), nothing bigger then .50.
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