where it is quite dead. Inf. XX
A Muslim cleric suspected in an alleged plot to blow up New York’s John F. Kennedy Airport has been hospitalized in Trinidad after suffering a mental breakdown, his lawyer said Monday.
Kareem Ibrahim has wept, rambled incoherently and often appeared agitated in recent meetings, said defense attorney Farid Scoon, who is trying to block his client’s extradition to the United States.
“He has been delusional, paranoid, with changes of personality,” Scoon told The Associated Press in a telephone interview. “It’s not like you’re speaking to somebody who’s absolutely out of it, but if you sit long enough with him, you see he’s not with it.”
Trinidadian authorities hospitalized Ibrahim on April 7, removing him from a jail where he had been held pending U.S. attempts to extradite him and two other men in the alleged plot.
The other two suspects, Abdel Nur and Abdul Kadir, both from Guyana, are fighting their extradition as well.
A lower court approved Ibrahim’s extradition in February, but Scoon filed an appeal, which will be heard in July.
Ibrahim’s lawyers previously had argued that he should not be sent to the U.S. because he suffers from diabetes and claustrophobia. Scoon said the defendant’s hospitalization shows his physical and mental health have declined and it would be “unjust and oppressive” to send him to the United States, where he could face up to life in prison if convicted.
Awww! Thad poowa widdle sabage!
A mental breakdown? Just what was there to “break down”? I have always thought that psychotics were already broken.
“It’s not like you’re speaking to somebody who’s absolutely out of it, but if you sit long enough with him, you see he’s not with it.â€Â
Well…. DUH!
On the other hand, I sincerely pity his claustrophobia and I hate to see him locked up for life. I have a suggestion for how we could prevent that, and save a lot of money in the process…
which will be heard in July.
Geez, glacial pace.
If he’s survived this long living on an island as a claustrophobic, he’ll survive the prison yard.
If they medicate him to the point he’s halfway sane… can he still call himself a jihadi?
I mean there’s standards, right?
The wife’s from Trinidad. Last time we went to visit, she was scooted through immigration while I got the hairy eyeball from the government thug.
They hate us, down there. In my experience.
Mind you, the shark-and-bake and cheap rum, well, they make up for *most* of the indignities. Oh, and Port of Spain’s KFC (largest in the hemisphere) is something to be admired. And the roti. And kosher shrimp…
Shave a ihadi and you’ll find the parchment-thin skin of a whiny liberal underneath.
This guy has morphed from a “Warrior of Allah” into a cringing ward, all to avoid facing American jurors.
Ah…the Great White Satan’s powers are great!