http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/broward/sfl-flbhassoun0709nbjul09,0,652242.story?coll=sfla-news-browardFBI wiretaps of Sunrise man offer look into terror case
Since the start of his trial in Miami federal court last month, all eyes have been on Jose Padilla, the former Broward resident once accused of plotting to detonate a radioactive "dirty bomb" on U.S. soil.
But it is another local man who stands at the center of the government's case: former Sunrise computer programmer Adham Amin Hassoun. snip
On the tapes, Hassoun, a prominent speaker and fundraiser in South Florida's Muslim community, can be heard urging others to join far-off conflicts involving Muslims in Ethiopia, Chechnya and Kosovo. snip
In private, Hassoun's views were something less than neighborly.On a 1996 call played for jurors, Hassoun can be heard fuming over a photo published in an Islamic newsletter of a Muslim man shaking hands with Hillary Clinton.
"The only way to deal with those people is with the sword," he says. snip
Hassoun frequently acknowledged the government was listening in. Despite his vocal disapproval of U.S. policies, he apparently was confident his adopted government would not arrest him.
"My phone is bugged, but it doesn't matter," Hassoun says on a June 25, 1995, wiretapped call.