Terror Talk

Classified evidence was used extensively during the trial of Yassin Aref and Mohammed Hossain. Kathy Manley, one of Yassin's attorneys, tells the story of the classified evidence in the case, the defense's unsuccessful fight to obtain it, and a secret court decision in violation of the Sixth Amendment.

Snipers were posted on the roof of the court house for the bail hearing for Yassin Aref and Mohammed Hossain. In this episode, details of the bail hearing are discussed, as well as the general atmosphere of the times. The two lawyers and two activists set the scene for the events surrounding the bail hearing; the war fever in 2004; and the adventures of one lawyer as he wore a "Peace on Earth" t-shirt to the local mall.

On August 4, 2004, two Muslim men in Albany, New York, were arrested by the FBI for a terror plot. Did the FBI really arrest a terrorist "Commander" from Iraq? Or, a medi-cab driver who was also the spiritual leader of an inner-city mosque? Two lawyers and two activists will describe the FBI raid on the mosque and begin the story of what happened to Yassin Aref and Mohammed Hossain, the imam of the Masjid As-Salam, and a pizzeria owner.