Illinois Jihadi Says He’s Guilty, but Innocent
By Robert Spencer November 19, 2018
Adel Daoud tried to set off a bomb outside a crowded Chicago bar in 2012, and now, according to the Chicago Tribune, he has “asked a federal judge to allow him to enter an unusual guilty plea.†He wants to enter “what’s known as an Alford plea in which he’d acknowledge prosecutors had evidence to convict him but not admit wrongdoing.†How could there be evidence enough to convict him if he didn’t do anything wrong? Law enforcement officials, you see, made him turn to jihad.
In evaluating this plea, U.S. District Judge Sharon Johnson Coleman is doubtless aware that Daoud is no choirboy: “In addition to the terrorism conspiracy and solicitation of murder charges, Daoud’s lawyers also want him to plead guilty at the same time to a third charge alleging Daoud attacked an inmate with a shank while awaiting trial at the Metropolitan Correction Center, a federal Loop jail.â€
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