Skyline Videotaper Gets Jail Sentence
2 hours, 45 minutes ago U.S. National - AP By PAUL NOWELL, Associated Press Writer CHARLOTTE, N.C. - A Pakistani man taken into custody after a police officer saw him videotaping downtown skyscrapers was sentenced to six months in prison Monday on several charges - none related to terrorist activities. Kamran Akhtar, 36, was sentenced on five immigration charges, including failure to follow a court order to leave the United States, possessing false identification cards and making false statements to investigators. He declined to make a statement to the court. After Akhtar was arrested in July, investigators found a videotape in his camera showing the 60-story Bank of America tower and the skyscraper that houses the Charlotte office of the FBI (news - web sites). Other tapes showed buildings and landmarks elsewhere in the United States, authorities said. Akhtar, who has already been jailed for six months, will be turned over shortly to immigration authorities for deportation. The charges to which he pleaded guilty carried a maximum sentence of 33 years in prison. Federal authorities are not known to have uncovered ties between Akhtar and terrorists. Assistant U.S. Attorney Scott Broyles said the government's investigation has not been closed, but declined to say whether he expected additional charges. Akhtar's attorney, George Miller, said his client was looking forward to being reunited with his wife and children, who are expected to join him in Pakistan. "He desperately misses his family," Miller said, adding that he believes the case is over. "They have had six months to conduct this investigation," he said. http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050125/ap_on_re_us/arrest_vide otaping_1 ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Take a look at donorschoose.org, an excellent charitable web site for anyone who cares about public education! http://us.click.yahoo.com/_OLuKD/8WnJAA/cUmLAA/TySplB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: [email protected] Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
