He was locked up for supporting Islamist terrorism before turning his life around
Ashley Powers, The Washington Post
Feb. 9, 2021
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2of6Mohammed Khalid s Koran.Photo for The Washington Post by Andre ChungShow MoreShow Less
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4of6Mohammed Khalid is pictured in Ellicott City, Md., near where he grew up.Photo for The Washington Post by Andre ChungShow MoreShow Less
5of6Mohammed Khalid.Photo for The Washington Post by Andre ChungShow MoreShow Less
6of6 Terrorist. That s what the boys whispered after he stood up and introduced himself to his ninth-grade class. Terrorist. Soft enough that the teacher couldn t hear, loud enough to sting. The boys smirked, turned back to whatever was happening in English class. Mohammed Khalid didn t respond. He simmered inside. Mohammed was 13 and had arrived in suburban Baltimore from Pakistan just a few weeks before. He was a wisp of a kid in a collared shirt, with neatly trimmed black hair and oval-shaped glasses that
yeah. i suspect that sing what gotten is that what our administration is trying to do is set the situation set up the situation where libyans take out qaddafi or some group of rebels take out qaddafi or perhaps he dies in air strike. they don t want to make it their goal to take out qaddafi. now, why? just look at what has happened before when our goal was to take out saddam hussein? our goal to take out osama bin laden. what if he proves allusive. rebels advance and qaddafi s forces gone underground does he reteeth to the south of libya. become a lion of the desert. start insurgency that could drag on and on and on. qaddafi can t stay. he can t continue to govern libya because otherwise his promise that he is going to protect civilians, et cetera, you can t believe it for 40 years he has been killing his own people. he is not about to stop. but, on the other hand, is he not about to leave peacefully either because he knows that if he quits or tries to retire he