Doctor’s Alleged Pledge Is Crux of Terror Case
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Rafiq Sabir, a Columbia University-trained doctor, has been kept in solitary confinement since he was arrested last year on charges that he swore fealty to Osama bin Laden in the presence of an undercover FBI agent.
Yesterday, in U.S. District Court in Manhattan, attorneys debated whether the unusual pledge Dr. Sabir allegedly made — an offer to treat wounded jihadists in Saudi Arabia — constituted a crime. The argument covered topics ranging from the Hippocratic Oath to the statute on material support of terrorism.
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