Douglas Leiter's Blog: CCRSTUDIOS
September 14, 2020
Operation Somalia Express
CCR STUDIOS is pleased to announce its second nonfiction work on religion, race, and cultural issues in the criminal justice system.
How is a man sent to prison for ten years on a controlled substance violation when the government concedes the substance is not controlled by United States drug laws? In 2007, Ali Awad was convicted and sentenced to ten years in federal prison. There he met an inmate who was a former police officer and lawyer convicted on tax charges. Together the two embarked on a journey in criminal procedure, international law and, most importantly, politics. Soon it became clear Ali was not in prison for what he did but for who he was and where he came from. His public trial was a means to an end and that end was a narrative designed to paint him as a terrorist and paint for the American people a spectacle of revenge.
Available online at www.ccrstudios.org,, as a companion to this book, is a 2,500 page document appendix for researchers to verify and place in context the many details of this incredible story.
How is a man sent to prison for ten years on a controlled substance violation when the government concedes the substance is not controlled by United States drug laws? In 2007, Ali Awad was convicted and sentenced to ten years in federal prison. There he met an inmate who was a former police officer and lawyer convicted on tax charges. Together the two embarked on a journey in criminal procedure, international law and, most importantly, politics. Soon it became clear Ali was not in prison for what he did but for who he was and where he came from. His public trial was a means to an end and that end was a narrative designed to paint him as a terrorist and paint for the American people a spectacle of revenge.
Available online at www.ccrstudios.org,, as a companion to this book, is a 2,500 page document appendix for researchers to verify and place in context the many details of this incredible story.
March 3, 2018
Greetings from CCRSTUDIOS
Thank you Goodreads for allowing us this forum.
Hope you will all check out Reeboks and the Revolution: A Young Man's Journey in a Very Old Land
If you are an educator or a student you are eligible for a 20% discount at our website, https://www.ccrstudios.org/curriculum/ or by going to our home page at www.ccrstudios.org and then clicking the link labeled "TEACHERS".
You are welcome to send questions directly to the website or to this blog.
We also contribute to Quora.com within the boundaries of the same subject matter on our own web forum.
Hope you will all check out Reeboks and the Revolution: A Young Man's Journey in a Very Old Land
If you are an educator or a student you are eligible for a 20% discount at our website, https://www.ccrstudios.org/curriculum/ or by going to our home page at www.ccrstudios.org and then clicking the link labeled "TEACHERS".
You are welcome to send questions directly to the website or to this blog.
We also contribute to Quora.com within the boundaries of the same subject matter on our own web forum.
