"For three years federal agents trailed Mohammed Yousry, a chubby 50-year-old translator and U.S. citizen who worked for radical lawyer Lynne Stewart. Prosecutors wiretapped his phone, and FBI agents shadowed and interviewed him. They read his books and notepads and every file on his computer.

"Yousry is not a practicing Muslim. He is not a fundamentalist," prosecutor Anthony Barkow acknowledged in his closing arguments to a jury in federal district court in Manhattan earlier this year. "Mohammed Yousry is not someone who supports or believes in the use of violence."

Still, the prosecutor persuaded the jury to convict Yousry of supporting terrorism. Yousry now awaits sentencing in March, when he could face 20 years in prison for translating a letter from imprisoned Muslim cleric Omar Abdel Rahman to Rahman's lawyer in Egypt." (Washington Post)

This will get overturned but for now, this is an injustice.

Editor note: One thing that I hate flying with Northwest is they are using DC-10-30, a fuckin' 30 year old plane to service their Memphis-Amsterdam route. I don't even think they'd have in flight personal entertainment center. God, what would I do in an 8 hour flight without a PEC? Read ?!

Adam is back blogging at http://adamb.nomadlife.org.

This is the approximate schedule for me this year.

8th February 2006 - Cairo, Egypt.

September 2006 -  Somewhere in Florida, USA for flight training.

November 2006 - Either Bogota, Colombia or Buenos Aires, Argentina.

This schedule is off course subject to change.

With this schedule, only Antarctica left to live in.

Egypt is coming in two weeks and now I'm busy clearing out my apartment and giving away little stuffs that I accumulate, mainly books and furnitures.

It's interesting to me that after settling down in Chicago for 3 years and barely travelling anywhere (and morphing into a Mid Westerner), this year I'm back to my nomad mode in full force; I'll be 28 this year and this looks like a pre-30 life crisis. 

is the number of rows of geographical data imported to nomadtracker database that contains virtually every single damn place that matter (according to US military), including their GPS coordinate. It took all night to import those information.