Case Against GMU Protester Is Dropped

[MountainLaurel]

For those who have been following this case:

Fairfax County prosecutors yesterday dropped charges against a George Mason University student who was arrested by campus police in September while protesting military recruiting at the school.

After investigating the case, George Mason officials asked last month that the charges against Tariq Khan, 27, be dismissed. Fairfax prosecutors complied in a brief hearing in Fairfax General District Court. Neither school officials nor prosecutors would explain why yesterday.

Khan, who served four years in the Air Force after graduating from Park View High School in Sterling, said yesterday after the hearing that his military service gave him a new perspective on the promises made by recruiters.

Khan said he "made bombs" that were dropped on Iraq after the Persian Gulf War. "We were not fighting for freedom. We were acting the same way every tyrannical government acts anywhere in the world, trying to impose the view of an elite few."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/14/AR2005111401394.html