The Case of the Mysterious Disappearing Religion
by Monica CrowleyIslam? Islam? Bueller? Bueller? Anyone? Anyone?
We awake to news that after extraordinary police work, investigators have made an arrest in the attempted car bombing of Times Square in New York. Faisal Shahzad, a Pakistani native-turned-naturalized-U.S.-citizen, was taken into custody late last night. He was naturalized last year, and shortly thereafter, made a trip to Peshawar, Pakistan–a hotbed of Islamic terrorist activity and recruitment.
I have read countless reports about the arrest, in newspapers and websites big and small. So far, I have not seen a single mention of his faith. Not a single reference to his being Muslim. We’re left to deduce that by his Pakistani ethnicity and name.
Political correctness has stripped us of our ability to be brutally honest about the nature of the threat we face. It’s not from a bunch of maniacal Catholics or Jews or Hindus or Buddhists. The lethal threat is coming from radical Muslims. Even after September 11, even after repeated terror attacks and attempts here and abroad, we still cannot be truthful and outspoken about it? Pathetic.
This suicidal inability to call the enemy what it is comes straight from the top: the President will not go anywhere near the words “Islam” and “terror” together. His administration has contorted itself into all kinds of politically correct gymnastics to avoid making the connection, going so far as to term acts of terror as “manmade disasters” and the fight against it as “overseas contingency operations.”
He refused to speak the truth about the motivation of Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan, who killed 13 fellow Americans in the name of Islam, and would not make the connection with the Christmas Day bomber, Abdulmutallab. He refused to “jump to conclusions” about what propelled them to try to kill Americans (although he had no problem “jumping to conclusions” about Sgt. Crowley of the Cambridge Police and the Arizona immigration law.)
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg made a ridiculous statement before the arrest, suggesting it could be “someone…that doesn’t like the health care bill.”
Bloomberg’s comment was idiotic, but he’s not the Commander-in-Chief. Obama was notified of the arrest five minutes after midnight. We’ve gotten a statement from his Attorney General, but as of 8:30am ET, still no statement from the Commander-in-Chief.
Unless and until we can call the enemy and what drives him to kill us what they are—Muslims propelled by their religious belief—we cannot and will not win this war.
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Ridiculous. What else can be said? Ignore the obvious.
Perfectly stated Monica, and thank you for calling out Bloomberg's idiotic statement – of course he added more dribble yet today!
Notice how islam attacked Times Square, yet it's hard to even point to Pakistan as the perpetrator's home country for dear leader and his administration.
“Around the world and here at home there are those(Muslims/ISLAMISTS/Terrorists
) who will attack our citizens, who((Muslims/ISLAMISTS/Terrorists
) will slaughter innocent men, women, and children in the pursuit of their(Muslims/ISLAMISTS/Terrorists
) murderous agenda,” he continued. “They(Muslims/ISLAMISTS/Terrorists
) will stop at nothing to kill and disrupt our way of life.”
“New Yorkers have reminded us once again how to live with their heads held high. We know it’s the aim of those (Muslims/ISLAMISTS/Terrorists
) who try to carry out these attacks is to force us to live in fear thereby amplifying the effects of their(Muslims/ISLAMISTS/Terrorists
) attack. But as Americans and a nation we will not be terrorized(by Muslims/ISLAMISTS/Terrorists
). Will not cower in fear(of Muslims/ISLAMISTS/Terrorists
), we will not be intimidated(by Muslims/ISLAMISTS/Terrorists
). We will be vigilant, we will work together, and we will protect and defend the country we love to ensure a safe and prosperous future for our people(from Muslims/ISLAMISTS/Terrorists
). That's what I intend to do as president and that's what we will do as a nation.”
More than a dozen people with American citizenship or residency, like Shahzad, have been accused in the past two years of supporting or carrying out terrorism attempts on U.S. soil, cases that illustrate the threat of violent extremism from within the U.S.
Among them are Army Maj. Nidal Hasan, a U.S.-born Army psychiatrist of Palestinian descent, charged with fatally shooting 13 people last year at Fort Hood, Texas; Najibullah Zazi, a Denver-area airport shuttle driver who pleaded guilty in February in a plot to bomb New York subways; and a Pennsylvania woman who authorities say became radicalized online as "Jihad Jane" and plotted to kill a Swedish artist whose work offended Muslims.
http://wcbstv.com/topstories/times.square.car.2.1...
The above was the only story I've seen so far that had any mention of Muslims or Islam.
More than a dozen people with American citizenship or residency, like Shahzad, have been accused in the past two years of supporting or carrying out terrorism attempts on U.S. soil, cases that illustrate the threat of violent extremism from within the U.S.
Among them are Army Maj. Nidal Hasan, a U.S.-born Army psychiatrist of Palestinian descent, charged with fatally shooting 13 people last year at Fort Hood, Texas; Najibullah Zazi, a Denver-area airport shuttle driver who pleaded guilty in February in a plot to bomb New York subways; and a Pennsylvania woman who authorities say became radicalized online as "Jihad Jane" and plotted to kill a Swedish artist whose work offended Muslims.
http://wcbstv.com/topstories/times.square.car.2.1...
The above was the only story I've seen so far that had any mention of Muslims or Islam.
This Pakistani born scumbag was about ready to leave the US on a flight to Dubai. In 2002, it was known that Osama Bin Laden was treated for kidney diesease at a hospital in Bahrain, a so-called "friendly" moslem country. Any bets if this punk had made it to Dubai he would have gotten "lost" in a desert country with less than 5 people per square mile population. Monica, if I remember correctly, did AYMAN AL ZAWAHARI serve time in an Egyptian prison for being involved in Anwar Sadats murder before Mubarak released him under political pressure, including Bill Clinton? And I also seem to remember The group involved in Sadats murder called themselves the Muslim brotherhood. Seems we have that same group on dozens of college campi.
Obama may not comment on this at all. It is his position that things like this are a civilian criminal offense. Hooray! We've got 32 more months of his "head-up-@$$" syndrome to contend with before we get any relief. I see some hard times ahead.
Extraordinary police work? The idiot failed to make the bomb properly. If he had, much of the evidence in the truck would have been destroyed. As it was he was literally sitting on a plane about to take off, so he very nearly got away with the whole caper. This is what comes of Bush's "fight them there so we don't fight them here" philosophy. Should be a great summer right? The only thing the article left out was Obama's personal culpability for the attempted attack. Monica must be slipping.
WAR?
What War?
You mean the war on Christianity? on American way of life? on poverty? on reason?
Not sure of which war you are speaking
Your neighbor goes on watching American Idol and reading the comics and wonders way you are so "bent out of shape" over news reports. Obama the beautiful, for spacious handouts and purchased american votes.
Thats the real problem…the ignorance of 50% of the American voters.
Eric Holder wasn't convinced that a car bomb in Times Square was really terrorism.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/arti...
Eric Holder wasn't convinced that a car bomb in Times Square was really terrorism.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/arti...
Eric Holder wasn't convinced that a car bomb in Times Square was really terrorism.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/arti...
Eric Holder wasn't convinced that a car bomb in Times Square was really terrorism.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/arti...
Where's that dead terrorist puppet when you need him?
They couldn't wait to blame conservatives , talk show hosts and the Tea party…
Today they are have Shiite on their face…As more details emerge he was a registered Democrat in Conn.,
and had O'bama paraphernalia in his house…His house was being foreclosed on , WHY ?
(my opinion) ~ not because he couldn't afford it , it's because he knew he wouldn't be in this country for long so he stopped making payments and funneled those funds to FLY to Pakistan and buy incendiary devices…
I'm afraid that this president will continue to encourage, I mean ignore the threats of radical Islam right up until the mushroom cloud from a predominately Muslim state covers Israel or an American city.
* MSM take note of the use of Muslim and Islam in same sentence
On both sides we have our religious spectrum has problems, Christians bomb abortion clinics and Muslims bomb women and child, the KKK used to kill, well i don't know if they still do, Blacks, Jews and brown skinned Mexicans, and they call themselves Christians. Check out this story that talks about a girl who died at the hands of a Christian pastor who was trying to "cast out" a demon. I mean she died, you should read about what they did to her check the story out
http://bit.ly/ay66vV
Islamic terrorists should consider changing their names to something like "Bob Smith." That way, Islam could escape any blame for the terrorist attacks carried out in its name, because we know the media isn't going to volunteer that information. It would be a great PR move.
"The radical Islamic threat from 1979 to 2010 has grown stronger, and developed a greater reach into the west then our side has developed a defense or plan to defeat; we are fooling ourselves if we think a watch list, that no one even bothers to check, is anything more than a placebo for the cancerous philosophy of radical Islam."
The only time our politically correct politicians mention the word "Muslim" is when they say things like Bloomberg said today:
"We will not tolerate any bias or backlash against Pakistani or Muslim New Yorkers.”
Right. Because THAT'S what we need to be worrying about. That and Tea Party People.
The world is upside down.
In our Presidents Cairo speech he promised Muslims he would make it easier for them to fulfill their Religious obligations. In October of '09 he slashed the NYC budget to protect them from dirty bombs by almost 50%, he then cut 40 million from their transit security, and 7 million from their port security, in February of this year he called for the elimination of our Coast Guard to battle Maritime terror activity. He found it humorous when New Yorkers dashed out of hi-rises when air force one hovered over buildings for a photo-op, he refuses to try KSM in a Military tribunal and demands they be tried in a NYC court, putting all New Yorkers at risk. He implements a "diversity lottery" to import citizens from Islamic states. He defies the terror watch list and passes out visas via the State department through executive orders. His Administration release sensitive data online regarding our Nuclear sites here in America. There have been more cases of terrorist activity since his Cairo speech than anytime in U.S. history. All the while the Department of Homeland Insecurity states our returning Veterans are a terror threat.
Uh, I'd say they are referencing the extraordinary police work that led to the identification and arrest of Faisal Shahzad. Would you rather he had been able to get back to Pakistan? It seems so.
Please explain how this is connected to any Bush philosophy, as your claim dictates. You can back it up, can't you?
Oh, and BTW, didn't you hear? Blaming Bush is sooo passe.
or Maybe because O'bama has been broadcasting to the world that we are weak and bow to the terrorists…
From where Im sitting—The only time its proper to use the word "muslim" is when theres some "muslim" ass that needs to be kissed?
But… the Bible doesn't promote killing anyone that doesn't believe the same as you. Or killing anyone who draws a pic of Alah.
All religions, cultures, groups of people have nimrods… some just have a lot more.
Your article starts off with a mistake, these people are not "radical" muslims, they are "practicing" muslims. Terror was Mohammed's tool to subdue people, he commands it of his followers in the koran. He does leave an out for the squeamish and allows them to still be muslims without murdering non-muslims. But the only way to guarantee salvation, is murder and terror.
Practicing Catholics, Protestants, Lutherans, Bhuddists, Confucionists and Hindus all behave better and have a higher moral level than non-practicing members of their respective churches. Practicing muslims are the most ignoble and degraded people ever known to mankind. If we look at the violence being committed today, on planet earth, these people are responsible for most of it.
This plays into the hands of our current Democrat led Congress and President as they honestly believe that the more crises we face, the more power we will give them.
Best regards,
Cant argue with that. No one said this would be easy Flexo.
And least we are not crossing the Potomac in the middle of winter without shoes. Get the word out.
The part the media is missing in this story is that the police apparently caught the guy using traditional police work; e.g., no one was tortured and miranda rights were given.
voice of reason-http://www.thereligionofpeace.com there are well over 15,000 body bags since 9/11 who would disagree, if they had not been brutally murdered, raped, set ablaze, stoned to death or hung.
Religion and sex should be left to the individual. Freedom does not recognize either.
"SILENCE! I will KEEL you!"
Gotta love Jeff Dunham and his powder blue Prius…
Our Congress has inflicted more damage on America than ANY RELIGION.
Our CONGRESS is the enemy. We can't vote out religion nor should we.
We vote out CONGRESS. We arrest criminals. Whether the criminal hides behind an office in DC or the Torah they are still just friggin criminals. Let's not complicate matters here.
Until our Congress is no longer the enemy we are a lost nation.
This political correctness is scary real scary, much will continue, down this path we will go over and over, without being able to say one damn thing about anything. I hope and pray that we all realize pretty much at the same time, and begin to speak truth hard truth, all at once from old to young standing up proclaiming what we know to be self evident, full of common sense and decency.
Fact: 100% of the terrorists who flew into the WTC were Muslim.
Fact: When the US Gov't went after the Mafia they called them the Mafia or La Cosa Nostra.
Fact: When the US Gov't went after the BRANCH DIVIDIANS they were called Branch Dividians..
When peace loving Muslims unite world wide, stand up and denounce Jihadists, when they FORBID THEM FROM THEIR MOSQUES, REFUSE THEM THE PROTECTIVE SHELTER OF ISLAM, then Muslim will be just the name of a religion in a world of diverse religions.
Until then, if it walks like a duck………
If this one even posts I'll be surprised. Pleased, but surprised.
"This administration has killed and captured quite a few operatives, disrupted terror cells, and quickly caught this latest extremist in just under three days"
Aren't you concerned that these actions will "inflame people" who will "use them as a justification for murder?"
This president's actions are just making the islamic muslim extremist terrorists mad at us. He must be stopped. /S
Get real.
From Heritage.org: Terrorist acts against the U.S. since 9/11. You tell me what percentage is from "another direction" than Islamic terrorists?
Richard Reid, December 2001. A British citizen and self-professed follower of Osama bin Laden, Reid hid explosives inside his shoes before boarding a flight from Paris to Miami and attempted to light the fuse with a match. If detonated, the explosives would have damaged the plane. Reid was caught in the act and apprehended on board the plane by the flight attendants and passengers. FBI officials took Reid into custody after the plane made an emergency landing at Boston's Logan International Airport.[3]
In 2003, Reid was found guilty on charges of terrorism, and a U.S. federal court sentenced him to life imprisonment.[4]
Jose Padilla, May 2002. U.S. officials arrested Padilla in May 2002 at O'Hare Airport in Chicago as he returned to the United States from Pakistan. He was initially charging as an enemy combatant and for planning to use a "dirty bomb" (an explosive laced with radioactive material) in an attack against America.[5] Prior to his conviction, Padilla brought a case against the federal government claiming that he had been denied the right of habeas corpus (the right of an individual to petition against unlawful imprisonment). In a 5-4 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court found that the case against him had been filed improperly.[6] In 2005, the government indicted Padilla for conspiring with Islamic terrorist groups.
In August 2007, Padilla was found guilty by a civilian jury after a three-month trial. He was later sentenced by the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida to 17 years and four months in prison.[7]
Lackawanna Six, September 2002. When the FBI arrested Sahim Alwan, Yahya Goba, Yasein Taher, Faysal Galab, Shafal Mosed, and Mukhtar al-Bakri, the press dubbed them the "Lackawanna Six," the "Buffalo Six," or the "Buffalo Cell." Five of the six had been born and raised in Lackawanna, New York.[8] These six American citizens of Yemeni descent were arrested for conspiring with terrorist groups. They had stated that they were going to Pakistan to attend a religious training camp, but instead attended an al-Qaeda jihadist camp.
All six pleaded guilty in 2003 to providing support to al-Qaeda. Goba and al-Bakri were sentenced to 10 years in prison, Taher and Mosed to eight years, Alwan to seven and a half years, and Galab to seven years.[9]
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So glad to know you were there and can speak from such a position of knowledge! That makes all America feel safe!
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Iyman Faris, May 2003. Faris is a naturalized U.S. citizen originally from Kashmir and lived in Columbus, Ohio. He was arrested for conspiring to use blowtorches to collapse the Brooklyn Bridge.[10] The New York City Police Department learned of the plot and increased police surveillance around the bridge. Faced with the additional security, Faris and his superiors decided to cancel the attack.[11]
Faris pleaded guilty to conspiracy and providing material support to al-Qaeda and was later sentenced in federal district court to 20 years, the maximum allowed under his plea agreement.[12]
Virginia Jihad Network, June 2003. In Alexandria, Virginia, 11 men were arrested for weapons counts and for violating the Neutrality Acts, which prohibit U.S. citizens and residents from attacking countries with which the United States is at peace. Four of the 11 men pleaded guilty. Upon further investigation, the remaining seven were indicated on additional charges of conspiring to support terrorist organizations. They were found to have connections with al-Qaeda, the Taliban, and Lashkar-i-Taiba, a terrorist organization that targets the Indian government. The authorities stated that the Virginia men had used paintball games to train and prepare for battle. The group had also acquired surveillance and night vision equipment and wireless video cameras.[13]
Ali al-Timimi, the spiritual leader of the group, was found guilty of soliciting individuals to assault the United States and sentenced to life in prison. Ali Asad Chandia received 15 years for supporting Lashkar-i-Taiba, but maintains his innocence.[14] Randoll Todd Royer, Ibrahim al-Hamdi, Yong Ki Kwon, Khwaja Mahmood Hasan, Muhammed Aatique, and Donald T. Surratt pleaded guilty and were sentenced to prison terms. Masoud Khan, Seifullah Chapman, and Hammad Adur-Raheem were found guilty at trial and later sentenced.[15]
Dhiren Barot, August 2004. Members of a terrorist cell led by Dhiren Barot were arrested for plotting to attack the New York Stock Exchange and other financial institutions in New York, Washington, and Newark, New Jersey. They were later accused of planning attacks in England. The plots included a "memorable black day of terror" that would have included detonating a dirty bomb.[16] A July 2004 police raid on Barot's house in Pakistan discovered a number of incriminating files on a laptop computer, including instructions for building car bombs.[17]
Dhiren Barot pleaded guilty and was convicted in the United Kingdom for conspiracy to commit mass murder and sentenced to 40 years.[18] However, in May 2007, his sentence was reduced to 30 years.[19]
James Elshafay and Shahawar Matin Siraj, August 2004. James Elshafay and Shahawar Matin Siraj were arrested for plotting to bomb a subway station near Madison Square Garden in New York City before the Republican National Convention.[20] An undercover detective from New York City Police Department's Intelligence Division infiltrated the group, providing information to authorities, and later testified against Elshafay and Siraj.[21]
Siraj was convicted and sentenced to 30 years in prison. Elshafay, a U.S. citizen, pleaded guilty and received a lighter, five-year sentence for testifying against his co-conspirator.[22]
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Messiahs are not allowed to be specific GEESH
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Yassin Aref and Mohammad Hossain, August 2004. Two leaders of a mosque in Albany, New York, were charged with plotting to purchase a shoulder-fired grenade launcher to assassinate a Pakistani diplomat.[23] An investigation by the FBI, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, and local police contributed to the arrest. With the help of an informant, the FBI set up a sting that lured Mohammed Hossain into a fake terrorist conspiracy. Hossain brought Yassin Araf, a Kurdish refugee, as a witness. The informant offered details of a fake terrorist plot, claiming that he needed the missiles to murder a Pakistani diplomat in New York City. Both agreed to help.[24]
Aref and Hossain were found guilty of money laundering and conspiracy to conceal material support for terrorism and later sentenced to 15 years in prison.[25]
Umer Hayat and Hamid Hayat, June 2005. Umer Hayat, a Pakistani immigrant, and Hamid Hayat, his American son, were arrested in Lodi, California, after allegedly lying to the FBI about Hamid's attendance at an Islamic terrorist training camp in Pakistan.
Hamid was found guilty of supporting terrorism and was sentenced to 24 years.[26] Umer's trial ended in a mistrial. He later pleaded guilty to lying to customs agents in his attempt to carry $28,000 into Pakistan.[27]
Levar Haley Washington, Gregory Vernon Patterson, Hammad Riaz Samana, and Kevin James, August 2005. The members of the group were arrested in Los Angeles and charged with conspiring to attack National Guard facilities, synagogues, and other targets in the Los Angeles area. Kevin James allegedly founded Jamiyyat Ul-Islam Is-Saheeh (JIS), a radical Islamic prison group, and converted Levar Washington and others to the group. The JIS allegedly planned to finance their operations by robbing gas stations. After Washington and Patterson were arrested for robbery, police and federal agents began a terrorist investigation, and a search of Washington's apartment revealed a suspicious target list.[28]
James and Washington pleaded guilty in December 2007. James was sentenced to 16 years in prison and Washington to 22 years. Patterson received 151 months, while Samana was found unfit to stand trial and detained in a federal prison facility.
Michael C. Reynolds, December 2005. Michael C. Reynolds was arrested by the FBI and charged with involvement in a plot to blow up a Wyoming natural gas refinery; the Transcontinental Pipeline, a natural-gas pipeline from the Gulf Coast to New York and New Jersey; and a Standard Oil refinery in New Jersey.[29] He was arrested while trying to pick up a $40,000 payment for planning the attack.[30] Shannen Rossmiller, his purported contact, was a Montana judge who was working with the FBI. The FBI later found explosives in a storage locker in Reynolds's hometown of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania.[31] Reynolds claimed that he was working as a private citizen to find terrorists.[32]
Reynolds was convicted of providing material support to terrorists, soliciting a crime of violence, unlawful distribution of explosives, and unlawful possession of a hand grenade. He was sentenced to 30 years in prison.[33]
Mohammad Zaki Amawi, Marwan Othman El-Hindi, and Zand Wassim Mazloum, February 2006. Amawi, El-Hindi, and Mazloum were arrested in Toledo, Ohio, for "conspiring to kill or injure people in the Middle East" and providing material support to terrorist organizations. They allegedly intended to build bombs for use in Iraq. The investigation was begun through the help of an informant who was approached to help to train the group.[34]
In June 2008, all three were convicted of conspiring to commit acts of terrorism against Americans overseas, including U.S. military personnel in Iraq and other terrorism-related violations. Their sentencing is scheduled for August 2009.[35]
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Larry, this country was founded on a foundation of Christianity. If you don't like Christianity, I suggest you move to Pakistan, Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Syria, Iran, Iraq, or any other non-Christian nation. Those countries outlaw Christianity, you'll never be bothered with it again. Have a nice flight.
Well, it wasn't until he could prove it came from a right-wing extremist, like someone from the Tea Party. Then it would be terrorism. Until then, according to this administration, it's not really terrorism.
Did they say they'd be female virgins?
"WHAT!"
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Syed Haris Ahmed and Ehsanul Islam Sadequee, April 2006. Ahmed and Sadequee, from Atlanta, Georgia, were accused of conspiracy, having discussed terrorist targets with alleged terrorist organizations. They allegedly met with Islamic extremists and received training and instruction in gathering videotape surveillance of potential targets in the Washington, D.C., area, including the U.S. Capitol and the World Bank headquarters, and sent the videos to a London extremist group.[36]
Both were indicted for providing material support to terrorist organizations and pleaded not guilty.[37] In June 2009, a federal district judge found Ahmed "guilty of conspiring to provide material support to terrorists here and overseas."[38] Sadequee was denied bail and is awaiting trial.
Narseal Batiste, Patrick Abraham, Stanley Grant Phanor, Naudimar Herrera, Burson Augustin, Lyglenson Lemorin, and Rotschild Augustine, June 2006. Seven men were arrested in Miami and Atlanta for plotting to blow up the Sears Tower in Chicago, followed by FBI offices and other government buildings around the country. The arrests resulted from an investigation involving an FBI informant. Allegedly, Batiste was the leader of the group and first suggested attacking the Sears Tower in December 2005.[39]
All of the suspects pleaded not guilty. On December 13, 2007, Lemorin was acquitted of all charges,[40] but the jury failed to reach a verdict on the other six. The second trial ended in a mistrial in April 2008.[41] In the third trial, the jury convicted five of the men on multiple conspiracy charges[42] and acquitted Herrara on all counts. Sentencing is set for July 26, 2009.
Assem Hammoud, July 2006.Conducting online surveillance of chat rooms, the FBI discovered a plot to attack underground transit links between New York City and New Jersey. Eight suspects including Assem Hammoud, an al-Qaeda loyalist living in Lebanon, were arrested for plotting to bomb New York City train tunnels. Hammoud, a self-proclaimed operative for al Qaeda, admitted to the plot.[43] He was held by Lebanese authorities, but was not extradited because the U.S. does not have an extradition treaty with Lebanon. In June 2008, Lebanese authorities released him on bail.[44] He is awaiting trial before a Lebanese military court.
Liquid Explosives Plot, August 2006. British law enforcement stopped a terrorist plot to blow up 10 U.S.-bound commercial airliners with liquid explosives.[45] Approximately 24 British persons were arrested in the London area. The style of the plot raised speculation that al-Qaeda was behind it, but no concrete evidence has established a link.
The United Kingdom initially charged 15 of the 24 arrested individuals on charges ranging from conspiring to commit murder to planning to commit terrorist acts.[46] Eventually, only eight men were brought to trial in April 2008. In September, the jury found none of the defendants guilty of conspiring to target aircraft,[47] but found three guilty of conspiracy to murder. It was unable to reach verdicts on four of the men. One man was found not guilty on all counts.[48] Those convicted are still awaiting sentencing.
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Nice find. From here on out I'll refer to this filthy islamist terrorist as the democrat terrorist with a muslim name.
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Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, March 2007. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, captured in 2003, was allegedly involved in a number of terrorist plots and was one of the most senior of Osama bin Laden's operatives to have been captured.[49] He is being held at the U.S. military detention facility in Guantanamo Bay. In March 2007, Mohammed admitted to helping to plan, organize, and run the 9/11 attacks and claimed responsibility for the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center and the bombings of nightclubs in Bali in 2002 and a Kenyan hotel. He has stated that he decapitated American journalist Daniel Pearl and took responsibility for helping to plan the failed attack by Richard Reid, along with plots to attack Heathrow Airport, Canary Wharf, Big Ben, targets in Israel, the Panama Canal, Los Angeles, Chicago, the Empire State building, and U.S. nuclear power stations. He had also plotted to assassinate Pope John Paul II and former President Bill Clinton.
In December 2008, Mohammed and his four co-defendants (Ramzi Binalshibh, Mustafa Ahmad al-Hawsawi, Ali Abd al-Aziz Ali, and Walid Bin Attash) told the military tribunal judge that they wanted to confess and plead guilty to all charges.[50] The judge has approved the guilty plea of Mohammed and two co-defendants, but has required mental competency hearings before allowing the other two conspirators to plead guilty.
Fort Dix Plot, May 2007. Six men were arrested in a plot to attack Fort Dix, a U.S. Army base in New Jersey. The plan involved using assault rifles and grenades to attack and kill soldiers. Five of the alleged conspirators had conducted training missions in the nearby Pocono Mountains. The sixth helped to obtain weapons. The arrests were made after a 16-month FBI operation that included infiltrating the group. The investigation began after a store clerk alerted authorities after discovering a video file of the group firing weapons and calling for jihad. The group has no known direct connections to any international terrorist organization.[51]
In December 2008, all five were found guilty on the conspiracy charges, but acquitted of charges of attempted murder.[52] Four were also convicted on weapons charges. All are awaiting sentencing.
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JFK Airport Plot, June 2007. Four men plotted to blow up "aviation fuel tanks and pipelines at the John F. Kennedy International Airport" in New York City. They believed that such an attack would cause "greater destruction than in the Sept. 11 attacks." Authorities stated that the attack "could have caused significant financial and psychological damage, but not major loss of life."[53]
Russeel Defreitas, the leader of the group, was arrested in Brooklyn. The other three members of the group–Abdul Kadir, Kareem Ibrahim, and Abdel Nur–were detained in Trinidad and were extradited in June 2008. Kadir and Nur have links to Islamic extremists in South America and the Caribbean. Kadir was an imam in Guyana, former member of the Guyanese Parliament, and mayor of Linden, Guyana. Ibrhaim is a Trinidadian citizen, and Nur is a Guyanese citizen. The men pleaded not guilty to the charges and are awaiting trial.[54]
Mohammed Jabarah, January 2008. Mohammad Jabarah was involved in plots to bomb U.S. embassies in Singapore and the Philippines and mass transit frequented by U.S. military personnel. He was convicted of filming U.S., Australian, and Israeli embassies and conducting surveillance of U.S. warships. He is suspected of training in al-Qaeda camps in Afghanistan and spending time with Osama bin Laden. Jabarah was arrested in 2002 by Omani police and was later transferred to American custody. In January 2008, Jabarah was sentenced to life in prison after pleading guilty to terrorism charges.[55]
Hassan Abujihaad, March 2008. Hassan Abujihaad, a former U.S. Navy sailor from Phoenix, Arizona, was convicted of supporting terrorism and disclosing classified information, including the location of Navy ships and their vulnerabilities to Azzam Publications, a London organization that provided material support and resources to terrorists. Abujihaad was arrested in March 2007 and pleaded not guilty to charges of supporting terrorism in April 2007. In May 2008, he was convicted by a jury and sentenced to 10 years in prison.[56]
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Christopher Paul, June 2008. Christopher Paul is a U.S. citizen from Columbus, Ohio. He joined al-Qaeda in the 1990s and was involved in conspiracies to target Americans in the United States and overseas. In 1999, he became connected to an Islamic terrorist cell in Germany, where he was involved in a plot to target Americans at foreign vacation resorts. He later returned to Ohio and was subsequently arrested for conspiracy to use a weapon of mass destruction, specifically explosive devices, "against targets in Europe and the United States." Paul pleaded guilty to the charges and was sentenced to 20 years in prison.[57]
Synagogue Terror Plot, May 2009. On May 20, 2009, the New York Police Department announced the arrest of James Cromite, David Williams, Onta Williams, and Laguerre Payen for plotting to blow up area Jewish centers and shoot down planes at a nearby Air National Guard Base.[58] The four had attempted to gain access to Stinger missiles and were caught in the act of placing bombs in the buildings and in a car. (The bombs were duds, because undercover agents sold them fake explosives as part of an ongoing sting operation). All four men have pleaded not guilty.[59]
So, tell me again – WHAT PERCENTAGE OF THESE TERRORIST ATTACKS CAME FROM A NON-ISLAMIC PERPETRATOR or PERPETRATOR with ISLAMIC TIES?
The anthrax attacks and the IRS plane crash were since 9/11. Why aren't they listed in the Heritage.org article? Because it does not fit the narrative?
Here's some more alleged terrorists:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/arti...
What is their religion?
Off topic… What happened to Cowboy Logic? I haven't seen any posts by him in a long time…
Agreed, he owes the Tea Party a formal apology. What are the odds that he'll get back on TV and give one?
Leftwing secularists you blithering idiot. You do realize the IRS kamikaze pilot was a Bush and capitalist hating liberal cretin?
I'm sure Matthews will have guest on who saw Faisal at a Tea party event.
NEVER LET A GOOD CRISIS GO TO WASTE!! REMEMBER THIS???
WELL GUESS WHAT???!!!
THEY WANT YOUR 401(K)’S NOW!!!!
ALARM!!! People, this has got to go viral! Help me get it out there! They want your 401(K)’s!
I phoned Rep. Dave Camp’s office and it was verified! I’m trying to get to Boehner’s office, or Michele Bachman’s to re-verify, and to find out WHY THEY ARE NOT GETTING THIS OUT THERE!
I suppose WE MUST!
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=36823
Winding what down? Is that some kind of a joke? More troops in Afghanistan than ever. No withdrawal from Iraq in the offing. Your Great Leader screwed the pooch by attacking a country that had nothing to do with attacks on US soil. Now we have generations of young men sworn to take revenge. And still the chickenhawks talk their shit.
"What is their religion?"
It wasn't this:
# John 13:35
By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.
# Ephesians 3:19
And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fullness of God.
# 1 John 2:5
But whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: hereby know we that we are in him.
# 1 John 3:14
We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not his brother abideth in death.
# 1 John 5:2
By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and keep his commandments.
I am curious as to how long he had to wait to become a citizen??? Did he get bumped up in front of someone else?? By who?? Too many questions…This whole thing is too strange..and it was brought to an end very quickly…does make me wonder…what is really going on here??
I would imagine that is an area of particular expertise for you. As for my handle, the first part is an instruction to the author of the article, the suffix converts the statement to a definition of what the bomber was trying to attempt. Don't forget to use the hand sanitizer when you're done, Romeo.
Naturally the MSM is upset that it didn't turn out to be a Tea Partier, now they are all making excuses for this guy. It makes me sick, why not say the truth. Islam is a religion that is the antithesis of Christianity. They want to kill all who dont want to agree with them, want to impose shiara on the world, brutilizes its women, and is the religion of devil worshippers.
Extraordinary police work would have been detecting him before he made his attempt, which was not done. The airline tipped off the Feds that the perpetrator tried to buy a one-way ticket with cash. Again, if the ticket sales desk is less alert, and the SUV is destroyed, the cops would have had nothing to go on. They got very very lucky, as did we all. I commend their efforts, but I don't see that they did anything other than apprehend their man given the lucky stroke of having the suspect leave behind a giant treasure trove of evidence.
You mustn't leave out beheaded.
In my opinion, in his heart, I'm betting the Kenyon is disappointed that the bomber wasn't a Tea party member.
Incredible. Here's another leftwing racists that hates white people and licks the @sshole of any anti-American filth, especially if it's a primitive backward islamist. It's shouldn't come as a surprise that this racist cretin, contessa brewer, is employed at the asylum known as MSLSD……….
http://hotair.com/archives/2010/05/04/ms-nbc-anch...
Liberals are as much the enemy as islamists. I'd like to see them both escorted to the gallows.
Incredible. Here's another leftwing racists that hates white people and licks the @sshole of any anti-American filth, especially if it's a primitive backward islamist. It's shouldn't come as a surprise that this racist cretin, contessa brewer, is employed at the asylum known as MSLSD……….
http://hotair.com/archives/2010/05/04/ms-nbc-anch...
Liberals are as much the enemy as islamists. I'd like to see them both escorted to the gallows.
Can you blame him? Where ever CL is I hope he is having a good time.
Oh Dupree,.you are so wrong on that one
Blaming Bush is like soooooooooooooo in,………
it the ONLY thing the lefties (like Bow_hard) have to fall back,………..it's sorta like a trap door.
For some reason Im not running into on the boards either but I see he is still commenting http://biggovernment.com/wthuston/2010/05/03/obam...
I actually did this check about a week ago I thought maybe he had gone Galt on us as well.
For some reason Im not running into on the boards either but I see he is still commenting http://biggovernment.com/wthuston/2010/05/03/obam...
I actually did this check about a week ago I thought maybe he had gone Galt on us as well.
For some reason Im not running into on the boards either but I see he is still commenting http://biggovernment.com/wthuston/2010/05/03/obam...
I actually did this check about a week ago I thought maybe he had gone Galt on us as well.
Nice try, what is it, "BM_U" now? We all know what you were attempting to say with your "handle." It was just dumb. As was your comment.
By "background checks on muslims coming here" I hope you mean "closing the borders to muslims coming here."
THAT would be a good first step.
You must really hate Obama for all those troops in Afghanistan.
Appeasement and Dhimmitude towards Islam is not working for team Obama and we told them so. Muslims are on the march and they must be met head on. They are winning since Obama took over.
Contessa Brewer, MSNBC, was even out there saying how she'd wished it had been white Christians, because having caught a muslim might give people the wrong message about muslims.
What???? We've been at war with us for 17 years and they continue to kill Americans and other people around the world. How out of touch can a liberal news anchor be after 17 years of killing by OBL?
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I'm in AZ and I will trade five hispanic illegal immigrants for one pakistani. We keep screaming about getting these immigrants, regardless of where they come from to be registered and accountable. This is an example of what happens even when they get their papers. Despite the increased number of hispanic illegals and the concomitant crime, I would much rather have the hispanics processed into citizens than these Pakistanis.
Bottom line: Secure our porders and get the immigration laws up to date and start checking up on who is coming and going and who they let in and what they are doing. The government is not only incapable of handling this task, if they were to ramp up the personnel they would still suffer from ineptitude.
News Flash: Gates authorizing Nation Guard to the oil spill,,,,but has not authorized the same for Arizona's border.
Our elected official and particularly the leadership SUCK.
When are SPINELESS PC types going to wake up and admit that muslims are the responsible party for almost all our terrorist threats? Maybe, they're too busy looking for a TERRORIST GRANNY at a TEA PArty! Their PC BS has gotten us into the danger we now face on a daily basis. I thought the annointed one was going to fix all of this by being nice to the TERRORISTS! I guess the muslim TERRORISTS have other ideas oh annointed one. Now wake up, face reality, and declare we are at war with islam. For a religion that claims to be tolerant and peaceful, they sure have a lot of very VIOLENT INTOLERANT extremists in their midst, don't they?
You made a spelling error; I think you meant to say "eminated" from…..
Sorry The Perfect Messiah, All praise to Obama, refocused the war on Afghanistan and started piling up civilian deaths not to mention destabilizing Pakistan. Bush had welcomed Jihadist into Iraq where they would have to come threw allies in the north or deserts in the west and south. Bush was capable of threatening the Iranians enough that they were limited in the material and military support they could offer their traditional enemies the Sunnies (Al Queda). So while Petrayus plan was hearts and minds instead we are once again taking the strategy from the Russian playbook Domination and Fear after all that worked so well for them in Afghanistan.
Monica, if you really wanted to strip away the PC, you would say Islam–not radical Islam–is the cause of terror.
that where he lives.
I'm not sure I understand you. I let this fly and see what you make of it. On September 12, 2001 I would have begun bombing Syria, Iran, Afghanistan and portions of Pakistan . . .
The running theme which is so obvious to everyone but you is that the Islamic terrorists are part of a larger, more organized movement.
They are an entity united in purpose based on their interpretive readings of the Koran and are skilled at recruiting and spreading their destroy America and her allies message.
Though their competence has at times lacked, it has at times overachieved most devastatingly.
Why anyone in their right (or even left) mind would want to downplay the evil purposes of these Islamic terrorists and jihadists like you are doing is unfathomable. Are you doing it just for the sake of proving you can make a petty argument?
The running theme which is so obvious to everyone but you is that the Islamic terrorists are part of a larger, more organized movement.
They are an entity united in purpose based on their interpretive readings of the Koran and are skilled at recruiting and spreading their destroy America and her allies message.
Though their competence has at times lacked, it has at times overachieved most devastatingly.
Why anyone in their right (or even left) mind would want to downplay the evil purposes of these Islamic terrorists and jihadists like you are doing is unfathomable. Are you doing it just for the sake of proving you can make a petty argument?
I wonder why this Tmes Square bomber chose a getaway instead of the usual 'suicide' self-sacrifice? He must have found out that Islam is fresh out of virgins or was just trying to punch up his Jihadist resume'.
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I shocked! The guy was a Muslim?
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There's a great song by Leftfield [featuring Johnny Rotten of the Sex Pistols] called Open Up and here's part of the chorus…………….
"Burn Hollywood burn, taking down Tinseltown
Burn Hollywood burn, burn down to the ground
Burn Hollywood burn, burn holywood burn
Take down Tinseltown, burn down to the ground"
Someone needs to write a song about burning the leftwing racists and bigots down in the MSM.
Thank's for the heads up. That word is not usually in my everyday lexicon.
WoW!!!!!!! Congrats Satan, when I referred to throats being slit from ear to ear a few days ago,
I was censored. Glad to see your post was allowed.
I well await Bloomberg's apology with baited breath.
They're all praying for any reason, real or imagined, to outlaw the Tea party movement , control the internet, and silence talk radio.
It's not just "leftwing fools" that understand civil liberties, habeus etc.
Look up the U.S. governments definition of a terrorist, and also look up what authority and power they may exercise over someone they deem a terrorist.
Once again, the U.S. government took a big power grab in many areas after 9/11. The scare was there, and they did not waste the crisis to implement many more grabs.
Pro Tip: You don't have to be a foreign Muslim to be labeled a terrorist, or to lose what was once protection under the constititution.
It won't be a terrorist that brings the U.S. government to its knees, but rather internal economic and political forces.
Standing next to Martin Bormann.
If I were AG we would have Friday Night Floggings every week, starting with the islamists in custody then would come the union leadership followed by Pinch Sulzberger and all employees at MSLSD.
If you don't get deleted once in a while, you're holding back. Gotta let it all out, or risk going insane in this insane world.
Cornpone, you're too kind. I'm definitely no genius, I live in Los Angeles after all. If I had any sense I'd move out of this county; ironically my business partner and I were discussing exactly that yesterday.
So it's preferable to you to whoop up the people who want to kill you into an even greater fervor to kill you rather than just conduct a polite PR campaign and then murder them? Thankfully you are not a part of the intelligence services. And how you equate this to a first amendment issue is laughable.
My father likes to say to me, "you know, you'll never have a heart attack." I asked what makes him say that. He replies, "you don't hold anything in." Dad's right.
[...] The Case of the Mysterious Disappearing Religion. [...]
larrypuma77
"Why inflame people who then take your words and use them as a justification for murder?"
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So what you are saying is we all should just 'Shut Up.'
Don't think so.
"All that is necessary for Evil to Triumph– is for Good Men to do nothing."
That comes from too many years of reading Mad Magazines "Snappy Answers to Stupid Questions'. Not that you asked a stupid question, it's just that when it's teed up like that, I can't help myself.
Nice handle, by the way.
By their record of operatives killed abroad and the troop increase to do so. If they choose to conduct a PR campaign that goes against your beliefs than so be it. Its just a good tactical decision when dealing with people who look for any slight to murder you. For instance to Matt and Trey from South Park or Theo Van Gogh really accompish anything except in once case die and in the other receive numerous death threats and still have to watch their backs? Just seems pointless. Let the military and CIA go about their business of killing them while conduct a friendly PR campaign that keeps more people alive and nullifies the enemies point of recruitment.
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