February 10, 2012

When the FBI came looking for Najibullah Zazi at his Colorado home on a tip that he was about to carry out a suicide bombing in New York City, what did the elder Zazi do? He called his son and warned him the FBI were looking for him. And for that and other acts meant to foil the FBI's investigation Zazi senior has been sentenced to 4.5 years:

The father of the convicted would-be suicide bomber who planned to detonate explosives in New York City subways was sentenced Friday to four and half years in prison on charges that he obstructed a terrorism investigation and intentionally misled authorities.

A federal judge handed Mohammed Wali Zazi, the father of Najibullah Zazi, four years for obstruction of justice and six months on charges of visa fraud, prosecutors said.

He had faced the prospect of up to 40 years behind bars.
The elder Zazi was found guilty in July of destroying bomb-making materials and conspiring to obstruct the federal investigation into his son's and co-conspirators' planned attack on the city's subway system.

Hat tip:@Intelwire

February 08, 2012

It couldn't happen to a nicer keyboard koranimal.

Jesse Morton, a convert to Islam also known as Younus Abdullah Mohammad, plans to appear in federal court in Alexandria, Va., on Thursday, his lawyer told Politico. He will plead guilty to conspiracy, communicating threats, and internet stalking, Politico reported. Each felony carries a sentence of up to five years in prison.

Eunice archive.

Update by Howie!

Its almost kind of sad that all the really fun Jihadis are, you know, deflowered.

January 31, 2012

If you're a terrorist, don't even bother trying to get a reservation in New York. It's a "hot spot".

Wait, maybe I'm taking that phrase the wrong way?

A study of nearly 40 years of terrorist attacks on U.S. soil reveals that nearly a third took place in just five major urban "hot spots": New York, Los Angeles, Miami, San Francisco and Washington, D.C.

The study is here.

January 26, 2012

So, let me see if I have the score straight. This is just for today, mind you.

1) Antonio Martinez, aka Muhammad Hussain, aka Abu Pippi Longstocking pleads guilty to planning to bomb military recruiting stations near Boston.

2) Yonathan Melaku, of Alexandria, Virgina:

pleaded guilty today to damaging property and firearms violations involving five separate shootings at military installations in northern Virginia between October and November 2010 and attempting to injure veterans’ memorials at Arlington National Cemetery....

Melaku admitted today that during the second shooting at the National Museum of the Marine Corps, he set up a video camera within the interior of his vehicle to record the shooting incident. The video shows Melaku repeatedly firing a handgun out the passenger-side window, and he narrates the incident on the video and states, among other things: “That’s my target. That’s the military building. It’s going to be attacked,” and at the conclusion of multiple shots exclaiming, “Allahu Akbar,” repeatedly....

During the pursuit, he dropped a backpack that contained numerous spent 9mm shell casings; four bags containing ammonium nitrate, and a spiral notebook with numerous Arabic statements referencing the Taliban, al Qaeda, Osama bin Laden, “The Path to Jihad,” as well as a list of several other individuals associated with foreign terrorist organizations.

Melaku admitted that, at the time of his apprehension, he was attempting to enter the area of Arlington National Cemetery containing graves of deceased Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans, intending to desecrate and injure the grave markers by spray-painting the markers with Arabic statements and by leaving the ammonium nitrate he was carrying at the sites of the grave markers.

And, need I mention yesterday?

Coloradan Jamshid Muhtorov indicted for attempting to join terror organization in Pakistan.

And the day before?

In Maryland Shkumbin Sherifi & Nevine Aly Elshiekh charged with plotting to murder a witness who testified against a convicted terrorist -- who, BTW, many who attended their mosque claimed was just an innocent victim of the overactive imaginations of the Islamophobes at the FBI.

Innocent, right. That's why he was plotting with his friends on the outside to murder a witness at his trial.

If my math is right, that's five arrests, indictments, or convictions of homegrown terrorists in three days.

And, to be honest, those headlines were gleaned from a rather cursory glance at my twitter feed. The actual numbers might even be higher.

So, the next time some Leftist claims that there is no "homegrown terror" problem please point these inconvenient facts out to them.

Dude, the hair. I mean, really?

You're never going to get any street cred with the akhis in prison with that hair.

Boston.com:

Antonio Martinez entered the plea to the charge of attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction against federal property. The plot to bomb the Armed Forces Recruiting Center in Catonsville in December 2010 was foiled by an FBI sting....

Martinez wore a burgundy jumpsuit and his hair in two braids in court, and he smiled and hugged his defense attorney. The U.S. citizen born who was born abroad preferred to be called Muhammad Hussain after his conversion to Islam and signed the plea using both names....

In the plea agreement, Martinez acknowledges that he wanted to pursue jihad to the United States "to send a message that all American soldiers would be killed so long as the country continued its `war' against Islam."

An FBI informant first communicated with Martinez on Facebook after seeing public posts "espousing his extremist views" and recognizing him from a mosque he attended, according to court documents.

January 22, 2012

(Declaring war on America by setting fire to Nevada forests)

Allah Almighty says: (And wage war on all of the idolaters as they are waging war on all of you) 36 Surah At-Taubah

Allah have granted a group of our brothers from the lions of Masadat Al-Mujahidin at 8:00 in the day before yesterday Thursday 25 Safar 1433 A.H. corresponding 19 January 2012 to set fire in the forests of Nevada in the Reno region.

And we by this great event and paradigm shift declare the following:

1. we declare our full responsibility of setting fire in the Nevada forests in America.

2. we declare widening the area of war and transferring it currently to inside America and soon to elsewhere.

3. we give the enemies of Islam and the allies of the Jews who occupy the land of Palestine three months beginning from the date of this statement to disown from the Jews who occupy the land of Palestine, and their actions against our Moslem brothers, and we demand the end of their alliances that oppress our rights as owners of the land, or we will be forced to extend our war until it spreads in all the lands that plot with our enemies.

4. we emphasize that targeting the so called Israel and its allies headed by America in every kind of targeting including fighting and all the types of peoples civilian and military is an individual obligation (Fradu Ayin) on every Moslem until the liberation of Palestine, and all their armies are expelled from the Moslem lands, and Allah's Word become the uppermost and religion is all for Allah.

5. we also point out that fighting the Jews and their allies is easy to those who want to repel their evil on the Moslems, and here you see with your own eyes what simple materials can do, that are cheap in your enemy, and how much damages it can inflict in them, so we incite the Moslem Ummah to participate in this blessed work and move their inherent energies for that.

This blessed Gazwa comes within a series of Gazawat that we declared and have previously begun and which will Insha’Allah destroy the edifices of the hateful Jewish occupation, until the Jews return from where they came since they have no place among us, and until the global alliances with the occupying Jews who occupy the land of the Moslems.

May Allah bless the soldiers of Al-Rahman and lions of Tawhid, may Allah aim their shooting and steadfast their feet, and accept from them their jihad and good deeds, because they made the friend happy and annoyed the foe.

And we say to the Jews and their agents this is a disgrace for you in this Dunya, and you have a big punishment in the hereafter, so have tidings with what you hate we have for you more, and do what you want, your cunning won’t benefit you and your scheme won’t benefit you, either we live under the governance of Allah or we seek shade under the Shadow of Allah.

والله أكبر الله أكبر .. ولله العزة ولرسوله وللمجاهدين.
وَاللّهُ غَالِبٌ عَلَى أَمْرِهِ وَلَكِنَّ أَكْثَرَ النَّاسِ لاَ يَعْلَمُونَ.

General command of Masadat Al-Mujahidin

Saturday 27 Safar 1433 A.h.

Corresponding 21 January 2012

US authorities have blamed he fire on improper disposal of ashes from a fireplace by and elderly man.

At the moment I tend to think its a false claim, a form of disinformation. But its prudent to be mindful of these claims. The Muj very much wish they had caused this.

January 18, 2012

A convicted felon and imam at an Orlando mosque, Marcus Dwayne Robertson (aka Abu Taubah) has changed his gun possession plea to guilty. As a felon, Robertson was proscribed from owning a hand gun.

But the gun wasn't what led a federal search warrant being executed on his home. No, Robertson was the subject of a FISA investigation. Which means it was terrorism related.

Previously:
Florida Imam Arrested, In Federal Custody
Abu Taubah a/k/a Marcus Dwayne Robertson to Cop Plea

January 16, 2012

To be honest, I wish they would have tried. I mean, attacking the Marine Corps base at Quantico? I've been to Quantico. I've seen the sniper ranger. Talk about a suicide mission....

January 12, 2012

You'd think that after nearly a dozen arrests of its members & administrators, the goons over at the Ansar Mujahideen English Forum (AMEF) would learn to shut their traps. You'd be wrong:

"Please make dua [supplication] for this brother who has been falsely accused by the kuffar ," a man calling himself Abu Mustafa al-Amriki (Abu Mustafa the American) posted on al-Qaida's English-language website. "He was always helpful and his lectures were very beneficial to me. May ALLAH protect him and hasten his release…Ameen!!!!"

One does not need to be a member of al Qaeda to be a terrorist.

"Muslims don't snitch on Muslim brothers and sisters," [NiqabNadia] wrote. "And I hope the "confidential sources" who hired this brother to spy on him and report to the kuffar was not a "Muslim."

The website – known as Ansar al-Mujahideen - has raised national security concerns in the recent past.

In July, a Pennsylvania man was indicted for making threats against U.S. citizens via the Ansar Al-Mujahideen website.

January 11, 2012

This story shows why talking about a "Muslim community" makes no sense: there is no "Muslim community", just as there is no "Christian community".

There are Muslim communities -- plural.

And it is within many of these Muslim communities that we find our first line of defense against domestic Islamist terrorists. Sami Osmakac was reported to the FBI by Muslims after he had been banned from two Tampa area mosques.

And one of those mosques seems to be affiliated with the Islamic Society of North America, where some of his extremist views about sharia would be welcomed. If the ISNA thinks you are an extremist, you are an extremist:

Osmakac was known in Tampa Bay's Muslim community for his extremist views and rhetoric. He had been banned by two area mosques...

In a Muslim community that is often wary of FBI tactics in terrorism cases, some viewed Osmakac with suspicion as he promoted his extremist views, said Ahmed Bedier, founder of United Voices for America, a nonprofit group promoting Muslim participation in the political process.

Bedier said Osmakac had threatened him several times and had called him a "kafir," an Arabic word for infidel. Bedier said he previously had reported Osmakac and several of his companions to police and the FBI.

"He hated democracy," Bedier said. "In his perverted thinking, he thought by Muslims taking part in the democratic process, they were giving up their faith."

In November 2010, Osmakac was asked to leave the Islamic Society of Pinellas County, a mosque in Pinellas Park. Pinellas Park police issued a trespass warning to him and two others.

Mosque leaders discovered that Osmakac had made an inflammatory YouTube video on mosque property. Police also said the men had been intimidating other members of the mosque.

"We told them they have no right to use the facility," said Dr. Ahmad Batrawy, one of the mosque's founders. "They tried to insult us. So we called the police. . . . I know they have been moving to other mosques and most of the time, they tell them, 'You're not welcome.' ''

Except for CAIR. Even though various Muslims had this guy pegged as trouble, and reported him to the FBI as someone to watch, CAIR can't drop the paranoia and wonder if he hasn't been set up by the man:

Leaders in the local Muslim community urge caution, saying it is important for the courts to determine if Osmakac posed a real threat or was just a big talker entrapped by the FBI.

"Would there have been any real plot without the support and assistance of the FBI?" asked Hassan Shibly, executive director of the Tampa chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, or CAIR, who had been briefed by authorities before the arrest was announced.

Apparently, the FBI and the local media, that's who!

Most of the others in the local Muslim community thought the guy was nuts and potentially a terrorist.

But not CAIR. To CAIR, any Muslim who doesn't actually detonate a bomb is an innocent victim of Islamophobic entrapment.

And I was under the impression that the FBI had broken off all ties with CAIR? But the local FBI office told CAIR about the Osmakac operation before he was arrested?

And yet CAIR has the audacity to question the FBI's motives in the case?

Note to feds: it doesn't matter how much you talk to CAIR, these people are essentially conspiracy theorists who believe you are all out to get Muslims. Talking to them will not get you the "buy in" you are looking for. You cannot co-opt them. They are there to hinder you, not help you.

If you must look for partners within Muslim communities, don't look to CAIR! A) They don't represent all Muslims, just a minority of them; B) The organization itself was founded as part of an effort to support terror organizations!

And just how connected was Osmakac to foreign radicals?

The man accused by U.S. authorities of plotting to bomb Florida nightclubs and a sheriff's office met with radical Islamists during visits to his native Kosovo, a senior official in the country said Wednesday.

International agencies had alerted Kosovo authorities that Sami Osmakac could be linked to Islamist extremists, the official told The Associated Press. He said the 25-year-old, an ethnic Albanian and naturalized U.S. citizen, discussed "issues in support of radical elements" with the individuals he met.

AP:

Fla. authorities have released booking footage of a terror suspect accused of plotting to violently attack Tampa-area nightclubs. They say 25-year-old Sami Osmakec also posted online video rants against Christians and Jews. (Jan. 10)

January 10, 2012

Shoot at the police.... its all so simple....

Luis Ibarra-Hernandez, 21, from Albertville, was charged today with attempted murder, according to a news release from the Gadsden Police Department.

“After the man was taken into custody, he reported that he knew he must do something extreme to draw attention to Islam and himself, so he planned to shoot police officers,” Gadsden Police Capt. Regina May said.

Update: Reading the Facebook comments on the story it seems the man was well known in the area and had attended a Christian church several times. So there is some question as to weather he was a Muslim or not. The common thread of the comments seem to suggest he was a disturbed person regardless.

His statements to police are reported accurately and we'll update when we know more.

January 09, 2012

UPDATE by Rusty: Here's a video of Sami Osmakac using his online name "Abdul Samia". The tagline on the video --- http://iskandrani.wordpress.com/ --- belongs to the blog of Tahrek Mehanna, the Boston area man currently on trial for aiding al Qaeda.

H/T: @Intelgirl

UPDATE by Rusty: Here's a second video I found of Sami Osmakac inviting the infidels to Islam. Notice him calling we poor unbelieving kuffars "animals".

This video is more recent, from April of this year. I especially love the part where he tells us the antichrist will be a ..... Jew. Who would have guessed a terrorist might also have antisemitic tendencies?

The taglines are from two well known websites associated with Revolution Muslim here in the US and the followers of Anjem Choudary in the UK.

But the deepest connection here is with Abdullah Abdul-Malik, who is well known in the Tampa area for being a first rate terror supporter. And we've had a lot of fun at Abdullah's expense over the years.

UPDATE by Rusty: Here's another video of Osmakac assaulting some Christian protesters. I'm not sure who these protesters are -- whether or not they are regular street corner type evangelists or if they are related to some other less savory group like the Westboro Baptist Church -- but I certainly can't endorse their tactics. However, tactics aside Osmakac is clearly the one who assaults the protesters.

On a second look, it looks like these Christian protesters were preaching to some kind of adult oriented event across the street. At least, all the scantily clad women in the background give me that impression.

So, the question is: why wasn't I there!?!?

UPDATE by Rusty: Here is a picture of Sami Osmakac from his mugshot.

UPDATE: The mugshot is from a year ago, which seems to indicate that it's from the battery charge against him recorded in the video above. Thanks to J for that.

----Begin Howie's original post ---

What tipped them off? He wanted a flag like this one.

AP:

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) -- Authorities say a 25-year-old described as an Islamic extremist was arrested in a plot to attack sites around Tampa, Fla., after taking possession of disabled guns and bombs

The U.S. Department of Justice announced the arrest of Sami Osmakac on Monday.

Federal officials say a confidential source told them that Osmakac wanted Al Qaeda flags. The federal complaint alleges Osmakac gave the agent a $500 down payment for an AK-47, multiple homemade explosive grenades and the explosive belt so he could attack various locations in Tampa.

H/T: Intelwire

January 06, 2012

This is the third conviction in the scheme to help the Pakistani Taliban smuggle their agents into the US. DOJ press release:

WASHINGTON – A Pakistani citizen was sentenced today in the District of Columbia to 50 months in prison for conspiracy to provide material support to the Tehrik-e Taliban Pakistan (TTP), often referred to as the Pakistani Taliban, a designated foreign terrorist organization. Two co-defendants were sentenced for the same charge in December 2011 to 40 and 36 months in prison.

The sentences were announced by Assistant Attorney General for National Security Lisa Monaco; Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Criminal Division; U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. for the District of Columbia; John Morton, Director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE); and John V. Gillies, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI Miami Division.

Irfan Ul Haq, 37, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge John D. Bates. On Dec. 21, 2011, Judge Bates sentenced Qasim Ali, 32, to 40 months in prison, and Zahid Yousaf, 43, to 36 months in prison. On Sept. 12, 2011, each defendant pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to provide material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization. As part of their plea agreements, the defendants agreed to a stipulated order of removal to Pakistan upon the completion of their criminal sentences.

“This case underscores our continuing commitment to dismantle networks that facilitate terrorist travel,” said Assistant Attorney General Monaco. “I thank the many agents, analysts and prosecutors who were responsible for this successful prosecution.”

“Mr. Haq conspired with others to smuggle into the United States an individual who was believed to be a member of a foreign terrorist organization,” said Assistant Attorney General Breuer. “Such conduct presents a serious threat to our national security, and we will continue to work closely with our domestic and international law enforcement partners to prevent human smugglers from operating at home or abroad, and to punish them for their crimes.”

“Today’s sentence successfully brings to a close our prosecution of three criminals who aimed to use their human smuggling network to help a person who they believed to be a terrorist infiltrate our homeland,” said U.S. Attorney Machen. “By convicting three Pakistani nationals who were operating out of Ecuador, we have demonstrated our ability to dismantle human smuggling operations throughout the world when they threaten our national security.”

“ICE Homeland Security Investigations agents will continue to use every available resource to protect the American public from terrorist organizations and individuals who support them,” said ICE Director Morton. “Today’s sentence demonstrates our international resolve to ensuring that our nation is safer and more secure. I applaud the outstanding work conducted by our HSI attaché office in Ecuador who led this extensive investigation. I would also like to commend our HSI office in Atlanta, along with our law enforcement partners in the United States and Ecuador, who assisted us in this case.”

“Today’s sentence sends a clear message: Individuals such as Ul Haq, who operate outside the law to support terror represent a threat to our safety. Ul Haq and his co-conspirators sought to smuggle men into the U.S. and did not care if they came here to ‘blow up’ something as long as they got paid. Ul Haq in turn provided material support to the TTP. Such would-be supporters of terror will be dealt with severely under our system of laws. I commend the FBI and everyone involved in the prosecution of this case for bringing him to justice,” said FBI Special Agent in Charge Gillies.

Ul Haq, Ali and Yousaf were arrested in Miami on March 13, 2011, on an indictment filed in the District of Columbia charging them with one count of conspiracy to commit alien smuggling. Based on the defendants’ guilty pleas to terrorism conspiracy charges, the government dismissed at the sentencing hearing today the charges of conspiracy to commit alien smuggling against the defendants.

Ul Haq, Ali and Yousaf admitted that between Jan. 3, 2011, and March 10, 2011, they conspired to provide material support to the TTP in the form of false documentation and identification, knowing that the TTP engages in terrorist activity and terrorism. According to court documents, Ul Haq, Ali and Yousaf conducted a human smuggling operation in Quito, Ecuador, that attempted to smuggle an individual they believed to be a member of the TTP from Pakistan into the United States. The TTP was designated as a foreign terrorist organization by the State Department on Sept. 1, 2010.

Court documents indicate that law enforcement agents directed confidential sources to ask the defendants, who were residing in Ecuador at the time, for their assistance in smuggling a fictitious person from Pakistan to the United States. Over the course of the ensuing negotiations, the defendants were made aware that the person to be smuggled was a member of the TTP who was blacklisted in Pakistan.

According to the court documents, the defendants agreed to move this person from Pakistan into the United States, despite his purported affiliation with the TTP. Ul Haq, according to the court documents, told the confidential sources that it was “not their concern” what the men “want to do in the United States – hard labor, sweep floor, wash dishes in a hotel, or blow up. That will be up to them.” The defendants accepted payment from the confidential sources for the smuggling operation and procured a false Pakistani passport for the purported TTP member.

The investigation was conducted by the HSI attaché office in Quito, Ecuador, with the HSI office in Atlanta, the Miami Division of the FBI and the Ecuadorian National Police.

The investigation was conducted under the Extraterritorial Criminal Travel Strike Force (ECT) program, a joint partnership between the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and HSI. The ECT program focuses on human smuggling networks that may present particular national security or public safety risks, or present grave humanitarian concerns. ECT has dedicated investigative, intelligence and prosecutorial resources. ECT coordinates and receives assistance from other U.S. government agencies and foreign law enforcement authorities.

The Criminal Division’s Office of International Affairs, the U.S. National Central Bureau of INTERPOL, the U.S. Customs and Border Protection, the U.S. Embassy in Quito and the government of Ecuador provided invaluable support.

The case was prosecuted jointly by prosecutors from the Human Rights and Special Prosecutions Section of the Criminal Division, the Counterterrorism Section of the National Security Division and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia.

January 03, 2012

NPR:

Police have arrested a German national living in Hollywood and charged him in connection with more than 50 arson fires that destroyed parked cars and scorched buildings in Los Angeles. Harry Brukhart, 24, was arrested early Monday morning, and is being held without bail.

Update: More on motive, apparently upon his arrest the suspect said, "I hate America." There are also reports that while he was detained in the squad car he was smiling at residents observing the arrest.

Update: Turns out that the mother in the immigration case was actually an extradition case. She's accused in Germany of 19 counts of fraud. Oh and also the apple doesn't fall far from the tree as she also says that all the Germans are Nazis.

I say we give her back. I'd like to give him back too but at this point it looks like he'll be staying here for a long long time.

December 08, 2011

Two very related pieces of news, one from my hometown. The city of angels and traitors:

One of two men accused of plotting a terrorist attack on a Seattle military recruiting station will plead guilty in Federal Court on Thursday, his lawyer said.

Walli Mujahidh will change his earlier not guilty plea, said Michele Shaw, his attorney.

The 32-year-old from Los Angeles was arrested in June along with Khalid Abdul-Latif of Seattle in an FBI sting. Federal prosecutors said the men were taken into custody when they arrived at a warehouse garage to pick up machine guns to use in the attack.

Prosecutors said the two men were inspired by the massacre at Fort Hood, Texas, and that they fantasized about the media attention they'd receive.

Yet today:

Terrorist attacks on domestic military facilities have proliferated in recent years, marking service members as prime terrorist targets, defense officials told lawmakers Wednesday.

The military is now the “target of choice” for violent extremists in the U.S., Assistant Defense Secretary Paul Stockton said during a joint hearing of the House and Senate homeland security committees.

Law enforcement has prosecuted 33 domestic plots or attacks against military targets since Sept. 11, 2001, with most occurring in the last three years, according to a report released Wednesday by the House committee’s Republican staff. That represents more than half of the post-9/11 jihadist plots conceived by U.S. citizens, according to a Congressional Research Service report released last month.

Let's see, what other term describes a citizen who takes up arms against his own military?

Call them what they are: traitors.

H/T:@WillAmos

December 05, 2011

On Tuesday, December 6, 2011 the Committee on Homeland Security’s Subcommittee on Counterterrorism and Intelligence will hold a hearing entitled "Jihadist Use of Social Media - How to Prevent Terrorism and Preserve Innovation." The Committee will meet at 2:00 p.m. in 311 Cannon House Office Building. (Link to live video)

Who are the witnesses? Hey, I know those guys!

Mr. Evan F. Kohlmann
Flashpoint Global Partners

Mr. William McCants
Analyst
Analyst for the Center for Naval Analyses

Mr. Andrew Aaron Weisburd
Director
Society for Internet Research

Mr. Brian Michael Jenkins
Senior Advisor to the RAND President
RAND Corporation

December 02, 2011

WaPo:

ALEXANDRIA, Va. — A Virginia man is expected to enter a plea bargain on charges he helped produce an Internet video for a Pakistani terrorist group.

Twenty-four-year-old Jubair Ahmad of Woodbridge, Va., has been jailed since his September arrest. A plea hearing has been scheduled for Friday in federal court in Alexandria.

Prosecutors allege Jubair produced and uploaded a propaganda video to YouTube last year on behalf of Lashkar-e-Taiba, a militant Pakistani group that the U.S. has designated as a terrorist group since 2001.

Court documents show that Ahmad, who came to the U.S. from Pakistan as a 19-year-old, was the subject of a two-year FBI investigation. An affidavit states he received training from Lashkar while living in Pakistan.

http://www.youtube.com/user/ikh090078601
http://www.youtube.com/user/rexcof143terror
http://www.youtube.com/user/islamfighters7
http://www.youtube.com/user/mianbilal143
http://www.youtube.com/user/sadii007i
http://www.youtube.com/user/7860mujahid
http://www.youtube.com/user/rashidhanfi78
http://www.youtube.com/user/silentkiller3239
http://www.youtube.com/user/AllahDMaaDaFudda
http://www.youtube.com/user/bakharbar1
http://www.youtube.com/user/waheedkhanharis

I guess not.

December 01, 2011

On a not so serious note, over at Foreign Policy Lous Klarevas has a write up on just how stupid would-be jihadist & New York city bomber Jose Pimental really was. Think Forrest Gump stupid.

On a more serious note, the problem with the analysis is that it misses the bigger point: sometimes you don't have to be smart, only lucky.

As in ---> Forrest Gump.

November 23, 2011

Even as many of Tarek Mehanna's friends in Boston continue to be in denial about the level of his involvement with al Qaeda's online efforts, testimony at his trial yesterday indicates that those who knew him the best were worried that he left the reservation. But not to worry, Mehanna was from a "good family". No one ever goes astray in a "good family", right?

His father also told Mehanna to refrain from visiting questionable Islamic websites and to pack up certain books because, “apparently, they fuel my ideas,’’ Mehanna told the friend, Daniel Spaulding.

This came after a board member at the Islamic Center of New England in Sharon told Mehanna’s father, Ahmed, that, “If we didn’t know he was your son, we would say he was a member of Al Qaeda,’’ according to the testimony of Spaulding.

November 22, 2011

"Conscientious objector" and poster boy of the anti-war left and Muslims claiming the military is rife with "Islamophobia", Naser Abdo, admits in this recorded conversation that he planned to carry out attacks at Fort Hood like his hero Nidal Hasan. But he also planned to attack at Fort Campbell.

You'll notice that he laughs when asked if he planned the attacks and then goes on to detail how he planned to kidnap one of his commanding officers who had been to Afghanistan, and then video tape his execution. Apparently Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was also one of his inspirations.

Another revelation is that he had attempted to recruit two other to join him for jihad. It makes you wonder who were the other men he attempted to recruit, did he know them from online connections, and did they report this to law enforcement?

What's been bugging me is that although we have at least three domestic terrorist cases being argued in court this week and another half a dozen or more awaiting trial, that I've seen none of this make anything like headline news in the national media. Meanwhile over at CNN this morning they devoted 5 minutes to a kid who was killed for being gay. A tragedy, yes, but that happens once every, what, five or ten years?

I'd say that being an Islamist terrorist is no longer news worthy as it has become such a common occurrence, but I suspect that the MSM doesn't push these stories to the front because they fear that you cretins are such Islamophobes that you'd lynch the closest Muslim. Which has happened, what, zero times since 9/11?

Steve Emerson notes that Jose Pimental was radicalized entirely online. Pay special attention to the Samir Khan and Revolution Muslim link. Jihadi Princess, his collaborator, is still on the loose but is well known in radical online circles:

The website also indicates that [Pimental] may have been radicalized almost entirely online. Many terrorism suspects, from the New York subway plotter Faisal Shahzad to the 9/11 hijackers, require the guidance or leadership of senior terrorists at some point in their decision to plot attacks. This is especially true for terror plots influenced by Awlaki, where the plotters were either in contact with him by email, such as Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan, or interacted with him on his blog, like Jihad Jane.

Pimentel, on the other hand, appears to have drawn inspiration from the online content produced by Awlaki and other al-Qaida ideologues, and acted out his ambitions according to the blueprints found in the English-language Inspire magazine. Although he posted on the websites of other New York-based extremist groups like Revolution Muslim and the Islamic Thinkers Society, nothing in his own writing indicates he was a disciple of those groups.

November 21, 2011

Here's some more info on Jose Pimental, who was charged over the weekend with attempting to construct bombs to be uses in acts of terror, that I thought might be useful to pass along.

NY Post article by Intelwire's JM Berger:

But reading Inspire was the least of Pimentel's online activities. He maintained a massive website on Blogger and a YouTube channel featuring hundreds of radical works.

The website connects to Pimentel's YouTube channel, which was similarly thorough, collecting more than 600 videos relating to radical and violent interpretations of Islam including 60 he uploaded himself. As of this writing, his channel had more than 1,500 subscribers.

Both Blogger and YouTube are owned by Google. And Pimentel's site is just the tip of a very large iceberg of terrorist content hosted by Google.

We've been waiting a very long time for this. We have so much on this dude that I'm not sure where to start except to note that we've been following Jose Pimentel for some time and he's one of those hip-hop wannabe type Jihadis.

That, and it took me oh about 15 seconds tracked the bastage down when we first really started looking hard at him back in July.

Pajamas:

News is starting to leak about the arrest this weekend of a New York City man who planned to bomb police and military facilities. The NY Post reports:

The NYPD and Manhattan DA’s office have arrested a terror suspect who was planning to bomb city police facilities and US military sites, where he plotted to target returning war personnel and the families who gathered to welcome them home, The Post has learned.

The suspect, who lives in Manhattan, was arrested after he actually purchased bomb-making materials, sources said. He’d been on the authorities’ radar for about a year, the sources said.

It wasn’t immediately clear exactly where he planned to attack.

We can report here exclusively at PJM that the man arrested is Jose Pimentel of Harlem. On his Facebook page he describes himself as:

I am a Muslim convert from the Dominican Republic looking for other muslims living in the US specially in New York City to share a brotherhood with and to help each other stay firm on the religion. Also looking for anyone that wishes to learn more about Islam and other religions.

Jose was a prolific terrorist blogger and familiar face around the Revolution Muslim and Islam Policy websites. He shares a blog called http://www.kalamullah.com/ who's donations tracked back to Islam4UK and Islampolicy members.

His Youtube channel is here http://www.youtube.com/user/mujahidfisabillilah1.

Here are just a few of his websites.
http://www.trueislam1.com/
http://www.thefewtheproudthemujahideen.blogspot.com
http://allahsservants.blogspot.com
http://steedsofwar.blogspot.com

Oh and Jose, watch the cornhole Akhi!

Update: Reading CNN's description of this guy as a Lone Wolf is laughable. This person is a widely known highly networked individual who was a very active al-Qaeda propagandist in the online Jihadi community.

UpdateII: A note the our friend Jihadi Princess: You can wipe the websites clean all you want. Its too late.

Image credit Yahoo which has more including pics of Jose making his bomb in his mommy's kitchen, just like his bro Samir Khan instructed him to.

November 17, 2011

NY Daily News:

A protester was arrested in Zuccotti Park Wednesday after he threatened to fire bomb the city — and his rant went viral on YouTube, police said.

Nkrumah Tinsley, 29, was busted after cops saw a video of him claiming he would torch the city during Thursday’s mass protest posted online, police said.

Tinsley has already been arrested once at Occupy for felony assault of a police officer and was seen handing attempting to hand out Molotov Cocktail instructions there.

DHS report on the possibility of left wing nutcase terrorists related to the #occupy movement coming sometime after Jan 20 2013.

Update: The charge has been upped to attempted assassination of the President.

November 16, 2011

If you hadn't heard about the shots fired in DC earlier this week, the police have linked the shooting to a suspect and also found two bullets lodged in the White House.

Yahoo:

ABC News has learned authorities are increasingly concerned that a man sought in connection with a bizarre shooting incident on the Washington Mall last week may pose a threat to President Obama.

The Secret Service now suspects that a bullet fired in this incident may have hit the White House after a bullet round was found in a White House window, though the round had not yet been conclusively linked to the incident. The round was stopped by ballistic glass behind the historic exterior glass, while an additional round has been found on the exterior of the White House.

Police believe the suspect, 21-year-old Oscar Ramiro Ortega of Idaho, is mentally ill. Ortega has an extensive record, ranging from domestic violence to drug charges. Sources say a police investigation has uncovered evidence suggesting Ortega has a fixation on the White House.

At 9:30 p.m. Friday, police received reports of shots fired in the bustling area of 16th street and Constitution Ave.

Authorities would later find a car in the area. The suspect had fled, but what police discovered inside the vehicle left them deeply concerned: an assault style rifle and empty shell casings.

U.S. Park police say Ortega may have spent time blending in with Occupy D.C. protesters.

Filed under Domestic Terror.

Update: Here is an image of the suspect from FOXNEWS.

U.S. Park Police spokesman Sgt. David Schlosser said Sunday that officers had obtained an arrest warrant for the suspect on a felony charge of carrying a dangerous weapon, in connection with the incident.

Ortega-Hernandez is thought to have remained in the Washington, D.C., area following Friday's drama. Secret Service describe him as a 21-year old, Hispanic male, 5'11", 160 pounds, with a medium build, brown eyes and black hair.

Hat Tip: Zeke.

Update II: CNN:

Police arrested Oscar Ramiro Ortega-Hernandez near Indiana, Pennsylvania, the U.S. Secret Service said...

...Ortega-Hernandez is in the custody of the Pennsylvania State Police.

Important information for those who called Rep. King's hearings on homegrown extremism a "witch hunt" and "Islamophobic". The key findings of an academic paper by a professor at Rice:

• Of the 104 American citizens arrested for Islamic extremist activities between January 2009 and April 2011, half were born in the U.S., 22 percent were naturalized citizens and 7 percent were dual citizens.

• Of the 104, 5 percent entered the U.S. on a visa.

• Sixty-three percent of converts had a known prior criminal record.

• Of the 14 American converts with a prior criminal history, at least 55 percent had converted to Islam in prison.

• Ninety-two 92 percent were male.

• Sixty-four percent were 30 years old or younger.

• Sixty-six percent had traveled or were in the process of traveling to the Middle East, Somalia, South Asia or the Balkans.

• Of the 104, 70 percent had an association or were attempting an association with an internationally recognized terrorist organization; al-Qaida and its associated branches were cited most.

• Of the 29 persons with no known association to a group, 11 had been active on terrorist-related chat rooms and websites.

• Overall, 38 percent had been involved in this Internet activity.

• Only 10 of the 104 are what the authors would consider "lone wolves"; most in the cohort had ties to others in the group or to an organization.

Thanks to Will Amos.

November 15, 2011

Tarek Mehanna says he was going to Yemen to seek "religous education". Of course, we've heard that one before from Samir Khan who's "religious education" ended up getting him killed while riding in al Qaeda leader Anwar al-Awlaki's car.

So, if you're buying that he was just going to Yemen to lean more about Islamic Law, I've got a bridge that I can sell you dirt cheap.

The defense in the case is still promoting the idea that Mehanna's pro-al Qaeda propaganda mill was somehow protected speech. But it gets worse as they now seem to have shifted to an argument that if one doesn't support suicide attacks against civilians then one is, by definition, not a supporter of terrorism.

So, one might support al Qaeda and yet not support some of it's tactics and this means that one doesn't support terror? It's like being a Hitler supporting Nazi against the holocaust. I'm not sure how that works, exactly:

A former friend of Tarek Mehanna told a jury in federal court yesterday that he brought the Sudbury native and two of his associates to Logan International Airport in 2004, so they could travel to Yemen to train in a terrorist camp.

Mehanna had believed “there was an obligation for Muslims to stand up and fight against the invasion in Iraq and US forces in Iraq,’’ Hassan Masood said, testifying yesterday in Mehanna’s terrorism trial in US District Court in Boston....

Prosecutors say that Mehanna and Abousamra ultimately failed to find a terrorist camp in Yemen, but that Mehanna returned home with a newfound dedication to distribute materials and videos promoting violent jihad on the Internet, to help promote Al Qaeda’s ideology....

Masood acknowledged under Carney’s questioning that while Abousamra had extreme views, Mehanna often had scholarly texts with him, and that he cited Islamic law in their discussions.

Mehanna, for instance, opposed suicide bombings and called them a last resort, because of the potential to hurt innocent civilians. But he supported attacking military targets to defend Muslims, including US military targets on foreign soil, Masood said.

Another day, another homegrown terrorist convicted:

Texan Barry Bujol, who converted to Islam and sought repeatedly to travel to the Middle East, was convicted of trying to aid al-Qaida terrorists and using a fake identification card to sneak into the Port of Houston.

Bujol, who authorities said they feared could have been another "American Taliban," is scheduled to be sentenced in February and could get 20 years in prison without parole.

November 10, 2011

This video is posted all over Facebook by the British Islamist crowd associated with the now banned Muslims Against Crusades. The irony here is that from the name of the show, and the fact that it's on Al Gore's Current TV, seems to suggest that they went in to investigate "Islamophobia" as a major problem in Britain. But it's the Islamophobes who are getting hurt and it's the "victims" who are the aggressors.

Don't worry, I'm sure they'll find some reason as to why Saif was justified in assaulting the EDL leader. I'll also not that the Islamists posting the video are doing so as a way of praising Saif al-Islam's assault.

And just to be clear, I do think there is such a thing as Islamophobia. But it seems to me that the term is used much like the accusation of racism -- as a way of shutting down rational conversation. Also, I have no real thoughts on the EDL one way or another.

November 09, 2011

New charges against the Naser Abdo who won conscientious objector status and was once the poster child of the Islamist/Leftist anti-war alliance before he went AWOL and tried to kill soldiers near Ft. Hood:

A federal grand jury in Waco issued a new six-count indictment Tuesday against Pfc. Naser J. Abdo, a Muslim conscientious objector accused of plotting a terrorist attack in Killeen.

Now jailed without bail, Abdo, 21, was charged with one count of attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction, which carries a sentence of life in prison.

He also was charged with one count of attempting to kill federal officers or workers, two counts of possessing a firearm to commit a violent crime, and two counts of having a destructive device.

November 08, 2011

The trial of Tarek Mehanna just gets funnier and funnier. The al Qaeda propagandist and one-time blogger suspected he was being watched by the FBI and that one of his friends was informing on him .... yet, he kept translating materials for al Qaeda in Iraq:

After being approached by FBI agents investigating his activities, alleged terror supporter Tarek Mehanna in 2006 apparently began to suspect that one of his friends was a government informant, an agent testified today at Mehanna’s trial in federal court....

“You never know with these things,” Mehanna wrote to his friend in May 2006, according to the testimony of FBI agent Christian Fierabend, who read from a transcript of the Internet chats.

“Remember, I’m being watched,” Mehanna said, according to Fierabend.

Like many supporters of violent jihad, Barry Walter Bujol Jr. is representing himself at his trial. Yesterday he claimed that he wasn't traveling to Yemen to join al Qaeda. This despite:

"Bujol had emailed al-Awlaki seeking guidance regarding jihad. Al-Awlaki responded by emailing a terrorist manifesto entitled, '42 ways of supporting jihad,'" Heenan said....

Bujol used at least 14 email addresses to hide his activities from authorities and he advocated attacking U.S. facilities where military weapons were manufactured....

Authorities say Bujol made three unsuccessful attempts during February and March 2009 to travel to Yemen or the Middle East. On two of these attempts, he was arrested for either a traffic warrant or driving with a suspended license. In the other attempt, he tried to go through Canada but was denied admission into that country....

In the video, [Bujol] talked about his leaving the U.S. as being the "most important decision of my life" and that he's "doing good work." Near the end of the video and over an image of a person carrying a rocket-propelled grenade, he asks his wife to "pray for us ... pray for victory." The video also featured images of killed al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden and men kneeling down before AK-47 rifles.

Thanks to William Amos

November 02, 2011

Four elderly men in Georgia hatch plot to attack government buildings and officials. They obtained several ingredients for ricin as well as explosives. Bizarre. From the available info, they seemed to have a militia, anti-government mindset and are not jihiddis.

ABC: Federal agents arrested four suspected members of a Georgia militia on charges of plotting attacks with toxins and explosives in Atlanta and against unnamed government officials.

The four, who authorities arrested Tuesday, were expected to appear in federal court in Gainesville, Ga., on Wednesday afternoon.

They were part of a group that also tried to obtain an unregistered explosive device and sought out the complex formula to produce ricin, a biological toxin that can be lethal in small doses, according to a federal complaint....

"We'd have to blow the whole building, like Timothy McVeigh," Thomas said during the Atlanta trip, referring to the man executed for bombing a federal building in Oklahoma City, the indictment states.

Adams, meanwhile, is accused of showing an informant the formula to make ricin and identifying the ways to obtain the ingredients.

Update: FBI PR: According to the criminal complaints, federal search warrants and documents in the public record, Thomas, Roberts, Crump, Adams and others were members of a militia organization and began participating in clandestine meetings of a fringe “covert” operations team starting in approximately March 2011. During these meetings, the complaints charge that the men discussed multiple criminal activities, ranging from murder; theft; manufacturing and using toxic agents; and assassinations in an effort to undermine federal and state government and to advance their interests.

October 28, 2011

Interesting arguments made today in the trial of Boston online jihadi and blogger, Tarek Mehanna:

By moderating online chats from the “cushy bedroom” of his parents’ Sudbury home about the monster he thought of as his “real father,” 9/11 mastermind Osama bin Laden, and translating bin Laden’s recorded calls to arms into English subtitles, assistant U.S. Attorney Aloke Chakravarty said Mehanna, 29, “viewed himself as part of the media department of the terror group." ...

“It meant killing, it meant bullets, it meant martyrdom,” said Chakravarty, noting that in the summer of 2005, al-Qaeda “personally solicited” Mehanna to translate works by leader Ayman al-Zawahri.

I guess he's never heard of "sedition".

October 21, 2011

Wow it appears Joey has a new hobby, outing Jihobbyists.

Yousef al-Khattab

Today's specimen is Abu Hadeed (shown here using his Youtube nickname). All jihobist like him try to strong arm you into accepting their rhetoric and most end up in jail where they believe they are the 'aseerun'. Anyway he is begging to make his point public so I will give him a platform. Interesting is the amount of times in his posts that he insults Khaleeji Arabs and uses terms like greasy & slimy. Seems to be a classic case of self hate,failure and blame it on the kuffar. You be the judge and don't forget to join his network,because indeed birds of a feather flock together.

Since Yousef had his falling out with the Jihad community they have turned their hatred against him as well. As they say politics make strange bedfellows.

In fact I'm of the opinion that even though I don't trust Yousef any further than I can throw him, his knowledge and expertise would be invaluable in the fight against terrorism and the spread of al-Qaeda propaganda.

We keep our focus tight here, for the most part we only direct our ire at known designated terrorist groups such as al-Qaeda and those who advocate for murder and terrorism against civilians. Civilians just like Joey.

Why don't you come with us? You're pretty good in a fight. We could use you.

Filed under Ministry of Irony. And oh, thanks for the tips dude!

October 20, 2011

Here's a Boston Herald article on the upcoming trial of the Boston blogger Tarek Mehanna. Like most articles on Mehenna it notes that he the prosecution found a vast library of jihadi materials on his computer.

And, like most articles, it completely misses the point: Mehenna is not on trial for owning jihad material, he is on trial for providing material aid to al Qaeda.

The particular material support Tarek Mehenna provided was translating Arabic jihadi materials into English at al Qaeda's request. He also conspired with another man to join al Qaeda in Yemen and the pair were in the initial planning stages of a domestic terror attack.

The FBI had Mehenna under surveillance and would probably have let the plot develop further had one of Mehenna's co-conspirators not fled the country. Mehenna himself was arrested as he was leaving the country.

So, please spare us the "violation the First Amendment" argument. Mehenna's library will be used as an indication of where his sympathies were and his state of mind, not as evidence of his primary crime.

His Iskandri blog is still online. Go read it and tell me if you think this is just "some poor innocent victim of Islamophobia", as some activists are claiming. And remember when you read it that this is what he's saying in public. His online work for al Qaeda was done much more under the radar.

October 14, 2011

Boston Herald:

On Thursday afternoon, after nearly 10 hours of deliberations, a federal jury convicted Mohammad Omar Aly Hassan, 23, Ziyad Yaghi, 22, and Hysen Sherifi, 26, of conspiring to provide material support to terrorists.

The case highlighted the government’s use of FBI informants to build a slew of terror cases across the country since the Sept. 11 attacks, and raised questions about the influence of an older, outspoken man in a rural community over three young men seeking direction in their lives.

"I feel sorry for these kids," said Jihad Shawwa, an active leader among Raleigh-area Muslims for the past two decades.

Khalillah Sabra, North Carolina Director of Civil Rights for the Muslim American Society, is concerned that Daniel Patrick Boyd had been able to be so influential to the young Muslims accused in the case.

"I feel they let a parasite into the community, and as a result these boys are going to spend a significant amount of their life in prison," Sabra said Thursday. "If the community had done its homework, this might not have happened. He was a grown man and these were young, adventurous boys that really had no idea what they were getting into."

Boys will be boys you know.

October 13, 2011

The three convicted today are in addition to three others involved in the plot to attack the Marine Corps base at Quantico, VA who already pleaded guilty. Given the target, I say we should have let them attack. That would be a few less traitors to worry about, and free target practice for the Marines.

ABC:

A federal jury convicted three North Carolina men Thursday in a trial that focused on a plot to carry out terrorist attacks on the U.S. Marine Corps base at Quantico, Va., and foreign targets.

The jury in the month-long trial delivered its verdict against Mohammad Omar Aly Hassan, Ziyad Yaghi and Hysen Sherifi after deliberating since Wednesday. Yaghi and Sherifi were convicted on all counts. Hassan was found not guilty of conspiracy to carry out attacks overseas but convicted of providing material support to terrorists.

The 2009 arrests of the men provoked anger and fear among some Raleigh-area Muslims, who worried their community was subject to aggressive scrutiny by federal law enforcement. Some members of a Raleigh mosque regularly made the five-hour round trip to New Bern to offer moral support to the three defendants on trial.

Related:
7 Traitors Arrested in N.C. for Jihad Plans
Banality of Evil: An Indicted Terrorist's Facebook Account
Jihadi's Facebook Account: I will kill you
Daniel Patrick Boyd Pleads Guilty
American Jude Kenan Muhammad Linked to 9/11 Anniv. Plot
Eighth Traitor on the Lam in Pakistan

Just throwing this out there for those still in denial:

The US Justice Department said it has convicted and incarcerated more than 400 people in the past decade for terrorism-related offenses that occurred both in the United States and overseas, including a growing number of “home-grown” terrorists.