If Palestinian Sirhan Sirhan's assassination of Bobby Kennedy(D) in 1968 wasn't one of the first, of many, domestic acts of Pali-Arab terrorism, then please explain to me why, when Cleo Allen Noel Jr., the U.S. Ambassador to Sudan, and his charge', George Curtis Moore, were abducted and executed by the PLO in March 1973, the Palestinian terrorists demanded that Sirhan Sirhan be freed?
Who remembersMir Aimal KasiJanuary 25, 1993
Langley, VA
...near the entrance of Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) headquarters in Langley, Virginia where two CIA employees were murdered and three others wounded. The perpetrator, Mir Aimal Kasi, shot CIA employees in their cars as they were waiting at a stoplight.
Kasi fled the country and was placed on the FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list, sparking a four year international manhunt. He was captured by FBI agents in Pakistan in 1997 and rendered back to the United States to stand trial. He admitted that he shot the victims of the attack, and was subsequently found guilty of capital and first-degree murder, and executed by lethal injection in 2002.
Domestic terror attacks since the February 26, 1993 WTC bombingSaddam HusseinApril 10, 1993
Iraqi Intelligence Agency
...agents of the Iraqi Intelligence Service handed the keys of this death mobile to a team of specially recruited operatives. On April 13, under cover of darkness, some of these operatives started up the vehicle and began a secret trek across the southern Iraqi desert toward the Kuwaiti frontier.
Their intended target: George Herbert Walker Bush, just-retired President of the United States. Omar Abdel-RahmanJune 24, 1993
New York City landmark bomb plot
The attacks were to take place on July 4, 1993, Independence Day in the United States.
The first target was the United Nations Headquarters; it was to be destroyed by a suicide bomber driving a truck bomb. Also to be destroyed by car bombs were the Lincoln Tunnel and the Holland Tunnel, two busy underground roadways in the city. The George Washington Bridge would be bombed next, as well the PATH tunnels between New York and New Jersey and the FBI's main office at the Jacob K. Javits Federal Building in New York City. Rashid BazMarch 1, 1994
New York City
...a Lebanese livery cab driver, opened fire on a van full of Hasidic Jewish boys on the Brooklyn Bridge, killing one and wounding several others. He was sentenced to 141 years in prison. ME Forum: "The Federal Bureau of Investigation (F.B.I.) at one point ascribed his motive to 'road rage.' But then, in December 2000, federal authorities changed their minds and announced that Baz’s actions were 'the crimes of a terrorist.'"
Overseas :January 6th, 1995 Operation Bojinka, al Qaeda's plan to blow up 12 airliners over the Pacific
November 13th, 1995 Five Americans killed in attack on US Army office in Saudi Arabia
June 25th, 1996 Khobar Towers terrorist attack kills 19 US military personnel
Abu KamalFebruary 23, 1997
New York City
...a Palestinian teacher shoots seven tourists on the 86th-floor observation deck of the Empire State Building, killing one. AP: "'[He carried a note blaming the United States for using Israel as "an instrument' against his people. The note found in Ali Hassan Abu Kamal's pocket contains 'rambling, angry stuff,' and appears to contradict claims by the man's family that the shooting had nothing to do with politics, a high-ranking police source said last night. The letter also expressed anger at France and England for using Israel as 'an instrument' against Palestinians, and indicated that Mr. Abu Kamal planned to vent his anger at the Empire State Building, the source said.'"
Overseas :November 12, 1997 Terrorists murder four American oil-company employees in Pakistan
February 23, 1998 Sheikh Osamah Bin-Ladin declares War on America"...In compliance with God's order, we issue the following fatwa to all Muslims: The ruling to kill the Americans and their allies--civilians and military--is an individual duty for every Muslim who can, in any country in which it is possible... We -- with Allah's help -- call on every Muslim who believes in God and wishes to be rewarded, to comply with Allah's order to kill the Americans and plunder their money wherever and whenever they find it. Unless you go forth, Allah will punish you with a grievous penalty, and put others in your place." August 7, 1998 Attacks on US embassies in Kenya & Tanzania kill 300+ people and injure 5,000+
Gameel Al-BatoutiOctober 31, 1999
New York, NY
EgyptAir Flight 990 designated the captain of the active crew as the Pilot-in-Command or the Commander of the flight. The active crew consisted of Captain Mahmoud El Habashy and First Officer Adel Anwar...
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Flight data showed that the flight controls were used to move the elevators in order to initiate and sustain the steep dive.
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In a span of 36 seconds, the plane dropped 14,600 feet...
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The cockpit voice recorder recorded the First Officer repeating "I rely on God" eleven times while the Captain asked repeatedly "What is this?" during the dive.
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Egypt Air flight 990 crashes airplane into ocean, killing 100 Americans, while Gameel Al-Batouti was yelling "Allahu akbar!" Ahmed RessamDecember 13, 1999
Planned Attacks Around the Millennium Celebrations
U.S. customs, law enforcement, and intelligence officers successfully disrupted a series of attacks planned around the Millennium celebrations. On December 13, 1999, an alert U.S. Customs Inspector, pulled over an automobile driven by a 33 year-old Algerian, Ahmed Ressam. Ressam panicked and attempted to flee; he was caught, and inspectors discovered explosives in his car along with a map on which two airports in California and one in Ontario were circled, according to Through Our Enemies' Eyes (Brasseys, 2002), a book by an anonymous senior intelligence official. As Ressam was being arrested and questioned, planned attacks on tourist sites in Jordan were disrupted, and 22 Islamists were eventually convicted of terrorism charges. Ressam was convicted in the United States on terrorism charges in April, 2001.
Following these discoveries, the Intelligence Community and the FBI coordinated a worldwide disruption effort to disrupt other possible attacks. The effort involved dozens of foreign intelligence services that detained suspected radicals in the hopes of gaining confessions or at least keeping them off the streets or intimidating them into aborting any planned attacks. Louis Freeh, the former FBI Director, also related that FBI agents also arrested suspected radicals in the United States for minor violations (often linked to visa problems) and tried to disrupt planned attacks in the United States.
Following the disruption, the Intelligence Community clearly warned senior policy makers that the disruptions only bought time: they did not end the threat of future attacks. Of interest is another attack planned around the Millennium that went undiscovered -- the planned January attack on another Navy warship. The plot failed because the terrorists' boat sank, not because the Intelligence Community disrupted it, and a similar attack was carried out on U.S.S. Cole in October of 2000.
Overseas :October 12, 2000 USS Cole attacked, 17 sailors killed Many terrorist attacks are dismissed as 'random acts' by 'mentally unstable' individuals and the MainStreamMedia contributes by denying the clear intent of these 'Sudden-Jihad-Syndrome' mass murderers.Robert SpencerIn October 2006, a pro-jihad internet site published a “Guide for Individual Jihad,” explaining to jihadists “how to fight alone.” It recommended, among other things, assassination with guns and running people over. Is it possible that Sulejmen Talovic and some of these others were waging this jihad of one?
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Domestic terror attacks since the the September 11, 2001 attacks“paintball sheik” Ali al TimimiSept. 16, 2001
Northern Virginia
...the mainstream media stayed resolutely away from the case, with nearly everyone simply reprinting the identical Associated Press dispatch deep inside the newspaper. Television was apparently oblivious to the trial.
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...he advised the men to leave the country and take up arms for the Taliban in its coming war with the U.S. "There is definitely a line crossed where someone is not just expressing views about our country, but encouraging, directing and enabling individuals to act on those words,"
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...convicted... ...on all ten counts against him, including soliciting others to levy war against the United States and inducing others to use firearms in violation of federal law. The firearms convictions require mandatory life imprisonment without parole. Al-Timimi became the tenth member of the "Virginia jihad network" to be convicted... Damir IgricOctober 3, 2001
Manchester, TN
...at approximately 4:00 a.m., the 29-year-old Croatian man used a box cutter to slash the neck of a Greyhound bus driver near Manchester, Tennessee. Igric and six other passengers were killed. Approximately 38 passengers were on board the bus at the time of crash, most of whom were sleeping.
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He was a member of the 108th Brigade that was made up of Muslim and Croat soldiers and is one of the military units whose soldiers were accused of murdering civilians and destroying Serb Orthodox churches and desecration of Serbian cemeteries.
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Igric had entered the United States in Miami in 1999 with a one-month visa, boarded the bus in Chicago. Oussama KassirDecember 2001
Bly, OR
Prosecutors say Kassir and others wanted to set up the camp in Bly, Ore., to teach military-style methods so a community of Muslims could move to Afghanistan to fight or receive further training there
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In announcing the suspect's extradition to New York from the Czech Republic, U.S. Attorney Michael Garcia said Kassir also offered bomb and poison-making tips on several Web sites.
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Kassir pleaded not guilty Tuesday to counts that include conspiracy to kill, kidnap, maim and injure people in a foreign country; providing material support to terrorists; and distributing information related to explosives, destructive devices and weapons of mass destruction.
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Kassir is accused of operating at least three Web sites that sought to recruit terrorists from December 2001 until his arrest Dec. 11, 2005, at Prague's Ruzyne international airport while flying from Stockholm, Sweden, to Beirut, Lebanon.
Authorities said the sites included such titles as "The Mujahideen Explosives Handbook" and "The Mujahideen Poisons Handbook."
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In November 1999, prosecutors said, Kassir and Haroon Rashid Aswat were sent by Muslim cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri to establish the training camp. After two months they left the U.S., with Kassir complaining that there were too few men and he was not going to waste his time.
Authorities in Oregon have said the camp never materialized beyond a dozen people taking target practice and was abandoned for unknown reasons.
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Kassir was born in Lebanon and moved to Sweden in 1984. He became a citizen five years later. He spent several months in prison in 1998 for assaulting a police officer and drug possession. A Swedish court jailed him for 10 months two years ago for illegal weapons possession. James UjaamaDec. 19, 2001
Seattle, WA
James Ujaama, a Muslim convert from Seattle, said he tried to set up the camp in Bly, Ore., in 1999 and notified a radical Islamic cleric in Britain that he and others were stockpiling weapons and ammunition in the United States.
He also admitted that between June 2000 and Dec. 19, 2001, he tried to raise money and provide other help to terrorists in Afghanistan. Richard C. Reid12/26/2001
Over the AtlanticNew Sneakers you cram with 10oz of Iraqi supplied C-4 = $65
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OneWay ticket to America with no luggage using a fake UK passport = $445
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Matches that stay lit when a stewardess throws coffee in your Middle-Eastern male between the ages of 18-33 Islamic fundamentalist face?
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Priceless! Part II:Hi, I'm Richard C. Reid, and I really have to give the service on American Airlines thumbs down. I believe it's a clear violation of my civil rights to refuse me a lighter. I certainly wasn't going to smoke a cigarette and feel I'm being 'racially profiled' just for my appearance as a person of Arab ancestory. Even my fake UK passport failed to get me the fair treatment I deserved and seriously inhibited my religious rights as an Islamic Martyr to get to my 72 virgins. I will absolutely not fly American Airlines again and am hiring Johnny Cochran to assist me in my civil suit against them.
Jamul Muhammad & Celina MuhammadDecember 27, 2001
San Diego, CA
"A woman identified by the county Medical Examiner's Office as Celina Muhammad, 29, was killed in the crash. The pilot, identified by the Coast Guard yesterday as Jamul Muhammad, 26, of Los Angeles, was pulled from the water barely clinging to life," wrote the San Diego Union-Tribune. The authorities seemed unperturbed by their proximity to a nuclear plant. Charles BishopJanuary 5, 2002
Miami, FL
The authorities have said they do not believe that the teenager, Charles Bishop, had terrorist ties, and they have ruled his death a suicide. But the note, found in his flight bag and released today by the Tampa police, praised the terrorists who struck the United States on Sept. 11 and said more acts would follow.
''First of all, Osama bin Laden is absolutely justified in the terror he has caused on 9-11,'' Mr. Bishop wrote. ''He has brought a mighty nation to its knees! God blesses him and the others who helped make September 11th happen.''
The note said the United States would have to face the consequences of its ''horrific actions against the Palestinian people and Iraqis by its allegiance with the monstrous Israelis.''
Mr. Bishop, a flag bearer at school assemblies who had said he wanted to join the Air Force, wrote in the note, ''I will make you pay.''
He crashed a Cessna 172R into the 28th floor of the Bank of America building on Jan. 5, shortly after taking off alone without permission from a flight school at the St. Petersburg-Clearwater International Airport, where he was a student. He refused to make radio contact with air traffic controllers during the 9-to-12-minute flight, the authorities said. Jose PadillaMay 8, 2002
Chicago, IL
Padilla, a U.S. citizen held for 3 1/2 years as an enemy combatant, is charged along with Adham Amin Hassoun and Kifah Wael Jayyousi with being part of a support network for Islamic extremist groups worldwide. Padilla was initially accused in 2002 of plotting with al-Qaida to detonate a radioactive "dirty bomb" inside the United States... Patrick GottMay 23, 2002
New Orleans, LA
Shotgun attack in New Orleans airport terminal. Insulted, went out to car, came back with shotgun and his Koran. Fired once and tackled, 2 wounded. Hesham HadayetJuly 4, 2002
Los Angeles, Calif.
...opened fire at Los Angeles International Airport while standing in line at the ticket counter of Israel's El Al Airlines, killing two and wounding four others before an airline security officer shot him dead. FBI officials initially discounted terrorism and reported on his "despondency" over personal affairs. A year later, the FBI admitted Hadayet's anti-Israel views and characterized his bloody acts as terrorism. John Mohammed & Lee MalvoOctober 2002
Washington DC area
Black Muslim convert John Mohammed and protege Lee Malvo are convicted for their roles in a three-week, terror shooting spree that claimed ten innocent lives and injured three others. Malvo pleaded insanity. The jihadi snipers revisited. Lackawanna 6 + 3September 2002
Buffalo NY
Mukhtar al-Bakri, Yasein Taher, Shafal Mosed, Yahya Goba, Faysal Galab, Sahim Alwan, Jaber Elbaneh, Kamal Derwish, Juma al-Dosari
Al-Bakri and five other men in custody flew to Pakistan and drove to Afghanistan in the spring of 2001. During their six-week stay, they were instructed in the use of Kalashnikov and M-16 automatic rifles and rocket-propelled grenade launchers, and taught to assemble explosives at Al Farooq camp near Kandahar.
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The recruits heard al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden speak in person just a few months before he ordered the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people in the United States.
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The main recruiter of the Lackawanna Six, a Saudi born in Buffalo named Kamal Derwish, was killed in November 2002 by a CIA-launched Predator missile attack on al Qaeda operatives in Yemen.
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A Derwish friend and al Qaeda recruiter who preached the religious obligation of training for jihad at the Lackawanna mosque, Juma al-Dosari, has been in custody at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, since his capture by U.S. forces near the Afghanistan-Pakistan border. Al-BarakaatFall, 2002
Seattle, WA
Food stamp fraud has taken on more sinister dimensions within the last year and a half. Last autumn, the FBI determined that the Somali asylee community in Seattle, set with food stamps and other forms of public assistance, was targeted by the Al-Barakaat Wire Transfer company, a wire transfer and hawala banking outfit with known connections to Al Qaeda. Al-Barakaat set up a storefront in Seattle and immediately went to work selling Qat, a mild narcotic popular with Somalis, and converting food stamps to money for Somalis to send back to their relatives in Somalia. The FBI believes Al-Barakaat skimmed tens of millions of dollars off of the proceeds of these two activities, and funneled it directly to Al Qaeda.
According to the testimony provided by New York City detectives to a U.S. Senate subcommittee in connection with the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, corporate America has been victimized by precisely the same dynamic with coupon fraud, unwittingly funding terrorism by as much as $125 million annually. Syed Saadat, Muhammed Abid Afridi & Ilyas AliSeptember, 2002
San Diego, CA
The three men - two Pakistanis and an Indian-born US citizen - are accused by the FBI of trying to sell heroin and hashish in return for anti-aircraft missiles, which they planned to sell to al-Qaeda. Mohamad HammoudNovember 2002
North Carolina
A federal jury in Charlotte convicted Mohamad Hammoud, 28, of violating a ban on providing material support to terrorist groups by funneling profits from a multimillion-dollar cigarette-smuggling operation to Hezbollah.
The jury also found Hammoud, whom prosecutors described as the leader of a terrorist cell, and his brother guilty of cigarette smuggling, racketeering and money laundering. The two men, natives of Lebanon, were accused of smuggling at least $7.9 million worth of cigarettes out of North Carolina and selling them in Michigan. Hammoud was sentenced to 155 years in prison.
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Hammoud was caught on wiretaps speaking on the telephone with Hezbollah's military commander in Lebanon, Sheik Abbas Harake Sami Omar Al-HussayenFeb 26, 2003
Moscow, ID
Univ CompSci e-jihadi, indicted on visa and immigration violation. At time of arrest was trying to have his campus office relocated to a room behind a security access door in the campus BioRadioactives Lab Iyman FarisMarch, 2003
New York, NY
...admitted to helping plan al Qaeda attacks in the United States after meeting terror chief Osama bin Laden at an Afghanistan terror training camp.
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Faris is serving a 20-year prison term in federal prison for a plot to destroy the Brooklyn Bridge. Sayed Abdul MalikeMarch, 2003
New York, NY
...a legal U.S. resident, allegedly told Todd Renner -- an FBI special agent assigned to the Joint Terrorist Task Force in New York -- he wanted to buy enough C-4 explosives "to blow up a mountain."
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Malike later traveled to Miami, Florida, where he boarded a tourist ship for a sightseeing trip around the port. While videotaping the bridges they passed, he asked the captain of the ship "about the infrastructure of bridges ... and about how close the boat could get to the bridges and cruise ships," Maher "Mike" HawashMarch, 2003
Portland, OR
...a naturalized U.S. citizen of Palestinian descent...
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Hawash pleaded guilty to conspiring to provide services to the Taliban. Prosecutors agreed to drop charges of conspiring to levy war against the United States and conspiring to provide material support for terrorism. Biswanath HalderMay 1, 2003
Cleveland, OH
...India-born Muslim... ...opened fire within Case Western University, 1 dead, 2 wounded. CAIR & Virginia jihad groupJune 2003
Falls Church, Va
The "paintball" Jihadis...
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Randall (”Ismail”) Royer, an American convert to Islam, served as CAIR’s communications specialist and civil rights coordinator; today he sits in jail on terrorism-related charges. In June 2003, Royer and ten other young men, ages 23 to 35, known as the “Virginia jihad group,” were indicted on forty-one counts of “conspiracy to train for and participate in a violent jihad overseas.” The defendants, nine of them U.S. citizens, were accused of association with Lashkar-e-Taiba, a radical Islamic group designated as a foreign terrorist organization by the U.S. Department of State in 2001. They were also accused of meeting covertly in private homes and at the Islamic Center in Falls Church to prepare themselves for battle by listening to lectures and watching videotapes. As the prosecutor noted, “Ten miles from Capitol Hill in the streets of northern Virginia, American citizens allegedly met, plotted, and recruited for violent jihad.” According to Matthew Epstein of the Investigative Project, Royer helped recruit the others to the jihad effort while he was working for CAIR. The group trained at firing ranges in Virginia and Pennsylvania; in addition, it practiced “small-unit military tactics” at a paintball war-games facility in Virginia, earning it the moniker, the “paintball jihadis.” Eventually members of the group traveled to Pakistan.
Five of the men indicted, including CAIR’s Royer, were found to have had in their possession, according to the indictment, “AK-47-style rifles, telescopic lenses, hundreds of rounds of ammunition and tracer rounds, documents on undertaking jihad and martyrdom, [and] a copy of the terrorist handbook containing instructions on how to manufacture and use explosives and chemicals as weapons.”
After four of the eleven defendants pleaded guilty, the remaining seven, including Royer, were accused in a new, 32-count indictment of yet more serious charges: conspiring to help Al-Qaeda and the Taliban battle American troops in Afghanistan. Royer admitted in his grand jury testimony that he had already waged jihad in Bosnia under a commander acting on orders from Osama bin Laden. Prosecutors also presented evidence that his father, Ramon Royer, had rented a room in his St. Louis-area home in 2000 to Ziyad Khaleel, the student who purchased the satellite phone used by Al-Qaeda in planning the two U.S. embassy bombings in East Africa in August 1998. Royer eventually pleaded guilty to lesser firearms-related charges, and the former CAIR staffer was sentenced to twenty years in prison. Abdelhaleem AshqarJune 25, 2003
Washington, DC
Abdelhaleem Ashqar, a former associate professor of business at Washington’s Howard University...
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...accused of providing money to Hamas terrorists was sentenced Wednesday to more than 11 years in prison and fined $5,000 for refusing to testify before a federal grand jury.
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Before being sentenced, Ashqar delivered a nearly two-hour passionate statement describing the suffering of Palestinian people under the Israeli occupation and saying he would rather go to prison than divulge the secrets of Palestinian militants.
“The only option was to become a traitor or collaborator and that is something that I can’t do and will never do as long as I live,” he told the court. Mohamed AmryOctober 15, 2003
Boston, MA
...worked at a health club and stole the credit card numbers and identities of members to aid jihad
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Amry, using a skimmer to obtain credit-card data from members of the health club, provided stolen names, Social Security numbers, and credit-card information of at least 30 people to Abdelghani Meskini, who pleaded guilty to conspiracy in connection with the plot to blow up Los Angeles International Airport in 1999. Using victims' names, Amry reportedly assisted Meskini in creating false green cards and Social Security cards. Meskini used the information to open bank accounts in New York, where he deposited counterfeit checks. Amry was not charged with knowledge of the terrorists' intentions in obtaining and using the stolen identities. On January 17, 2003, Amry was sentenced to 15 months imprisonment. Nuradin AbdiNovember 28, 2003
Columbus, OH
...indicted a 32-year-old Somali native for plotting with other members of an al-Qaeda cell to bomb a Columbus, Ohio-area shopping mall...
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Nuradin Abdi is charged with conspiring to provide support to terrorists and to using false travel documents. Ryan AndersonFeb 12, 2004
Fort Lewis, WA
Busted by private citizen on jihadi web boards trying to give away information on the weaknesses of US armor...
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...convert to Islam in '99... Michael WagnerJuly 28, 2004
Iowa City, IA
Never mind what was in his car:A 9mm pistol Three bulletproof vests
Hundreds of rounds of ammunition
A flight simulator and a bag of flight manuals dating to 2001
A 5-foot telescope hooked to camera equipment
Night-vision goggles and a night-vision rifle scope found in a hollowed-out computer
Books written in Arabic, including the Koran, along with hundreds of pages printed from the Internet on the Iraq war and terrorism Wagner reportedly told a federal agent about "a man in San Diego who he said wanted him to shoot at trolleys there...Wagner also told the agent "he knew of activities and people involved in al-Qaida and Taliban." Yassin Aref and Mohammed HossainAugust 4th, 2004
Albany, NY
A Muslim cleric and a founder of his mosque...
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...the men are believed to be connected to Ansar al-Islam, a terrorist organization previously based in northern Iraq with links to Jordanian terrorism suspect Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, who U.S. officials believe has links to al Qaeda.
According to the criminal complaint, an FBI informant posing as an arms dealer asked the two suspects to launder money from the sale of a shoulder-fired missile that would be used to kill Pakistan’s ambassador to the United Nations in retaliation for Pakistan’s support of the U.S.-led war on terrorism. Muhammad Salah & Abdelhaleem AshqarAugust 19th, 2004
Chicago, IL
A Chicago medical van driver accused by federal prosecutors of funneling money to Mideast terrorists was sentenced Wednesday to 21 months in federal prison for lying in a civil lawsuit.
Muhammad Salah, 54, also was ordered to pay a $25,000 fine and do 100 hours of community service.
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Salah was convicted in February of lying under oath in a civil lawsuit concerning the murder in Israel of a teenager by Hamas terrorists.
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...a jury on Feb. 1 acquitted Salah and Ashqar of taking part in a racketeering conspiracy aimed at bankrolling the terrorist group Hamas.
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The jury convicted Abdelhaleem Ashqar, a former business professor, of refusing to testify before a federal grand jury after he had been granted immunity from prosecution. He will be sentenced at a later date. James Elshafay & Shahawar Matin SirajAugust 27th, 2004
New York, NY
Shahawar Matin Siraj who entered the U.S. illegally nearly six years ago...
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Elshafay then said he had an idea. He?d dress like an Orthodox Jew to put the explosives in place. He?d put on side curls and a long black coat. He would go in the 33rd Street entrance and come out on 34th, and they could pick him up there. Warming to this image, Siraj suggested putting the bombs in a Macy?s bag. ?Jews shop at Macy?s,? he offered.
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...Elshafay was sitting on the steps of the Noor Al mosque on Richmond Terrace when he was taken into custody. Hassan Moussa MakkiSeptember 2004
Michigan
...a key player in a multimillion-dollar interstate cigarette smuggling ring, pleaded guilty in Michigan to providing material support for terrorism and participating in a racketeering conspiracy. Prosecutors said he also funneled money to Hezbollah. Syed Haris Ahmed and Ehsanul Islam SadequeNovember 17, 2004
Atlanta, GA
U.S. authorities were also watching the two Americans, and at some point discovered communications between the men in Canada and Atlanta and other suspected terrorists overseas, including a group arrested in London last fall that counted among its members a computer specialist who used the Arabic word irhabi -- for terrorist -- as his Internet handle, Irhabi 007
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Federal prosecutors in New York also told a recent hearing Sadequee and Ahmed had visited Washington and videotaped the U.S. Capitol, the World Bank headquarters and some fuel storage facilities. Mustafa MohamedJanuary 11, 2005
Alexandria, VA
By the time the assailant was subdued by two other visitors and an Alexandria police officer, four elderly residents also were seriously injured, including two who were stabbed or slashed as they lay helpless in their beds in the facility's health care center. In all, six people, not seven as originally believed, were injured in the attack, including one who suffered a broken neck and another who needed 200 stitches, police said. Two victims remained hospitalized last night.
Alexandria General District Court Judge E. Robert Giammittorio yesterday ordered a member of the housekeeping staff, Mustafa Mohamed, 30, of Alexandria, held without bond on two counts of malicious wounding. Portland 7January 2005
Portland, OR
The first pickup from The Islamic Center of Portland, Masjed As-Saber was Ali Khaled Steitiye who was picked up a month prior to the politically motivated announcement from the Portland Mayor and Police Chief for 'weapons' after a local gun shop I frequent turned him in...
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36 Judicially approved wire taps allowed an intervention that caught the "Portland Seven" planning to slaughter civilians at Portland's Jewish Community Center.
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Last September, Nelson’s group protested the FBI arrest at a Portland airport of Sheikh Mohamed Abdirahman Kariye, for the illegal use of a Social Security number and the unlawful possession of government documents. (He later received probation after pleading to fraud charges). Kariye, in turn, is imam of the Portland Islamic Center-Masjed as-Sabr, an organization connected to the Islamic charity Global Relief Fund, which authorities have accused of links to Al-Qaeda. Last August, federal prosecutors released tapes of one of the “Portland Seven” telling how Kariye was financing his trip to Afghanistan and that the Islamic Center is“the only mosque to teach about jihad.” The speaker is Jeffrey Battle, former client of the now-beleaguered lawyer, Brandon Mayfield.
The Portland '7' are Jeffrey Battle; Battle's ex-wife, October Lewis; Patrice Lumumba Ford; and brothers Ahmed and Muhammad Bilal
Habis al Saoub, remains at large Jihad in Jersey CityOn Friday, January 14, 2005, police discovered the bodies of a family of four Egyptian Copts slain in their home. Hossam Armanious, 47, his wife, Amal, 37, and their daughters Sylvia, 15, and Monica, 8, had been bound, gagged, and their throats slit.
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... the investigators acknowledge that a relative of the victims had helped prosecutors in their case against lawyer Lynne Stewart, currently on trial in Manhattan for allegedly carrying messages for her imprisoned client, the blind Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman, serving a life sentence for conspiring to blow up New York landmarks including the United Nations building.
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...the Armanious murder occurred in what some nickname "Terror City" because of its history of Islamic extremist activity.
Jersey City gained this reputation after the first bombing of the World Trade Center, on February 26, 1993, which was carried out by a local terrorist cell. The van used in the attack was rented in Jersey City, the bomb was built in several Jersey City apartments, and the perpetrators frequented the Jersey City mosque presided over by Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman. Indeed, Ramzi Yousef, the mastermind of the 1993 attack, made contact with followers of the blind Egyptian sheikh upon his arrival in the United States. Through the mosque, he met Mohammed A. Salameh, Nidal A. Ayyad, and Mahmud Abouhalima, all of whom participated in the attack.
According to terrorism expert Steven Emerson, Alkhifa, a precursor to al Qaeda, had one of its main offices in Jersey City. Soon after September 11, in November 2001, a reporter from the Canadian daily National Post, Marina Jimenez, visited the Jersey City mosque undercover. In an article entitled "The radicalization of U.S. Muslims," she noted the stern warning posted in front of the mosque: "Those who do not belong to this Muslim community will be prosecuted for trespassing." Mohammad Zaki Amawi, Marwan Othman El-Hindi & Wassim MazloumJan 27th, 2005
Toledo, OH
..were charged with planning to travel to Iraq after training in the use of weapons and explosives.
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They had blended easily into the city?s thriving Muslim community. Ahmed Omar Abu AliFeb 2, 2005
Falls Church, VA
Presidential Assassination plot Hamid Hayat, Umer HayatJune 8, 2005
Lodi, CA
Look... if somebody is going to send their kid to IslamoTerrorist training camps AFTER 9/11 then the next stop should be GitMo with a Pigskin cover for their Quran.
"This also shows the fallacy of the "they hate us because they don't know us" crowd. The Hayats and the other fanatics in Lodi had the freedom to practice their religion and earn a decent living in California -- certainly they made a higher standard of living there than they could have expected in Pakistan or Afghanistan, especially before the Taliban were ejected by American military action. They don't hate us because they misunderstand us. They hate us because all they know is hate, and outreach and kind words don't make a damned bit of difference to fanatics. " -- CQ's Ed Morrissey
"Evidently, one of those arrested had been using photographs of President Bush for target practice—virtually assuring himself of legal representation by the ACLU on First Amendment grounds." -- Jeff Goldstein Kevin James and Levar Haley WashingtonJuly 4, 2005
Torrance, CA
Two men accused of plotting behind prison walls to launch Jihad-style attacks on military sites, synagogues and other targets in 2005 pleaded guilty on Friday to conspiring to levy war against the United States.
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Kevin James, a California State Prison, Sacramento, inmate who founded the radical group Jamiyyat Ul-Islam Is-Saheeh, or JIS.
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“This incident is the first in a series of incidents to come in a plight to defend and propagate traditional Islam in its purity,” James allegedly wrote. “We are not extremists, radicals, or terrorists. We are only servants of Allah.” Boomer Sooner
Norman, OK
So what "spot" was he intending to detonate? That's the million dollar question. He had 2 to 3 pounds of TATP, "the most unstable explosive known and the explosive of choice in the Middle East". Even a small amount can cause an explosion. 2 to 3 pounds. That's quite a bit of "mother of satan" for a lonely kid to use when he decides to "just quit living".
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84,000 were at the Nebraska.v.Oklahoma Football game he couldn't get into.
It should be of interest that just after 9/11 3 U of Oklahoma students, Hussein al-Attas, Mohammad Yaseen Haider & Mukkaram Ali, were all arrested in Norman Oklahoma because of investigations into their associations with Zacarias Moussaoui, the "20th Hijacker".Seyed Mostafa MaghloubiOctober 2005
Los Angeles, CA
...acknowledged that he tried to obtain [100,000] submachine guns and night vision goggles and ship them to Iran, in violation of U.S. laws prohibiting such transactions. Younis Tsouli (Irhabi007)October 2005
London England
Among the files Irhabi007 distributed through this method were audio and video clips of Al Qaeda’s leadership, including Osama bin Laden, Ayman al Zawahiri and Abu Musab al Zarqawi.
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In October 2005, Bosnian police arrested Mirsad Bektasevic, a 19-year-old Swedish citizen, and Cesur Abdulkadir, an 18-year-old Turkish national, in Sarajevo on suspicion of plotting a terrorist attack (neither has been formally charged). During a search of the apartment they shared, police found a suicide bomber belt, explosives, firearms and other military equipment.
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Phone and e-mail records uncovered in the Bosnian raid also led British police to arrest Younis Tsouli, Waseem Mughal, 22, and Tariq Al-Daour, 19, in late October near London; all three were charged a month later under the UK Terrorism Act.
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When a shadowy group of disaffected urban youth began talking in an Internet chat room in the fall of 2004 espousing anti-Western views, the Canadian Security Intelligence Service was listening, and when CSIS began monitoring the sites said to have been used by some of the 17 men and youths arrested on terrorism-related charges around Toronto Friday evening, the Canadian spy agency had heard enough to remain interested, and increased surveillance of the group. It was just four months after the surveillance began that two Americans from the Atlanta, Ga. area, Syed Haris Ahmed and Ehsanul Islam Sadeque, drew the attention of the Canadian spy agency. Ali R. WarrayatDecember 18, 2005
Mesa, AZ
24, according to Arizona's East Valley Tribune, "hadn't slept in days, planning this moment down to the last detail. … He placed both hands on the steering wheel, stared straight ahead and barrelled toward the front entrance. … Now, his face was void of any expression. A store employee jumped out of the car's path. To drown out the man's yells, Warrayat reached over to his car radio and blasted Arabic music before crashing" into the Home Depot store in Chandler on Dec. 18, 2005. "At first, he wanted to wear a Palestinian flag, but later decided to place it in the trunk of his car, along with a copy of the Quran and a necklace." Talal “Ted” Ali ChammoutFebruary 2006
Porterville, CA
In March 2004, Faller said, Chammout met with a confidential witness for the government and inquired about purchasing stolen military weapons. Then in the spring of 2005, Chammout wanted to purchase a gun with a silencer, Faller said.
In a conversation with an FBI agent posing as a hit man, Chammout inquired about killing someone, perhaps his estranged wife, Faller said. When the agent balked, Faller said, Chammout still gave the agent “$1,000 for his trouble.”
In September 2005, Chammout talked with the confidential witness about purchasing rocket launchers, Faller said. The next month, he wanted anti-tank weapons, the prosecutor said.
In February of this year, Chammout asked about missile systems that shoot down aircraft, Faller said. Chammout also told the confidential witnesses that “these guys want the stuff. If [news] of it gets out, you’re dead.” Mohammed Reza Taheri-azar3/5/2006
Chapel Hill, NC
In March 2006, a twenty-two-year-old Iranian student named Mohammed Reza Taheri-azar drove an SUV onto the campus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, deliberately trying to kill people and succeeding in injuring nine. After the incident, he seemed singularly pleased with himself, smiling and waving to crowds after a court appearance on Monday, at which he explained that he was “thankful for the opportunity to spread the will of Allah.” Officials here again dismissed the possibility of terrorism, even after Taheri-azar wrote a series of letters to the UNC campus newspaper detailing the Qur’anic justification for warfare against unbelievers, and explaining why he believed his attacks were justified from an Islamic perspective. Canadian 17June 3, 2006
Toronto, ON
The R.O.P. targets the 'Peace Tower'
Prior to the raid, officers got "sensitivity" training
The Terrorists' targets included:Canadian Parliament
The Toronto Stock Exchange
Toronto's CN Tower
The Peace Tower Two of the men arrested in Canada, now known as the "Canada 17" were arrested in Buffalo New York in August 13, 2005. What did they do? Oh, well they apparently were trying to smuggle handguns into Canada by taping them to their bodies. You'll remember Buffalo as the location of one of the cells that were broken in the days just after 9/11
Oh, and on the Georgia Tech angle? In October 2005, Explosive devices were fond near the campus. Is there a connection? well not yet, but its awfully interesting. Syed "Fahad" HashmiJune 6, 2006
New York, NY
On June 6, British authorities arrested Syed "Fahad" Hashmi, a 26 year-old American citizen of Pakistani descent, in London's Heathrow Airport for his suspected role in aiding an al-Qaeda plot to attack targets in London and delivering military equipment and funds to radical Islamists in Pakistan and Afghanistan.
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He was raised in the neighborhood of Flushing, in the Queens section of New York City. Flushing is one of New York City's most ethnically diverse neighborhoods and includes a sizeable Pakistani immigrant and South Asian Muslim community. Hashmi attended Robert F. Wagner High School in Queens and later enrolled at Stony Brook University on Long Island before transferring to Brooklyn College, where he graduated with a degree in Political Science and was a leading member of a campus Muslim association ...
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Hashmi is alleged to have links with the New York City branch of the radical al-Muhajiroun... Mujtaba Rabbani JabbarJune 15, 2006
Baltimore, MD
24, stood in a packed Loews Valley Center movie theater in Owings Mills northwest of Baltimore and "started firing as people were watching" X-Men: The Last Stand," according to a police account.
He shot Paul Schrum, 62, a Pikesville medical supplies salesman sitting near Jabbar, three times in the upper body with a .357 magnum handgun, killing him.. Jabbar then walked to the lobby, placed his gun on the counter and waited for police. County detectives said they knew of no motive for the shooting. It bears noting that Owings Mills is a heavily Jewish area. But according to of county police spokeswoman Sgt. Vickie Warehime, the shooting was "completely random." Miami 7June 22, 2006
Miami FL
Five are U.S. citizens, one is a legal immigrant from Haiti and the other is a Haitian national who was in this country illegally.
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...“for a mission to wage war against the United States government,” including a plot to destroy the Sears Tower.
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...charged with conspiring “to levy war against the government of the United States, and to oppose by force the authority thereof.” Michael Julius FordJune 25, 2006
Denver, Colorado.
...kills one and injures five in a shooting spree. Rocky Mountain News: "Reports that Ford was upset about being taunted and harassed at work about his Muslim beliefs were downplayed by police and Safeway Monday, although they continue to look into all possibilities."
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...co-worker Debbie Richmeier, 45, dismissed any suggestion that the employees made fun of Ford's religion. "The group of people he shot, we did not know Michael Ford was any [certain religion]. Nobody knew he had switched to Muslim. Nobody would have cared." Dr. Wameeth FadhliJuly 25, 2006
Dickinson, Texas.
...is charged with shooting an unarmed bicyclist, who was hit in the chest and shoulder. According to witnesses, the victim was riding his bicycle when a sport utility vehicle pulled alongside and Fadhli reportedly began firing what they described as a pistol. The witnesses told police the shooter was alone and wearing what appeared to be surgical scrubs. Galveston Daily News: "Assistant district attorney Xochitl Vandiver, who recommended [$60,000] bond after conferring with investigators, said the amount was higher than usual for that charge because of concerns for community safety. “At this point, this looks like it could have been just a random shooting, and that makes it a pretty scary crime,” she said. Naveed HaqJuly 28, 2006
Seattle, Wash.
...an Islamic extremist forced his way past a 13 year-old girl to gun down 6 women at the Jewish Federation in Seattle, killing one woman.
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...told operators in a 911 call during the shooting, "These are Jews. I want these Jews to get out." Omeed Aziz PopalAugust 29, 2006
San Francisco, CA
...a Muslim from Afghanistan, who killed one person and injured fourteen during a murderous drive through San Francisco city streets in August 2006, during which he targeted people on crosswalks and sidewalks, identified himself as a terrorist after his rampage, according to Rob Roth of San Francisco’s KTVU. Later the murders were ascribed to Popal’s mental problems, and to stress arising from his impending arranged marriage.
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Watch as reporter Rob Roth says a witness heard the suspect refer to himself as a “terrorist,” then without taking a breath tells us this was not an act of terrorism. Brian Allen WashingtonSeptember 18, 2006
Aurora. CO
27, has admitted that he was the gunman who shot and killed a plainclothes Aurora. Colorado, Police Detective Michael Thomas while he waited at a stoplight in September 2006, and he faces two counts of first-degree murder. Two pieces of information suggest his case is one of Islamist terrorism: (1) Washington having told officers, on being arrested, "It's OK, I'm federal, I'm with the Nation," presumably a reference to the Nation of Islam. (2) Washington's mother telling investigators her son had become "different" in prior months, talking about the Koran, saying he was God, and stating that he wanted "to go to Iran to become Muslim and become president." Jihad AbdullahOctomber 1, 2006
New York, NY
16, swiped a 1991 Toyota on Oct. 1 in Queens, New York and sped around the neighborhood, almost striking several pedestrians until the police forced Abdullah to pull over and arrested him. He was charged with grand larceny, criminal possession of stolen property, reckless endangerment and unauthorized use of a vehicle. The New York Post described his escapade as "joyriding." It could be that, and nothing more, but it also might well be something more. Kobie Diallo Williams, Adnan Babar Mirza, Shiraz Syed Qazi and Syed Maaz ShahNovember 28, 2006
Houston, TX
"Houston Taliban”
4 Whyislam and ICNA workers (coined by the media as the “Houston Taliban”) held jihad training camps on Islamic Society of Greater Houston property in Willis Texas north of Houston.
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Kobie Diallo Williams felt remorse, came forward when questioned by the FBI and cooperated. Subequently, the remaining 3 members were arrested and charged. Unlike the others who are facing 10 years per charge, Mr. Williams will receive up to 5 years instead of a possible 35 years!
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All of the Houston Taliban group are members of the Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA) and two of them (possibly three) are members of ICNA’s Whyislam which is the organization they used to collaborate with each other according to news reports. Shah was also President of the Muslim Students Association (MSA) at UTD. Michael Curtis ReynoldsDecember 5th, 2006
Scranton, PA
...is accused of communicating via the Internet with someone he believed was a member of al-Qaida, according to an indictment handed down last year.
Mr. Reynolds allegedly offered to help commit acts of terrorism by "identifying targets, planning terrorism attacks, describe bomb-making methods, among other services," the indictment reads. He allegedly suggested targeting pipeline systems and energy facilities in the U.S.
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Reynolds, a self-professed computer expert and convicted arsonist who once tried to blow up his parents, wrote online that he needed money to destroy the pipeline, and with it America's economy, court documents said.
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Pretending to be a member of al-Qaeda, Rossmiller convinced Reynolds that she had $40,000 to contribute to his cause, documents said.
When Reynolds went to a prearranged spot to pick up the money, federal authorities arrested him.
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"[President Bush is] hanging onto the press backing on the claim that since he waged war, no terrorist attacks have been successful, hence the war is just," Reynolds wrote in one e-mail,
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"Americans will trample Washington to recall troops, and people will make a new government," Reynolds wrote to Rossmiller in one e-mail,
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"It's true America has overstepped its bounds in invading Iraq," said one e-mail purportedly written by Reynolds. "Those serious enough to do something about it should e-mail ..."
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Reynolds expressed his disillusion with the United States, saying his goal was to "leave this accursed land forever. It is not the land of the free but the home of the new dictators." Derrick ShareefDec 6, 2006
Rockford Il
"Shareef prepared a martyr’s videotape"
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Shareef allegedly planned to set off the grenades at the CherryVale Shopping Mall, near Interstate 90 and Interstate 39 on Rockford’s east side."I'm ready man, these Kafirs [a term translated as "infidel"] don't give a damn about us, niggers don't care what happens to the Umma [an Arabic word meaning community or nation that is commonly used to mean the collective nation of Islamic states], about sisters getting raped, about brothers losing their(UI)..."
Ismail Yassin MohamedJanuary 31, 2007
Minneapolis, MN
22 years old, stole a car in Minneapolis. He went on a rampage, ramming the stolen car into other cars and then stealing a van and continuing to ram other cars, injuring one person. His father told officials that Mohamed was suffering from mental problems; his mother added he had been depressed and hadn’t been taking his medication. During his rampage, Mohamed repeatedly yelled, “Die, die, die, kill, kill, kill,” and when asked why he did all this, he replied, “Allah made me do it.” Sulejman TalovicFebruary 14, 2007
Salt Lake City
...in light of the fact that there have been several attacks similar to Talovic's committed by Muslims in the last year...
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...and that in each case authorities have discounted the possibility. All I am asking is that the possibility that such attacks are motivated by the jihad ideology, even in the absence of an institutional connection to a group like Al-Qaeda, be duly considered. Is that too much to ask? Ibrihim AhmnedFebruary 18, 2007
Nashville, TN
Two students visiting from Ohio were coming from a bar downtown when they got into an argument with their driver over religion, said police. After they paid the driver he allegedly ran them down in a parking lot.
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Ibrihim Ahmned, a Somalian Muslim, was driving with stolen tags, a suspended license, Fort Dix SixMay 11, 2007
Fort Dix, NJ
"...not only does the jihadist place the blame on those who are more successful, he learns much of his strategy of victimization from our own postmodern Western Left." -- VDH Russell Defreitas, Kareem Ibrihim and Abdul Kadir, Abdul Nur & Adnan ShukrijumahJune 2, 2007
New York, NY
..three people were arrested and one other was being sought Saturday in connection to a plot to blow up jet-fuel lines at John F. Kennedy International Airport, officials said.
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Four people have been charged.
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Defreitas is a U.S. citizen with roots in Guyana.
Kadir, a former member of Parliament in Guyana, was arrested in Trinidad for attempting to secure money for "terrorist operations," according to a Guyanese police commander who spoke on condition of anonymity.
Kadir, a Muslim, left his position in Parliament last year. Muslims make up about 9 percent of the former Dutch and British colony's 770,000 population, mostly from the Sunni sect.
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..the planning stages of the plot involved surveillance of JFK airport as well as scouting out US properties in Guyana for possible attacks.
"There are connections to the radical Islamic group Jamaat al-Muslimeen. One of our posts about the jihad in Trinidad relates some of the violent history of this group; in 1990, they bombed police headquarters, stormed the Trinidad parliament, and took the prime minister and his cabinet hostage in an attempted coup that killed 24 people. And the plotters in that case were eventually pardoned." -- LGF Youssef BouchlarhemJuly 1, 2007
JACKSONVILLE, FL
...an American citizen of Morroccan descent...
...made threatening statements in both Arabic and English saying, "Allah is great," "I am going to blow this place up" and "Kill Me, according to Micheal Edwards, director of the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office Department of Investigations and Homeland Security. Kimberly Al-Homsi & Aisha HamadJuly 17, 2007
Dallas, TX
The two are noteworthy because a few months ago, they were seen at Dallas Love Field, both dressed in camouflage pants under traditional Muslim robes, conducting what appeared to be surveillance, officials said.
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...police searched the home on Wembley Road and found four explosive devices, one of which was sitting on a bedroom table.
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The terrorism angle stems from Feb. 25, when the two women were spotted at Love Field acting in a way authorities found suspicious. Surveillance video showed one of them walking back and forth, apparently pacing off distances. When confronted, the women told officials they were looking for the Frontiers of Flight museum.
Two days later, the pair was spotted at the airport again. This time Ms. Al-Homsi, 42, was sitting on the hood of a car looking through binoculars at airplanes. Dallas officers stopped the car nearby, but the women refused to let police search it, authorities say.
The women also came under scrutiny after they were reported driving near the runways at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport on July 4. Large Cache of Weapons Discovered In Dallas Apartment Near Federal BuildingJuly 18, 2007
Dallas, TX
Federal sources tell CBS 11 News that law enforcement officers have confiscated a large cache of weapons found in an apartment near the federal building in downtown Dallas.
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Police are still taking inventory of all the weapons seized. Among those discovered were two AK-47 rifles, an Uzi 9 millimeter submachine gun, a TEC-9 submachine gun, a 40 millimeter ordnance launcher, a handheld ordnance launcher, and about 500 rounds of ammunition.
Police seized the weapons even though they say it's possible for all of them to be legal.
Child pornography was also found in the apartment, which could lead to criminal charges.
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Authorities tell us the tenant travels to the Middle East frequently and just returned from there this morning.
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However, authorities say there is no reason to suspect terrorism as a motive.
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Dots? The Holy Land Foundation trial jury selection just started. In Dallas. Rahmat AbdhirAugust 4th, 2007
Sunnyvale, CA
The indictment accuses Rahmat of funneling his brother more than $10,000 dollars in cash, dozens of two-way radios, ammunition and other equipment.
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His jungle-based brother, Zulkifli Abdhir, is carrying out terror attacks in the Philippines with Jemaah Islamiyah. Ahmed Mohamed & Yousef MegahedAugust 5th, 2007
Charleston, SC
The two men, described in local media reports as non-U.S. citizens of Middle Eastern descent, were taken into custody late on Saturday near Charleston, South Carolina, after local police noticed what looked like explosives in their Toyota sedan during a routine traffic stop.
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Goose Creek is home to the Naval Weapons Station and the U.S. Naval Consolidated Brig, a military prison where enemy combatants have been held. Houssein ZorkotSept 11th, 2007
Dearborn, MI
A 26-year-old Dearborn resident, Houssein Zorkot, was arraigned in 19th District Court Tuesday on several felony charges, including carrying a dangerous weapon with unlawful intent.
Zorkot, a third-year medical student at Wayne State University, was allegedly armed with an AK-47 assault rifle and dressed in black clothing with camouflage paint covering his face when he was arrested Saturday in Hemlock Park.
According to police, Zorkot was observed attempting to leave the park in a black SUV after officers had received reports of a man carrying a rifle in the area. He was placed under arrest and is scheduled to undergo a preliminary examination at 9 a.m. Sept. 21 in 19th District Court.
Zorkot has also been charged with one count of possession of a loaded firearm in a motor vehicle and one count of felony firearm. Samir ibn Zafar Khan, aka InshallashshaheedOctober 15, 2007
Charlotte, NC
Michael Moss of the New York Times has outted Inshallashaheed, the al Qaeda supporting blogger who we've[Dr. Rusty "John Doe" Shackleford] been investigating for over a year.
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He has a right to out Inshallahshaheed as Samir Khan, but doing so has jeopardized an ongoing investigation into a terror ring which begins in the US and ends in Somalia.
But that's just like the NY Times, isn't it?
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In addition to Khan's known online association with convicted American jihadi Daniel Aljughaifi (aka Abu Mohammed ), we also know that he has had correspondence with members of GIMG--the Global Islamic Media Front. Tahmeed AhmadOctober 23, 2007
Homestead Airbase, FL
...a naturalized US citizen from Kuwait...
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...he was wielding a couple of butcher knives and some bottles of vodka to use as “explosives” (Molotov cocktails?) and he rushed gate guards at the base shouting “Death to America!” and stating that he wanted to kill soldiers. He had tried to buy a gun for the attack, but hadn’t lived in Florida long enough to qualify, so he made do... Fort HuachucaNovember, 2007
Fort Huachuca, AZ
Islamic terrorists with the assistance of Mexican drug cartels might have been planning an attack on the U.S. Army base Fort Huachuca in Arizona, forcing the nation's largest intelligence training center to change security measures back in May. Steven KazmierczakFebruary 14, 2008
Northern Illinois University, IL
A possible motive has emerged for Northern Illinois University mass-murdering loser Steven Kazmierczak — he might have been infected with the Muslim bug. A Muslim journalist named Rasmieyh Abdelnabi knew him personally...
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Kazmierczak's friend Abdelnabi is a radical, who wrote pro-Palestinian articles, spearheaded hijab wearing and was a leader of the Wahhabi Muslim Student Union at NIU. Coincidentally, she wrote a piece on Muslim convert Derrick Shareef, who planned to shoot Jews at a synagogue just down the block from the NIU mosque.
None of this proves Kazmierczak was motivated by Islam. But if the media were as curious as it is dhimmified and politically correct, this would make an interesting lead. Benjamin Baines Jr.February 20, 2008
Tampa, FL
A 21-year-old Clearwater man, Benjamin Baines, was arrested at Tampa International Airport this weekend after security personnel found a box cutter in a hollowed-out book, "Fear Itself", authorities said.
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Officers found books in the backpack titled "Muhammad in the Bible," "The Prophet's Prayer" and "The Noble Qur'an." He also had a copy of the Quran and the Bible.
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Several sheets of paper in the backpack included rap lyrics that referred to police, narcotics, weapons and killing. Police Find IED and Iraqi Cash in Stolen Car in New MexicoApril 17, 2008
Los Lunas, NM
The car was reported stolen last week. After the theft, the car?s owner was fueling his motorcycle when he spotted his stolen car.
?While he was refueling his motorcycle, low and behold, the vehicle that he had reported stolen that belongs to him happened to pull into the gas station area also,? said Los Lunas Police Captain Charles Nuanes.
The car?s owner pulled the keys out of the ignition of his stolen car and the people in the car fled.
When police arrived, they found the explosive device and less than $1,000 worth of Iraqi cash. Sgt. Weiss RasoolApril 22, 2008
Alexandria, VA
A Fairfax County police sergeant was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Alexandria to two years' probation for his admission that he checked police databases for someone who was the target of a federal terrorism case.
Sgt. Weiss Rasool, 31, initially faced up to six months in jail, but federal prosecutors urged U.S. Magistrate Judge Barry R. Poretz to consider as much as a year of jail time after Rasool took a lie-detector test last week and "was not fully compliant" with the test procedures. Prosecutors also said in a motion filed with the court that FBI agents "do not believe that he has been truthful."
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In June 2005, when federal agents had a Fairfax man under surveillance, the man apparently asked Rasool to check the license plates of three vehicles he thought were following him. Rasool's lawyer described the man as a member of Rasool's mosque.
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The three vehicles were undercover FBI vehicles, according to a letter from the FBI filed in court yesterday, and Rasool's message "likely alerted the subject of the FBI investigation which had a disruptive effect on the pending counterterrorism case."
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The target was arrested in November 2005, then convicted and deported, according to court filings in Rasool's case. Assistant U.S. Attorney Jeanine Linehan said that the target and his family were already dressed and destroying evidence at 6 a.m. when agents arrived to make the arrest, indicating that they had been tipped off. Tarek MehannaNovebmer 7th, 2008
Boston, MA
Statements that Tarek Mehanna allegedly made to the FBI two years ago in the midst of a terrorism investigation came back to haunt him last weekend, when the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy graduate was arrested as he was about to board a Boston flight to start a new job overseas.
Mehanna, 26, who was living in a sprawling house in Sudbury with his parents, is charged with lying to the FBI in December 2006 when questioned about the whereabouts and activities of Daniel J. Maldonado, a former Methuen resident who was suspected of training at an Al Qaeda terrorist camp to overthrow the Somali government.
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Mehanna goes by the online handle "Abu Sayaba" and runs the "Iskandari" website which is devoted to promoting the Salafi ideology. Jerome Norvell DensonDecember 8, 2008
Oklahoma City, OK
An off-duty Oklahoma City trooper, Sheldon Robinson, tackled a man praying to Allah who had just threatened to kill everyone at a Burger King.
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"It was one of those deals of being in the right place at the right time," Robinson said. "I believe he would have loaded up that gun and gone to town because he was praying for Allah to help him carry out his mission." Mohammed AlkaramlaMarch 22, 2009
Chicago, IL
The 25-year-old Jordanian national from the Far North Side was arrested and charged with threatening a Jewish school in response to the Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip. James Cromitie, David Williams, Onta Williams and Laguerre PayenMay 20, 2009
New York, NY
The FBI and NYPD busted a four-man homegrown terror cell Wednesday night that was plotting to blow up two Bronx synagogues while simultaneously shooting a plane out of the sky, sources told the Daily News. Abdul Hakim Mujahid MuhammadJune 1st, 2009
Little Rock, AR
Hastings said the attacker [Carlos Bledsoe aka Abdul Hakim Mujahid Muhammad] pulled up in a car outside an Army-Navy recruiting office about 10:30 a.m. local time and fired. The two soldiers were outside the office when shot.
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Recruiting commander Lt. Col Thomas Artis says the victims had just completed basic training and were spending two weeks in Little Rock training to recruit in their home area, showing the difference that less than two months of training made in their lives. Daniel Patrick Boyd, Hysen SherifiJuly 27, 2009
Raleigh, NC
Two men charged in North Carolina last month with plotting terrorist attacks overseas also planned to attack the U.S. Marine Corps base in Quantico, Virginia... Najibullah ZaziSeptember 11, 2009
New York, NY
CNN has surveillance video from one of the beauty shops showing Zazi stocking up on hydrogen peroxide... The Times is now calling this the most serious plot on American soil since 9/11, and understandably so given that it’s the first to allegedly involve training with AQ in the Pakistani hinterlands where the London bombers got their marching orders. Betim KaziuSeptember 18th, 2009
New York, NY
Betim Kaziu, from Brooklyn, became radicalized in part by watching internet videos featuring Anwar al-Awlaki, one of al Qaeda's most high profile commanders, as well as fighters from Somalia's al Qaeda affiliate, al-Shabaab, according to the FBI.
Kaziu was convicted of several charges including conspiring to commit murder overseas and conspiring to provide material support to terrorists.
According to the government's account, in 2009 Kaziu and another man, Sulejah Hadzovic, traveled from New York to Cairo, Egypt, where they attempted to acquire automatic weapons.
From there, Kaziu considered traveling to Somalia to join al-Shabaab but instead went to Albania where he recorded a martyrdom video of his "last few moments." From Albania, Kaziu traveled to Kosovo where the FBI said he planned to carry out attacks against U.S. troops, but instead was arrested in September 2009. By then, he had already purchased a ticket to travel to Pakistan. Hosam Maher Husein SmadiSeptember 24, 2009
Dallas, TX
Smadi was arrested in an FBI sting Thursday. Authorities said the Jordanian, who claimed to be a supporter of al-Qaeda, parked an SUV packed with what he thought were explosives outside Fountain Place, a 60-story office tower at Ross Avenue and Field Street. Talib IslamSeptember 25, 2009
Springfield, IL
The 29-year-old, who idolized American-born Taliban solder John Walker Lindh, was caught in a sting operation set up by U.S. authorities.
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Michael C. Finton, known as Talib Islam, was arrested Wednesday after trying to detonate a van he believed was stuffed with explosives near the Paul Findley Federal Building in Springfield. Abdul Tawala Ibn Ali AlishtariSeptember 30th, 2009
New York, NY
Abdul Tawala Ibn Ali Alishtari admitted in Manhattan Federal Court that he wired the $152,000 overseas, believing the money would buy night vision goggles for killers in a terror boot camp.
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"Alishtari today admitted that he stole millions from investors and knowingly financed what he believed to be tools of terror," said U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara.... Tarek MehannaOctober 21st, 2009
Sudbury, Massachusetts
U.S. federal prosecutors have charged a Massachusetts man with conspiracy to provide material support to terrorists, alleging he and co-conspirators traveled to the Middle East seeking training, discussed attacking a shopping center, and distributed videos promoting holy war.
Tarek Mehanna, 27, from Sudbury, Massachusetts, had been previously indicted in January 2009 for making false statements to the Federal Bureau of Investigation and other officials in connection with a terrorism investigation, the U.S. Justice Department said in a news release on Wednesday.
“Mehanna and the co-conspirators had multiple conversations about obtaining automatic weapons and randomly shooting people in a shopping mall, and that the conversations went so far as to discuss the logistics of a mall attack, including coordination, weapons needed and the possibility of attacking emergency responders,” the Justice Department said. David Coleman Headley and Tahawwur Hussain RanaOctober 27th, 2009
Chicago, Illinois
Two Chicago men were charged with plotting to attack “facilities and employees” of a Danish newspaper that printed cartoons depicting the Islamic prophet Muhammad in 2005, a federal prosecutor said.
David Coleman Headley, 49, and Tahawwur Hussain Rana, 48, were accused of conspiring to assist in or perpetrate terrorist acts against the newspaper’s facilities... Luqman Ameen Abdullah, imam of the Masjid Al-Haqq mosqueOctober 28th, 2009
Detroit, Michigan
Abdullah, 53, also known as Christopher Thomas, as "a highly placed leader of a nationwide radical fundamentalist Sunni group."
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The Ummah is headed nationally by Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, formerly known as H. Rap Brown, who is serving a state sentence for the murder of two police officers in Georgia.
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The others charged are:Mohammad Abdul Salaam, also known as Gregory Stone, 45, of Detroit with conspiracy to commit federal crimes and sale or receipt of stolen goods.
Abdullah Beard, also known as Detric Lamont Driver, 37, of Detroit with conspiracy to commit federal crimes.
Abdul Saboor, also known as Dwayne Edward Davis, 37, of Detroit with conspiracy to commit federal crimes.
Mujahid Carswell, also known as Mujahid Abdullah, 30, of Detroit and Ontario, Canada, with conspiracy to commit federal crimes.
Adam Ibraheem, 38, of Detroit with conspiracy to commit federal crimes.
Gary Laverne Porter, 59, of Detroit with conspiracy to commit federal crimes and possession of firearms by a convicted felon.
Ali Abdul Raqib, 57, of Detroit with conspiracy to commit federal crimes.
Mohammad Alsahi, also known as Mohammad Palestine, 33, of Ontario, Canada, with conspiracy to commit federal crimes.
Yassir Ali Khan, 30, of Ontario, Canada, and Warren, with conspiracy to commit federal crimes.
Mohammad Abdul Bassir, also known as Franklin D. Roosevelt Williams, 50, of Ojibway Correctional Facility with conspiracy to commit federal crimes, sale or receipt of stolen goods, mail fraud, supplying firearms to felons, possession of weapons by a felon, and altering or removing motor vehicle identification numbers.
A.C. Pusha, charged in a separate complaint late Wednesday with conspiracy to receive and sell stolen goods. ...Yellow police tape was put up outside the Dearborn warehouse and a Dearborn police car was parked outside.
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CAIR helped finance the legal appeal of Muslim cop-killer Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, who is named in the Detroit criminal complaint as the spiritual leader of a radical group that calls for violent action to establish a sovereign Islamic state within the U.S.
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Abdullah served together with at least two CAIR figures in the governing body of the Muslim Alliance in North America, or MANA, a national network of mosques, Muslim organizations and individuals "committed to work together to address certain urgent needs within the Muslim community."
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Former CAIR national advisory board member and current fundraiser Siraj Wahhaj is a MANA leader along with Ihsan Bagby, a longtime member of CAIR's board of directors. Malik Nadal HasanNovember 6th, 2009
Fort Hood, Texas
A shooting rampage Thursday afternoon at the Army's Fort Hood in Texas killed 11 and wounded 31 before the gunman, Major Malik Nadal Hasan was shot and taken into custody. At least six months ago, Hasan came to the attention of law enforcement officials because of Internet postings about suicide bombings and other threats, including posts that equated suicide bombers to soldiers who throw themselves on a grenade to save the lives of their comrades. Abdul MudallahDecember 25th, 2009
Detroit, MI
A male passenger on an international flight bound for Detroit Friday tried to blow up the plane with an explosive device... Kimberly al-Homsi & Yasinul AnsariFebruary 13th, 2010
Dallas, Texas
A bomb scare that shut down Loop 820 for five hours Saturday night was no hoax and involved a woman who is no stranger to authorities, federal agents said.
Three explosive devices were found inside a pickup that had fled police, said special agent Tom Crowley of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. Yes... this is the second mention of Syrian born Kimberly al-Homsi who was picked up July 17th 2007 scouting the location.
Raja Lahrasib KhanA plot by Al Qaeda to blow up a sports stadium was foiled when a British-based courier was arrested.
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A Chicago cab driver was arrested Friday on federal charges of attempting to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization for allegedly trying to send money to al Qaida, according to U.S. law enforcement officials. James A. LarryApril 14th, 2010
Chicago, IL
He killed his family because they refused to convert to Islam.
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...shot his mother, Leona Larry...
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...murdering his 19-year-old pregnant wife, Twanda Thompson, his 7-month-old son named Jihad, a three-year-old niece and a 16-year-old niece. He shot his 13-year-old nephew, Demond Larry, in the face, but the boy survived. He then tried to shoot a man living in the basement, but thankfully, the gun didn't fire.
A 12-year-old niece who was upstairs heard the commotion, saw her dead relatives, and ran out of the house. Abdullah Muhammad MuslimApril 16th, 2010
Columbus, OH
...a large amount of weapons were found at the home of a man who allegedly stole the identity of someone bound to a wheelchair and suffering from cerebral palsy, and used it to try to flee the country.
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Investigators said they found two AK 47s, a 9mm semiautomatic rifle and more than 1,000 rounds of ammunition, pipe bomb materials, a ballistic face mask and vest, and a flak jacket.
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No doubt Abdullah Muhammad Muslim intended to fashion pipe bombs of peace. Faisal ShahzadMay 2nd, 2010
New York, NY
The dark green Nissan Pathfinder with tinted windows, loaded with propane tanks and fertilizer, was parked near the junction of 45th Street and Broadway.
...a 30-year-old U.S. citizen from Pakistan... International phone records reportedly show calls between Shazhad and/or other suspects and overseas elements... Tamsir MendyJuly 5th, 2010
Marietta, GA
...charged with setting fire to a Marietta mosque he had attended... an illegal alien. Sami Samir HassounSeptember 18th, 2010
Chicago, IL
Federal authorities say they've arrested a 22-year-old man who allegedly placed a backpack on a crowded Chicago street corner over the weekend thinking it contained an explosive. Farooque AhmedOctober 26, 2010
New York, NY
...[planning to] bomb the Arlington Cemetery, Pentagon City, Crystal City and Court House stations, according to a federal indictment. Mohamed Osman Mohamud26 November, 2010
Portland, OR
"Mohamed Osman Mohamud, a naturalized U.S. citizen from Somalia and resident of Corvallis, Oregon, was arrested after he attempted to detonate what he believed to be an explosives-laden van that was parked near the tree lighting ceremony in Portland's Pioneer Courthouse Square,"the FBI said in a statement on its website today. Awais YounisDecember 7th, 2010
Washington, DC
...rested for threatening to blow up bombs on the DC Metro system. Muhammad HussainDecember 8th, 2010
Baltimore, MD
...has been arrested in the Baltimore area for plotting to blow up a military recruitment center. Sam Hassan DalyFebruary 12th, 2011
San Diego, CA
A taxi cab driver plowed slowly into a crowd on a sidewalk in San Diego's busy Gaslamp District early Saturday, injuring more than two dozen people, police said.
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..."some victims don't believe it was an accident," and bystanders were so enraged when it first happened that they dragged Daly out of his cab and started kicking and punching him -- not behavior one usually sees after an accident. Daly, for his part, came out of the cab clutching a pair of scissors, and apparently tried to attack the club manager with them -- again, not behavior one usually associates with someone who has just caused a terrible accident and is contrite and horrified. Khalid Ali-M AldawsariFebruary 24th, 2011
Dallas, TX
...seeking to bomb targets in the United States, including the home of former President George W. Bush.
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...20-year-old Khalid Ali-M Aldawsari, a Saudi citizen, wrote in his journal that he had "mastered" English, learned how to build explosives, planned his targets, and it was not "time for jihad (holy war)."
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Aldawsari allegedly bought chemicals and equipment necessary to make bombs. Mohammed AzamMarch 7th, 2011
New York, NY
Early Sunday morning, four men hailed a cab in Manhattan and asked to go to the Bronx. The cabdriver refused, and then ran two of them over with his taxi, sending them to the hospital, according to the New York City Police Department. Rageh Al-MurisiMay 10th, 2011
San Francisco, CA
Court documents say Al-Murisi repeatedly yelled "Allahu Akbar," or Arabic for "God is great," and tried twice to open the cockpit door before being subdued by a crew member and several passengers, including a former Secret Service agent and retired San Mateo police officer Larry Wright. Ahmed Ferhani & Mohamed MamdouhMay 12th, 2011
Dallas, TX
...charges of plotting to blow up a Manhattan synagogue.
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..investigators with the Joint Terrorism Task Force declined to prosecute the case, saying the plan was more aspirational than operational, sources said.
The district attorney's office then picked up the case and is expected to charge the men under a state anti-terrorism law. Hafiz Khan & Izhar KhanMay 14th, 2011
Miami, FL
Six American Muslims were charged with jihad. One of those Muslims arrested, a Miami Imam, "sent children from the madrassa to learn to kill Americans in Afghanistan."
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US officials arrested three Pakistani Americans including two imams Saturday, charging them and three others with providing or seeking to provide "material support" to the Pakistani Taliban... Sharif Ahmed NourMay 23rd, 2011
Dallas, TX
Muslim cab driver arrested after bomb squad removes prohibited weapons from his apartment Waad Ramadan Alwan & Mohanad Shareef HammadiMay 24th, 2011
Bowling Green, KY
Waad Ramadan Alwan, 30, and Mohanad Shareef Hammadi, 23, both former residents of Iraq who currently reside in Bowling Green, were charged in a 23-count indictment returned by a federal grand jury in Bowling Green on May 26, 2011. Alwan is charged with conspiracy to kill U.S. nationals abroad; conspiracy to use a weapon of mass destruction (explosives) against U.S. nationals abroad; distributing information on the manufacture and use of IEDs; attempting to provide material support to terrorists and to al Qaeda in Iraq; as well as conspiracy to transfer, possess, and export Stinger missiles. Hammadi is charged with attempting to provide material support to terrorists and to al Qaeda in Iraq, as well as conspiracy to transfer, possess, and export Stinger missiles. Samira Abdalla SalimJune 2nd, 2011
Twin Cities, MN
She had a reputation for handing out the Koran and talking religion outside the building.
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Salim is accused of stabbing two people. The first victim was a woman who was walking into the library.
"The next thing she knew, she felt a sharp pain in the middle of her back and realized she had been stabbed," said Stehlik.
The second was a security guard who heard the victim's cry for help. He went to talk to Salim in the parking lot.
"Spoke to her briefly and then she actually stabbed him as well. Stabbed him in the abdomen," said Stehlik. Twenty Somali Muslims Charged . . . in MinnesotaJune 9th, 2011
Twin Cities, MN
Ahmed Hussein Mahamud, 26, made his initial appearance Thursday morning in federal court for the Southern District of Ohio. He is on his way to Minnesota to face charges that he provided money and personnel to Al-Shabab, a group defined as a terrorist organization by the U.S. State Department.
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The indictments come from a three-year investigation into the recruiting, training and funding of Somalis from the U.S. to return to their homeland to fight. Saddam MohsinJune 13th, 2011
Detroit, MI
Muslim driver intentionally runs down and kills police officer Name of resident alien not released by PoliceJune 13th, 2011
Washington, DC
A 51-year-old woman who lives in McLean dropped to her knees and said, "You killed my family. Now I'm going to kill you all,"
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...before throwing a backpack onto the train and exiting... Yonathan MelakuJune 20th, 2011
Washington, DC
...he recorded himself shooting at the National Museum of the Marine Corps and have linked him to a string of five shootings in October and November.
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Melaku allegedly yelled "Allahu Akbar" as he fired shots at the building. Abu Khalid Abdul-Latif & Walli MujahidhJun 22nd, 2011
Seattle, WA
...says two men have been arrested in a plot to attack a military recruiting station in Seattle with machine guns and grenades. Seattle resident Abu Khalid Abdul-Latif, also known as Joseph Anthony Davis, of Seattle, and Walli Mujahidh, also known as Frederick Domingue Jr. of Los Angeles ...
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...the two men planned to attack a station in Seattle where military enlistees are processed. The building, on East Marginal Way, also houses a daycare. Naser AbdoJuly 28th, 2011
Ft Hood, TX
Private First Class Naser Abdo, a 20-year-old Muslim servicemember currently serving in the U.S. Army and seeking Conscientious Objector (C.O.) status on the grounds of Islam, is a Muslim peacemaker. He states, "As I studied Islam and Islam's commitment to peace, I developed an entirely new perspective on war and conscience. That's when I realized my conscience would not allow me to deploy."
Abdo was allegedly found with explosives and jihadist materials at the time of his arrest...
At his arraignment he shouted "Nidal Hasan - Fort Hood 2009!", suspect in the Ft Hood Massacre 2 years before, Rezwan FerdausSeptember 28th, 2011
Washington, DC
...plotting to damage the Pentagon and US Capitol with a remote-controlled aircraft filled with C-4 plastic explosives. Shareef AllmanOctober 6th, 2011
Sunnyvale, CA
...disgruntled employee accused of opening fire on his co-workers at a California limestone quarry... Iranian agent Adel Al-JubeirOctober 11th, 2011
Washington, DC
...the plot included the assassination of the Saudi Arabian ambassador to the United States, Adel Al-Jubeir, with a bomb and subsequent bomb attacks on the Saudi and Israeli embassies in Washington, D.C. Bombings of the Saudi and Israeli embassies in Buenos Aires, Argentina... 5 Muslims who broke into courthouse questioned by FBIOctober 19th, 2011
San Antonio, TX
Five men in their twenties, described as French-Moroccan Muslims, are being questioned by the FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force and by officials of the Department of Homeland Security after they were arrested inside the 120 year old Bexar County Courthouse in downtown San Antonio shortly before 2 this morning
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There is a military intelligence convention underway at the city's Convention Center several blocks away...
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Documents found inside the van showed the men, all in their 20s, had traveled extensively to high-level security facilities around the country, according to local media reports. Amina Farah Ali and Hawo Mohamed HassanOctomber 21st, 2011
Rochester, MN
Two Muslim women convicted of raising money for Somali jihadists
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Some 18 people have been charged in Minnesota in an investigation into efforts to recruit Americans to train or fight in Somalia. Mohammed Khalid & Ali Charaf DamacheOctober 24th, 2011
Baltimore, MD
Mohammed Khalid, a high school honors student from Pakistan, is charged with helping "Jihad Jane" to kill a Swedish cartoonist.
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Indictments also were filed against a second Muslim, 46-year-old Ali Charaf Damache, an Algerian who married another American suspect, Jamie Paulin-Ramirez, in Ireland. Tyler BrehmDecember 10th, 2011
Los Angeles, CA
A deranged man pointed his gun at more than a dozen, and opened fire at random drivers and pedestrians in Hollywood Friday morning.
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Witnesses said that officers repeatedly told the man to drop his weapon before fatally shooting the gunman. AP reports that while shooting, Brehm was screaming that he wanted to die. In addition to the man shot in the jaw, two other people were treated at the scene for minor injuries. One man suffered a grazing wound to his left thigh when a bullet passed through his car door. Another man had minor cuts from broken glass after bullet struck the driver door where it met the window. Jameela BarnetteDecember 25th, 2011
Marietta, GA
Jameela Barnette, 53, of Marietta, was slapped with federal charges last month for sending New York State Sen. Greg Ball (R,C-Patterson) a vial of perfume, a hate-filled letter and a doll of the monkey Curious George wearing two Stars of David.
She had also mailed a pig's foot to Rep. Peter King (R-L.I.) in response to controversial hearings he held in March on the purported radicalization of American Muslims, Politico has reported.
A spokesman for Cobb County Police said an armed Barnette was shot to death after officers responded to a panic alarm she activated at her apartment at 11 a.m. Christmas Day.
When the cops arrived, Barnette opened the door while wielding a knife and a handgun and assaulted an officer with the blade... Sami OsmakacJanuary 9th, 2012
Tampa, FL
A 25-year-old man described as an Islamic extremist was arrested in an alleged plot to attack crowded areas in the Tampa, Fla., area with a car bomb, assault rifle and other explosives... Luis Ibarra-HernandezJanuary 10th, 2012
Gadsden, AL
A man thought to be an Islamic extremist is believed to have shot the windows out of at least two businesses in Alabama City early Sunday to lure police officers to the area and engage them in a shootout.
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Shots were fired over about six blocks, and at least eight officers were shot at, before officers talked the man into dropping his weapon. Jamshid MuhtorovJanuary 23rd, 2012
Aurora, CO
Muhtorov, who goes by several other names, was indicted on charges of providing and attempting to provide material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization. Prosecutors allege he planned to fight for the Islamic Jihad Union, which has been blamed for suicide attacks in Uzbekistan and claimed responsibility for numerous attacks against coalition forces in Afghanistan.
An FBI affidavit said the group also carried out simultaneous suicide bombings of the U.S. and Israeli embassies and a prosecutor's office in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. El KhalifiFebruary 17th, 2012
Washington, DC
...arrested on his way to the U.S. Capitol for what he thought would be a suicide attack...
...he had been praying at a mosque in the Washington area. His destination was Capitol Hill.
...illegal alien who overstayed his Visa from 1999 Adel DaoudSeptember 15th, 2012
Chicago, IL
Chicago teen was arrested in Chicago for trying to blow up a bar with a car bomb...
Nope... nothing to see here but 'random acts' by 'mentally unstable' individuals with 'no ties to international terrorism.'
Every terrorist act prevented is a defeat because the apologists immediately claim that terrorist would not have committed the crime and was 'entrapped'.
Every successful terrorist attack is a defeat because the apologists claim it is a 'response' by powerless victims no matter how absurd those claims might be.
NYPD isn't buying that:NYPD Radicalization in the West: The Homegrown Threat Consider the remarkable story of Jihad Jane:Nada Nadim ProutyDespite using a sham marriage to fraudulently obtain citizenship and having multiple personal connections to a suspected Hezbollah financier, Nada Nadim Prouty, a 37-year-old illegal alien from Lebanon, rose quickly through the FBI, then later the CIA.
Kent State's Jihadist ProfJulio PinoThe heading for the site used to read "The Worldwide Web of Jihad: Daily News from the Most Dangerous Muslim in America." Now it reads "Are You Prepared for Jihad?" IN THE NAME OF OBL. 2007: THE YEAR OF ISLAMIC VICTORY!"
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Although obsessed with the notion that America is being over-run by "Christian fascism," he has affectionately referred to his students his "little Jihadists" and his "beloved Taliban." In other words, he makes no bones about the fact that he works to indoctrinate, not educate, the children of the taxpayers of the State of Ohio.
The world of University of South FloridaWORLD ISLAM STUDY ENTERPRISEThe World Islam Study Enterprise (WISE) was established as an "Islamic think tank" in 1991 by four professors at the University of South Florida (USF): Sami Al-Arian, his brother-in-law Mazen al Najjar, Khalil Shikaki, and Ramadan Abdullah Shallah.
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Sponsored events that featured radical Islamic speakers, including Sheik Omar Abdul Rahman, who was convicted in connection with the 1993 World Trade Center bombing
Was shut down in 1995 by federal authorities; all the principals are either in jail, deported, or in terrorist cells in the Middle East Sami Al-ArianAnother WISE board member, Tarik Hamdi, was known by U.S. authorities to have personally met with Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan in May 1998, giving him a satellite telephone and battery pack to facilitate the latter's orchestration of terrorist activities.
During its four-year existence, WISE sponsored numerous public events such as lectures given by: Islamic Group leader Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman, who was later convicted in connection with the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center; Rashid-el-Ghanoushi, a Tunisian who was considered a terrorist by the U.S. State Department; and Hassan Turabi, who is generally considered the real leader of the terrorist Sudanese government. According to Oliver Revell, the FBI's former top counterterrorism official, "anybody who brings in Hassan Turabi is supporting terrorists."
An FBI raid of WISE offices yielded no fewer than 500 videotapes of Al-Arian's conferences in mosques across the United States, where he raised funds for PIJ. At these events, Al-Arian proudly accepted introductions as "the President of the Islamic Committee for Palestine … the active arm of the Islamic Jihad Movement." The videos further showed a number of individuals at these rallies praising the killing of Jews and Christians. The WISE raid also turned up a letter written by Al-Arian in Arabic praising a Palestinian Islamic Jihad suicide bombing that caused the deaths of 19 Israeli soldiers in 1995.
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The FBI further learned that Al-Arian had connections to the blind sheik Omar Abdel Rahman, mastermind of the first World Trade Center attack in 1993; to Hamas official Mohammed Sakr; to the high-ranking Sudanese terrorist Hassan Turbai; and to Islamic Jihad co-founder Abdel Aziz-Odeh.
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On December 6, 2005, Al-Arian was acquitted on eight of the seventeen counts against him, including "conspiracy to murder and maim people abroad," which was the most serious charge. The remaining nine counts ended in what was considered a mistrial, as the jury was deadlocked on them. In his summation, Al-Arian’s attorney conceded that Al-Arian was an operative for PIJ. A reporter covering the trial summarized: “The trial exposed the professor as having been deeply enmeshed in the internal workings of Palestinian Islamic Jihad …” Khalil ShikakiShiqaqi is the brother of Fathi Shiqaqi, the founder of Palestinian Islamic Jihad, which is responsible for killing over 100 people in Israel. Fathi Shiqaqi was assassinated by Israel in 1995.
Khalil Shiqaqi now owns the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research and is an associate professor of political science at Bir Zeit University. Ramadan Abdullah ShallahWhen Palestinian Islamic Jihad leader Fathi Shaqaqi was assassinated by an Israeli agent in 1995, Shallah was named as his replacement. Mazen Al-NajjarIn 1991 University of South Florida Arabic language professor Mazen al Najjar was a founding member – along with Sami Al-Arian, Khalil Shikaki, and Ramadan Abdullah Shallah – of the World Islam Study Enterprise (WISE). WISE was an Islamic think tank that sponsored events around the United States featuring speakers like Sheik Omar Abdul Rahman, who was later convicted for his role as the mastermind of the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center. WISE was shut down in 1995 after some of its founders were arrested for ties to terrorism or were deported.
Al Najjar was arrested on secret FBI evidence that he was supporting terrorism, but was released years later when the U.S. government would not reveal its sources. In August 2002 he was deported to the United Arab Emirates for a visa violation.
Al Najjar appears to be an un-indicted co-conspirator of Sami al-Arian
The world of CAIRCAIR's employeesTo sum up the state of CAIR's legal play: two of its associates (Ghassan Elashi, Randall Royer) have been convicted on terrorism-related charges, one (Bassem Khafegi) convicted on fraud charges, two (Rabih Haddad, Bassem Khafegi) have been deported, and one (Siraj Wahhaj) remains at large.
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...an extensive web of ties between CAIR on the one hand and Global Relief and another shuttered "Islamic charity," the Holy Land Foundation. Randall ("Ismail") Royer... a convert to Islam and a Muslim activist who had fought in Bosnia and trained with Lashkar-e-Taiba. Royer, a St. Louis native, was at the Sept. 16, 2001 meeting and had a long history of encouraging fellow Muslims to train with Lashkar, which the United States designated a terrorist entity in December 2001.
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...pled guilty in January 2004 to a two-count criminal information charging him with aiding and abetting the use and discharge of a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence, and with aiding and abetting the carrying of an explosive during the commission of a felony. … Royer was sentenced today to 20 years in prison. Judge [Leonie] Brinkema sentenced him to serve 10 years in prison on both counts, and the sentences are to run consecutively. In addition, he was sentenced to three years of supervised release. Siraj Wahhaj,...was named as one of the "unindicted persons who may be alleged as co-conspirators" in the attempt to blow up New York City monuments nearly a decade ago. Ghassan Elashi (a founding board member of CAIR's Texas chapter), Basman Elashi, and Bayan ElashiGhassan and four of his brothers were convicted on July 7, 2004 of supporting terrorism by sending seven high-tech shipments to Libya and four to Syria (the five still await sentencing). And today, Ghassan and two brothers were convicted of supporting terrorism by sending money to Mousa Abu Marzook, one of the leaders of Hamas, the Palestinian terrorist group. Ghassan and one brother (Bayan) were found guilty of all 21 counts they faced, including conspiracy, money laundering and dealing in property of a terrorist. Another brother (Basman) was convicted of three counts of conspiracy and acquitted of other charges. Rabih Haddad, executive director of the Global Relief FoundationIn 1988, Haddad and his wife, Salma al-Rushaid, moved to Pakistan. While there, Haddad went to work for Mekhtab Al-Khidemat (MAK), an organization co-founded by Osama bin Laden and Abdallah Azzam (bin Laden’s mentor)
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In December 2001, at the time of the GRF’s closure by the U.S. government, Haddad was taken into custody. He was found to have overstayed his temporary tourist visa, which was granted to him in 1998. Haddad was considered a “flight risk,” since at the time of his arrest, authorities discovered a firearm and several boxes of ammunition at his residence. He spent 19 months in prison, much of it in solitary confinement.
Haddad also worked as a fundrariser for the Council on American-Islamic Relations.
In July 2003, Haddad and his entire family were deported by the United States to Lebanon. Bassem Khafagi...he pled guilty in a Detroit federal court to two counts of bank fraud and one count of visa fraud – is connected to Rafil Dhafir, the Syracuse-area oncologist accused of illegally sending money to Iraq via a charity called "Help the Needy." Specifically, Khafagi and Dhafir jointly "owned a Sir Speedy printing franchise in Ann Arbor, Mich., until 1998." The connection between the two – one an Islamist and the other accused of being a Saddam Hussein agent – appears to be their affiliation to the Michigan-based Islamic Assembly of North America. A major article on this organization in the Washington Post quotes court papers describing it as engaged in the "dissemination of radical Islamic ideology, the purpose of which was indoctrination, recruitment of members and the instigation of acts of violence and terrorism." Rafil DhafirOn February 10, 2005, Dhafir was found guilty on 59 of the 60 federal charges against him, ending a 15-week trial. The prosecution successfully argued, among other things, that Dhafir had embezzled over half a million dollars from Help the Needy for his own purposes. The Justice Department also contended that little of the more than $4 million raised by his organization over nine years went to serve the people of Iraq.
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Dhafir's organization, Help the Needy, is affiliated with the Islamic Assembly of North America (IANA), a group which Federal investigators allege funnels money to activities supporting terrorism. Dhafir was IANA's chairman at one time. IANA co-founder Bassem Khafagi has pled “guilty” in federal court in Detroit to two counts of bank fraud and one count of visa fraud. HTN’s web master, Sami Omar Al-Hussayen, was a Saudi doctoral student at the University of Idaho who also ran websites linked or belonging to the IANA and posted fatwas from Salan Al-Awdah and Safar Al-Hawali, both supporters of suicide attacks against the U.S. In addition, HTN gave over $42,000 to the Global Relief Foundation and the Benevolence International Foundation, both of which have been designated “global terrorist-support organizations” by the U.S. government.
It's happening right here in Dearbornistan, Michigan: Currently Islam-based terror supporting groups operate right here in the USA:Holyland Foundation
CAIR
AL-HARAMAIN
The Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA)
Muslim American Society (MAS)
American Muslim Council
More... You can find a partial list of who-is-who at:The Investigative ProjectGroups and NetworksMuslim Students Association (MSA) Individual TerroristsAl-Arian, Sami
Al-Timimi, Ali
Azzam, Abdullah
Damra, Fawaz
Gadahn, Adam
Marzook, Mousa Abu
Mohammed, Khalid Sheikh
Rahman, Omar Abdel
Shukrijumah, Adnan el
Yousef, Ramzi Apologists or ExtremistsAhmad, Omar
al-Marayati, Salam
al-Qaradawi, Yusuf
Awad, Nihad
Bray, Mahdi
Hathout, Maher
Hooper, Ibrahim
Jaber, Rafeeq
Ramadan, Tariq Terrorist Organizations and Other Groups of ConcernAbu Nidal Organization (ANO)
Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG)
Al Qaeda
Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade
Al-Badhr Mujahedin (al-Badr)
Al-Ittihad al-Islami (AIAI)
Al-Jihad (AJ)
Al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI)
Ansar al-Sunna (AS)
Armed Islamic Group (GIA)
Asbat al-Ansar
East Turkistan Islamic Movement (ETIM)
Gama'a al-Islamiyya (IG)
HAMAS
Harakat ul-Jihad-I-Islami (HUJI)
Harakat ul-Mujahedin (HUM)
Harakat-ul-Jihad-I-Islami/Bangladesh (HUJI-B)
Hizb-I Islami Gulbuddin (HIG)
Hizballah
Hizbul-Mujahedin (HM)
Islamic Army of Aden (IAA)
Islamic Great Eastern Raiders–Front (IBDA-C)
Islamic International Peacekeeping Brigade
Islamic Jihad Group (IJU)
Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU)
Jaish-e-Mohammed (JEM)
Jamaatul-Mujahedin Bangladesh (JMB)
Jamiat ul-Mujahedin (JUM)
Jemaah Islamiya (JI)
Kahane Chai
Kumpulan Mujahedin Malaysia (KMM)
Lashkar e-Tayyiba (LeT)
Lashkar-i-Jhangvi (LJ)
Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG)
Moroccan Islamic Combatant Group (GICM)
Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MEK)
Palestine Liberation Front (PLF)
Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ)
People Against Gangsterism and Drugs (PAGAD)
PFLP-GC
Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine
Rajah Sulaiman Movement (RSM)
Riyadus-Salikhin Reconnaissance and Sabotage
Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC)
Sipah-I-Sahaba/Pakistan (SSP)
Special Purpose Islamic Regiment (SPIR)
Tunisian Combatant Group (TCG)
Turkish Hizballah
So soon, we'll be seeing stories like this..."The year 2001 saw the shooting down over Ukraine of a Sibir airliner from Israel to Russia, killing 77, ascribed to the accidental launching of a Ukrainian military missile; and the crash of American Airlines 587 in New York, killing 265, where the NTSB found "no evidence [of] … any criminality" despite the possible presence of an Al-Qaeda operative" -- Daniel Pipes |
