'Book of Jihad' found in terror suspects' Lodi home, FBI says

Mercury News & AP ^ | March 16, 2006

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'Book of Jihad' found in terror suspects' Lodi home, FBI says

DON THOMPSON

Associated Press

SACRAMENTO - Federal agents found publications promoting jihad and a Pakistani militant group in the central California home of a father and son charged with lying about involvement in an al-Qaida training camp, a prosecutor said Wednesday.

FBI officials found the items while searching the family home in Lodi two days after the men were arrested last June, Assistant U.S. Attorney Robert Tice-Raskin said during the men's trial in U.S. District Court.

"This is the book entitled 'Book of Jihad,'" he said. "It teaches the virtues of violent jihad," the Arabic term for holy war.

A magazine found with the book was published in Urdu by "a well-known militant group in Pakistan," Tice-Raskin told U.S. District Judge Garland Burrell Jr.

FBI agent Bridget Cox testified that the magazine had "pictures of violence, dead persons and military items like machine guns." She said financial and insurance documents were seized with the publications.

Agents searching their home also found a scrapbook kept by Hamid Hayat that was filled with anti-American Pakistani newspaper articles that defend al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden and Afghanistan's Taliban, and indict the United States as "the world's biggest terrorist." The articles date from 1999 to just after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

[Srirangan]

Koranimal's can read?

[aynrandfreak]

So they found some books on self improvement, big deal. That's what Jihad means, right? /sarc

[kimosabe31]

I suppose we'll hear the usual "official" smokescreening statement:

"At this point, we have no information that suggests that there is any additional threat posed by others related to this incident."

[SquirrelKing]

This it?

[CarrotAndStick]

http://www.subcontinent.com/sapra/research/terrorism/tr_1999_01_002_s.html

Before May 1998, the Markaz and its Lashkar had designated India and Israel as the principal enemies of Islam, but after the US bombings of Afghanistan in August,1998, they have included the US also in their enemies’ list and have been calling for a jihad against the US too in which they have called upon the Muslim citizens of the US too to join.

Addressing the annual congregations of the two organisations at Muridke ( November 4 to 6,1998), Prof. Mohammed Saeed, their Amir, said that all evil in the world emanated from the White House which would be blown up by the Muslims. He expressed the determination of his organisations to have the flag of Islam planted in New Delhi, Tel Aviv and Washington.

[barj]

Circumstantial. Yes, important in building a case, but in and of itself, not important. I have a copy of Mein Kampf and the Communist Manifesto, but that hardly proves anything.

[msnimje]

They also found a copy of "How to Make Enemies and Influence Infidels."

[Ouderkirk]

I have come to the realization that the only good muslim is a dead muslim

[Red Badger]

Oh, Lord! Stuck in Lodi.....again.............

[Red Badger]

It proves you have a need for a Barnes & Nobles Gift Card.......

[barj]

"It proves you have a need for a Barnes & Nobles Gift Card......."

Gee thanks. Do you need my address to know where to send it? How do you know I won't buy more garbage?

Thanks for the laugh.

[Proud_USA_Republican]

Send them to Gitmo via catapult.