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JIHAD FEAR IN QUEENS - GANG’S UGLY TACTICS
NY Post ^ | 6/9/06
Posted on June 9, 2006 7:50:15 AM PDT by areafiftyone
June 9, 2006 — The Queens chapter of an international jihadist group - founded by the Brooklyn College grad accused of being an al Qaeda sympathizer - is terrorizing people in the extremist’s old stomping grounds, residents said yesterday.
“They have a lot of hatred [but] the police said they can’t do anything about them,” Kana Chauhan, president of the Jackson Heights Merchants Association, said of the radical group Al Muhajiroun.
The organization is tied to suspected terrorist ally Syed “Fahad” Hashmi, a disciple of Syrian cleric Omar Bakri who was banned from speaking on English college campuses.
The Queens-bred Hashmi, who was arrested in London Wednesday on charges he moved funds and military gear to notorious terror camps in Pakistan, founded the local chapter of the extremist group. Each weekend, it sets up its hate-spewing operation on 37th Avenue and 74th Street.
“They’re against America, they make trouble,” local merchant Amarjit Singh said. “Whatever they say is really nasty.”
Hashmi, who has called the United States “the biggest terrorist in the world” and is a fan of homegrown Taliban fighter John Walker Lindh, was indicted last month in Manhattan. He’s fighting extradition in Britain.
Meanwhile, nearly every Saturday for more than a year, Hashmi’s buddies - who call themselves the Islamic Thinkers - have unloaded their propaganda from a minivan and set up a table festooned with anti-U.S. banners and fliers.
Then, shouting and using a megaphone, the young firebrands - most are in their 20s and early 30s - walk the street spewing hate.
“They display pictures of people dying in the war. They want people to feel they’re right and get them thinking against [President] Bush and America,” said Sarabjit Damber, 24.
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U.S. Citizen Is Indicted in Terror Conspiracy
NY Times ^ | June 7, 2006 | ANEMONA HARTOCOLLIS and AL BAKER
Posted on June 7, 2006 5:55:57 PM PDT by neverdem
An American citizen who once lived and attended college in New York City was indicted today on charges of conspiring to send money and military gear to al Qaeda associates who lived in Pakistan, the United States attorney’s office in Manhattan said.
The defendant, Syed Hashmi, 26, was arrested in London’s Heathrow Airport on Tuesday night, as he was trying to board a flight to Pakistan, prosecutors said.
Law enforcement officials said the arrest of Mr. Hashmi reinforced their belief that New York was a nexus in a web of worldwide terrorist activity. Mr. Hashmi had an address in Flushing, Queens, until about three years ago, and graduated from Brooklyn College with a degree in political science, officials said.
Officials said Mr. Hashmi was a member of al Muhajiroun, a London-based group that is active in New York. Investigators have characterized al Muhajiroun as a religious group largely made up of devout Muslims. A small number of them have been involved in terrorist activity. The group has been connected to the Finsbury Park Mosque in London.
Between January 2004 and May 2006, Mr. Hashmi and at least one other man who has previously been arrested in New York conspired to provide “material support or resources” to members of al Qaeda, Osama bin Laden’s terrorist organization, according to the federal grand jury.
Prosecutors refused yesterday to name the other man. But law enforcement sources said that Mr. Hashmi had become acquainted with another Queens man, Mohammed Junaid Babar, who was taken into custody in Queens in April 2004, through his association with al Muhajiroun.
The New York Police Department and the Joint Terrorist Task Force have monitored the activities of Al Muhajiroun, which officials said had supposedly disbanded as of last year.
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