Photos and another article:
http://www.adn.com/2010/07/21/1375801/couple-to-plead-guilty-to-terrorism.html
http://media.adn.com/smedia/2010/07/21/15/terrorhm.highlight.prod_affiliate.7.jpg
These people are this country’s enemies. And Americans should never forget that fact. They are the equivalent of spies and saboteurs.
Sheesh. The guy is an average white guy weather technician who works for the US government in a place called King Salmon, Alaska. And then he becomes a Muslim (why?), along with his probably Russian-descended British wife and they turn into homicidal maniacs. Gads, you’ve got to hand it to Mohammed...he’s been an evil death machine for 1400 years.
I keep trying to get on their lists.....who made it?
Ping.
ping
http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2010/07/21/1575339/alaska-couple-to-plead-guilty.html
“AK couple pleads guilty to lying about hit list”
By MARY PEMBERTON
Associated Press Writer
Posted: Wednesday, Jul. 21, 2010
ANCHORAGE, Alaska
SNIPPET: “His wife, who is five months pregnant, would get five years probation in the United Kingdom, her country of origin.”
SNIPPET: “Prosecutors alleged that Paul Rockwood, also known as “Bilal,” converted to Islam about a decade ago and began studying the teachings of American-born cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, who has professed hatred for the United States and supports acts of terrorism.”
Are you paying attention, Mayor Bloomberg? Or is it just Sarah Palin that gets you mad?
http://www.investigativeproject.org/topics/34/homegrown-terror
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http://www.investigativeproject.org/2072/prosecutions-show-awlakis-continuing-influence-in
“Prosecutions Show Awlaki’s Continuing Influence in the United States”
IPT News
July 21, 2010
SNIPPET: “Paul Rockwood of King Salmon, Alaska and Zachary Adam Chesser of Fairfax, Virginia, could not have been more different—they lived on opposite sides of the United States and were of different generations, but they shared a common thread—they had both been radicalized by Anwar al-Awlaki. And now they are in the custody of federal authorities for ties to international terrorism.”
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Documents:
http://www.investigativeproject.org/documents/case_docs/1348.pdf
http://www.investigativeproject.org/documents/case_docs/1346.pdf
http://internet-haganah.com/harchives/006918.html
21 July 2010
“USA BEGINS TO MOVE AGAINST REVOLUTION MUSLIM”
SNIPPET: “It’s a safe bet there are additional indictments either being prepared or waiting patiently to be unsealed.”
He was an ex-Navy weather guy and was hired by National Weather service about 5 years ago.
He always had his Koran at his desk and he was learning Arabic via Roseta Stone while at work. He aid he was going to move to Egypt to live. He hated Bush and was a 9/11 truther. He was also a big BIG fan of Ron Paul
Politically he was all over the place. He was a libertarian and very opinionated.
I tended to stay upstairs in my office when he was working. With the other forecasters I stayed downstairs and visited but for some reason I didn’t like being around him
He was a nice enough guy but his anti-Bush BS tended to turn me off. Had I known this guy was a terrorist wannabe I would have went to work armed (which probably would have eventually gotten me fired or jailed)
He medically retired in April and I attempted to get his job but it didn’t work that way. Now I wonder if he really had a medical problem or if he just had to get out of Dodge
http://www.investigativeproject.org/documents/case_docs/1362.pdf
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http://www.investigativeproject.org/blog/2010/08/alaskan-based-terrorist-had-20-person-hit-list
For The Record - The IPT Blog
“Alaskan-based Terrorist had 20-Person Hit List”
by IPT News
Aug 18, 2010 at 6:32 pm
SNIPPET: “Having been radicalized by Awlaki, and believing it was his responsibility to kill on behalf of the “ummah,” Rockwood spent months compiling a list of targets who they believed had desecrated Islam. The list included a publishing company executive, a media personality, seven members of the military, seven unidentified individuals, two religious organizations, and two publishing companies.
Prosecutors believe it was more than just talk. Explaining the severity of the plot, court records show that:
“plans were well beyond the internet researching stage and had been in place for more than four years. While in Alaska, Rockwood researched and discussed methods of execution, often at great length and in significant detail, components for mail bombs were purchased, the targets had been selected and a loose operational time line was established.”
Having pled guilty, the couple faces sentencing next week. Paul Rockwood is expected to be imprisoned for eight years while his wife will receive probation.”
yep, ths is the one!
NOTE The following text (including photo caption) is a quote:
www.fbi.gov/news/stories/2012/november/in-alaska-a-domestic-terrorist-with-a-deadly-plan/in-alaska-a-domestic-terrorist-with-a-deadly-plan
Paul Rockwood, seen here in a surveillance image, lived in the small fishing village of King Salmon. He had begun compiling a list of targets in the U.S. military he might assassinate in the name of jihad.
North to Alaska
Part 3: A Domestic Terrorist With a Deadly Plan
11/09/12
By the time he moved to Alaska in 2006, Paul Rockwood, Jr. was an ardent follower of the American-born radical cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, who he met at a Virginia mosque in late 2001.
Shortly after he settled with his family in the small fishing village of King Salmon to work for the National Weather Service, our agents in Anchorage were aware that Rockwood had begun compiling a list of targets in the U.S. military he might assassinate in the name of jihad.
“If you were wearing a U.S. military uniform,” said Special Agent Doug Klein, who worked the case from Anchorage, “as far as Rockwood was concerned, you were a target.”
A military veteran himself, Rockwood believed it was his religious duty to kill those who desecrated Islam. In 2009, he began sharing his deadly plans with an individual he thought held similar views. But that person was actually an undercover operative employed by our Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF) in Anchorage.
For a time, JTTF personnel wondered how determined Rockwood was about his plans. “But one day when he was with our undercover in Anchorage he identified the building of a cleared defense contractor and said, ‘This is the kind of building I want to blow up,’ ” Klein said. “That’s when we knew he was a serious threat.”
Keeping track of Rockwood was difficult, however, because King Salmon is some 300 miles from Anchorage and only accessible by airplane. And with only a few hundred residents, outsiders would be immediately spotted, so attempts at surveillance were impractical. “We couldn’t use 90 percent of the traditional investigative techniques we use in the Lower 48,” Klein explained.
In addition, small, regional airlines in Alaska are not regulated by the Transportation Security Administration, so anyone can fly with weapons. On Rockwood’s frequent trips from King Salmon to Anchorage, Klein said, “he could have had a gun or a bomb and we never would have known.”
During those Anchorage visits, Rockwood met the undercover operative and discussed buying electronics and downloading schematics of cell phones to make bomb detonators. At one meeting, he said he was getting ready to relocate to the mainland and had plans to steal a cache of explosives in Boston—where he grew up—that would help him go operational.
By early 2010, Rockwood had formalized his hit list to include 15 specific targets—all outside Alaska—and he gave the list to his wife, Nadia, who was aware of his intentions.
Even with no overt acts of terrorism to charge him with, it was decided that for the sake of public safety, Rockwood and his wife could not be allowed to leave Alaska. In May 2010, JTTF agents questioned Rockwood and his wife as they attempted to fly out of Anchorage. Both denied any involvement with a hit list or terrorist plot.
The couple was charged with making false statements to the FBI in a domestic terrorism investigation, and in July, Rockwood was found guilty and sentenced to eight years in prison—the maximum sentence under the law. His wife was also found guilty and received five years of probation.
“We can never be sure if he would have acted,” Klein said, “but Rockwood was clearly a threat, not only to the individuals on his list but to the entire community.”
Next: The shot that pierced the Alaska pipeline.
Resources:
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