Posted on 10/20/2010 3:08:01 AM PDT by Scanian
Good news this week: Four Muslim converts who plotted to bomb a pair of Riverdale synagogues and shoot down military planes were convicted.
The bad news: Activists are turning the "Newburgh 4" into a cause célébre -- a supposedly hapless squad of dimwits armed with fake explosives, arrested by the feds before they did any harm.
Dimwits we'll buy, but that doesn't make them innocent. Even idiots can detonate explosives -- and this dangerous crew showed an unseemly eagerness to enlist in jihad.
And they're not alone. Far from it:
* A 2004 sting netted Albany pizza-shop owner Mohammed Hossain and his imam, Yassin Aref, as they laundered money for an assassination plot, wiring cash for a shoulder-fired missile meant to take out a Pakistani diplomat. The deal bought them 15-year sentences instead.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
NYS is a hotbed of jihadi activity owing to the trainng center in Hancock NY.
I’ve often said, our greatest weapon against Jihadis is their own severely limited intellect. Thank Allah for inbreeding!
The only sentence for convicted terrorists should be death by hanging combined with isolation until execution.
That will solve the terrorist problem in our prisons.
I sent a DVD entitled HOMEGROWN JIHAD to the FBI and a bunch of Senators that revealed activities at this location and others and all I heard were crickets. I'm sure our government has everything under control/sarc.
It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to hijack a gasoline tanker and drive it into a school or hospital in the name of Allah.
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