Posted on 09/28/2011 7:09:37 PM PDT by Kaslin
A 26-year-old Massachusetts man was arrested and charged today in connection with a plot to attack the Pentagon and the Capitol, the Justice Department announced. Rezwan Ferdaus, a U.S. citizen, is accused of planning to use a remote-controlled aircraft filled with explosives to attack the buildings. He was also charged with attempting to provide support and resources to a foreign terrorist organization — specifically al-Qaida, the organization behind the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
I know what you're thinking, PC police: "That's unfair, you Islamophobe! Just because his name is Rezwan doesn't mean he's a Muslim, or that his planned attacks were inspired by a jihadist worldview." No, it doesn't. But this does:
The FBI used undercover operatives and worked with local law enforcement during its investigation of Ferdaus, a Northeastern University graduate with a degree in physics. The Justice Department alleged that Ferdaus “began planning to commit a violent ‘jihad’ against the U.S. in early 2010.” He allegedly modified mobile phones to act as switches for improvised explosive devices and supplied eight of them to undercover FBI employees in the course of the investigation, according to a Justice Department news release.
The Justice Department says it possesses recorded conversations of Ferdaus discussing his plans for attacking the Pentagon and Capitol and calling Americans "enemies of Allah." According to its statement, Ferdaus traveled from Boston to Washington, D.C., in May to conduct surveillance of the buildings and to photograph East Potomac Park, his planned launch site. He later told undercover FBI employees that he intended to expand his aerial plan to include a ground assault of six armed individuals.
National Review's Dan Foster dug up the MySpace page of a Boston-based "free style punk band," of which this degenerate was apparently a member. Foster posts an image of a young man presumed to be Mr. Ferdaus, drumming is little jihadi heart out and wearing a Chicago Bulls jersey:
This guy is a 26-year-old US citizen who was educated at a major American University, is interested in international politics, and seems -- or seemed -- pretty thoroughly saturated in American culture. Sounds a lot like...me, come to think of it. Except my mind isn't poisoned by the radical, violent, and distressingly widespread strain of Islam that compelled Ferdaus to plan the mass-slaughter of his fellow countrymen. My point here is not to fan the flames of suspicion and hatred. It is to remind us that this threat is still very real, that Islamism is its provenance, and that we must remain vigilant. Our lives, quite literally, may depend on it. Speaking of vigilance, a brief word of deep gratitude to the FBI is in order for tracking and capturing this barbarian before he could carry out his murderous designs. I suspect they didn't ensnare Ferdaus by adhering to this sort of feel-good, self-deluding idiocy.
None of the stories I’ve read about this turd mention anything about his daddy ... I guess daddy lawyered up!
Stopped reading right there.
It's nice to see the "media" starting to differentiate between a "u.s. citizen" and an American. Most "U.S. citizens" these days are just a bunch of scumbags and are NOT Americans. They're just "here for the beer".
Hey, he could be Irish! Maybe he changed his name from Ferguson!/s;)
Just here for the beer?!? WHAT about Uncle Sam’s FREEBIES?!!!/s;)
A citizen, eh?
Must be descended from the Mayflower Ferdauses.
We know that Islam is a religion of peace so he can't be still be another muzzie.
It is a muslim name, either from Iran or Pakistan.
Several years back on one of the scale modeling boards I frequent some idiot posted that he was going to try to hang a camera off of an RC aircraft and fly it over Groom Lake to take pictures.
He was quickly, and quite severely, advised that not only did the US military have the ability to jam his control unit ... it also had weaponry that would home IN on it. Which wouldn’t be all that pleasant for him if he had the thing in his hands at the time.
“Rezwan Ferdaus, a U.S. citizen”
should say...
“Rezwan Ferdaus, Muslim”
It seem that “natural born” means something important after all.
domestic jihad bump
“I just can’t stop. There is no other choice for me.”
‘Asked at one point about possibly killing women and children, Ferdaus allegedly said all unbelievers of Islam were his enemies.’
http://news.yahoo.com/feds-us-man-planned-blow-pentagon-210116487.html
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