U.S. Officials Arrest 8 in `Virginia Jihad Network' (Update3)

Bloomberg ^

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June 27 (Bloomberg) -- Eight men were arrested on charges they formed a ``Virginia jihad network'' with ties to the Kashmiri separatist group Lashkar-E-Taiba and planned terrorist attacks overseas, the U.S. government said.

The men, along with three others believed to be in Saudi Arabia, are accused of plotting to engage in a ``jihad,'' or holy war, in Kashmir, Chechnya, the Philippines and other countries. U.S. Attorney Paul McNulty, who announced the indictment today in Alexandria, Virginia, declined to say whether any attacks were planned in the U.S.

[TexKat]

Good morning FL_, I was also thinking if there is/was a connection with John Mohammed and Iyman Faris, the truck driver double agent recently picked up. When they mentioned that Faris was a truck driver, it made me think about the 18 wheeler that witnesses reported that they saw at the Florida house where Mohammed once or occasionally resided.

[Future Useless Eater]

Another of the Islamics arrested was Donald Thomas Surratt of Suitland MD, and Temple Hills MD.

Muhammad/Malvo are also known to have been in this area because on September 05 2002, the pair was 5 miles away in Clinton MD and attempted to kill Paul LaRuffa. The snipers stole $3000 and LaRuffa's Sony Vaio laptop computer, which was later found in their blue Chevy Caprice.

By the way, the tan area is Andrews Air Force base, home of Air Force 1, and the same base that failed to scramble jets for an hour on 9/11. Major Charles Moose was somehow in charge of those jets or pilots on that day.

[Freedom2specul8]

Ping to post #19...

Maryland Sniper ping list

[Freedom2specul8]

Thanks for the post.

Bookmarked.. for more detailed reading in the morning..

[csvset]

Are there any pics of these guys available? I haven't seen any.

[Miss Marple]

What? Moose was in charge of those jets? How did I miss THAT one?

[Peach]

Thanks for the ping, Kim. Interesting theories and glad Steven Emerson is being listened to; his book American Jihad is an important read.

[aristeides]

Doesn't an ex-wife of Muhammad's live in Clinton?

Anybody know if that big mosque near the Falls Church shoooting is a radical mosque?

[katze]

Have to agree; too many connections to be coincidence.

[Alamo-Girl]

Jeepers! Thank you so much for all the information and the heads up!

[Happy2BMe]

"Virginia is for Jihadis!"

That's politically correct, isn't it?

[OREALLY]

This profiling has to stop!...(sarcasm )
Thanks for posting...

[Future Useless Eater]

I was also thinking if there is/was a connection with John Mohammed and Iyman Faris, the truck driver double agent recently picked up...

Hi TK,
You are right that the truck driver Iyman Faris [aka Mohammad Rauf] was a central character in this story. A TIME.com article in May said this...

http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,454469,00.html Soon after Iyman Faris agreed to cooperate with FBI agents, he was brought to a safe house in Virginia where agents directed and monitored his every communication, including cell phone and e-mail messages to his bosses, TIME's Daniel Eisenberg reports. "He was sitting in the safe house, making calls for us," says a Justice Department official.
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The FBI and federal prosecutors are investigating a group of at least a dozen mostly Muslim men in the Washington area who studied under a local Islamic scholar. Investigators are also focusing on some Maryland-based associates of Faris acquaintance Majid Khan, a onetime resident of Baltimore who U.S. officials say was tapped by al-Qaeda to lead an operation to blow up gas stations in the U.S., TIME reports.

[a U.S. indictment of Faris accuses him of working for Osama Bin Laden, and Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and points out that 'gas stations' was a code word for acetylene torches used to destroy U.S. commuter bridges and trains]

John Allen Muhammad's sniper-car co-owner Nathaniel Osbourne was also studying to be a truck driver.

[piasa]

Looks like a good analysis to me.

[Grampa Dave]

Great tie ins as usual, which is why I pinged you.

It seems like even the conservative media for the most part don't want to get into the al Fuqra mess. Why? These are home grown Islamofacists. For the most part they are Black Muslims with long prison records.

Thanks again for the recaps of the DC Sniper who was a NOI Black Muslim and his murders and near murders during the DC sniping mess.

[Future Useless Eater]

What? Moose was in charge of those jets? How did I miss THAT one?

at Andrews Air Force Base, he's known as Major Charles Moose. Commander of the 113th Security Squadron of the Air National Guard

The squadron failed to scramble for over an hour AFTER it was known there were terrorists in the skies over D.C.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Looks like I should get this on the list!

Here is a lengthy but important document which should be read by all!

Jihadis in the Hood
Race, Urban Islam and the War on Terror

JIHAD IN AMERICA:

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[txhurl]

fyi

[Mitchell]

Thanks for the ping.

[Dubya]

Good info thanks.