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  • Scott Brown: Traitors can’t be citizens

    10/13/2011 11:19:26 AM PDT · by DFG · 36 replies
    Boston Herald ^ | 10/13/11 | Hillary Chabot
    U.S. Sen. Scott Brown is co-sponsoring a bill that would strip terrorists of their American citizenship if they are found guilty of conspiring against America after two accused homegrown terrorists were arrested in the Bay State. Rezwan Ferdaus of Ashland was arrested last month and charged in a complex plot to attack Washington, D.C., and Tarek Mehanna of Sudbury is set to go on trial this fall on charges he provided “material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization,” and acted as a “media wing” for al-Qaeda.
  • Feds Say Public Was Never in Danger in Massachusetts Man's Thwarted Terror Plot

    09/29/2011 6:40:25 AM PDT · by ElkGroveDan · 35 replies · 1+ views
    Fox News ^ | September 29, 2011
    <p>Rezwan Ferdaus of Ashland, Mass., was arrested Wednesday in Framingham after undercover FBI agents delivered weapons Ferdaus allegedly sought for the alleged plan. The stash included what he thought was 25 pounds of C-4 explosives, as well as three grenades and six fully-automatic AK-47 assault, a press release from the Department of Justice reads.</p>
  • AMERICAN MUSLIM ARRESTED IN PLOT TO BLOW UP, DESTROY PENTAGON AND U.S. CAPITOL

    09/29/2011 1:37:51 AM PDT · by expat1000 · 26 replies
    Atlas Shrugs ^ | September 28, 2011 | Pamela Geller
    What's it going to take, America? How many have to die in a jihadi attack for people to understand that it's the ideology, stupid? Has the media and the O-minstration blamed the Islamophobes yet? Ashland man arrested for terror plot WHDH (hat tip Johana) ASHLAND, Mass -- A 26-year-old man from Massachusetts was arrested on terrorism charges. Federal agents say he was plotting to bomb buildings in Washington, D.C. Two of the suspect’s apparent targets were the Capitol and the Pentagon. Authorities say he was using a storage unit in Framingham to build his weapons. The Department of Justice took...
  • Feds: Mass. man planned to blow up Pentagon [ROP alert]

    09/28/2011 4:09:52 PM PDT · by Enchante · 11 replies
    BOSTON (AP) — A Massachusetts man was arrested Wednesday and accused of plotting to destroy the Pentagon and U.S. Capitol by attacking the buildings with large, remote-controlled aircraft armed with lethal amounts of explosives.... According to a federal affidavit, Ferdaus said he wanted to deal a psychological blow to Americans, the "enemies of Allah," by hitting the Pentagon, which he called "head and heart of the snake."
  • Ashland Terror Suspect: Who Is Rezwan Ferdaus?

    09/28/2011 4:47:05 PM PDT · by nuconvert · 18 replies
    ASHLAND (CBS) – Rezwan Ferdaus had run into some minor trouble in the past, but neighbors in his quiet Ashland neighborhood are terrified to hear the disturbing accusations he’s currently facing. The 26-year-old Ferdaus was arrested on Wednesday and charged with plotting to crash explosive-laden remote control planes into the Pentagon and U.S. Capitol. According to neighbors, the home that federal agents raided belongs to Ferdaus’ parents. They moved in 14 years ago and Rezwan still lived with them.
  • US Citizen Arrested For Terror Plots Against US Capitol, Pentagon

    09/28/2011 7:09:37 PM PDT · by Kaslin · 28 replies
    Townhall.com ^ | September 28, 2011 | Guy Benson
    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...
  • Man Planning to Attack Pentagon Arrested

    09/28/2011 1:01:25 PM PDT · by pabianice · 20 replies
    Fox News Channel (no link) | 9/28/11
    On Fox. Man arrested for trying to bomb Pentagon with a UAV. US citizen. Not identified. Was going to pack model F-86 RC model with explosives and hit Pentagon. Also bought six AK-47s (this sounds wrong as machine guns cannot be purchased witout a special license and someone buying six at a time would send up red flares). Developing.