Va. Jihad Activist Pleads Guilty (More on Dennis Raimondo's antiwar.com's terrorist contributor)

The Washington Post ^ | January 16, 2004 | Jerry Markon

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A key member of an alleged Virginia jihad network pleaded guilty to federal weapons and explosives charges today, denying that he intended to harm Americans but acknowledging that he and his co-defendants had sought to fight on behalf of Muslim causes abroad.

Randall Todd Royer, 30, of Falls Church, entered his surprise plea in U.S. District Court in Alexandria. He faces at least 20 years in prison when he is sentenced April 9. Another of the 11 men originally charged in the case, Ibrahim Ahmed al-Hamdi, 26, of Alexandria, pleaded guilty to similar charges and faces at least 15 years in prison.

A St. Louis native who became an activist for Muslim causes, Royer was at the center of the government's case against a group of men who played paintball in the Virginia countryside to prepare for jihad training that could have targeted the United States, prosecutors say. By his own admission, he played a key role in organizing the men.

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To read the prior FR thread on this, click here:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1061250/posts

[hellinahandcart]

Holy crap, these were the paintball guys?

Whew, I've got to spend some time in the archives now.

[hellinahandcart]

Yoohoo...

[hellinahandcart]

The main thing I remember about this story was the general derision about the charges. And who would have guessed the antiwar.com connection?

I'll bet there were some scathing articles over there about the jackbooted thugs busting people for playing paintball. If "Ismail Moyer" wrote one of them I'm going to die laughing.

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He faces at least 20 years in prison when he is sentenced April 9.

Note to self: send Raimondo a sympathy card (one of Hallmark's mushiest) on sentencing day.

[Shermy]

Here's an appropriate condolence card for Raimondo.

[CWOJackson]

I'm sure raimondo and his Pravda handlers are all outraged over this.

[BroncosFan]

Akin Gump's finest, eh?

[Modernman]

Akin Gump's finest, eh?

I wonder if there's anyone she wouldn't represent. Some people can be so blind....

[nicollo]

Cool.

A footnote to tomorrow's headlines -- Metro section, perhaps? Or a Style Section note, something of social interest to go below the movement for recall of Mayor Williams?

[miltonim]

Terrorists Made in America

[Shermy]

What are the blacked-out parts at your link???

[swarthyguy]

For sheer drooling, hysterical lunacy worthy of a character gone mad in a HPLOvecraft novel by the unnameable and unspeakable horror he witnesses, NOTHING matches Raimundo's Opus.

My fave.

IN THE SHADOW OF SHIVA - Crazed Hindu fascists threaten the world

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/694052/posts