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Islamic Extremists Invade U.S., Join Sleeper Cells
The Washington Times via NewsPundit.net ^ | 2/10/2004 | Jerry Seper

Posted on 02/10/2004 8:46:22 PM PST by ex-Texan

Islamic radicals are being trained at terrorist camps in Pakistan and Kashmir as part of a conspiracy to send hundreds of operatives to "sleeper cells" in the United States, according to U.S. and foreign officials.

The intelligence and law-enforcement officials say dozens of Islamic extremists have already been routed through Europe to Muslim communities in the United States, based on secret intelligence data and information from terrorists and others detained by U.S. authorities.

A high-ranking foreign intelligence chief told The Washington Times in an interview last week that this clandestine but aggressive network of training camps "represents a serious threat to the United States, one that cannot be ignored." The official said as many as 400 terrorists have been and are being trained at camps in Pakistan and Kashmir.

U.S. intelligence officials said the camps, located in the remote regions of western Pakistan and in Pakistan-controlled Kashmir, are financed in part by various terrorist networks, including al Qaeda, and by sources in Saudi Arabia.

Pakistani Ambassador Ashraf Jehangir Qazi denied in an interview that terrorist camps are operating in his country, including the remote regions of western Pakistan or in Kashmir. * * *

(Excerpt) Read more at washtimes.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: islam; islamic; jerryseper; jihadinamerica; muslimextremists; pakistan; terrorists
For more reports about Islamic Terrorist cells operating is the U.S. Click Here.
1 posted on 02/10/2004 8:46:24 PM PST by ex-Texan
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To: ex-Texan
Hanoi John says that the Terrorist threat in exaggerated.
2 posted on 02/10/2004 8:48:28 PM PST by Mike Darancette (Bush Bot by choice)
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To: ex-Texan
And the treasonous Democrat scum are doing everything in their power to allow these terrorists to carry out their homicidal intentions.
3 posted on 02/10/2004 8:49:03 PM PST by ambrose ("John Kerry has blood of American soldiers on his hands" - Lt. Col. Oliver North)
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To: ex-Texan
If they are illegal immigrants, are they eligible for Pres. Bush's amnesty plan?
4 posted on 02/10/2004 8:52:39 PM PST by Siamese Princess
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To: ex-Texan
Good article.
5 posted on 02/10/2004 8:56:27 PM PST by Frank_2001
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To: ex-Texan
FOX employs a former Pakistani, cannot remember name, but he is on a lot and seems to know a lot about goings on in Pakistan. He said the other night that Bush ought to go to Congress and ask them to withhold the millions we are going to send shortly to Pakistan until we can find out everything Khan did in relation to selling nuke secrets. We should also tell Musharraf that he MUST allow us in to round up these thugs and, perhaps, find Osama.
6 posted on 02/10/2004 9:02:08 PM PST by whadizit
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To: All
LINKS OF INTEREST
http://www.truthusa.com/LinksOfInterest.html

SEPTEMBER 11, 2001: ATTACK ON AMERICA
http://www.truthusa.com/911.html
7 posted on 02/10/2004 9:06:03 PM PST by Cindy
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To: ex-Texan
If I were not sure that millions of Americans would die, I would vote for a democRAT just to prove a point.

Americans can NOT trust the democRAT party with their lives, their freedom, or their fortunes.
8 posted on 02/10/2004 9:06:17 PM PST by PokeyJoe (Uncle Sams Motorcycle Club Member)
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To: whadizit
Mansoor Ijaz.
9 posted on 02/10/2004 9:08:32 PM PST by Donna Lee Nardo
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To: ex-Texan
Thanks for posting. 400 reasons why the borders should be secured and illegal immigrants deported. And until the INS does its job there is no "war on terrorism!"
10 posted on 02/10/2004 9:12:53 PM PST by kellynla ("C" 1/5 1st Mar. Div. U.S.M.C. Viet Nam 69&70 Semper Fi!)
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To: Siamese Princess
Of course they are. It would be racist to exclude them.
11 posted on 02/10/2004 9:14:25 PM PST by Selene
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To: Donna Lee Nardo
Thanks. It was driving me crazy trying to remember. He seems to think Osama is in Iran, however.
12 posted on 02/10/2004 9:17:09 PM PST by whadizit
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To: ex-Texan
pointing out the obvious... 19 sleeper terrorists were extremely harmful... it stands to reason then, hundreds would be able to inflict a greater degree of injury upon us...
13 posted on 02/10/2004 9:23:38 PM PST by railsplitter (with extreme prejudice- destroy the enemy... foreign and domestic)
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To: railsplitter
I don't doubt they want to. But look at the last couple years. We had one home grown sniper nut, and another going ape at a ticket counter at LAX. One sergeant over in Kuwait right before the war. Nobody else has been able to get off a thing, here. There have been attempts in England, mostly thwarted, and France (including Reid the shoe guy), stopped. There have been serious hits in the periphery, and in the Muslim world, and in Israel. But not here. It isn't because they don't want to. Therefore, it is because they can't. Even though is lots of ways we are wide open. There are 3 million Muslims here. Apparently, not too taken with the radical jihadi program. They aren't the monolith some think.
14 posted on 02/10/2004 10:54:58 PM PST by JasonC
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To: JasonC
"Even though is lots" = even though in lots - a typo.
15 posted on 02/10/2004 10:56:00 PM PST by JasonC
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To: ex-Texan
Don't anybody tell discostu.
16 posted on 02/11/2004 7:25:18 AM PST by boris (The deadliest Weapon of Mass Destruction in History is a Leftist With a Word Processor)
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http://internet-haganah.us/harchives/001513.html

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February 11, 2004
"alm2sda.com ("the lions den") is back"

ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Your basic Arabic-language pro-Qaida forum with extensive discussions of Jihad (and they don't mean a struggle for spiritual purity)."
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17 posted on 02/11/2004 11:12:16 AM PST by Cindy
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To: JasonC
Just how many million legal immigrants AND how many million illegal aliens of middle eastern decent call the U S of A home ? Couldn't one or more of these sleeper cells find refuge if need be, in such a large number of countrymen ? Because we are an open society, America is extremely vulnerable to sleeper cells. Add in the fanaticism and the will to kill oneself and the U S of A has what can only be described as something very dangerous looming on the horizon...

I am not overly paranoid, but I am concerned about terrorist attacks taking place prior to the presidential election in an effort to end President Bush's chances for reelection. What's as troubling is the latest news that Dr Khan of Pakistan, may have sold nuclear secrets to as many as 5 other enemy states. tick tick tick
18 posted on 02/11/2004 5:55:31 PM PST by railsplitter (with extreme prejudice- destroy the enemy... foreign and domestic)
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To: railsplitter
Sure we are wide open, and there are millions of Muslims here, that the scaremongers all assume think just like the jihadis. But there aren't any actual attacks. Why? Why are they confined to Iraq, and Afghanistan, and Turkey, and Saudi Arabia, and Africa, and Indonesia? It isn't because they are showing restraint - they aren't. It isn't because they don't want to hit us, they do.

It isn't even that they aren't trying, as cases like Richard Reid make clear. It is, that only pathetically small numbers of people are willing to do this sort of thing for them. They've had 4, count 'em 4, active belligerents among domestic Muslims since 9-11. (Sergeant fragger in Kuwait, DC sniper and his accomplice, LAX El Al counter guy).

Do they have sixty eight gazillion sleeper cells snoozing away ignoring all the official pronouncements of our imminent doom regularly broadcast by middle east media? Nooo. Do they have a nuke in Baltimore like in the movies? Nooo. (Proof - Baltimore is still there. These guys don't wait). Sure they want to hurt us, but they are 'flicted at it.

Don't get me wrong, it is a real war. We've lost 500 guys in Iraq, and the terrorists have killed hundreds more there, in Israel, in all the periphery countries, in Arab countries, in Russia and India. But they haven't been hitting us here because they are too weak to do so. And they are too weak to do so because they are not a thousandth as popular as they pretend.

19 posted on 02/11/2004 9:02:18 PM PST by JasonC
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