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Posted on 05/17/2004 12:36:39 AM PDT by JustPiper
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I will never cower before any master nor bend to any threat"
BREAKING NEWS
Iraqi governing council leader among those killed by Baghdad car bomb, Iraqi officials say. Details soon.
Breaking News Alert BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) U.S. military colonel says four Iraqis killed, two U.S. soldiers injured, in car bomb at entrance to coalition headquarters in Baghdad.
(Excerpt) Read more at edition.cnn.com ...
http://www.kfmb.com/topstory25711.html
SAUDI TIED TO LOCAL 9/11 HIJACKERS ARRESTED
(05-27-2004) - A 34-year-old Saudi national believed to have ties to two of the deceased Sept. 11 hijackers was arrested Thursday in San Diego by agents with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Hasan Saddiq Faseh Alddin, a legal permanent resident of the United States, was taken into custody on immigration charges, resulting from two prior domestic violence convictions, according to Mike Unzueta, deputy special agent-in-charge for ICE investigations in San Diego.
Alddin was picked up near his residence in Vista, according to ICE.
The agency said the arrest stemmed from an exhaustive investigation by San Diego's Joint Terrorism Task Force.
"ICE agents in San Diego are working closely with our federal law enforcement partners to monitor and assess information related to potential terrorist threats in the United States," Unzueta said.
"We're committed to taking immediate action on intelligence we obtain to prevent another terrorist attack on American soil."
Alddin is believed to have associated with friends of two of the deceased Sept. 11 hijackers who lived in the San Diego area, Nawaf Alhazmi and Khalid al-Midhar, authorities said.
The two men were aboard the American Airlines plane that crashed into the Pentagon.
In September 2001, Alddin roomed with a close friend of the two hijackers, authorities said.
The roommate departed the United States the day before the Sept. 11 attacks.
Authorities said Alddin initially entered the United States on a student visa in August 1994. He later married a U.S. citizen and became a legal permanent resident in 1999.
He was placed in deportation proceedings Thursday by ICE and is being held without bail, authorities said.
If nothing else the translation makes for humorous reading as it refers to bin laden as "Usama Horseradish tree Laden". Don't ya just love machine translations!
Mosque is given go ahead by Orland Park Politicians.
Will there be loudspeakers calling all of us infidadels to prayer?
Daily Southtown
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Mosque moves forward
Emotions bubble over at a packed Orland village hall
Thursday, May 27, 2004
By Dan Lavoie
Staff writer
In front of crowd of more than 300 people on the brink of eruption, Orland Park's first mosque cleared its second-to-last hurdle Wednesday night.
After a 3-to-0 vote, it now heads for consideration by the full village board June 21.
The overflow crowd laid their emotions and motivations bare.
About a half-hour into the two-hour meeting, some men in the crowd scuffled after one man screamed "September 11."
Police escorted that man out of the building, though police at the scene said there is no ongoing investigation into the incident.
The exchange was one of the more emotionally charged moments of an emotionally charged night.
Opponents of the mosque, who made up about two-thirds of the crowd, repeatedly said they feared Islamic extremists would bring violence to the community.
"Please do not use our U.S. Constitution and our freedoms against us," protester Arlene Reed said. "Don't tell me to embrace the enemy, bring the asp to my chest, tell me I have to welcome a group here that makes me feel unsafe."
Muslim backers of the mosque said they were disappointed they are not being accepted in the community many of them have called home for years.
"We can work here, pay taxes here, go to school here, shop here, but we cannot pray here," Edward Hassan said. "We are your neighbors, your doctors, your soccer coaches. It truly is a sad day for America and for the Constitution."
Sean Kennedy, 22, said he was disgusted by the community's response to the mosque proposal.
"The stigma I'm worried about is not that some Muslims will come to my community," he said. "I welcome them with open arms. The stigma I'm worried about is that Orland Park will be seen as racist and bigoted. That this (mosque) is an issue is an embarrassment to me as a citizen of Orland Park."
The three village trustees who sit on the planning committee that approved the proposal Wednesday said they were shocked at the tenor of the meeting.
"The undercurrents here are frankly embarrassing and disheartening to me," committee chairman Brad O'Halloran said.
Despite the meeting's heated rhetoric, resident Peg DeWilkins said she had been won over by the mosque backers.
"I came here out of fear," she said. "But as I realize tonight listening to all these people ... it's clear the only thing we have to fear is fear itself. I fear the hatred and evil that gets perpetrated in these situations."
Plans for the 22,000-square-foot Orland Park Prayer Center were approved by the plan commission May 11 despite protests of more than 150 people.
Many of the initial protesters complained about possible traffic problems caused by the mosque, though Cook County's top traffic engineer later dismissed the effect the extra 100 to 150 cars could have during Friday afternoon prayers.
Mosque backers have since conducted a traffic study that supports their contention that the mosque will not put undue strain on local roads.
A property value study paid for by mosque supporters also concluded the value of nearby homes would not be adversely affected.
Buddies - Abderraouf Jdey (left) and Amer El-Maati Photo: www.fbi.gov
Chicago is now #3
Here's some info on Adam Gadahn from:
http://www.kfmb.com/topstory25679.html
AMERICAN TERROR SUSPECT HAD 1997 ARREST
(05-27-2004) - Adam Yahiye Gadahn was 17 years old when he walked into the Islamic Society of Orange County and asked for permission to worship there. The farm kid who grew up in a home with Christian roots declared himself a Muslim, ready to immerse himself in his new religion.
But his devotion eventually spiraled into trouble - and an arrest.
Gadahn, who was named Wednesday as one of seven suspected al-Qaida operatives sought by the FBI, was later expelled from the mosque after attacking an employee. Records show he pleaded guilty to assault and battery charges in June 1997 and was sentenced to two days in jail and 40 hours of community service.
"He was becoming very extreme in his ideas and views," said Muzammil Siddiqi, the society's religious director. "He must have disliked something."
The other six alleged al-Qaida operatives whose photos and backgrounds were highlighted Wednesday have been the subject of FBI pursuit for months. Gadahn is the only U.S. native among the seven and the only one whose name was first publicly disclosed Wednesday.
Gadahn's alleged journey from student of Islam to suspected terrorist startled his brother, Omar Gadahn, 17, who first heard the FBI's announcement on the news.
"I don't believe it, but I don't know. Anything is possible," he said at the family home in Santa Ana. His brother "wanted to follow what he believed and that's what he did."
Asked about allegations that his brother might be conspiring to act against the United States, the teen said he'd never heard his brother say anything against the country.
According to the FBI, Gadahn, 25, attended al-Qaida training camps and served as an al-Qaida translator. The agency said he is being sought for "possible terrorist threats against the United States." He also goes by the names Adam Pearlman and Abu Suhayb Al-Amriki.
Omar Gadahn, a college student, said he hasn't seen his brother in about five years. His mother last spoke to him by phone in March 2001. At that time he was in Pakistan, working at a newspaper, and his wife was about to have a child.
The man's father, Phillip Gadahn, said he didn't think his son had been a part of a terrorist organization. He told KCAL-TV that FBI agents told him his son was not wanted and no arrest warrant had been issued for his son's arrest.
"I knew he'd been out of the country, and I thought he was settling down," he said. "I didn't imagine he was involved in anything. ... I'm not sure the FBI really thinks that."
FBI officials in Los Angeles said Adam Gadahn was last known to be in Southern California in 1997 or 1998.
Gadahn was home-schooled at the family farm in Riverside County. He did not attend college. Omar said the family was a "more or less Christian household, but no one was particularly religious."
Omar said he doesn't know why his brother converted to Islam. But a statement attributed to Adam Gadahn on several Muslim-related Web sites said he "gradually realized I could not be a Christian."
"Having been around Muslims in my formative years, I knew well that they were not the bloodthirsty, barbaric terrorists that the news media and the televangelists paint them to be," the statement said. "It was really a natural progression."
Gadahn's aunt Nancy Pearlman described her nephew as inquisitive and quick to learn languages. He read about several religions, she said, noting his mother's family is Roman Catholic and his paternal grandfather Jewish.
"He was raised to be religious, to believe in a God," Pearlman said outside her Los Angeles home. "He made his own choice. We all make our own choices in life."
"There was no indication he was involved with terrorists at all," Pearlman added. "He was never fanatical. I never saw it in him."
The other six suspects discussed by federal authorities on Wednesday were Adnan G. El Shukrijumah, a Saudi native who used to live in South Florida; Aafia Siddiqui, a Pakistani woman who studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Fazul Abdullah Mohammed, a native of the Comoros Republic; Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, a Tanzanian who is under indictment for the 1998 embassy attacks; Amer El-Maati, born in Kuwait and wanted by the FBI for questioning; and Abderraouf Jdey, a Tunisian who was among five men who left suicide messages on videotapes recovered in Afghanistan.
"a mullah or imam or whatever they're called is screaming about 6000 atomic american weapons they're going to use on us."(cgk)
How are they planning to do that? Hacking? I see no other way for them to be able to make that kind of a claim. 6000 Nukes sounds about right for how many we, The USA, have active at any given time. Hacked(?) Nukes could be real bad. I hope it's not possible technically. Interesting.
On another note, I've been thinking that AQ may be working on a (Lebanon)Beirut Barracks Attack type of plan, only bigger(maybe an armed assault after the initial explosions?), simultaneous, and right here in The USA. I hope not of-course, it's just a hunch I've been exploring. I hope our Base security here at home is as good as it is at The Green Zone in Bahgdad, Iraq. For all we know AQ could have an 18,000 person army here already!
Disclaimer--I clearly do not believe all foreign born employees in sensetive jobs or even a majority have traitorous inclinations--
No Way Out - Wake-up Call: Iran is at War with Us
Meet Hassan Abbasi, a well-known Iranian political scientist, longtime top official of the Revolutionary Guards, and currently "theoretician" in the office of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei (how does one get a job description like that, I wonder) and the head of the National Security and Strategic Research Center. Abbasi holds special responsibility for North American affairs.
Abbasi: "Lebanese Hezbollah, Islamic Jihad and Hamas have all been trained by these hands," that is, Iranian hands.
Abbasi: "We have identified some 29 weak points for attacks in the U.S. and in the West, we intend to explode some 6,000 American atomic warheads, we have shared our intelligence with other guerilla groups and we shall utilize them as well. We have set up a department to cover England and we have had discussions regarding them[;] we have contacted the Mexicans and the Argentineans and will work with anyone who has an axe to grind with America."
Let's not quibble over the details, since I doubt Abbasi would be inclined to reveal chapter and verse about specific Iranian operations. His list of potential South American allies omits Venezuela, which actively cooperates with the terror masters, and the figure of 6,000 warheads targeted by Iranian-backed saboteurs is beyond the pale, even for a mullah. But when an official as authoritative as Abbasi tells the regime's loyalists in a closed meeting that Iran is sabotaging our economy and organizing terrorist attacks on our territory, you can take that to the bank
I thought one was Dallas?
Wasn't it Daleel that claimed his name was Salah Aldeen? Close names.
As Dick Morris said today: (Chicago radio)
Why would you remove a President that has kept you safe for the past three years?!
He knows Kerry very well, even likes him but said but has no intention of voting for him
I don't think you're paranoid.
Bump for this find!
Province issues birth certificates without proof of identification
ROFL! So true. Like when the anti-semites are on TV yapping about how Israel knew about 9/11 before hand... it's those evil Joooooooz. I doubt they have a clue how idiotic they sound.
"'something' should have occured by now...objectively speaking, anyone?"(JustPiper)
The AQ are following a plan and are sticking to it?
Yes, and do you know where they lovely little articles showed up in my local paper (L.A. Daily News.)?
the sports section! near the end, 2 tiny paragraphs.
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