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Eastie gang linked to al-Qaeda
Boston Herald ^ | January 5, 2005 | Michele McPhee

Posted on 01/05/2005 4:01:55 AM PST by Straight Vermonter

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1 posted on 01/05/2005 4:01:55 AM PST by Straight Vermonter
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To: Straight Vermonter

Eastie?? Is that a real world?


2 posted on 01/05/2005 4:05:26 AM PST by GeronL (I am NOT the real bin Laden)
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To: Straight Vermonter
I had been trying to write a fictional story about a Mexican-Islamic terrorist cell in the US. I gave it up when my father died last year. I called it the The Ghost & the shadow and set it in late 2013... I guess I should have set it in 2007
3 posted on 01/05/2005 4:07:46 AM PST by GeronL (I am NOT the real bin Laden)
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To: Straight Vermonter
A burgeoning East Boston-based street gang made up of alleged rapists and machete-wielding robbers has been linked to the al-Qaeda terrorist network, prompting Boston police to ``turn up the heat'' on its members...
The Boston police don't "turn up the heat" unless there's an al-Qaeda link?
4 posted on 01/05/2005 4:08:00 AM PST by oh8eleven
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To: Straight Vermonter

"In recent months, intelligence officials in Washington have warned"

"form the North Shore Gang Intelligence task force in 2000"

Sounds to me like they're about five years too late (as usual) on this "clamp down".


5 posted on 01/05/2005 4:12:13 AM PST by Fireone (Homeland security is 10,000 rounds of ammo and 10 cords of dry firewood.)
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To: Straight Vermonter

This is a another sterling example of why DIVERSITY needs to be posted on all of our school-room walls as one of America's Core Democratic Values.

Also one has to wonder how legitimate immigrants who have fled their native land because of just what these gangs are doing, feel when it is happening to them again in the land of the free and the home of the brave.

When I see pictures like the one above, I have conflicting emotions and feelings, ranging from nausea, to sadness, to all-consuming anger. What is becoming of our beloved country?


6 posted on 01/05/2005 4:13:49 AM PST by David Isaac
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To: Straight Vermonter

I sometimes saw these people hanging out at Revere Beach at night. Scared the bejeezus out of me.

I also had no idea about that Somerville attack. My lord.


7 posted on 01/05/2005 4:15:12 AM PST by TFine80
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To: Straight Vermonter

Kill them


8 posted on 01/05/2005 4:16:30 AM PST by MrBambaLaMamba (Buy 'Allah' brand urinal cakes - If you can't kill the enemy at least you can piss on their god)
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To: Cindy

ping


9 posted on 01/05/2005 4:18:50 AM PST by Jet Jaguar (and I did preview this time (not really))
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To: David Isaac
At least they're not involved in too much gun violence /sarc

SNIP
Man's Fingers Severed In Va. Machete Attack
Gang Suspected in Multiplex Incident

A Fairfax man walking from a Merrifield movie theater was attacked late Monday by several men -- one of them wielding a machete -- and in the flurry of blows, three fingers were severed from the victim's left hand, police said yesterday.

The attack was similar to one in the Alexandria area in May, in which a teenager lost four fingers in a machete onslaught. Police believe that the assailants in both cases were members of the street gang Mara Salvatrucha. Three men have pleaded guilty in the first case; the assailants in Monday night's attack remain at large.

10 posted on 01/05/2005 4:21:08 AM PST by rabidralph (Keep your laws off my money.)
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To: David Isaac

You don't understand... ;) The Liberals BLAME America for these Salvadorian gangs. They say that they learned this lifestyle originally in the US and California. Therefore, it would be unfair for us to deport them.


11 posted on 01/05/2005 4:21:42 AM PST by TFine80
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To: Straight Vermonter

What a bunch of sick animals. If Abortion Protesters fall under Rico for demonstrating.....why are these vicious criminals allowed to run free.


12 posted on 01/05/2005 4:21:43 AM PST by marty60
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To: oh8eleven
The Boston police don't "turn up the heat" unless there's an al-Qaeda link?

They don't turn up the heat unless it's something they can get Homeland Security funding to go after. "Hey, we got a bunch of AlQ shoplifting cells!"

13 posted on 01/05/2005 4:23:29 AM PST by SauronOfMordor (We are going to fight until hell freezes over and then we are going to fight on the ice)
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Homeland Security funding
You're right, it's always about the money.
14 posted on 01/05/2005 4:25:04 AM PST by oh8eleven
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To: Straight Vermonter

Now for our suggestion on how to deal withn this thug, click here (X)

15 posted on 01/05/2005 4:25:14 AM PST by newsgatherer
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To: GeronL
'Eastie' as in East Boston, Logan Airport. Southie, South Boston. When I lived there, not 10 minutes waking distance to the location in the Herald's news item, Eastie was at least 90% Italian, with many people right off the boat from the old country.

This is frigging wild. How things have changed for the worst. When I lived there a 'made man' could double, even triple park his car and never get a tagged with a ticket from the cops. It was area which was tight, most people knew each other. This crap would not be tolerated.

Maverick Sq

Looking west, downtown Boston

16 posted on 01/05/2005 4:26:15 AM PST by M. Espinola (Freedom is never free)
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To: TFine80

They might have gotten some of the tattoos and trappings of gangsterism from the West Coast (or from MTV), but gangs have long been a problem in Latin America, where there is a weak and corrupt police presence and the gangs have been able to control entire towns unopposed.


18 posted on 01/05/2005 4:27:41 AM PST by livius
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To: M. Espinola
Imagine a Mexican national who convets to radical Islam in prison and then after release forms a terrorist group right in our own country.

It might happen pretty soon.

19 posted on 01/05/2005 4:30:50 AM PST by GeronL (I am NOT the real bin Laden)
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I don't think we have to wait for Mexicans. We have plenty of domestic thugs who are converting to Islam in our prisons, and some of them have indeed gone out and set up shop for AQ when they get out (think of the al Fuqra movement, a black group that has terrorist training camps all over the country, or the terrorists arrested in Seattle and Portland in recent years).

Gang activity makes losers feel powerful. This is the same effect that Islam has on its devotees, because being given permission by their religion to be vicious and have no restraint makes them feel superior to the law-abiding, civilized (and in their view, weak) society around them.


20 posted on 01/05/2005 4:38:41 AM PST by livius
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