Posted on 07/15/2005 12:37:43 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
During the raid to arrest two robbery suspects at a local apartment, police said officers uncovered details of a possible terrorist cell, with alleged plans for an attack in the Southland.
In an exclusive investigation, Channel 4 News has learned more about the two suspects under investigation by the FBI's counter terrorism task force and an alleged plot that targeted several prominent locations in the Los Angeles area.
ANA GARCIA (REPORTER): Is it possible that an Islamic Prison Gang with possible links to Middle Eastern operatives were planning to blow up these targets?
LT. COMMANDER ERIC GRIMM, CALIFORNIA NATIONAL GUARD: We put those three armories on a heightened state of security.
GARCIA: Armories in West LA, Manhattan Beach and Torrance. And U.S. Army recruiting centers, including Long Beach, Torrance and Harbor City.
GRIMM: There was a robbery in Torrance, and ... the persons arrested by the local police department made an allegation or a threat against the California National Guard, and they specifically named three armories.
GARCIA: Gregory Patterson, 21, and Levar Washington, 25, are being held on a total of $3 million dollars bail, charged with holding up at least 10 gas stations and convenience stores in the South Bay.
But why are Patterson and Washington of interest to the FBI's counter terrorism unit?
RAFAT A. SALIB, ARMED ROBBERY VICIM: Police took the tape.
GARCIA: Salib, a Chevron gas station owner, says investigators took the surveillance tape of the hold-up at his Crenshaw Boulevard market.
SALIB: (The) guy came in about 10:30 (with a) ski mask on (his) face ... (and) unbelieveable, it's a machine gun, a long machine gun.
GARCIA: According to a senior official familiar with the case, when police searched Washington's apartment on West 27th Street, looking for evidence of the robberies, they instead found a list of targets and notes of an operation which detailed a need for cash, explosives, weapons, even remote control devices. Our informant tells us it was all part of a plot to blow up targets in the Los Angeles area. Rabbi Marvin Hier confirms an increased police presence at synagogues.
RABBI MARVIN HIER, SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER: Our assumption was, it is directly linked to the event the arrest of these two people in Torrance.
GARCIA: But who are Patterson and Washington? A local police source says Gregory Patterson may have worked at LAX; the airport was on the list of targets. LAX officials say they the FBI has asked them not to comment.
And what about Levar Washington? According to court records, Washington is a former member of the Rolling 60 Crips gang and even had their tattoo on his forehead. He was sentenced to six years in prison for assault with a deadly weapon, robbery and street terrorism . Washington was housed at four different California prisons. Records show he entered as a Christian, but published reports say he is now a disciple of Islam.
A source close to the investigation says Washington and Patterson may be linked to a wider plot involving a prison-based gang called "Jimiyat Islam Sahid" or JIS. According to gang experts, JIS recruits former gang members such as the Crips in prisons such as Folsom, where Washington served time.
HIER: People are converted to extremeists while they are serving in prison.
GARCIA: According to an expert close to the case, JIS was formed in the mid-'90s and is allegedly linked to Middle Eastern operatives in Pakistan and Tunisia.
HIER: That is very frightening.
GARCIA: El Al airlines confirms their security department knew about the threat.
Gregory Patterson's attorney says his client in no way intended to take aggressive action against his country.
Patterson's mother told a local newspaper her son has never done anything wrong. He was an honors student and Christian who recently converted to Islam.
We found a 1999 handwritten note from Washington's mother, Debra, in court records. She wrote to the judge at the time that her son had remorse, that he had changed tremendously and promised he would not get into trouble again.
We want to be clear. Gregory Patterson and Levar Washington have been charged only with robbery, and they have pleaded not guilty.
thanks!
"Seems pretty plain to me what they were all about.
The MSM completely ignored all this."
I had no idea! I picked up the link to the fairfax county site sometime after the trial, it was posted on a frontpagemagazine thread where I used to hang out before I found freerepublic. I would love to have been able to provide the link to freepers - oh well, better late than never. But the MSM LIED TO YOU SHAMEFULLY!
THANK YOU.
from # 73 in case you didn't know....
so, did you know at the time of the trial, or did you only see the MSM rubbish about The Matrix?
No, I only knew about the "Matrix" from the MSM, but I never believe anything they report any way. I am thankful I am now a FReeper. I now get ALL of my news *first* from Free Republic!
Note: The following post is an exact quote:
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1444147/posts
Calif. Guard, Israeli mission get terror alert
MSNBC.COM ^ | Updated: 11:03 p.m. ET July 15, 2005 | AP
Posted on 07/16/2005 1:19:42 AM PDT by F15Eagle
LOS ANGELES - Law enforcement authorities warned the Israeli Consulate and California National Guard that their facilities were on a list of possible terror targets that police found recently while investigating a string of robberies, officials said Friday.
“We’re very concerned about it,” said Maj. Jon Siepmann, the California National Guard’s deputy director of communications. “There was evidence that an attack was at least being planned.”
Police found the list while searching the home of a man arrested last week in connection with gas station robberies in south Santa Monica Bay communities. The list included three National Guard facilities in the greater Los Angeles area, said Siepmann, who described the threat as apparently “very serious.”
He declined to discuss specifics.
Yariv Ovadia, the Israeli consul for communications and public affairs, declined to discuss details of any threat to his facility or say whether the consulate tightened security in response.
The warnings followed the July 5 arrests by Torrance police of Gregory Vernon Patterson, 21, and Levar Haney Washington, 25, of Los Angeles, on suspicion of robbery. Both men pleaded not guilty to the charges.
FBI spokeswoman Laura Eimiller confirmed last week that the agency’s Joint Terrorism Task Force was investigating the case, but declined to describe the focus of the probe or provide other details.
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Thank you nopardons.
Welcome.
More details...
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"Calif National Guard, LA Israeli Consulate Warned in Terror Probe"
By IAN GREGOR
Associated Press Writer
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "LOS ANGELES 7.15.05, Updated 6:20p -- Law enforcement authorities warned the Israeli Consulate and California National Guard that their facilities were on a list of possible terror targets that police found recently while investigating a string of robberies, officials said Friday.
"We're very concerned about it," said Maj. Jon Siepmann, the California National Guard's deputy director of communications. "There was evidence that an attack was at least being planned."
The list, which police found while searching the home of a man arrested last week in connection with a series of gas station robberies in south Santa Monica Bay communities, included three National Guard facilities in the greater Los Angeles area, Siepmann said. He said law enforcement authorities thoroughly briefed National Guard representatives on the possible threat, which he described as apparently "very serious.""
ARTICLE SNIPPET #2: "Earlier this year, Patterson worked for several months at a duty-free shop at Los Angeles International Airport, according to a man who answered the telephone at the business on Friday morning. The store is in the Tom Bradley International Terminal, near the El Al Israeli Airlines ticket counter, where an Egyptian immigrant shot and killed two people in a July 4, 2002, attack."
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/2005/07/007176print.html
July 15, 2005
"Los Angeles robbery suspects had "jihadist literature""
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "During an extensive search of Washington's apartment last week, authorities said they found no explosives or bomb-making materials, but did recover some bulletproof vests and undisclosed "jihadist" materials not readily available via the Internet or other public sources, as well as the list of addresses that appeared to be unlikely targets for a simple robbery.
Washington, a Rollin' 60s gang member who was convicted in Orange County in 1999 of assault with a deadly weapon, robbery and belonging to a street gang, converted to Islam in prison. His alleged accomplice, Gregory Vernon Patterson, 21, who has no criminal record, is believed to be a more recent convert...."
Excellent summary of how the MSM mediots hid the fact that John Allen Muhammad was a Black Muslim/Nation of Islam/ al fuqra killer.
More likely, Malvo was Mohammad's boy toy/love slave.
Fred,thanks for posting some of Malvo's art work.
Another amazing piece of evidence the MSM pro Jihadist mediots failed to show Americans.
I had not seen that piece of art before.
The telescopic bullseyes of GW, Sharon and Blair need no words as he signs off Praise to Allah.
Hi! Thanks. I had no idea how the public had been lied to all through that trial. It wasn't until today that I read the MSM reports and saw The Matrix connection. If you look through the drawings now, as I did just after the trial, you will see it's all islam/hate/allah/bin Laden/hate-whitey/allah-akbar.
It takes a bit to shock me after two years of frontpagemagazine and a further two years of freerepublic, but today I was shocked. That various social workers, psychiatrists, expert witnesses etc, having direct access to the file of drawings, could blatantly ignore the so very obvious connection to islam, fair took my breath away! I knew the MSM was biased. I knew your access to 'news' was tainted, BUT UNTIL TODAY I HAD NO IDEA HOW EVIL THEY REALLY WERE!
"Well Crap, that's a Government site.....
We have got to capture everything so stuff doesn't disappear!!! "
Just remember Grampa Dave's warning, "When we find something which shows the evil reality of the liberals and jihadists among us, we must copy it to Free Republic to save it!"
Remember last year when the Kerry web site was removing the links to Berger and Joe Wilson, we were saving them here.
I learned this lesson with the Klamath Falls Sucker Fish sham and the fires in Oregon the following year. The envirals would have their poison plans in their sites and brag about them. I would post a link, and they would often disappear in a day or two.
"I have had some contact with Black gang members who converted to islam. One person I have in mind I am suspicious of and thinks he bears watching. I may mention his name to the FBI."
Turn him into the FBI and Homeland Security.
Don't read those threads at night. You might not be able to go to sleep if you do.
Look at the data Fred Nerks has posted on this thread about the DC snipers.
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