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.
Can someone with the skills to post PDF and JPG files as pictures start a thread based on the site Fred has found.
Thanks.
http://www.co.fairfax.va.us/courts/cases/jpg/120303df65_035.jpg
Was Malvo learning arabic or is this just squiggles?
Man,....you are a treasure trove,....
ping
I wonder if he recently made a trip to Pakistan for "religious education"?
WE need to upload them to a site that specializes in Photos....but the authorites that are trying to protect us may go after them....course if we had a site that wasn't in this country....hmmmm.
Fred do some checking around down under ....
I'm sorry I confused you with the links- I had posted the defendants exhibits link first.
I can download the pics, resize for download time and repost at my website.
You got some good stuff....
Thank you!
"Fred do some checking around down under ...."
This Aussie is a computer dummy who lives on a hill in the middle of a market garden miles and miles away from the nearest little country town - I get to speak to my animals, a large variety of birds, and the only 'conversations' I have with real people are with my FRiends of FR...sorry, I wouldn't know where to look!
But I'm prepared to put the time in, I can offer to Save the drawings and transfer them to PHOTOBUCKET if that helps.
backhoe, do you have any suggestions?
That would get them to another location- it's a good start.
Download this free graphics viewer, it has an easy printscreen function and will save it to any graphic format, such as jpg, bmp, gif etc. It's easy to install and use. Under the 'options' menu you will see 'capture screen'. hope that helps.
http://www.irfanview.com/
I'm thinking about it. This guy is a damn fool. I gave him a ride somewhere out of kindness and he started talking about robbing the place where I had taken him
ok, I'll do that today...it's gunna take HOURS! I'll let you know when I have finished.
Well, ask the boys at the local mosque to hit the road....
I downloaded a bunch of them earlier today.
Have company now so it'll be an hour before I start getting them uploaded. I'll ping when I have them online.
Hey, that's great! Thanks.
Thanks! I'll look forward to the ping.
Ok I have uploaded page & pics.
The url is
http://www.visualops.com/malvo.htm
That is a page of thumbnails of 10 of the drawings. Click thumbnail and large pic will open in a new window.
Warning the pics are big, they average 4-500K.
I cropped, changed to greyscale and resized to 11" at 120dpi.
But that way you can zoom in and see/read everything (and print out if you like).
Malvo had alot of courtroom drawings and also letters he wrote. These are the most interesting.
I see where his defense went for the "Matrix" defense- you'll see in one pic he says "total destruction of your Matrix (control) is the only solution".
thanks, I'll look at them now. Next question, who is going to do the post to the thread?
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