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.
Whoops! Correction, I meant who will Post a new thread with these pictures and the link to the webpage?
Ewwwwww, gross.
What a list. Bookmarked, thanks.
Headin' on over!
Thanks!
Cindy, ping to 159.
Visualops...I'm SO ticked off. Thanks for putting them out there..
Yes, I read that same thing and reached the same conclusion you did, islam will take any psychopath, the scum from the prisons, whatever it can pick up on the way to the killing it plans to carry out in the West.
Slaughterers need not be fussy about who does the killing for them, correct? And the historical fact that it was the arabs who rounded up the indigenous peoples of Africa and sold them into slavery for millenia, and are still killing the indigenous in Sudan, even though most of them are muslim converts, that does not penetrate...because the hatred that is preached by the clerics and the imams in the mosques and prisons is more powerful than any fact. That's what islam is, always has been, a justification for a huge killing machine.
First the Saturday People, then the Sunday People, then the Buddhists, the Hindu, the Zoraosters, the animist, the 'godless' Left will also get their turn, and the Shia who also 'do not deserve to live' and then every useful idiot on earth, like Malvo and his ilk.
Yes, you could be correct, the daily Threat Matrix...I STILL cannot get over how this information was hidden from a country of almost 300 million people. It's quite a feat, isn't it? I'll be checking to see how the FReepers on the current thread handle this..Surprise, surprise!
What will come as a shock to them is that the next major terrorist attack or attacks in the US could well see the capture of suspects that are black as West Africans, or as white Nordic northern as Timothy McVey.The people supporting them or putting them up to it won't be black as Africans or white Nordics though.
The Secretary of Homeland Security told Congress that it is impossible the secure the border against terrorists until they enact the immigration reform legislation.He's a big government moron for making an idiotic, baseless statement and anyone who believes it is on equal ground with him.
"Turn him into the FBI and Homeland Security."
"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.'
Definitely turn him in. The local cops need to know about the proposed robbery, and the feds need to start monitoring him.
Actually, this deserves its own thread when we hear the PC bs about the home grown Jihadists and those from the Middle East. This data needs to be reposted on a PRN (when needed basis.)
Americans and a lot of Freepers need to realize that when psychotic whackos threaten to kill our families, friends and us, we have to take those threats seriously and not smile and ignore them.
Absolutely Chilling stuff!
And I didn't look at all of it, I want to sleep without nightmares....
Bumping your post with the hopes of finding it again tomorrow. Thanks for the link.
I couldn't get those drawings out of my mind for months after I saw them, but the very idea that YOU IN THE US NEVER SAW THEM AT ALL is more chilling than the drawings themselves, IMHO!
Perhaps Grampa Dave is right that this needs it's own thread (that can be linked to Threat Matrix).
However I think we need more than just the pics page?
Such as, other instances of MSM suppression of terrorist ties (the Egyptian who shot up people at El Al airline counter comes to mind).
Or concentrate on highlighting home-grown terrorists, brainwashed by Mohammedism- recruiting people who are already antisocial such as criminals/gangs, or already hate-America-first, such as Leftists (the lawyer who acted as gofer for that cleric comes to mind). I also just read a piece from The Grapevine where a British youth recalls jihadists efforts to recruit him as a suicide bomber after his father died (preying on people in emotional turmoil).
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Lot of that was collected and the keyword Jihad in America was put on the articles....
Ernest has been key wording these revelations re the Jihadist among us with his key words, Jihad in America. So we have that index search available.
Why this needs a separate visual thread is the dramatic visual impact of those pictures drawn by Malvo. I can guarantee you those pictures will be all over the internet in a week via blogs and emails once it gets posted here.
Also, once a visual thread is posted, individual visual links can be added to the thread over time to keep it alive and going.
bttt
I'll be happy to give it a front and center link on the next TM if you want. It definately should be out there for people to see.
Thanx for the ping
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