NBC4 Investigation: Possible Terror Evidence In Robbery Probe?

NBC4 ^ | Friday, July 15, 2005 | ANA GARCIA (REPORTER)

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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.

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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?

• El Al Airlines at LAX
• Israeli Consulate On Wilshire Boulevard
• Westside Jewish Synagogues
• California National Guard Armories

  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.

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Well the mediots were really quiet about the connections between the DC Snipers and al Fuqra/aka the Black Muslims.

The media were mute about it!!!!!

This is the first I've heard of the connection.

The DC snipers goes back to before I had a computer and got all my news off the TV.

What jerks.

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Right and from the Sacred Cow Burgers site......

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"Islamic Truth" by Jay D. Dyson    (11/26/2004)

[Grampa Dave]

Here is a link to Free Republic linkage of the DC snipers to al Fuqra and other sources.

http://search.yahoo.com/bin/search?p=Dc%20Snipers%20and%20al%20fuqra

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Thanks, I'll go check it out.

I can't believe I haven't heard of the connection before.

[Grampa Dave]

The Lodi guys are al Qaeda imports.

The thugs in this story re the ones recruited in our prisons are local, home bred/born Black Muslims, Nation of Islam/al Fuqra thugs.

[Grampa Dave]

"I can't believe I haven't heard of the connection before."

You are not by yourself.

The mediots kept a lid on all the al Fuqra/Black Muslim/Nation of Islam connections of the senior sniper.

[Cindy]

Thanks for the reminder Grandpa Dave.

[Cindy]

Link to this article courtesy of BurbankKarl:
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Article Published: Thursday, July 14, 2005 - 6:12:18 PM PST

"Sites targeted for terrorism funds"

ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Los Angeles County locations targeted for anti-terrorism grants under the federal "Buffer Zone Protection Program":"

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U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY
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[little jeremiah]

All Muslim clerics or whatever they are should be forbidden to convert prisoners. Muslim prisoners should be forbidden to convert other prisoners.

Of course, it won't happen, and prisons will continue to be breeding grounds for homegrown Muslims fiends.

[little jeremiah]

Muslim clerics shouldn't be monitored in prisons, they should be tossed out.

But neither will happen.

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[Fred Nerks]

December 10, 2003 -- FROM the moment John Allen Muhammad and Lee Malvo were arrested in the Beltway-area sniper case last fall, the media and Muslim activists wanted us to believe that the serial killings had absolutely nothing to do with Islamic terrorism:

* CNN downplayed Muhammad’s religious conversion - calling him by his old name, John Allen Williams, when his identity was first revealed. Malvo was cast as a clueless dupe with no true convictions.

* Nihad Awad of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) argued: “There is no indication that this case is related to Islam or Muslims."

December 10, 2003 -- FROM the moment John Allen Muhammad and Lee Malvo were arrested in the Beltway-area sniper case last fall, the media and Muslim activists wanted us to believe that the serial killings had absolutely nothing to do with Islamic terrorism:

* CNN downplayed Muhammad’s religious conversion - calling him by his old name, John Allen Williams, when his identity was first revealed. Malvo was cast as a clueless dupe with no true convictions.

* Nihad Awad of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) argued: “There is no indication that this case is related to Islam or Muslims."


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http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=9249_The_DC_Snipers_Jihad

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Popped in for a quick question before heading back.

Muhammad and Malvo were lovers??????

[Fred Nerks]

http://wtop.com/index.php?nid=333&sid=148838 for thumbnails

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See what Fred just posted...

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Got to catch this:

Malvo art indicates 'Matrix' obsession,/a>

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http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/printedition/bal-te.md.drawings05dec05,0,5936546.story?coll=bal-pe-asection

Malvo art indicates 'Matrix' obsession

Using the film to explain killings gained insanity verdicts in Ohio and Calif.

By Stephen Kiehl
Sun Staff

December 5, 2003

CHESAPEAKE, Va. - Consumed with righting racial inequality and injustice, sniper suspect Lee Boyd Malvo became yesterday the latest young defendant to use the film The Matrix as part of an insanity defense to explain killings that seem to have no clear explanation.

The 1999 film has been used, with some success, in at least three other murder cases in which young defendants attempted to justify their crimes with allusions to the movie's philosophy that the world people live in is only a dream sequence controlled by a computer. Violence is condoned as a way to get out of the fake, oppressive world of The Matrix.

More than a hundred drawings and notes found in Malvo's jail cell, as well as the testimony yesterday of a social worker who met with the teen-age sniper suspect, indicate that the youth had an obsession with The Matrix. He told detectives and the social worker to watch the film to understand the motive behind the sniper shootings.

"Mr. Malvo wanted me to know how unjust this society was and how important it was for them to build a new and just society," said court-appointed forensic social worker Carmeta Albarus, who spent 70 hours with Malvo this year. "I recognized something was amiss with this Jamaican boy who had not been in this country three years and is speaking as if he had lived here his whole life and suffered years of social injustice."

Albarus' testimony dovetailed with the drawings introduced into evidence Wednesday. In those ink sketches on blue-lined notebook paper, Malvo creates a heroic portrait of Neo, the central character in The Matrix, and makes numerous references to the film's slogans of freeing one's mind.

"The outside force has arrived, free yourself of the Matrix 'control,'" Malvo wrote on one drawing that depicted him handcuffed with the word Bondage on his chest. "Free first your mind. Trust me!! The body will follow."

The 'Matrix' defense

This is not the first time a disenfranchised teen-ager has used the film as an explanation for violent acts.

Two notable Matrix defenses, in San Francisco and Ohio, saw judges accept insanity pleas based on a defendant's infatuation with the movie.

In the San Francisco case, a 27-year-old Swiss exchange student said he dismembered his landlady in May 2000 because she was emitting "evil vibes" and he was afraid of being "sucked into the Matrix," according to news reports. The case did not go to trial after the judge accepted the insanity plea.

Last year in Hamilton, Ohio, a 36-year-old bartender shot her landlady three times with a pistol. She said her landlady had been controlling her mind and justified the killing by telling the court: "They commit a lot of crimes in The Matrix." Her insanity plea was accepted.

Robert F. Horan Jr., lead prosecutor in the Malvo trial, faced The Matrix defense in another case he prosecuted this year - that of Joshua Cooke, a 19-year-old Oakton, Va., resident who killed his parents with a 12-gauge shotgun and blamed the movie.

Cooke's attorney said his client believed he was living in the virtual reality world of The Matrix when he shot his parents. Horan argued that the defense was nonsense, and the judge later sentenced Cooke to 40 years in prison.

"How many million people have seen this movie and how many have committed murder?" asked Horan rhetorically during a Boston Globe interview.

'A common theme'

Some legal experts say the film may be no more than a convenient framework to explain crimes committed by people who do not exhibit typical forms of insanity.

"If you cast aside the notion that the laws of the land matter, it allows us to behave in a very different way. It gives us license," said John Kennedy, director of the University of Cincinnati's Institute of Psychiatry and Law. "There's a common theme of oppression and unfairness that requires abandoning the status quo and turning to a new way, and it just so happens that this behavior and the movie express that same theme."

It was a theme that appears to have particularly appealed to Malvo. He told Albarus, the social worker, that he and Muhammad planned to take 70 boys and 70 girls to a farm to raise them to be "superchildren" who would propagate a perfect society. The $10 million demanded for an end to the sniper shootings was to be used to buy the land and equipment for the compound, Albarus said.

"They were going to be trained and sent to different parts of the world to bring about a just system, because he thought a just system was needed," Albarus said. "He felt very confident that this could be done."

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See link for the rest of the article.

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[Fred Nerks]

THE ONLY COMMON THEME IN MALVO'S DRAWINGS IS ISLAM AND HATRED http://wtop.com/index.php?nid=333&sid=148838

[Fred Nerks]

Thanks for the link. I have read the entire article. It's the biggest load of codswallop I have ever come across. There's got to be something terribly wrong with your entire court system in the US. (I'm an Aussie) you're literally being sold a bunch of lies. Once upon a time, this site had all the drawings and court documents:

http://www.co.fairfax.va.us/courts/cases/malvo_defendant_exhibits.htm

BUT TODAY THEY ARE GONE!