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.
Well Crap, that's a Government site.....
We have got to capture everything so stuff doesn't disappear!!!
But I am disgusted with what is supposed to be our media. They are on 24/7 and yet they don't report on something as important as Al-Fuqra in the DC snipers. What the hell good are they if they don't report the news?
The more I read on them the angrier I got. The old FReeper threads are a Godsend.
Probably going on in prisons all over the US.
Well they are AGENDA driven.....see the book Unholy Alliance for the Leftist Agenda....
I'm so disgusted at the entire lot of them I could just spit.
Hallelujah!!!!
http://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/courts/cases/malvo_defendant_exhibits_old.htm
I haven't looked through to find the drawings, but this is the link fairfax provides for Defendants exhibits.
There's also "other documents"
http://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/courts/cases/malvo%5Fother%5Fold.htm
and "commonwealth trial exhibits"
http://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/courts/cases/malvo%5Fcommonwealth%5Fexhibits%5Fold.htm
Fred,
Here's the link you posted Fred.
It's clickable now.
http://wtop.com/index.php?nid=333&sid=148838 for thumbnails
"jihad""inshallah osama bin laden"
http://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/courts/cases/jpg/120303df65_132.jpg
"women wearing the chadr, this is beauty""a seal of Islam, Islam counter attack force"
http://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/courts/cases/jpg/120303df65_133.jpg
"only allah is the disposer of my affairs"
http://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/courts/cases/jpg/120303df65_128.jpg
"your life belongs to allah, he will deliver you to us""september 11th we will ensure will look like a picnic"
http://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/courts/cases/jpg/120303df65_117.jpg
Seems pretty plain to me what they were all about.
The MSM completely ignored all this.
ping, and my #88.
It's all there.
If you read the crap on the drawings, there's plenty anti-white, anti-Christian, Allah/Islam stuff.
And from these the psychologists get that h's obsessed with the Matrix?? laughable.
It still says error 404 when I try to access the additional drawings.
Are the 'exhibits' on your link Malvos drawings?
The "defendants exhibits" include his drawings and all other exhibits.
In my second post I linked directly to some of the drawings.
Thanks for the drawings. Is there a reason for them to be turned sideways? Or it that how they were released? I'm just asking because my neck hurts now. :-)
I hope malvo is in population where a little American justice can be dispensed. Evil...pure evil for someone only 17.
Another source of activity is a business near me, where the FBI backed by LAPD SWAT showed up one day. What was going on I cannot say. All I know is that SWAT quietly took up positions and several FBI agents in the raid jackets were all over the place for half the day
At this business they have a couple of al-Qeada types complete with the headrags and wearing from time to time these red "allah is great" t-shirts
I have watched these people meet each other in the traditional islamic way that looks just like something you see in Iraq. As of late they have toned down their moves
These characters better watch their step because there are many hostile eyes watching their activities
I have a pair
Ernest I saw this report
OH MAN that what LA don't need terror attack I could imagine the damage and resets on the internet
Bump for later.
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