Posted on 07/20/2005 6:41:28 PM PDT by Splatter
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Investigators probing the London terror bombings are focusing on an elusive British Muslim suspect who is connected to a previous plot to set up a terrorist training camp in rural southern Oregon, according to U.S. counterterrorism officials.
Officials told both NBC News and CNN Wednesday that Haroon Rashid Aswat, believed to be a mastermind of the London bombings, is the same British-born Muslim of Indian descent who scouted a Bly, Oregon ranch to set up a terror camp.
These officials said Aswat, a Pakistani national being sought for questioning as a person of interest by British authorities, was among three unindicted co-conspirators in the Oregon incident.
U.S. officials said a 2002 indictment in the Bly case links Aswat directly to Abu Hamza al-Masri, a fiery, one-eyed radical cleric from a London mosque who is now on trial in Britain for possessing al-Qaida literature and inciting the killing of Jews and other non-Muslims.
"I think this just gives us a glimpse into what might be happening inside the United States," said retired Air Force Lt. Col. Rick Francona, an NBC News terrorism expert. "We were able to uncover one operation — how many others are out there?"
"What's very scary is not only can they travel very easily through Europe, they could travel very easily to the United States because of their British citizenship," added retired Portland State University professer Gary Perlstein, a KGW terrorism expert.
The documents reveal Aswat worked with a Seattle man, James Ujaama, who pleaded guilty in 2003 to a charge of providing support to the Taliban for his role in trying to set up the "jihad training camp." Ujaama is now cooperating with federal prosecutors.
The southern Oregon ranch that may have been scouted as a potential terrorist training camp. (KGW Photo)
Court documents in the Ujaama case said a conspirator, whom U.S. officials identified as Aswat, arrived in New York City in November 1999 on Abu Hamza's orders. He made his way to Oregon, according to the documents, "for the purpose of evaluating the Bly property as a jihad training camp."
In the indictment, prosecutors also alleged the conspirators "met potential candidates for jihad training ... established security for the Bly property ... and they and others participated in firearms training and viewed a video recording on the subject of improvised poisons."
The documents also said Aswat, along with another conspirator, lived in Seattle in early 2000 and "expounded on the teachings" of Abu Hamza.
Aswat, in his early 30s, has family that lives in Leeds in northern England, where three of the four suspected London suicide bombers resided. At his family's house, neighbors said they haven't seen Aswat in nearly 10 years.
Aswat's believed to be hiding out in Pakistan, where government officials said he wasn't in custody and remained at large as of Wednesday night.
I suggest you read #120.
Protect our borders and coastlines from all foreign invaders!
Be Ever Vigilant!
Minutemen Patriots ~ Bump!
I never believed the b. s. about it being a mistaken match of the fingerprint. I don't believe in coincidences like that. I don't believe that Yee was innocent, either.
I am sure that Mayfield and Yee are both on the watch list, anyway. The fact that Yee and Mayfield both had connections to this guy in Pakistan is enough of a coincidence.
Thats because Ron Sims is a liberal pu$$y. Dig a little deeper in King Co and I'd not be surprised to find some more significant terror connections. Youpander to this shit and you reap what you sow
Isn't it amazing how some of the same Jihadist names keep popping over the years?
Says a lot about our seriousness in the War on Terror, of course we have the internal battle with the Leftists.
The same pro lefty names in congress keep popping up:
Boxer, Pelosi Galore, Reid, Kennedy, Chuckie, Kerri and others.
If memory serves the Bly (OR) Advanced Training and Buttrocking Phacility just didn't work out. Oregon actually only has about two blue counties and where Bly is is deep red. Picture this: An Arab guy who talks somewhat cockney goes shopping for a "ranch" deep in the heart of serious cowboy/lumberjack country. He's not gonna stand out (snicker)! As soon as he tries to order in sacrificial goat word was soon to get around. While we have a cosmopolitan crowd in downtown Portland the rest of the state is all but solid white----I expect profiling is not out of fashion in the red zone so that middle east dirtbagz will have short careers here.
Related link:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1447746/posts
"Britain seeks suspect from Oregon Case Britain seeks suspect linked to Oregon case"
Oregonlive.com ^ | July 21, 2005 | LES ZAITZ
Posted on 07/21/2005 11:40:57 AM PDT by radar101
"What's very scary is not only can they travel very easily through Europe, they could travel very easily to the United States because of their British citizenship," added retired Portland State University professer Gary Perlstein, a KGW terrorism expert.
This situation would be a lot less scary if our two governments were not so hell bent on being PR instead of profiling and random searches on middle eastern men between 18-40.
We need a new deck of playing cards so we can play seven card stud with "one eyed Kings" and "bedpost Queens" being wild!!!
PORTLAND, Oregon, (CNN) -- Six U.S. residents charged with
conspiring to assist al Qaeda and the Taliban in
waging war against the United States...Click the pic:
Top row, left to right: Patrice Lumumba
Ford, October Martinique Lewis and
Jeffrey Leon Battle. Bottom row, left to
right: Muhammad Ibrahim Bilal, Ahmed
Ibrahim Bilal, and Habis Abdulla Al-Saoub.
I know that case all too well.
These scumbags were "target practicing" in a gravel pit near my home. I actually saw them driving their minivan as they left the seen. I noticed them because they had towels on their heads. You just don't see friggin towel heads driving minivans around here. They stuck out like turds in a punch bowl.
Yes, I PROFILE.
His attorney was Gerry Spence.
Is it true that the socialist City of Portland and its police chief refused to cooperate with the feds (FBI, etc.) in going after the Islamoterrorists and that the Oregon 6 were discovered by a cop from Washington state out on a drive, and not by competent police work by Oregon authorities?
From the article he "lived in Seattle in early 2000".
The Seattle Times article for today said he lived in Seattle for 2 months in a MOSQUE in Seattle. The mosque was a small storefront thing, looked to be in a run-down area. Ujamma went there too.
The mosque was closed due to damage from an earthquake in 2000 the paper said (although I think the quake was in Feb. 2001).
Also - Ujamma has been free now for a year or more. And it doesn't sound like he's used as a witness anymore.
Unreal.
Somebody wake me up fom this nightmare.....
They couldn't find the seventh person to charge because his trail just died in Afghanistan. They figured he did too.
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