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"It strikes me as pretty strange that a person would come out full of anger and frustration and channel his direction of frustration at this particular angle," Imam Kharsay said.

Ya, right.

I thought the exact same thing? Who does he think he's kidding. Not Freepers, that's for sure!

"It strikes me as pretty strange that a person would come out full of anger and frustration and channel his direction of frustration at this particular angle," Imam Kharsay said."

Who the f&%k does THIS idiot think he is kidding?

He's got some big fat connection with the planning of the averted strike or he wouldn't be playing so innocent.

Is that the Culver City King Fahd Mosque the 9/11 hijackers went to!!

Calif. National Guard Warned in Terror Probe
By Ian Gregor, The Associated Press
Published: July 18, 2005

Israeli Consulate and California National Guard facilities are on a list of possible terror targets police say they came across while investigating a string of robberies.

“We’re very concerned about it,” said Maj. Jon Siepmann, the California National Guard’s deputy director of communications. “There was evidence that an attack was at least being planned.”

The list, which police found while searching the home of a man arrested last week in connection with a series of gas station robberies in the south Santa Monica Bay area, included three National Guard facilities in the greater Los Angeles area, Siepmann said Friday.

“In response to this, we’ve briefed our personnel on the potential threat and we’ve reviewed security procedures at these facilities as well as other facilities in the area to ensure they are appropriate to counter the threat,” Siepmann said. He declined to specify which facilities were targeted.

Yariv Ovadia, the Israeli consul for communications and public affairs, declined to discuss details of the possible threat or say whether the consulate tightened security.

“We were notified of the case ... that the Israeli Consulate is part of the list of the suspected targets,” he said.

Siepmann said the National Guard has strong security measures in place because its soldiers have been involved in anti-terror operations in Afghanistan, Iraq and Asia. About 12,000 of the California Guard’s 20,000 soldiers have been mobilized and deployed since the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks, he said.

The warnings followed the July 5 arrests by Torrance police of Gregory Vernon Patterson, 21, of Gardena, and Levar Haney Washington, 25, of Los Angeles, for investigation of robbery. Both men pleaded not guilty.

FBI spokeswoman Laura Eimiller confirmed last week that the agency’s Joint Terrorism Task Force was investigating the case, but declined to provide further details.

Patterson and Washington have not been charged with any federal crimes.

Patterson’s attorney, Winston McKesson, described his client as an honor student from a “solid” middle class background with no gang affiliation.

“I believe once the investigation is complete it will be abundantly clear that my client has no part in a terrorist plot,” McKesson said.

Washington’s attorney, Jerome Haig, did not immediately return a call for comment Friday.

Patterson’s mother, Abbie Patterson, has described her son as an “idealistic young man” and Christian who recently converted to Islam. She said he met Washington about six months ago.

Earlier this year, Patterson worked for several months at a duty-free shop at Los Angeles International Airport, according to a man who answered the telephone at the business on Friday morning. The store is in the Tom Bradley International Terminal, near the El Al Israeli Airlines ticket counter, where an Egyptian immigrant shot and killed two people in a July 4, 2002, attack.

Sheryl Stein, an El Al spokeswoman, said she was not aware of any new threat against the carrier.

“El Al maintains the highest level of security at all times,” she said.

The developments come as the California National Guard is under investigation by federal authorities and the state Senate over concerns that it created a unit to spy on citizens as part of its anti-terrorism activities, which officials deny.

On Friday, private attorneys hired by the Guard told state Sen. Joseph Dunn, D-Garden Grove, they are unlikely to comply with a Senate subpoena served Thursday. The subpoena demands documents associated with the unit that Dunn has been seeking for nearly three weeks.

The request appears to be “extraordinarily broad and ill defined” and may include confidential or federal documents the Guard can’t release, Sacramento attorney George O’Connell said in a letter to Dunn.

The senator warned that if the documents aren’t produced by the Tuesday deadline, the Senate “will immediately commence contempt proceedings” against the Guard.