Posted on 03/13/2006 6:02:08 PM PST by Diver Dave
First impression upon hearing this news: of course he chose the socialist state of CA.
One of my HS jock boyfriends lives in Lodi!
C'mon SacBee, keep up.
Apparently, he wasn't gainfully employed? No mention of employment in the article.
This is no small matter-
Al Qaeda's Zawahri calls for strikes against West
news.yahoo.com ^ | Sat Mar 4, 11:20 PM ET | Firouz Sedarat
Posted on 03/05/2006 6:02:23 AM PST by Esther Ruth
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1590308/posts
Hey, the other claim to fame for Lodi -- wasn't the fictional Six Million Dollar Man from there?
John Fogarty wrote the song about Lodi, CA. Lodi, NJ, however, is the home of Glenn Danzig and Satin Dolls Gentleman's Club, aka Bada Bing.
Attacked From An Egyptian Base
Ayman Al-Zawahiri, Osama bin Laden's second-in-command, is believed to be a member of the Takfir sect. Zawahiri founded Egyptian Islamic Jihad (EIJ), an organization that in many ways authored the philosophy of jihad that now drives al Qaeda. EIJ helped assassinate Anwar Sadat in 1981.
Starting in the late 1980s, Zawahiri sent a group of terrorist sleeper agents to the United States. The first wave consisted of at least a half dozen agents, but it's likely the total number was significantly higher.
Made up mostly of Egyptian nationals, the group emigrated to the U.S. over the the course of several years, forming a sleeper cell that would wreak great damage before finally being exposed.
On their arrival, the first-wave infiltrators did not turn immediately to plotting attacks. Instead, they started building an infrastructure, networks through which they would provide crucial financial and logistical support to plots on U.S. soil and abroad.
Members of this Egyptian clique were linked through the al-Kifah mosque, in Brooklyn, a conduit for funds and personnel tied to al Qaeda and the jihad against the Soviet Union in Afghanistan.
From Brooklyn, the sleepers recruited foreign nationals, U.S. citizens and even American war veterans to join their ranks.
No one in this first wave of infiltrators fit any sort of predictable profile for an Islamic fundamentalist at the time, although some did portray themselves as devout Muslims.
The first wave assimilated almost effortlessly into U.S. society. Mahmud Abouhalima joined the NRA. One member, Ali Mohammed, even joined the U.S. Army, rising to the rank of sergeant in the Special Forces. Later, Mohammed would train Osama bin Laden's personal bodyguards in the Sudan.
http://www.rotten.com/library/conspiracy/al-qaeda-and-the-assassins/agents-of-islam
Gentlemen, we can rebuild him. We have the technology.
Wait, no! He was from Ojai!
Go tell Aunt Lodi
Lodi is south of Stockton on US99. Go through it each time we travel to Fresno/Clovis. Very nice town.
I read that Ali Mohammed married a Santa Clara woman and that Zawahiri went to Sunnyvale or Santa Clara to do fundraising in the mid 90s at Ali Mohammed's invitation. 1996 I believe. I remember being shocked at hearing this because I lived in Los Gatos at the time and who would have ever dreamed those nice Muslims living in the Silicon Valley and working at Sun Microsystems etc., making the big bucks, could be terrorists?
correction: Lodi is actually North of Stockton on US 99.
If they link this guy to anything anthrax, I'd sure like to hear about it. Lodi is 40 miles north of where we were on 9/11.
This story is getting top billing on all the local television station (Sacramento stations).
I stand corrected. Too much wine tasting. I better let wifeofafnamvet drive.
Is Ali Mohammed under arrest? I have not heard anything about him.
The local news just suggested that maybe Al Zawahiri is in the area since no one knows where he is. Don't forget the $25 mil reward!
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