Posted on 06/20/2006 5:59:11 AM PDT by angkor
didn't you have a thread awhile back with the actual photos of places in Falls Church where jihadists had been found? i know there were at least two of them on Hillwood Ave.
"Ya think maybe we should be fighting it 'over here' just a bit more?"
I was down at Skyline on 9/11. A well-informed friend told me the FBI was there a lot in the following weeks, apparently there were quite a few deportations and also many abandoned apartments.
"exactly. it is disingenuous to refer to Falls Church as SMALLTOWN anything"
That and the reference to Falls Plaza make me believe the reporter has never been to Falls Church.
Having grown up next door to Falls Church (200 yards from the county line) its a real distortion to call it a small town. Part of the DC megopolis, and only 15 minutes (non-rushhour...or these days say at 2 AM) from DC, it's really just a close-in (inside the beltway) Washington DC suburb.
A major (Saudi-built....imagine that) Mosque was built there probably 10 years ago--and at least one of the beltway-sniper (Jihadi) murders occured there.
Paul Sperry's "Infiltration" has this type of information in the book! Falls Church housed some 9/11 terrorist pigs also
BTW, Reagan's fav restaurant, the Peking Duck, is right across the street from the mosque.
"The mall with the Giant grocery store"
You might be right. I'll defer to leda on that one since she lives there.
"In a land of Giants, there is no Safeway"
yes, i think your native "glasses" are coloring the way you see the place a bit. as an outsider, while i know there is that subset of those born and bred there, new people are moving in all the time and the complexion has changed even in our 20 years in this area. Places that used to be smalltown in this area are all subtly changing, so that even far out places like Haymarket and Marshall etc. are looking very different.
i totally agree.
The sniper killing was at the 7 corners Home depot - they parked in an empty lot, and shot accross rte 50 into the parking garage, killing a lady who worked for the CIA.
The reason I raised the issue of the Falls Plaza location is the reference in the Times story (post #1).
Why would any reporter try to interview people about jihadis at Falls Plaza? It makes no sense, since the jihadi community is 4 miles down Rt. 7 at Bailey's Crossroads and Skyline.
I suppose it's possible he was thinking of the "paintball jihadis", but that's still a mile away, in the office building across from the Falls Church at 29 and Broad Street (little known tidbit).
Anyway it's a strangely-reported story.
correct. saint anthony's.
oops, my bad - you are correct.
yeah, the photos were from www.sperryfiles.com, Paul Sperry's web site.
There is a little Muslim activity right there at Hillwood (the "Halaco" grocery store just around the corner from the Falls Church). And across 29 from the nearby 7-11 is a little office building which has been investigated several times for jihadi activities. And I'm *almost* sure the paintball jihadis operated from that same office building, but it's a bit unclear.
But that's the extent of it from what I've read. Skyline is 20 times more active than those few exceptions (with the ironically named "Mall Of America," which is nothing but Arabic stores including the al Jazeera cafe).
yep! many other shopping areas closer to the mosque. like patton suggested maybe the reporter was too timid to venture that way.
patton and i ate at the pub in that building just last night :)
Imagine how difficult this connection would have been to make without intercepting communications between the US and known foriegn terrorists.
I don't think he means the GM building, but rather, the one behind it.
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