Posted on 12/08/2006 9:03:25 AM PST by janetjanet998
Edited on 12/08/2006 11:03:36 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
A 22-year-old Rockford man has been charged with plotting to set off hand grenades in an alleged terror attack at a popular Rockford mall during the busy holiday season, federal authorities announced today.
Derrick Shareef, of Rockford, has been charged with attempting to maliciously damage and destroy a building and to use a weapon of mass destruction against persons or property in the U.S., federal authorities said.
According to an FBI affidavit, Shareef met with an undercover federal agent in a Rockford area parking lot to trade stereo speakers for a handgun and four hand grenades that he intended to use at the CherryVale shopping mall at 7200 Harrison Ave., just off the junction of Interstate Highways 90 and 39 in the city.
The mall, with about 130 retail stores, was one of several potential targets, which also included courthouses, city hall and several government buildings, the complaint alleges. Sources said there was no imminent threat from the attack, describing it as more of a hopeful plan.
Shareef also allegedly told an acquaintance who actually was cooperating with the FBI that he wanted to commit acts of "violent jihad" against civilians.
Shareef told an undercover informant that he wanted to attack a courthouse in DeKalb County and "smoke a judge," according to the complaint.
"[T]he courthouse in DeKalb where I be going every month …You go in there and you clock the first three [guards] at the door that they got, and you up in there, you know what I'm saying…I just want to smoke a judge," the complaint quoted Shareef as saying.
The informant then asked Shareef when he wanted to stage the attack.
"What do you think? I like the holiday season," the complaint quotes him as saying.
LOL! Maybe; I communicate with myself a lot. Perhaps I should watch out for FBI agents trailing me.
AQ megalomania may be as much a restraining factor as US counterterrorism: the terrorists under AQ's control want something bigger than 9/11, and unless they can coordinate simultaneous shopping mall attacks in a large number of locations, shopping malls won't do it.
During Christmas rush.
What ever happened to Hanukkah or Kwanzaa?
I am sure that this guy will turn out to be a KKK member with a NRA sticker on his pickup bumper.
Don't they mean "Holiday" rush?
Derrick Shareef, per CNN
Anti Wal Mart?
Lefties in the Levant.
"Derrick Shareef, per CNN"
He thinks it's not kosher
Fundamentally he can't take it.
You know he really hates it.
The SHAREEF don't like it
Rockin' the Casbah
Rock the Casbah
The SHAREEF don't like it
Rockin' the Casbah
Rock the Casbah
Sounds like a Muslim. Sounds like a Democrat.
I do wonder how the FBI got onto him? Usually, it is because somone else in the plot got caught or blabbed. that is why true 'lone wolves' like the Unabomber, BTK, etc. run for years without getting caught.
Otherwise, his activities may have been picked up by suspicious persons who reported him - like going into the hardware store and buying pipe, caps, wire, batteries and an alarm clock all at once from the rare clerk who isn't brain dead. Or he tried to solicit others into his plot who balked and told the authorities.
Curiouser and curiouser...
That's -- Da Bearsss. And Mike Dikka.
I would put my money on a tip from a concerned gun dealer. Guy probably walked into a gun store and asked, "Which one of these will kill the most infidels?"
I'm betting black Moslem with changed name.
The "Derek" is too anglo, but the "Shareef" is an arabic-type name (yet not too complex like most are, nor spelled with an "i" as I would expect).
Anyway, it's perfectly possible it could be a disillusioned white guy mainly with idealogical problems.
Tim McVeigh
Unabomber (whatever his name was)
Richard Reid (OK, maybe he included Islam)
Johnny Walker (Red) (OK, maybe he included Islam, too - but these 2 were both AFTER 9/11)
Whites seem to act alone alot.
Ideas and desires do not a prosecutable case make. Else Senator-elect Webb would be in jail for plotting to assault the President.
Granting, this is ABC and thus there is the potential for a mess of reportage, but there has to either be a material step taken in furtherance of the plot, or a criminal solicitation of another person to join said plot. These are the requisite elements of an inchoate crime.
IT's not necessarily megalomania. They know from experience that if the hit isn't big enough it will either be denied, blamed on something else, or swept under the rug in some other way. Take shoe bombing -- I have a suspicion that before Richard Reid blew it for them by getting caught, there had been several airliners blown out of the sky by shoe bombs. Like TWA 800.
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