The artist makes him look like some sort of Romulan (from Star Trek) with a crescent moon tat on his forehead.
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.
Nah, it's the beanfields. They believe they'll get gas if they get too close to one.
Correct me if i'm wrong but wouldn't this charge, by definition, completely debunk the "No WMD in Iraq" myth?
Rockford IL is to Chicago as Madison WI is to Milwaukee.
>>Come on now. That is a rather disturbing statement.<<
Only if I were to be islamic. That is the multiplyer in this mix. ;)
bttt
My son and his family live a few blocks from that mall.
They have to get their soymilk from somewhere....
I, too, have noticed that over the years. And I think I have an answer. Just for maybe once the media is doing something for a good reason. You see, I suspect that there are organizations which keep public records (for their clients which would be companies, universities, etc.) of people involved in criminal activities (perhaps to weed out those people who apply for positions and for which there are incomplete official records of having committed--or attempted to commit--criminal acts). So, these organizations use media (esp. newspaper accounts) records to flesh out info. on these creeps.
Just a guess but it makes sense to the OldPossum.
Sure, but from a grocery store after all the gas has been siphoned out. Those soybean fields are still gaseous I tell ya :> Haven't you ever smelled one after fertilizing? It's the beans; what else could it be? Hmmmmmmmmm?
Is he a "Nation of Islam" (black Muslim) convert of just in the regular ol' Religion-of-Peace??
Does Farrakhan's group being based in the Chicago area have an impact on terrorist nuts like this guy and Jose Padilla, or do they merely find their "inspiration" from the Koran and the local mosque?
I was a TV reporter. The media doesn't "like" to give out full names, they just don't want a slew of lawsuits from people with similar names.
It's better to cover your a@@ with "John Gazoonga Smith," as opposed to "John Smith."
The artist makes him look like some sort of Romulan (from Star Trek) with a crescent moon tat on his forehead.
Yes and thank you Starwise.
Good point!!
Inscribe on my tombstone that I died with a smile on my face.
Leni
Inscribe on my tombstone that I died with a smile on my face.
Leni
And be sure to also include the fact that Free Republic has lost one of it's finest :-)
I DO get a small degree of comfort that this man was a lone nut, and they have identified him as such.
Read the affadavit on smokinggun.com.
Ah yes, one of our homegrown mooselimbs. ....and one who probably joined the cult in the TROP breeding ground known as prison.
There once was a freeper named Stoat
Who so very kindly did wrote
That I was the "finest"
Like a real snooty winefest?
Hmmm, I think I will quit on that note
Leni
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