Posted on 12/10/2006 3:36:24 PM PST by Valin
CHICAGO - The man accused of plotting to carry out a holiday grenade attack on shoppers at a Rockford mall was a Muslim convert whose growing interest in radical views worried his mother, according to a published report. "I don't believe that my son purposely has done anything wrong," Marie Dunn told the (Arlington Heights) Daily Herald. "I believe he has gotten involved with the wrong people. ... I don't know who he's running with."
Dunn said she wasn't surprised when her 22-year-old son, Derrick Shareef, converted seven years ago, because his father was a member of the Nation of Islam. "He comes from a Muslim background," said Dunn, who described herself as Christian. A telephone listing for Dunn in Genoa was unlisted. But Dunn said she was shocked when she heard Friday that Shareef had been charged with trying to trade two stereo speakers for a 9 mm pistol and the four hand grenades authorities say he wanted set off in garbage cans at the CherryVale shopping mall in Rockford, about 90 miles northwest of Chicago. "I don't know what's going on," Dunn told the Rockford Register Star on Saturday. "The first time I heard about it was from a reporter."
Shareef didn't graduate from high school but earned his GED, Dunn said. He worked at a video game and electronics store in Rockford, where he moved two months ago after living "on and off" in Genoa with Dunn's husband and two other children, she said. FBI officials said the agency was tipped by an acquaintance of Shareef, after Shareef allegedly told the person he wanted to "commit acts of violent jihad," according to the affidavit. Authorities arrested Shareef Wednesday when he tried to make the trade with an undercover agent in a Rockford parking lot. Shareef was charged Friday with one count of attempting to damage or destroy a building by fire or explosion and one count of attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction, and was ordered held without bail.
She must be a blended mom, depends on which family member she is standing closest to at the moment of speaking.
Thats my thought too.
Sounds like mom doesn't know what's going on.
trying to trade two stereo speakers for a 9 mm pistol and the four hand grenades
Oh, sure, it was an accident. He meant to say he wanted a guitar, not four grenades and a pistol.
All of Farrakhans nutcase Muslims are freaks and ne'er do wells. Fastest growing cult in prison.
Rockford is a quagmire.
It's another Vietnam.
Here we go again with a derivative of "The Script" (usually seen on the nightly news as momma decries her driveby-offed son).
"My son was a good boy...wrong place at the wrong time...going back to school...police set him up...he didn't run with no gangs, not my boy"
Ya think?
LOL Much better. Thanks!
Of course.... such a nice boy.
A botched joke?
Hehehehe! If only he could have ever been "laid"...!
Don't forget: " he was an honor student" !
LOL! That sure is an understatement!
A joke, LOL! Her son's a joke. Stereo speakers for a few grenades and a gun, LOL!
Those must be some darned nice speakers, maybe those new Bose.
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