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Mom of Rockford terror suspect: Son involved with "the wrong people"
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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.


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Illinois; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: derrickshareef; huh; nationofislam; noi; rockford
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To: ThreePuttinDude

She must be a blended mom, depends on which family member she is standing closest to at the moment of speaking.


21 posted on 12/10/2006 4:08:59 PM PST by PeteB570 (Guns, what real men want for Christmas)
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To: PeteB570

Thats my thought too.


22 posted on 12/10/2006 4:19:05 PM PST by ThreePuttinDude ()...On 9-11 & 7-7 Islamic missionaries came a callin'.....()
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To: Valin

Sounds like mom doesn't know what's going on.


23 posted on 12/10/2006 4:24:05 PM PST by popdonnelly
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To: Valin
"I don't believe that my son purposely has done anything wrong"

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.

24 posted on 12/10/2006 4:44:56 PM PST by FoxInSocks
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To: Valin

All of Farrakhans nutcase Muslims are freaks and ne'er do wells. Fastest growing cult in prison.


25 posted on 12/10/2006 5:08:03 PM PST by sgtbono2002 (The fourth estate is a fifth column.)
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To: elhombrelibre

Rockford is a quagmire.


26 posted on 12/10/2006 5:11:23 PM PST by AmishDude (I coined "Senator Ass" to describe Jim Webb. He may have already used it as a character in a novel.)
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To: All
ON THE NET...

THE SMOKING GUN.com: "SHOPPING MALL TERROR PLOT FOILED FBI: Man planned 'to disrupt Christmas' with 'acts of jihad'" (December 8, 2006)

MICHELLE MALKIN.com - blog: "A TERRORIST MALL PLOT: 'I SWEAR BY ALLAH...I'M DOWN FOR THE CAUSE'" (December 8, 2006)

LittleGreenFootballs.com - weblog: "CHICAGO JIHADI IN NATION OF ISLAM" (December 9, 2006)

27 posted on 12/10/2006 5:12:20 PM PST by Cindy
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To: AmishDude

It's another Vietnam.


28 posted on 12/10/2006 5:34:33 PM PST by elhombrelibre (Democrats are always more comfortable hating Republicans than hating America's enemies.)
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To: Valin; SortaBichy
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."

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"

29 posted on 12/10/2006 5:44:55 PM PST by ErnBatavia (recent nightmare: Googled up "Helen Thomas nude"....)
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To: Valin

Ya think?


31 posted on 12/10/2006 9:15:05 PM PST by kalee (No burka for me....EVER!)
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To: Yehuda
He was looking for four brocades and a crystal

LOL Much better. Thanks!

32 posted on 12/10/2006 9:55:07 PM PST by FoxInSocks
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To: Mad_Tom_Rackham


Of course.... such a nice boy.


34 posted on 12/10/2006 10:02:59 PM PST by onyx (San Diego Chargers! La Danian Tomlinson and Phillip Rivers! WOO-HOO!)
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To: Doogle

A botched joke?


35 posted on 12/10/2006 10:03:01 PM PST by Howlin (40 days to Destin!)
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To: Valin
Shareef didn't graduate from high school but earned his GED, Dunn said. He worked at a video game and electronics store in Rockford, ...>

Hehehehe! If only he could have ever been "laid"...!

36 posted on 12/10/2006 10:06:50 PM PST by Ignatz ("I think we should tax all foreigners living abroad.")
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To: ErnBatavia

Don't forget: " he was an honor student" !


37 posted on 12/10/2006 11:54:44 PM PST by SortaBichy
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To: Valin
"Mom of Rockford terror suspect: Son involved with "the wrong people" "

LOL! That sure is an understatement!

38 posted on 12/10/2006 11:56:51 PM PST by spunkets
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To: Doogle
Re: "I don't believe that my son purposely has done anything wrong,"

A joke, LOL! Her son's a joke. Stereo speakers for a few grenades and a gun, LOL!

39 posted on 12/11/2006 12:00:37 AM PST by spunkets
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To: Valin
Shareef had been charged with trying to trade two stereo speakers for a 9 mm pistol and the four hand grenades

Those must be some darned nice speakers, maybe those new Bose.

L

40 posted on 12/11/2006 12:05:08 AM PST by Lurker (Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.)
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