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Teacher who attacked base had death wish, FBI says
The Miami Herald ^ | Tue, Oct. 23, 2007 | DAVID OVALLE

Posted on 10/23/2007 5:30:59 AM PDT by nin_kasi

A Miami Central High math teacher was arrested after attacking the Homestead Air Reserve Base in a failed suicide bid, authorities say.

Wielding two butcher knives bought at Wal-Mart and vodka bottles to use as explosives, Tahmeed Ahmad chanted ''Death to America'' and told Homestead Air Reserve Base guards he wanted to kill soldiers.

But Ahmad was no terrorist, authorities believe.

Rather, the Miami Central High School math teacher wanted to ''commit suicide by cop'' when he attacked military policemen stationed at the west gate just before midnight Sunday, the FBI said.

Ahmad did not get his wish. One officer fired his handgun at Ahmad. He missed.

''We take security very seriously at the base, but this was quite an unusual event,'' said Lt. Col. Tom Davis, a base spokesman. ``Our security forces are well trained and responded appropriately.''

Police quickly arrested Ahmad, 22, whose mother says is mentally ill and had recently been in a mental institution. The FBI charged him Monday with assaulting a U.S. government employee.

Ahmad is in his first year teaching math at Miami Central High, 1781 NW 95th St.

A federal judge will decide Thursday whether he can be released pending trial.

If he is freed, Ahmad will be reassigned away from children, said John Schuster, a schools spokesman.

Ahmad had been added to a federal terrorist watch list, but officials had long since concluded he was not a credible threat, Davis said.

He graduated in June from City College of New York's honors program in mathematics, his mother, Gulnaz Ahmad, said from East Flushing, N.Y.

She said her son was a smart, quiet man who was elected as a student government-faculty liaison three years in a row. He was born in Kuwait and is a naturalized U.S. citizen.

He had been recruited to teach by Miami-Dade schools. Ahmad also wanted to coach football.

But last week, a mental hospital called to say Ahmad, who had been on psychiatric medication, tried killing himself but didn't know how.

''I don't why he was depressed and why he was so sad,'' his mother said, tearfully. ``He needs help.''

According to an FBI criminal complaint, Ahmad admitted to buying two butcher knives at a Miami Lakes-area Wal-Mart. From a liquor store, he bought ``two magnum bottles of vodka he hoped to use as Molotov cocktails.''

The teacher told agent Richard W. Lunn he would have used a gun but that a week ago, a dealer refused to sell him one because he had not lived in Florida for 90 days, as required by law.

On Sunday night, Ahmad drove his car to the gate's west entrance, hopped out and ``charged the military police officers.''

''The fellow was being very hostile toward the guard,'' Davis said.

The military police officer fired in his own defense, the criminal complaint said.

It was unclear exactly how far away he was from Ahmad. An internal review of the shooting will be conducted, Davis said.


TOPICS: US: Florida; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: islamcausesinsanity; jihadinamerica; notterrorism; suddenjihadsyndrome; trop; wakeup
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To: nin_kasi

How “well trained” is a guard who “fired his handgun and missed”?

Please don’t tell me about ammo shortages impacting range time.


21 posted on 10/23/2007 5:46:30 AM PDT by G Larry (HILLARY CARE = DYING IN LINE!)
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To: nin_kasi

” Tahmeed Ahmad chanted ‘’Death to America’’ and told Homestead Air Reserve Base guards he wanted to kill soldiers.

But Ahmad was no terrorist, authorities believe. “

Ummmmmmm.... okay....

“Nothing to see here — move along, folks” (patent pending)


22 posted on 10/23/2007 5:46:42 AM PDT by Uncle Ike (We has met the enemy, and he is us........)
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To: nin_kasi

Sounds like a case of SJS (Sudden Jihad Syndrome).


23 posted on 10/23/2007 5:48:34 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia (When gov't wants to fix something, chances are it was the gov't that broke it in the first place.)
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To: 2banana

Ahmad was no terrorist so since he is just crazy we need elect him to Congress.


24 posted on 10/23/2007 5:48:49 AM PDT by gunnedah
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To: nin_kasi

“But Ahmad was no terrorist”

Ok....


25 posted on 10/23/2007 5:49:49 AM PDT by HereInTheHeartland (Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious. Orwell)
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To: nin_kasi
"But Ahmad was no terrorist, authorities believe."

Aren't they all????


26 posted on 10/23/2007 5:49:50 AM PDT by OrioleFan (Republicans believe every day is July 4th, but DemocRATs believe every day is April 15th. - Reagan)
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To: nin_kasi
Ahmad had been added to a federal terrorist watch list, but officials had long since concluded he was not a credible threat, Davis said.

This statement is troubling on so many levels. God help us.

27 posted on 10/23/2007 5:50:15 AM PDT by jennyjenny
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To: pandoraou812
Ahmad is in his first year teaching math at Miami Central High, 1781 NW 95th St.

This is the money quote. It cannot be too strongly emphasized. WE MUST BAN MATH TEACHERS!!!

28 posted on 10/23/2007 5:54:02 AM PDT by 17th Miss Regt
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To: Squawk 8888

“If he’s a terrorist then he rode the short camel to the madrassa. “Suicide by cop” sounds like a reasonable conclusion here.”

Why did he choose a military target instead of a local police station then? He was trying to make SOME kind of statement with his choice. Off to GITMO withis P.O.S. from the R.O.P.


29 posted on 10/23/2007 5:54:26 AM PDT by Into the Vortex
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To: Bringbackthedraft
You misread the article; not Miami but (NY south)another Yankee screwing up everywhere they go.... They are still liberal....
30 posted on 10/23/2007 5:57:20 AM PDT by captnorb
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To: nin_kasi
If he is freed, Ahmad will be reassigned away from children, said John Schuster, a schools spokesman.

Right here, a capsule of what is wrong with this country, and with the Teachers Unions.

Ahmed should be brain-wiped and left by the side of the road in a city that starts with "S".

31 posted on 10/23/2007 6:00:54 AM PDT by 50sDad (Angels on asteroids are abducting crop circles!)
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To: nin_kasi

“But Ahmad was no terrorist, authorities believe.”

Then the “authorities” are too stupid to be given a word.


32 posted on 10/23/2007 6:01:06 AM PDT by edcoil (Reality doesn't say much - doesn't need too)
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To: nin_kasi

The vodka would have to be over 100 proof to burn.

What is cool is the mentally ill mother giving character references for her mentally ill son. And no mention of a father.


33 posted on 10/23/2007 6:02:23 AM PDT by CPOSharky (Energy plan: Build refineries and nuke plants, drill for our oil, mine our coal.)
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To: 17th Miss Regt

But he didn’t use any weapons of math instruction so we should be forgiving.


34 posted on 10/23/2007 6:02:57 AM PDT by JenB
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To: nin_kasi
Ahmad did not get his wish. One officer fired his handgun at Ahmad. He missed.

``Our security forces are well trained and responded appropriately.''

These two sentences do not go hand in hand.

Whether un-trained math geeks, or well-trained terrorists, if the attack had been on a gate guarded by Marines, they'd be DEAD.

35 posted on 10/23/2007 6:04:10 AM PDT by DocH (RINO-rudy for BRONX Dog Catcher 2008!!!)
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To: nin_kasi
An internal review of the shooting will be conducted, Davis said.

I think the review will go something like this:

Investigator: You shot at the perp; why did you miss?
Guard: I didn't want to risk hitting the bottles of vodka.
Investigator: Oh, OK. Fine. Get back to work. But spend some time on the shooting range first.

36 posted on 10/23/2007 6:05:37 AM PDT by VRWCmember (Fred Thompson 2008! Taking America Back for Conservatives!)
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To: Guenevere
but Ahmad is not a threat......words fail me

Well, at least they are reassigning him away from children.

37 posted on 10/23/2007 6:06:45 AM PDT by VRWCmember (Fred Thompson 2008! Taking America Back for Conservatives!)
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To: nin_kasi
If he is freed, Ahmad will be reassigned away from children, said John Schuster, a schools spokesman.

Yeah, that makes me feel better.

38 posted on 10/23/2007 6:07:25 AM PDT by VRWCmember (Fred Thompson 2008! Taking America Back for Conservatives!)
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To: nin_kasi
Islamic scum...
39 posted on 10/23/2007 6:07:55 AM PDT by johnny7 ("But that one on the far left... he had crazy eyes")
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To: rightwingintelligentsia
And just think- 99% of these cases go unreported by media. Did you ever see the case of the doctor who went on his sudden jihad sydrome romp in the woods with a rifle? Nothing. Not a thing mentioned at all in MSM. I'll bet Ahmed has a web site full of the typical Islamic Koran quotes and Mohammad sayings on how he will someday fulfill his obligatory Jihad.
He is not nuts, as media and his muslim school is claiming, he's just a regular muslim.
They only seem nuts to us because most Americans don't have a clue that it's what their "religion of peace" teaches.

Qur'an:9:111 "Allah has purchased the believers, their lives and their goods. For them (in return) is the Garden (of Paradise). They fight in Allah's Cause, and they slay and are slain; they kill and are killed."

Qur'an:9:5 "Fight and kill the disbelievers wherever you find them, take them captive, harass them, lie in wait and ambush them using every stratagem of war."

Ishaq:325 "Muslims, fight in Allah's Cause. Stand firm and you will prosper. Help the Prophet, obey him, give him your allegiance, and your religion will be victorious."

Qur'an:8:39 "Fight them until all opposition ends and all submit to Allah." [like the infidel media has]

Qur'an:8:39 "So fight them until there is no more Fitnah (disbelief [non-Muslims]) and all submit to the religion of Allah alone (in the whole world)."

Ishaq:324 "He said, ‘Fight them so that there is no more rebellion, and religion, all of it, is for Allah only. Allah must have no rivals.'"

Until he's declared "sane' and able to take another shot at jihad, He'll teach by proxy all the virtues of Islam, continue his less visible jihad of brainwashing Americans into thinking Islam is a religion of peace. Of course, he'll leave those verses out.

40 posted on 10/23/2007 6:08:10 AM PDT by Nathan Zachary
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