"Lamest Muslim... ever...
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.
Makes sense.
Since this clown didn’t have a gun, I’d imagine he was trying to get at the officers with a knife.
The officer ‘missed’ at knife range?
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.
Math teacher and vodka leading to a bad ending. It just goes to show -- you shouldn't drink and derive.
Police quickly arrested Ahmad, 22, whose mother says is mentally ill and had recently been in a mental institution.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.
In half-hearted defenese of the school system, claiming a mental illness ties the school board's hands under ADA. They will probably be forced to keep that mutt on the payroll even after he starts serving time and / or is committed. Heaven help us when some idiot shrink declares he is cured and free to go.
Just another nutty Amish.
Teacher. Mentally ill. Still teaching. Why am I not surprised?
Here is the problem. This guy is likely an Internet jihadi and wanted to kill American soldiers. Since he was not killed when he attacked, he should be killed now. TODAY.
“...Ahmad, 22, whose mother says is mentally ill and had recently been in a mental institution.”
So, this young dude with mental problems was allowed in “the system”?
More evidence against PC public schooling.
I wonder what the school would do if this 5th grader drew a picture of his math teacher attacking a military base with two knives???
"Lamest Muslim... ever...
I don’t know why they think terrorism and suicide are inconsistent. They seem to go hand in hand to me.
Dastardly Wal-Mart. Guaranteed if the knives had been purchased at Target or the Kitchen Store, this info would have been omitted or buried deeper than the second sentence.
Amen, 2.
my 3rd grade son was suspended for 3 days (c. 1995) because he had a kitchen knife (that probably couldn’t even cut butter) fall out of his pocket.
BUT a 22 year old college gradute, new to the Miami area, just happens to pick a US military installation, shouts death to America as he goes after the MP’s, is on a suicide mission. This after he is already refused the sale of a gun.
Who in God’s name are the ‘authorities’ who believe this is merely a death wish/failed suicide? Granted, he doesn’t seem to be part of an organized islamicist group.
[Ahmad is in his first year teaching math at Miami Central High, 1781 NW 95th St.]
My question, Why did they put the adress of the school in the sentence. Possible answer, so all the liberals and their islamic terrorist friends can call and complain to the school how the man should be protected on his first ammendment rights. Now, if this had been a Christian, do you think the liberal press would have put the address of the school here and would not the whole liberal press country wide be screaming from the rooftops and demanding execution for the wasp?
[I don’t know why they think terrorism and suicide are inconsistent. They seem to go hand in hand to me.]
So true.
“The officer ‘missed’ at knife range?”
Nowhere does it say that the nutjob was in knife range, nor does it say he was standing still. It is plenty easy to miss a moving target - ask anyone who has ever used a gun.
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