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The Terrorist Plot No One Talked About
Captain's Quarters ^ | Dec. 15, 2007 | Ed Morrissey

Posted on 12/15/2007 8:12:00 AM PST by jdm

A terrorist conspiracy to attack military sites and synagogues developed among prison Muslims for years, and yet hardly any mention of the conspiracy made the news. The Los Angeles Times picks up the story no one else seems interested in reporting, noting that two of the accused have pled guilty to the conspiracy:

Two members of a prison-based Islamic terrorist cell that authorities say was poised to attack military sites, synagogues and other targets across Southern California pleaded guilty in federal court Friday to conspiring to wage war against the United States.

The plot, which police stumbled upon during a routine investigation into a gas station holdup, represented one of the most realistic terrorism threats on U.S. soil since Sept. 11, experts said. The case also raised concerns about whether the country's prisons could serve as recruiting centers for Islamic extremists.

As the defendants entered their pleas, prosecutors made public several documents detailing the group's operations. One handwritten paper, titled "Modes of Attack," includes a list of National Guard facilities, Army recruiting centers and something referred to as the "camp site of Zion."

Another two-page document, labeled "Blueprint 2005," sets out eight tasks to be accomplished in furtherance of the plot. "We will need bombs that can be activated from a distance," one entry reads. "Acquire two weapons (pistols) with silencers," reads another.

Kevin Lamar James and Levar Haney Washington, members of the homegrown radical Islamic organization dubbed JIS, entered guilty pleas in front of U.S. District Judge Cormac J. Carney in federal court in Santa Ana.

The investigation started as a routine probe into a gas-station robbery. Police in Torrance discovered the group's manifesto, a list of targets, and a post-attack warning for people to avoid contact with Jews and non-Jewish supporters of "the Zionist state". Torrance called in the feds, who believe that the group had almost completed its preparations for a major attack in Los Angeles.

It is no secret that Muslims have recruited many converts in the prison system. This effort goes back decades, and Malcolm X may be the most famous of these converts. Traditionally, they have tried to create a political awareness and activism in these converts, and even with Malcolm X, some thought that edged towards terrorism. It certainly looked that way when Malcom X got murdered, apparently by the Nation of Islam, for dissenting and splintering from their leadership. It doesn't take much imagination to see how that process can be used to inspire already resentful inmates into attacking their own country, at least inspired by al-Qaeda.

Unfortunately, the national news media has decided that this story doesn't have the same newsworthiness of the Miami group's plot to blow up the Sears Tower. The pundit class has used that as an example of the inconsequential nature of the threat of home-grown jihadiism. They have neglected to give much reporting to the excellent and fortuitous work by federal, state, and local officials in this case, exposing a potential root of home-grown terror. Like my friends at Power Line, I'm hardly sanguine that this particular threat has been terminated.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Editorial; News/Current Events; US: California; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: blackmuslims; blueprint2005; foiled; inmates; jihadinamerica; latimes; losangelescounty; malcolmx; noi; recruits; terrorism; torrance

1 posted on 12/15/2007 8:12:02 AM PST by jdm
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To: jdm

“We will need bombs that can be activated from a distance,”

That makes sense from the infidel perspective — but don’t these nuts want to blow themselves up along with the women and children they target?


2 posted on 12/15/2007 8:22:01 AM PST by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin
don’t these nuts want to blow themselves up along with the women and children they target?

No, not right now. You see...they are in short supply of those types as 10's of thousands have been killed during the WOT.

3 posted on 12/15/2007 8:45:14 AM PST by Just A Nobody (PISSANT for President '08 - NEVER AGAIN...Support our Troops! Beware the ENEMEDIA)
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To: jdm

This is a story that will have to be publicized by the blogosphere and talk radio because the MSM won’t touch it.

Does anyone know how to get this to Rush? I don’t think you can email him unless you are part of his paid member website.


4 posted on 12/15/2007 9:01:25 AM PST by wildbill
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To: wildbill

Try ElRushbo@eibnet.com


5 posted on 12/15/2007 9:13:11 AM PST by jdm
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To: BenLurkin
No, these are American jihadists - a little smarter.
6 posted on 12/15/2007 10:09:04 AM PST by gotribe (I've been disenfranchised by the GOP.)
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To: jdm
The case also raised concerns about whether the country's prisons could serve as recruiting centers for Islamic extremists.

Gee...you THINK???

7 posted on 12/15/2007 10:20:59 AM PST by BreitbartSentMe (Ex-Dem since 2001 *Folding@Home for the Gipper - Join the FReeper Folders*)
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To: BenLurkin
That makes sense from the infidel perspective — but don’t these nuts want to blow themselves up along with the women and children they target?>

The supply of "Islamakazies" seems to be drying up. The scum prefer to go on living after they kill the women and children and other innocent bystanders, rather than have to explain themselves to the Almighty quite so soon. The suiciders, when they can find them, tend to be those brainwashed at a very early age, and still pretty young.

8 posted on 12/15/2007 11:38:14 AM PST by El Gato ("The Second Amendment is the RESET button of the United States Constitution." -- Doug McKay)
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To: Just A Nobody
10's of thousands have been killed during the WOT.

Bush's fault.

9 posted on 12/15/2007 2:47:27 PM PST by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin
Bush's fault.

Fer sure! ;*)

10 posted on 12/15/2007 3:16:25 PM PST by Just A Nobody (PISSANT for President '08 - NEVER AGAIN...Support our Troops! Beware the ENEMEDIA)
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