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America's Homegrown Troop Killers
IBD Editrials ^ | June 17, 2008

Posted on 06/17/2008 7:34:36 PM PDT by Kaslin

War On Terror: It's bad enough that Americans are bad-mouthing American troops fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq. But an alarming number of Muslim-Americans are plotting to kill them.


It's a story you don't like to hear from the mainstream media: U.S. soldiers increasingly are the prime targets of terrorism, both at home and abroad. And those who want to do them harm include fellow citizens.

Thanks to the anti-war crowd, the trend may only worsen. The ACLU recently pressured the Pentagon to shut down a domestic counterterror unit set up after 9/11 to protect troops and bases.

And a new congressional report finds that the U.S. government has no "coordinated strategy" to deal with grass-roots jihadists who more and more are meeting, training and conspiring to kill troops over the Internet.

In the most recent case, a federal jury last week convicted three Toledo, Ohio, Muslims of plotting to attack U.S. military personnel in Iraq and elsewhere.

Mohammed Amawi, Marwan El-Hindi and Wassim Mazloum were learning to shoot guns and make explosives while raising money to fund their plans to wage jihad against U.S. troops.

Amawi and El-Hindi are U.S. citizens, and Mazloum immigrated to the U.S. legally from Lebanon.

In addition, El-Hindi's two cousins from Chicago face trial next year for conspiring to kill American soldiers.

The Toledo case is just the latest in a string of troop-killing plots by homegrown terrorists.

(Excerpt) Read more at ibdeditorials.com ...


TOPICS: Editorial; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: aclu; globaljihad; jihad; jihadinamerica; muslimamericans

1 posted on 06/17/2008 7:34:36 PM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin
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Nuff said.

2 posted on 06/17/2008 7:37:27 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (De-Globalize yourself !)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

I just saw that and thought the same as you


3 posted on 06/17/2008 7:39:00 PM PDT by Kaslin (6/12/08 The Nation will live to regret what the Court has done today. I dissent. Justice Scalia)
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To: FlingWingFlyer
Good one, cartoon swiped!

Well, we could always round them up and deport them.
4 posted on 06/17/2008 7:42:55 PM PDT by Nowhere Man (Is Barak HUSSEIN Obama the Anti-Christ? "Barak Ho-Tep!! Barak Ho-Tep!")
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To: Kaslin
I was thinking Nancy Pelousy and Ted Kennedy.

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5 posted on 06/17/2008 7:43:51 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Voting conservative isn't for the faint of heart.)
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To: Jarhead2844; USMCWriter; 1stbn27; 2111USMC; 2nd Bn, 11th Mar; 68 grunt; A.A. Cunningham; ASOC; ...

Ping. Makes me want to visit Toledo. Seriously.


6 posted on 06/17/2008 7:55:06 PM PDT by freema (Proud Marine Niece, Daughter, Wife, Friend, Sister, Cousin, Mom and FRiend)
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To: Kaslin

If FDR was president at this moment, all Muslims in this country would be in internment camps.


7 posted on 06/17/2008 8:26:56 PM PDT by Uncle Ivan (Thompson Conservative)
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To: Kaslin

“U.S. soldiers increasingly are the prime targets of terrorism, both at home and abroad. And those who want to do them harm include fellow citizens.”

That’s what you get when you allow the enemy to immigrate.


8 posted on 06/17/2008 8:28:55 PM PDT by 353FMG (What marxism and fascism could not destroy, liberalism did.)
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To: Uncle Ivan
If FDR was president at this moment, all Muslims in this country would
be in internment camps.


And any of them that "acted out" would die of lead poisoning.
From either a bolt-action Springfield or M-1.
9 posted on 06/17/2008 8:31:41 PM PDT by VOA
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To: Kaslin

Muslims will not want to try it.

There are many (armed) American citizens who would give their lives to protect the troops.

Heaven help the Muslims when the National Guard comes in to reinforce the citizens. Talk about wall of lead.


10 posted on 06/17/2008 8:36:37 PM PDT by wastedyears (Obama is a Texas Post Turtle.)
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To: wastedyears

Muslims should be careful - this is not Europe. If the US is willing to go into Iraq a half a world away to cleanse the muslim terrorist scum from the earth, think of what we would do to these homegrown terrorists who throw our freedoms back in our faces. Chamber the rounds boys...


11 posted on 06/17/2008 8:50:41 PM PDT by steel_resolve (We are living in the post-rational world where being a moron is an asset)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Holy cow, that hits like a ton of bricks.


12 posted on 06/17/2008 8:57:38 PM PDT by wastedyears (Obama is a Texas Post Turtle.)
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To: Kaslin

“to kill troops over the Internet.”

Just curious how they could do this.


13 posted on 06/17/2008 9:03:02 PM PDT by SendShaqtoIraq
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To: wastedyears

I think if cowardly “judges” and “lawyers” want to particiapte in the War on Terror, they should do it in BDU’s, combat boots and a helmet.


14 posted on 06/17/2008 9:07:37 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (De-Globalize yourself !)
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To: freema

These three should be slowly ran through the shredder after they are told that is what Saddam used to do to innocent civilian Muslims.


15 posted on 06/18/2008 12:46:41 AM PDT by Marine_Uncle (Duncan Hunter was our best choice...Now where left with a bunch of idiots.)
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