Posted on 05/20/2009 6:55:16 PM PDT by Sergeant Tim
EXCLUSIVE: Four New York City men were arrested Wednesday in connection with an alleged plot to blow up New York City synagogues and other city locations, WNBC's Jonathan Dienst has learned.
Raids by the FBI-NYPD Joint Terrorist Task Force in the Bronx captured the suspected ringleader and three followers in what law enforcement sources are calling a homegrown terrorist plot.
Investigators stress the suspects' meetings had been infiltrated early on and there was "no chance" the alleged plot could succeed.
Investigators said several of the suspects are Muslims who allegedly talked about destroying two Jewish temples, including at least one in the Riverdale section of the Bronx.
The men ordered and accepted delivery of materials they believed were bomb-making ingredients, authorities said. But investigators said they made sure the materials the suspects received were inert. Officials tell WNBC they moved in now so the alleged plot could not progress any further.
The four men are in custody and are expected to be arraigned Thursday in White Plains federal court on terrorism-related counts.
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In the latest dictionary edition, "Gibbs" is the second definition found under "Ignorant Putz."
All very thoughtful points you make. The Taliban-Zakat phenomenon is certainly something that needs to be closely examined
My area. I work in Montgomery just ‘around the corner’ from Newburgh. The landing pattern for Stewart is directly over my head, all night. Gotta love these morons..
Seems Odumba and Napalitano have misjudged who the domestic terrorists are? Either they are stuck on stupid or are a part of the enemy.
Every now and then I wave at the aircraft and jokingly say, “Thanks for not landing on me.”
Where did you come from?
Overgeneralization is one of the first things Baby has to outgrow.
That's possible, explain it to me. IMO no city in America deserves to be hit, nor NYC again, certainly not for political views, but I'm open to correction.
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WASHINGTON, May 21, 2009 – Less than a month after the sentencing of five defendants found guilty in a terror plot to kill soldiers at Fort Dix, N.J., authorities say they have foiled another terrorist plot against an Air National Guard base and a synagogue and Jewish community center in New York.
The FBI and New York police arrested four suspects yesterday who allegedly were planning to shoot down military planes at the New York Air National Guard Base in Newburgh, N.Y., and blow up a synagogue and Jewish community center in the Bronx.
James Cromitie, the alleged group leader, as well as David Williams, Onta Williams and Laguerre Payen were charged with conspiracy to use weapons of mass destruction in the United States and conspiracy to acquire and use anti-aircraft missiles, FBI officials said. The first charge carries a maximum penalty of life in prison, and the latter a mandatory minimum of 25 years in prison.
Authorities made the arrests last night as the defendants were preparing to carry out their planned attacks, officials said. The suspects intended to use devices containing C-4 plastic explosives to attack the synagogue and community center, they said.
From there, the defendants allegedly planned to head north to the New York Air National Guard Base at Stewart Airport in Newburgh with what they thought was an activated Stinger surface-to-air missile to shoot down military aircraft, officials said.
The defendants believed the weapons had been provided through Jaysh-e-Mohammed, a terrorist group based in Pakistan, officials said. However, their supplier actually was an undercover FBI informant who provided them inert C-4 plastic explosives and a deactivated Stinger, they said.
FBI officials said the informant began meeting with Cromitie in October at a house in which they had concealed video and audio equipment to capture evidence as the suspects planned their attacks.
The suspects selected their targets last month, and began conducting surveillance and taking photographs of the National Guard base, officials said. Late last month, Cromitie and David Williams also purchased a 9 mm semi-automatic pistol to use during the planned attacks, officials said.
The suspects, all Muslims, said they wanted to carry out a jihad, or holy war, because of operations under way in Afghanistan and Pakistan, Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly told reporters yesterday. All four suspects have criminal records, but none appeared to be part of al-Qaida, he said.
Acting U.S. Attorney Lev. L. Dassin praised the cooperative investigation that included the Air Force Office of Special Investigations as well as the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York, the FBI, New York Police Department, New York State Police and New York State Office of Homeland Security.
“The defendants planned to strike military planes with surface-to-air guided missiles and to destroy a synagogue and a Jewish community center with C-4 plastic explosives,” he said. “Thanks to the extraordinary, collaborative work of our law enforcement partners, the defendants’ plans were thwarted and the defendants are under arrest.”
The five would-be Fort Dix attackers sentenced last month, all Muslim immigrants, were arrested in May 2007. Four were sentenced to life in prison, and the fifth received a 33-year sentence.
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Four Arrested for Plot to Bomb Synagogue and Jewish Community Center and to Shoot Military Planes with Stinger Missiles
LEV L. DASSIN, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, JOSEPH M. DEMAREST, JR., the Assistant-Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (”FBI”), RAYMOND W. KELLY, the Police Commissioner for the City of New York, HARRY J. CORBITT, the Superintendent of the New York State Police (”NYSP”), and DANA SIMMONS, the Brigadier General of the United States Air Force Office of Special Investigations (”AFOSI”), announced the arrests tonight of JAMES CROMITIE, a/k/a “Abdul Rahman,” a/k/a “Abdul Rehman,” DAVID WILLIAMS, a/k/a “Daoud,” a/k/a “DL,” ONTA WILLIAMS, a/k/a “Hamza,” and LAGUERRE PAYEN, a/k/a “Amin,” a/k/a “Almondo,” on charges arising from a plot to detonate explosives near a synagogue in the Riverdale section of the Bronx, New York, and to shoot military planes located at the New York Air National Guard Base at Stewart Airport in Newburgh, New York, with Stinger surface-to-air guided missiles. In their efforts to obtain weapons, the defendants dealt with an informant acting under law enforcement supervision, and the FBI and other agencies monitored the defendants’ actions up to the time of arrest, including providing an inactive missile and inert explosives to the informant for the defendants.
The charges, which are contained in a criminal Complaint filed yesterday in White Plains federal court, include conspiracy to use weapons of mass destruction in the United States and conspiracy to acquire and use anti-aircraft missiles. The defendants are expected to appear in White Plains federal court tomorrow. According to the Complaint:
In June 2008, an informant working with the FBI met CROMITIE in Newburgh, New York. CROMITIE explained to the informant that his parents had lived in Afghanistan and that he was upset about the war there and that many Muslim people were being killed in Afghanistan and Pakistan by the United States Military forces. CROMITIE expressed interest in returning to Afghanistan and spoke to the CW about how if he, CROMITIE, were to die a martyr, he would go to “paradise.” CROMITIE also expressed an interest in doing “something to America.” The following month, CROMITIE and the informant discussed the organization Jaish-e-Mohammed, a designated Foreign Terrorist Organization based in Pakistan, with which the informant claimed to be involved. CROMITIE stated to the informant that he, CROMITIE, would be interested in joining Jaish-e-Mohammed to “do jihad.”
Beginning in October 2008, the informant began meeting with CROMITIE at a house in Newburgh, New York that the FBI had equipped with concealed video and audio equipment. During meetings at this location, CROMITIE, DAVID WILLIAMS, ONTA WILLIAMS, and PAYEN discussed their desire to attack certain targets in New York, including a synagogue in the Bronx and military aircraft located at the Air National Guard Base. CROMITIE asked the informant to supply surface-to-air guided missiles and explosives for the planned operations. The informant responded that he could provide CROMITIE with C-4 plastic explosives.
Beginning in April 2009, CROMITIE, DAVID WILLIAMS, ONTA WILLIAMS, and PAYEN selected the synagogue and Jewish community center they intended to target, and conducted surveillance, including photographs, of military planes at the Air National Guard Base. In late April 2009, CROMITIE and DAVID WILLIAMS purchased a 9-millimeter semi-automatic pistol for use during the planned terrorist operations. At around the same time, CROMITIE and DAVID WILLIAMS traveled to the location from which they could shoot at the military planes using surface-toair guided missiles. In early May 2009, CROMITIE, DAVID WILLIAMS, and PAYEN drove with the informant toward Stamford, Connecticut, to obtain what the defendants were told would be a surface-to-air guided missile system and three improvised explosive devices (”IEDs”) containing C-4 plastic explosive material. The informant provided the defendants with a Stinger surface-to-air guided missile provided by the FBI that was not capable of being fired, telling the defendants that he had obtained it from Jaish-e-Mohammed. The informant also provided three IEDs that each contained over 30 pounds of inert C-4 plastic explosives, again telling the defendants that he had obtained them from Jaish-e-Mohammed. CROMITIE, DAVID WILLIAMS, and PAYEN transported these apparent weapons back to Newburgh. Two days later, CROMITIE, DAVID WILLIAMS, ONTA WILLIAMS, and PAYEN met to inspect the “missile system” and the “explosive devices” and to further discuss the logistics of the operation.
CROMITIE, DAVID WILLIAMS, ONTA WILLIAMS, and PAYEN each are charged with one count of conspiracy to use weapons of mass destruction within the U.S., which carries a maximum penalty of life in prison, and one count of conspiracy to acquire and use anti-aircraft missiles, which carries a maximum penalty of life in prison and a mandatory minimum of 25 years in prison.
CROMITIE, DAVID WILLIAMS, ONTA WILLIAMS, and PAYEN currently reside in Newburgh, New York.
The charges filed yesterday were the result of the cooperative efforts of the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York, FBI, NYPD, NYSP, Newburgh City Police Department, Town of New Windsor Police Department, United States Air Force Office of Special Investigations, and New York State Office of Homeland Security. Mr. DASSIN praised the investigative work and efforts of these agencies.
“As alleged in the Complaint, the defendants wanted to engage in terrorist attacks. They selected targets and sought the weapons necessary to carry out their plans. Fortunately, the defendants sought the assistance of a witness cooperating with the Government. While the weapons provided to the defendants by the cooperating witness were fake, the defendants thought they were absolutely real,” said Acting United States Attorney LEV L. DASSIN. “The defendants planned to strike military planes with surface-to-air guided missiles and to destroy a synagogue and a Jewish community center with C-4 plastic explosives. Thanks to the extraordinary, collaborative work of our law enforcement partners, the defendants’ plans were thwarted and the defendants are under arrest.”
Assistant United States Attorneys ERIC SNYDER and DAVID LEIBOWITZ are in charge of the prosecution.
The charges contained in the Complaint are merely accusations and the defendant is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty.
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Also adding to post no. 170 — The title of the news article:
“Four Charged With Terror Plot Against Air Guard Base, Jewish Facilities”
By Donna Miles
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, May 21, 2009
Really excellent screen-caps devolve.
You know I was busy yesterday and was gone all evening, I just saw the May 20 date on this thread and didn’t know this happened yesterday!!!
You know I'm a little surprised they're calling this terrorism. So many "domestic man made incidents", the Jewish Center in Seattle, the SUV guy in the SE, the DC snipers, the El Al counter at LAX, the Ft Dix plotters, several training camps broken up, desecration and attempted Synagogue firebombing in Chicago, and finally it's terrorism, staring the FBI in the eye. Yes, domestic terrorism, like Bill Ayers and OK City. Hopefully progress, not to suggest they shouldn't be targeting the real risks, right wingers, per Janet "I've been in the sun too long" Napolitano.
You’re welcome S jackson.
Unfortunately, the term “terrorism” will never go away because terrorists are here to stay until the end of time.
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Those 3 may be more of Obama’s brothers - or BILs !!!
Danged Amish again!
I’m sure he was very upset about this happening right now, lol, couldn’t have come at a better time!
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Yup
Obama rescheduled his speech to oppose/eclipse Cheney
Four Black Muzzie terrorists (prison conversions to Islam) get arrested by the FBI for planning to knock down US military aircraft at a NY airbase - and bomb Jewish Temples
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