Posted on 09/24/2009 3:42:48 PM PDT by GeronL
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http://internet-haganah.com/harchives/006620.html
02 October 2009
SMADI WAS SPOTTED ONLINE SPOUTING SUPPORT FOR JIHAD
An undercover FBI agent monitoring an online extremist Web site discovered Hosam Maher Husein Smadi espousing jihad against the U.S. more than six months ago.
Posted on 02 October 2009 @ 13:09
“FBI, homeland security directors say anti-terrorism measures working”
12:00 AM CDT on Thursday, October 1, 2009
By MARJORIE KORN / The Dallas Morning News
SNIPPET: “Hosam Smadi’s arrest was among a slew of apprehensions by the FBI in the past few weeks. Director Robert Mueller did not disclose much about the investigation, but he told the Senate homeland security committee that “the Internet played somewhat of a role” in radicalizing the 19-year-old living in Italy, Texas.
Smadi was taken into custody after a sting operation, and the FBI said he came to its attention after he expressed jihadist views on a Web site.
The Internet has become a “powerful conduit for radicalization efforts,” Mueller said. “Individuals can also find like-minded extremists using chat rooms and social networking sites, enhancing their ability to develop global networks of extremist contacts.””
http://internet-haganah.com/harchives/006620.html
02 October 2009
“SMADI WAS SPOTTED ONLINE SPOUTING SUPPORT FOR JIHAD”
October 8, 2009
Note: The following text is a quote:
http://dallas.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/pressrel09/dl100809.htm
Federal Grand Jury in Dallas Indicts Man for Attempting to Bomb Dallas Skyscraper
DALLAS—A federal grand jury in Dallas has charged Hosam Maher Husein Smadi with offenses stemming from his attempt to bomb a skyscraper in downtown Dallas, announced U.S. Attorney James T. Jacks of the Northern District of Texas. It is expected that Smadi will make his initial appearance on these charges before a U.S. Magistrate Judge in Dallas next week.
Count one of the two-count indictment charges Smadi with attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction, alleging that on September 24, 2009, he activated a timer connected to a vehicle borne improvised explosive device located inside a parking garage directly beneath a public building located at 1445 Ross Avenue in Dallas.
Count two of the indictment charges Smadi with bombing a place of public use, alleging that he knowingly and unlawfully delivered, placed, discharged and detonated an explosive device into a place of public use and government facility by activating a timer connected to the device or bomb and leaving it in the public parking garage of the building. It further alleges that Smadi did this with the intent to cause death or serious bodily injury and with the intent to cause extensive destruction of the facility, likely to result in major economic loss.
An indictment is an accusation by a federal grand jury and a defendant is entitled to the presumption of innocence unless proven guilty. If convicted, however, each count carries a maximum statutory sentence of life in prison and a $250,000 fine.
The case is being investigated by the FBI in conjunction with members of the FBI-sponsored North Texas Joint Terrorism Task Force. Assistant U.S. Attorney Dayle Elieson is in charge of the prosecution.
Note: The comments are interesting are interesting here:
“After jihad terror arrest, Dallas Muslims pledge new cooperation with FBI, anti-terror programs in mosques — no, wait...”
SNIPPET: “Actually they’re whining about a “backlash” — something that has hardly ever materialized despite constant mainstream media focusing upon it after virtually every jihad arrest — and claiming victim status.
Memo to Dallas Muslims: want to make sure there is no backlash? Here are some easy steps.
1. Stop committing violent acts. When you hear Muslims plotting violent acts in your local mosque, call the police and FBI.
2. Confront those Muslims who justify violence and Islamic supremacism by reference to the Qur’an and Sunnah, and argue against the applicability of those passages to our age or any other age in the future.
3. Confront and report those Muslims who say violent or hateful things in private when they think no non-Muslims are around.
4. Begin comprehensive and transparently inspeactable programs in your mosques ans schools to teach against the ideas of violent jihad and Islamic supremacism, and the virtues of the U.S. Constitutional principles of non-establishment of religion, equality of rights for all, and freedom of speech.
5. Actively work with Western law enforcement officials on long-range programs to identify and apprehend jihadists and root out the jihad doctrine and Islamic supremacism from within Western Muslim communities.”
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