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Maybe the Pakistanis will offer to send troops to the US to help get our terrorism problem under control.
Will the Pakis give them a military tribunal or a civilian trial ( just to show us how wonderful they are )?
I mean as long as the government (The Prez) has huge slush funds and likes to payoff Hillary’s campaign debt of about 6 million...
I mean it would be cool to me to pay the Paki’s about 6 million to keep these goobers for a while...
Why do we want them back??? Splain that one to me maybe...
Congratulations pc America. We are now exporting our own homegrown Jihadis.
The US is beginning to remind me of Londonistan. We gave and are giving refuge to Muslims who are turning around and biting us in the a**.
December 9, 2009
Note: The following text is a quote:
http://washingtondc.fbi.gov/pressrel/pressrel09/wfo120909.htm
Statement Regarding Investigation of Missing Students
The FBI’s Washington Field Office issued the following statement:
“The FBI is working with families and local law enforcement to investigate the missing students and is aware of the individuals arrested in Pakistan. We are working with Pakistan authorities to determine their identities and the nature of their business there, if indeed these are the students who had gone missing. Because this is an ongoing investigation, we will not be able to provide further details at this time.”
ASSOCIATED CONTENT.com - News: "5 MALE STUDENTS FROM VIRGINIA ARRESTED IN PAKISTAN..." by Julia Bodeeb (SNIPPET: "Newsweek also notes that one of the men allegedly attended the same mosque, Dar Al_Hijrah, that Major Nidal Hasan, the alleged Fort Hood murdered, attended when he lived in the Washington, DC area.") (December 9, 2009)
Let’s bring in some more Somali refugees...
Blog:
Note: Photos included.
http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/199967.php
December 11, 2009
“Images: Five Americans in Pakistan for Jihad
N.C. Jihad Plot Connection?”
PHOTO CAPTION: “Daniel Patrick Boyd, aka “saifullah””
SNIPPET: “Boyd has been indicted for trying to help several Muslims in North Carolina, including his own son, travel to Pakistan for jihad. Note that Ziyad Yaghi, one of the young men involved in the plot, was involved with the NC State MSA — just like Zamzam above.
But Boyd has been in jail since July. So either this is a different Saifullah (not so uncommon a name) or the plan has been in the works for some time.
Also, take a closer look at the image of Ahmed Abdullah Minni. He looks familiar. A lot like a kid I once saw in a pretty lame rap video praising the mujahideen. But I can’t seem to find the video. If you know what I’m talking about, email me.”
By Rusty at December 11, 2009 02:45 PM
http://s88179113.onlinehome.us/2009-12-13/2009-12-13-DC5.html
http://www.sofir.org/sarchives/006308.php
13 December 2009
“THE DC FIVE”
SNIPPET: “Along the way one of them made a friend on YouTube who provided a degree of guidance as they cobbled together a scheme to travel to Pakistan for training and ultimately combat. The YouTube relationship moved to a shared Yahoo email account and messages in the Drafts folder, the latter being a tried and true method for evading detection that actually worked in this case. That one of the guys had family in Pakistan helped, if only by providing them with a bit of reassurance - they would not be entirely strangers in a strange land.”
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Comparison of Visual Motifs in Jihadi and Cholo Videos on YouTube
Author: A. Aaron Weisburd a
Affiliation: a Department of Criminology, Law, and Justice, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL, USA
DOI: 10.1080/10576100903319789
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Published in: Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, Volume 32, Issue 12 December 2009 , pages 1066 - 1074
Subjects: Military & Strategic Studies; Terrorism;
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Homegrown Sunni extremists (jihadis) and Latin American street gang members (cholos) represent potential threats to national security. Both groups are known to inhabit the video- sharing website YouTube. Videos representative of each group were selected at random, and the visual motifs in the videos were categorized. Findings suggest similarities and differences between the two groups that may have significance for how practitioners address each threat, and for determining the likelihood that the two groups may begin to work in concert. The portraits that emerge of jihadis and cholos may assist in developing strategies to counter the violence perpetrated by each.
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Jihadi video and auto-radicalisation: evidence from an exploratory YouTube study
Conway, Maura and McInerney, Lisa (2008) Jihadi video and auto-radicalisation: evidence from an exploratory YouTube study. In: EuroISI 2008 - First European Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics, 3-5 December 2008, Esbjerg, Denmark. ISBN 978-3-540-89899-3
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Large amounts of jihadi video content on YouTube along with the vast array of relational data that can be gathered opens up innovative avenues for exploration of the support base for political violence. This exploratory study analyses the online supporters of jihad-promoting video content on YouTube, focusing on those posting and commenting upon martyr-promoting material from Iraq. Findings suggest that a majority are under 35 years of age and resident outside the region of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) with the largest percentage of supporters located in the United States. Evidence to support the potential for online radicalisation is presented. Findings relating to newly formed virtual relationships involving a YouTube user with no apparent prior links to jihadists are discussed.
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Event Type: Conference
Refereed: Yes
Uncontrolled Keywords: Jihadi; radicalisation; YouTube; network analysis;
Subjects: Social Sciences > Terrorism
Computer Science > World Wide Web
Computer Science > Digital video
DCU Faculties and Centres: Research Centres > Centre for International Studies (CIS)
Faculty of Humanities and Social Science > School of Law and Government
Published in: Ortiz-Arroyo, D. and Larsen, H.L. and Zeng, D. and Hicks, D.L.. and Wagner, G., (eds.) Intelligence and Security Informatics. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 5376. Springer-Verlag, Berlin and Heidelberg . ISBN 978-3-540-89899-3
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“SHOW NO REMORSE” - Thanks to a special emailer for pointing to this article.
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“Arrested Americans show no remorse about their terror plans”
PTIMonday, December 21, 2009 14:44 IST
SNIPPET: “Lahore: Five American Muslim youth arrested by Pakistani authorities on suspicion of terror links have shown no remorse about their plans to commit terrorist acts and one has even said they should be hanged so that they could become martyrs, a senior police official said today.”
SNIPPET: “Zamzam, Waqar Hussain Khan, 22, Ahmed Abdullah Minni, 20, Iman Hasan Yemer, 17 and Omar Farooq, 24, were arrested in Sargodha, located 200km from Islamabad, on charges of planning terror attacks in Pakistan and abroad.”
SNIPPET: “On arriving in Pakistan, the youths contacted the militant groups Jamaat-ud-Dawah and Jaish-e-Mohammed but were turned away by both.
Anwar said they were so “desperate to wage holy war” that they decided to form their own group to “sacrifice their lives for Islam”.
“The boys told us that they came to Pakistan after an Al Qaida operative named Saifullah, which is probably a code name, assured them through emails that he would help them in achieving their plans. They got upset when they lost contact with Saifullah after reaching Pakistan and sought help from other militant groups,” he said.
Anwar said a FBI team had returned to the US after interrogating the youths and it was probably investigating “other students or their friends in their hometown of Alexandria in Virginia”.”
ICSR.info - blog - FREE RADICALS
http://www.icsr.info/blog/Internet-Implicated-In-Terrorism-Again
“Internet Implicated In Terrorism (Again)View more articles by Tim Stevens” Filed under: Aaron Weisburd , Technology/Internet, Terrorism
(December 15, 2009)
SNIPPET: “I fail to see why anyone is surprised anymore that the internet is routinely used in the planning or execution of terrorist attacks, or that it is a factor in the passage of individuals from peace to violence. It’s also inevitable that every time it crops up in the context of a new arrest, someone somewhere calls for increased powers for security agencies to monitor the internet. The former is a fact of life; the latter will not change that.
The current debate is about the so-called Sargodha Five, a group of young men detained in Pakistan last week, who travelled from the US to link up with Islamists in the Punjab. The basic story is that back in North Virginia they bonded over YouTube jihadi videos, and that an initial laudatory comment left on one alerted a man called Saifullah to their presence and proclivities. They subsequently set up a dead-letter email drop in order to correspond with Saifullah, who eventually facilitated their passage to Pakistan. Once there, Saifullah had problems passing them off to local al-Qaeda (possibly) activists due to their unproven legitimacy, and they wound up in the hands of local security services instead. Saifullah is assumed to be a form of middleman, possibly freelance, and is now the subject of a manhunt keen to snare one of the ‘mystery men’ thought to be a recruiter for various extremist groups. The men themselves are in a tug-of-war between the FBI and the Pakistani courts.
Aaron Weisburd writes that this is a standard pattern of behaviour, observed many times over the years.”
DAILY MAIL NEWS.com: Sargodha - Detained US citizens' case adjourned" (SNIPPET: "The next hearing of the bail petition of five detained US citizens will be heard in the Anti-terrorism Court on February 16.") (February 8, 2010)
JIHAD WATCH.org (AP): Sargodha, Pakistan - "U.S. JIHADISTS IN PAKISTAN: "We are not terrorists. We are jihadists, and jihad is not terrorism."" (SNIPPET: "The U.S. is also looking at charging the men -- Umar Farooq, Waqar Khan, Ahmed Minni, Aman Hassan Yemer and Ramy Zamzam...") (January 4, 2010)
DNAINDIA.com (PTI): "ARRESTED AMERICANS SHOW NO REMORSE ABOUT THEIR TERROR PLANS" (SNIPPET: "Lahore: Five American Muslim youth arrested by Pakistani authorities on suspicion of terror links have shown no remorse about their plans to commit terrorist acts and one has even said they should be hanged so that they could become martyrs, a senior police official said today." SNIPPET: "Zamzam, Waqar Hussain Khan, 22, Ahmed Abdullah Minni, 20, Iman Hasan Yemer, 17 and Omar Farooq, 24, were arrested in Sargodha, located 200km from Islamabad, on charges of planning terror attacks in Pakistan and abroad.") (December 21, 2009, 14:44 IST)
SOFIR.org: "THE DC FIVE" (SNIPPET: "Along the way one of them made a friend on YouTube who provided a degree of guidance as they cobbled together a scheme to travel to Pakistan for training and ultimately combat. The YouTube relationship moved to a shared Yahoo email account and messages in the Drafts folder, the latter being a tried and true method for evading detection that actually worked in this case. That one of the guys had family in Pakistan helped, if only by providing them with a bit of reassurance - they would not be entirely strangers in a strange land.") (December 13, 2009)
CITY-JOURNAL.com: "APPLE-PIE JIHAD Homegrown terror takes root." by Judith Miller (SNIPPET: "They are clean-shaven dental students and attendees of community colleges. They study hard, play sports, and open Facebook accounts. Their friends call them "normal Joes." And they’re being arrested in ever-growing numbers, would-be terrorists plotting to kill their fellow Americans and conduct "holy war" at home and abroad. Wednesday's arrest in Pakistan of five Muslim-American men attests to a growing phenomenon: the radicalization of young American Muslims on American soil.") (December 11, 2009)
THE JAWA REPORT - blog: "IMAGES: FIVE AMERICANS IN PAKISTAN FOR JIHAD N.C. Jihad Plot Connection?" -Posted by Rusty (SNIPPET: "Saifullah helped Minni plan the trip for the five would-be jihadist to Pakistan. It is not clear how long this trip has been planned. One has to wonder whether this "Saifullah" may be Daniel Patrick Boyd who also used the name for his online persona?") (December 11, 2009)
ASSOCIATED CONTENT.com - News: "5 MALE STUDENTS FROM VIRGINIA ARRESTED IN PAKISTAN..." by Julia Bodeeb (SNIPPET: "Newsweek also notes that one of the men allegedly attended the same mosque, Dar Al_Hijrah, that Major Nidal Hasan, the alleged Fort Hood murdered, attended when he lived in the Washington, DC area.") (December 9, 2009)
INVESTIGATIVE PROJECT.org: "Breaking News - PAKISTAN REPORTEDLY DETAINS FIVE D.C.-AREA MUSLIMS ON SUSPICION OF TERROR" (SNIPPET: "A Pakistani newspaper reports the arrest of five foreign nationals after a raid in a town called Sargodha. The raid took place at the home of a member of the Jaish-e-Muhammad, a Pakistani movement designated as a terrorist group by the U.S. Treasury Department in 2001. According to the report, "The DPO told that these people had been living in Sargodha since Nov 30 and it was quite a possibility that they were engaged in acts of terrorism." It names the five as Ahmed Abdullah, Waqar Hassan Khan, Eman Hassan, Yasir and Rami Zamzam and describes them as two Yemenis, an Egyptian, a Swede and a U.S.-born Pakistani.") (December 9, 2009, 9:00 am EST)
DAWN.com: Pakistan: Islamabad - "FIVE AMERICANS DETAINED IN SARGODHA RAID" (SNIPPET: "The men were picked up in a raid on a house in Sarghoda in the eastern province of Punjab, police officer Tahir Gujjar said, adding that three of the men are of Pakistani descent, one is of Egyptian descent and the other is of Yemeni heritage. Regional police chief Mian Javed Islam told The Associated Press that the men were between the ages of 18 and 20 and had spent the past few days in the city, which is near an air base about 125 miles south of the capital, Islamabad.") (December 10, 2009)
INVESTIGATIVE PROJECT.org - IPT News: "AUTHORITIES SEARCH FOR FIVE MISSING D.C.-AREA MUSLIM MEN" (SNIPPET: "Federal investigators are searching for a Howard University dental student and four other missing Muslim men reported missing from the Washington, D.C. area, the Investigative Project on Terrorism (IPT) has learned. There is concern they may have been sent abroad to train for jihad. The five were last seen November 29. The identities of two of the missing men, Howard student Ramy Zamzam and Waqar Khan, have been mentioned in online postings, including a Facebook page that was set up Monday for friends to offer their support. Some of those pages, however, appear restricted to friends and associates. It is not clear where the men are believed to have gone, but an informed source told the IPT that at least one left behind a farewell video.") (December 8, 2009)
For The Record - The IPT Blog
http://www.investigativeproject.org/blog/2010/02/pakistani-court-denies-bail-accused-american
“Pakistani Court Denies Bail, Accused American Jihadists Claim Torture”
by IPT News • Feb 18, 2010 at 9:32 am
SNIPPET: “A Pakistani court on Wednesday rejected bail applications for five Americans who allegedly traveled there last year to carry out jihad. The five Northern Virginia men, who were arrested in December on suspicion of planning terrorist attacks, are scheduled to appear in court again March 2.”
SNIPPET: “Supporters of the suspects - Howard University dental student Ramy Zamzam; Eritrean native Ahmed Abdullah Minni; Aman Hassan Yemer, an Ethiopian; Waqar Khan; and Umar Chaudhry - claim they have been tortured in Pakistani custody.”
SNIPPET: “Prosecutors successfully argued that the men should remain in custody because Pakistan’s laws do not allow bail for terror suspects accused of crimes carrying a prison sentence of longer than 10 years. Pakistani authorities said the five “were of the opinion that a jihad must be waged against the infidels for the atrocities committed by them against Muslims around the world.””
http://www.investigativeproject.org/1867/the-price-of-cairs-cooperation
“The Price of CAIR’s ‘Cooperation’”
IPT News
March 19, 2010
LONG WAR JOURNAL.org: "PAKISTAN RELEASES TOP AL QAEDA-LINKED TERRORIST LEADER" by Bill Roggio (SNIPPET: "Qari Saifullah Akhtar, the leader of the Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami (HUJI, or the Movement of Islamic Holy War), was released in early December after being taken into protective custody in August 2010. HUJI is closely linked to al Qaeda and the Taliban. Ilyas Kashmiri, the operational commander for HUJI, also serves as al Qaeda's military commander and is a senior leader on al Qaeda's external operations council. HUJI is also supported by Pakistan's military and the Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate." SNIPPET: "Akhtar was placed into custody at the same time that five Americans who were recruited by the HUJI leader were convicted in a Pakistani court of attempting join al Qaeda to carry out attacks for the terror network. The five Americans were recruited by Akhtar via the Internet and traveled to Pakistan in November 2009. They were arrested...") (January 4, 2011)