Posted on 11/05/2002 12:04:55 PM PST by Peach
Yes, August is still sketchy...
Several of us have been doing massive Muhammad timeline compilations...
Many of these could be extracted from here.
I should organize them into managable chunks, and start re-posting updated versions as appropriate, after the election news dies down...
Here are partials around august...
# July 20 2002 - A .22 caliber Magnum handgun was stolen at a gun show in El Paso, Texas. This gun is later confirmed used by Muhammad/Malvo (and/or a 3rd accomplice?) in the Montgomery AL killing on September 21.
# late July 2002 OR early August: - Muhammad and Malvo arrived by bus in Baton Rouge dirty, hungry and haggard. Muhammad appeared dangerously delusion according to his cousin - Anderson, whom he showed his duffel bag containing a rifle.
# August 2002? - Freeper TexKat remembers reading a carribean paper saying Muhammad was sighted in Antigua in August 2002. We haven't been able to find that source again (I'm still looking).
# Near Summer's end (I assume that means August) - Muhammad and Malvo were clearly remembered being seen for a 2nd time in Falls Church Virgina, in the (Home Depot / Michaels / Fabric Store) shopping complex.
# late august 2002 Muhammad and Malvo were seen in Tacoma Washington for three days at the end of August shopping for a certain car with a "big trunk",
# September 05 2002 , 10:30pm - Clinton MD - Paul LaRuffa, owner of Margellina Restaurant, is shot six times at close range, just after he got into his car in this Prince George's County parking lot. LaRuffa, was shot with a .22 caliber handgun but survived. Like two murders that occur later in AL and LA, this shooting occurred just after closing. The shooter escaped with $3000 from the restaurant, and the owner's Sony Vaio laptop computer. The restaurant is located near the home of Muhammad's ex-wife Mildred.
This shooting is suspected to have been done by Muhhamad/Malvo. A .22 caliber handgun is later found at the site of a Montgomery AL murder that occurred Sept 21. A Sony Vaio laptop is also found in Muhammad's blue Caprice when they are arrested. Mr. LaRuffa very much wants to know if Muhhamad was found with HIS laptop, but police will not tell him.
The psychotic frame of mind Muhammad was in around August 1st in Baton Rouge also suggests they had already done some killings and were paranoid they might already be under suspicion by LE.
Isn't it amazing how much terrorists have to CLOBBER us before we will notice and acknowledge their activities? I'll bet that if only ONE jet hit ONE tower on 9/11 we would have heard for weeks that it was just 'pilot error'!!!
I wonder if John Mohammad is related to the James D. Williams in this article or a member of the organization, quite a few familiarities.
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INFORMATION REGARDING COLORADO'S INVESTIGATION AND PROSECUTION OF MEMBERS OF JAMAAT UL FUQRA Beginning in the late 1980s, the Colorado Attorney General's Office successfully prosecuted members of a fundamentalist Sufi-militant Islamic sect known as "JAMAAT UL FUQRA". Five FUQRA members were ultimately prosecuted between 1993 and 1994.
"FUQRA" is an Arabic word, which translates most accurately as "the impoverished". The sect advocates the purification of the Islamic religion by means of force and violence. Sheikh Mubarik Ali Jilani Hasmi, who is known by many other aliases, and who also calls himself the sixth Sultan Ul Faqr, originated this group in Pakistan.
In addition to being suspected of committing numerous acts of domestic terrorism, FUQRA members in the United States have been suspected of committing fraud against various governmental entitlement programs in an effort to financially support their activities.
Colorado's investigation indicated that the United States FUQRA movement was composed of approximately 30 different 'Jamaats' or communities, somewhat mobile in nature. Most of these 'Jamaats' are believed to currently exist today, along with what investigators deemed to be several 'covert paramilitary training compounds' -- one of which had been located in a remote mountainous area near Buena Vista, Colorado prior to Colorado's prosecutions in the mid-1990s. The corresponding FUQRA 'Jamaat' to the Buena Vista compound was located in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
Colorado's investigation of FUQRA was initiated in 1989 when Colorado Springs Police Department detectives, initially investigating a series of burglaries, were contacted by the owner of a storage locker site and were told about a locker of, what appeared to be, abandoned property.
In September 1989, detectives executed a search warrant of the storage locker upon suspicion of illegal explosives. The search of the locker disclosed numerous items believed to belong to the FUQRA sect then residing in that area. Several explosive components-- thirty to forty pounds of explosives, three large pipe bombs, a number of smaller improvised explosive devices, shape charges, ten handguns-- some with obliterated serial numbers-- silencers in various stages of manufacture, military training manuals, reloading equipment, bomb-making instructions, and numerous FUQRA-related publications were located in this storage area. Titles of some of the publications included "Guerilla Warfare", "Counter Guerilla Operations", "Understanding Amateur Radio", and "Fair Weather Flying," and "Basic Blueprint Reading and Sketching." Several silhouettes for firearms target practice were also discovered, including one with the words "FBI Anti-terrorist team" written on the target's torso bullseye.
Of great interest to law enforcement officials were documents concerning potential 'targets' for destruction and murder in the Los Angeles, Tucson, and Denver areas, including surveillance-type photographs, maps with hand-drawn overlays, notes, etc., concerning these targets. In addition, references to Buckley Air National Guard Base, Rocky Mountain Arsenal, the Air Force Academy, and electrical facilities in Colorado, and Warren Air Force Base, and two Wyoming National Guard armories in Wyoming were found. A somewhat detailed description of a firebombing attack on what is believed to have been the Hare Krishna Temple in Denver was also discovered. An attack, as described in these writings, did, in fact, take place in Denver in August 1984, causing an estimated $200,000 in damage. Investigation by Denver authorities at that time revealed that a Hare Krishna Temple in Philadelphia, where FUQRA activity also had been noted, was firebombed in a similar fashion.
Among the many documents found in the Colorado Springs' storage locker were numerous blank birth certificates; blank social security cards; several sets of Colorado drivers' licenses, each containing a picture of the same individual, but each with a different identity; and many underground press publications concerning the assembly of phony identification -- to be reproduced in a manner to "withstand even close government scrutiny".
Finally, the search disclosed a number of workers' compensation claims, which ultimately led to a full-scale fraud investigation being conducted by the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment in coordination with the Colorado Attorney General's Office and the Federal Bureau of Investigation Joint Terrorist Task Force.
This investigation revealed that Colorado Springs FUQRA members had defrauded the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment of approximately $350,000 dollars between September 1984 and January 1992. The mobility and multiple addresses and identities of the various FUQRA members posed a significant challenge to early detection and normal prevention of the fraud. As a result of the two-year investigation, five FUQRA members were indicted by the statewide grand jury in September 1992 on racketeering charges involving theft, mail fraud, and forgery. Six months after the indictments, further racketeering charges, including theft of rental property, conspiracy to commit murder and arson (the Denver Hare Krishna Temple), were also filed against the five individuals and a sixth person -- all FUQRA members. Some of the fraudulently obtained workers' compensation funds were traced directly to payments for a parcel of land near Buena Vista used by the group as a residence compound and training site.
One of the FUQRA defendants convicted is James D. Williams. After his conviction in 1993 for conspiracy to commit first degree murder, racketeering, and forgery, Williams fled and remained a fugitive until being apprehended in Virginia in August 2000. He was returned to Colorado and sentenced this past March to 69 years in prison. From at least the middle 1980's through 1990, Williams was a leader of a Colorado FUQRA.
The conviction for conspiracy to commit first degree murder referred to a comprehensive written plan for the murder of a Tucson, Arizona Muslim cleric, Rashad Khalifa. Khalifa was murdered in January 1990 in a manner that was remarkably similar to the written plan.
It is believed the activities of UL FUQRA across the nation continue. Just recently the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco & Firearms (BATF) arrested one of the former Colorado defendants and FUQRA member, Vincente Rafael Pierre, in Virginia on alleged ammunition violations. In California, a FUQRA member was arrested on the suspected murder of a Fresno County Deputy Sheriff this last August. In addition, FUQRA operates something called the Quranic Open University in Los Angeles, which has received over $1.5 million dollars over the course of the last two years in charter school funding. This entity is also located in New York City and Philadelphia. There are believed to be active UL FUQRA training compounds still existing in New York, Michigan, South Carolina, California, and perhaps other states.
FUQRA or its members have been investigated for alleged terrorist acts including murder and arson in New York, Detroit, Philadelphia, Toronto, Denver, Los Angeles and Tucson. UL FUQRA is suspected of more than thirteen firebombings and, at least, as many murders within the United States.
Investigators have determined that a laptop computer seized from accused sniper John Allen Muhammad's car was stolen Sept. 5 in a robbery-shooting outside a Prince George's County pizzeria, law enforcement sources said yesterday.
They said they now consider Muhammad and John Lee Malvo strong suspects not only in that crime but in another September shooting in Prince George's in which the same .22-caliber handgun was used.
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Citing ballistics tests, Prince George's police have said that the .22-caliber pistol used to rob LaRuffa was used 10 nights later and about six miles away at Brandywine Liquor. An employee, Muhammad Rashid, 32, was closing the store Sept. 15 when he was shot once in the abdomen by an assailant who then searched Rashid's pockets and stole his wallet. Rashid has recovered from his wounds.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10028-2002Nov5.html
According to this 11/1 AP story, Muhammad and Malvo were seen at Our Daily Bread health food store (most probably shoplifting) in Baton Rouge three times: between July 29 and August 2; on August 4; and again on September 24, “a day after police say they killed Hong Im Ballenger, manager of Beauty Depot on the same main thoroughfare as Our Daily Bread.”
Michael Clarke owner of the Jamaican Restaurant at the address Muhammad gave when registering the Caprice, says in this 10/25 Daily Record story that Muhammad and Malvo visited the restaurant in Camden, NJ, at least three times in August.
As far as the August sighting in Antigua, I would be skeptical of all press reports originating in the Caribbean. Antigua’s been into CYA mode since the arrest – different stories about detaining Muhammad for an illegal passport, conflicting stories on when he arrived in Antigua with the three kids, etc. The other day, a teacher who originally said she knew Muhammad for two years admitted she only knew him for two months, because she had given him a letter of recommendation (for a government job) saying she had known him for two years.
Ditto for the alleged “kidnapping attempt” of Bird – his own officials questioned that one.
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