I saw this article on FR from Frontpage magazine concerning one of the individuals arrested recently in Virginia and some other states - call them the "paintball cell" for short- which included a fellow named Randall "Ismail" Royer. (Royer has claimed to have fought in the Bosnian Army, etc. He's supposedly a caucasian who took to Islam after the LA Riots, while going to school in St. Louis)
Anyway, the article included this interesting tidbit:
(snip)See "Portrait of a Wahhabi: My encounters with Randall Royer…and the “usual suspects.”," http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/938532/posts?page=5I first heard of Royer in January 2002, when I was working at the Voice of America. He had called my successor at the Forward, and, identifying himself as Randall, not Ismail, asked if he could talk to me about religion in Bosnia. The Forward reporter passed the message on, and being the kind of free-speaking person I am, I responded. But as soon as I e-mailed Randall Royer, what did I get back? From an e-mail address in Bosnia, he falsely identified himself as writing for beliefnet, a religious news website. He sent me a defamatory quote from the notorious Saddamizer and admirer of Axis seditionists, Dennis “Justin” Raimondo, proprietor of the antiwar.com website. Royer added a false description of the Forward as “far-right,” and also referred incorrectly to my “former colleagues at the ADL,” i.e. the Anti-Defamation League, the Jewish civil rights organization.
So Royer had obviously done “opposition research” on me. However, the Forward, when I was its Washington bureau chief, happened to be the most left-wing and pro-Arab of all American Jewish publications, and I never worked for the ADL, except as a volunteer prison lecturer on Black-Jewish relations, and as an unpaid rapporteur on the situation of Croatian and Bosnian Jews.
In his next e-mail, “Randall” came out as “Ismail” and, now fraudulently labeling the Forward as “neo-con,” and charged that my own acceptance of Islam reflected “infiltration” and “an attempt by pro-Israel groups to install a more compliant, Israel-friendly alternative Muslim leadership” in the U.S. His comments were framed in a smarmy, polite tone, but a threat was obvious.
The role of Raimondo in this maneuver remains extremely interesting. Raimondo has inexhaustibly assailed me because, like Royer, I have taken an Islamic name, although unlike Royer, I have never used it for deceptive purposes. Royer employed Raimondo’s propaganda as a fig-leaf to cover his own attempt at intimidation. On his blog, Royer dropped the mask and directly attacked me, linking to the degenerate Nazi White. The Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) and others have similarly recycled Raimondo, and some have reforwarded Bill White’s Pravda depravities.
But Royer was not satisfied to send me a nasty quote from a scurrilous nitwit, decorated with feeble gossip. Later, he resumed his e-mail harassment of me and my organization, the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies. One of his polemics was republished on Raimondo’s site, antiwar.com.