[piasa]

Ali Al-Timimi, Fairfax, Va. Islamic lecturer, U.S. son of Iraqi immigrants

[piasa]

* Ali al Timimi : The Islamic scholar, Ali Al-Timimi, 39, has confirmed through a spokesman that he is the subject of a grand jury investigation. According to the indictment, "conspirator #1" (Timimi) is the "spiritual leader" of the men. After 9/11, the government said, he prodded the defendants to fight jihad, called the United States an enemy of Islam, and declared U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan legitimate targets. Through a spokesman, Timimi, of Fairfax, Va., denied the accusations. The son of Iraqi immigrants is a doctoral student and researcher at George Mason University, using mathematical models to study cancer.

As an Islamic scholar, Timimi espoused a strict interpretation of the Koran. In one undated speech available online, Timimi says: "Our enemy until the day of judgment is the Christians, what we call the westerners or Europeans" - a reference his spokesman says was to a spiritual and social struggle, not violence.

"He's fundamentally opposed to violence," said Todd Gallinger, a spokesman for Timimi's lawyer, Martin McMahon. "He feels like he's being targeted because he's exercised his First Amendment rights to religion and to speech."

At the core of the Virginia jihad case, meanwhile, is a curious mystery: How did such an eclectic group - including a technology whiz from Pakistan, a decorated Gulf War veteran and member of the National Rifle Association, a Korean immigrant, a son of a Yemeni diplomat, and a Catholic-turned-Muslim from Missouri whose mother had been a nun - get caught up in the same net?
----------- "Tracing the case of 'Virginia jihad' , Terror charges link Montco to Kashmir" by Jennifer Lin, Mark Fazlollah, Maria Panaritis and Jeff Shields, Philadelphia Enquirer, Fri, Jul. 25, 2003

[Adrastus]

Edward Macmahon makes me want to vomit. He is the sort of lawyer that is interested in one thing only: win and make the money that goes with it. He/they have no interest in justice, only the money. he is the epitome of every bad lawyer joke you have ever heard. May his tongue turn black and rot the next time he tells a lie....which should be about 10 seconds after he wakes up in the morning.

[piasa]

Ali al-Timimi bump:

To: aristeides; angkor; Grampa Dave; browardchad; Cindy; Ernest_at_the_Beach; seamole; backhoe; ...

Anybody know if that big mosque near the Falls Church shoooting is a radical mosque?

You are talking about the Dar AL Hijrah mosque at 3159 Row Place, Falls Church, VA. That would be the windmill shaped building 700 feet from the Home Depot where the FBI agent was murdered.

The mosque/islamic center is where this group of eleven were said to meet to hear lectures by an Islamic lecturer: Ali Al-Timimi,

The Michael's craft store that Muhammad/Malvo visited twice earlier in 2002 is also in the same shopping center, so in my opinion, M&M must have visited this mosque in January and August 2002. I would even bet they ESCAPED to this mosque after the murder...

And with the LEADER of this group of 11 jihadists ALSO being a black Gulf I war veteran, Washington State native, and Islamic convert, I have to assume they met at some point and knew each other.

It is well-known that the dominant Muslim theology in Northern Virginia is Saudi Wahhabism, from the Dar al-Hijra mosque in Falls Church, to the phony "charitable foundations" Herndon, to the Graduate School of Islamic and Social Sciences in Leesburg.
-------47 posted on 06/29/2003 4:17:46 PM PDT by FL_engineer

[Cindy]

ON THE NET...

http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/005697.php

http://pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/trib/regional/s_322506.html

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1381260/posts

http://www.militantislammonitor.org/article/id/532

http://news.lp.findlaw.com/ap/o/51/04-05-2005/afda000e1b638b3c.html

http://66.102.7.104/search?q=cache:WGoAUoypwcwJ:www.usdoj.gov/usao/vae/ArchivePress/SeptemberPDFArchive/04/TimimiPR092304.pdf+%22al-Timimi%22&hl=en

http://www.google.com/search?q=%22al-Timimi%22&hl=en&lr=&filter=0

[Future Useless Eater]

thanks for the ping piasa!

Jihad Ringleader bump! (Ali Al-Timimi)
...and FOLLOWUP to this 2003 Falls Church Jihad story:

U.S. Officials Arrest 8 in `Virginia Jihad Network' (Update3)

piasa, I ALSO liked your idea of sending him to India on a plane with loose door hinges!