BOSTON.com - THE BOSTON GLOBE: "FBI ACCUSES MAN OF LYING IN TERROR CASE Sudbury resident arrested on way to job overseas" by Shelley Murphy and Milton J. Valencia (ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Statements that Tarek Mehanna allegedly made to the FBI two years ago...") (November 12, 2008)
Blog:
http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/199314.php
October 21, 2009
“Terror Arrest In Boston (UPDATED, BUMPED: Blogger Arrested)”
SNIPPET: “UPDATE: Confirmed, this is Terek Mehanna. But there’s a second man involved in this plot named Ahmad Abousamra. Others involved go unnamed.”
By Howie at October 21, 2009 11:11 AM
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Previously...
stepping back in time...
http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/194914.php
November 12, 2008
“Arrested Blogger Identified: Tarek Mehanna
UPDATE 10/21/2009: Mehanna arrested again! This time for plotting terror on US soil.”
SNIPPET: “——Begin original post——
The al Qaeda supporter and blogger arrested by the FBI earlier this week has been identified as Tarek Mehanna. Mehanna was arrested as he attempted to leave the country on charges that he had lied to the FBI about prior knowledge of another Muslim blogger’s, Daniel “Al-Jughaifi” Maldanado, plans to travel from Egypt to Somalia to join the jihad. Maldanado is now in federal prison after being convicted of receiving specialized weapons training from an al Qaeda linked group in Somalia.
Like clockwork, Mehanna’s family defends him as a nice boy who just completed his graduate work to become a pharmacist. What his family may or may not know is that Mehanna goes by the online handle “Abu Sayaba” and runs the “Iskandari” website which is devoted to promoting the Salafi ideology.
For instance, Tarek “Abu Sayaba” Mehanna has, literally, dozens of posts recounting the words of Abdullah Azzam, the intellectual backbone of al Qaeda. Also among his favorite authors are Sayyid Qutb.
In addition to friends like Maldanado who has been convicted on terrorism related charges, Mehanna’s online buddies include:
Shades of Swords, who glorifies the executed Bali bombers as martyrs.
Inshallahshaheed, who we have an entire category devoted to and who claims he personally doesn’t go off to fight the jihad because “it’s hard” and who recently has set up his own media division in support of terrorist organizations.
Jihad Fields Are Calling, who’s name pretty much sums it up.
And so on and so forth. In other words, the people he associated himself with online are either a) actively engaged in violent jihad; or b) actively engaged in supporting violent jihad through the distribution of terrorist propaganda.
You can bet that the FBI arrest on relatively minor charges was taken because there was a reasonable fear that Mehanna was leaving the country to join or further support the jihad himself. His friend Maldanado had also left the country to pursue “religious studies” in Egypt, but ended up in an al Qaeda linked training camp in Somalia.
If any one finds a picture of him, please pass it along. Thanks to Miss Kelly.
Above the fold update: Aaron provides handy box score for FOS (Friends of Sasjamal).”
By Rusty at November 12, 2008 10:44 AM | Comments (9) | Trackback l digg this
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stepping back in time...
http://internet-haganah.com/harchives/006439.html
12 November 2008
“ANOTHER CYBERSPACE/MEATSPACE CONVERGENCE”
SNIPPET: “Rusty Shackelford, PhD., credits Samir Khan with the first report of the arrest of Abu Sayaba, proprietor of the “iskandrani” blog, by the FBI in Boston. This corresponds to the arrest of Tarek Mehanna, age 26, on charges of lying to FBI agents when questioned two years ago about his friend and now-convicted terrorist Daniel Joseph Maldonado. Mehanna was about to leave the USA for Saudi Arabia, which evidently prompted the unsealing of his indictment.”
http://www.investigativeproject.org/documents/case_docs/1095.pdf
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http://www.investigativeproject.org/blog/2010/02/key-massachusetts-terror-case-witness-gets
by IPT News • Feb 5, 2010 at 4:08 pm
“Key Massachussets Terror Case Witness Gets Probation”
SNIPPET: “A man who cooperated in an FBI terrorism investigation in Massachusetts was sentenced to probation Thursday after pleading guilty to a weapons charge.
Bilaal McCloud, 54, of Roxbury started cooperating with investigators after his 2005 indictment for illegally possessing a semiautomatic pistol and ammunition. He is credited with helping build the case that led to terrorism charges against Tarek Mehanna, 27, of Sudbury, and 28-year-old Ahmad Abousamra, formerly of Mansfield, the Boston Globe reported.”
JIHAD WATCH.org (UPI): "QUESTIONS SURROUND U.S. JIHAD BLOGGER INSHALLAHSHAHEED'S RISE AS AL-QAEDA PROPAGANDIST" (SNIPPET: "In 2005 Khan started a blog called "Inshallahshaheed," or "a martyr soon if God wills," from the suburban home in Charlotte he shared with his parents. Khan, believed to be in Yemen, is suspected of editing "Inspire," an online magazine designed as a recruiting tool for al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, intelligence sources said....") (July 21, 2010, 4:26 pm)
HOEKSTRA.house.gov: Washington - "AL QAEDA GOES VIRAL" by Peter Hoekstra (SNIPPET: "Mr. Hoekstra, a Republican from Michigan, is the ranking member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.") (July 16, 2010)
INTERNET-HAGANAH.com: "What Part of 'There Is No Copyright In Islam' Does Scribd Not Understand?" (SNIPPET: "Samir's own Inspire magazine, ToSd by Scribd after being embedded in Samir's own blog") (July 18, 2010)
INTERNET-HAGANAH.com: "'Is He A Big Bad Terrorist, Or A Beegee?'" (SNIPPET: "In the course of reverse engineering that InDesign file Samir used to create the first edition of Inspire magazine (AKA the third edition of Jihad Recollections), Maya found herself compelled to comment in a more visual manner.") (July 18, 2010)
MAKING SENSE OF JIHAD.com - blog: "The uploader ID, maher_yassine@yahoo.com, is very active on archive.org [hint: search "maher_yassine" in archive.org]. He/she has shared a ton of material connected to or distributed through the Al Mojahden Electronic Network. I have no idea what, if any, connection exists between the uploader ID and The Pest and his network of miscreants, but my guess is that there is one.") (July 18, 2010)
INVESTIGATIVE PROJECT.org - IPT News: "AL QAIDA'S ENGLISH-LANGUAGE TERRORISM BLUEPRINT" (SNIPPET: "Packed with detailed technical instructions, captivating aesthetics and extremist rhetoric, a new English-language magazine issued by Al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) constitutes a recruiting tool with lethal potential.") (July 13, 2010)
ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS.com: "CLERIC URGES MURDERING U.S. CARTOONIST WHO DIDN'T DRAW MOHAMMED" by Maayana Miskin (SNIPPET: "The threats against Norris were printed in an online English-language magazine called "Inspire," started by the international terrorist organization Al-Qaeda. The FBI is taking the threats seriously, the Daily News said.") (Last update: July 14, 2010, 7:12 am)
http://www.makingsenseofjihad.com/jihad-vault/
http://www.box.net/shared/bmti4qo77u
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http://www.makingsenseofjihad.com/2011/01/building-an-archive-of-american-online-jihad.html
“Jihad Vault: Building an Archive of American Online Jihad”
(January 28, 2011, 08:56 pm)
http://internet-haganah.com/harchives/007379.html
25 June 2011
“Jihad in Seattle, and Revolution Muslim, et al”
SNIPPET: “I hold a few truths to be self-evident. Among them:
• It generally takes a community to make a terrorist, and
• A community is held together by the strength of weak ties”
SNIPPET: “The following is a heavily redacted sample of just a few of Abdul-Latif’s Youtube friends and their connections.”
SNIPPET: “This is the real prize. A well known and well-connected American jihadist. Operator of his own blog, and inheritor of the blog of Tarek Mehanna. He’s something of a leading figure in the Revolution Muslim scene, if only because so many of his mates are now behind bars. Not only is he a Youtube friend of Abdul-Latif, but he also posted a number of comments on Abdul-Latif’s pages.”
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http://s88179113.onlinehome.us/2011-06-25/USA_v_Abdul-Latif_et-al%20Complaint.pdf
The Complaint - Background Link
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2538568/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1810409/posts?page=1008#1008
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“Witness says suspect wanted to fight Americans in Iraq, hope to participate in jihad”
By Associated Press, Published: November 17
SNIPPET: “BOSTON — An American in prison for training at a terrorist camp in Somalia testified Thursday that a fellow American accused of plotting to help al-Qaida told him that he would fight U.S. soldiers in Iraq, if given the chance.
Daniel Maldonado took the witness stand Thursday in the trial of Tarek Mehanna, a Sudbury, Mass., man charged with plotting to provide material support to al-Qaida and unsuccessfully attempting to get training at a terrorist camp in Yemen. Mehanna then allegedly began helping al-Qaida by translating and distributing online texts and videos promoting violent jihad.”
BOSTON GLOBE.com: "WITNESS TESTIFIES ABOUT TERROR SUSPECT'S INFLUENCE Alleges Mehanna backed 9/11 attacks" by Milton J. Valencia (SNIPPET: "Daniel Maldonado converted to Islam in 1999 and soon found guidance and insight in Tarek Mehanna, the high-profile witness testified yesterday in Mehanna's terrorism trial in US District Court in Boston.") (November 18, 2011) (Read More...)
http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/stay-strong-boston-article-1.1318038
“Stay strong, Boston
I know that one of the nation’s great cities will rally in the wake of marathon attacks”
by S.E. Cupps
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
TUESDAY, APRIL 16, 2013, 10:41 AM
SNIPPET: “According to a 2011 infographic from Boston.com, the website of the Boston Globe, Boston’s high-profile events, including the marathon, made it one of the top 10 potential terror targets in the country, even though there had been no attacks in Massachusetts over the last decade.
And though there had been no attacks, there had recently been some significant ties to terrorist plots hatched in the area.
In 2007, Daniel Maldonado, who had ties to Methuen and Lowell, was charged with supporting terrorists in Somalia.
In 2008, Sudbury resident Tarek Mehanna was arrested for allegedly plotting to kill U.S. troops in Iraq, conspiring to support Al Qaeda and traveling to Yemen in an attempt to get terrorist training.
And in 2011, Rezwan Ferdaus, an Ashland man with a physics degree from Northeastern University, was charged with an Al Qaeda-inspired plot to send a remote-controlled aircraft carrying explosives into the Pentagon and the U.S. Capitol.
His arrest prompted Rep. William Keating, the state’s only member of the House Homeland Security Committee, to remind his constituents of the dangers of homegrown extremists, even in Boston’s tony suburbs.”