Posted on 07/28/2009 7:07:00 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
FBI agents this morning arrested a group of homegrown terrorists in North Carolina who were heavily armed, organized, and making plans to wage jihad overseas.
The seven men arrested—including a father and his two sons—were charged with providing material support to terrorists and conspiring to murder, kidnap, maim, and injure people overseas.
The father, Daniel Patrick Boyd, once fought in Afghanistan and trained in terrorist camps in Pakistan and Afghanistan. All of the defendants are North Carolina residents, and all but one are U.S. citizens.
“The threat that terrorists and extremists pose to America and our allies has not dulled or gone away,” said Owen D. Harris, special agent in charge of the FBI’s Charlotte Division. “These arrests today show there are people living among us, in our communities in North Carolina and around the U.S., that are honing their skills to carry out acts of murder and mayhem.”
He suffers from Irish Alzheimer's.
He only remembers the grudges.
Muslim mayem or the DHS providing propaganda to support their “Vets are Vicious” campaign?
Whew! That’s a relief. From the headline I expected some vets on a hunting party to rounded up by order of the Secretary of Homeland Security.
It could be misleading....Some turkey shooters rounded up?
The article is not clear, but nowhere does it actually state anyone involved was a veteran of the United States Military. The article only mentions the father once fought in Afghanistan. What it leaves out, glaringly, is for whom he fought. The way the sentence reads to me is that he fought for the wrong team.
Four of those seven names don’t sound like your normal NC turkey shooters...and did they have hunting licenses?
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The way the sentence reads to me is that he fought for the wrong team.....
This was posted from the FBI online site. It assumes anyone would think it was for the enemy...not a vet.
Hussein will order them released.
Daniel Patrick Boyd
That is the name he was born with.
Does he now go by another name?
I have a BIG problem with the DHS and this admistrations' agenda - it's always a story to promote whatever it is THEY are "selling" and very few times does their reporting ever concern the truth.
You bring up a good point, though.
That’s like when we heard kerry served in the Navy, we all asked, “Whose?”
After doing a quick search via Google on the perp's full name, I read several articles. None of them made any mention as to whether this person was in the US Military.
However, a story from MSNBC tells of him fighting along side the terrorists against the Russians in Pakistan and Afghanistan in the 80s. Was he covert, or just a punk? Did the terrorists turn him, or was he there willingly? I know the US supported the muslims fighting against the Soviets at that time. It appears this man was an anti-west pro-islam kinda guy from way back.
It said that the North Carolina residents had raised donations to support their training and had recruited and radicalized others -- "mostly young Muslims or converts to Islam, to believe . . . the idea that violent jihad was a personal obligation on the part of every good Muslim."It appears he's been a Muslim convert for decades and since he was trained rather than trained others in Afghanistan (as well as fought there) from 1989-1992, it would not have been as US military.Daniel Patrick Boyd once fought in Afghanistan and trained in guerrilla camps there and in Pakistan, the indictment said.
But, it added, he did so between 1989 and 1992 in an effort to fight the occupation of Afghanistan by the Soviet Union. Washington led and financed that campaign against its Cold War enemy with hundreds of millions of dollars in military and intelligence assistance, training and manpower.
The Associated Press reported that Boyd, a drywall installer in Willow Spring, N.C., and his brother had been convicted of bank robbery in Pakistan in 1991 and of carrying identification showing they belonged to the radical Afghan guerrilla group Hezb-i-Islami
To begin to know the real story, you got to go through all google & yahoo links for the story. And even then....
EXCELLENT work IYAS9YAS! Thank you...sad WE have to do the work the press SHOULD BE doing, huh?
WOW great investigative work!!!!!!
These people aren’t vets. The guy i question fought with the taliban in Afghanistan not with American forces.
The man fought for what was the beginnings of the Taliban and Al Qaeda. He was not affiliated with the afghan mujahadden (which is now the current Karzi government).
Sounds like he was a radical among radicals.
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