FBI: U.S. High Schoolers Became bin Ladenites

Human Events ^ | 0/20/02 | David Freddoso

[Big Guy and Rusty 99]

send them to maximum 'pound them up the ass' prison.

[adam stevens]

A rope is too good.

[kinghorse]

Yes this is crude but it is being broadcast on national web sites so you might as well see it here. This fine example of a Yemen American is protesting his buddies, the Buffalo 5 being detained.

Attitudes like this do not bode well for national security. We have a bunch of hyped up Bin Ladenites walking our streets wondering when/where they should help the cause. The cause is grounded in the psychotic ideas of a few crazies.

[Frohickey]

While in training, the eight Lackawanna men allegedly received "instruction on firearms," including the use of sniper rifles, assault rifles and explosives. The criminal complaint states that Derwish was observed receiving more advanced training in heavy artillery.

Sounds like fun. Probably the same training you could get at Front Sight, Camp Perry, and other places.

[kinghorse]

They keep alluding to the big blast. Big meal, Omar's big statements, IMHO it all points to a nuke attack.

[Fred Mertz]

The complaint also records an admission by al-Bakri that during the summer of 2002, "he sought a replacement passport, falsely claiming that he had lost his passport" in order to conceal his trip to Pakistan from authorities.

It's good that our investigators are keying in on the obvious transactions. I don't think the reason explained above is the correct one though.

[billhilly]

American citizenship is conferred upon anyone born here. They do not have to remain here to keep their citizenship. Does it not make sense for Al Quida to select american born arabs for its sleeper cells in America. By so doing they avoid a lot of small things like visas, etc., and they automatically get the sympathy of the weak minded among us who parrot the media about them being american citizens.

No doubt the sweet darling pictured here is "an American Citizen."

[Whilom]

We are paying now for all those years that we gave up (and continue to give up) control of our borders. And the paying isn't over, not nearly over.

[riri]

I believe they have many tricks that they use to gain access to our country. I have a friend who lives in Boston, met a man from Morocco at a coffee shop. He came up to her table while she was reading alone. After a very short dating period, he asked her to marry him.

He is a student, sometimes a cook, sometimes a computer guy. He travels abroad, has friends who live in Germany, Britian and Amsterdam. They were set to take a vacation two years ago to Damascus, Syria.

Ofcourse, he is a devout Muslim. It is a very strange set of circumstances.

[Fred Mertz]

Did she marry him?

[billhilly]

I've seen a few women like that. Never had the nerve to approach them though.&^)

[riri]

Yes. I haven't talked with her in about a year. She is an old high school friend and we have sort of just lost touch. It is just very strange, even before September 11th I used to tell my husband that I thought he was a terrorist. She is kinda introverted and pretty heavy-I have ofen wondered if they are trained to prey on a certain type of woman. Not to sound harsh, or say that she is unloveable-she just isn't the type of woman you would imagine someone approaching in a coffeeshop to ask out on a date.

And even stranger still, she works as a ticket agent for Delta (or did, I don't know if she lost her job in last years lay offs). She gets like 10 free flights a year or something like that.

[joesnuffy]

How much guidance did their local mosque and moderate islamic centers provide?

[billhilly]

You deserve a better answer than the one I gave you, but you know how it is when you feed leading lines to a frustrated comic.

Of course, marriage is, and has been, used to gain citizenship.

[aristeides]

Human Events’ search of 2001 New York voter records found that at least six of the eight suspects are registered voters—all Democrats.

Six. That's up from the five of the original report.

[aristeides]

But the government can revoke citizenship if it finds the marriage was fraudulent.

[Jean S]

I heard about the sixth that was arrested but this is the first I've heard about eight.

[aristeides]

The other two of the eight are the ones who are thought to be hiding out in Yemen.

[Jean S]

Ah, thanks.