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Posted on 10/24/2002 5:32:50 AM PDT by icwhatudo
Local Baltimore TV reporting that sniper was security guard for Farrakhan's Million Man March
Since when does Al Qaeda issue membership cards? Use your noggin.
I have. I watched much of his hate-filled speech in DC and I think your idea of getting the C-SPAN footage from that event (and others) is a great idea.
Earnest James Ujaama's father was a Black Panther.
Ujaama has a connection with the mosque run by a man from Tacoma.
Al Qaeda Camp in Oregon
By Patrick J. McDonnell
The Los Angeles Times | September 24, 2002
Prosperity may have bypassed this corner of the Pacific Northwest, but self-styled entrepreneur Earnest James Ujaama sensed opportunity. In the secluded landscape of parched ranch land and rugged volcanic outcroppings, he saw visions of Afghanistan--and a chance for profit in the jihad training business. In the fall of 1999, federal authorities say, Ujaama faxed a proposal promoting creation of a "jihad training camp" in the United States. It was addressed to a radical London cleric and reputed Al Qaeda recruiter named Abu Hamza Al-Masri.
Ujaama--a Muslim convert from Seattle, born James Earnest Thompson--had become a protege of Abu Hamza, according to U.S. officials who say the American pledged bayat, an oath of loyalty, to the mullah. Ujaama studied Islam at the London mosque and helped manage an affiliated Web site advocating violence against the United States and other Western nations.
[snip]Back in Seattle, Ujaama's younger brother Mustafa had helped establish a storefront mosque in the central city. Ujaama introduced Abu Hamza's teachings to the Seattle congregation.
"He brought us all the books and knowledge that you couldn't get here in America," said Ali Shahid Abdul-Raheem, 30, formerly known as Patrick Fitzsimmons. An ex-cabby from Seattle, Raheem said he converted to Islam while doing prison time for robbery.
During some of Ujaama's visits, the prayer leader, or imam, of the Seattle mosque was an outspoken man of Lebanese origin named Semi Osman. Fluent in Arabic, Osman was skilled at reciting from the Koran. Osman also was a mechanic, perpetually short of cash and supporting a wife and her two children from a previous marriage.
[snip]The first arrest in the case came in May, when Osman, 32--who "helped coordinate" the Bly camp, according to the FBI document--was taken into custody as he turned up for his citizenship interview in Seattle with U.S. immigration authorities.
A search of his Tacoma apartment turned up various weapons, military maps and field manuals, "instructions on poisoning water sources," papers by Abu Hamza, "and various other items associated with Islamic radicalism," according to a law enforcement summary. Osman, a Navy reservist, pleaded guilty to a weapon charge and is said to be cooperating, hoping to avoid deportation.
Apparently you watch different talking heads than I do.
I think P-J-Comix was referring to his #20.
Do you have a source for this statement? I would love to believe this, but have not seen such anywhere.
People shouldn't be guilty by association, but closing our eyes to the obvious link between Al-Q and the American- grown, RADICAL Muslims is foolhardy.
Me Too! I work all over the DC Area. I have a son and his family living in Vienna and working in Crystal City. Another son drives to Stafford from Prince William and works as a bar tender and I feel a great sense of relief.
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