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New York: Muslim faces 10 years prison for making bomb threats against Kodak

Nothing to see here, right? No big media on this because it's Muslim, and to cover it would be "islamophobic." But I betcha dollars to donuts that if it had been a any other group, it would have been splashed (a tsunami of splashes) across US newspapers. Sick.

Rochester, New York: Muslim faces 10 years prison for making false bomb threats against Kodak (thanks to Jihadwatch)

False bomb threats can work well to "cast terror into the hearts of the Unbelievers" (Qur'an 3:151) and to fulfill the Muslim's responsibility to "strike terror into the enemies of Allah" (Qur'an 8:60), as well as to tie up the Infidel's resources.

"Rochester man faces charges related to making false bomb threats against Kodak," by Gary McLendon for the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, June 12:

A federal grand jury has returned a four-count indictment charging a man with making false bomb threats against the Eastman Kodak Co.

Omer Fadhel Saleh Mohammed, 31, of Rochester, is charged with making the false threats, after law enforcement reviewed a total of 21 recorded phone calls allegedly involving Mohammed and Rochester 911 operators.

According to the criminal complaint, between Sept. 24, 2012 and Jan. 24. 2013 Mohammad repeatedly called 911 operators, identified himself as Omer Fadhel, and provided information concerning a plot to bomb Kodak.

Mohammed also allegedly gave 911 operators the address of a grocery store on Lyell Avenue, the owner of which he claimed was involved in the plot.

The 911 calls resulted in emergency responses by the Rochester police and fire departments and by Kodak security personnel, but searches failed to turn up any bombs or evidence that someone had attempted to plant a bomb at any of Kodak’s facilities.

In addition, the criminal complaint said Mohammed admitted during questioning by the members of the FBI Buffalo Division to creating a hoax involving the Lyell Avenue store owner because he was kicked out of the store for being intoxicated and sought revenge by getting the store owner in trouble with authorities. It also said he appeared to be under the influence of alcohol during questioning....

If found guilty, Mohammed faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison, a fine of $250,000 or both, on each charge.

NSA phone spying program FOILED plan to blow up NYC subway

So here again the Obama administration is caught in another lie. They are reading emails. 

Yes,  jihadists must be monitored.  Their emails should be read. But the Obama administration refuses to identify jihad as the cause of these attacks in America (and abroad). He thinks that by denying jihad, that gives him cover to spy on all Americans. How diabolical.

NSA phone spying program FOILED plan to blow up New York City subway, claim under fire security officials NSA domestic spying program foiled 2009 NYC subway bombing plot Daily Mail, June 9, 2013 (hat tip Lynn)

• Government program credited by Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Mich., House Intelligence Committee head, with thwarting planned attack
• Alleged terrorist found out after emailing known Al-Qaeda leader in Pakistan for help making a bomb
• Attack stopped as a result of collaboration between US and British intelligence agencies
  

The government's broad programs to collect U.S. phone records and Internet traffic helped disrupt a 2009 plot to bomb the New York City subways, a senior U.S. intelligence official said. But the assertion raises as many questions as it answers because court testimony indicated the subway plot investigation began with an email.

Over the past days, The Guardian newspaper and The Washington Post have revealed classified documents showing how the National Security Agency sweeps up phone records and Internet data in its hunt for terrorists. Those programs have come under criticism from civil libertarians and some in Congress who say they were too broad and collected too much about innocent Americans.

 

Busted: NYC terror suspect Najibullah Zazi arrives in 2009 at the federal building for questioning by the FBI in Denver

In one of those programs, the NSA's collected daily records of millions of phone calls made and received by U.S. citizens not suspected of any wrongdoing.

On Thursday, Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Mich., who leads the House Intelligence Committee, credited that effort with thwarting a terrorism plot. But he did not elaborate.

Afghan-American Najibullah Zazi pleaded guilty in the 2009 plot, saying he had been recruited by al-Qaida in Pakistan.

Safe: The NSA's domestic spying program stopped an alleged terror plot planned against the New York City subway system

The break in that case came, according to court documents and testimony, when Zazi emailed a Yahoo address seeking help with his bomb recipe.

At that time, British intelligence officials knew the Yahoo address was associated with an al-Qaida leader in Pakistan. That's because, according to British government documents released in 2010, officials had discovered it on the computer of a terror suspect there months earlier.

Because the NSA and British intelligence work so closely together and so little is known about how the NSA monitors email traffic, it's possible that both agencies were monitoring the Yahoo address at the time Zazi sent the critical email in 2009.

A-OK: There have been no successful terrorist attacks in new York City since 9/11, perhaps in part due to the NSA's 'PRISM@ program

What's unclear, though, is how the phone program aided the investigation, which utilized court-authorized wiretaps of Zazi and his friends.

Based on what's known about the phone-records program, the NSA might have had an archive of all the phone calls Zazi had made, which might have helped authorities look for possible co-conspirators.

Because the phone program remains classified, however, it's impossible to say with certainty how the program benefited the investigation.

 

 

Muslim who tried to blow up Wrigleyville Gets 23 Years

"What would have happened had (Hassoun's) bomb been real would have made Boston look like a minor incident." U.S. District Judge Robert Gettleman said.

They had video, the backpack bomb, they had him on tape, they had motive (jihad) -- they had him. Why plea this down? If he had been successful he would have killed thousands. 23 years for an act of war? 23 years for mass murder?

"Sami Samir Hassoun Sentenced: Would-Be Wrigleyville Backpack Bomber Gets 23 Years" By Michael Tarm, AP, 05/30/13 (thanks to Choi)

CHICAGO — A judge raised the specter of the Boston Marathon on Thursday as he sentenced a young Lebanese immigrant to 23 years in prison for placing a backpack he believed contained a powerful bomb along a bustling city street near the Chicago Cubs' baseball stadium.

Everyone at Sami Samir Hassoun's sentencing in a crowded courtroom in Chicago could not help but think of the bombs that went off a month ago concealed in backpacks on the East Coast, killing three people and wounding hundreds more, U.S. District Judge Robert Gettleman said.

"Let's give the elephant in the room a name: It's called the Boston Marathon," he said. "What would have happened had (Hassoun's) bomb been real would have made Boston look like a minor incident."

Earlier, prosecutor Joel Hammerman held up the ominous-looking but harmless device fashioned from a paint can that Hassoun put in a trash bin near Wrigley Field, placing it in front of the judge. Hassoun was told by undercover FBI agents, the prosecutor said, that it would destroy half the city block and kill dozens of people.

Minutes before the sentence was announced, Hassoun, a 25-year-old one-time Chicago baker and candy-store worker, apologized for what he'd done in a five-minute statement. Crying, he asked the judge if he could address his family and friends, and then turned to look at them on a nearby bench.

"I am sorry for the actions that I made and the shame I brought on you," Hassoun said, struggling to keep his composure. "I promise I will become a better person ... and make it up to you."

His mother sobbed aloud and when Hassoun finished, she said in an audible voice to her son, "I love you!"

Gettleman said he accepted the defense depiction of Hassoun as a uniquely gullible youth and that an informant may have been eager to please his FBI handlers by leading him on – though the judge said that was no excuse for Hassoun's crime.

During the hearing, prosecutors played secret video recordings of Hassoun during the sting in which he talks about killing people. He explains that one reason to stage the attack along bar-strewn Clark Street is that late-night revelers will be so drunk they wouldn't notice him dropping a bomb into the trash bin.

In another chilling video shown in court, Hassoun smiles and hums a tune to himself on the night of Saturday, Sept. 18, 2010 – moments before heading off to what he thought would be a major terrorist attack.

Spike in jihadic attacks prompts U.S. Muslim leaders call on FBI to reduce its counter-jihad activities even further

".... the Muslim panelists complained about the difficulty of persuading Muslim youths that jihad is not allowed in the United States...."

In the wake of the Boston Marathon bombings and a jihad plot to kill 100,000 people with WMD and the beheading on a public street outside London:

U.S. Muslim leaders call on FBI to reduce its counter-jihad activities even further Jihadwatch

These Islamic supremacists got what they wanted in 2011: the scrubbing of counter-terror training materials of the truth about Islam and jihad. But that isn't enough: jihadists are still being investigated and prosecuted, and that has to stop. 

There have been questions about Mohamed Elibiary’s true allegiances for years. He was one of the speakers at a December 2004 conference in Dallas titled “A Tribute to the Great Islamic Visionary.” The visionary in question was none other than the founding father of the Islamic Republic of Iran, the Ayatollah Khomeini.

When I questioned him about his appearance at such a conference, Elibiary claimed that he hadn’t known what kind of conference it was going to be, although he didn’t explain why he went ahead and appeared there anyway once he found out. Among those who found this explanation wanting was journalist Rod Dreher of the Dallas Morning News, whose skepticism angered Elibiary. The great moderate subsequently threatened Dreher, telling him: “Expect someone to put a banana in your exhaust pipe.”

Yet despite all this, Elibiary still got his appointment to the DHS Advisory Council. Mohamed Elibiary has risen as far as he has without ever being properly vetted because government and law enforcement officials, and the media, are so avid to find a moderate Muslim who will stand against Islamic jihad terrorism that they will accept virtually anyone’s claim to be just that, no questions asked.

"Muslim advocates urge reduced FBI anti-jihad role," by Neil Munro for The Daily Caller, May 29 (thanks to Jerk Chicken):

Politically influential Muslim activists are pushing to reduce the FBI’s role in countering Islamic terrorism and are seeking greater federal reliance on hard-line orthodox Imams.

The White House’s “Countering Violent Extremism” program “did not produce the results a lot of us were hopeful … [and] kind of collapsed towards the end of last year,” complained Mohamed Elibiary, a Texas-based advocate who was appointed to the Homeland Security Advisory Council.

“I don’t know where it is today … [but] it presents us with the opportunity to look at the question of [whether] it is right to house it within the FBI,” he said at an May 28 event in D.C. staged by the Muslim Public Affairs Council.

The controversial CVE program was boosted in 2011, when President Barack Obama directed the FBI to work with Muslim political and community groups to suppress jihadi attacks, which are dubbed as non-Islamic “violent extremism.”

But, said Elibiary, “we spun our wheels for the last two years [and] we never got the national CVE policy across all 56 [FBI field] offices.”

Instead, said panelists, the FBI has continued its traditional policy of investigating jihadis for subsequent trial and convictions.

In contrast, the Department of Homeland Security, Elibiary said, has done much good by trying to work with Islamic groups.

The CVE program has been slammed by critics for giving too large an intermediary role to small Islamic political groups such as MPAC, which portray themselves as representatives of American Muslims. The groups try to foster the growth of distinct Islamic communities.

The CVE training has also been criticized for obscuring the many orthodox Islamic strictures that spur Muslims’ violence against non-Muslims.

Elibiary’s new call for reduced policing of Islamic communities, such as Boston’s immigrant Muslims, was echoed by other speakers at the panel, which was hosted by the progressive New American Foundation in Washington D.C.

“Imams and counselors need to be given some leeway” by police, said Suhaib Webb, Imam of the Islamic Society of Boston Cultural Center.

Webb’s cultural center is affiliated with the mosque attended by Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the ethnic Chechen Muslim who along with his brother Dzhokhar killed three Americans with two bombs at the Boston Marathon. Tsarnaev also killed a Massachusetts Institute of Technology police officer after Boston police broadcast his photo on TV. The police did not contact the main Boston mosque for help in identifying Tsarnaev’s image, which was captured by videos of the explosion and its aftermath.

Webb, who was disinvited from the state’s April 18 memorial service by Governor Deval Patrick, said he can persuade young men to stay away from violence. But “I need to be able to sit down with someone and not be subpoenaed or be called as a witness” in a later terrorism investigation, he said.

To succeed, government anti-terror agencies should keep their distance from such outreach to angry youth, he said. “We don’t need to be too close to each other, because that undermines our [Imams’] street credibility,” said Webb.

In fact, he added, his influence was recently reduced when he was labelled as a “moderate.” That “undermined my ability” to persuade youths, Webb said.

Muslim organizations are apprehensive about working with the FBI’s surveillance programs, which can deter cooperation, said Haris Tarin, director of the MPAC’s Washington office. “Is there a point of diminishing returns?” said Tarin, who organized the panel and invited the speakers.

Muslims in America have grievances, and “the way to address these grievances is not with violence, but with the way Islam prescribes… that way is best prescribed by Imams, not necessarily by the U.S. government,” said Rashad Hussain, President Barack Obama’s ambassador to the 57-nation Organization of Islamic Cooperation.

Muslims in America “are concerned that terrorists are killing innocent people,” Hussain said. Killing people who are innocent is “totally repulsive to their religion,” he said.

‘“Conservative and Salafi Imams are going to produce the most credible alternatives to al Qaeda” said panelist Peter Bergen, who is the director of the national security studies at the New America Foundation.

“It is going to be conservative Muslim voices and conservative Muslim scholars that will have the credibility” to persuade youth to stay away from violence, warned Rabia Chaudry, founder of the SafeNational Collaborative, a firm which offers to teach U.S. police about Islam’s blend of religion and politics.

By “conservative,” the speakers meant orthodox Imams, not free-market, small government conservatives.

One useful option, said Elibiary, would be for the government to allow young radicals an off-ramp from a pathway to jail.

Instead of running a sting operation that sends the would-be terrorist to jail, the government should warn them of their impeding collision with the law, he said.

“Sting operations… have been over-used” by the FBI, he said.

“By the time I finish here, the FBI frankly will be upset with me,” he added.

But even as they called for deference by the FBI, the Muslim panelists complained about the difficulty of persuading Muslim youths that jihad is not allowed in the United States....

Minnesota: Muslim Mobs Randomly Attack Joggers

These attacks by Muslim gangs continue to increase as Muslim immigration increases. Muslim Gangs in Minnesota Grow More Dangerous.

Muslim attacks target gays, women, etc. We see a concentration of these Muslim attacks in gateway cities where large Muslim populations are settled under the Refugee Resettlement programs. 

Our organization, AFDI, has called for:

-- deportation hearings against non-citizens who promote jihad in our nations.

-- an immediate halt of immigration by Muslims into nations that do not currently have a Muslim majority population.

-- AFDI calls for laws providing that anyone seeking citizenship in the United States should be asked if he or she supports Sharia law, and investigated for ties to pro-Sharia groups. If so, citizenship should not be granted.

-- AFDI calls for the cancellation of citizenship or permanent residency status for anyone who leaves the country of his residence to travel for the purpose of engaging in jihad activity, and for the refusal of reentry into his country of residence after that jihad activity.

"Police: Joggers Attacked At Random In Fridley" CBS Minnesota, May 28, 2013 (thanks to Gloria)

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – Police are looking for as many as six or seven Somali men after two joggers were randomly attacked in Fridley.

Authorities said two joggers were the victims of what are being labeled as random attacks on Saturday at 3:30 p.m. and 3:50 p.m.  The joggers, both men, were on a path near East River Road and 37th Avenue NE when the attacks took place.

Police said one man suffered a bloody nose in the attack and the other has a sore throat. Authorities said these attacks were not robbery attempts and that the suspects randomly approached them and assaulted them.

Authorities said the suspects are described of a group of six to seven Somali men, but did not have any more information.

Anyone with information about the incidents is asked to call Fridley Police.

Hotel hosting banquet for Muslim organization evacuated in 'bomb scare' after pressure cooker is found in bathroom

Never a dull moment. A pressure cooker left in the restroom of a Dearborn hotel forced the evacuation of the hotel and led to the cancellation of Sunday night’s banquet of the University of Muslim Association of America. The reaction to the "pressure cooker" was as expected -- Islamic supremacists never miss the opportunity to blame extremists of other faiths. *chuckle*

Here is how the Arab media grievance-mongered the story: "It would not surprise me at all if somebody put it there deliberately to cause trouble," said Hamas-CAIR's Walid.

The bomb incident took place at the Adoba Hotel, previously known as the Hyatt Regency Hotel. Longtime Atlas readers remember that that is where we held our Jessica Mokdad Human Rights Conference on Honor Killings.

Pressure Cooker Discovered At Dearborn Hotel CBS (links thanks to Diane)

DEARBORN (WWJ) – Police in Dearborn are trying to understand why a pressure cooker was left in the restroom of the Adoba Hotel, forcing the evacuation of guests until the early morning hours.

The evacuation also canceled Sunday night’s banquet of the University of Muslim Association of America.

Asgar Zaidi of Washington D.C. has been attending the organization’s conference for the past 11 years. He says it’s the first time it’s ever been held in Dearborn.

“We all look forward to this time of year, Memorial Day weekend … we have fun, we learn and it’s just disheartening to see this type of stuff happen here,” said Zaidi.

The pressure cooker discovered at the hotel was detonated by police as a precaution, but contained no explosives.

Hotel hosting banquet for Muslim organization evacuated in 'bomb scare' after pressure cooker is found in bathroom By Thomas Durante, Daily Mail, May 28, 2013

• Kitchen pressure cooker found in bathroom during banquet organized by the Universal Muslim Association of America
• Adoba Hotel in Dearborn, Michigan evacuated as a result of the discovery
• It's not clear if the pressure cooker was planted in the bathroom as a result of the UMAA's presence
• All clear notice given at about 1am on Monday morning, and guests were allowed back into their rooms
  

A Michigan hotel was evacuated over the weekend after a pressure cooker was found while the hotel was hosting a conference for a Muslim group.

Police responded to the Adoba Hotel in Dearborn on Sunday night after the discovery was made in a bathroom.

At the time, the hotel was hosting a banquet for the Universal Muslim Association of America.

Jihad in Zanzibar: Muslim Attacks on Christians and Churches High in Zanzibar as Tanzania Mainland also Heats Up

More Muslim madness:

Anti-Christian Hostility High in Zanzibar as Tanzania Mainland also Heats Up

May 18, 2013 By Our East Africa Correspondent

ZANZIBAR, Tanzania (Morning Star News) –  Islamic extremist attacks and land grabs on this semi-autonomous island off the coast of Tanzania have continued unabated even as violence has increased on the mainland.
 
The May 5 bombing of St. Joseph’s Roman Catholic Church in Arusha killed a 45-year-old woman, a 16-year-old boy and a 12-year-old girl. Of the two Tanzanians and four foreigners arrested – now officially identified as one from Saudi Arabia and three from the United Arab Emirates – only one Tanzanian national reportedly remains in custody as a suspect.   
 
While Islamic extremist activity has increased in Tanzania, Christians on the Zanzibar archipelago have recently suffered attacks by Islamists and the separatist group Uamsho (Re-awakening). Uamsho, the Association for Islamic Mobilization and Propagation, has issued explicit threats to Christians on Zanzibar Island since October 2012.
 
At midnight on April 20, Islamic extremists in Kianga, 16 kilometers (11 miles) from Zanzibar City, demolished most of the Pool of Siloam church building, a church leader said. Three suspects were arrested, only to be released after three days.
 
“When we tried to follow up the case, we found out that some of the information concerning the pulling down of the church was missing,” church pastor Israel Baraka Elijah told Morning Star News. “Hence, we decided to give up all together.”
 
Damages were estimated at $2,500, he added. Muslim extremists had attacked the church building before, setting part of it on fire on Feb. 19 and battering it with sledge hammers in November 2011.
 
Buildings aren’t the only targets. Suspected Islamic extremists on Feb. 17 shot and killed the Rev. Evaristus Mushi, a 56-year-old Roman Catholic priest, in the Mtoni area outside Zanzibar City. The murder came nearly two months after the Christmas Day shooting of another Catholic priest, the Rev. Ambrose Mkenda, that seriously injured him. Uamsho had left leaflets threatening to kill church leaders of the Roman Catholic, Anglican, Tanzania Assemblies of God and Pentecostal Church denominations.
 
The Islamist group is fighting for full autonomy of the Zanzibar archipelago; it arose after Zanzibar’s primary opposition, the Civic United Front, formed a government with the ruling Chama Cha Mapinduzi party in 2010. 
 

 

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Uzbek Muslim arrested in Idaho: Provided WMD bomb-making knowledge, support to Jihad group, possession of grenade, aluminum powder, potassium nitrate, sulfur, fuse

Jihad in America. More of Obama's  subversive and lethal immigration policies:

"Uzbek citizen arrested in Idaho, accused of supporting militants" Reuters, May 16, 2013

Reuters) - U.S. officials charged an Uzbek citizen in Idaho with providing bomb-making knowledge and other support to an Islamist militant group, knowing that it would be used in an attack, authorities said on Thursday.

Fazliddin Kurbanov, 30, a national of Uzbekistan living legally in Idaho, was arrested in Boise and faces a three-count grand jury indictment in Idaho and a single-count indictment in Utah, prosecutors said.

They said Kurbanov provided information and money to the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, which the United States has designated as a foreign terrorist organization. The group supports establishing strict Islamic rule in Uzbekistan.

Authorities said Kurbanov's activities were closely monitored and any potential threat had been contained.

The indictment alleges that Kurbanov had provided support and resources to the group since August 2012 and that he knew this could be used to prepare for and carry out an attack using a weapon of mass destruction. He could face up to 15 years in prison on each of those two charges.

Kurbanov was also charged with possessing a hand grenade, with a fuse as well as aluminum powder, potassium nitrate and sulfur, which could be used to create an improvised bomb. That charge calls for up to 10 years in prison.

Boston Jihad Bomber's Motive: Paradise and "When you attack one Muslim, you attack all Muslims"

Again, consistent with jihad and Islamic teachings. Through and through. We aren't allowed to say it -- he is, though. Worse, we have to listen to TV and radio broadcasters, who still have their legs and their children, whine about the Tsarnaevs' immigrant experience or their lack of [infidel] friends.

Look at the CBS headline. Is the boat note really the takeaway from the article? Or is what's in it the headline?

Boston bombings suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev left note in boat he hid in, sources say CBS News, May 16, 2013 (thanks to Andrew Bostom)

(CBS News) Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev left a note claiming responsibility for the April 13 attack on the Boston Marathon, reports CBS News senior correspondent John Miller.

Sources tell Miller that Tsarnaev wrote the note in the boat he was hiding in as police pursued him, and as he bled from gunshot wounds sustained in an earlier shootout between police and his older brother, Tamerlan Tsarnaev.

The note, scrawled with a pen on the interior wall of the cabin, said the bombings were retribution for U.S. military action in Afghanistan and Iraq, and called the Boston victims collateral damage in the same way Muslims have been in the American-led wars. "When you attack one Muslim, you attack all Muslims," the note added.

Dzhokar said he didn't mourn older brother Tamerlan, the other suspect in the bombings, writing that by that point, Tamerlan was a martyr in paradise -- and that he expected to join him there.

Boston Water Tests Safe after 7 Muslim Chemical Engineers Caught caught at the Reservoir after Midnight

The men told police they were chemical engineers and recent college graduates. They “cited their education and career interests” as their reason for being there. Yes, indeed. Jihad is a career for millions of devout Muslims

This mimics the Canadian jihad plot to poison the water supply (and the air) and murder as many as 100,000 people, and poisoning the water supply of a major city has long been bandied about among jihadis as a consummation devoutly to be wished.

Was this connected to the same Boston mosque that inspired the Boston jihad bombing?

Boston reservoir tests safe after seven Muslims caught trespassing there after midnight

(thanks to Robert Spencer)

Pakistanis and Saudis caught in a no-trespass zone after midnight at a water reservoir for a major city that has just been the site of an Islamic jihad attack. And Islamic jihadists have often spoken about poisoning water supplies -- most recently in the Canada/New York jihad plot. So even if the water tests safe, it is still exceedingly suspicious that they were there at all.

An update on this story. "Boston reservoir tests safe after late-night trespassers nabbed," by Perry Chiaramonte for FoxNews.com, May 15 (thanks to all who sent this in):

Massachusetts State Police beefed up patrols around the reservoir that supplies Boston's drinking water after seven foreign students were caught trespassing in the area late at night.

With the city still jittery after the April 15 terror attack at the Boston Marathon, word that two women and five men, reportedly from Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Singapore, had been found in the restricted area around the Quabbin Reservoir caused concerns. The reservoir serves Boston and some 40 other communities in the area.

“As an extra precaution, water quality samples were analyzed at MWRA’s lab yesterday and all came back normal," Ria Convery, of the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority, told the Boston Herald. “There is no evidence of any water quality issues at the Quabbin Reservoir following the trespassing incident.”

"Spectacular Jihad" Growing Problem in US, Authorities Fear

AFDI has called for an immediate halt of immigration by Muslims into nations that do not currently have a Muslim majority population and with good reason. 

'Home-Grown,' Spectacular Jihad Growing Problem, Authorities Fear By Anthony Kimery, HS Toda, May 15, 2013

The threat of “homegrown” and foreign jihadist groups and individuals plotting mass casualty attacks on US soil has not weakened, despite degradation of Al Qaeda Central (AQC), senior US counterterrorism officials and authorities told Homeland Security Today in recent wide-ranging interviews.

Authorities said there is an exceptionally “heightened concern” regarding intelligence that the radicalization of Muslims and new converts to jihad in the US and throughout the West has resulted in the creation of a legion of "inspired" new jihadists, many of whom are "quite willing" to carry out mass casualty attacks, including suicide martyr attacks.

Beside the attack in Boston, they pointed to the subsequent thwarted attack by jihadists on a passenger train between Toronto and New York and the arrest of the suspected ringleader’s alleged mass casualty bio attack plot in the US. They also noted earlier arrests of jihadists whose plots easily could have killed hundreds … if not thousands … of civilians, and, very likely, first responders.

Jihadist authorities said they are concerned that so-called “radicalization” not only will inspire other Muslim jihadists in the US, but that these jihadists could be stirred up to carry out truly “spectacular” strikes, which is a long-standing objective of jihadi terror groups like Al Qaeda, its many varied offshoots and other ideologically-inspired jihadists.

North Carolina Muslim pleads guilty to buying gun for 'terrorist jihad' to kill soldiers at Fort Bragg

More "personal jihad" -- hmmmm, I didn't see this in the Hamas-CAIR personal jihad ad campaign:

"North Carolina man pleads guilty to buying gun for terrorist jihad" FOX News, May 15, 2013

FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. –  A North Carolina man who the FBI says spoke of killing U.S. Army soldiers as part of a personal jihad has pleaded guilty to possessing a stolen firearm.

Erwin Antonio Rios admitted guilt Tuesday in U.S. District Court as part of a plea agreement with federal prosecutors.

In an affidavit filed with the court, FBI Special Agent Frank Brostrom said the 19-year-old from Fayetteville holds extremist Islamic views and told a government informant he would like to kill Fort Bragg soldiers.

Authorities said Rios also plotted to travel overseas to commit violence and devised a scheme to commit armed robberies to get money to buy weapons. The FBI set up a sting where Rios bought what he was told was a stolen handgun and was then immediately placed under arrest.

3 Years for Sentences in Minnesota Jihad terror case

They faced 15 years and got three. Lesson for all future jihadists on trial -- just say, sorry Judge, I won't do it again.

Sentences continue in Minn. Somali terror case Yahoo, May 13, 2013

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Two men who left Minnesota to join the terrorist group al-Shabab in Somalia were sentenced to three years in federal prison Tuesday, getting reduced sentences for their cooperation with the government's investigation into what has been called one of the largest efforts to recruit U.S. fighters into a foreign terror group.

Saudi Arrested with Pressure Cooker and Altered Passport at Detroit Airport, Lied to Border Protection Agent

A member of the Boston jihad fan club no doubt -- is he any relation to al Harbi? Speaking of al Harbi, where is he?

Saudi arrested with pressure cooker at Detroit airport May 13, 2013, FoxNews.com

A Saudi man was arrested at Detroit Metropolitan Airport with a pressure cooker, less than a month after a bomb using one of the kitchen devices was used to kill three and injure hundreds.

Hussain Al Kwawahir was charged in federal court with using an altered passport and lying to a Customs and Border Protection Agent about the pressure cooker, according to The Detroit News. Al Kwawahir arrived Saturday from Saudi Arabia, via Amsterdam, according to a criminal complaint filed Monday in federal court. He told investigators he was here to see a nephew who attends the University of Toledo.

Customs officials noticed a page missing from his passport, then found the pressure cooker during an examination of his baggage, according to authorities. Al Kwawahir said he brought the pressure cooker for his nephew because the devices are not sold in the United States, according to the complaint.

He later changed his story, saying his nephew had bought a pressure cooker in the U.S. but it was broken.

 

North Carolina Muslim gets four life terms for jihad plot to behead witnesses whose testimony helped convict him for earlier jihad plot to slaughter U.S. servicemen and their families

And the devout would-be beheader said upon sentencing. "The Koran is the truth that invalidates all other religions," said Sherifi, who declined a court-appointed lawyer and represented himself at trial. "If you do not submit, he will severely judge you, and on the day of judgment you will enter hellfire."

Of course he is not remorseful, he does not believe in American law (or any other law -- in accordance with Islamic teachings). There is only the sharia.

Notice the plan was thwarted by a government informant -- the same program that Muslim Brotherhood groups like Hamas CAIR are working aggressively to stop. To what end? Well, the Boston jihad bombing had no such informants.

"Man sentenced in plot against terror witnesses," Associated Press, May 10 (thanks to Lookmann):

A North Carolina man was sentenced Friday to four life terms for plotting to behead federal witnesses whose testimony helped convict him for his role in an earlier plot to slaughter U.S. servicemen and their families.

Hysen Sherifi, 29, was one of six Raleigh-area Muslims convicted in 2011 of planning to attack the Marine base in Quantico, Va., and overseas targets.

Shortly after starting his 45-year prison sentence in the terror case, Sherifi approached another inmate to help him hire a hit man to behead government informants and FBI agents. He recruited his younger brother Shkumbin Sherifi, 23, and former special education teacher Nevine Aly Elshiekh, 48, to help pay the hit man and organize the murders.

But the inmate whose help Sherifi sought turned out to be yet another government informant. FBI agents then staged an elaborate sting that involved secretly videotaped meetings with a woman posing as the go-between for a fictional hit man named Treetop and doctored photos that appeared to show the corpse of a beheaded witness in a shallow grave.

Federal prosecutors recommended leniency for the two coconspirators, who pleaded guilty last year and agreed to testify at the elder Sherifi's trial on nine felony counts.

Citing their extensive cooperation, U.S. District Senior Judge Earl Britt sentenced the younger Sherifi to 3 years in prison, while Elshiekh got 3 1/2 years. They had faced as much as 10 years each.

Before Hysen Sherifi was sentenced, he lectured the judge about Islamic teachings.

"The Koran is the truth that invalidates all other religions," said Sherifi, who declined a court-appointed lawyer and represented himself at trial. "If you do not submit, he will severely judge you, and on the day of judgment you will enter hellfire."

"That it?" asked Britt, who has served more than three decades on the federal bench. The judge then tacked the four life sentences onto the end of Sherifi's earlier 45-year prison term, along with another 50 years on top of that.

"There can be no doubt Mr. Sherifi, the defendant in this case, meets the definition of a terrorist," Britt said. "He was the genesis of this conspiracy. He was the mastermind, though I'm hesitant to use that term because it affords him more credit than he is due."

Jihad in Canada: Third Muslim in Passenger Train Bomb Plot discussed bacteria plot to kill ‘100,000 people’

The police are super busy in Toronto, threatening Rabbis and making sure that I am not allowed speak about this very thing. Do these jackbooted keystone clowns really believe that by stopping me from speaking about Islamic jihad, that Islamic jihad will stop?

Last week I was on a Canadian radio show (I forget which one), and when I referred to this plot as jihad, the host stopped me and said, "we don't know that." The host implied that I was being a bombthrower by calling it an Islamic attack. The level of denial and delusion is stunning.

In this article, The National Post describes the Muslim terrorist as Tunisian. Tunisia is not Ahmed Abassi's motive. He was a devout Muslim who was a master’s student in chemical engineering. This is Islamic jihad. Period. Why won't they say it? This Muslim talked about killing 100,000 people. Bam.

These jihadis had “overseas training and plotted to engage in terrorist activity in the West.”

He wanted to remain in the United States, and that if he was living in the United States he would be willing to carry out terrorist operations in the United States...

It is important to point out that this plot was thwarted by an FBI informant. This is how hundreds of jihad plots over the past 12 years have been stopped. This is the very program that Hamas groups like CAIR, ISNA, ICNA, MAS, MSU are aggressively agitating to stop. And they met with some measure of success. The FBI knew about the Boston jihad bombers, but didn't monitor or surveil them.

"Third suspect related to alleged VIA Rail terror plan discussed bacteria plot to kill ‘100,000 people’: documents" The National Post (hat tip Nicola)

Ahmed Abassi, a 26-year-old Tunisian citizen, was arrested at New York’s JFK airport on April 22 — the same day the RCMP picked up Chiheb Esseghaier in Montreal and co-accused Raed Jaser in Toronto.

The U.S. case had remained sealed until Thursday, when federal prosecutors revealed that an undercover FBI officer had met with Mr. Abassi and Mr. Esseghaier, and recorded conversations in which they allegedly discussed mass casualty terror plots.

Among the attacks they proposed were the train derailment plot and poisoning the air or water, resulting in the deaths of up to 100,000 people, officials said. The contamination plot was only talk and there was never any public danger.

The U.S. indictment sheds new light on Project Smooth, the RCMP-led investigation that resulted in the arrests just over two weeks ago of Mr. Esseghaier and Mr. Jaser. The RCMP alleged the plot was linked to al-Qaeda elements based in Iran.

The documents unsealed by the U.S. District Court in New York paint Mr. Abassi as a ringleader, saying he “radicalized” Mr. Esseghaier, a fellow Tunisian who subsequently received “overseas training and plotted to engage in terrorist activity in the West.”

Mother of New Jersey jihad terrorist outraged son sentenced day of Boston Marathon jihad bombing

The Muslima mother of the North Bergen man serving 22 years on jihad-related charges told The Jersey Journal Tuesday that she feels her son's sentencing 10 minutes after the Boston Marathon bombing led to an injustice. I kid you not. The mother said, "I don't think the judge had any mercy in his heart." Of all the unmitigated gall -- to speak of mercy.  This mom ought to befriend the Boston jihad bombers' mom, they are both cut from the same cloth. She also assumes that the Judge thought it was jihad as soon as those bombs went off - she obviously did.

This judge got it right. He said of her son and his fellow jihadists, "their aim was to murder people with beliefs not aligned with their own extremist philosophy." Of course, it's not extremist nor a philosophy, but I won't split hairs because the Judge done good.

Mother of New Jersey jihad terrorist outraged son sentenced day of Boston Marathon jihad bombing (thanks to Robert Spencer)

If the judge's head had still been in the sand, you see, he would have been more lenient toward her sweet boy the would-be jihad murderer. "Mother of North Bergen terrorist outraged son sentenced day of Boston Marathon bombing," by Michaelangelo Conte for The Jersey Journal, May 8 (thanks to Kenneth):

The mother of the North Bergen man serving 22 years on terrorism-related charges told The Jersey Journal Tuesday that she feels her son's sentencing 10 minutes after the Boston Marathon bombing led to an injustice.

"It was at the same time, the same minutes," Nadia Alessa, 53, said at her North Bergen home of the sentencing of her son, Mohamed Alessa, 23, who is in a federal correctional facility in Brooklyn.

No Bail for Florida Muslims Plotting to Detonate Bombs in NYC

It's every day -- plots to slaughter thousands of Americans. But it's websites like mine that Islamic supremacists and their leftist lapdogs say are the problem.

No Bail for South Florida Man in Alleged Terror Plot NBC Miami (hat tip Bobo)

Raees Alam Qazi, 20, and Sheheryar Alam Qazi, 30, of Oakland Park

 

A Pakistani-born man accused along with his younger brother in an alleged terror plot to detonate bombs in New York City was critical to the plan because of his financial support, a federal prosecutor told a Miami judge at a bail hearing Tuesday.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Karen Gilbert also said that Sheheryar Alam Qazi, 30, had full knowledge that 20-year-old Raees Alam Qazi was learning how to make explosive devices via the Internet and was determined to mount an attack to avenge deaths caused by U.S. drones in Afghanistan and elsewhere.

"He full well knew what his brother was intending to do," Gilbert said of the elder Qazi. "He played a very significant role, because he paid all the bills to enable his brother."

U.S. Magistrate Judge Chris McAliley denied bail for Qazi, finding that he is a great risk to flee to Pakistan and avoid prosecution. The brothers have been locked up since their arrests in November on charges of attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction and conspiring to provide material support to terrorists.

Both men, who are naturalized U.S. citizens, have pleaded not guilty. If convicted, they face a possible life prison sentence. Sheheryar Qazi was seeking release on bail Tuesday, with his attorney Ronald Chapman trying to show he wasn't aware of his brother's plans and would not flee to Pakistan if released.