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Chicago Muslim Charged In Mumbai Islamic Massacre Planned More Terror Attacks in India

The American jihadi who posed as a Jew to case the Jewish center in India and was charged this week in the Mumbai massacres was fully prepared to mount a wave of attacks this month on Israeli El Al airline offices, synagogues and Chabad hospitality centers across India.

His brother Gilani works for Pakistan's Prime Minister.

Islamic anti-semitism. As old as Islam itself.

Chicago man's arrest forestalled terror attacks on Jewish-Israeli sites in India

US and Indian security sources say the arrest of the Pakistan-born American David Coleman Headley in Chicago on suspicion of complicity in the Mumbai terrorist atrocity in Nov. 2008 found him fully prepared to mount a wave of attacks this month on Israeli El Al airline offices, synagogues and Chabad hospitality centers across India, DEBKAfile's counter-terror sources report.

A key figure in an al Qaeda-linked cell in Chicago, Headley changed his name from Daood Gilani to travel as an American without incurring suspicion. Four months after the Mumbai siege, in which 170 people lost their lives in including six Americans, he was back in India on the same mission as before: selecting targets, advance surveillance, laying in secret caches of explosives and firearms for the Lashkar e-Taibe operatives to pick up on the sites of attack, and determining their exit point.

Headley traveled to India five times on the same mission in the two years leading up to the Mumbai attack by Lashkar e-Taibe elite units.

This Pakistan-based Islamist group acts as al Qaeda's operational arm for its campaign of terror in India.

Last March, Headley booked into a small hotel near El Al offices in New Delhi for the surveillance of comings and goings and the security set up. He then rented a room in the Holiday Inn hotel opposite the Chabad center in the Indian capital, where many Israeli backpackers are made welcome. There, too, as he did in Mumbai, he visited the center in the guise of an Orthodox Jew and potential donor.

(The terrorist team which attacked the Chabad center in Mumbai last year murdered all six occupants as per their instructions not to leave anyone alive in the building.)

From Delhi, Headley travelled to Pushkar in Rajasthan, another spot popular with Israelis, where he booked into a room overlooking the synagogue saying he wanted to be in close rapport with the house of prayer.

Three days later, he was on the road to the village of Anjuna at the Arabian Sea resort of Goa, where he observed the habits of young Israeli tourists.

By October this year, when Headley was arrested along with at least one accomplice in the Chicago cell, they had made up their list of targeted Jewish and Israeli locations in India ready for attack. Those attacks were to have gone forward in late November and early December this year, only by then Headley and his accomplices in the Chicago terror cell were behind bars awaiting trial.

The former Daood Gilani faces 12 counts of terrorist conspiracy to bomb public buildings in India and murder and maim individuals in India and Denmark, for which he could be sentenced to death.

For more about the wide ranging charges against this first US-based al Qaeda cell orchestrating attacks world wide, click HERE.

He was pious.

The Koran on the Jews

(thanks to Robert Spencer)

“Strongest among men in enmity to the believers wilt thou find the Jews…” (5:82).

 “Curses were pronounced on those among the Children of Israel who rejected Faith, by the tongue of David and of Jesus the son of Mary: because they disobeyed and persisted in excesses.” (5:78).

 “Is it ever so that when they make a covenant a party of them set it aside? The truth is, most of them believe not. And when there came to them a messenger from Allah [Muhammad], confirming what was with them [the Torah], a party of the people of the Book threw away the Book of Allah behind their backs, as if (it had been something) they did not know!” (2:100-101).

 “The People of the Book know well that that is the truth from their Lord. Nor is Allah unmindful of what they do” (2:143-144).

“Fight those who believe not in Allah nor the Last Day, nor hold that forbidden which hath been forbidden by Allah and His Messenger, nor acknowledge the religion of Truth, (even if they are) of the People of the Book, until they pay the Jizya with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued” (9:29).

 “And the Jews say: Ezra is the son of Allah, and the Christians say: The Messiah is the son of Allah. That is their saying with their mouths. They imitate the saying of those who disbelieved of old. Allah (Himself) fighteth against them. How perverse are they!” (9:30)

 The Jews killed their prophets (2:61; 2:87; 2:91; 3:21; 3:112; 3:181; 3:183; 4:155; 5:70), and boast “we killed the Messiah, Jesus the son of Mary” (4:157).

“Allah hath heard the taunt of those who say: ‘Truly, Allah is indigent and we are rich!’ We shall certainly record their word and (their act) of slaying the prophets in defiance of right, and We shall say: ‘Taste ye the penalty of the Scorching Fire!’” (3:181)

 “Why do not the rabbis and the doctors of Law forbid them from their (habit of) uttering sinful words and eating things forbidden? Evil indeed are their works.” (5:63)

 “The Jews say: ‘Allah’s hand is tied up.’ Be their hands tied up and be they accursed for the (blasphemy) they utter. Nay, both His hands are widely outstretched: He giveth and spendeth (of His bounty) as He pleaseth. But the revelation that cometh to thee from Allah increaseth in most of them their obstinate rebellion and blasphemy. Amongst them we have placed enmity and hatred till the Day of Judgment. Every time they kindle the fire of war, Allah doth extinguish it; but they (ever) strive to do mischief on earth. And Allah loveth not those who do mischief” (5:64).

 The Jews “strive to do mischief on earth” – that is, fasaad, for which the punishment is specified in 5:33: “they will be killed or crucified, or have their hands and feet on alternate sides cut off, or will be expelled out of the land.”

 “Ye are the best of peoples, evolved for mankind, enjoining what is right, forbidding what is wrong, and believing in Allah. If only the People of the Book had faith, it were best for them: among them are some who have faith, but most of them are perverted transgressors. They will do you no harm, barring a trifling annoyance; if they come out to fight you, they will show you their backs, and no help shall they get. Shame is pitched over them (like a tent) wherever they are found, except when under a covenant (of protection) from Allah and from men; they draw on themselves wrath from Allah, and pitched over them is (the tent of) destitution. This because they rejected the Signs of Allah, and slew the prophets in defiance of right; this because they rebelled and transgressed beyond bounds.” (3:110-112)

 “And because of their breaking their covenant, We have cursed them and made hard their hearts. They change words from their context and forget a part of that whereof they were admonished. Thou wilt not cease to discover treachery from all save a few of them. But bear with them and pardon them. Lo! Allah loveth the kindly (5:13).

 “Among the People of the Book are some who, if entrusted with a hoard of gold, will (readily) pay it back; others, who, if entrusted with a single silver coin, will not repay it unless thou constantly stoodest demanding, because, they say, ‘there is no call on us (to keep faith) with these ignorant (Pagans).’ but they tell a lie against Allah, and (well) they know it.” (3:75)

 “O Messenger! let not those grieve thee, who race each other into unbelief: (whether it be) among those who say ‘We believe’ with their lips but whose hearts have no faith; or it be among the Jews -- men who will listen to any lie -- will listen even to others who have never so much as come to thee. They change the words from their (right) times and places: they say, ‘If ye are given this, take it, but if not, beware!’ If any one’s trial is intended by Allah, thou hast no authority in the least for him against Allah. For such - it is not Allah’s will to purify their hearts. For them there is disgrace in this world, and in the Hereafter a heavy punishment.” (5:41)

 “There is a party of them who distort the Scripture with their tongues, that ye may think that what they say is from the Scripture, when it is not from the Scripture. And they say: It is from Allah, when it is not from Allah; and they speak a lie concerning Allah knowingly” (3:78).

“Then woe to those who write the Book with their own hands, and then say: ‘This is from Allah,’ to traffic with it for miserable price! Woe to them for what their hands do write, and for the gain they make thereby.” (2:79)

 “But because of their breach of their covenant, We cursed them, and made their hearts grow hard; they change the words from their (right) places and forget a good part of the message that was sent them, nor wilt thou cease to find them- barring a few - ever bent on (new) deceits: but forgive them, and overlook (their misdeeds): for Allah loveth those who are kind.” (5:13)

“Many of the People of the Scripture long to make you disbelievers after your belief, through envy on their own account, after the truth hath become manifest unto them’” (2:109).

“And when there comes to them a Book from Allah, confirming what is with them, although from of old they had prayed for victory against those without Faith, when there comes to them that which they (should) have recognised, they refuse to believe in it but the curse of Allah is on those without Faith. “ (2:89)

“For the iniquity of the Jews We made unlawful for them certain (foods) good and wholesome which had been lawful for them; in that they hindered many from Allah’s Way; that they took usury, though they were forbidden; and that they devoured men’s substance wrongfully; we have prepared for those among them who reject faith a grievous punishment.” (4:160-161)

“Thou wilt indeed find them, of all people, most greedy of life,-even more than the idolaters: Each one of them wishes He could be given a life of a thousand years: But the grant of such life will not save him from (due) punishment. For Allah sees well all that they do.” (2:96)

Allah transforms disobedient Jews into apes and pigs (2:63-66; 5:59-60; 7:166).

AMERICAN JIHAD: FBI INVESTIGATING 5 MISSING MUSLIM STUDENTS IN DC, POSSIBLE ARREST IN PAKISTAN

Five Muslim students from the DC area disappeared December 9th. One of the jihadis left behind a "farewell" video.

Apparently they have been arrested in Pakistan, Obowa's new BFF.

Group of Americans Arrested in Pakistan Fox Live shot

Hours after FOX News reported that the FBI is searching for five "missing students" from the Washington, D.C., area who may have gone overseas, Pakistani sources now say five people have been arrested in Pakistan.

At least three of those arrested were holding dual U.S.-Pakistani passports, according to an intelligence source. The men were detained after a raid on a house in the Punjab province, a source said.

It's still not confirmed that the two cases are related.

One U.S. source said authorities believe the missing Washington-area men may have gone overseas to join a terrorist group, but two U.S. law enforcement officials wouldn't say whether the missing men are among those arrested in Pakistan.

"It's an on-going investigation, and we can't comment any further," a Justice Department spokesman said of the missing men, after reports of the arrests in Pakistan.

Families of the missing men first "raised concerns" with the FBI, which has launched an investigation into the matter, the source said.

The source said agents from the FBI's Washington field office have been interviewing family members, friends and others who may know where the five students went, and how they got there.

"It's a concern," the source said of the missing men.

It is believed the men are Muslim.

The FBI in Minneapolis has been grappling with a possibly similar situation for more than a year.

Since late 2007 nearly 20 young men from the Minneapolis area have left their homes to join an Al Qaeda-linked group in Somalia. Like the latest situation in the nation's capital, the Minnesota men's families were the first to bring the issue to authorities' attention.

The FBI investigation in Minneapolis has resulted in several indictments and terrorism-related charges, but many of those charged are still overseas.

“I said he was acting...like a terrorist,” roommate of Jihadi that Murdered Professor

This past weekend another act of lone jihad syndrome was swept under the rug. The jihad is relentless, but the media's complicity is criminal. Muslim Grad Student Stabs to Death Jewish Convert Professor

Today the NY Times ran a piece about it, though they ignore the obvious. The facts they report, OTOH, do not.

The  professor of Middle Eastern studies had authored “Understanding Fundamentalism: Christian, Islamic, and Jewish Movements,” and other books on Islam over the last 20 years. The autopsy performed on Dr. Antoun showed that he died of multiple stab wounds.

The bottom line is that if a jihadi like this killer or Major muslim Hasan are making threats, you are on your own. Law enforcement, government authorities, academics are so cowed by the Islamic machine, so afraid of lawsuits, retribution or a smear campaign (racist! islamophobic!), that they will do nothing. They will let folks die so that a jihadi can meet his 72 raisins.  It is as simple as that. If school officials had expelled or taken any action against Zahrani because of his threatening terrorism, CAIR would have been all over them like white on rice. That's a fact.

In other words, when it comes to the greatest threat facing our civilization, our nation, our institutions, and our person....we are on our own.

Binghamton Student Says he warned Officials NY Times

“I said he was acting oddly, like a terrorist,” said one of the roommates, Souleymane Sakho, a graduate student from Senegal. “When I informed them, it was for them to understand that the guy was violent or he may be violent.”

Mr. Sakho said that he told his academic adviser who is overseeing his dissertation about Mr. Zahrani, and that the adviser referred him to the school’s counseling center. Mr. Sakho said that the head of the counseling center told him to avoid interaction with Mr. Zahrani and said he should look to move out of the apartment

A spokesman for Binghamton University declined to comment on what university officials may have been told by Mr. Sakho about Mr. Zahrani’s behavior, citing a continuing investigation by the district attorney of Broome County.

The district attorney, Gerald F. Mollen, declined to discuss many details of the case in a telephone interview, only saying that an autopsy performed on Dr. Antoun showed that he died of multiple stab wounds.

“There are no new details and we are not going to be providing a debriefing every minute for every development,” Mr. Mollen said.

About 10 days ago, the police were called to the three-bedroom apartment, according to Mr. Sakho. He said he was sick of Mr. Zahrani’s constantly asking him if he was afraid of death and told him to stop. Later that night, Mr. Sakho said he told his other roommate, Luis Pena, also a graduate student, that he “had enough of the situation.” Hearing them, Mr. Zahrani came out of his bedroom and accused Mr. Sakho of threatening him, Mr. Sakho said.

“I’m not the kind of person to make threats because I am a peaceful person,” said Mr. Sakho, recalling the conversation. “I just want you to stop what you are doing.”

Mr. Zahrani then called the Binghamton police, who arrived at the apartment several minutes later, Mr. Sakho said.

“I came out and wanted to explain what Zahrani was doing and they told me to go back to my room,” Mr. Sakho said.

Dr. Antoun, an anthropology professor who focused on Islamic and Middle Eastern studies, retired in 1999, becoming a professor emeritus at Binghamton, which is considered a jewel of the New York State university system. He still advised several students studying for master’s and doctoral degrees and came into the office every day, according to Nina M. Versaggi, an anthropology professor who has an office a few doors down from Dr. Antoun’s.

Dr. Antoun held season tickets to the Binghamton men’s basketball team and had plans to attend Friday night’s game. “I had just talked to him a couple of hours earlier; we ran into each other in the mail room,” said Dr. Versaggi. “We both have tickets to the basketball game and he said he planned to go to the game. Even though the team is rebuilding, he said they were showing some promise. He was just happy as usual, just a good-humored man.”

Dr. Versaggi declined to discuss many of the specifics of the events on Friday. She said that although her office is a few doors down from Dr. Antoun’s, she first learned of the stabbing when she received a phone call and was instructed to go into “lockdown mode.”

“He was a scholar in the true meaning of the word,” said Dr. Versaggi. “A very peaceful and gentle man, and he was a professor who spent his entire career working towards fairness and justice. The only firm stance he has ever taken on any issue is that he was antiwar and a peace activist. The last time I remember him protesting was against the Iraq war.”

Mr. Sakho and Mr. Pena said that Mr. Zahrani told them he had lived in Montana before returning to Binghamton to finish his doctoral thesis. They said he told them that the university had recently denied his request for financial support; they added that he never talked about Dr. Antoun.

Mr. Sakho said the last time he saw Mr. Zahrani was around 1 a.m. on Friday, when Mr. Zahrani woke him up and once again asked him if he was afraid of dying. Mr. Sakho said he did not respond to Mr. Zahrani and went back to sleep.

UPDATE: Robert has this: Saudi grad student who killed prof: "I feel like just waking up and destroying the world"

"He was all the time shouting in Arabic, shouting threats, insulting this country for no reason." Was he a jihadi? This is the first public indication that I have seen that he harbored any destructive thoughts. The PC police will make sure that no one gets the idea that those destructive thoughts may have come from Islam's violent imperatives, but in reality, of course, they might have.

"Roommates and Neighbors Speak about Al-Zahrani," from WICZ.com, December 7

Abdulsalam Al-Zahrani has been charged with the second-degree murder of Binghamton University Professor--Richard Antoun.

Broome County's District Attorney says Al-Zahrani stabbed Antoun to death in the Science 1 building Friday.

The two knew each other through the anthropology graduate program.

Abdulsalam Al-Zahrani lived in a three bedroom apartment in downtown Binghamton.

His roommate says police searched his room for two to three hours.

"The police, they came, and when they were allowed to enter into his room, they took all his stuff," said Jules Sakho, Al-Zahrani's roomate.

His roommates say police also found a knife in a dumpster near the apartment.

But police do not have a motive at this time.

Al-Zahrani's roommates say he was dealing with a lot of problems. He expressed being worried about finishing his dissertation on time. He was also no longer on scholarship and didn't have a job.

"I would think it was because of the whole dissertation being rejected. But I cannot confirm it, he had issues with his financials. I don't know what he had against that professor," said Luis Pena, a graduate student.

His roommates and neighbors also say his behavior was strange.

"He was all the time shouting in Arabic, shouting threats, insulting this country for no reason," said Sakho.

"He used to make a lot of noise, always at Dunkin Donuts next door to our apartment, and he used to shout a lot," said Kalpak Bahlearo, Al-Zahrani's neighbor.

"He told me there were students, who were spies for the government of Jordan that were harassing him," said Pena.

"Sometimes, for no reason, asking if I am afraid of death or not, " said Sakho.

"He says a comment like, 'I feel like just waking up and destroying the world'," said Pena.

Al-Zahrani was a Saudi Arabia national and Sakho says he was Muslim.

No kidding, a Saudi who was a Muslim? Wow.

But the D.A. believes the stabbing was not religiously motivated. Sakho says he thinks Al-Zahrani had psychological problems as well...

Muslim Grad Student Stabs to Death Jewish Convert Professor

There will be no coverage of this, yet again. If it were a white guy killing a black professor, or a Jewish guy killing a muslim, they would be clubbing us like baby seals with it.

A friend upstate just called me, "I just heard that the suspect was from Saudi Arabia and the victim (professor) was a convert to Judaism. Suspect named in fatal stabbing of Binghamton University professor."

This comes fresh on the heels of the April massacre in Binghamton that took 13 lives and wounded 26 others (see here and here). My informants told me at the time that that too was jihad related, but shhhhhhhhhhhhhh. We don't want to defame or insult Islam.

Creeping Sharia is reporting that the victim, Antoun, may have been an apostate. Binghamton University Professor Richard T. Antoun was a Jewish convert through his wife. His grandfather was Muslim.

Creeping Sharia (he has to change his name to "raging sharia") has the story:

Muslim Grad Stabs Binghamton (NY) Middle Eastern Studies Professor to Death

Hat tip to Thomas Paine and others who sent us the information which has now been updated with the suspects information. Why did this man stab a professor of Middle Eastern studies who has authored “Understanding Fundamentalism: Christian, Islamic, and Jewish Movements,” and other books on Islam over the last 20 years, particularly related to Jordan?

Abdulsalam Al-Zahrani, 46, of Binghamton has been charged with the murder of Binghamton University Professor Richard Antoun (Photo provided) stargazette.com

Suspect identified in fatal stabbing of Binghamton University professor:

VESTAL — Abdulsalam Al-Zahrani has been charged with second-degree murder in the stabbing death of Binghamton University Professor Richard T. Antoun.

Al-Zahrani was taken to the Broome County Jail at 1:30 a.m. Saturday, said Broome County Sheriff’s Sgt. Paul Carlson. He arraigned in Vestal Town Court Saturday morning. No bail was set.

Al-Zahrani, of Main Street, Binghamton, was charged by Binghamton University Police. Al-Zahrani was a cultural anthropology student working on his dissertation, according to the university Web site.

Professor Passes Away After Stabbing at Binghamton University | WBNG News | Dec 4, 2009

Violence strikes the Binghamton University campus in Vestal.

As a professor passed away after being attacked by a student.

A Binghamton University professor is dead tonight after being stabbed by an anthropology student.

It happened around 1:45 pm Friday in the Science 1 Building on campus.

This is video of the hallway where the incident happened.

A witness tells Action News that an older male graduate student entered the office of professor Richard Antoun and then stabbed him.

The witness also says she saw campus police tackle the assailant to the ground, then emergency service workers rushed to Antoun’s side to treat him.

“We waited, he came out of the office after about ten minutes, they were doing chest compressions, it didn’t really look good. It was an anthropology grad student who was doing middle eastern studies I believe,” said BU Senior Devin Sheppard.

Campus officials say the suspect in custody, but have yet to release his name.

SOURCE: http://www.wbng.com/news/local/78538247.html

Antoun, who had lived on Vestal’s Murray Hill Road for a number of years, is a published author who has written several books. He published the book Understanding Fundamentalism: Christian, Islamic, and Jewish Movements

A BU biography of Antoun shows that he received a doctorate from Harvard University in Massachusetts in 1963. The bio describes Antoun as an emeritus professor who is a, “sociocultural anthropologist who has conducted research among peasants in Jordan, urbanites in Lebanon, peasant-farmers in Iran, and migrants in Texas and Greece.

His scholarly interests center on comparative religion and symbolic systems, the social organization of tradition in Islamic law and ethics, the sociology of dispute with respect to tribal law in the Middle East, local-level politics, and the impact of transnational migration on education, work, and cultural change.”

SOURCE #2: http://www.theithacajournal.com/arti…ath-by-student

The attack comes nearly eight months to the day 13 people were massacred by a single gunman at the American Civic Association in Binghamton. It also extended BU’s string of misfortune. In the past year and a half, the university has endured the near-death beating of one of its students and the flight to Serbia of one of the alleged assailants — former BU basketball player Miladin Kovacevic; a sexual harassment suit brought by one of its employees; the legal and off-the-court troubles that dismantled the basketball team; and an ongoing SUNY investigation. Unanswered questions continue to swirl around all of those events.

UPDATE: His grandfather from Lebanon appears not to have been Muslim. And while his wife is Jewish, his "conversion" is in doubt. Read the preface to his Antoun's book. He has practiced all religions at varying times.

Muslims of America Domestic Terror Jihad training videos to be released

UPDATE: Video hat tip Creeping Sharia -- creeping? More like raging.

New video is coming out of the Christian Action Network of Muslim jihad training camps in the USA. Meanwhile, we do nothing, frisk grandma at the airport, remove our shoes while waiting for the next shoe to drop.

New Jamaat al-Fuqra/Muslims of America domestic terror training videos to be released My Pet Jawa

Earlier this week Ryan Mauro reported on two Jamaat al-Fuqra/Muslims of America domestic terror training videos set to be released by the Christian Action Network. These videos supplement the excellent reporting by CAN in their full-length documentary released last year, "Homegrown Jihad: The Terrorist Camps Around the US" (which make excellent stocking stuffers, btw).

In a press release announcing the pending release of the videos, CAN describes their contents:

Christina Action Network (CAN) received this video, along with recordings of gunfire coming from a Muslims of America compound in York, South Carolina. This shocking 20-minute video reveals female members marching in military cadence, scaling fabricated walls, engaging in hand-to-hand combat, firing upon mock enemy locations, and other forms of training involving firearms and swords. The video was given to Christian Action Network by a confidential source.

The videos were identified to be taken at the Jamaat al-Fuqra/Muslims of America headquarters in Hancock, New York. The date on the video is incomplete, but it appears that it was filmed in the past few years. I've seen the videos and have been under an embargo from speaking about them until now. A short clip from one of the videos can be seen below:

The last clip is perhaps the most telling, as some of the members are firing automatic weapons. This is important for law enforcement as many members of these compounds are convicted felons, who in most states are not allowed to have firearms, let alone automatic weapons. It can be safely assumed that this type of training is being conducted at MOA facilities across the country with these types of firearms. MOA and its members have been involved in dozens of terror attacks around the country, targeting non-Muslims and moderate Muslims alike (including the assassination of two moderate Muslim leaders in the 1980s).

We will have more on these terror training videos in the coming weeks and further discussion of their implications, but we are providing here exclusively at the Jawa Report some screen captures from the full video:

Chicago Jihadis who Plotted to bomb Danish Cartoon Publisher at Halal Slaughterhouse Tied to Mumbai

Mumbai

The Railway station

The railway station after jihad (52 killed, 100 injured)

The jihadis recently busted in Chicago for the plot to bomb the Danish cartoon publisher are being investigated for ties to the worst Muslim attack in India's history - Mumbai. This is jihad. Transnational, without borders -- the quran is the tie that binds.

This is part of the third wave.

Two accused of Danish newspaper plot investigated for ties to Mumbai attacks Chicago Trib hat choi

Indian officials cite possible connection to last year's deadly assaults

Authorities in Chicago are looking into allegations that two local men accused of plotting an assault on a Danish newspaper that published controversial cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad may be linked to other plots, including a terrorist assault in Mumbai last year that left more than 170 dead, sources said.

David Coleman Headley, who has cooperated with authorities, is being investigated as a scout for the Mumbai attack, which targeted multiple sites, including two hotels, a train station, a cafe and a Jewish community center.

A source familiar with the probe said Headley's co-defendant in the newspaper case, Tahawwur Hussain Rana, is suspected to have paid for Headley's India missions.

Neither man has been charged in connection with the Mumbai planning, though officials in India were outspoken last week about their possible connection to the attacks. The militant Pakistani group Lashkar-e-Taiba, linked to Rana and Headley in court documents here, has been blamed for the Mumbai attacks.

The U.S. attorney's office in Chicago has declined to say whether charges against the men here could be upgraded to account for their suspected roles in the Mumbai operation. U.S. citizens lost their lives in the coordinated attacks.

So far, Headley, a Pakistani American, is charged with conspiring to commit a terror act outside the U.S., and Rana, a Pakistani native with Canadian citizenship, has been charged with providing material support to terrorism. Those charges relate only to the plan in Denmark, where Headley is alleged to have staked out the Copenhagen offices of the newspaper Jyllands-Posten.

Prosecutors here also have said Rana discussed other targets with Headley.

Both men are to appear in court in Chicago next week, Rana on Dec. 2 and Headley on Dec. 4. Both remain in custody. Rana's lawyer, Patrick Blegen, has denied the allegations. Headley's attorney, John Theis, declined to comment Monday.

Jewish House, not Taj, was the prime target on 26/11

Expect more..............

Even before Fort Hood, authorities in New York, Michigan, Illinois, North Carolina, Ohio and other states recently had broken a rash of cases, arresting potential terrorists and disclosing their plots. Every time law enforcement kicks over one of these anthills, it uncovers an intricate underground network with paths leading into major cities, rural areas and even prisons.

Consider the 12 people tied to Detroit's Masjid Al-Haqq mosque charged with felonies in their leader's fatal Oct. 28 firefight with FBI agents. This apparently isolated Dearborn case turned out to have direct links to '60s radical H. Rap Brown -- who converted to Islam while serving time in Attica, changing his name to Jamil Abdullah al-Amin. He's allegedly running a network from a prison cell in Florence Max, Colo. (where he's serving a life sentence for murdering a police officer).

In 1993, the infamous Blind Sheik Omar Abdul-Rahman was found to be under orders from Ramzi Binalshibh, coordinator between KSM and the 9/11 highjackers, with a network extending to closed Muslim communities both inside New York City and in remote upstate Hancock, NY.

A convenience-store front operation in North Carolina, broken up in advance of terrorist activities, allegedly was found to be a stolen-car ring that funneled cash to al Qaeda. Seven men were indicted in July.

As law-enforcement agents dig, each case leads to spreading networks. Plainly, the fundamentalist ideology has sunk serious roots in America.

Alleged terrorists are emerging across the social spectrum. Some are white wannabes who revere the likes of turncoats like American Taliban John Walker Lindh. Others are Somalis, Moroccans, Palestinians and others who were born or reside in America and have been radicalized here.

Then there are former criminals (primarily African-Americans) radicalized in prison by fundamentalist imams (mostly trained in Saudi Arabia). Abdullah was among this group. Christian Science Monitor reporter Michael Farrell notes that Muslim prison conversions occur at the rate of 35,000 a year. Most won't become violent extremists -- but that still leaves a large number of potential terrorists on our streets and an even larger number who might form a sympathetic support group.

We must get past our preoccupation with individuals' "membership" in terror groups. The "third wave" strategy doesn't focus on recruiting "inside the tent" members but on street operatives whose missions can support the terrorist agenda.

The terror masters hope to create compartmentalized, grass-roots cells that will act independently to carry out attacks. The network will have enough lines of communication through mosques and charities to coordinate efforts if required or to funnel weapons, explosives, training and funding to those cells showing promise.

And, as a "fringe benefit," they get radicals like Maj. Hasan.

As this third wave strengthens, we should expect many more attacks -- and rising discontent among Americans persuaded to sympathize with our enemies.

Andy McCarthy: "If you kill thousands of civilians, we will give you better rights than if you attack military assets. That is dangerously irresponsible"

Andy McCarthy today:

The prosecution team I led in 1995 convicted the notorious Blind Sheikh and 11 others for conspiring to wage a terrorist war that included the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and attempting (unsuccessfully) to attack New York City landmarks. Consequently, some observers seem puzzled that I'm a vocal critic of civilian trials for our terrorist enemies. But they are confusing litigation success with national-security success. So is the Obama administration in deciding to transfer Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and four other 9/11 plotters to federal court in Manhattan.

We certainly can convict terrorists in civilian court. We've done it too many times for that to be a serious issue. It's also indisputable that the U.S attorney's office in Manhattan, where I was privileged to work for 18 years, is without peer in the expertise needed for such complex prosecutions. I have every confidence the Justice Department could convict KSM & Co.

The problem on this ride is not the destination; it's the journey.

We are in a hot war, overwhelmingly authorized by Congress, against vicious enemies still plotting attacks that could dwarf the carnage of 9/11. To deal with war crimes, Congress in 2006 endorsed military commission trials, which have a rich pedigree in our history, are fully consistent with our Constitution, and better enable us to withhold intelligence methods and sources.

Indeed, the Obama administration concedes that military commissions are sound: Attorney General Eric Holder has announced that the bombers of the warship Cole will face one.

From a legal standpoint, it makes no sense to try the Al Qaeda quintet in civilian court. Eleven months ago, these men were prepared to plead guilty in their military commission and proceed to execution. Yet the Obama administration pulled the plug on that commission. This was a transparent sop to the left, which wants to judicialize war-fighting and is repulsed by the intelligence-centric, prevention-first counterterrorism strategy that has protected us for eight years from a reprise of the 9/11 atrocities.

Now, our enemies will be given a full-blown civilian trial with all the rights of the American citizens they are sworn to kill. They will get a year or more to sift through our national defense secrets. They will have wide latitude to turn the case into a trial of the Bush administration - publicizing information about anti-terrorism tactics that leftist lawyers will exploit in their quest for war crimes prosecutions in foreign courts against current and former U.S. officials.

In the military system, we could have denied them access to classified information, forcing them to accept military lawyers with security clearances who could see such intelligence but not share it with our enemies. In civilian court, the Supreme Court has held an accused has an absolute right to conduct his own defense. If KSM asserts that right - as he tried to do in the military commission - he will have a strong argument that we must surrender relevant, top-secret information directly to him. And we know that indicted terrorists share what they learn with their confederates on the outside.

Finally, as policy, the administration's decision is perverse. A half-century of humanitarian law, beginning with the Geneva Conventions, sought to civilize warfare. To receive enhanced protection, combatants must adhere to the laws of war and refrain from targeting civilians. Under Obama-logic, the Cole bombers get a military commission while the 9/11 savages are clothed in the majesty of the Bill of Rights.

So here's the message to terrorists: If you kill thousands of civilians, we will give you better rights than if you attack military assets. That is dangerously irresponsible.

BTW, An overwhelming majority of New Yorkers believe the jihadis who planned the 9/11 attacks should and will be sentenced to death. This does not belong in civilian court.

Muslim Sentenced to Six-year jail term in Plot to Blow up Sears Tower: "Islamic terrorism is one of the most tremendous problem that this country now confronts ... this defendant took an oath to Al-Qaeda"

A judge on Wednesday handed a six-year jail sentence to a man accused of plotting to blow up the Sears Tower in Chicago and allegedly swearing allegiance to Al-Qaeda (more here)

A judge on Wednesday handed a six-year jail sentence to one of five men convicted of plotting to blow up the tallest building in the United States, Chicago's Sears Tower, and swearing allegiance to Al-Qaeda.

US District Judge Joan Lenard found that Burson Augustin, 23, played a minor role in the conspiracy gave him a far lighter sentence than the 30 years that prosecutors had been seeking.

In handing down the sentence, Lenard said "Islamic terrorism is one of the most tremendous problem that this country now confronts ... this defendant took an oath to Al-Qaeda," she said, but added that his actions might have been affected by other factors, such as "lack of education or lack of direction."

Augustin's attorney Louis Casuso, had asked for leniency, telling the court that "when you are young, you say a lot of stupid things and you go through a lot of stupid things."

A US jury in May convicted the group -- members of the so-called Liberty Five, named after the Miami neighborhood of Liberty City where they lived -- of seeking to contact Al-Qaeda and plot a series of attacks, including blowing up the Sears Tower, which since has been renamed the Willis tower, and FBI buildings, in hope of bringing down the US government.

In court filings prosecutors called for the group's leader Narseal Batiste to be given the maximum penalty of 70 years in prison, 50 years for another member Patrick Abraham, and 30 years for the other three.

At the time it was built in 1973, the 108-story 1,450 feet (442 meter) skyscraper was the tallest building in the world, surpassing the World Trade Center towers in New York.

Pamela Geller, American Thinker: It Isn't Political Correctness, It's Shariah

My latest oped in the American Thinker:

Here's an excerpt. Please read the whole thing and comment over at the Thinker:

Shariah law forbids criticism of Islam. And here we are.

We are witnessing an Islamized America. This is well beyond political correctness. We are enforcing Shariah law. We will not insult Islam. That is Shariah law. We self censor. That is Shariah law. We disrespect ourselves, our nation, so that we might respect Islam. This is dhimmitude. We should be raging. We should be outraged. We should be strategizing for this worldwide conflict. We should be debating about which leader will best handle Islam's war on the West. And yet we have not one leader who begins to understand the conflict -- that's how feared the subject matter is. Not one leader.

Recently there was an interesting debate at National Review Online between soft conservatives who soft-pedal Islam and those who stand for reality of Islamic doctrine, conservative principles and the essential truth. By and large, the conservatives have dropped the ball on Islamic jihad. This has been made painfully clear by the lack of a leader (any leader) on the right who speaks to and takes up the fight against the sweeping Islamization of America. America has no Geert Wilders.

The conservatives are not really as bad as the Left is on Islam, but they only get real when there is jihadi "intervention" that invades and destroys the delusion of their narrative.

It is interesting to me that the hierarchy of the conservative movement (take CPAC, for example) stays far away from the counter-jihad forces (i.e., Robert Spencer, Andrew Bostom, myself) except at moments like these. Last year there was not one speaker, one event at CPAC that spoke to the greatest threat this nation faces -- which is why I staged the Geert Wilders event at the Omni Hotel, during CPAC (but not a CPAC event) last year. 

When the reality of war, Islamic doctrine and bloodshed lays bare the nature of the enemy and the battle we are in, the door creaks open and Robert Spencer starts getting invited to appear on radio shows, and NRO finally runs pieces by Bostom and Spencer that show up the soft conservative narrative on Islam, which is soft and fuzzy and stupid (i.e., "Islamist" vs "Islamic"). Of course, we bad boys will be put back in our boxes until the next terrible time the jihad comes calling.

It pains me to say it, but expect to see us more frequently in the coming months and years. For the giant con job on the American psyche continues apace: He was a crazy! It was "vicarious" Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder! It was "Pre-Traumatic" Stress Disorder! It was radical extremism! It was part of a tiny fringe! It doesn't represent Islam!

All lies. He was devout. He was a jihadist. Period. And many Muslims admire what he did. The Left worries about Muslim backlash. How about Muslim backlash against the infidels? Every "Soldier of Allah" who goes jihad is an enemy combatant. Every devout Muslim who believes in the word of the Quran has his or her duty to Islam, his call to jihad. Hence this terrible act of war, the 14,363 Islamic attacks across the world since 911, and all of the relentless plots, plans and to take down America in the past month alone. Devout Muslims should be prohibited from military service. Would Patton have recruited Nazis into his army?

Muslims Advised to "Choose Words Carefully"

The giant con job on the American psyche continues apace -
He was a crazy! It was "vicarious" post traumatic stress syndrome! It was "pre" traumatic stress syndrome! It was radical extremism! It was part of the tiny fringe! It doesn't represent islam!

He was a jihadist. Period. And many Muslims admire what he did. The left worries about Muslim backlash -- how about Muslim backlash against the infidels?

All lies. He was devout. Devout Muslims should be prohibited from military service. Would Patton have recruited Nazis into his army?

This was a jihad martyrdom operation in full accord with classical Islam and jihad terrorism "theory," as sanctioned by even today's Muslim "luminaries" like the Sunni Pope Tantawi and the much more popular mainstream Muslim man on the street cleric Yusuf al Qaradawi, let alone the canonized luminaries of classical Islam. Dr. Andrew Bostom

Here is some comments from Muslim blogs on the act of war at Fort Hood over at Shadow Lands.

Following the massacre at Fort Hood, Texas, some Muslim forums have been advising commenters to show restraint:

would just advise everyone to choose their words very carefully. Regardless of how you feel, certian words can be construed as sedition. Why be locked up for celebrating on the forum the death of 12 people? not worth it.. so think about it

So having thought about it carefully, here are some of the responses:

OMG! 12 Maggots got killed, 31 squashed but still alive!

Poor Maggots...

And from “Abu Abrahim” of Talahassee Florida:

Ameen. al- Haqq. Do not delude yourselves into thinking we will not be called to account for our complacency and participation in the overt war against Allah and His deen, and yes I mean all of us living in the US, UK, AUS, NZ and the other houses of kufr and shirk.

And from Al-Siddiq of Boulder:

Indeed. We should all stop just relaying words and rather turn them into action. the state won't establish itself by sitting at home in front of a laptop/computer, nor will our ummah be delivered.

Let us make dua that Allah aids us in bringing His blessings back into the land. Ameen.

UPDATE: Screen shot (thanks to Kasper)

Virginia Governor Denies Clemency for John Muhammad: Death to the Jihadi Tonight

Muhammad will die tonight. Thank goodness. Islamic convert will meet his 72 raisins. Meanwhile, the media and the government continue to be completely disingenuous as to the root cause for his actions. The government continues to assert that the murders were related to an “individual’s” (Mohammad's) aberrant criminal, abnormal behavior… not what it truly is…the fact that he (John Allen Muhammad) is representative of millions who are followers of the tenets of Islam.

These drawings reveal the true nature of the evil that is at the heart of the followers of Islam.   

Allah allah jihad inshallah ...............

 
Jihad Jihad

Target the White House.

  

Muslims Rejoice, Recruit, do Street Dawah on Fort Hood in New York

While Obama and his military command are worried about a backlash against Muslims (of which there is none), the Muslims in America have no problem backlashing against us.

Bring our boys and girls home form those tribal sewers - Obama said victory is not the option. He is going to leave them there to die. bring them home.

Fort Hood jihadist's coworkers saw warning signs, but said nothing for fear of seeming bigoted

We are witnessing a national suicide.

Fort Hood jihadist's coworkers saw warning signs, but said nothing for fear of seeming bigoted Jihadwatch

Details here.

So this is what it has come to -- this is the fruit of the long-term efforts by groups such as the Council on American-Islamic Relations and others, to stigmatize and demonize everyone who speaks honestly about the threat of jihad and Islamic supremacism. People are afraid to speak up about what they see, when they know it is wrong.

And all it cost this week was 13 dead and 38 wounded.

Fort Hood Jihad: Heroes At Every Turn

An act of war ..........

The jihadi was taken out by the epitome of what Islam despises: a bold, courageous, free, powerful, American woman.

Heroes were at every turn during Fort Hood shootings Dallas Morning News

FORT HOOD, Texas – From the first frantic 911 call that a shooter was rampaging through the Soldier Readiness Center on this sprawling Army base, it took police officer Kimberly Munley just four minutes to get there.

Photos by TOM FOX/DMN Army Chief of Staff George Casey (standing, second from left) and his wife, Sheila (left), took part in a candlelight prayer vigil for victims of the Fort Hood shootings along with soldiers and their families Friday at the post stadium. But it was already bloody chaos.

Munley heard shots and saw a rush of scared people, some wounded by gunfire, scrambling to get away.

Figuring that the shooter must be between buildings for medical and psychiatric services, she rounded the corner and saw him chasing after an already-wounded soldier. She fired twice.

"He turned to her and charged, firing rapidly. She returned fire and fell to the ground to help protect herself," said Chuck Medley, director of Fort Hood's emergency services.

Munley and the gunman hit each other simultaneously; she took shots in both legs and the wrist. Altogether, she fired four shots into his torso with her Beretta 9mm, dropping him to the ground and ending the worst mass shooting a U.S. military base has ever seen.

"She eliminated the threat. She did what she was trained to do," Medley said. "She, in my mind, saved countless lives."

Wounded Three  times, officer still took down Fort Hood gunman

KILLEEN, Texas – No one who knows Kimberly Munley is surprised that she went head to head with Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan and came out on top.

And those who don't know Munley are anointing her an American hero because she showed the kind of bravery Thursday afternoon that most people could never muster.

"I live next door to a hero," said Army Capt. Amanda Maben, a neighbor who returned home from South Korea last week. She said she knows Munley mostly by exchanging friendly waves when they see each other. "She's my neighbor and she's a hero."

Munley, 34, a Fort Hood civilian police officer, confronted Hasan and shot him four times. She suffered gunshot wounds in both legs and her right wrist. She was alert and resting comfortably in her hospital bed Friday. She is expected to make a full recovery.

Munley's main goal Friday was to be reunited with her husband, Staff Sgt. Matthew Munley, a soldier stationed at Fort Bragg, N.C.

"I visited with her at 2 a.m. [Friday]," said Medley, one of her bosses at Fort Hood. "She was in extremely high spirits. The only thing she wanted was for us to get her husband here. She's an upbeat person. Always smiling. Physically fit."

"She is the most upbeat significantly injured person I think I've ever seen."

According to Medley, Munley was active-duty military before joining the civilian police force. She arrived at Fort Hood in January 2008, he said.

Committed mom

Killeen, a Central Texas city of 120,000, is inextricably linked to nearby Fort Hood, the region's largest employer.

Munley's subdivision – neatly tended brick homes with two-car garages – is often half empty because so many military personnel are overseas. But it was full of reporters mixing with neighbors on the street Friday afternoon.

Sgt. William Barbrow, one of those neighbors, said Munley's feisty reputation is well known. Although he admits it might be just rumor, he once heard that she found a man breaking into her house, threatened to shoot him and chased him away.

Barbrow's wife, Ana, preferred to focus on something else: "It's good that a woman did something like that."

Brooke Beato, another neighbor, described Munley as an outgoing woman who carries her 5-foot-5 frame as if it were larger. But she said Munley also is a committed mother who plays with her 3-year-old daughter, Jayden, in the yard. The same woman who is becoming a symbol of valor washes her car in the driveway, hangs wind chimes by the door and carefully tends her lawn.

Neighbors said Munley also has a 12-year-old daughter, Hope, who lives in California. "Everyone is talking about how good an officer she is," Beato said. "But there's a mom side."

Well-rounded student

Munley graduated in 1993 from Hoggard High School in Wilmington, N.C., a coastal community with nice beaches.

Dave Spencer, the school's principal, coached football and taught back then. He remembers Munley as a well-rounded student – quick to help people and an intense athlete who played volleyball and softball.

Spencer said Munley's heroics don't surprise him.

"From what I remember of Kim, this just reconfirms everything she's done," he said. Dennis Barbour, Munley's father, is a North Carolina businessman who lives near Wilmington. He told a Wilmington television station that his daughter called him after undergoing surgery to mend her gunshot wounds.

"We were happy that she was as responsive as she was," he said.

'Training kicked in'

In more ways than one, Munley was the right person to confront Hasan. She had been in the Army and she had also trained as a civilian police officer to succeed under fire.

In February 2008, she participated in a two-day course for first responders: Advanced Law Enforcement Rapid Response Training, or ALERRT.

The program began after the Columbine High School massacre. Police officers learn tactics to deal with situations exactly like the one that erupted at Fort Hood.

"Basically, it sounds like the training kicked in," said Terry Nichols, a San Marcos police officer and founding member of ALERRT. "We teach you: Move toward the sound of the gunfire. We teach you not to hide behind a wall or your car." Nichols said Munley was not the only hero at Fort Hood.

"All the ones who went running to the sound of gunfire are heroes, too," he said. "She was the first one there. She's the model for us all to live by."

"She's quite an exceptional individual," said Chuck Medley, director of emergency services at Fort Hood.

Top Photo: Army Chief of Staff George Casey (standing, second from left) and his wife, Sheila (left), took part in a candlelight prayer vigil for victims of the Fort Hood shootings along with soldiers and their families Friday at the post stadium.

Sargeant Mark Todd, An American hero

KILLEEN, Texas | One of two police officers who confronted the alleged Fort Hood killer said he shot Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan before kicking the man’s weapon away, handcuffing him and ending the nation’s deadliest rampage on a military base.

Sgt. Mark Todd joined Sgt. Kimberly Munley, hailed as a hero for her actions, in a firefight with Hasan that lasted less than a minute. Todd was not wounded, but the exchange left Munley injured and Hasan critically wounded.

Seconds after Todd arrived on the scene, he said he saw a calm-looking Hasan, his gun drawn and his fingers pointing at people outside the Soldier Readiness Processing Center. Todd said he then saw Hasan shooting at soldiers as they attempted to flee.

“He was firing at people as they were trying to run and hide,” Todd said Saturday.

That’s when Todd, a retired soldier who now works as a civilian police officer at Ford Hood, said he shouted at Hasan to stop.

“I told him, ‘Stop and drop your weapons!’ I identified myself as police, and he turned and fired a couple of rounds at me. I didn’t hear him say a word. … He just turned and fired.”

There has been confusion since Thursday’s rampage about whose bullets actually brought Hasan down. At first, Munley’s supervisor said it was her shot to Hasan’s torso that leveled him, but Army officials would only say that an investigation was under way.

Munley was down by the time he engaged Hasan, Todd said. He wasn’t sure whether Munley had wounded the gunman, because “once he started firing at me, I lost track of her.”

Todd said he fired his Beretta at Hasan.

Hasan flinched, Todd said, then slid down against a telephone pole and fell on his back. Todd said he then heard bystanders say, “Two more, two more.”

At first he thought the soldiers meant there were two more shooters, but then he realized they were urging him to fire two more rounds at Hasan, thinking he was still posing a threat.

Todd approached Hasan and saw that he still had a weapon in his hand. Todd kicked away the gun, which he said had a laser-aiming device attached.

“He was breathing. His eyes were blinking. You could tell that he was fading out. He didn’t say anything. He was just kind of blinking,” said Todd.

Todd handcuffed Hasan and checked to see whether he was still alive.

“He had a good pulse,” said Todd.

Church deacon Bob Butler worked Saturday on a memorial at Central Christian Church in Killeen, Texas. The memorial, 13 crosses and 30 flags, will honor those killed and wounded in the shooting spree at Fort Hood.

Muslims of a Feather, Jihad Together: Major Muslim Fort Hood Terrorist Linked to 911 Terrorists

Surprised? The only dhimmis who will express SHOCK! will be the media and the authorities. Oh, that's right, they won't mention it.

What is it going to take?

Fort Hood shooting: Texas army killer linked to September 11 terrorists

Major Nidal Malik Hasan worshipped at a mosque led by a radical imam said to be a "spiritual adviser" to three of the hijackers who attacked America on Sept 11, 2001.

Major Nidal Malik Hasan, the sole suspect in the massacre of 13 fellow US soldiers in Texas Photo: GETTY

The radical Imam Anwar al-Awlaki, accused of supporting attacks on British troops

Hasan, the sole suspect in the massacre of 13 fellow US soldiers in Texas, attended the controversial Dar al-Hijrah mosque in Great Falls, Virginia, in 2001 at the same time as two of the September 11 terrorists, The Sunday Telegraph has learnt. His mother's funeral was held there in May that year.

The preacher at the time was Anwar al-Awlaki, an American-born Yemeni scholar who was banned from addressing a meeting in London by video link in August because he is accused of supporting attacks on British troops and backing terrorist organisations.

Hasan's eyes "lit up" when he mentioned his deep respect for al-Awlaki's teachings, according to a fellow Muslim officer at the Fort Hood base in Texas, the scene of Thursday's horrific shooting spree.

As investigators look at Hasan's motives and mindset, his attendance at the mosque could be an important piece of the jigsaw. Al-Awlaki moved to Dar al-Hijrah as imam in January, 2001, from the west coast, and three months later the September 11 hijackers Nawaf al-Hamzi and Hani Hanjour began attending his services. A third hijacker attended his services in California.

Hasan was praying at Dar al-Hijrah at about the same time, and the FBI will now want to investigate whether he met the two terrorists.

Charles Allen, a former under-secretary for intelligence at the Department of Homeland Security, has described al-Awlaki, who now lives in Yemen, as an "al-Qaeda supporter, and former spiritual leader to three of the September 11 hijackers... who targets US Muslims with radical online lectures encouraging terrorist attacks from his new home in Yemen".

Last night Hasan remained in a coma under guard at a military hospital in San Antonio, Texas, and was said to be in a "stable" condition. Born in America to a Palestinian family, Hasan, 39, was an army psychiatrist who had chosen to sign up for the US military against his parents' wishes.

Why didn't Major Muslim Resign his Commission?

I just watched Fox's Julie Banderas and Greg Jarrett embarrass themselves trying to talk a leading psychiatrist into a newfangled idea of "vicarious" post traumatic stress disorder. Being that Major Muslim Nidal Hasan never saw combat, he vicariously suffered its effects from his patients (while he was attempting to convert them).

If  someone can post that video URL, please do. it was an outrage.
What could be the motive? I don't know, Greg, what could it be?

Worse was Neena Reenan interviewing Hasan's Palestinian family members, giving a platform for such lies and deception, I will not report them here (they said he loved America). That jihad pig is not the story. The victims are the story. The pregnant girl, the heroine who took that woman hating jihadi down, Kim Munley.

It is criminal, the twisting and gyrating the media is contorting to provide the taqiya for Islamic jihad. If the attack on the World Trade Center, The Pentagon, and the White House and or Capital building happened today, this is how the media would cover it.

Fort Hood was the military's 911.

Major Hasan's cousin said Hasan joined the Army "right after college" (assuming of course that his cousin wasn't lying). Hasan is 39, so assuming that he waited until he was 21 years old that would give him 17 - 18 years in the Army. I remember a commentator on Fox news said that Hasan's time in college would have been counted as time in service. You have a mandatory 8 years that you have to serve your country. By my calculations Major Hasan should have had more than enough time in service to have resigned his commission and gotten out of the Army without having had to resort to going Jihadi. So what's going on? Something is fishy. Raise the question on Atlas please. The media is buying into this BS that he wasn't being allowed to leave the Army and that will lend credibility to the argument that "he was under stress" and "it wasn't his fault".

FB Comment: "If he has told his commander that he was going to kill as many hero's as possible he could of got out of Iraq with consequences".

Video: Wounded Soldier in Islamic Attack on Fort Hood Speaks

Note the media use of the word tragedy. It's not a tragedy, it's an act of war. Listen to this soldier shot in the back. (vid hat tip Kasper)

"Screaming allah akbar"

Tonight in Texas -- we talk Texas jihad.

Ft. Hood jihadist's cousin: "If he had killed one or two, I could say that he was defending himself."

Round-up of Jihad in America just this past month

Since mid-October, here are the highlights of jihad activity in America. Don't tell the media or the authorities, they are too busy searching  their navels for the motive behind Nidal Hasan's jihad.

Muslim Garbed Jihadi Nidal Hasan Screamed "Allah Akbar" as he Mowed Down US Soldiers at Fort Hood, Death Toll Rises

Going Muslim on a Photographer outside Michigan Mosque

Son of an Imam Killed in Gun Battle with the FBI in Detroit is Arrested

Michigan Mosque leader killed during Islamic gun battle with fed

Hush Hush: Huge Fed/FBI Raid on Chicago Halal Goat Meat Slaughterhouse

Boston Muslim Terrorist Son of MAS (Muslim American Society) Leader

Another Conviction of Muslims Engaged in Plotting Islamic Attacks Against American Overseas

NY Imam Indicted in NYC Terror Attack Plot

Massive Muslim Attack Averted: "plot to kill two prominent US politicians and carry out a holy war by attacking shoppers in US malls and American troops in Iraq"

Obama First Female Veiled Islamist Appointee, Dalia Mogahed, Promotes Sharia, Says it's "Misunderstood

"New York Muslim indicted for plotting to kill U.S. troops

FBI arrests Jordanian for downtown Dallas bomb plot...

NYC: Muslims Protest "RACIAL PROFILING" in wake of arrests in major jihad terror plot

Illinois man charged in plot to bomb federal offices...

Terror suspects accused of targeting Marine base in Quantico...

Men vanish after taking photos of Philly subway system...

Bush our Proxy President: Bush at Fort Hood, Obama at Camp David

The worst attack on a military base (hat tip Dan)

Update: Via Twitter - Fox Reports GWB and Laura spent a few hours at Fort Hood, no photo ops. Now that's a CIC.

President Obama’s Saturday Schedule:

11:25AM THE PRESIDENT addresses the House Democratic Caucus - Cannon House Office Building

2:30PM THE PRESIDENT makes a statement to the press on Health Care - Rose Garden

2:45PM THE PRESIDENT and THE FIRST LADY depart The White House en route Camp David - South Lawn

Camp David?

Dan wails, "What, does he have a tee time close by? For heaven's sakes, he's the CIC. And he's taking the weekend off? This guy simply doesn't care. Unbelievable via Fox."

Major Muslim Hasan on Obama's transition team -page 32

 

UPDATE: Obama's posse has announced he will go to Fort Hood next week. Not because he wants to, but because he was shamed into it. Disgusting. (hat tip asidey)

UPDATE: Clarification: Obama will attend a memorial service at Fort Hood later this week.

He makes my skin crawl.

Major Muslim Hasan "harangued the doctors and staff about what the Quran taught about non-believers going to hell, being scalded, beheaded"

While the media turns itself inside out struggling to find a motive for Major Muslim's jihad, go to this interview on, of all places, NPR,

Listen to a psychiatrist’s recollection of a lecture Hasan gave (a “grand round” is the term for it) when he was a medical resident at Walter Reed. “It freaked them out.” Normally, a lecturer focuses on a particular disease or disorder and recent research or treatment options. Instead, Hasan reportedly harangued the doctors and staff about what the Quran taught about non-believers going to hell, being scalded, beheaded, etc. A Muslim psychiatrist in the audience reportedly challenged him about his interpretation of the Quran, but he would not back down (because he was right). Another version of the story I heard quoted a source as saying that several in the audience suggested afterward that Hasan might be a shooter someday.

Forward the audio audio to 1:50 and listen through 3:05 to hear most relevant comments...This is EXPLOSIVE and it's NPR.

UPDATE: Last night, Grant  transcribed and e-mailed about this NPR audio.  Here is the direct link to the MP3 file that contains the statement about people wondering if Hasan would "freak out and shoot people someday": This URL still works...at the moment, at least. 

Here's Grant's  transcription of pieces of the key part that starts a little after three minutes in the audio file:

3:12 - "I talked just a little while ago with a psychiatrist at Walter Reedwho worked closely, uh, with Hasan, and he says there were a couple things with Hasan that worried a lot of people at Walter Reed"

4:01 - "A couple years ago, two or three years ago, he gave a Grand Rounds presentation"

4:19 - "But instead of giving an academic paper, he gave a lecture on the Quran"

4:29 - "He talked about how if you're a nonbeliever, uh, the Quran says you should have your head cut off, you should have oil poured down your throats, you should be set on fire"

4:58 - "People actually talked in the hallway afterwards about, 'Is he, uh, one of these people who's gonna freak out and shoot people someday?' It was half kidding, but half serious, he said."

They knew. And they know of others. And they will do nothing. If anything, they will recruit more Muslims to show that this act of jihad has not "prejudiced" them in any way.

Like 911 was a major victory for Islam in this country -- ie CAIR is on FOX to discuss the jihad at Fort Hood but not Spencer, Bostom, or myself not to mention the teutonic societal changes, mosqueing the workplace, shariah finance, shariah, law, a muhammadan president -- Fort Hood will escalate the islamisation of the military. 

Jihad's 5th Column:

The Fort Hood terrorist is being portrayed as an "anomaly," an "aberration," a "lone wolf." Sadly, he's just one of many examples of jihadist traitors in the ranks of the military.

Together they form a dangerous Fifth Column, and the Pentagon — thanks to institutionalized political correctness — is doing next to nothing to root them out .

Instead, brass are actively recruiting Muslim soldiers — whose ranks have swelled to more than 15,000 — and catering to their faith by erecting mosques even at Marine headquarters in Quantico, Va. More, they're hiring Muslim chaplains endorsed by radical Islamic front groups, who convert and radicalize soldiers.

In the wake of the worst domestic military-base massacre in U.S. history, this is an outrage to say the least. And the PC blinders explain how Fort Hood commanders could have failed so horrifically in protecting their force from the internal threat there.

The terrorist suspect, an Islamic fanatic, penetrated deep into the Army's officer corps before gunning down, execution-style, more than 40 of his fellow soldiers. Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan allegedly killed 13 at the Texas post, which boasts some 40 Muslims.

Witnesses say he shouted "Allahu Akbar" — Allah is great! — before opening fire in a crowded building where troops were sitting ducks, waiting to deploy to Iraq and Afghanistan, both wars that Hasan angrily opposed. "Muslims should stand up and fight the aggressor," he reportedly said earlier this year, referring to the U.S. — the country he swore to protect.

During the invasion of Iraq in March 2003, another devout Muslim in the Army had a similar conflict. Sgt. Hasan Akbar also resorted to violence, fragging 17 fellow soldiers, killing two. Why? He opposed the killing of fellow Muslims. "You guys are coming into our countries, and you're going to rape our women and kill our children," he was overheard by soldiers who survived the grenade attack as saying.

Clearly, his loyalties lay elsewhere. And he's hardly alone:

• Navy Signalman Hassan Abujihaad last year was convicted of tipping off al-Qaida to battle group movements in the Persian Gulf, including disclosing classified documents detailing the group's vulnerability to terror attack.

• Army reservist Jeffrey Battle in 2003 pleaded guilty to conspiring to wage war against the U.S., confessing he enlisted "to receive military training to use against America."

• Army reservist Semi Osman in 2002 was arrested for providing material support to al-Qaida and pleaded guilty to weapons charges after agreeing to testify against other terror suspects.

• Marine Abdul Raheem al-Arshad Ali trained at a suspected al-Qaida camp and was charged with selling a semi-automatic handgun to Osman.

• Army Sgt. Ali Mohamed trained Green Berets at Fort Bragg's elite special warfare school before stealing military secrets for al-Qaida and helping plan bombings at three U.S. embassies in 1998.

• Army Spec. Ryan Anderson in 2004 was convicted of leaking military intelligence to al-Qaida terrorists, including sensitive information about the vulnerabilities of armored Humvees.

• Army sniper John Muhammad was put on death row after fatally shooting 10 in the nation's capital a year after 9/11.

UPDATE: Here's the whole NPR broacast. Much thanks to Diane for the full transcript:

Interviewer: So authorities have answered one question, they believe it was a single gunman. In a way that only deepens the mystery of Major Nadal Malik Hasan. We’ve been learning more about it this morning. First from NPR’s Tom Gelton, who’s been covering the . .

 Good morning, Tom (T: good morning)

Interviewer: who is he?

Tom Gelton: Nadal Hasan was born here in the Washington D.C. area of Arlington. His parents were palestinian immigrants, it seems. He went to local schools, graduated from VA Tech, joined the Army, spent basically his whole adult life in the Army, that’s where he received his medical education. He was trained as a psychiatrist by the Army and served for several years at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, ironically specializing in the treatment of combat stress. He transferred to Ft. Hood earlier this year. He was soon to be deployed, apparently to Afghanistan. We’ve heard from various sources that that uh bothered him for whatever reason, that he was a devout muslim. He took his faith very seriously. We can’t say of course that that was relevant here.

Interviewer: So. Soon to be deployed, and you mentioned that he also spent a lot of time at Walter Reed. I want to bring another voice into the conversation here: NPR’s Daniels Wordling has covered post-traumatic stress disorder over the years, and has also spent a lot of time with people at Walter Reed. (good mornings) I understand you’ve spoke to someone who knew him, who worked with him at Walter Reed.

Daniels Wordling: Earlier today I spoke with a psychiatrist who worked very closely with Hasan, and knows him very well. And he said from the beginning, and Hasan was there for four years, the medical staff was very worried about this guy. He said, the first thing is: He’s cold. Unfriendly (at least that’s how he came off). He did not do a good job as a psychiatrist in training; he was repeatedly warned, You better shape up or you’re gonna be in trouble. Did badly in his classes, seemed disinterested. But, second of all and this is perhaps more relevant, the psychiatrist says that he was very proud and upfront about being muslim; and this psychiatrist said nobody minded that. But he seemed almost belligerent about being muslim. And he gave a lecture one day that really freaked a lot of doctors out. They have grand rounds, you know they have dozens of medical staff come into an auditorium and somebody stands at a podium at the front and gives a lecture about some academic issue. You know, what drugs to prescribe for what condition. But, instead of that he—Hasan—apparently gave a long lecture on the koran. And talked about how if you don’t believe you are condemned to Hell. Your head is cut off; your on fire, burning oil is poured down your throat. And I said to the psychiatrist that this could be just a very interesting informational session. Where he was just educatiing everybody about the koran. But he said what disturbed everybody was that Hasan seemed to believe these things. And actually a muslim in the audience, actually a psychiatrist, raised his hand and said Excuse me. I’m a muslim and I do not believe these things in the koran. And then I don’t believe what you say the koran says. And Hasan didn’t just say Well I’m just giving you one view. He basically just stared the guy down.

Interviewer: We have a picture of a man, then, who at Walter Reed Army Center was disliked by his colleagues—or maybe the word is disturbed—(and disliked is also a relevant word)

Daniels Wordling: The psychiatrist this morning said people generally considered him a blank-bag, you know this is what they say.

Interviewer: He is sent to Ft. Hood, TX, and he knows he is at the point, as the shooting allegedly begins, of which he is accused, that he is about to be deployed to Afghanistan. Now Tom, you’ve been looking into some of the stresses of military personnel of being sent overseas.

Tom Gelton: That’s right, Steve. You know you refer to post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), there almost seems to be a phenomenon that could be called a Pre-traumatic stress disorder. There’ve been a lot of suicides in the Army; many more as a result of these wars than in previous years. Interestingly enough, as many soldiers have killed themselves before they were due to be deployed as after; 35 percent of the suicides are pre-deployment; 35 percent are post-deployment. So there seems to be an issue here of expectation of what you are getting into. And the fact that Major Hasan would have known better than others even, about how traumatic combat experience would be. You know, raises the question of, you know, was he an example of these soldiers who are literally freaked out by what they are likely to face when they are deployed.

Interviewer: And it’s hard to miss the location of this shooting. A processing center for people being sent overseas.

Daniels Wordling. . .

Daniels Wordling: I want to add something else about Hasan. The psychiatrist I talked to today said he was the kind of guy who the staff actually stood around in the hallway saying “Do you think he’s a terrorist?” “Or is he just weird?” And now apparently Walter Reed is in a lockdown mode. Where they—all the staff’s been instructed Do not talk to anybody about this investigation. Except military people. Do not talk to the FBI. Because they’re afraid potentially—what if people decide—investigating this—that people missed potential warning signs about this guy. This is just all speculation.

Interviewer: How can they NOT talk to the FBI?

Daniels Wordling: Well, our colleague Dina Temple Raston (?) has heard that from the FBI, and this military officer is telling me the same thing from Walter Reed.

Interviewer: Okay. NPR’s Dan Wordling and Tom Gelton Thank you. (thank yous) And we want to mention this is a moment that may be distressing for some listeners because we hear so much about the suspect and so little about the victims. That is a factor of what we know now. The military is saying very little about the victims so far except that there are 13 dead—12 military, 1 civilian. But it is very early and we expect to learn more and bring you more in the coming hours. And days.

Lt Colonel Allen West Tells it Straight on Fort Hood Jihad, the Worst Islamic Terror Attack since 911 "enemy is infiltrating our military."

This man is going to be president. Any leader who cannot speak to the who and what the enemy is .... is not a leader. Look around and watch how your leaders react to the worst terror attack on American soil since 911.

Top GOP recruit says Ft. Hood shooting shows 'enemy is infiltrating our military'

The Hill

A top Republican congressional recruit said on Friday that the shooting at Ft. Hood, Texas yesterday by a solider allegedly sympathetic to suicide bombers shows that the "enemy is infiltrating our military."

Allen West (R-Fla.), a retired military colonel who served as a commander at the Texas base, said in a release that Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan's attack may indicate a broader effort by Islamic extremists to recruit downtrodden members of the military.

"This enemy preys on downtrodden soldiers and teaches them extremism will lift them up," West said in a statement. "Our soldiers are being brainwashed."

The release added that West claims "the horrible tragedy at Fort Hood is proof the enemy is infiltrating our military."

The National Republican Congressional Committee in October selected West as one of 32 new members of its "Young Guns" program designed to promote challengers and open-seat candidates in the 2010 midterm elections. West formerly served in Iraq and Afghanistan and was the 2008 Republican nominee to unseat Rep. Ron Klein (D-Fla.) in the state's 22nd district.

Major Muslim's Dawah Before Jihad

Major Muslim Hasan distributed Qurans and his card, calling infidels to convert to Islam before his jihad. He had a productive day. The media and political elite's response has been one of America's most shameful moments.

This photograph taken on Friday, Nov. 6, 2009 in Killeen, Texas, shows a copy of the Quran and a briefcase holding this business card that Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan gave to his neighbor a day before going on a shooting spree at the Fort Hood Army Base. (AP

 

Hat tip Richard, who points out, "he gave his landlord notice two weeks prior to the shooting that he would be moving out. I think that fact alone pretty neatly counters the claims that he simply 'snapped'."

Fort Hood Jihad Said His Goodbyes Before his Rampage

FORT HOOD, Texas— As if going off to war, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan cleaned out his apartment, gave leftover frozen broccoli to one neighbor and called another to thank him for his friendship _ common courtesies and routines of the departing soldier. 

Actually, it was in preparation for the jihadi to meet his 72 virgins. He was going to meet allah, which he screamed in arabic during his mass killing spree.

Investigators examined Hasan's computer, his home and his garbage Friday to learn what motivated the suspect, who lay in a coma, shot four times in the frantic bloodletting. Hospital officials said some of the wounded had extremely serious injuries and might not survive.

The 39-year-old Army psychiatrist emerged as a study in contradictions: a polite man who stewed with discontent, a counselor who needed to be counseled himself, a professional healer now suspected of cutting down the fellow soldiers he was sworn to help.

[...]. A recent classmate said Hasan once gave a jarring presentation to students in which he argued the war on terrorism was a war against Islam, and "made himself a lightning rod for things" when he felt his religious beliefs were challenged.

Investigators were trying to piece together how and why Hasan allegedly gunned down his comrades in the worst case of violence on a military base in the U.S. The rampage unfolded at a center where some 300 unarmed soldiers were lined up for vaccines and eye tests.

Soldiers reported that the gunman shouted "Allahu Akbar!" _ an Arabic phrase for "God is great!" _ before opening fire Thursday, said Lt. Gen. Robert Cone, the post commander. He said officials had not confirmed Hasan made the comment.

[...]

asking why this happened, and the answer is that we simply do not know."

The 30 wounded were dispersed among hospitals in central Texas. W. Roy Smythe, chairman of surgery at Scott and White Memorial Hospital, said several patients were still at "significant risk" of losing their lives. Army briefers told lawmakers in Washington eight other people were treated at a hospital for stress and trauma.

The dead included a pregnant woman who was preparing to return home, a man who quit a furniture company job to join the military about a year ago, a newlywed who had served in Iraq and a woman who had vowed to take on Osama bin Laden after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

Army Chief of Staff George Casey said he asked bases around the country to assess their security. He also said he was worried about a backlash against the thousands of Muslim soldiers serving dutifully in uniform.

Oh, please. Nobody bothers them. Worry about the infidels, asshat.

Hasan was due to be deployed to Afghanistan to help soldiers with combat stress, a task he'd done stateside with returning soldiers, the Army said. Army spokeswoman Col. Cathy Abbott was uncertain when Hasan was to leave but he was in the preparation stage of deployment, which can take months.

In any event, the major was saying goodbyes and dispensing belongings to neighbors.

Jose Padilla, the owner of Hasan's apartment complex, said Hasan gave him notice two weeks ago that he was moving out this week.

Jose Padilla, now that's rich.

Earlier this week, Hasan asked Padilla his native language. When Padilla said it was Spanish, Hasan immediately went up to his apartment to get him a Spanish-language Quran. Padilla said Hasan also refused to reclaim his deposit and last month's rent, surrendering $400 that the major said should go to someone who needed it.

[...]

Neighbor Patricia Villa said Hasan came to her apartment the day of the shooting, and before, to give her vegetables, an air mattress, T-shirts, a Quran and offer her $60 to clean his Killeen, Texas, apartment after he left.

Jacqueline Harris, 44, who lives with her boyfriend, Willie Bell, in the apartment next door to Hasan, said he called Thursday at 5 a.m. and left a message.

"He just wanted to thank Willie for being a good friend and thank him for being there for him," Harris said. "That was it. We thought it was just a nice message to leave."

Bell said Hasan offered a farewell, saying, "Nice knowing you, old friend. I'm going to miss you."

Muslim Group Says No Reports of Harassment of Islamic Soldiers

Major Muslim Hasan Participated in Homeland Security Panel for Obama

Political correctness is going to rout this country. The jihadi who mowed down scores at Fort Hood was an adviser to the Homeland Security Policy Institute's presidential transition task force. This was at the same time that the DHS was writing reports that right wing extremists like Grandma, Veterans, tea parties, patriots were the real threat. And Hasan had a jihad history.

Enemy in the White House.

Fort Hood shooter was member of Homeland Security Panel advising Obama Jihadwatch

Of course. Why not? He was a "moderate." Until he wasn't.

"Nidal Hasan: Ft. Hood Shooter Participated in Homeland Security Disaster Preparation," from Gawker, November 6 (thanks to Mary Belle):

The gunman who killed 12 people today at Ft. Hood appears, based on current media reports, to be Army psychiatrist Nidal Hasan who was listed as a participant in a Homeland Security Policy Institute's presidential transition task force last year.

The task force was not officially affiliated with the White House. It was a project of the Homeland Security Policy Institute, an independent thinktank housed at George Washington University, aimed at drafting policy recommendations for the incoming Obama administration.

According to the task force's May 2009 report [pdf], a "Nidal Hasan" from the Uniformed Services University School of Medicine was a task force event participant. Other participants included Senate and House staffers, Department of Homeland Security officials, Defense Department officials, and reporters for Politico, the Washington Post, and the London Times....

UPDATE: Good comment thread here.

American Woman Took Down Jihadi Hasan at Fort Hood

This is poetic justice. The jihadi mass slaughterer was taken down by a ... woman! Think about that. Let's blast that shiz through the caves of Tora Bora. 
That's the real story. It should be wall to wall on Al Jizz.

It would have been much worse had she not responded.

Name Kim Munley (hat tip Kasper)

• Location Killeen, TX
• Bio I live a good life....a hard one, but I go to sleep peacefully @ night knowing that I may have made a difference in someone's life.

    http://twitter.com/hope2forget30

The pig jumped on a table and was shooting down on the crowd, which is why he could get so many off. Jihad Hasan was shooting soldiers in the back. Such Islamic bravery.

Police Sgt. Kimberly Munley credited with ending Fort Hood gunman Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan's rampage

The hero cop who ended the bloody rampage at Fort Hood had been directing traffic moments before she confronted the gunman and pumped four bullets into him despite being shot herself.

Civilian police Sgt. Kimberly Munley and her partner responded within three minutes of reported gunfire Thursday afternoon, Lt. Gen. Bob Cone said Friday.

Munley, who had been trained in active-response tactics, rushed into the building and confronted the shooter as he was turning a corner, Cone said.

"It was an amazing and an aggressive performance by this police officer," Cone said.

Munley was only a few feet from crazed Army psychiatrist Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan when she opened fire.

Wounded in the exchange of gunfire, Munley was reported in stable condition at a local hospital.

The hero cop spent Thursday night phoning fellow officers to let them know she was fine and to find out about casualties in the attack - the deadliest ever on a military base in the U.S., Cone said.

Cone said Munley's aggressive response training taught her that "if you act aggressively to take out a shooter you will have less fatalities."

Fast-Acting Officer Stopped Rampage

Muslim Garbed Jihadi Nidal Hasan Screamed "Allah Akbar" as he Mowed Down US Soldiers at Fort Hood, Death Toll Rises

"Kill non-Muslims wherever you find them. Lie in wait and ambush them, seize and capture them using every stratagem of war." Koran 9:5

Major Hasan on the morning of his jihad attack on America. Here he is in traditional Muslim garb. Very cool, calm, even seen smiling ....before he went jihad.

13 dead including a policemen, 26 wounded. Screaming allah akbar .........

He is a hero to devout Muslims: NY Muslim: "Get Well Soon Major Nidal We Love You"

At a press conference this morning, it appears Nidal Malik Hasan was a lone jihadi. Here's more from Monster and Critics:

Washington - A top US Army official confirmed Friday that the suspect in the killing of at least 13 people at a Texas army base likely shouted 'Allah Akbar' (God is great) before opening fire.

Army Lieutenant General Robert Cone, commander of the Fort Hood, Texas, base where the shootings took place on Thursday, made the comment in answer to a question from NBC news.

Cone said 'there are first hand accounts' to the effect that the suspect, Major Nidal Malik Hasan, had yelled the Muslim religious chant.

NBC reported that the death toll had risen to 13, as one of the victims had died overnight.

The 39-year-old suspect in the killings is a US Army psychiatrist described as a devout Muslim who opposed the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and had been trying to resign from the Army, according to media reports Friday.

Another 30 people were injured in the shootings. All but two were members of the military, officials said Thursday.

Cone said Thursday that investigators, who now include the FBI, had not ruled out the possibility it was a terrorist attack, but said evidence indicated it was not likely.

The talking heads are spinning this so hard and so fast I think their heads are going to fly off -- which would be appropriate. Not one newscasters, not one, can bring himself or herself to say ...jihad.

Much more coverage here:

Fort Hood Jihadi, a devout Muslim, had "Palestinian" Parents, Admired Homicide Bombers

The Jihadi who attacked America, Malik Nidal Hasan, is ALIVE - "disciplined for proselytizing about his Muslim faith with patients and colleagues

The War on America: Muslim Attacker "come to the attention of law enforcement at least six months ago because of Internet postings that discussed suicide bombings and other threats"

MUSLIM TERROR ATTACK: 'TWELVE shot dead' 12 30 Wounded, Mass Shooting at Fort Hood, US Army Base

UPDATE: FOX has Nihad Awad on! Right now! He is spewing his taqiya. The un-indicted co-conspirator CAIR is given a free platform to speak. Where is Robert Spencer, where is Dr. Bostom, Wafa Sultan .........damn these propagandists. Awad is saying "devout muslim" has nothing to do with terror attacks. I hope someone captures this. Shame on FOX.

AWAD: "We will not allow anyone to jump to conclusions"

No one from CAIR should ever be on FOX again.

Fair and balanced? Where is fair balanced? Where are the educated voices? CAIR but not Spencer?!?

The Muslim Brotherhood frint in America is on FOX admonishing us. Got that?

The Jihadi who attacked America, Malik Nidal Hasan, is ALIVE - "disciplined for proselytizing about his Muslim faith with patients and colleagues"

Update: Neighbors say he was giving away his possessions this morning and PASSING OUT QURANS. Newscaster: "he was proud of his religion".

The son of a bitch is alive -- can you believe it? He is in the hospital receiving the best medical care that your taxpayer dollars can buy.............. he is in stable condition. I am sure the libturd media will be lining up to get his sob story. CAIR must have lined up their Saudi financed legal team.

"Six months ago Major Hasan came to law enforcement attention for posting blogs supporting suicide bombing."

This puts him in the pious Muslim category.

The investigation was dropped.

"Hasan, the alleged shooter, was a psychiatrist at Walter Reed Army Medical Center for six years before being sent to Texas in July. He was apparently upset about being scheduled to deploy overseas, according to Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchinson of Texas, who told Fox News that she was told he may have been targeting specific individuals." (over at NPR) hat tip jj

 A source tells NPR's Joseph Shapiro that Hasan was put on probation early in his postgraduate work at the Uniformed Service University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Md. He was disciplined for proselytizing about his Muslim faith with patients and colleagues, according to the source, who worked with him at the time. NPR

More red flags: Nidal Malik Hasan was a psychiatrist at Walter Reed Army Medical Center for six years before he transferred to the Texas base earlier this year.

The 39-year-old was born in Virginia, was not married and has no children. Officials speaking on condition of anonymity say Hasan received a poor performance evaluation while at Walter Reed.

UPDATE: Also interesting (hat tip Jim)  Stratfor released this last night (Nov 4):

  In the 11th edition of the online magazine Sada al-Malahim (The Echo of Battle), which was released to jihadist Web sites last week, al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) leader Nasir al-Wahayshi wrote an article that called for jihadists to conduct simple attacks against a variety of targets. The targets included "any tyrant, intelligence den, prince" or "minister" (referring to the governments in the Muslim world like Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Yemen), and "any crusaders whenever you find one of them, like at the airports of the crusader Western countries that participate in the wars against Islam, or their living compounds, trains etc.," (an obvious reference to the United States and Europe and Westerners living in Muslim countries).

Al-Wahayshi, an ethnic Yemeni who spent time in Afghanistan serving as a lieutenant under Osama bin Laden, noted these simple attacks could be conducted with readily available weapons such as knives, clubs or small improvised explosive devices (IEDs). According to al-Wahayshi, jihadists "don't need to conduct a big effort or spend a lot of money to manufacture 10 grams of explosive material" and that they should not "waste a long time finding the materials, because you can find all these in your mother's kitchen, or readily at hand or in any city you are in." (STRATFOR is a paid service providing excellent global intel without common media bias.)

The War on America: Muslim Attacker "come to the attention of law enforcement at least six months ago because of Internet postings that discussed suicide bombings and other threats"

They knew this guy was a jihadi. They knew. But they sacrificed American lives at the alter political correctness. These religion of peaceniks are going to get us all killed.

Law enforcement officials say Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan came to their attention at least six months agon because of discussions of suicide bombings and other threats.  And they left this jihad murderer there with our most precious resource? And then the first thing the FBI says is "its not terrorism"? We, the people, cannot no longer rely on law enforcement to keep us safe.They are the problem. Those brave soldiers are dead because of law enforcement.  We, the people,  have to be vigilant. The biggest terror attack on a US military base and the President is giving a shout out before making a statement?

AP source: Authorities had concerns about suspected shooter, reviewed Internet postings

WASHINGTON - Federal law enforcement officials say the suspected Fort Hood, Texas, shooter had come to their attention at least six months ago because of Internet postings that discussed suicide bombings and other threats.

The officials say the postings appeared to have been made by Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, who was killed during the shooting incident that left least 11 others dead and 31 wounded. The officials say they are still trying to confirm that he was the author. They say an official investigation was not opened.

The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the case.

One of the Web postings that authorities reviewed is a blog that equates suicide bombers with a soldier throwing himself on a grenade to save the lives of his comrades.

THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP's earlier story is below.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Military officials say the suspected shooter at Fort Hood was a psychiatrist at Walter Reed Army Medical Center for six years before being transferred to the Texas base in July.

The officials had access to Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan's military record. They said he received a poor performance evaluation while at Walter Reed.

The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because military records are confidential.

The Virginia-born soldier was single with no children. He was 39 years old.

He is a graduate of Virginia Tech University, where he was a member of the ROTC and earned a bachelor's degree in biochemistry in 1997. He received his medical degree from the military's Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Md., in 2001. At Walter Reed, he did his internship, residency and a fellowship.

Malik Nadal Hasan, the jihadi that led the attack on Fort Hood, was quoted as saying “Muslims have the right to rise up against the US military” …”The Muslims have a right to stand up against the aggressors” “….maybe we should have more of these where people strap bombs on themselves and go into Times Square”--quotes from Colonel Terry Lee

MUSLIM TERROR ATTACK: 'TWELVE shot dead' 12 30 Wounded, Mass Shooting at Fort Hood, US Army Base

UPDATE: Shlep Smith has the jihadi's cousin on the phone, Nader Hasan, and Schlep is lapping up the lies and he is doing the taqiya. Nader is saying the Malik was a great American. Hasan is saying that the mass murderer "was harassed" and that's why he methodically planned and executed this massive attack on a US military installation.

He was not a convert. He is a devout Muslim who joined the army with a purpose.

7:16 pm UPDATE: Malik Nadal Hasan, the jihadi who led the attack on Fort  Hood, was quoted as saying "Muslims have the right to rise up against the US military" "The Muslims have a right to stand up against the aggressors" "Maybe we should have more of these where people strap bombs on themselves and go into Times Square" - this according to Col Terry Lee, who worked with Muslim convert.

No word on the two other suspects ..... something tells me they are not scientologists.

UPDATE: Unprecedented in American history.

Major General Robert Scales said he spoke to soldiers on the ground. This was "not the act of a crazy". This was not the random act of a nutcase. It was execution style, close range. He shot 44 - 50 rounds - that's a lot of ammunition to come out of those two guns in such a short period of time. This was premeditated. "A deliberate act of execution of the largest army base in America".

He was a psychiatrist. That's rich. Obama called it" a horrific act of violence". Obama just barely broke away from his tribal conference (did you hear his remarks after we had to sit through his tired well worn victimization of native Americans?) - and then finally, he made the most cursory of remarks. It was pathetic.

UPDATE: Here is the video. Watch your president after the worst act of war on the largest army base in American history. And Barack Hussein Obama gives a "Shout-Out" before he comments on the shooting.

A civilian policeman shot the Muslim terrorist Malik Nadal Hasan. The hero who shot him dead was killed in the ensuing gunfire.

The suspected gunman was identified by ABC News as Major Malik Nadal Hasan.

Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchinson, R-Texas, told Fox News that military sources informed her that the gunman was about to be deployed to Iraq.

The shooter was killed and two other suspects, who are also soldiers, have been apprehended, Lt. Gen. Robert W. Cone said.

The general said there were "eyewitness accounts of more than one shooter," and the others were tracked to an adjacent facility.

Cone said that a gunman entered a facility known as the Soldier Readiness Facility, where soldiers who are preparing to deploy go for last minute medical check ups and dental treatment. Sources told ABC News that the soldiers gathered there were getting ready to deploy to Iraq.

The gunman used two handguns, Cone said. He wasn't sure if the shooter reloaded the weapons during the attack.

"The gunman opened fire and essentially due to the quick respond of the police forces was killed," said Cone.

The shooter was killed by civilian law enforcement and one police officer died in the shootout, Cone said.

The gunman's suspected accomplices were taken into custody in an adjacent facility known as the old SportsDome Complex.

UPDATE: FOX's SHLEP SMITH WON'T SAY HIS NAME, but will "connect the dots". Which dots? That the reason this terror cell committed this act of war was because "he didn't want to go to Iraq".

UPDATE: Shepard Smith won't utter Malik Nadal's Hasan's name! He won't say his name. The primary gunman. But wait -- he is making excuses for him. He is saying he didn't want to go to war.

Al Qaeda directed Muslims to infiltrate the military for these very attacks.

UPDATE: Shepard Smith, that silly woman, keeps calling it a tragedy. It is an act of war.

UPDATE: OMG, are you watching the news? Shep and the other flapping tongues  speculating, "Was it stress?" "Did he not want to go to war?" "The men at Fort Hood are searching for a motive." "Did his deployment lead the officer to commit these acts"?

IT'S THE JIHAD STUPID

MUSLIM KILLER: The suspected gunman was identified as Major Malik Nadal Hasan.

UPDATE: The coverage is beyond stupid. Three men -- is a conspiracy. Three men is a terror cell. For the FBI to rule out terrorism in an obvious act of terrorism (by whom, we know not yet) indicates we are worse off than the UK. Three men, synchronized shooting, M16s, maximum kill ............ you won't get the real story from the media.

Did anyone see Obama at the tribal conference? Talk about making it up to the native Americans (????????) and then a lightweight, toss off ON THE MASS SLAUGHTER at Fort Hood.

UPDATE: FBI says it's not terrorism. Has the FBI hit the ground yet? How can they say that so fast? And frankly, this mass shooting is the very definition of terrorism. FBI asshattery. Obama is at a tribal conference (no joke). When the conference is over, he'll hold a press conference. Teleprompters and mirrors, man your stations.

How can the FBI say it's not terrorism? It's three shooters with M16. That's a conspiracy. Three shooters across seven buildings.

UPDATE: FBI is en route. Why the FBI? This is military. WTF? More Obama "law enforcement" asshattery?

UPDATE: Possibly 30 wounded at the largest military installation of its kind in the country.

One gunman was in custody and another was on the loose, local media reported. One station said there was a third shooter involved. It went down during graduation ceremony.

'Seven shot dead' at US army base

At least seven people have been killed and 12 others injured in a shooting at the Fort Hood military base in Texas, according to US media reports.

One person has been arrested and at least one more is reportedly on the loose. The base has been locked down.

NBC News network said the two suspects were in military uniform and that the shooter-at-large was believed to have a high-powered sniper rifle.

Fort Hood, located near the town of Killeen, is a large US military base.

Home to about 40,000 US troops, it lies halfway between Austin and Waco, about 60 miles (97 km) from each city.

It is not yet clear whether those reported killed and injured are civilians or military personnel.

Local congressman John Carter, speaking to NBC News, confirmed that there had been a shooting at the base, saying the gunfire had erupted during a graduation ceremony.

The BBC's Adam Brookes in Washington says there are military police and Swat teams on the scene, and the FBI is on the way. Schools in the area have also been locked down.

UPDATE: Check out the live chat on Fox Dallas/Fort Worth here.

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This is another front, another act of war in the stealth jihad. It's their business and they can do what they want.  If I lived in Texas, they would be my new doctors. Mind you it was a job interview.  Sounds like a CAIR set-up.

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Un-indicted co-conspirator CAIR ALERT!

CAIR: Texas Medical Group Denies Muslim Doctor Right to Hijab
Muslim civil rights organization says ‘no hat’ policy must have religious exemption

(WASHINGTON, D.C., 10/30/09) - The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) today called on a major medical group in Texas to change its policy denying accommodation for Muslim employees who wear religious attire such as Islamic head scarves (hijab) or beards.

CAIR said a Muslim doctor being interviewed for a position with CareNow, a medical group with 22 facilities in the Dallas/Fort-Worth area, was told that a “no hat” policy would prohibit her from wearing hijab. She was also reportedly informed that CareNow prohibits employees from wearing beards. (Many Muslim men view wearing a beard as a religious requirement.)

In an e-mail to CareNow’s human resources department seeking confirmation of the denial of religious accommodation, the Muslim potential employee wrote:

“Being that I wear a head scarf to cover my hair as part of my religious practice, I felt very discriminated against. I have worked in many places that have a ‘no hat’ policy, and I have never been confronted with a problem regarding my head scarf. I can't imagine this being an issue with an organization like CareNow. Please confirm if this is really a policy at CareNow.”

An e-mail response from CareNow stated that the Muslim doctor had been given the correct information about the medical group’s denial of religious accommodation.

In a letter to CareNow, CAIR wrote:

“Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits employers from discriminating against individuals because of their religion in hiring, firing, and other terms and conditions of employment.The Act also requires employers to reasonably accommodate the religious practices of an employee, unless to do so would create an undue hardship upon the employer.CAIR has reviewed the facts of this case and determined that CareNow’s staff did not make an exemption to the ‘no-hat policy’ to accommodate [the applicant’s] religious practices, and thus is in direct violation of Title VII.”

CAIR is asking CareNow to 1) offer the Muslim applicant a position for which she is qualified and to allow her to wear her Islamic head scarf, 2) provide the applicant with a formal written apology, 3) clarify CareNow’s policy on religious accommodation issues and allow a religious exemption to the“no-hat” policy, 4) institute workplace sensitivity and diversity training for staff, and 5) compensate the Muslim applicant for the emotional distress she has suffered as a result of the discrimination.

Going Muslim on a Photographer outside Michigan Mosque

It's  the next level of Muslim agitation here in the good ol' USA.

Several men can be seen smashing the camera of news photographer Ricardo Thomas after witnesses say they pushed him, threw punches and kicked him while on the ground. (hat tip Laura)

Related: Michigan Mosque leader killed during Islamic gun battle with feds

Son of an Imam Killed in Gun Battle with the FBI in Detroit is Arrested

I don't think this is what Obama has in mind in his bone crushing pursuit of 'outreach to the ummah'. "'The primary mission is to establish a separate, sovereign Islamic state ('The Ummah') within the borders of the United States, government by Sharia law,' Leone, a member of the FBI's counter-terrorism squad, said in the 45-page complaint".

Police in Windsor, Ont., arrest man sought after imam killed in FBI shootout Canadian Press

TORONTO — The son of an imam killed in a shootout with the FBI in Detroit was apprehended in neighbouring Windsor, Ont., Thursday while two other Canadian residents were still being sought amid allegations they were involved with a radical Islamic group.

Mujahid Carswell, the eldest son of Luqman Ameen Abdullah, was taken into custody at a residence without incident, city police confirmed.

Carswell - also known as Mujahid Abdullah - was turned over to the Canada Border Services Agency for suspected immigration violations.

Abdullah, imam of the Masjid Al-Haqq mosque in Detroit, died in a gunbattle Wednesday as police sought to arrest him at a warehouse in Dearborn, Mich.

Seven men, alleged to be his followers, were arrested by the FBI.

An FBI complaint, the result of a two-year investigation, alleges all the men conspired to commit federal crimes of a relatively minor nature.

However, the underlying thread is that the group espoused violence and sought to establish a Sharia-law state within the United States.

A confidential FBI source said he had seen Carswell "use toilet bowl cleaner to clean up blood in the basement of the (Detroit mosque) following a murder," according to court documents.

The FBI alleges he conspired to steal and fence laptops and fur coats. He has no felony convictions.

Carswell's father Imam Abdullah, also known as Christopher Thomas, 53, was a leader of a "nationwide radical fundamentalist Sunni group consisting primarily of African-Americans, some of whom converted to Islam," FBI special agent Gary Leone said in an affidavit in support of the complaint.

"The primary mission is to establish a separate, sovereign Islamic state ('The Ummah') within the borders of the United States, government by Sharia law," Leone, a member of the FBI's counter-terrorism squad, said in the 45-page complaint.

"(The imam) regularly preaches anti-government and anti-law enforcement rhetoric."

Abdullah told an informant that if the FBI came to get him: "I'll just strap a bomb on and blow up everybody."

Michigan Mosque leader killed during Islamic gun battle with feds

Religious Muslim leaders engaging in gun battles with the feds ........ not a peep from the dhimmi media. A mosque leader in the religion of peaceniks. Detroit mosque leader killed in FBI raids

Here's Jim Kouri's account. Kouri, CPP, is currently fifth vice-president of the National Association of Chiefs of Police, and he's a staff writer for the New Media Alliance (thenma.org). In addition, he's the former editor for the House Conservatives Fund's weblog. Kouri also serves as political adviser for Emmy and Golden Globe winning actor Michael Moriarty.

Detroit Islamic leader killed during gun battle with feds

Federal agents working on a counterterrorism task force in Detroit, Michigan reported that during a gun battle they shot and killed the Imam of anIslamic group. Agents say the gunfight began after Luqman Ameen Abdullah refused to surrender and face various criminal charges.

Abdullah is the spiritual leader of a group that is alleged to have engaged in violent activity over a period of many years, and known to be armed. According to the report obtained by the National Association of Chiefs of Police, the FBI was in the midst of arresting Abdullah and 10 of his followers on charges that included conspiracy to sell stolen goods and illegal possession and sale of firearms.

According to a preliminary report obtained by NACOP, Abdullah was killed while exchanging gunfire with Federal Bureau of Investigation agents on Wednesday at a warehouse in Dearborn, a suburb of Detroit.

Abdullah was the leader of part of an group of Islamists who call themselves Ummah (“the brotherhood”), a group of mostly African-American converts to Islam, which seeks to establish a separate Sharia-law governed state within the United States.

The Ummah is ruled by Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, formerly known as H. Rap Brown, a 1960s radical and Black Panther who is serving a life sentence for the murder of two police officers in Georgia. 

As detailed in the affidavit in support of the criminal complaint that was unsealed today, Abdullah has espoused the use of violence against law enforcement, and has trained members of his group in use of firearms and martial arts in anticipation of some type of action against the government. Abdullah and other members of this group were known to carry firearms and other weapons.

According to the FBI  Abdullah is also known as Christopher Thomas.

The FBI report states that Abdullah regularly preached anti-government rhetoric, and that some of his followers converted to Islam while in prison.

In 2000, in Sheriff's deputies Ricky Kinchen and Aldranon English went to (H. Rap Brown's) al-Amin's home to serve an arrest warrant for failing to appear in court on a traffic citation of speeding and impersonating a police officer. al-Amin opened fire with a .223 rifle and English was hit four times. Kinchen was shot with the rifle and a 9mm handgun.

The following day, Kinchen died of his wounds in a Georgia hospital. English survived his wounds and identified al-Amin as the shooter from six photos he was shown while recovering in the hospital.

Danish Cartoon Jihadis Nabbed in the Illinois Halal Meathouse Raid

Back on the 20th I ran the strange and silenced story: Hush Hush: Huge Fed/FBI Raid on Chicago Halal Goat Meat Slaughterhouse. The FBI conducted a huge raid: "neighbors who saw the raid on Sunday told CBS 2 it was a huge operation, involving more than 100 agents, police officers and even what one believed to be National Guard troops.

"Sources say during the raid, the driveway was filled with more than 50 government vehicles. There was a helicopter flying overhead and a command center set up. On top of it were government sharpshooters with rifles at the ready."

Well, wonder no more: the Religion of Peaceniks working in the halal slaughterhouse were plotting to kill the Danish newspaper publisher,  Flemming Rose, and the accidental counter jihadi cartoonist, Kurt Westergaard. "Dubbed 'The Mickey Mouse Project,' the two men are accused of plotting to target the employees at facilities of the Danish newspaper Morgenavisen Jyllands-Posten, which ran the cartoon."

From the Chicago Sun Times:

Two Chicago men have been arrested on federal charges that link them to planning terrorist acts — including targeting a Danish newspaper that published a controversial cartoon of the prophet Mohammed in 2005.

Dubbed “The Mickey Mouse Project,” the two men are accused of plotting to target the employees at facilities of the Danish newspaper Morgenavisen Jyllands-Posten, which ran the cartoon.

The cartoon depicted Mohammed wearing a bomb as a turban with a lit fuse. It sparked violent riots across the Muslim world, as well as a plot to assassinate Kurt Westergaard, the cartoonist who sketched the image.

David Coleman Headley, 49, and Tahawwur Hussain Rana, 48, are charged in separate criminal complaints made public today by federal authorities in Chicago.

The FBI arrested Headley at O’Hare Airport Oct. 3, while he was was boarding a flight ultimately bound for Pakistan.

After he was picked up by the FBI on Oct. 3, Headley allegedly confessed to the federal agents that he surveilled the Jyllands-Posten offices in Copenhagen and Arhus, Denmark as part of a plot to attack the facility, according to charges.

But Headley told agents he had refocused the plot away from the entire building and narrowed it to Westergaard and the paper’s cultural editor, Flemming Rose: “Whom Headley felt were directly responsible for the cartoons,” the complaint states.

He also allegedly told agents he did surveillance Danish troops that were posted nearby. And he told agents he was trained by a terrorist organization called Lashkar-e-Taiba, according to his criminal complaint.

Headley was charged with one count of conspiracy to commit terrorist acts involving murder and maiming outside the United States and one count of conspiracy to provide material support to the alleged overseas terrorism conspiracy.

Rana, a native of Pakistan who is a Canadian citizen, was arrested Oct. 18 at his home on the North Side of Chicago.

Rana owns several businesses, including First World Immigration Services, which has offices on Devon Avenue in Chicago, New York and Toronto.

Rana was charged with conspiracy to provide material support to a foreign terrorism conspiracy that involved Headley and at least three other specific individuals in Pakistan.

On Oct. 18, the FBI carried out a search warrant on a Grundy County plant in Kinsman, Ill., authorities said is owned by Rana. The plant is used to slaughter goats and sheep according to Muslim religious requirements, providing “halal” meat to Muslim customers and to a grocery store in Chicago.

Witnesses said about 100 agents carried out the search warrant, some wearing military apparel similar to the uniforms of U.S. National Guardsmen. Helicopters, trucks and SUVs could be seen in front of the building during the raid and stayed until at least 9 p.m.

According to the allegations made public today, Headley was involved in surveillance of potential targets in Denmark during two trips there this year, in January and July, and that they got to know each other at a school they attended in Pakistan.

“Because of the serious nature of the allegations, I think it would be inappropriate to comment on the substance of the allegations,” said Headley’s lawyer, John Theis.

Rana's lawyer, Patrick Blegen, said: “Mr. Rana is a well-respected businessman in the Chicagoland community. He adamantly denies the charges and eagerly awaits his opportunity to contest them in court and to clear his and his family’s name. We would ask that the community respect the fact that these are merely allegations and not proof.”

Last year, newspapers in Europe reprinted the controversial cartoon, after three people were arrested in connection with the alleged assassination plot.

In October 2008, authorities say Headley, using the name Daood Gilani, posted a message to a Yahoo group called “abdalians.”

According to the charges made public today, the posting read: “Everything is not a joke . . . We are not rehearsing a skit on Saturday Night Live. Making fun of Islam is making fun of Rasoosallah SAW (Messenger of Allah, Peace be on Him) . . . Call me old-fashioned but I feel disposed towards violence for the offending parties, be they cartoonists from Denmark or Sherry Jones (Author of Jewel Medina) or Irshad Manji . . . They never started debates with folks who slandered our Prophet, they took violent action. Even if God doesn’t give us the opportunity to bring our intentions to fruition, we will claim ajr (a religious reward) for it . . ."

UPDATES: Actually many updates to this story. Rusty has it here: (hat tip Louis)

Headley was picked up as he was leaving the country on his way to Pakistan. That along with the material support charge indicates that the two were connected either to al Qaeda or to another Pakistan based terror group, such as Lashkar-e-Taiba. In the wake of the arrests, Dinah, several readers, and myself have been trying to find out as much as possible about Tahawar Rana. There are several people by that name with internet tracks, but two immediately raised suspicions. One, described as a doctor in Chicago and another who runs an import business in Canada.

UPDATE: Even though the Tahawar Rana from Chicago is a Canadian citizen, it turns out that he is not the same Tahawar Rana affiliated with the Masjid Bilal. Sorry for that. The confusion came when Rana was ID'd as Canadian. I'm retracting parts of the story that mentions any affiliation between the Rana arrested and another man of the same name affiliated with Masjid Bilal. There is no connection to that mosque.

Dinah also tracked down a Halal meat website he runs where he tries to recruit foreigners to work at his meat processing plant.

But wait, there's more, because it seems that Mr. Rana also is somehow connected to an immigration company which it appears he may also own.

His "First World Management Services" also runs the "General Worker" website which claims to be a division of "First World Immigration Services Inc". The website is registered to "Rana, Tahawar Rana,", spelled differently but at the same address matching that of one of Tawahar Rana's businesses.

UPDATE: VOA adds a few details confirming two things we reported earlier:

1) "Tahawwur" seems to be the official spelling of Rana's first name, as we earlier reported and he does own an immigration company. So, let the Google searches begin!

2) The purpose of the trip to Pakistan was to meet up with jihadi groups there.

Here's the pertinent info:

The Justice Department says the two were plotting the attack with Pakistani-based terrorist organizations...

The Justice Department says Headley visited two offices of the Jyllands-Posten in Denmark on the pretense he was visiting on behalf of an immigration group, First World Immigration Services.

[...]

UPDATE: If the quiet and polite neighbors who stuck to themselves didn't raise red flags, then this should have:

The business, which says “Immigrant Law Center’’ on the front door, appeared empty and dark today.

UPDATE: Okay, this isn't the complaint, but it's the presser sent out by the DOJ with the complaint. I'm including the whole thing at the very end of this post below.

A cursory scan brings up three points.

1) Headley seems to have confessed the whole thing a few weeks ago leading to Rana's arrest.

2) Headley attended terror training in Pakistan.

3) It looks like the plot involved a third person, a Kashmiri who was going to be the actual gunman. In addition, Headley "reported" (whatever that means) to several bigger fish in the Pakistani terror networks, including one who works for/with al Qaeda.

UPDATE: Complaint against Rana. Complaint against Headley. I still need some time to digest this. If you see anything interesting/alarming in either complaint, leave a comment or email me.

UPDATE: Some highlights from the presser:

First World Immigration Services, which has offices on Devon Avenue in Chicago, as well as in New York and Toronto

Hmmm, it seems his company was bigger than a cursory glance would suggest.

Again, am I the only one deeply troubled by a terror supporter who also helps people immigrate to the US?

As expected, an internet forum is mentioned. Headley left messages at this Yahoo group expressing a desire to harm those behind the Danish Mohammad cartoon publications. One has to wonder whether or not these public internet statements were instrumental in putting the pair under surveillance? The group doesn't seem like the kind of place where Islamists would be welcome.

UPDATE: Yes, an al Qaeda connection. This year:

Headley traveled with Individual A to Pakistan’s FATA region and met with Kashmiri

That would be Ilyas Kashmiri, who the complaint claims works with al Qaeda.

UPDATE: I notice a difference in the press release, the media reports, and what was actually said by "Individual A" to the Yahoo Group. The press is reporting it as a kind of generic threat against the Jyllands-Posten. The context of the threat, though, was the Muslims today should act like Muslims in Muhammad's time -- ie, kill those who insult him:

call me old fashioned, but I feel disposed to violence for the offending parties, be they cartoonists from Denmark or Sherry Jones (Author of Jewel of Medina) or Irshad Mandji (Liberal Muslim trying to make lesbianism acceptable in Islam, amongst other things) ... they never started debates with folks who slandered the Prophet, they took violent action.

Of those mentioned though, only the sentiment against the newspaper that published images of Mohammad actually seemed to result in a terroristic plot.

Here's the whole press release:

CHICAGO – Two Chicago men have been arrested on federal charges for their alleged roles in conspiracies to provide material support and/or to commit terrorist acts against overseas targets, including facilities and employees of a Danish newspaper that published cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed in 2005, federal law enforcement officials announced today. There was no imminent danger in the Chicago area, officials said, adding that the charges are unrelated to recent terror plot arrests in Boston, New York, Colorado, Texas and central Illinois.

The defendants charged in separate criminal complaints unsealed today in U.S. District Court in Chicago are David Coleman Headley, 49, and Tahawwur Hussain Rana, 48, also known as Tahawar Rana, announced Patrick J. Fitzgerald, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, and Robert D. Grant, Special Agent-in-Charge of the Chicago Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The complaints remained under seal temporarily after the defendants’ arrests, with court approval, so as not to compromise further investigative activity.

Headley, a U.S. citizen who changed his name from Daood Gilani in 2006 and resides primarily in Chicago, was arrested on Oct. 3, 2009, by the Chicago FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force at O’Hare International Airport before boarding a flight to Philadelphia, intending to travel on to Pakistan. He was charged with one count of conspiracy to commit terrorist acts involving murder and maiming outside the United States and one count of conspiracy to provide material support to that overseas terrorism conspiracy.

Rana, a native of Pakistan and citizen of Canada who also primarily resides in Chicago, was arrested on Oct. 18, 2009, at his home by federal agents. Rana is the owner of several businesses, including First World Immigration Services, which has offices on Devon Avenue in Chicago, as well as in New York and Toronto. He was charged with one count of conspiracy to provide material support to a foreign terrorism conspiracy that involved Headley and at least three other specific individuals in Pakistan.

Both men have been held in federal custody since each was arrested. If convicted, Headley faces a maximum sentence of life imprisonment for conspiracy to murder or maim persons abroad, while Headley and Rana each face a maximum of 15 years in prison for conspiracy to provide material support to terrorism.

On Oct. 18, JTTF agents executed search warrants in connection with the investigation at four locations: Headley’s and Rana’s residences on the north side of Chicago, Rana’s immigration business in Chicago, and a farm he owns in Kinsman, Ill., approximately 80 miles southwest of Chicago, which is used to provide halal meat for Muslim customers, as well as a grocery store in Chicago.
According to both complaints, since at least late 2008 until Oct. 3, 2009, as part of the conspiracy to murder and maim persons abroad, Headley allegedly identified and conducted surveillance of potential targets of a terrorist attack in Denmark on two separate trips to Denmark in January and July 2009, and reported and attempted to report on his efforts to other conspirators in Pakistan. As part of the conspiracy to provide material support to terrorism, Rana allegedly helped arrange Headley’s travels overseas and conceal their true nature and purpose to surveil potential terror targets overseas, and discussed potential targets for attack with Headley.

Headley allegedly reported and attempted to report on his overseas surveillance to other conspirators, according to the affidavits, including:
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Ilyas Kashmiri, identified as the operational chief of the Azad Kashmir section of Harakat-ul Jihad Islami (HUJI), a Pakistani-based terrorist organization with links to al Qaeda. Kashmiri, who is presently believed to be in Waziristan in the Federally Administered Tribal Area (FATA) region in northwestern Pakistan, issued a statement this month that he was alive and working with al Qaeda;
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“Individual A” (who is identified as Individual A in the Headley affidavit and as Individual B in the Rana affidavit), who is associated with Kashmiri, as well as with Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), another Pakistani-based terrorist organization;
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an individual identified as “Lashkar-e-Taiba Member A” (LeT Member A), who has substantial influence and responsibility within the organization and whose identity is known to the government.
“The public should be reassured that there was no imminent danger in the Chicago area. However, law enforcement has the duty to be vigilant to guard against not just those who would carry out attacks here on our soil but those who plot on our soil to help carry out violent attacks overseas. I wish to express my deep appreciation to the FBI agents and other members of the Joint Terrorism Task Force for their extremely hard work on this matter,” said Mr. Fitzgerald.

“The criminal complaints unsealed today have exposed a serious plot against overseas targets by two Chicago-based men working with Pakistani-based terrorist organizations. Information developed during this investigation was shared with our foreign partners as we worked together to mitigate these threats. This case is a reminder that the threat posed by international terrorist organizations is global in nature and requires constant vigilance at home and abroad,” said David Kris, Assistant Attorney General for National Security.

“This investigation demonstrates the well-established relationships that we have with our law enforcement partners, both foreign and domestic. We work closely with state, local and federal law enforcement agencies in the United States, as well as with our overseas partners, to identify and disrupt threats here and abroad,” said Mr. Grant.

According to the affidavits in both cases, Headley at times has claimed to be a consultant with or representative of Rana’s business, First World Immigration Services, but appears to perform little if any actual work for the business. In addition, Headley’s apartment in Chicago is leased to an individual who is deceased. Despite his apparent lack of financial resources and substantial employment, Headley has traveled extensively since the second half of 2008, including multiple trips to Pakistan and various countries in Europe. Postings to an internet group for graduates of a military school in the Pakistani town of Hasan Abdal (a group that refers to itself as “abdalians”), reflect that both Rana and Headley have participated in the group and referred to their attendance at that school. The Denmark Project Beginning in late 2008, Headley corresponded extensively with Individual A and LeT Member A regarding what they referred to in coded communications as the “Mickey Mouse Project,” “mmp,” and “the northern project,” according to the affidavit. The Mickey Mouse Project allegedly involved planning for one or more attacks at facilities and employees of Morgenavisen Jyllands-Posten, a Danish newspaper that in 2005 published cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammed, to which many Muslims took great offense. In October 2008, Headley allegedly posted a message to the “abdalians” internet discussion group stating that “I feel disposed towards violence for the offending parties,” referring to the Danish cartoonists and others who he identified “as making fun of Islam.”

Using coded language, Rana, Headley, Individual A and LeT Member A allegedly have referred to this plot, as well as discussions of other targets, as “investments,” “projects,” “business,” and “action,” and have described their hopes for success both in terms of receiving religious awards, as well as getting “rich,” “richer,” and making “profit.” Between August 2008 and Dec. 7, 2008, Headley sent multiple email messages from internet addresses located in Karachi and Lahore in Pakistan, the charges allege. On Dec. 7, 2008, just before traveling from Pakistan to the United States that same day, Headley alleged used one of multiple email accounts to store a detailed list of items for himself, which he titled “Mickey Mouse.” Included on the list (contained in the affidavits) were the following items:
Route Design (train, bus, air)
Cross (Cover Authenticator)
Trade? Immigration?
Ad? (Lost Luggage) (Business) (Entry?)
Kings Square (French Embassy)
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Counter surveillance (magic eye)
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Security (armed)?
In January 2009, Headley traveled to Copenhagen, Denmark, and Rana allegedly arranged portions of his travel. During the trip, Headley allegedly visited two different offices of the Jyllands-Posten — in Copenhagen and Arhus, Denmark. The Copenhagen office is located in Kings Square near the French Embassy. Headley falsely told Jyllands-Posten employees that he was visiting on behalf of First World Immigration Services, which he said was considering opening offices in Denmark and might be interested in advertising the business in the newspaper. While in Denmark, Headley instructed Rana to be alert for an email from a Jyllands-Posten sales representative, and to ask First World’s Toronto and New York offices to “remember me,” in case a newspaper representative called. According to the complaints, Rana corresponded from Chicago with a representative of the Jyllands-Posten by email in which he pretended to be Headley.

After visiting Denmark, Headley traveled to Pakistan to meet with Individual A. During this visit, Headley traveled with Individual A to Pakistan’s FATA region and met with Kashmiri. Before returning to Chicago in June 2009, Headley sent his will to Rana and Rana responded by sending a coded message establishing a new email account, the complaint alleges.

In July and August 2009, Headley exchanged a series of emails with LeT Member A, including an exchange in which Headley asked if the Denmark project was on hold, and whether a visit to India that LeT Member A had asked him to undertake was for the purpose of surveilling targets for a new terrorist attack. These emails reflect that LeT Member A was placing a higher priority on using Headley to assist in planning a new attack in India than on completing the planned attack in Denmark. After this time, Headley and Individual A allegedly continued focusing on the plan with Kashmiri to attack the newspaper, rather than working with LeT, the complaint alleges.

In late July 2009, Headley traveled again to Copenhagen and to other locations in Europe, and Rana again arranged portions of his travel. When Headley returned to the United States, he falsely told border inspectors that he was traveling on business as a representative of First World Immigration, although his luggage contained no papers or other documents relating to First World.
After returning to Chicago in August 2009, Headley allegedly used coded language to repeatedly inquire if Individual A had been in touch with Kashmiri regarding planning for the attack, and expressing concern that Individual A’s communications with Kashmiri had been cut off. In early September 2009, Headley and Rana took a lengthy car ride during which they discussed the activities of the other individuals, including past terrorist acts, and Headley discussed with Rana five actions involving targets that expressly included “Denmark.” In conversations with Rana and Individual A in August and September 2009, Headley indicated that if the “doctor” (alleged to be a reference to Kashmiri) and his people were unable to assist, then Headley would perform the planned operation himself.

In September 2009, after initial press reports indicated that Kashmiri had been killed in a drone attack in Pakistan, Headley and Individual A allegedly had a series of coded conversations in which they discussed the reports of Kashmiri’s death and what it meant for the projects they were planning. Individual A sought to reassure and encourage Headley, telling him, among other things, that “[t]his is business sir; these types of things happen.” On Sept. 20, 2009, Headley allegedly told a family member words to the effect that he had spoken to Rana and they agreed that “business must go on.”

In a Sept. 21, 2009, telephone conversation, Individual A indicated to Headley that Kashmiri was alive and “doing well.” In a subsequent conversation on Sept. 30, 2009, Individual A again assured Headley that Kashmiri, whom he referred to as “Pir Sahib,” was “absolutely all right” and had not gotten “married,” which was code for being killed. Headley asked Individual A if it was possible to now have a meeting with Kashmiri and Individual A responded that Kashmiri “just today, was asking about you” (Headley).

According to the affidavit, Headley stated in conversations last month that he intended to travel to Pakistan in early October to meet with Individual A and Kashmiri, and he was arrested on Oct. 3 as he prepared to board a flight from Chicago to Philadelphia, intending to travel on to Pakistan. During a search of Headley’s luggage, a memory stick was recovered that contained approximately 10 short videos of Copenhagen, including video focused on the Jyllands-Posten building in King’s Square taken both during the day and night, as well as a nearby Danish military barracks and the exterior and interior of Copenhagen’s central train station, consistent with the checklist he stored which mentioned “route design.” In addition, Headley had an airline reservation, allegedly made by Rana, to fly from Atlanta to Copenhagen on Oct. 29, 2009.
The investigation is continuing and is being conducted by the Chicago FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force, with particular assistance from the Chicago Police Department, the Illinois State Police and the Department of Homeland Security’s U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

The prosecution is being handled by Assistant U.S. Attorneys Daniel Collins and Vicki Peters from the Northern District of Illinois, with assistance from the Counterterrorism Section of the Justice Department’s National Security Division.
The public is reminded that a criminal complaint contains mere allegations that are not evidence of guilt. The defendants are presumed innocent and are entitled to a fair trial at which the government has the burden of proving guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.

Boston Muslim Terrorist Son of MAS (Muslim American Society) Leader

Ah yes, the moderates and their children. Ground Zero Glee? FBI: Terror suspect posed for celebratory photos at WTC site. The Massachusetts man arrested today on federal terrorism charges once traveled to New York City and posed for photos at ground zero showing him grinning widely and pointing one finger up in the air.

Man accused in Boston terror plot is son of former Muslim American Society leader
Father moves out of town weeks after son questioned by the FBI

• Media reports on the Boston terror arrest have named three individuals as conspirators in the plot to machine gun people in shopping malls and kill American officials.Two, Daniel Maldonado and Tareq Mehanna, are in custody. The third, however, Ahmad Abousamra, escaped to Syria after being questioned by the FBI in 2006.

• According to the complaint, it was Abousamra who introduced Maldonado and Mehanna to each other during an afternoon of watching “jihad videos” in which Islamic terrorists killed and mutilated American soldiers.

• Abousamra seems to be the most extremist of the three, as well as the one most educated in radical Islamist ideology. According to the criminal complaint:

“Abousamra expressed his belief that suicide bombings were permissible. … Abousamra found justification for his position in the religious writings of Muslim extremists.  Abousamra justified attacks on civilians, such as the September 11, 2001 attacks. Abousamra stated that civilians were not innocent because they paid taxes to support the government and because they were Kufar (non-believers). … Abousamra always justified their extremist views by citing Islamic teachings.”

• Ahmad Abousamra is the oldest son of Abdul-Badi Abousamra, former vice president of the Boston branch of the Muslim American Society, which operates the largest Islamic center in the Northeast. The MAS has branches in 34 cities within 23 states.

• The Muslim American Society, according to Federal prosecutors, “was founded as the overt arm of the Muslim Brotherhood in America.” The Muslim Brotherhood is considered to be the first truly modern Islamic supremacist movement. As such, it has spawned or aided most of the Islamic terrorist organizations functioning around the globe today, including Al Qaeda, Hamas, and Lashkar-e-Taibah.

• In December of 2006, Abdul-Badi Abousamra suddenly left Boston and moved to Detroit, just weeks after his son was questioned by the FBI.

• In the 1990s, Abdul-Badi Abousamra became the president of the Islamic Center of New England (ICNE).

• In 1998, Abdul-Badi Abousamra hired Hafiz Mohammed Masood as a new Imam at the Islamic Center of New England. At that time, Hafiz Masood was in the United States illegally.

• By 1999, Abdul-Badi had also become president of the Islamic Academy of New England (IANE), a parochial school run by the ICNE. (He is still listed as the school’s president in filings with the MA Secretary of State.) By then, Hafiz Masood was teaching classes at IANE.

• Hafiz Mohammed Masood has since been deported for filing a fraudulent religious worker visa sponsored by the ICNE.

• Hafiz Mohammed Masood is the brother of Hafiz Saeed, the founder of Lashkar-e-Taibah (LeT). Lashkar-e-Taibah is the terrorist group responsible for the 2008 Mumbai massacre, carried out by machine gun wielding LeT terrorists against civilians in the city's public places.

• After the Mumbai massacre, The Times of India reported that Hafiz Masood was, while in his role as Imam at the Islamic Center of New England, promoting extremism, raising funds, and recruiting for LeT.

• LeT was the first terrorist group, according to the criminal complaint, which Abousamra contacted when he decided to seek terrorist training.

• Abdul-Badi himself is briefly mentioned in the Mehanna criminal complaint:

Another Conviction of Muslims Engaged in Plotting Islamic Attacks Against American Overseas

The misunderstanders of Islam and would-be murderers got 8 to 20; they should have gotten life.
Yet again, another Bush victory. One has to wonder how vigorously Holder (who dropped the charges against the weapon toting Black Panthers at the voting booths) is pursuing these jihadis. How many cases does he have in the hopper? Surely he discussed them with un-indicted co-conspirators at his Department of Justice booth at the ISNA conference a couple of months back. (/sarc tag off)

You think we can stay ahead of the curve, ahead of every jihad cell and lone jihadi in America with a muhammadan administration? But sleep well, the government is busy at work pretending to be Israeli Mossad in order to track moon scientists sympathetic to Israel in their ranks and indicting them as spies in fake set-ups. I feel safer already, don't you?

Three Sentenced for Conspiring to Commit Terrorist Acts Against Americans Overseas

WASHINGTON -- Three Ohio residents, Mohammad Zaki Amawi, 29, Marwan Othman El-Hindi, 46, and Wassim I. Mazloum, 28, have been sentenced to prison terms ranging from more than 8 years to 20 years for conspiring to commit terrorist acts against Americans overseas, including U.S. military personnel in Iraq, and other terrorism-related violations.

The sentences, which were handed down yesterday by U.S. District Court Chief Judge James G. Carr in the Northern District of Ohio, were announced by David Kris, Assistant Attorney General for National Security; Stephen M. Dettelbach, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio; and C. Frank Figliuzzi, Special Agent in Charge, Cleveland Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).

Judge Carr sentenced Amawi to a term of 20 years incarceration followed by life on supervised release. El-Hindi was sentenced to a term of 13 years incarceration, including 12 years for the terror violations and 18 months for a separate fraud conviction. Mazloum received a sentence of 100 months or 8.3 years incarceration followed by life on supervised release.

In February 2007, Amawi, El-Hindi, and Mazloum were charged in a superseding indictment with conspiring to kill or maim persons outside the United States, including U.S. military personnel serving in Iraq, and conspiring to provide material support to terrorists. Amawi and El-Hindi were also charged individually with distributing information regarding the manufacture or use of explosives, including suicide bomb vests and Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs).

On June 13, 2008, a jury convicted the defendants on all counts. Amawi, a citizen of Jordan and the United States, and El Hindi, a naturalized U.S. citizen born in Jordan, were each convicted of one count of conspiring to kill or maim persons outside the United States, one count of conspiring to provide material support to terrorists, and two counts of distributing information on explosives. Mazloum, a U.S. legal permanent resident from Lebanon, was convicted of one count of conspiring to kill or maim persons outside the United States and one count of conspiring to provide material support to terrorists. The convictions represented the nation’s first successful trial of a "homegrown terror cell" for terrorism related crimes.

At trial, the government proved that all three defendants engaged in a conspiracy, beginning sometime prior to June 2004, to kill or maim persons outside the United States, including U.S. armed forces personnel in Iraq. As part of the conspiracy, the defendants conducted firearms training and accessed and copied instructions in the construction and use of explosives – including IEDs and suicide bomb vests. In addition, the defendants conspired to recruit others to participate in jihad training; researched and solicited funding sources for such training; and proposed sites for training in firearms, explosives and hand-to-hand combat to prospective recruits.

NY Imam Indicted in NYC Terror Attack Plot

A man of the Quran, an imam, has been indicted on perjury charges in the Islamic plot to bomb NY's subways.

The righteous imam aided and abetted Zazi the nazi:
NY Jihad Raid Goes National: Denver jihad plot suspect admits Al-Qaeda ties
New York raid here.

Cleric Indicted In Alleged NYC Terror Plot

A Muslim cleric and funeral director from New York has been indicted on charges that he lied to federal agents about a Colorado man who has been charged with plotting a terrorist attack in the city.

NEW YORK (CNN) - A Muslim cleric and funeral director from New York has been indicted on charges that he lied to federal agents about a Colorado man who has been charged with plotting a terrorist attack in the city.

Ahmad Wais Afzali, 37, was indicted late Monday on four counts of making false statements to federal agents, according to the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York.

Afzali's attorney, Ron Kuby, confirmed the indictment, but said he had not yet received a formal copy.

Afzali was charged in September with lying to the FBI in its investigation of Najibullah Zazi, who has since been charged with plotting a terrorist attack. Afzali pleaded not guilty at that time.

Afzali, who is from the New York borough of Queens, was released a few days after his arrest on $1.5 million bail. He is allowed to travel to work and the mosque for worship, and is under electronic monitoring.

Zazi, 24, and his father, Mohammed Wali Zazi, were arrested in September by federal agents in Denver, Colorado. The elder Zazi also was charged with making false statements to investigators.

Muslim Apostate, Nonie Darwish, on Today's islamic Terror Bust and the Misunderstanders of Islam

Nonie Darwish, Muslim Apostate, author and extraordinary truth teller on Islamic teaching, has penned this piece for Atlas on the latest in a string of terror arrests averting massive islamic attacks that would have taken an untold number of American lives.

Darwish knows. She lived it.

Terror Arrests And The Misunderstood Religion Nonie Darwish

Today we have yet another terror-related arrest of a Muslim, Tarek Mehanna, who was plotting jihad terror attacks against US shopping malls. But Americans are told to never link that to Islamic teachings.

Committed Muslims insist that Islam is misunderstood by the West. Sensitivity training to Islam is forced upon US government employees and teachers, telling them that Islam has nothing to do with terrorism implying that if they believe their eyes, ears and common sense, then they must be Islamophobes.

Muslim propaganda is cleverly wrapped in illogical strategies to get the West confused about their own perception of Islam. For centuries Muslims lived with unchallenged warped logic regarding their religion. Instead of examining non-Muslim fear of Muslim violence and oppression encouraged by Muslim scriptures, Muslims are trained to regard such complaints as an attack on Muslims and Islam itself.

I have no doubt in my mind that when Dalia Mogahed, White House advisor on Islamic issues, says that Sharia is misunderstood, that she really means it. Like her, early in my life as a Muslim, I believed the same.That is how we were trained to accept our destiny under Sharia which turned us into robots ruled by fear, intimidation and warped logic. Women are told they have been liberated by Islam because pre-Islamic society used to kill new born girls and Islam stopped that. We were told that before Islam came, men could marry an unlimited amount of women and slave girls and Islam came and limited the number to 4. We were told that women were not able to hold property before Islam and Islam came and gave us that right and the right not to share our property even with our husbands. The absence of community property between husband and wife in Islam is sold as a benefit when it really is the result of polygamy, where women had to protect their inheritance from being shared by other wives and by a husband who does not want to share his wealth with his wives. What a great deal, we Muslim women, thought. Day in and day out we had to thank Allah forIslam that stopped our murder at birth. We had to thank Allah for being supported by husbands in a society that crippled us and did not allow us to get out of the house without our husband’s permission.

Just as Muslim women are indoctrinated into believing that Islam saved them from murder at birth, Muslims are trying to convince the West that they too have nothing to fear from Islam. Thus we see the sensitivity training of Westerners who are expected to never blame Muslim teachings for terrorism. Western deep fear of being called a racist has been transferred to fear of being called an Islamophobe. So if the definition of Jihad in Muslim scriptures state that Jihad means “to war with non-Muslims to establish the religion”, the West should not misunderstand the word ‘war’ to be aggression. If Muslim scriptures clearly state that an apostate must be killed immediately and their killers will not be punished, then we must not take the word ‘kill’ at face value. If Muslim scriptures say that women are deficient in intellect and religion and must not be trusted, we should not take that seriously. Thus connecting Muslim commandments to kill and war with Islamic terror and violence is an act of Islamophobia that must be punished as a hate crime.

We are still told that the West simply misunderstands Islam. Even after constant and persistent acts of Muslim terror against the West, we are told with deep sincerity, not be afraid of Islam even if Muslims are holding the Quran in one hand and decapitating non-Muslims with another. The message of Islam to kill kafirs and apostates is so unreal and unimaginable to the Western mind that some Westerners actually are convinced it can’t be true and that no religion can openly advocate such violence and stay respected by the international community. It must be us, the West, who does not understand Islam because the alternative is unimaginable. But the unimaginable has survived and thrived for 1400 years and still going strong with full force with the support of petro-dollars and facilitated by Western do-gooders.

Nonie Darwish

Author, “Cruel and Usual Punishment” and “Now they call me Infidel”

Massive Muslim Attack Averted: "plot to kill two prominent US politicians and carry out a holy war by attacking shoppers in US malls and American troops in Iraq"

So, Mr President, if there is no Islamic jihad and there is no war on terruh, only "overseas contingency operations", what is this? A domestic contingency operation or a "law enforcement matter? Numnuttery -- and it's our very lives and way of life that are at stake. Our grandchildren are going to hate us. If our parents were the "the greatest generation," as Tom Brokaw likes to say, then Brokaw and his ilk will be coined the "the worst of worst generations".

Expect another tax increase to fund more "outreach" to the ummah [worldwide Muslim community].

Mass. Man Planned Terror Attacks on US Malls Denise Lavoie, AP/Yahoo! News

A 27-year-old Massachusetts man conspired to kill two prominent US politicians and carry out a holy war by attacking shoppers in US malls and American troops in Iraq, federal prosecutors said Wednesday as they announced his arrest.

Tarek Mehanna of Sudbury sought — but never received — training in terrorist camps and worked with others from 2001 to May 2008 on the conspiracy to "kill, kidnap, maim or injure" people in foreign countries and the politicians, authorities said.

The politicians were members of the executive branch who are no longer in office, authorities said. They refused to give their names.

Prosecutors said Mehanna conspired with two other men: Ahman Abousamra, who authorities say is now in Syria, and an unnamed man, who is cooperating with authorities in the investigation.

The three men discussed their desire to participate in "violent jihad against American interests" and talked about "their desire to die on the battlefield," prosecutors said.

Mehanna had "multiple conversations about obtaining automatic weapons and randomly shooting people in shopping malls," Acting US Attorney Michael Loucks said. Their plan was thwarted when they could only get handguns, not automatic weapons, he said. Prosecutors would not say which malls had been targeted.

They also hoped to attack US troops stationed in Iraq...

Mehanna, a US citizen, was arrested in November and charged with lying to the FBI in December 2006 when asked about the whereabouts of Daniel Maldonado, who is now serving a 10-year prison sentence for training alongside al-Qaeda members to overthrow the Somali government.

Hush Hush: Huge Fed/FBI Raid on Chicago Halal Goat Meat Slaughterhouse

Anyone out there hear any more on this curious story? The business is called First World Management. Spokesman Ross Rice would not say why agents were there, but the FBI said the raid began Sunday morning and ended in the late afternoon. They were at the plant about nine hours total. It was a huge operation, involving more than 100 agents, police officers and even what one believed to be National Guard troops.

Federal Agents Raid Goat Meat Plant

Kinsman, IL - Federal agents conducted a raid Sunday afternoon at a goat meat processing plant near Morris, Illinois. The secretive operation was led by the Chicago FBI office, the Feds are being very tight-lipped on what they found and why they were even there.

Spokesman Ross Rice confirms agents were at 6260 Kinsman Road, in Kinsman, Illinois. The business is called First World Management. Rice would not say why agents were there but said nobody was taken into custody

The FBI said the raid began Sunday morning and ended in the late afternoon. They were at the plant about nine hours total.

According to sources, the plant provides goat, beef and lamb meat which is prepared in the Halal way in accordance with Muslim custom.

The government workers inside First World Management meat packing plant in Kinsman Monday wouldn't say why they were there or why scores of FBI agents and Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents were there Sunday.

The trouble is the FBI isn't saying much about what happened at this rural Grundy County plant. A spokesman confirms that the plant, which has a Muslim prayer room, was raided as part of an ongoing criminal investigation.

[...]

Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials said the agency assisted in the raid, but had no further comment. According to sources, many of the FBI and ICE agents were armed.

Several USDA criminal investigators were on site at the plant on Monday, but they would not comment on the situation.

Maybe they can close terror central on health violations.

One man who was talking about the raid was Jim Cavaness. He's a handyman who occasionally works at the plant where goats, sheep and cows are slaughtered. On Sunday, he witnessed the raid and says he was questioned by FBI agents.

Cavaness says the FBI asked him if he had seen anything unusual at the plant. He says he's never seen anything unusual, but, he says, judging by the amount of firepower on the scene, the FBI wasn't just working an immigration case.

"Way too much overkill for immigration," Cavaness said.

Neighbors who saw the raid on Sunday told CBS 2 it was a huge operation, involving more than 100 agents, police officers and even what one believed to be National Guard troops.

Sources say during the raid, the driveway was filled with more than 50 government vehicles. There was a helicopter flying overhead and a command center set up. On top of it were government sharpshooters with rifles at the ready.

George Jackson III is an attorney hired by one of the plant operators, Dr. Syed Hamid. Jackson and Dr. Hamid spoke briefly while on their way to a meeting with the federal prosecutor Monday.

Jackson says it's too early to say why there was such a huge show of force at the plant.

"Obviously, it was more than what was needed here, but why they felt the need to come forward with that much manpower allegedly, it's too early to say," Jackson said.

Jackson said federal agents confiscated the company's computers, effectively shutting down the business. Dr. Hamid chose not to weigh in Monday.

NYC: Raining on a Muslim Day Parade 2009

It was a sparse turnout at today's Muslim day Parade down Madison avenue. It was a very different showing from last year's hate fest (Atlas coverage of last year's parade here).
It seems with the election of Obama they are in more of an operational mode (see the Census booth below).

There is a couple of noteworthy observations. This was the first year with a NY Muslim Police Band -- playing, of all things, "This is my Country" (twice, no less). Cops assigned to the rally were very "protective", one going so far as to tell my colleague Pamela Hall that "she was taking too many pictures and she was making the Muslims 'nervous'".

Praying on Madison

 

Takbir!

Cops praying

Shoes praying

Women praying (only in the back) -- a la the old back of the bus. What would Rosa Parks say?

Women allowed to pray in the last two rows only.

'Excellence in education"

 

All the little children

NYC Muslim Police band

Respect the Muslim holidays in the public schools!

 
 

Keffiyahs abound (modern day swastika)

Blue and white ........yikes!

There was a "census" booth urging Muslims to get involved in the Census -- "it's in our hands"

Still uploading. Check back for video...............

UPDATE: Urban Infidel was there: Before I start, I'd like to thank all of those who keep us safe.

UPDATE: The Islamist Rabbi (who threatened litigation jihad, remember?) was harassing and stalking  a friend of mine who was minding his own business (A Rabbi who supports Hamas? Americans Against Hate video)

Meshugga!

UPDATE: Pamela over at Silent no More has fantastic coverage here.

"Muslim political participation, especially in a non-Muslim country, as a form of jihad."

Muslims and voting in adoptive lands.
Muslim Directory hat tip Adam

"Muslim political participation, especially in a non-Muslim country, as a form of jihad."

"(voting) participation most certainly includes voting for whichever party or candidate best serves the needs and interests of the UK and indeed world wide Muslim population. This does not mean approval or acceptance of the ideal of secular democracy, but the intention is to use the means and avenues available to benefit Muslims and the communities we reside in."

Tactical, collective voting in particular instances, contests, contexts and times has been approved by many Scholars of our time.

Islam is a comprehensive system where worship (`ibadah) and legislation (Shari`ah) are merged. The distinction between the secular and religious or spiritual realms is nothing new to Christianity, but is alien to Islam and Muslims. This concept of duality in life can be deemed unacceptable to Muslims. Muslims believe that Allah (swt) is the sole Creator and Sustainer of the Worlds. One Who "…takes account of every single thing (Qur'an 72:28); that He is omnipotent and omniscient; that His mercy and bounties encompasses everyone and suffice for all. In that capacity, Allah (swt) revealed His divine guidance to humanity, made certain things permissible and others prohibited, commanded people to observe His injunctions and to judge according to them. If they do not do so, then they have committed disobedience and transgression.

Certainly Congressman Keith Ellison is part of this form of jihad. Muslim Congressman Ellison's trip to Mecca cost $13,350 -- paid for by the Muslim Brotherhood Jihadwatch

There is a reason CAIR spends so much time on Capitol Hill.

Back on February 27, 2008: Mosques Preaching Obama: Muslims Vote Inshalla

Separation of Mosque and State: Obama voter drives in mosques September 6, 2008

UN-INDICTED CO-CONSPIRATOR CAIR URGES MUSLIMS TO REGISTER AT MOSQUES, VOTE OBAMA October 2, 2008

 OBAMA ELECTIONEERING AT TAX EXEMPT MOSQUES: POLITICAL ISLAM AT TAXPAYER EXPENSE October 7, 2008

There are no accidents

January 18, 2007 Barack Hussein Obama's "Apostasy" from Islam

March 5, 2007 Pro Palestinian Obama and Edward Said

March 6, 2007: Obama and Reverend Wright

October 4, 2007 Obama dumps American flag pin

January 4, 2008 Obama and violent inciter and Islamist supporter Kenyan Odinga and here (Obama and Odinga humdinger) and some media noticed -Obama Odinga Atlas sighting

January 9,2008 Obama, the Muslim Thing, And Why It Matters by Pamela Geller (Israel National News)

Januray 18, 2008 Obama's Brother is a Radical Muslim and his sister

January 31, 2008 Obama to convene a summit of Islamic nations to address their grievances should he ascend to the Presidency

February 16, 2008 Obama: Arab American

February 28, 1008: Obama and Islam:  The Third Rail in American Politics

February 2008 Mosques Preaching Obama: Muslims Vote Inshalla

Obama's Contributions: Foreign and Domestic

Gaza Contributions from "Palestinian" Rafah refugee camp (story broke at Atlas)

UPDATE: Today's CAIR media advisory - national Obamacare must be good for the ummah:

- CAIR MEDIA ADVISORY -

DC: Muslim Coalition to Host Interfaith Hearing on Health Care

(WASHINGTON, D.C., 10/12/09) - On Wednesday, October 14, the American Muslim Taskforce on Civil Rights and Elections (AMT), a coalition of major national Islamic organizations, will host an “Interfaith Hearing About Universal Health Care” on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C.

WHAT: Interfaith Hearing About Universal Health Care
WHEN: Wednesday, October 14, 2009, Noon-2 p.m.
WHERE: Rayburn House Office Building, Room 2203, Capitol Hill, Washington, D.C.

NYC: Muslims Protest "RACIAL PROFILING" in wake of arrests in major jihad terror plot

Out of control. No racial profiling. In other words, stop arresting and investigating Muslims engaged in jihad, just let them take over and shuddup. This video is on CAIR's TV channel.

I want to see Muslim rallies against jihad in America, against honor killing, against Jew hatred.... where are the Muslim rallies for Rifqa Bary's freedom of religion?

New York: Muslims complain about "racial profiling" in wake of arrests in major jihad terror plot Jihadwatch

Think about what they could be doing in the aftermath of the revelation of the New York jihad plot. They could have demonstrated against those who supposedly "twist" and "hijack" Islam to find in it justification for terrorism. They could have offered full and open cooperation from law enforcement to root out the terrorists from their midst. They could have called for the institution of full-scale programs in mosques and Islamic schools to teach against the doctrines of jihad and Islamic supremacism that lead to such terror plots. Instead, here is more predictable victimhood-mongering and claims of "racial profiling." What race is Islam again?

"Muslim advocates charge NYPD is racial profiling in Queens raids tied to alleged Zazi terror plot," by Henrick Karoliszyn and Samuel Goldsmith for the New York Daily News, October 10 (thanks to Weasel Zippers):

...The rally was in response to raids last month linked to a suspected bomb plot. Najibullah Zazi, 24, who authorities say was trained at an Al Qaeda terror camp, pleaded not guilty to conspiring to detonate explosives.

"An entire community of people and religion should not be profiled or characterized as terrorists because of [one] certain investigation," said Monami Maulik, who runs the South Asian immigrant rights group Desis Rising Up and Moving.

Fine. What is Desis Rising Up and Moving doing to teach against Islamic supremacism among Muslims, so as to make it easier to distinguish jihadists and potential jihadists from people who are just going about the business of their daily lives? Nothing? I thought so.

Naiz Khan, who allowed Zazi to stay at his Flushing apartment, said FBI agents raided his flat and he hasn't been able to find work since.

"I was so scared and I was so nervous," he said. "I have been so affected by this."

He lost his job because of the raid? If he did nothing, what is he so nervous about? If he did nothing, nothing will link him to the plot.

"People are scared," said Sultan Faiz, a leader at Abu Bakar Mosque in Queens.

Organizers say Muslims in New York haven't been this scared since the months after 9/11, when some were subject to discrimination across the country.

The NYPD issued a statement saying they don't engage in racial profiling.

Obama First Female Veiled Islamist Appointee, Dalia Mogahed, Promotes Sharia, Says it's "Misunderstood"

Earlier this year, in April, I ran this post: Obama's Three Degrees of Anti-Semitic Separation, warning Americans of Obama's first female 'Islamist' appointee, Egyptian born Dalia Mogahed. She had conducted her first interview with Sheik Yusuf Al-Qaradawi's extremist Islamic website, Islam Online. I posted the whole thing here. The taqiyya interview is irony-rife with claims of victimhood and subjugation.

This latest taqiyya (lies to advance Islam) whitewashes the horror, the cruelty, the barbarism, the misogyny, the gender apartheid of shariah (Islamic) law. Is anyone still wondering where all this is going?

Barack Obama adviser says Sharia Law is misunderstood Telegraph (hat tip Andrew Bostom)

President Barack Obama's adviser on Muslim affairs, Dalia Mogahed, has provoked controversy by appearing on a British television show hosted by a member of an extremist group to talk about Sharia Law.

Miss Mogahed, appointed to the President's Council on Faith-Based and Neighbourhood Partnerships, said the Western view of Sharia was "oversimplified" and the majority of women around the world associate it with "gender justice".

The White House adviser made the remarks on a London-based TV discussion programme hosted by Ibtihal Bsis, a member of the extremist Hizb ut Tahrir party.

The group believes in the non-violent destruction of Western democracy and the creation of an Islamic state under Sharia Law across the world.

She said: "I think the reason so many women support Sharia is because they have a very different understanding of sharia than the common perception in Western media.

"The majority of women around the world associate gender justice, or justice for women, with sharia compliance.

"The portrayal of Sharia has been oversimplified in many cases."

Sharia in its broadest sense is a religious code for living, which decrees such matters as fasting and dressing modestly. However, it has also been interpreted as requiring the separation of men and women.

It also includes the controversial "Hadd offences", crimes with specific penalties set by the Koran and the sayings of the prophet Mohammed. These include death by stoning for adultery and homosexuality and the removal of a hand for theft.

Miss Mogahed admitted that even many Muslims associated Sharia with "maximum criminal punishments" and "laws that... to many people seem unequal to women," but added: "Part of the reason that there is this perception of Sharia is because Sharia is not well understood and Islam as a faith is not well understood."

The video of the broadcast has now been prominently posted on the front page of Hizb ut Tahrir's website.

Miss Mogahed, who was born in Egypt and moved to America at the age of five, is the first veiled Muslim woman to serve in the White House. Her appointment was seen as a sign of the Obama administration's determination to reach out to the Muslim world.

She is also the executive director of the Gallup Center for Muslim Studies, a project which aims to scientifically sample public opinion in the Muslim world.

During this week's broadcast, she described her White House role as "to convey... to the President and other public officials what it is Muslims want."

Wendy Wright, president of Concerned Women for America, said Miss Mogahed was “downplaying” Sharia Law.

“There is a reason sharia has got a bad name and it is how it has been exercised. Regrettably in the US there have been acts of injustice perpetrated against women that are driven by the Sharia-type mindset that women are objects not human beings,” she said.

She cited the example of Muzzammil Hassan, a Buffalo man who ran a cable channel aimed at countering Muslim stereotypes and was charged earlier this year with beheading his wife after she filed for divorce.

“Americans understand by example, it’s not as if we are an ignorant mass of people. Just as we don’t broad brush all Muslims, so should Dalia not downplay the serious nature of sharia law.”

UPDATE: Here's today's call to kill Jews from Dalia's spiritual soul mate, Yusuf Al Qaradawi. The leading Muslim voice is urging Egyptians to turn this Friday into a nationwide day of anger against the "Israeli practices at the Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem."

The Qatar-based cleric flew to Egypt from Doha on Monday to deliver a speech at the Egyptian Journalists' Syndicate in Cairo, where he condemned the Arab governments' silence towards the "violation of Al Aqsa's holiness" by Israeli settlers and occupation forces.

Huh? Jerusalem belongs to the Jews..................go back to Mecca and leave decent folks alone.

Pamela Geller, Newsmax: Obama Making America Less Safe

My latest at Newsmax: Obama Making America Less Safe

Excerpt:

Just last week, a Muslim in New York was indicted for plotting to kill American troops. Another 24 are being sought. A New York imam, an FBI informant turned double agent, tipped off the would-be bomber that the FBI was on his tail. Another Muslim was arrested in Dallas for plotting to blow up an office building. Yet another Muslim was charged in a plot to blow up a federal building in Springfield, Ill. Other Muslims have been accused of plotting an attack on the Quantico Marine base. And other Muslims disappeared after arousing suspicion while photographing the Philadelphia subway system. How long do you think you have?

And while all this is happening, what is Obama doing? He is being tough in Afghanistan at least, right? If he is, he isn’t taking much of an active interest. The commander of our troops in Afghanistan, Gen. Stanley McChrystal, said in an interview broadcast Sunday: “I’ve talked to the president, since I’ve been here, once on a VTC [video teleconference].” CBS’ David Martin asked a follow-up question: “You’ve talked to him once in 70 days?” McChrystal said: “That is correct.”

Obama wasn’t always this indifferent. During the election he banged on the Afghan war drum. Afghanistan was the “good” war, Iraq the “bad” war. Afghanistan was neglected. That’s where the real action was, according to Gen. Obama, where the war on jihad, the war on terror, the overseas contingency operation (as the Obama administration now calls it) really was. Afghanistan was where Obama would redeploy our troops.

It was a marketing strategy for a man with a very different agenda.

Obama is not a wartime president, and certainly no commander in chief. He is sending thousands to their death in Afghanistan for no purpose, no objective. As Obama said recently, “victory is not the goal.” His meandering, procrastination, and indecision are a prescription for casualties (the wrong kind: ours, not theirs). It makes no sense strategically. A weak, aimless strategy gets our boys killed.

America should be outraged.

Obama’s contempt for the military is palpable. Since he took office, we have been experiencing the highest U.S. troop casualty rate ever in Afghanistan, month after month. Why is Obama keeping our finest young Americans there when victory is not the objective? If he has no goal and no plan for victory, he should bring our soldiers home. Obama’s aimless, useless operation in Afghanistan is a death trap.

Jet halted at LAX; two Middle Eastern men are removed by police, Bomb scare

Were they Mormons? Christians? Jews? Hindus? Sikhs? Coptic Christians? Who is taking bets on who the terrorists are? I want some of that action. My question to Americans is, how long do you think they are going to catch every one of the thousands of jihadis plotting against America in America? This defensive strategy is a loser's strategy. It is only a matter of time.

The only reason we were safe after 911 was because of Bush, his team, his policies.

Obama is dismantling those very same policies, emasculating the CIA, trying (and failing) to close GITMO, creating walls between agencies -- the same terrible policies of Clinton that made 911 possible. How long do you think you are safe while Obama increases triple fold "diversity" visas and "religious" visas at State from the fiercest jihad hotspots in the world (Somalia, Gaza, Pakistan, Afghanistan etc. )?

This week alone, a Muslim in New York was indicted for plotting to kill American troops. Another twenty four are being sought. A New York imam informant turned double agent tipped off the would be bomber that the FBI was on his tail. Another Muslim was arrested in Dallas for plotting to blow up an office building. Yet another Muslim was charged in a plot to blow up a federal building in Springfield, Illinois. Other Muslims have been accused of plotting an attack on the Quantico Marine base. And other Muslims disappeared after arousing suspicion while photographing the Philadelphia subway system. How long do you think you have?

Jet halted at LAX; two men are removed by police LA Times blog (hat tip Den)

A plane was stopped from taking off from Los Angeles International Airport, and two men on board were taken into custody, according to the Los Angeles Police Department.

LAPD Lt. John Romero said the men, who appeared to be of Middle Eastern descent, were acting suspiciously.

A law enforcement source said at least one of the men ran into a restroom on the plane and appeared to hide while the New York-bound jet was taxiing on the runway, according to the source, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the case was ongoing. 

The flight crew confronted the two men and made the decision to stop the plane before it took off, the source said. The men were taken into custody by heavily armed law enforcement officials.

The plane has been taken to a remote area of the airport to be searched by a bomb squad, sources said.

The LAPD's anti-terrorism unit and the FBI are on the case, but the source said it's too early to tell whether terrorism played any role in the incident.

FBI spokeswoman Laura Eimiller said that she was aware of only one person being detained for questioning after the person failed to comply with airline safety regulations and directions of the crew.

Rash of BOMB SCARES ACROSS THE US

Nobody's talking about what appears to be an outbreak of bomb scares ....... this today and yesterday. Look at this, we are living in a state of siege.

SAN FRANCISCO: Bomb scare closes Transbay Terminal

(09-28) 12:22 PDT SAN FRANCISCO -- San Francisco's Transbay Terminal reopened shortly after noon after a suspicious package found aboard a Muni bus was found not to be a bomb, authorities said

The terminal at First and Mission streets was ordered evacuated at 11:19 a.m., said Lt. Mindy Talmadge of the Fire Department. Mission Street between Second and Beale streets was also closed.

FLORIDA: Police still investigating bomb scare at New Port Richey supermarket

NEW PORT RICHEY - While New Port Richey police officers investigate leads, they aren't releasing much new information about the bomb scare at a Sweetbay Supermarket.

"We're following up with some that we're hopeful could lead to the identification of the suspect," Capt. Jeffrey Harrington said this afternoon.

He said police didn't want to impede the investigation by releasing information too early.

MASSACHUSETTS: Bomb scare evacuates Westfield Wal-Mart

A bomb scare at a Wal-Mart in Westfield on Sunday afternoon leads to an evacuation. Police and fire crews arrived on scene to find employees and customers scattered through the parking lot. According to witnesses, they say someone called in a bomb threat saying it would detonate at 6:30pm. A device was discovered, but nothing exploded.

FLORIDA: Bomb Scare at Springfield Goodwill

A stretch of Business 98 in Springfield was shut down for almost two hours Sunday as authorities investigated a suspicious package at the local Goodwill. The Bay County Sheriff's bomb squad was called in, along with Springfield Police and Fire-Rescue.

TEXAS: Bomb scare in Laredo shuts down 3 city blocks

AP Authorities say a bomb scare in downtown Laredo shut down three city blocks while a suspicious object was removed from the courthouse. ...

NEW YORK: Wall  Street Bomb Scare

... drew a bomb-squad investigation Thursday that closed several blocks surrounding the NYSE for about an hour just after the closing bell....

Reality Check Please: Obama Releases GITMO Muslim Terrorists During Onslaught of Jihad Activity across America

So let's get this straight. The priority of the master of Dawah in the White House after a week of thwarted Islamic bomb attacks across America is ..... release the worst captured Muslim terrorists held in the kindest facility in the benevolent, free world. 

Just this week alone, a Muslim in New York was indicted for plotting to kill American troops. Another was arrested in Dallas for plotting to blow up an office building. Yet another was charged in a plot to blow up a federal building in Springfield, Illinois. Other Muslims have been accused of plotting an attack on the Quantico Marine base. And other Muslims disappeared after arousing suspicion while photographing the Philadelphia subway system.

We have seen a large number of GITMO Muslim terrorists go right back to fighting the war against the West. So can someone, anyone, explain the strategy, the logic behind this moral sickness?

Obama Administration Frees Three More Gitmo Detainees ABC News

The Department of Justice Saturday evening announced that two detainees had been transferred from Guantanamo Bay to Ireland, and one had been transferred to Yemen.

There are more than 220 detainees remaining at the prison. In the last couple months, the White House has made it increasingly clear that the President will not make his self-stated January 22, 2010 deadline to close to prison.

Alla Ali Bin Ali Ahmed, a native of Yemen, was captured in Pakistan in 2002 and returned to Yemen today.

Known at Gitmo as Captive 692, the government labeled Ali Ahmed an "enemy combatant," saying he "was associated with Al-Qaeda. He was present on the front lines in Bagram, Afghanistan. He was identified by a senior Al-Qaeda facilitator as having been a resident at a safehouse in Kandahar, Afghanistan in 2000 (his individual also saw the detainee at a safehouse located in Faisalabad, Pakistan in February 2002 with a group of Yemenis who had fled Afghanistan). Finally, the Detainee was identified by another individual, a senior Al-Qaeda operational planner, as having resided at a safehouse located in Kandahar in 2001." (more)

Muslim Bomber Targeted Republican Representative Aaron Schock in Illinois

In the name of Allah ................. it's a religion of peace, asshats. Got it?

Rep. Aaron Schock's office was Jihadi's target

Rep. Aaron Schock's (R-Ill.) office in Illinois state capital of Springfield was one of the targets of a planned terrorist attack, his office said Friday.

Michael C. Finton, known as Talib Islam, was arrested Wednesday after trying to detonate a van he believed was stuffed with explosives near the Paul Findley Federal Building in Springfield. Finton had been collaborating on the attack with an undercover FBI agent and is being charged with attempting to murder federal officers or employees and trying to detonate a weapon of mass destruction, according to the Associated Press.

"My office was notified today of the attempted terrorist attack on both the Federal Building and my Congressional Office in Springfield," Schock said in a statement. "I am incredibly grateful to the FBI for their fine work in preventing this terrorist attack."

Schock's office was a secondary target, according to an Associated Press report.

Finton, 29, converted to Islam in prison and said famed American Taliban operative John Walker Lindh was his hero. Finton also expressed a desire to fight Israelis in the Gaza Strip and received military training in Afghanistan. He was under federal supervision for months.

Reverting to Islam: NY Imam Informant Turned on USA and Tipped off Muslim Bomber, Zazi the Nazi, of FBI Surveillance

The Muslims who are "working with" law enforcement present a special problem. It is in their doctrine that good Muslims, pious Muslims, lie, deceive to advance Islam, institute sharia, take over non-Muslim lands.

The New York imam working with law enforcement on the biggest bust in the US since 911 illustrates just how difficult the problem is. Imam Afzali, a permanent legal resident from Afghanistan, is accused of lying to the FBI after he allegedly tipped off terror suspect Najibullah Zazi, 24.

The Queens imam is charged with lying to federal authorities investigating an alleged terror conspiracy. His family posted a $1.5-million bail.

 Zazi was charged Thursday with one count of conspiring with others, who are not named, to use "one or more weapons of mass destruction," court papers say, including bombs or other explosives. Zazi's father, Mohammed Zazi, 53, also of Aurora, also was arrested and charged with making false statements to federal authorities. In New York, Afzali declined to answer reporters' questions regarding Zazi other than to say Zazi used to visit the mosque.

The loyalty is always to Islam.

It's interesting to watch the media report on Islamic attacks on the West and struggle with identifying the enemy. Never is Islam mentioned, nor the violent doctrine in the quran that inspires the millions of mujahideen worldwide. Wild.

Today, New York Muslim indicted for plotting to kill U.S. troops
FBI arrests Jordanian for downtown Dallas bomb plot...
Illinois man charged in plot to bomb federal offices...
Terror suspects accused of targeting Marine base in Quantico...
Men vanish after taking photos of Philly subway system...

Obama has no trouble calling it out the enemy by its name - global warming.

Rep Peter King has been a giant on the war on jihad. Amazing guy.

A 'double agent' informant  NY Post

Najibullah Zazi planned for more than a year to manufacture and detonate bombs, with New York's transit system the likely target.

Those are among the terrorism charges lodged yesterday against the airport-shuttle driver, who reportedly admitted having received weapons and explosives training from al Qaeda.

Let's hope Attorney General Eric Holder was right when he said he believes that "any imminent threat arising from this case has been disrupted."

But there's another troubling element to this case: the role of Ahmad Wais Afzali, a Queens imam who, despite having cooperated with investigators in the past, allegedly tipped off Zazi that the feds were closing in -- forcing agents to move against Zazi sooner than planned.

Which raises the question of whether Afzali's dual role -- cooperating against would-be terrorists on the one hand, tipping them off on the other -- was an aberration. The FBI and local police have invested much time and effort in trying to develop sources of information in the Muslim community.

But some, like Rep. Pete King, claim that "80 to 85 percent of mosques in this country are controlled by Islamic fundamentalists." And while "average Muslims are loyal . . . they won't come forward and cooperate with police." The charges against Afzali make King's allegations all the more worrisome.

Islam In the Capital, the Culture, Colonization

Washington today, Islam on Capital Hill, "Our Time Has Time" -- a sorry crowd of 1000 maybe 5k (not the promised 50,000).

Not the crowd that was expected. Extra garbage containers were set up for the crowds but the fields are empty .........

Photo credit: Robert Spencer

Today, New York Muslim indicted for plotting to kill U.S. troops
FBI arrests Jordanian for downtown Dallas bomb plot...
Illinois man charged in plot to bomb federal offices...
Terror suspects accused of targeting Marine base in Quantico...
Men vanish after taking photos of Philly subway system...

Former Muslim United founding member Amil Imani explains Islam in America here:

Ads are popping up in newspapers and magazines proclaiming the magnificence of Islam and aiming to refute the “false allegations” of Islam’s ill-wishers.

Huge billboards are festooning major highways, such as the one along Highway 101 and Tully Road in San Jose, California, with crafty messages. Bold letters on the billboard proclaim: Islam? You Deserve to Know. A toll-free number, 1-877-WhyIslam and website, WhyIslam.org beckon the public to get the real scoop about the religion of peace.

The billboard sneakily reminds the viewers about their kinship with Muslims. “Islam: The message of Abraham, Moses, Jesus and Mohammad.”

Well folks—Christians and Jews—the overwhelming majority of the people in the United States, you need to relax about Islam. Muslims are family. They are your kindred through your shared progenitor, Abraham.

Having Abraham as an ancestor would demand that the “children” be loving siblings. That’s the message the American Muslims try to convey. And that’s the way they aim to keep us in the deadly slumber of complacency and the delusion of multiculturalism.

For one, multiculturalism and multi-religionism are not interchangeable and are not one and the same. Muslims and their frequently well-paid apologists use the multiculturalism umbrella only in non-Islamic lands to shield themselves from the torrent of legitimate criticisms that those who know Islam better shower on this cult of violence peddled as the religion of peace.

Don’t listen to me and don’t listen to these conniving dissimulators. Find out for yourself. See if the euphemism of multiculturalism is ever even mentioned by any Islamic leader, ever printed in the Islamic press, or ever appears in any form anywhere in Muslim countries. This multiculturalism gambit is Islam manufactured wool to pull over the eyes of the non-Muslims while the Muslims carry on with their unrelenting campaign of eradicating anything or anyone non-Islamic anywhere in the world.

Those of us, through reason and tremendous act of will, who have freed ourselves from the enslaving yoke of Islam placed around our necks from birth, know about all the heinous inside dirt of this plague of humanity. We hardly need to call a toll-free number to hear a phony canned message of deceptions and lies.

We have experienced Islam first-hand and up close from the inside. We have studied the Quran, the Hadith, and the Sunna. We have seen Islam in action where it wields sway. Some of us even tried desperately to cling to this security blanket that was wrapped around us from birth. Yet, the more we studied and the more we experienced Islam, the more our effort to remain in the fold became untenable.

We broke away from Islamic slavery and found it to be our solemn duty to expose this fraud of a religion, help other Muslims to free themselves from it, and warn the good-hearted and gullible non-Muslims against falling prey to it.

The Muslim organizations in America, generously financed by the oil-rich Muslim government and sheikhs, are directed to sell Islam Lite for long enough until the cult runs deep roots and the Real Islam is introduced. One can see how the scheme played out in Europe. Much of Europe is already past the stage of Islam Lite and knee deep into the quagmire of Real Islam. And that’s exactly where things are headed in America.

For a starter, remember the Somali Muslim cabbies of the Minneapolis airport and their refusal of blind fares with seeing-eye dogs, because dogs are unclean according to their belief? The same cabbies that had a virtual monopoly at the airport also rejected passengers who had alcoholic beverages in their possession. And the recent campaign of Muslims in New York to force the city to officially recognize Islamic holidays. These chosen people of Allah have more holidays than working days. No wonder they are among the most backward and unproductive in the world.

These “annoyances” aside, one has to be more than daft not to see for himself and not be sickened by the horrors Muslims in power and Muslim governments commit, wherever they reign in the world. Their barbaric acts are not isolated behaviors of some deranged individuals that one can find within any group. They are, in fact, mandated by the authoritative teachings of Islam and those who practice them proudly proclaim their actions as an implementation of Islamic teachings.

And they are correct in this claim. Let’s just see a sampling of the Islamic teachings that mandate the beastly treatment of women, human slaves, and all non-Muslims, including those that the Islamic Soft Sell in the West aims to bunch itself with as kin—Jews and Christians.

[Quran 4.34] Men have authority over women because Allah has made the one superior to the others and because they spend their wealth to maintain them. Good women are obedient. They guard their unseen parts because Allah has guarded them. As for those from whom you fear disobedience, admonish them and send them to beds apart and beat them. Then if they obey you take no further action against them. Allah is high, supreme.

[Q uran16.75] Allah sets forth a parable: (consider) a slave, the property of another, (who) has no power over anything, and one whom We have granted from ourselves a goodly sustenance so he spends from it secretly and openly; are the two alike? (All) praise is due to Allah!

[Quran 5:51] O you who believe! Take not the Jews and the Christians for your friends and protectors: they are but friends and protectors to each other. And he amongst you that turns to them (for friendship) is of them. Verily Allah guides not a people unjust.

You may say that you know Muslims and you find them to be decent people, family people, hard-working people who are no different than any other group of people. However, these people are the Bad Muslims. Why so? Because they do not live the life the Quran commands them to lead. It is the Good Muslims that you don’t ever want to meet. These are the diehard jihadists, the terrible killers who spare no torture on infidels before decapitating them or hanging them while intoning Allah’s praise. These are the ones that don’t show the slightest mercy to their very own people who fail to toe the line.

These Real Muslims viciously and repeatedly rape women, and even men, arrested without even arrest warrants. One “lucky” victim who managed to escape the claws of these evils is Maryam Sabri arrested on phony charges and repeatedly raped in Iran’s Evin prison.

Acts of horrors committed in Islamic lands aside, it is disturbing to see Muslims dissimulate, sweet-talk and use any and all means in free non-Islamic societies to convert people to their cult. Yet, if a Muslim, on his own free will decides to leave Islam he is condemned as apostate and automatically sentenced to death. And right here in America the suffocating tentacles of Islamic bigotry are beginning to reach out to people. Just the other day, for instance, a teen-age girl had to run away from her Muslim family fearing being killed by her own father for having become Christian.

This Islamic Soft Sell is a replay of Muhammad’s own life example. He was peaceful and humble in Mecca among his powerful detractors. Once in Medina and with power, Muhammad slaughtered the Jews of Medina as easily as if they were sheep, plundered their belongings, and took the “sellable” women and children as slaves.

It is said that truthfulness is the foundation of all virtues. Islam not only condones, it encourages, lying and dissimulation—Taqqyeh—in dealing with non-Muslims. Hence the ads, the billboards and the claims of these liars are little more than packs of crafty propaganda.

No, there is no misunderstanding. No, it is not the Zionists and fundamentalist Christians who are misrepresenting Islam. It is Muslims and Muslim organizations who are guilty of dissimulation and fraud. Muslims act meekly when they lack sufficient power. Once in power, the Real Islam emerges from its shell of dissimulation and puts free people and their way of life to the sword.

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