Al-Qaida associates in N.J.

File this under "Enemy Within". It's about time the FBI actually says that there are al Qaeda and other Islamo-faschists working within America. As long as the American people are kept in the dark as to the real threat, we don't stand a chance against the ongoing and insidious infiltration by Jihadists. We need an informed and alert populace to combat the Islamists among us. This is a long and detailed look at the various Jihadi forces already in America.

From this report: “Task force investigators have discovered that every major terrorist group in the world, including Hamas and Hezbollah, has at least one North Jersey contact. The lone exception is Afghanistan's ultra-fundamentalist sect, the Taliban.”
FROM NORTHJERSEY.COM:
Kelly: Al-Qaida associates in N.J.
Monday, October 15, 2007
By MIKE KELLY
RECORD COLUMNIST
Osama bin Laden may be hiding in the impenetrable mountains near the Afghanistan border, but FBI counterterror officials say they have identified several of his associates in a far more accessible spot -- northern New Jersey.
The FBI's elite Joint Terrorism Task Force in Newark says it is not only monitoring a number of North Jersey residents with ties to al-Qaida, but that agents have quietly "disrupted" their activities and even deported a few.
These glimpses into North Jersey's war on terrorism, from a series of interviews with task force leaders, come on the heels of revelations last summer that Bin Laden's terror network had regained strength. But that rebuilding was thought to have taken place overseas.
This is the first time since the 9/11 attacks that FBI counterterror officials have revealed an al-Qaida presence in North Jersey.
"There are definitely facilitators in this state," said Kevin Cruise, the veteran FBI counterterror agent who directs Newark's 100-member terrorism task force of FBI and CIA agents as well as state police and even local beat cops.

One of Cruise's deputies was even more specific.
"There are people in your county who are affiliated with known al-Qaida members overseas," said Jack Jupin, the FBI agent who heads the counterterror squad for Bergen County.
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