Witness: Hollywood shooter shouted "Allahu Akbar" as he fled

Of course, this will be another case of a lone wolf Muslim going Jihad being reported as some poor deranged soul with no connections to al Qaeda. But the thing is, Jihadists need no direct connection with any known Muslim terrorist group because they have the Koran and the teachings of Mohammed as a guide and inspiration. The administration's denial that Islam is the driving force behind ALL Muslim terrorist activities is allowing the Muslim invasion and colonization of America to go on unopposed.

FROM GREELYGAZETTE.COM:

Witness: Hollywood shooter shouted "Allahu Akbar" as he fled

Posted by Matt Lacy • December 11, 2011

A witness reported that a man who was randomly shooting at people in Hollywood, shouted “Allahu Akbar”, which means “Allah is greatest.”

The shooter, Tyler Brehm a 26 year old white male, began shooting at several vehicles in Hollywood at Sunset and Vine. During the shootings, at least one person was wounded. The police arrived and the suspect was shot and killed.

While police say they are still unsure of the motive for the shootings, a witness told KTLA Channel 5 the suspect was shouting “Allahu Akbar” as he ran away.

April Manlo told the reporter, “He was running over there, I heard two shots and he was shouting and running ‘Allahu Akbar.’”

A spokesman for the LAPD told the Gazette that at this time they were not able to confirm Manlo’s statement.

Investigators have not yet released a motive for Brehm’s rampage; however friends and neighbors say he was troubled over a recent breakup with his girlfriend.

Texas man convicted of attempting to aid Al Qaeda

Another American citizen has chosen to embrace Islam and wage jihad against his country and the West. While it's a good thing that a conviction for terroristic activity was obtained, the sentence of 15 years is not adequate. The only fitting sentence, aside from the death penalty, is life without parole.

The reason for life without parole for Islamic terrorism of any sort is that the perpetrators will return, sooner or later and try again. Failing to permanently remove terrorists is seen as weakness and encourages more to take their place.


FROM NEWS.YAHOO.COM:


Texas man convicted of attempting to aid Al Qaeda
ReutersBy Jim Forsyth | Reuters – 17 hrs ago

SAN ANTONIO (Reuters) - A Muslim convert from Texas who once e-mailed a radical Muslim cleric saying he wanted "to do my part for jihad" was convicted on Monday of attempting to provide material support to Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula.

Barry Walter Bujol, 30, faces 15 years in prison on a terrorism charge as well as five additional years for aggravated identity theft, of which he was also convicted on Monday.

Bujol's conviction follows a more than two-year investigation during which the man from the east Texas town of Hempstead repeatedly pledged his commitment to "violent jihad," according to U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson.

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In their own words: Eavesdropping on Seattle Muslims' terror plot

This is an interesting look into the mindset of home grown Jihadi American converts to Islam. The blundering idiots would be funny were they not truly committed to committing terrorist acts in America.

FROM JEWISHWORLDREVIEW.COM:

In their own words: Eavesdropping on Seattle Muslims' terror plot

By Craig Welch and Mike Carter

Details emerge in suspects' quest for guns, ideal target

SEATTLE — (MCT) They sat in a third-floor SeaTac apartment wondering if they had enough bullets.

Already they had purchased assault rifles and had talked about how to handle grenades. But the apartment's tenant, their leader, 33-year-old Abu Khalid Abdul-Latif, feared they still lacked the firepower for a real massacre.

"We're all going to look like fools if all we have is two clips apiece and we run out," Abdul-Latif told his two colleagues.

"We're not only trying to kill people," he continued. "We're trying to get something that's going to be on CNN and all over the world."

But Abdul-Latif's secret plans to send a bloody message appear to have been sabotaged by another secret: One of the alleged co-conspirators recorded their conversations for the FBI — and got paid for it.

Late in the evening on June 22, federal agents acted on that informant's work and arrested Abdul-Latif and a friend, Walli Mujahidh, 32, of Los Angeles. The Justice Department alleges the pair had conspired to gun down military and government workers at a military recruit-processing station in Seattle in hopes of igniting an uprising of Muslims in the U.S.

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The Terror Connection

Here's a sobering interview with Dave Gaubatz, owner of DG Counter-terrorism Publishing. While the arrest of seven Islamic Jihadist terrorists in North Carolina is a welcome development, the reality is that there are many, many more Muslim terrorists already in the US.

FROM FRONTPAGEMAG.COM:

The Terror Connection
By: Jamie Glazov

FrontPageMagazine.com | Friday, July 31, 2009

Frontpage Interview’s guest today is Dave Gaubatz, the first U.S. civilian (1811) Federal Agent deployed to Iraq in 2003. He is the owner of DG Counter-terrorism Publishing.
He is currently conducting a 50 State Counter-terrorism Research Tour (CTRT). He can be contacted at davegaubatz@gmail.com.

FP: Dave Gaubatz, welcome to Frontpage Interview.

Seven Muslims from North Carolina (NC) were recently arrested for terrorism-related charges. Frontpage previously interviewed you about Islamic Centers in NC advocating violence against America and innocent people. Are they related?

Gaubatz: Thank you Jamie.

Yes they are related. The same ideology being advocated by the seven Muslim men is exactly what is being advocated at several NC Islamic Centers and by Islamic leaders across America. I conducted research in NC several times in the last two years and the evidence forced me to rate it very high for potential for violence.

Imams and Islamic leaders are not going to openly instruct their worshippers to commit ‘physical jihad’ against countries and people who do not believe in their version of “Pure Islam,” but they will provide them materials to study advising this type action. I have repeated this for years during lectures to law enforcement and to the public.

Islamic leaders who advocate an Islamic Ummah (Nation) worldwide and under Sharia (Islamic) Law condone physical jihad to achieve this objective. One will seldom see an Islamic leader conduct a “suicide mission,” but they have no problem sending innocent children and naïve adults to do it for them. If I can go to a location a few hours and determine what is being taught to the worshippers, specifically the children, then CAIR, MSA, AMPAC, ISNA, MANA and a half dozen other IRS approved Islamic organizations fully understand what is being taught and advocated through the materials at Islamic Centers and in Islamic schools. Senator Larry Shaw (D-NC) and Congressman Keith Ellison (D-MN) are also aware.
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AG Eric Holder Warns of 'Radicalization' of Americans

Well hello, AG Eric Holder, where the hell have you been since 9/11? Just now waking up from your long nap in Sleepy Hollow?

Until Mr. Holder, President Barack Barry Soetoro Hussein Obama and the Congress realize, or admit, that the root cause of radicalization of Muslim terrorists is the teachings ISLAM, we will not be able to effectively counter the global Jihad.

Every Muslim attack on non-Muslims is driven by one goal and one goal only: the imposition of Islamic Sharia law over all of humanity. The Koran and Muslim hatred of everything not Islamic justifies their methods in their minds.

As long as Politically Correct postures are maintained in order to not "offend" and to excuse terrorism by Muslims, we are doomed to be overwhelmed by the Islamic juggernaut that is bearing down on the West.

This latest plot to effect Islamic terrorism has fortunately been foiled. But the greater question is how many more "homegrown" and imported terrorists are now plotting their own acts of Jihad.

If you see something, report it.

FROM NEWSMAX.COM:

AG Eric Holder Warns of 'Radicalization' of Americans

WASHINGTON -- U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder warned on Wednesday of increased "radicalization" of Americans in recent months, two days after seven people were arrested in North Carolina for allegedly plotting attacks overseas.
Holder, the top U.S. law enforcement officer, expressed significant concerns about people going abroad and then returning to the United States with the "aim of doing harm to the American people."

"The constant scream of threats, the kind of things you have to be aware about, the whole notion of radicalization is something that didn't loom as large a few months ago ... as it does now," Holder said in an interview with ABC News.
Prosecutors on Monday unveiled a seven-count indictment charging seven people in North Carolina with plotting to carry out attacks overseas and numerous weapons possession charges.

The leader of the group, Daniel Patrick Boyd, trained in Afghanistan and Pakistan from 1989 to 1992 and used that experience to set up his own organization to train fighters, raise money and carry out attacks abroad, according to the indictment.
He was also accused of drawing his two sons into the group.
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7 charged with terrorism counts in North Carolina

Enemy Within, that's the only thing this can be called. Home grown Jihadi in the West will become a major factor in the Global Jihad that has been ongoing for 1400 years. In this age of instant communication and a shrinking world, Islamic aggression and colonization is has a greater impact than in years gone by.

FROM JEWISHWORLDREVIEW.COM:

7 charged with terrorism counts in North Carolina
By Heather Robinson

RALEIGH, N.C. — To those they lived among, seven men accused of an intricate terrorism plot lived simply, quietly and kindly.

To neighbors and friends, Daniel Boyd was a father who stopped his work at noon each day for prayer. Dylan Boyd, Daniel's son, was a college student at North Carolina State University who until last year worked as a clinical services tech at Wake Med Hospital in Raleigh. Mohammad Omar Aly Hassan was a newlywed whose father owns a Raleigh car dealership.

To federal authorities, these men and four others plotted to kill themselves and others in the name of their religion. Their activities, tracked by FBI agents over three years and detailed in federal indictments released Monday, tell of an elaborate scheme hatched in a quiet Johnston County neighborhood and non-descript apartment complexes across Raleigh and Cary.
Those arrested include Daniel Patrick Boyd, 39, who was considered the ringleader of the group, and who fought with Afghan Muslims against the Soviets; Hysen Sherifi, 24; Anes Subasic, 33; Zakariya Boyd, 20; Dylan Boyd, 22; Mohammad Omar Aly Hassan, 22; and Ziyad Yaghi, 21.

All but one of the defendants were American citizens. Sherifi was a native of Kosovo and was living in the United States legally.

All seven men are charged with conspiring to provide support to terrorists and conspiring to murder, kidnap, maim and injure persons abroad. Each is expected to have a detention hearing later this week. Until then, they are being held without bond. They have not been appointed lawyers. Efforts to reach their families were unsuccessful Monday night.
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AND MORE:
FROM JIHADWATCH.ORG:
North Carolina: one more jihad suspect still at large

The search is still on for one more terrorist.

One more suspected jihadist (at least) is still out there, and meanwhile we are hearing about what a decent fellow Daniel Boyd is. North Carolina Jihad Plot
Update: "Accused North Carolina Terror Plot Leader: Jihadist ... or Regular Family Man?," from FoxNews
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Miranda Rights for Terrorists

Giving Muslim terrorists Miranda warnings is one more step on Obama's plan to destroy America and turn it into another Islamic cesspool. Giving foreign Islamic terrorists the same legal rights as American citizens will cause many Muslim terrorists to be set free to kill again.

FROM THE WEEKLYSTANDARD.COM:

Miranda Rights for Terrorists
When 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammad was captured on March 1, 2003, he was not cooperative. “I’ll talk to you guys after I get to New York and see my lawyer,” he said, according to former CIA Director George Tenet.
Of course, KSM did not get a lawyer until months later, after his interrogation was completed, and Tenet says that the information the CIA obtained from him disrupted plots and saved lives. “I believe none of these successes would have happened if we had had to treat KSM like a white-collar criminal – read him his Miranda rights and get him a lawyer who surely would have insisted that his client simply shut up,” Tenet wrote in his memoirs.

If Tenet is right, it’s a good thing KSM was captured before Barack Obama became president. For, the Obama Justice Department has quietly ordered FBI agents to read Miranda rights to high value detainees captured and held at U.S. detention facilities in Afghanistan, according a senior Republican on the House Intelligence Committee. “The administration has decided to change the focus to law enforcement. Here’s the problem. You have foreign fighters who are targeting US troops today – foreign fighters who go to another country to kill Americans. We capture them…and they’re reading them their rights – Mirandizing these foreign fighters,” says Representative Mike Rogers, who recently met with military, intelligence and law enforcement officials on a fact-finding trip to Afghanistan.

Rogers, a former FBI special agent and U.S. Army officer, says the Obama administration has not briefed Congress on the new policy. “I was a little surprised to find it taking place when I showed up because we hadn’t been briefed on it, I didn’t know about it. We’re still trying to get to the bottom of it, but it is clearly a part of this new global justice initiative.”
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Purple Heart for Private Long

The Vlad Tepes blog rightly calls for a Purple Heart to be posthumously awarded to murdered Private William Long. Private Quinton Ezeagwula, the soldier who was wounded in the same Islamic terror attack should also receive a Purple Heart. Any service person killed or wounded in combat is entitled to the award. Since Islam is waging war against America, the award is appropriate.

However, I don't give it much chance of success because then the administration would have to admit that there are Muslims, in America, roaming the streets waging violent Jihad by murdering citizens as part of the Global Jihad.

As the video asks, please contact your Congressional representatives and Senators to support these awards. These soldiers are victims of international Muslim Jihad just as surely as if they were serving in Iraq or Afghanistan.

Purple Heart for Private Long

FROM VLAD TEPES BLOG:

Obama Mum About Jihad Made in America

A brief overview of Islamic terrorist incursions into America highlighting Islamic attacks in America since 2002. Obama's refusal to publicly acknowledge Muslim attacks against Americans, in America is giving aid, comfort and concealment to the terrorists.

"As a German terrorism expert put it, “Outwardly, they pretend to lead a modern lifestyle; but deep inside, they adhere to a pure medieval strain of Islam.”"

FROM NEWSMAX.COM:

Obama Mum About Jihad Made in America
Wednesday, June 10, 2009 10:30 AM

By: By James H. Walsh

Like Barack Obama's other speeches, his “New Beginnings” address in Cairo, Egypt, to the Islamic world and its 1.3 billion inhabitants had an air of campaign rhetoric: part hyperbole, part fantasized facts. He delivered the June 4 speech well, and with style, that empathy thing, and charisma. Short on defined actions, the speech was long on platitudes and fuzzy accolades for Islam.

However, no amount of “We love you” chants for Obama in Cairo can erase the terrorist acts committed against the infidel in Muslim countries, in the West, and here at home. The word terrorism was conspicuous by its absence in the Cairo speech. Worldwide news media showed heavily armed and hooded Islamist terrorists listening to the speech, but these images were interspersed with reports on the most recent suicide bombings in the Islamic world.

At Home, All Is Not Well
Back in the United States, the Obama administration stands by as radical Muslim immigrants and home-grown converts develop a fifth column, with a plan of operation capable of dwarfing the 9/11 attacks. As we have seen in England, France, and Spain, lax immigration policies result in Islamist terrorist attacks. The success of the Bush administration in preventing a second 9/11 had the unintended consequence of creating a complacent U.S. population.

The Democratic Party, in step with the radical left, deluges U.S. citizens with the need for empathy to assuage Muslim sensibilities.
Meanwhile, counterterrorism experts track the emergence of home-grown Islamist terrorists attacking from within. Be they native-born converts or naturalized citizens, members of this new breed of radical Islamist have the outward appearances of the culture in which they reside.

As a German terrorism expert put it, “Outwardly, they pretend to lead a modern lifestyle; but deep inside, they adhere to a pure medieval strain of Islam.”
At last count, 35 jihadist training camps have been identified in the United States. Whether in Virginia, New York, Minnesota, or other states, jihadists have met with little opposition to their American training camps.
President Obama and his attorney general have yet to express concern publicly over the killing of a U.S. soldier in Little Rock, Ark., by a home-grown Muslim terrorist who trained in Yemen. That same week, however, the president and his administration issued public statements condemning the killing of a late-term abortion doctor.

Both killings were abhorrent, but why the difference in the president’s response?
In the same vein, federal and local officials have chosen, in recent years, to refrain from labeling a number of killings by Muslims in the United States as acts of terrorism. Some examples follow:

2002 — July: The Los Angeles Airport killing of two Israeli nationals and wounding of five others were reported as merely the act of a deranged Egyptian immigrant. October: The Metro Washington, D.C., area sniper killings by two black Muslims (one, an illegal immigrant) were not considered terrorist attacks or hate crimes, even though the snipers themselves admitted wanting to kill as many white people as possible.

2005 — October: When a student convert to Islam at the University of Oklahoma exploded a backpack bomb outside a school football game, law enforcement officials, federal and local, explained that the student was merely a troubled youth who committed suicide. Among the student’s effects, however, were a plane ticket to Algeria and additional bomb-making materials.

2006 — March: At the University of North Carolina, Mohammed Taheri-azar drove a car into a group of students, injuring nine. Taheri-azar, a Muslim, explained to law enforcement officers that he was motivated to attempt to kill “due to the treatment of Muslims around the world.” Although he pled to nine counts of attempted murder, authorities refused to acknowledge his crime as an act of terrorism. July: In Seattle, Wash., when Naveel Afzad Haq killed one person among the six he shot at the Seattle Jewish Federation Building, a witness stated that Haq shouted, “I’m Muslim-American. I am angry at Israel.” The local authorities and the FBI refused to declare this an act of terrorism.

2007 — Donald Joseph Maldonado, a U.S. citizen, was indicted in a U.S. court and convicted of training and participating in terrorism in Somalia. Sentenced to 10 years in prison, he became the first native-born American convicted of training and participating as a terrorist in another country. Maldonado had converted to Islam in Massachusetts in 2000.

2008 — June: Levar Washington, a U.S. citizen and convert to Islam, was part of Jam’lyyat-Ul-Islam-is-Saheeh, a terrorist cell formed in 1997 by Kevin James, a convict in a California prison. Washington was arrested and pled guilty to federal crimes of conspiring to wage war against the United States and to a weapons charge. A federal judge sentenced him to 22 years in prison. October: Minneapolis resident and naturalized U.S. citizen Shirwa Ahmed died as a suicide bomber in Somalia. The FBI, which brought Ahmed’s remains back to Minnesota for burial, failed to allege his terrorist status. December: Ruben Shumpert aka Amir Abdul Muhaimin, Somalia-born and a naturalized U.S. citizen, died in a suicide bombing in Somalia that killed 30 people. In 2007, Shumpert/Muhaimin had been convicted in federal court in Seattle on gun violations and counterfeiting. Fleeing the country, he called an FBI agent to say that he and his associates “would destroy everything the United States stands for.” That same month, five immigrant Muslims were convicted of conspiring to kill U.S. soldiers at Ft. Dix, New Jersey. One immigrant was born in Jordan, one in Turkey, and three in Albania –– all Muslim countries. Two were illegal immigrants, four were sentenced to life in prison, and the fifth was sentenced to 33 years.

2009 — May: Four Muslim plotters were arrested on allegations that they sought to bomb New York City synagogues and shoot down U.S. military planes. They were converts to Islam, and three were converted while in prison. One was a Haitian national, and the others were native-born U.S. citizens. The Islamic community offered excuses for the men, saying they were petty thieves, gullible and naive, who did not understand Islam, and that they a government agent radicalized them. The assistant U.S. attorney replied, “It’s hard to envision a more chilling plot. These are extremely violent men.” June: In Little Rock, Ark., a 23-year-old convert to Islam, Carlos Bledsoe aka Abdul Hakim Mujahid Muhammad, shot and killed a U.S. soldier and wounded another outside a military recruitment office. Bledsoe/Muhammad was charged with 15 counts of committing terrorist acts and first-degree murder. The shooter admitted he wanted to kill military because of what they did to Muslims. Law enforcement officers say Muhammad acted alone and that his recent trip to Yemen on a Somalia passport had nothing to with his acts.

Changing the Strategy
This partial list of murder and mayhem reveals the pattern of the Jihad strategy, as converts to Islam and young Muslims born outside the United States, acting alone or in concert, carry out the commands of radical Imans. The U.S. Constitution guarantees freedom of religion, but not terrorism in the name of religion.

America bashing by President Obama justifies the misconception that America is the fountainhead of the world’s ills and emboldens terrorist sleeper cells in the United States. In the name of outreach, would Obama go beyond condoning the Muslim headdress for women to accepting Islamic law –– Sharia –– as England is doing?

With politically correct myopia and excessive concern for Muslim sensibilities, Democrats and those of the radical left fail to understand that the United States is dooming itself to a future of intermittent Islamist terror, unless some country or some leader can defuse the Jihad strategy. That would be change we can believe in.
James H. Walsh is a former federal prosecutor.

Never Talk About Religion in a Bar

Another Muslim can't control his violent Islamic tendencies when having a discussion on religion. It's typical of many Muslims to immediatly resort to violence over the most trivial issues.

FROM MSNBC.MSN.COM:

Never Talk About Religion in a Bar
By Michelle Wayland

What started as an argument over religion at a bar escalated when one man shot another five times overnight, as the victim's sister watched in horror.
Toni Simpson says she was waiting for her brother, Ernest McCullough, 29, in the 3800 block of Van Dyke Avenue at about 4:30 a.m. after a night of drinking at Nancy's Pub. She was listening to the pair argue over religion but never thought it would lead to what happened next.

"He pulled up his shirt and it looked like a knife and it was a gun. He pulled it out and shot him,” she said.

Simpson says she was so shocked that she blacked out after the first two rounds were fired. When she came around she saw her brother covered in blood.
"I said ‘he shot you?’ And he said ‘yeah, he shot me’ and then he fell to the ground," Simpson said.

The victim, who is Christian, was taken to Scripps Mercy Hospital in serious condition but is expected to be okay.
The suspect, who Simpson says was of Muslim faith, remains at large.

Homegrown Islamic terrorist.

We will see more of these homegrown Muslim terrorists as time goes on. The more the West gives the Muslim community, the more demanding and dangerous they will become. This terrorist couldn't be more plain that his attack on the military was guided by his Muslim teachings.

At some point, hopefully yesterday, the government will have to acknowledge that Islam is behind the vast majority of terrorism around the world and that it is trying to impose Sharia on all of mankind.


Homegrown Islamic terrorist.
FROM FOX16.COM:

UPDATE: Suspect pleads not guilty in soldier's death

Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad,23 Related Links
There is new information from the Little Rock police arrest report on Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad, 23, of Memphis, TN.

Here are a few of the excerpts from Little Rock homicide detective Tommy Hudson's report:
"Mr. Muhammad stated that he was mad at the US Military"
"Mr. Muhammad stated he fired several rounds at the soldiers with the intent to kill them" from arrest report released this morning
"Mr. Muhammad further stated that he would have killed more soldiers if they had been on the parking lot."

Police call his actions domestic terrorism. The man charged with shooting two army soldiers, killing one of them, makes his first court appearance Tuesday. Abdulhakim Muhammad, 23, faces capital murder and sixteen counts of a terroristic act. The FBI is also investigating this incident, which may result in additional federal charges and prosecution.

Muhammad didn't speak, show any emotion. Just a 3-minute hearing revealing more into what motivated a recent convert to Islam to open fire on u-s soldiers.

There was stepped up security around the Little Rock district court building as police roped off parking areas and barricaded streets.

Muhammad facing a judge on 17 felony counts, including capital murder. Telling police in a taped interview he pulled up to the Army / Navy recruiting center on Rodney Parham looking to kill uniformed soldiers.
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Militant Wahabism in Sri Lanka

The Whaabi are moving around the world, funded by Saudi money with the intent of establishing a global Caliphate.
FROM ASIANTRIBUNE.COM
Militant Wahabism beats other Islamic fundamentalists in Sri Lanka
Tue, 2007-08-28 06:06
Colombo, 28 August, (Asiantribune.com): Wahhabism is a new politico-religious movement that is sweeping the Eastern province of Sri Lanka with more than 50 Muslim fundamentalist organizations supporting it and helping in propagating the movement throughout the Island.
Latest report reveals that Wahhabism, headquartered in Kattankudy, has raced ahead and taken control of the Jihadist and Al Fatah groups in Sri Lanka under their wings. This new brand of radical Islamic fundamentalism imported and planted in the midst of peace-loving Muslims of Sri Lanka, mostly through the lavish inflow of Saudi Riyal pumped into this war-torn country has overtaken other Islamic competitors by threats, intimidation and coercion.
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We Are Going to Get Hit Again

Retired Vice Admiral John Scott Redd

Here are two related articles that deserve your full attention and consideration. The Al Qaeda piece has many links to much more in-depth information. These two articles just reinforce my belief that the west and America in particular are about to be hit in a major way.
FROM MSNBC.MSN.COM:
“We Are Going to Get Hit Again”
The head of the National Counterterrorism Center speaks out on Al Qaeda's plans, America’s readiness—and the nature of the war on terror.
Retired Vice Admiral John Scott Redd, head of the National Counterterrorism Center, says, "We have very strong indicators that Al Qaeda is planning to attack the West."
Capital Sources: The Next Terrorist Attack The head of the National Counterterrorism Center speaks out on Al Qaeda's plans, America’s readiness—and the nature of the war on terror.WEB EXCLUSIVEBy Mark Hosenball and Jeffrey BartholetNewsweekUpdated: 5:14 p.m. ET Aug 27, 2007
Aug. 27, 2007 - Al Qaeda has an active plot to hit the West. The United States knows about it but doesn’t have enough tactical detail to issue a precise warning or raise the threat level, says Vice Admiral (ret.) John Scott Redd, who heads the government’s National Counterterrorism Center. In an interview at his headquarters near Washington, D.C., Redd told Newsweek’s Mark Hosenball and Jeffrey Bartholet that the country is better prepared than ever to counter such threats. But he also believes another successful terror attack on the U.S. homeland is inevitable.
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AND FROM DISCOVERTHENETWORK.ORG:
AL QAEDA (AL QAIDA)
Led by Osama bin Laden
Responsible for 9/11 attacks
Bombed two U.S. embassies in Africa, killing 301
Bombed the American Navy ship USS Cole, killing 17 and wounding 39
Seeks to acquire weapons of mass destruction to attack the West
Vice Admiral (ret.) John Scott Redd, who heads the government’s National Counterterrorism Center, has told Newsweek that Al Qaeda has an active plot to hit the West, and that the United States knows about it but does not possess enough tactical detail to issue a precise warning or raise the threat level. Among Redd’s comments were the following:

"We’ve got this intelligence threat; we’re pretty certain we know what’s going on. We don’t have all the tactical details about it, [but] in some ways it’s not unlike the U.K. aviation threat last year. So we know there is a threat out there. The question is, what do we do about it? And the response was, we stood up an interagency task force under NCTC leadership. So you have all the players you would expect: FBI, CIA, DHS, DIA, DoD, the operators—the military side comes into that—participating in an integrated plan, but integrated in a much more granular and tactical way than we’ve ever done before. … We have very strong indicators that Al Qaeda is planning to attack the West and is likely to [try to] attack, and we are pretty sure about that. … and they would like to come as far West as they can."

Al Qaeda, an Arabic word meaning "the Base," was founded in approximately 1988 by Osama bin Laden, Abdullah Azzam, and Muhammad Atef -- the latter a native Egyptian and a onetime member of the terrorist group Egyptian Islamic Jihad. Al Qaeda grew out of the Services Office, a clearinghouse for the international Muslim brigade that opposed the 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. In the 1980s, under the leadership of bin Laden and the Palestinian religious scholar Abdullah Azzam, the Services Office recruited, trained, and financed thousands of foreign mujahideen, or “holy warriors,” from more than fifty countries. Seeking to extend the Islamic jihad, or "holy war," beyond the borders of Afghanistan even after the March 1988 Soviet pledge to withdraw its forces, bin Laden created al Qaeda. The organization today supports Muslim fighters in Afghanistan, Bosnia, Chechnya, Tajikistan, Somalia, Yemen, Iraq, and Kosovo. It also trains members of terrorist organizations from the Philippines, Algeria, and Eritrea.
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U.S. Studying Two Dozen 'Clusters' of Possible Homegrown Terrorists

Here's more on home grown terrorists.
FROM BLOGS.ABCNEWS.COM
Exclusive: U.S. Studying Two Dozen 'Clusters' of Possible Homegrown Terrorists
August 15, 2007 7:00 AM
Brian Ross, Richard Esposito & Maddy Sauer Report:
U.S. law enforcement officials say they have identified more than two dozen "clusters" of young Muslim men in the northeast United States who are on a path that could lead to homegrown terror, ABC News has learned.
"Any one of those clusters may be capable of carrying out a terrorist action that will result in fatalities," Rand Corporation terrorism expert Brian Jenkins tells ABC News.
In a report to be made public today, New York City Police Commissioner Ray Kelly concludes the 9/ll attacks were an "anomaly" and the most serious terror threat to the country comes from clusters of "unremarkable" individuals who are on a path that could lead to homegrown terror.
The report by the NYPD intelligence division, "Radicalization in the West and the Homegrown Threat," plots "the trajectory of radicalization" and tracks the path of a non-radicalized individual to an individual with the willingness to commit an act of terror, multiple sources say.
"The threat is real; this is not some bogey man we are creating here. There are individuals who are proselytizing, inciting angry young men to go down this path," said Jenkins, who reviewed and contributed to the NYPD report.

The report identifies mosques, bookstores, cafes, prisons and flop houses as what it calls "radicalization incubators" that provide "extremist fodder or fuel for radicalization."
The leader of an American Arab civil rights group labeled the NYPD report as "unfortunate stereotyping" and at odds with federal law enforcement findings that the threat from homegrown terrorists was minimal.
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Jihad On Our Shores

Richard Ried

If you don't believe that Islamists are here and activly attacking America, read the following article. So far, except for 9/11, they have not been able to pull off a major strike. But they are here, both homegrown, imported and those trying to get here. Approximately 10% of Muslims worldwide admit to believing attacking the wast is justified and proper. That's just those who admit it. Then there is the 40-60% who sympathise or support terrorism covertly. So the next time you're at the mall or other public place, and see a Muslim, ask yourself is he or she the one?

FROM INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY:
Posted 8/10/2007
Homeland Security:
Some say America's not fertile ground for jihadists, that all the radicals are overseas. The arrest of two Muslims near a South Carolina Naval base with pipe bombs reminds us such thinking is wishful.

Two college students from Tampa — Ahmed Mohamed and Yousef Megahed — were caught speeding toward the Goose Creek naval weapons station. Police found lead pipe bombs in their trunk. They've been charged with possession of explosives, and the FBI is investigating them as possible "terrorists," say neighbors interviewed by agents.
These cases seem to pop up every few months. For those paying attention, it spells a trend. But you'd never know it from the spotty news coverage they receive. If they are covered, the media plays them almost as random crime stories.
Terror plots and arrests on the other side of the pond, however, get major play. To hear pundits, Europe has the Islamic terror problem, not us. The Christian Science Monitor says "European-style homegrown terror cells" are just not seen here.
In fact, we've had more homegrown terror. You just don't hear about it as much because we've already had our 9/11.
In addition to the Muslim snipers who terrorized the Washington area for weeks on the first anniversary of 9/11, the U.S. has been plagued by dozens of terror attacks or disrupted plots over the past several years, including:
*The "Lackawanna Six" from upstate New York who were caught training for terror with al-Qaida overseas.
*The Columbus, Ohio, trucker who helped al-Qaida case the Brooklyn Bridge for attack.
*The Los Angeles man who fatally shot two and wounded three at an Israeli airline ticket counter at LAX.
*The New Yorker found guilty of plotting to blow up a Manhattan subway station.
*The Lodi, Calif., native who trained with al-Qaida in Pakistan to blow up fellow Americans at supermarkets.
The three black Muslim converts from Torrance, Calif., jailed for plotting to attack Army recruiting stations and synagogues.
*The Virginia jihadists busted for training to kill U.S. soldiers overseas.
*The San Francisco Muslim who took his SUV on a hit-and-run killing spree.
*The black Muslim cell in Miami which plotted to attack the Sears Tower.
The jihadist who went on a shooting rampage at a Jewish community center in Seattle, announcing "I'm a Muslim American; I'm angry at Israel."
*The Fort Dix Six who planned to penetrate the New Jersey base as pizza delivery men, then open fire on troops.
*The black Muslim converts who recently plotted to blow up JFK airport.
*The honors student-turned-jihadist who rented an SUV and rammed it into a crowd at the University of North Carolina.
*The pro-Taliban operatives caught training for jihad in the Oregon woods.
*The shotgun-toting 18-year-old Muslim who murdered five shoppers inside a Salt Lake City mall.
*The black convert recently busted for plotting to blow up Illinois shopping malls with grenades.
And on and on.
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