At the Hajj. By Jay Weaver in the Miami Herald, with thanks to all who sent this in:
A reputed al Qaeda member told U.S. authorities that the terror network scrutinized Jose Padilla as a recruit for Islamic extremism in 2000-01, according to a new document filed in federal court in Miami.The information sheds more light on how Padilla, a U.S. citizen once held by federal authorities as an ''enemy combatant,'' was allegedly recruited by al Qaeda for jihad in the Middle East.
Padilla, who left the Fort Lauderdale area for Egypt in 1998, is charged with conspiring with two other Muslim men as part of a North American terror cell that provided money, recruits and other support for terrorist activities abroad.
The three defendants -- Padilla, Adham Amin Hassoun and Kifah Wael Jayyousi -- have a key hearing today and face trial on April 16.
In the court document, a man identified as Abdallah Ahmad Salih al-Rimi -- aka Uways -- told U.S. authorities that a ''fellow facilitator'' had met Padilla during the Hajj pilgrimage in Mecca, Saudi Arabia.
The facilitator, named Abu Malki al-Sharabi, ''had convinced [Padilla] to come with him to Yemen in 2000, so that he could then travel to join the second jihad in Afghanistan,'' according to the document filed Wednesday by prosecutors.
The Arabic name Padilla used at the time was Abu Abdallah al-Amriki.
Uways told authorities that he also met with Padilla on ''numerous occasions'' to size him up -- ''whether he would be a satisfactory candidate to send to jihad,'' the document says.
Uways said he decided not to send Padilla to jihad.
What a chop! Padilla is such a genius that he was rejected for a jihad mission. A typical jailhouse convert to islam.
on look at Padillas photo and one might assume he does not operate with a full load...
"A typical jailhouse convert to islam"
yep....
Anyone going to Mecca should be banned from returning. If someone goes to the belly of the beast it can only mean trouble on their return trip. Mecca's little more than the top terrorist networking center.
Size him up?
Was he skinny enough to wear a suicide bomb?
Did he prefer box cutters or switchblades?
Did he believe people jump out of fountains in Iran and become a Mahdi?
Or was it the dolt couldn't add 2 plus 2, believed whatever he was told and read Seymour Hersh, subscribed to Huffington and was suffering from a mania.
I'd like to go on a Hajj of my own.. wearing a suicide belt perhaps? What goes around comes around, my friends. All it takes is ONE fed-up Westerner who REALLY can't take it any longer.
We all knwo that one day the BIG FIGHT must come. The sooner the better from our perspective.
We have the upper hand but how much longer is the question. the Fifth Column is rising bigger. They are gathering behind our lines and the Left is goofing off - actively undermining our Nation-states.
Let's get it on!
BREAKING FOX NEWS--
FBI ISSUES ALERT THAT MEMBERS OF EXTREMIST GROUPS ARE SIGNING UP TO DRIVE LOCAL SCHOOL BUSES
do you remember:
"Posted: May 21, 2006
12:58 p.m. Eastern
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Saudi men arrested after jumping aboard public school bus in Tampa, Fla. (courtesy WTSP-TV)
TAMPA, Fla. – Local and federal authorities are trying to determine the real reason two Saudi men jumped aboard a local school bus on Friday, alarming students as well as education officials.
Mana Saleh Almanajam, 23, and Shaker Mohsen Alsidran, 20, were immediately taken into custody when the bus arrived at Wharton High School, and they are being charged with trespassing on school property, and are held without bail.
"Both defendants gave several versions of the reason they took a school bus to a high school," Hillsborough County sheriff's spokesman J.D. Callaway told the Tampa Tribune, noting the pair seemed cagey and evasive as they answered questions. "They said they wanted to go to Wharton to look around, and then they said they wanted to go there to have some fun, and then they said they wanted to enroll in the English classes there"
I can not think of another thing that could be worse, Imagine being rejected as a suicide bomber. Perhaps the only rejection that could be as bad would be masturbating… and your hand falls asleep. What a piece of work this guy is.
Jeff those are fighting words for the likes of ms rosie o, that cow should be sent to Club Gitmo and service those al qaeda guys... heck even if she looks like a guy, l am sure they will be turned onto to her muscular short hairy arms!