"We don’t subscribe to that — this randomly blowing up of people"

Perhaps they prefer specific targets.

"Trinidad Group Denies Link to New York Bomb Plot," by Marc Lacey in the New York Times, with thanks to all who sent this in:

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, June 9 — One senior member of this island’s most hard-line Islamic group said he loves American television and hopes to send his son off to university in the States. Another said that when he is not praying or preaching, he plays in a steel drum band.
Denying that their group, Jamaat al Muslimeen, was tied to any plot to bomb a New York City airport, members this week portrayed themselves as both Islamists and islanders, devoted to God but also part of the multicultural mix that defines the Caribbean nation of Trinidad and Tobago.

Even as they did, the fiery imam who has long been the Jamaat’s public face ducked out the back of the mosque. That man, Yasin Abu Bakr, who once led a violent coup attempt here in 1990, faces trial next week for sedition and extortion and oversees a group with a reputation for thuggishness.

Those who have studied the group consider it a stretch to mention Jamaat al Muslimeen and Al Qaeda in the same breath. But United States authorities say it was an obvious place for the four suspects now accused of plotting to bomb Kennedy International Airport to turn when they were looking for Islamist support.

“They’re certainly a militant group with a history of criminality and violence,” said Chris Zambelis, a counterterrorism analyst with the Jamestown Foundation in Washington. “But their focus has been strictly on Trinidadian issues.

“I’d describe them as a local criminal gang,” he added, “not any kind of global terrorist organization. It’s a very radical fringe group, not at all representative of the Trinidadian Muslim community.”

Court documents suggest that Mr. Abu Bakr met in May with one of the suspects, Abdel Nur, a Guyanese national who surrendered to the police on Tuesday.

The Islamic leader, the court documents say, suggested a follow-up meeting “to discuss the plan in detail” and to give Mr. Abu Bakr time to do further checks on the participants. Before any such meeting took place, authorities in New York and Port of Spain arrested the four on charges of planning to bomb the airport’s fuel line.

Jamaat officials said two of the suspects had visited their mosque, but they dismissed the notion that a real terrorist operation was in progress and that their group was part of it.

“We don’t subscribe to that — this randomly blowing up of people,” said Kala Akii-Bua, Jamaat’s social welfare officer and the leader of a steel drum orchestra, adding, “I have a lot of respect for the security forces of America.”...

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9 Comments

awake | June 11, 2007 2:38 PM

The latest examples of the "Fort Dix six" and the "JFK plotters" proves beyond a doubt one thing...racial profiling is not an effective tool in combatting Islamic terrorism in the US.

Religious profiling, on the otherhand, will prove to be most effective. As the sarge says often, we should ban all Muslim immigration into the US now.

eve_anne_gelical | June 11, 2007 3:22 PM

Parse alert, parse alert: So Akii-Bua subscribes to targetted blowing up of people?

JadeDragoness | June 11, 2007 3:35 PM

Kinda sorta OT: Racial profiling. As a mixed race person who believes "race" is largely a social construct I was wondering, are "Arabs" considered a "race"? Or "Middle Easteners"?

11B40 | June 11, 2007 3:44 PM

Greetings:

“We don’t subscribe to that — this randomly blowing up of people,” said Kala Akii-Bua, Jamaat’s social welfare officer

a) Beware of Muslims bearing adverbs.

b) This is a social welfare officer!?

jcom972 | June 11, 2007 4:41 PM

LOL...more incomplete sentences...
"randomly blowing up people..."??????????

NO infidel is "random" to them, so his taqqiyah-esque evasion babble is a lie.
Obviously, he's pandering to his ownj peers, since nobody else here believes his lying spew, or is even listening to his lame excuses.

PMK | June 11, 2007 5:22 PM

"One senior member of this island’s most hard-line Islamic group said he loves American television and hopes to send his son off to university in the States."

A counterterrorism expert says he'd "describe them as a local criminal gang, not any kind of global terrorist organization."

So we're going to admit the children of gang members into the country on student visas?

Well that's to be expected once Kennedy is able to pass his immigration bill. He considers anyone who "promises not to do it again" as worthy of citizenship.

Didn't we admit all the al Qaeda and Hamas types in the 1990s on the theory that "they'd never do that here. Their problem is with the [pick a country] government, not with us. They love America and they would never do anything bad HERE".

I'm going to be sick.

jcom972 | June 11, 2007 8:31 PM

gangs ARE domestic terrorists anyway (though the PC thought p[olice refuse to admit that fact), and they wonder why we're so livid...go figure. lol

exsgtbrown | June 12, 2007 6:34 AM

"Jamaat officials said two of the suspects had visited their mosque, but they dismissed the notion that a real terrorist operation was in progress and that their group was part of it."

....virtually all suicide bombers visit a mosque prior to embarking on their mission....probably to get last minute instructions and the blessings from the crazed, bearded, finger pointing Islamic cleric....who, by the way, had nothing to do with the bombing...

...mosques are merely military operations centers....

A_Plague_on_Both_Houses | June 12, 2007 1:42 PM

randomly sending out suicide jihadi bombers is not okay, unless it's okay. Sending jihadi bombers out as martyrs is okay if you do it according to a plan.

Suicide bombers in Sbarro pizza joints is okay - since that location is part of a plan and since many pig/dog jews are killed in Israeli sbarros. Sending suicide bombers to random places is not okay, since you may not kill too many pig/dogs and crusaders in open fields, in alleys and on the way to mosques.

FYI beating womens is still not okay, unless it's okay. Punching is okay almost always.

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