California: Muslim gets 70 months for plot to attack U.S. synagogues and kill Jews

"Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) as saying: The last hour would not come unless the Muslims will fight against the Jews and the Muslims would kill them until the Jews would hide themselves behind a stone or a tree and a stone or a tree would say: Muslim, or the servant of Allah, there is a Jew behind me; come and kill him; but the tree Gharqad would not say, for it is the tree of the Jews." -- Sahih Muslim 41.6985

Part of the Washington/Patterson jihad plot. "Man sentenced for role in plot to kill Jews, attack military bases," by Rachanee Srisavasdi for the The Orange County Register, August 18 (thanks to Block Ness):

SANTA ANA – A man was sentenced to 70 months in prison today for his role in a domestic terrorism plot to wage war on the United States by attacking Jewish synagogues and military bases.
Hammad Riaz Samana is the fourth member of Jami'yyat Ul-Islam Is-Shaheeh, or JIS, a prison-founded group that wanted to make a political statement that also had plans to attack the Israeli consulate in Los Angeles and El Al Israel Airlines at the Los Angeles International Airport.

Samana was 21 when he was charged in the case in July 2005, along with the cell's mastermind, Kevin James, and members Levar Haley Washington and Gregory Patterson.

The group committed armed robberies of 11 gas stations, including two in Fullerton, to buy weapons and gear for the attacks. Authorities said gas stations were chosen as targets because of the symbolism of the oil.

Samana had a smaller role in the plot, and conducted computer research on the terrorism targets, and was the getaway driver for one of the armed robberies, according to U.S. District Judge Cormac Carney at today's sentencing hearing....

Washington is serving 264 months in prison, while James was sentenced to 192 months and Patterson was sentenced to 151 months, Carney said.

But Samana warranted a lighter sentence because he suffered from mental health issues, the judge said. Samana suffered from schizophrenia at the time of the crime.

"In light of Samana's mental health issues at the time of the offense, such a disparity is warranted and justified,'' Carney said....

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13 Comments

Mo Foe | August 18, 2009 9:58 AM

On the one hand, he's in jail now (Yay!) But on the other hand now the prison dawa will be able to continue for 70 months (Boo!).

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P.S. (other) Mo Foe,

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Beagle | August 18, 2009 10:07 AM

Putting this sentence in perspective, the likely actual term of this sentence is less than one quarter the maximum for one count of mail fraud/swindling (20 years, 30 years if the victim is a financial institution).

What's truly amazing is that he acted as a getaway driver in an armed robbery and still received such a light sentence. I'd call it a wrist slap, but it's more like a massage.

I think schizophrenic genocidal terror plotters are actually MORE dangerous and not meriting a downward departure from guidelines. But apparently that view is not shared by Judge Carney, who's loosing this guy back on the streets in four years (with gain time).

Of course it's far more likely Samana is a good actor and not actually schizophrenic.

Ice Star | August 18, 2009 1:30 PM

Okay so he is schizophrenic? Why then will he be placed in the general prison population? If he is mentally ill he should be placed in a locked facility for the mentally ill. They do exist.

Next he should be treated. He needs medication for LIFE. You do NOT get better from schizophrenia, it is a chemical imbalance in the brain.

This whole thing stinks with political correctness, and an avoidance with reality.

Eastview | August 18, 2009 2:37 PM

"Samana warranted a lighter sentence because he suffered from mental health issues, the judge said." -- from the article.

Yes, obviously he does suffer from mental health "issues." But the judge's PC MC filters were obviously in place, which prevented his correctly diagnosing the underlying source of the mental illness, when he made this ruling. So now we'll soon have another known mental case back out on the streets, his underlying beliefs intact and unshaken, able to continue where he left off. Brilliant. Just brilliant.

Hesperado | August 18, 2009 3:15 PM

"with the cell's mastermind, Kevin James..."

Paul Blart, Mall Cop?

pulsar182 | August 18, 2009 3:23 PM

'But Samana warranted a lighter sentence because he suffered from mental health issues,...'

It seem that Muslims , once captured for various terroristic thing, often claims mental instability...sure...I bet they pray five time a day and it hasn't helped.

baseballmaven | August 18, 2009 4:45 PM

I'm with you Ice Star--he should get more not less--and in a locked mental health facility. How ridiculous to get 70 months for this type of conspiracy (and the guy was already a criminal). . . I have to wonder, if he'd been a schizophrenic non-Muslim plotting to blow up a mosque, then what???

Ipso Facto | August 18, 2009 5:10 PM

"California: Muslim gets 70 months for plot to attack U.S. synagogues and kill Jews"

Dhimmi alarm! It seems he got the usual "Jew-discount" ;-)

Worry01 | August 18, 2009 6:15 PM

He seemed to be quite capable of performing his various tasks despite his diability. The judge has gravely erred here. Hammad Riaz Samana should have been put in indefinite psychiatric detention, if he was in fact mentally ill.

dumbledoresarmy | August 18, 2009 6:35 PM

Wafa Sultan is 1. an apostate from Islam and 2. a psychiatrist.

She's the kind of person who should be called in as expert witness to interview and examine the perp - including such things as doing a brain scan - and determine whether what's wrong with him is a. Islam all by itself, screwing up what might otherwise have been a normal human or b. Islam plus an inherited biochemical brain disorder.

DemoCast | August 19, 2009 3:05 AM

Sane enough to work at Barnes & Noble, former employee, Hammad Samana (waiting in psych ward, not jail, since 2005) is thankful to Judge Carney for granting full release in under 2-years time for plotting to kill Jewish Los Angelenos.

Another L.A. judge was even more liberal in a case against those who plotted to AND MANAGED TO KILL a Jewish Los Angeles man!

Read all about it (and register for free updates) from Democracy Broadcasting News.

Carole | August 19, 2009 2:11 PM

What happens at the end of his sentence?
He will obviously still be a threat to the public, especially Jews and synagogues, crazy!!

tilly | August 19, 2009 4:26 PM

Muslims claim crazy when caught doing the will of allah. Are all Muslims crazy since they all do allah's will?

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