Jihad of the wallet. "Westchester man admits sending aid to terrorist training camp in Afghanistan," by Alison Gendar for the New York Daily News, September 30 (thanks to James):
A Westchester County businessman pleaded guilty Tuesday to funneling money to a terrorist training camp in Afghanistan.
Abdul Tawala Ibn Ali Alishtari admitted in Manhattan Federal Court that he wired the $152,000 overseas, believing the money would buy night vision goggles for killers in a terror boot camp.
His defense team initially claimed Alishtari was more interested in getting paid by the undercover agent who asked him to make the transfer than in any cause or jihad.
Alishtari had hoped the agent, who passed himself off as a wealthy Middle Easterner, would invest in Flat Electronic Data Interchange, a loan investment program Alishtari was running.
Federal prosecutors have called it a fraud, and Alishtari fessed up yesterday that he also stole from its investors.
"Alishtari today admitted that he stole millions from investors and knowingly financed what he believed to be tools of terror," said U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara....
From the article:
"Alishtari today admitted that he stole millions from investors and knowingly financed what he believed to be tools of terror," said U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara....".
Ah, delicious. Here is a fraudulent cheating jihad-enabling Muslim, in the USA, being neatly hung out to dry by 'U S Attorney Preet Bharara', whose name rather suggests Mother India.
Related:
www.newsmaxworld.com/global_talk/us_terror_financing_money_flows/2009/09/29/266212.html
"One aftercare center in Riyadh visited by GAO investigators had treated 250 people. As of March 2009, the unit had a recidivism rate of 20 percent. Most of those who had returned to supporting terrorism or extremism were former Guantanamo detainees, the Saudis told the GAO."
Then why.......
www.thestar.com/news/world/article/702982#
Whoooaaa!!! another misunderstander of Islam off to kill American soldiers!!!
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/brooklyn/klyn_man_charged_in_terror_plot_jvLj4y41DpJxnrpdLQ9jbK
Lucky this isn't a Serbian basketball thug in a bar fight, or this just might be an international incident.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2008-07-25-2896054982_x.htm
SEMI O.T. but this is MY biggest laugh of the day courtesy of NewsTweak Magazine:
"The New TNT
New studies of suicide bombers say that most have three important qualities in common: testosterone, a narrative fantasy, and a desire to make theater..."
Damn! There's something missing from that list... what is it? Can anyone helpme?
Funny the New York post leaves out, "United States Attorney’s Office has indicted a 21-year old Kosovo Albanian, Betim Kaziu, for a “conspiracy to commit murder in a foreign country and conspiracy to provide material support to terrorists.”
LOL, didn't we just go in and save the Kosovar Muslims, now they are trying to kill our soldiers? HUUUMMM so how many Serbian terror attacks ... yet? Must be nice being in the most favored nation status in the government/media complex. Not only Albanian, but also Kosovar, now that is a special status!!!
http://www.usdoj.gov/usao/nye/pr/2009/2009sep24.html
The case of Abdul Tawala Ibn Ali Alishtari shows, yet again, that any Muslim can turn to the cause of jihad at any given moment. So how are we to counter any future Abdul Tawala Alishtari or Najibullah Zazi type figures? Are we merely to wait and hope that our intelligence and law enforcement officials catch a whiff of their jihad plots and arrest them in time? Or, do we take more proactive and preemptive measures such as ending Muslim immigration to the US?
Betim Kaziu is another case in point. We have been told for years that the Albanian Muslims are "moderate" and pro-West by the likes of Stephen "Sulaiman" Schwartz and other neo-conservative types, yet with increasing frequency we are seeing Albanian Muslims popping up in jihad terrorism cases. This goes hand-in-hand with the ruthless ethnic cleansing of Serbian Christians from their ancient homeland of Kosovo by Albanian Muslims.
Virgil,
This story from the NY Times is a classic.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/25/nyregion/25jihad.html?hpw
"The allegations shocked Mr. Kaziu’s family in Brooklyn. “This is totally unlike him,” said a sister, Sihana Kaziu, who added that he was never violent and had a “big heart.” Ms. Kaziu said her brother, a Muslim, did not grow up particularly religious."
I don't know whether to laugh or cry at this point.
"In August, Mr. Kaziu notified his family to say he was off to Kosovo and Macedonia, the family’s ancestral home, to visit friends and relatives, Ms. Kaziu said."
Ghost of foreign intervention past come home to bite us in the buttox ...
"They did not hear from him again for weeks, then learned that he had been arrested with three other men in Kosovo. A foreign news account said the men were arrested on suspicion that they planned to commit terrorist acts, and it said weapons, including two AK-47s and five hand grenades, were found in searches of locations associated with the case."
Oh gosh now I'm sick, how long before you figure we are Serbia?
Somewhat off topic, but today is the fourth anniversary of the publication of the MoToons--it is also International Free Press Day. Here's the eloquent Mark Steyn on the subject of freedom of speech and the Jihad, and how so much of the West failed--and is still failing--to rise to the occasion:
http://www.steynonline.com/content/view/2485/30/
No one (well,except the naive)should be surprised by the actions of Muslims in the West.There is a 5Th.(FIFTH) COLUMN already in place.This group not only consists of immigrants from Muslim countries,but their Western -born offspring.
One of my cousin's friends, who is of Jordanian background and a teacher,told my cousin that he was delighted to see the Trade Center towers fall.
'Unbeliever' - you referred to "One of my cousin's friends, who is of Jordanian background and a teacher".
I assume this 'friend' is a Muslim? Male or female? And ...a teacher? Where? Primary school, high school, tertiary ed? In an 'Islamic' institution, or in a public or private infidel-run institution. Teaching *what*?
Does this particular Mohammedan have citizenship, or residency, or what, and how long has s/he been in the USA?
I hope you know that person's name. I hope you are *watching* him or her, just quietly.
And your cousin - how Islamosavvy is he or she? Impervious to warnings and information - or not?