Would that they were all like this. "Terrorist plot unravels at rural Oregon ranch," by Les Zaitz for The Oregonian, October 17 (thanks to James):
Oussama Kassir, a self-proclaimed al-Qaida tough guy, flew into a rage after his late-night arrival at a remote Oregon ranch.The barren rangeland, suggestive of Afghanistan, was to become an Islamic fighter training base.
Kassir expected to be welcomed by Muslim recruits, eager to learn the ways of war.
Instead, he got an Islamic leader from Seattle, a mentally impaired 18-year-old and two women more interested in canning jars than jihad.
Kassir expected access to a weapons armory.
He got one pistol and a .22-caliber rifle.
The events that led to the effort 10 years ago to establish a jihad camp outside Bly have been well-chronicled. But testimony and exhibits from Kassir's trial in New York provide the fullest account to date of what went on behind the gates of the Dog Cry Ranch.
What emerges from the trial record is an almost comic account of passwords, night patrols and target practice. Jihad, it seems, couldn't take root alongside the sagebrush and weeds that greeted Kassir.
Kassir recently was sentenced to life in prison for his effort, and his two partners in the enterprise are awaiting extradition to the U.S.
The whole set up was in fact a hustle by a petty crook from Seattle named James Ujaama.
An "Islamic time share"
Ujaama envisioned the Oregon camp as an Islamic time share, selling visits to foreign Muslims. Twice he lured groups from his Seattle mosque for weekend visits to the ranch. They thought they were going on a bit of a Western adventure -- riding, shooting and chasing cows.
In late 1999, Ujaama pitched a more grave version to a London imam, Abu Hamza al-Masri. The hook-handed preacher was known for fiery oratory, lashing the West while secretly arranging entree for Muslims to militant camps in Afghanistan. Ujaama promised al-Masri a safe haven, recruits and weapons to transform the desert ranch into a Muslim military training camp.
Al-Masri bought the pitch, and Kassir soon found himself on a trans-Atlantic flight to the U.S. He would later boast that he had trained in al-Qaida camps in Afghanistan. He brought along a partner, Haroon Aswat, supposedly an al-Qaida trainer himself. Aswat later would spend time in an al-Qaida safe house in Pakistan, his visit recorded in a ledger bearing the fingerprints of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed -- the mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
For the Oregon trip, the wiry Aswat packed homemade training CDs with graphic instructions on how to make bombs and poisons.
One manual warned that making poison was "more dangerous than making explosives. Always use good protective clothing. I know too many mujahedeen whose lungs and bodies are messed up due to the lack of quality protection equipment." [...]
And when it all unraveled:
Kassir and Aswat took refuge in a Seattle mosque and tried taking the training to the Muslims who hadn't wanted to move to Bly.After a few classes, the men from London gave up and packed their bags for home. Kassir explained his exasperation to Osman.
"I've been trying to train these brothers," Kassir said. "They're not taking it seriously."
Good on them.
Perhaps there wasn't enough emphasis on the 70 virgin reward system.
"One manual warned that making poison was "more dangerous than making explosives. Always use good protective clothing. I know too many mujahedeen whose lungs and bodies are messed up due to the lack of quality protection equipment." [...]
Muslims building weapons of mass destruction , i.e. chemical and/or biological, you can bet on it...after all , Islam is the religion of insane death merchants..
A mentally impaired 18-year-old HMM is this clown related to the 18 year old and have the same problem ???
I guess Oregon really is God's country..
I am not too far from Bly and trust me; Oregon os NOT God's country in many many ways. But it does have it attributes as I like to fish, and fish and fish. The state is overrun with envirotrolls, tree huggers, earth muffins and prairie fairies. They would have been better off asking the local ranchers about poiosns and weapons! I am sure the local folks would have been more than happy to 'lend a hand' to these fools. There are many good, conservative people living in the rural areas of central and eastern Oregon. Much of the country thinks we are all like the people who live on the west side in Portland,
Eugene(Beserkley of the Northwest), Salem and Medford. The state is actually quite red out here. In elections we get trumped by the much larger metroploitan areas.
In rural hinterlands poeple keep an eye on each other
and suspicious things are very often reported to others
and in turn, gets watched. We will not always be so lucky
as to have "Laurel and Hardy go to Jihadi Camp."
Vigilence is the key. Even when comedy is the main course.
I was just wondering Mr.Spencer are you allies with the AIFD President, M. Zuhdi Jasser? If not, I think you should consider it.
"Another fine mess you've got us into!"
"I've been trying to train these brothers," Kassir said. "They're not taking it seriously."
What is it they are 'not taking seriously' Allah, Quran, Mahounds examples, obligation to jihad? Maybe Kassir is a good jihadi, but a lousy teacher...Maybe it's a 'personality' thing...Anyway, he is blaming the taught, not the teacher...
Islam does not always attract the most brilliant people, and that fortunately is one of its soft points:
"Instead, he got an Islamic leader from Seattle, a mentally impaired 18-year-old and two women more interested in canning jars than jihad."
But, it is important to remember that inflicting harm on another or a group does not require much or any intelligence. Even the moronic can fire off automatic weapons into a crowd or blow themselves up. One must avoid the erroneous conclusion that one failing franchise is indicative of a failing brand. Even McDonald's has some lemon stores, but no one would assume that that corporation is on the ropes as a result.
I don't think Jasser is someone with whom a serious anti-jihadist like Robert should be allied. In some significant aspects of Islamic belief and practice, Jasser's silence is deafening.
From the article: "Kassir and Aswat took refuge in a Seattle mosque".
Which one, I wonder? I am sure that the good non-Muslim citizens of Seattle would like to know which mosque in their hometown was playing host to people who fully intended to teach other Muslims how to kill large numbers of non-Muslims...even if the local Muslims were either a bit slack, or currently in Mecca mode (laying low and biding their time) and therefore proved difficult to enthuse.
Not taking it seriously... Hhhhmmmm.......but they did initially like the idea. That is not comforting.
I clicked on the link and read the whole story in the original source.
You know what interested *me*?
The reporter tells us the names of all sorts of people, but *doesn't* give us the name of the *owner* of the Dog Cry Ranch.
Here's the paragraph that caught my attention:
"The only other person on the ranch was the Islamic wife of the sheep rancher who owned the place."
Now, this Muslimah is named - 'Hyat Hakimah'. But her husband's name isn't given anywhere. WHY?
The phrasing of the sentence I just quoted, suggests that he may have been a native-born American.
Now, we all know that sharia sez that Muslimahs aren't allowed to marry Infidel men; not unless the man converts to Islam. So this 'sheep rancher' who owns the Dog Cry ranch, and has a Muslimah wife (who doesn't seem to be using his surname?), must have converted to Islam in order to marry his wife. Marriage jihad...'dahling, you can't marry me unless you convert [kissy kissy]' 'Suuure, dear, whatever you say dear, anything for you, dear'"...
and so his ranch gets visited by a terror jihad trainer from Londonistan. And where is *he* while all this is going on? - while the terror trainer is telling a slow-witted 18 year old what it's like to slit a human's throat, and teaching them all to fire guns and sneak through the sagebrush?
Here's the other bit that got the old WTF? from me:
"Hakimah was growing uneasy with developments.
"She had expected to run a sort of Home Extension Service for Muslims at her place [yeaah, suuure].
"They were, you know, training for war," she later explained. {When? - once the Investigators came knocking? - why, if she thought her guests were 'training for war' , did she not make a discreet phonecall to the FBI? = because it sure sounds like she didn't bother - dda}
*She and her husband were never implicated in any wrongdoing* {but...as I read the report, she and [convert or Infidel?] hubbie kept their mouths tight shut and covered up for their highly suspicious guests, and didn't let out a squeak to anybody about it, until actually questioned - dda}.
"I was just wanting, you know, people to be able to raise their own vegetables and preserve them and eat more healthy," she said. {sorry, lady, that's a total non sequitur, and I really don't believe you - dda}.
'Kassir suggested that she send the Arab horses she was raising overseas to Afghanistan.
*She saw the poison-making manual and its recommendation to test poisons on horses.
"That was a needless thing," Hakimah later testified.* {The report seems to imply, however, that she kept mum about the scary poison manual, despite her concern for her dear horses - and that supposing the Bad Guys had NOT already been under surveillance, if it had been up to her to raise the alarm...she would not have done so - dda}.
'She soon abandoned the ranch to the visitors {where did she go? - where was her *husband* while all this was happening? - dda} , and a month later they were gone too."
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Again: where is 'Hyat Hakimah's' *husband* - Mr Nameless American Infidel sheep-ranch-owner - in all this? And did his dear wife tell *him* about the poison-making manual, and the war games?
Quite possibly she didn't.
One wonders how many other nice Muslimahs there are, out there, with converted-to-get-the-girl American husbands, who conveniently own ranches, or fly planes, or whatever.