He has citizenship in two of the most prosperous, advanced societies on the planet. How 'bout that gratitude? More on this story. "Aussie on NY terror charges," by Carly Crawford for the Herald Sun, May 1:
The Australian man arrested as part of a growing al-Qaeda probe in New York is a devoted follower of fundamentalist Islam, sources say.
New York-based Sabirhan "Tareq" Hasanoff, who has both Australian and US citizenship, was one of two men charged with conspiring to provide material support al Qaeda in the US yesterday.
He is accused of lending the extremist network his computer expertise and handling huge sums of money for the group in New York.
Hasanoff's co-accused, Wesam El-Hanafi, 33, allegedly travelled to terror hotbed Yemen to receive orders, later purchasing seven digital Casio watches online.
Such watches are often used as timers to set off terrorist bombs.
He and Hasanoff were arrested overseas and flown to the US ahead their court appearance in Virginia yesterday.
They each faced one count of conspiring with al Qaeda between November 2007 and March 2010 and face up to 15 years in jail.
Hasanoff, 34, allegedly received $US50,000 ($A66,000) from an al Qaeda associate in 2007 and later discussed joining the radical terror cell, court documents show.
The tenant who occupies his townhouse in Flushing, Queens, described Hasanoff as a polite family man who, like his wife Wahida, is heavily into fundamentalist Islam.
"She's very religious and her husband is too," Fahima Rustam told News Limited at the neat split-level home yesterday.
"I'm scared - he was very nice, very quiet person," she said.
The FBI interviewed Ms Rustam early one morning about six months ago, digging for details about her landlord.
Hasanoff has two children - a boy aged five and a four-year-old daughter.
Two days ago, Ms Rustam got a phone call from Hasanoff's sister who asked her to start writing her rent checks in the sister's name, rather than her brother's.
"She didn't say why," said Ms Rustam, who has rented the home for the past four years.
NYPD commissioner Ray Kelly played down fears of a looming terror attack, saying there was no evidence of a specific plot.
"This was part of an on-going investigation into material support for al-Qaeda," NYPD commissioner Ray Kelly said.
I feel like doing a bit of re-writing.
Carly Crawford of 'Herald Sun', pay attention - and your editor, too.
First the headline.
It should read, "Aussie Muslim on NY Jihad Plot Charges".
Now for your first paragraph:
"The Muslim with Australian citizenship who was arrested as part of a growing al-Qaeda probe in New York is a very pious sharia-minded Muslim", sources say."
Now, what about the rest of the article? Here's a suggested re-wording for greater clarity.
"New York-based Sabirhan "Tareq" Hasanoff, who has both Australian and US citizenship, was one of two Muslim men charged with conspiring to provide material support to al Qaeda, 'The Fortress', in the US yesterday.
'He is accused of lending the jihadist network his computer expertise and handling huge sums of money for them in New York.
'Hasanoff's co-accused, Wesam El-Hanafi, 33, allegedly travelled to devotedly-Muslim jihad-racked Yemen to receive orders, later purchasing seven digital Casio watches online.
'Such watches are often used as timers to set off bombs in jihad terror raids...
'Hasanoff, 34, allegedly received $US50,000 ($A66,000) from an al Qaeda associate in 2007 and later discussed joining the jihad gang, court documents show.
'The tenant who occupies his townhouse in Flushing, Queens, described Hasanoff as a polite family man who, like his wife Wahida, is a very pious Muslim.
"She's very religious and her husband is too," Fahima Rustam told News Limited at the neat split-level home yesterday.
"I'm scared - he was very nice, very quiet person," she said."..
The rest of the article can probably stand as worded.
Post scriptum. In *all* these stories there's always the obligatory neighbour, often a Muslim, describing the suspect as 'very religious', and so quiet and nice, such a lovely person, etc. etc. Implication - we're shocked! shocked!!
Actually, not. It should be no surprise at all, especially to another Muslim, that an obviously devout and zealous Muslim turns out to be an active jihad enabler.
A few further thoughts.
So this creature has managed to acquire Australian, as well as US, citizenship. Did he gain Aussie citizenship first, and then marry a Muslim woman who had gained (or whose parents had gained) American citizenship? Or was it the other way around? Or some other procedure entirely?
Details, please! Carly Crawford, do your duty as a reporter! I want to know exactly when, and how, and why, this person gained *both* Australian *and* US citizenship. It doesn't look like he rates either affiliation very highly.
It doesn't look as though we Aussies have been too eager to claim ownership, given that he's being tried in the USA. Whatever you do with him, my friends, please *do not* send him back here! We don't want him!
From the article: "He and Hasanoff were arrested overseas and flown to the US".
*Where* 'overseas'? Not in Australia, I hope! Afghanistan? Pakistan? Europe?
Finally: I think I might print out this article, highlight the passage that describes this jihad plotter as a "very nice, very quiet person", and give it to a lady at my church who works with refugees. A week or two ago, she was rhapsodising about the Afghan Muslims she deals with, who she finds so *wonderfully* nice and sweet and obliging, by comparison with the standoffish and reserved and sometimes cranky Sudanese Christians. I might remind her gently "all that glitters isn't gold".
"Hasanoff appears to have deep roots in the US - he speaks with an American accent, purchased the Queens home in 2001 and his siblings and father live in Brooklyn."
This assumes he married a female muslim who acquired a citizenship here, which makes you wonder why the Herald sun are bothering to claim ownership for him being Australian.
Don't worry though, the government has you in safe hands. After all, you need the loyal immigrants to secure your future pensions right?
You don't get Australian citizenship by marrying an Australian. You get it from having an Australian parent or through naturalisation.
I suggest as this person does not appear to live in Australia that the former applies.
He's maybe both "Australian" and "American", but his origin, without a doubt, is my native Caucasus region in the South of Russia. He even might be of my Karachay ethnicity - we do have the Hassanoff clan. Shamefully, a large number of Karachays were active in Chechnya jihad fighting the Russians alongside Chechens and Arabs, to the glee of Russia-haters here in the US. Those who carried out the terrible bombings in 1999 in Moscow that killed nearly 300 civilians were also Karachays, trained by Arab jihadis in Chechnya.
But here comes the blowback. The Cantakuzening jihad against Rusiia and China inevitably backfires on the US, as I never tire warning here. Jewdog and other enthusiasts of "redirecting" jihad against Russia and China take note.
Meanwhile, the Balkan blowback continues, too. Kosovar Albanians aiding the London and Madrid bombings, a Bosnian going on a murderous shooting spree in Salt Lake City, Kosovar Albanians plotting a mass murder of American soldiers at Fort Dix, and now, meet Adis Medunjanin, a Bosnian Muslim (also an "American"!), who planned to kill American soldiers. The same American soldiers who murdered Serb Christians to please him and other Bosnian Muslims:
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