Jihad: the threat just keeps growing

While Obama fiddles.

"The threat keeps growing: List of terrorists in our midst gets longer and longer," an editorial from the New York Daily News, May 1 (thanks to Sr. Soph):

...Hard on the heels of Najibullah Zazi's subway bomb try, the Manhattan U.S. attorney has indicted two Brooklyn men, U.S. citizens, for allegedly conspiring to abet Al Qaeda's communication needs and its capacity to detonate explosives.

Count the arrests of Wesam el-Hanafi and Sabirhan Hasanoff as another victory for America's anti-terror forces, but do not sleep well, for the enemy is determined and dispered [sic] among us.

Even a partial inventory of attempted attacks by radicalized Muslims on these shores puts the threat into terrifying perspective:

  • Jose Padilla, arrested in 2002 as the so-called dirty bomber, was convicted of conspiring with Islamic terrorists.
  • The Lackawanna Six - Sahim Alwan, Faysal Galab, Shafal Mosed, Yasein Taher, Yahya Goba and Mukhtar al-Bakri - were busted in 2002 and convicted of aiding Osama Bin Laden.
  • Ohio truck driver Iyman Faris was charged in 2003 with conspiring to topple the Brooklyn Bridge. He was sentenced to 20 years.
  • Eleven men, known as the Virginia jihad network, were charged in 2003 with planning to train at terrorist camps. Nine were U.S. citizens. They were sentenced to prison.
  • U.S. citizen James Elshafay admitted plotting in 2004 to blow up the Herald Square station.
  • Yassin Araf and Mohmmad Hossein were arrested in Albany in 2004 for trying to buy a grenade launcher to assassinate a Pakistani diplomat. They got 15 years.
  • U.S. citizens Umer Hayat and Hamid Hayat, his son, were arrested in California in 2005 after lying to the FBI about Hamid's attendance at an Al Qaeda training camp. They were convicted.
  • Four members of terror cell Jam'iyyat Ul-Islam Is-Saheeh were charged in 2005 with conspiring to attack the Los Angeles airport. Three went to prison, one to a mental facility.
  • Michael Reynolds was busted in 2005 for plotting to blow up a Wyoming natural-gas refinery. He was sentenced to 30 years.
  • Syed Haaris Ahmed, a Pakistani, and Ehsanul Islam Sadequee, an American of Bangladeshi descent, were charged in 2006 with conspiring to make videos for extremists. They were convicted.
  • Seven men, including five U.S. citizens, were charged in 2006 with conspiring to blow up Chicago's Sears Tower. Six were convicted.
  • Former U.S. sailor Hassan Abujihaad was accused in 2007 of giving locations of Navy ships to a group that supports terrorists. He got 10 years.
  • Six New Jersey men were imprisoned in a 2007 conspiracy to attack Fort Dix.
  • An American and three others allegedly plotted to bomb fuel lines at JFK. They await trial.
  • Christopher Paul, a U.S. citizen, was arrested in 2008 for conspiring to use a weapon of mass destruction against U.S. and European targets. He got 20 years.
  • Four men were charged in 2009 with plotting to bomb Bronx synagogues. They await trial.
  • Hosam Maher Husein Smadi, a Jordanian living in Dallas, was charged in 2009 with trying to car-bomb an office tower.
  • Michael Finton of Illinois was busted in 2009 in a courthouse bomb plot inspired by American Taliban John Walker Lindh.
  • Bryant Neal Vinas of Long Island was busted in 2009 for allegedly giving Al Qaeda information on the subways and Long Island Rail Road.
  • Brooklyn-born Betim Kaziu was charged in 2009 with trying to join an Al Qaeda affiliate in hope of killing U.S. troops.
  • Twelve Americans were indicted in 2009 for allegedly supporting Al Shabaab, a terror group seeking to overthrow the Somali government.
  • Colleen LaRose, aka Jihad Jane, was charged this year with plotting to kill a Swedish cartoonist who had depicted the Prophet Mohammed.
  • Sharif Mobley, a 26-year-old New Jersey man, was arrested in March in a roundup of Al Qaeda suspects in Yemen.

Zazi admitted he and pals planned to suicide-bomb Grand Central and Times Square subways....

Hmmm. What do all those people have in common? What, oh, what, could it be?

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All this points to what so many here at JW already know and that is that Islam is a mortal (or is it stupid?) threat to Western Civilization (and other civilizations as well). And again, damn that bastard Mohammed. What a creep.

"Hmmm. What do all those people have in common? What, oh, what, could it be?"

Easy. These people, just like the good Muslims that have committed 15,000+ deadly terror acts since 911, are all isolated extremists.

Still, as the liberal chorus goes, not all Muslims are terrorists and not all terrorists are Muslim.

Nice little list! I'm surprised that there is no body count or injuries among these incidents. I also notice that the punishments meted out seem much more severe than those given out in Islamic states for similar offenses.

I feel assured that our security forces have been successful in breaking up these conspiracies before they become "man-made disasters." I sincerely hope that Mr Holder can maintain this sterling record as a carryover from GWB's administration.

In the meantime, it would only be prudent that every mosque and every organisation to have hosted any individual on this list or others like it, should be subjected to the most minute investigation of their every activity. Any mosque or organisation showing more than a coincidental connexion to seditious suspects should immediately be padlocked, its assets confiscated, and its administrators charged and/or deported.

As for Mr Obama, perhaps it's time for him to declare that the US will no longer tolerate that which can only be characterised as "acts of war," and start declaring certain diplomatic personnel as persona non grata.

"Hmmm. What do all those people have in common? What, oh, what, could it be?"

They're Muslims? That's just a wild guess, now!

IMO anyone, including US citizens, duly convicted of a being a terrorist (which includes aiding and abetting Islamic terrorism) involved in plotting or aiding the plotting of death & destruction against US citizens should be forthwith declared an enemy combatant, sent to Gitmo (with no Quran - really stupid to supply Qurans there) and interrogated (waterboarding if necessary) if they are believed to have useful information, and hanged there. I think we should do all we can legally to deter this home grown terrorism. Why do we have to be such wusses when we are dealing with killers of innocent civilians?

The list is alarming—I'm glad you compiled it, Mr. Spencer. I knew it was long, and is growing longer at an accelerating pace.

And yet, we have idiots claiming the Tea Parties are "the real threat"—ready to explode in entirely theoretical violence at any moment:

http://republicanheretic.wordpress.com/2010/03/25/tea-party-violence-and-conservative-threats/

Why concern yourself with Jihad terrorists when you can posit mildly irate retirees in their 60s and 70s as a bigger threat? They're certainly easier to deal with...

This is a partial inventory indeed....
What about...

23 March 2003
Sgt Hasan Akbar
Who carried out an attack with a rifle and a grenade against fellow soldiers at a temporary US base in northern Kuwait in spring 2003. In addition to the two deaths, 14 other soldiers were wounded in the attack, which prosecutors alleged was driven by religious extremism.

November 5, 2009
Major Nidal Malik Hasan
Twelve people have been killed and 31 injured in a shooting at the Fort Hood military base in Texas.

Would be good to have a full list.

Canto28 Why do we have to be such wusses when we are dealing with killers of innocent civilians?

It's very simple: The current administration is essentially on the Saudi payroll and you don't want to irritate the very people who you answer to.

We, like most European people are being sold out by our so-called intellectual elite.

But that's just my opinion [based firmly on what I've learned].

@Question_Everything!
"The current administration is essentially on the Saudi payroll..."

So was the last one.

Reading about the plots in this article, plus a number of successful attacks along with other outrages seen in 20 years' retrospection reminds me how I finally learned about radical Islam's war on the rest of humanity, and how I found Jihad Watch. My anxiety and alarm about these matters intensified with the 2008 Presidential election, as I knew the implications of Obama's tenure in our nation's highest office [the Obamanation that makes desolate]; I feared for the peace of America and of the world.

What's more, I'm reminded how that anxiety and alarm made an impression on my six-year old daughter (J. M. of sweetest memory). That impression was reinforced when she joined her parents to publicly show support for Israel against HAMAS--she was acutely aware of the differences between our pro-Israel group in numbers--the pro-HAMAS crowd was far greater, continuously swelling--in demeanor, in dress, and in symbolism--the Stars and Stripes prominently displayed by our group, virtually absent among the overwhelmingly Muslim HAMAS supporters.

Our daughter, in her short seven years, became aware of the Holocaust and of historical persecution of the Jews. She saw what jihad against Jews, Hindus, Christians, and others meant, seeing the terror inflicted on Sderot's children, seeing the horrors of 9/11 revisited and its victims memorialized, and seeing death and terror in London, Madrid, Bali, and Mumbai.

Being, as she was, an outspoken and direct child, her schoolteacher felt it necessary to insist to her that "Muslims are good." Her daddy, however, never made such a blanket contrary judgment of Muslims, having told her that, generally, most Muslims are peaceful, and many are good; but that, unfortunately, some are not, and not just a few at that. When my daughter reported to me what her teacher had said, I reiterated what I said before; then, I said that J. M. and I should only talk about these things between ourselves.

My little girl loved everyone, and was a trusting child, even after discovering the existence of human malice and realizing the inevitability and finality of death. That occurred quite some time before Jewell, her guardian angel, came to strengthen her and to lead her in her homeward ascent.

P.S.: Pamela and Robert, please take note of what I say and what I have said of my little girl--a child of the Twenty-First Century.

Car bomb forces evacuation of Times Square
http://www.3news.co.nz/NYs-Times-Square-evacuated---suspected-car-bomb/tabid/417/articleID/153763/Default.aspx

All the media is reporting how it was outside the theater at which "The Lion King" is playing in New York. What they do not tell you is more interesting.

Read about half way down the article. What is revealed should not surprise you. But in case you've been hibernating the bad boys who created "South Park", the foul mouthed cartoon kids who take on ANY and ALL sacred objects (even the Clintons) took on Mohammed.

"Comedy Central" produces "South Park". Viacom owns "Comedy Central." And the bomb just also happened to be outside the Viacom offices. I rather suspect that is the pertinent connection in this bombing.

{^_^}

Hmmm. What do all those people have in common? What, oh, what, could it be?

I know! I know!

*** 8:12 ***

They all read a book that explicitly calls for the mass murder of anybody who disagrees with the book, but not being professors at the National Defenses Univeristy they didn't get the inner deep meaning of the book and that all its expliclit commandments for terror and murder are really about internal spiritual struggle not bloodlust.

*** 33:21 ***

How'd I do?

Well folks, If you happenned to be in Times Square at around 6 P.M. yesterday, you would have been evacuated by the N.Y.P.D. due to a car bomb attempt in which an SUV was spotted discharging smoke from within. The police bomb squad was called in as people were being told to flee the area as quickly as possible. The street was cleared in short order and without a sign of panic from any section of the crowd. New York's mayor, Mike Bloomberg said that the SUV contained propane tanks, fireworks, cans of gasoline, a large gun locker, and some sort of timing device, which were removed from the vehicle without incident. Mayor Bloomberg called the event a "clear case of attempted terrorism." The police spokesperson described the attempt as "amaturish" but certainly dangerous and possibly deadly had it exploded. The N.Y.P.D. as well as the F.B.I. and investagators from the Department of Homeland Security are all said to be cooperating in the investigation as they review any traffic or security camera's recordings as well as asking the public to please contact them if anyone who was in the area at the time, who saw or happenned to record anything in the Times Square area between that morning and 8 P.M. last evening.
As "jdow" wrote, the Nissan Pathfinder was parked in front of the building that houses the offices of Viacom Entertainment, the producers of Comedy Central's program, "South Park," who was said to be threatened by various Islamic radical groups, angered by the show's depection of Muhammad as a brown bear in a T-Shirt.
Jihadists? The Islamic Cartoon Brigade? I wouldn't be the least bit suprised! Thank God islamic car-bombers are dumb as tree stumps. Well....it would seem these nitwits were anyway. Perhaps they were trained by the same scumbag morons who trained Richard Reid!

Keep stomping them gopher holes. Eventually one will cave in, with your foot in.

But what's amazing is after 15,000+ jihad attacks worldwide since 9/11, no major repeat hit us again. We're still managing to put some of them jihadis out of business, as the list shows. What's absurd is that the clear and present pattern of danger ignored for political/multicult correctness. It's the Islam, of course, but none dare call it by its name, a bad case of 'foot in mouth' by the current administration. ... And the beat goes on...

BHO does NOT fiddle or delay. He is muslim and is doing exactly as the queran demands. To see the US destroyed is his greatest dream. To have the US begging on her knees to surrender to islam is his ultimate high. So do not be stupid. BHO is evil and satanic and follows a pedophile and murderer. Pray, that is all that is left to do.

Hussein Obama is still in denial... He must be removed from office. As of now, America totally presidentless.(Obama is not my president!)

Now, now...let's stop with all the islamosphobia....

Hmmm. What do all those people have in common? What, oh, what, could it be?

Yes, they do have something in common: they're all non-Rotarians!

Not my joke - Newt Gingrich's.

Please do. Read this, see above, and fix it within, impress it upon, heart and soul. I share this, in gratitude, with you.

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