An update on this story. "Texas man's terrorism trial to start Monday," by Juan A. Lozano for the Associated Press, November 7 (thanks to D.C. Watson):
HOUSTON (AP) — A Texas man accused of trying to sneak out of the U.S. to join al-Qaida fighters in the Middle East and provide the group with money, equipment and U.S. military documents will be tried Monday on terrorism charges.
Prosecutors allege that Barry Walter Bujol Jr., 30, said he wanted to "die with the brothers for the cause of Allah, and to be in Heaven." A U.S. citizen, he was arrested in May 2010 after using fake identification to sneak into a Houston port and board a ship bound for the Middle East, authorities said.
An FBI informant had given Bujol a bag filled with GPS receivers, two nonpublic restricted-access Army manuals and other items he had allegedly agreed to courier to al-Qaida operatives in the Middle East. Authorities say Bujol believed the informant was a recruiter for al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula.
The standard allegations of "entrapment" are likely to follow, but these FBI stings have proven a highly successful method for steering would-be jihadist murderers into a controlled "off-ramp" that leads from active plotting to jail.
An FBI task force claims that Bujol had been emailing Anwar al-Awlaki, a U.S.-born cleric with ties to al-Qaida, and is believed to have exchanged emails with Nidal Malik Hasan, the Army psychiatrist accused of killing 13 people in the November 2009 Fort Hood shootings.
Al-Awlaki was killed in a U.S. drone strike in late September in Yemen.
Authorities say Bujol made three unsuccessful attempts during February and March 2009 to travel overseas to Yemen or the Middle East.
He was arrested after a two-year investigation by the FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force. He faces up to 20 years in prison if convicted on charges of attempting to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization and aggravated identity theft.
Bujol, from Hempstead, northwest of Houston, had been set to plead guilty in the case in October 2010, but he changed his mind. He fired two attorneys, decided to represent himself and has elected to have a judge, not a jury, decide his case.
According to court documents, Bujol used at least 14 email addresses to hide his activities from authorities and advocated attacking U.S. facilities where military weapons were manufactured.
Photo from an unrelated story at Fox News.
http://www.chron.com/default/article/Texas-man-s-terrorism-trial-to-start-Monday-2255981.php
http://www.chron.com/default/article/Accused-Texas-terrorist-speaks-out-for-first-time-2255699.php
According to court documents, Bujol used at least 14 email addresses to hide his activities from authorities .....
Yeah, 14 e-mail addresses is much more discreet than 1.
What a clown! Slapstick Jihad!
The article says:
"Authorities say Bujol made three unsuccessful attempts during February and March 2009 to travel overseas to Yemen or the Middle East."
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I had no trouble getting there several times in 2009.
Hmmmmmm......
From George, my neighbor:
Yep - can't disagree with the logic of this!!!
They say muslims born in Australia are Australians.
Bullshit !
If a dog is born in a stable, it's not a f****** horse, is it ? !!!
http://www.chron.com/default/article/Hempstead-man-tells-court-he-didn-t-want-to-help-2256733.php
What happened today according to the local paper.
NOTE: "Barry Walter Bujol Jr.".
One must assume he is a convert to Islam.
On that assumption, I am placing a copy of this story in my e-clippings file entitled "The Dangerous Convert". It's an awfully big file by now.
So let's rewrite the first two paragraphs of the report, to reflect reality.
"A Muslim resident of Texas accused of trying to sneak out of the U.S. to join al-Qaida fighters in the Middle East and provide the group with money, equipment and U.S. military documents will be tried Monday on terrorism charges.
"Prosecutors allege that Barry Walter Bujol Jr., 30, a convert to Islam, said he wanted to "die with the brothers for the cause of Allah, and to be in Heaven."
Questions for any reporter worth his or her salt, to try to answer.
When, and where, did Mr Bujol convert to Islam? In prison, perhaps? Did he convert to Islam through reading Islamic materials on his own, or through social (online or face to face) contact with Muslims?
Has he been attending a mosque, and if so, which one? And who is the imam?
If he attended a mosque, has that mosque been investigated...thoroughly?
Barry Walter Bujol Jr.—what is his Muslim name? And what do you want to bet that he has seldom gone by "Barry" since he "reverted"?
The indictment lists 11 names for Bujol, including Pat, Paul, Michael, Abu ABudha Al Farnasi and Abu Najya.
Perhaps he went by one of the latter two names? "Abu" is "son of". I'm not sure what ABudha means, but "Al Farnasi" usually means "French"—as "Al Amriki" means "American". Bujol is, I believe, a name of French abstraction. "Najya" means "victorious", which is typical Jihadist b*llsh*t.
The latter two names seem like standard Jihad noms de guerre.
Of course, he probably also goes by something like "Ahmed" or "Abdullah" or the ubiquitous "Muhammed".
But Western courts so often use the Jihadist's Western name—even, at times, when they have had the name legally changed.
After all, Barry Walter Bujol Jr. might be just a "Texas man". Abu Najya? Not so much...
"Abstraction"—that should be, "extraction".
Frankly I wish all muslims wouldn sneak out of western countries & go back to the middle east, I think we would all be happier then.