So they found that book of Jihad called the Koran?

Posted by: AlarmedKoranScientist at March 18, 2006 6:06 AM

I am glad they charged the father but didn't the locals all insist these were just boys and we were over reacting? Maybe they should look at little closer at this part of town.

Posted by: Ronin at March 18, 2006 8:12 AM

Well, well well..........

So, finally the two bed-fellows caught in bed. Surprised? Not Joe Guzzardi's readers (http://www.vdare.com/guzzardi/050729_vfl.htm).

For those who don't, the two bed-fellows, immigration and terror, meet in Lodi, CA.

Posted by: Alert at March 18, 2006 9:52 AM

Try:( http://www.vdare.com/guzzardi/050729_vfl.htm )

Posted by: Alert at March 18, 2006 9:57 AM

Every good jihadist needs a set of directions to follow, lest they get lost. A jihadist without a manual is like a fish without a bicycle. They just swim in circles...So it's not surprising that 'The Book of Jihad' was found in their posession...I wonder which one it was...there are so many...

Posted by: duh_swami at March 18, 2006 12:20 PM

More on this story in the San Diego Union that shows they were just your typical quiet religious Muslim living peacefully in loveable livable Lodi.

'Book of Jihad' found in terror suspects' Lodi home, FBI says

Publications promoting jihad and a Pakistani militant group were found in the home of a father and son who are charged with lying about the younger man attending an al-Qaeda training camp, a prosecutor said Wednesday.

“This is the book entitled 'Book of Jihad,'” he said. “It teaches the virtues of violent jihad,” the Arabic term for holy war.

A magazine found with the book was published in Urdu by “a well-known militant group in Pakistan,” Tice-Raskin told U.S. District Judge Garland Burrell Jr.

FBI agent Bridget Cox testified that the magazine had “pictures of violence, dead persons and military items like machine guns.” She said financial and insurance documents were seized with the publications.

Agents searching their home also found a scrapbook kept by Hamid Hayat that was filled with anti-American Pakistani newspaper articles that defend al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden and Afghanistan's Taliban, and indict the United States as “the world's biggest terrorist.” The articles date from 1999 to just after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

More from the San Jose Mercury News concerning a prayer also found in their possession.

Prosecutors say Lodi terror suspect carried jihadist prayer

Federal prosecutors on Tuesday said a Lodi man charged with attending an al-Qaida training camp in Pakistan possessed a prayer that jihadists typically carry with them "in enemy territory."

The note is "a supplication that would come from an individual who believed he was in enemy territory," Tice-Raskin told U.S. District Court Judge Garland Burrell outside the presence of jurors.

An expert witness called by the government told jurors the note was laboriously written in classical Arabic, with pronunciation marks to be recited as a ritual prayer.

The witness, Khaleel Mohammed, said the prayer translated as, "Oh Allah, we place you at their throats and we seek refuge in you from their evils."

"It's not peaceful," said Mohammed, an Islamic studies professor at San Diego State University. "Someone who is on jihad makes this supplication - a person who perceived him or herself as being engaged in a war for God against an enemy.

"It would be recited before one goes into battle or while one is on the battlefield," Mohammed said.

Posted by: Lisa at March 18, 2006 8:46 PM