US resident Abdul Tawala Ibn Ali Alishtari, 53, whose nationality is not known.

Well, why not? This took all of a couple of minutes to find online. . .

NYT

Meanwhile, the two Pakistani siblings, now 10 and 11, have found a home. Mr. Alishtari and his wife are adopting them, a move he said has surprised some in the Muslim community. ''They said, 'You're Moroccan and Arab, and you adopted a Pakistani child?''' he said. ''I said, 'No, I adopted a Muslim child.''

Abdul Tawala Alishtari's Profile at ZDNet UK Community

A short bio for...

Mr. Abdul Tawala Ibn Ali Alishtari is a 54 year old bank underwriter. He was certified and bonded over 20 years ago to work in bank security for international banks. He was a member of Arab Bankers Association of North America.

Posted by: justamomof4 at February 17, 2007 8:21 AM

Each of these stories -- when it comes out at all -- is usually buried in a paragraph somewhere in The New Duranty Times or The Bandar Beacon. One would like to have a complete list of all those who, in the United States and then in the rest of the Bilad al-kufr, the Lands of the Infidels, have been charged with:

1) Taking part in an act of completed terrorism (Madrid, London, New York, etc.)

2) Planning or aiding in any direct way an act of completed terrorism.

3) Planning or aiding an act of planned terrorism not carried out because the police intervened.

4) Sending money, or weapons, or attempting to send money or weapons, to terrorist groups or goupuscules abroad.

5) Spreading propaganda on behalf of identified terrorist groups including, but not limited to, Al-Qaeda, Hamas, Hezbullah, Islamic Jihad, Ansar al-Sunna, Lashker-e-Toiba, Jaish-e-Mohammad, Gemaa Islamiyya, Ansar al-Sunna, and another few hundred mix-n'-match names which you can come up with yourself by taking the words "Allah" and "Muhammad" and "Hizb" and "Ansar" and "Lashkar" and "Jemaa" (or "Gemaa") and put them together, and voila -- you've got yourself a terrorist group, that is a group of Muslims, animated by the canonictal texts of Islam that have been impressed upon their brains (or that they themselves have impressed on their own brains), and have decided to carry out Jihad not through the instruments that at the moment are most effective (see Tariq Ramadan, "the smyler with the knyf under his cloke" which is how Chaucer translated, and allegorized, Boccaccio's Treachery, "Tradimento, con gli occulti ferri." (Treachery, with hidden weapons).

6) Working to render the security services and legal systems of the Infidel lands as ineffective as possible, by constantly hamstring rather than supporting investigations of likely terrorists, and of the environments, including madrasas and mosques, known to have produced other terrorists.

7) Working to confuse and mislead, by a long series of taqiyya-and-tu-quoque operations, what is actually contained in the Qur'an, Hadith, and Sira, and always and everywhree denouncing any Infidel who dares to quote extensively from such texts, for the purposes of pedagogy -- of showing what it is that Islam inculcates in its adherents. Especially worrisome is the ability of a vast army of Muslims to stifle discussion by violent, stormtrooper-like shutting down of public discussion, as well as constant efforts to blacken the reputations of certain books and authors, with slander in Wikipedia entries, dismissive reviews (designed to dissuade the innocent inquirer) of books about Islam that are anything other than the usual armstrong-and-esposito apologetic nonsense, and in many other ways to inhibit, by the government as well, any forthright declarations as to what Islam teaches, what its tenets are, and what the history of Islamic conquest, over 1350 years, so clearly shows.

8) Working to ensure that public school systems promote a treacly version of Islam, that such a version be incorporated into textbooks, that teachers be inveigled or pressured into presenting a "let's-play-Muslim" view of Islam intended to affect impressionable young minds, and this pressure, this inveiglement, this contant effort to present "one of the world's great religions" and "one of the three abrahamic faiths" as something that must, because it is called, faute de mieux, a "religion," must therefore be a Good Thing, and that as "one of the three abrahamic faiths" that "reveres Jesus and Moses" cannot conceivably also be a faith whose adherents are told not to take "Christians and Jews as friends" and indeed, to work for a world where Christians and Jews will be reduced to the levels that, in the lands conquered by Islam, they were always and everywhere reduced: that is, to the status of dhimmis, one of humiliation, degradation, and permanent physical insecurity.

9) Working from within Infidel societies to create a constant tension, a constant uncertainty, a constant clash between the "respectable" and those who, because they see what Islam is all about, are depicted as slightly crazed, over-the-top, wild-eyed, or for that matter "right-wing fanatics" -- anything at all to sully them. The victims of this campaign include both the Apostates from Islam -- such keenly intelligent, and sober analysts, such as Ibn Warraq, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Wafa Sultan, Ali Sina, and those who were never Muslims, but who know enough about Islam and about the history of Islamic conquest (and about other matters besides) so that they cannot be fooled, and refuse to pretend that a "solution" can be found if we all play let's pretend, and ignore the problem or misconstrue it as a shadow-play between so-called 'moderate' Muslims and...the other kind.

10) Fill it in yourself. Make it an even ten.

Posted by: Hugh at February 17, 2007 8:30 AM

Get 'em, guys!! Way to go, New York. And yes, find out where those other millions went ... and what kind of stuff it bought. My guess is it wasn't only night vision goggles, though that's bad enough.

Posted by: Morgaan Sinclair at February 17, 2007 8:46 AM

From Marisol's post: Quote

"Also known by the alias Michael Mixon,

So what we have here is a potential jihadi abetting financial wiz with a specialty in identity theft . . .looking further into ZNet bio posted online:

While in business, Mr. Abdul Tawala Alishtari built prorietary online bank security that allowed for protection from ID theft online within electronic data interchanges. The weakness to EDI systems is human error from industrial espionage, piracy and infiltration that invades and corrupts software if that data is accessible generally online in servers.

Mr. Abdul Tawala Alishtari pledged to develop novel offline technologies and solutions to keep all data systems offline and to run the tightest ship in the ID Theft protection commerce. Mr. Abdul Tawala Alishtari, is an ex-victim, himself and he knows fully how predatory and ruthless cyber felons and tricksters upon the IDPixie LLC's white list are.

Mr. Abdul Tawala Alishtari successfully stopped crooks using his good name but they still scammed hundreds of millions USD from innocents victims woldwide from their ID theft trying to blame anyone but themselves for their scams and ID theft done with impunity and hubris.

In the specific case, the pertinent government authorities, in that instance, caught one felon who later on admitted his crime in written settlement. That agency, OSC, in Canada sent release letters to Mr. Alishtari's company.

The IDPixie LLC ID theft protection requires a patented system, constant vigilance of the human equation and proprietary upgrades.

Mr. Abdul Tawala Alishtari's curriculum vitae in length is at this click http://groups.msn.com/atalishtarispeeches/general.msnw?action=get_mess

Posted by: justamomof4 at February 17, 2007 9:00 AM

"He faces up to 95 years in prison if convicted of the charges, Garcia added"

So he gets 95 years of halal hot meals ?

Posted by: arjun.sevak at February 17, 2007 9:19 AM

...Deport him and his family....Ban Muslim Immigration...

Posted by: exsgtbrown at February 17, 2007 10:12 AM

10. Bringing lawsuits against infidels (reporters, publishers etc.) to shut them up and discourage others from speaking out at the risk of getting entangled in expensive litigation. (actually part of number 7 but it's a step further than altering wiki entries and writing dismissive reviews).

Posted by: Caroline at February 17, 2007 10:45 AM

isn't it past time to try this scum for treason and hang them on the public square???

Posted by: The Texican at February 17, 2007 10:54 AM

He faces up to 95 years in prison if convicted of the charges, Garcia added.

I don't want to pay for his prison life, his prison computer, his prison email server, his prison uniforms, meals, exercise facilities, education and his right to practice Islam in prison.

The Saudis say they are partners in the war on terror.....

I think we should send him to a prison in Saudi Arabia.

Posted by: The Goobs at February 17, 2007 12:27 PM

Hummm, China would give him the Death Penalty. Any scams that causes social unrest is worthy of death.

Posted by: Jeff at February 17, 2007 12:39 PM

stole millions of dollars from victims via a phoney loan investment program.
(from story)

Doesn't Islam have a ban on usuary (interest on money)?

What am I thinking, there is also a ban on drug use. And that is a primary funding source for these Jihad groups.

Posted by: auntbea at February 17, 2007 1:50 PM

1998 to 2007 See, the FBI CAN get their man. They DO know how to investigate. It just take them a while.
I guess I'm not the only one who notices the important date in the meantime 9/11/2001. I wonder what he was doing that year?

Posted by: auntbea at February 17, 2007 1:59 PM

OT... But speaking of crooks, remember the Congressman Jefferson from Lousiana who was caught on tape by the justice department accepting a briefcase full of bribes and they found $90,000. wrapped in tinfoil in his freezer?
He was on the House ways and means comm. and they dumped him from that. N. Pelosi just appointed him to another commitee.
Guess what HOMELAND SECURITY!
Are Muslims allowed to use aluminum foil?

Aunt Bea
Toto quit your barkin we ain't in Mayberry no more.

Posted by: auntbea at February 17, 2007 2:11 PM

It sends a terrible message," said King, R-N.Y. "They couldn't trust him to write tax policy, so why should he be given access to our nation's top secrets or making policy for national defense?"

"Members of the committee have access to intelligence secrets, plots here in the country, overseas, and people under suspicion. This shows how unimportant the Democrats think homeland security is," King said.

Still OT; some quotes from the FoxNews story on Jefferson.

Posted by: auntbea at February 17, 2007 2:16 PM

I can just hear "Mixon" now in the detention room to his interrogaters: "I AM NOT A JIHADIST!!!"

Posted by: pythagoras at February 17, 2007 2:33 PM

"Doesn't Islam have a ban on usuary (interest on money)?

What am I thinking, there is also a ban on drug use. And that is a primary funding source for these Jihad groups."

All taqqiya, all the time. No holds barred.

[Launches into a lusty rendition of "Anything Goes".]

PS: Any bets that our court system will actually give this rectal cavity all 95 years?

[crickets]

Posted by: Zenster at February 17, 2007 5:37 PM

Is it possible that this scumbag is an adnerent to islam ?

Posted by: dgene at February 17, 2007 7:21 PM

hey patriotic anti-jihadi americans. you were kicked in the balls 9/11, you witness europe being bombed, dhimmified, blackmailed and turning to right wing fascism. yet muslims keep hitting your country and you still think that europe is the weaker one politically at home? when you gonna put your private gun ownership where your mouths (or rather brave typing fingers are).

i think most of the americans on this site are just arm chair anti-jihadists. europeans are the ones on the front lines yet you just had some bosnian jihadist gun down 5 americans yet no demos from patriots, no calls for boycotts of muslims. y'all just wait for the next american idol.

i'll give y'all 5 years before y'all become dhimmified like us euros. wake up guys before it's too late. stop typing start action!

this is a plea not a bitch fest.

Posted by: leonthepigfarmer at February 17, 2007 11:29 PM

"...you just had some bosnian jihadist gun down 5 americans..."

Not "some bosnian jihadist" a DEAD "bosnian jihadist". Please try to stay on topic.

Posted by: Zenster at February 18, 2007 1:39 AM