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California: National Guardsman, convert to Islam, plotted to bomb LA subway, arrested for trying to aid al Qaeda

Mar 17, 2014 5:19 pm By Robert Spencer

TeausantNicholas Michael Teausant is a convert to Islam. His Muslim name is Ased Abdur-Raheem. But the universal practice of the mainstream media is to refer to converts to Islam by their Muslim names if they do good things and are revered, beloved figures (think Muhammad Ali and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar), and by their Infidel names if they do evil in the name of Islam (think Michael Adebolajo and Michael Adebowale, aka Mujaahid Abu Hamza and Ismail ibn Abdullah, the jihad murderers of Lee Rigby; John Walker Lindh, the Marin County mujahid, who is now known as Suleyman al-Faris, etc.).

Anyway, here again we see that a convert to Islam somehow gets the idea that jihad has to do with murdering Infidels. There are no programs in mosques in the U.S. to teach why such a notion is un-Islamic. And this earnest young convert certainly had murderous dreams — witness the graphic image of a shooting that you can see at Pamela Geller’s site. (I’m not able to post it here; my security settings flagged it.) Nonetheless, he was quite recently planning to travel to London, and no doubt would have had no problem getting into the country:

TeausantLondon

This little creep follows me on Twitter. Checking out the state of the resistance?

“National Guardsman Who Allegedly Plotted to Bomb LA Subway Charged With Attempting to Aid Al-Qaida,” by Christina Cocca for NBC Los Angeles, March 17 (thanks to Pamela Geller):

Nicholas Michael Teausant, 20, of Acampo, Calif., was arrested and charged Monday, March 17, 2014, with attempting provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization, according to government officials.

A California National Guardsman was captured Monday after an FBI investigation revealed a foiled plot to attack the Los Angeles subway system and plans to help al-Qaida, officials said.

Nicholas Michael Teausant, 20, of Acampo, Calif., was arrested near the Canadian border in Blaine, Wash. and charged with attempting to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner said in a news release.

Teausant is a student at San Joaquin Delta Community College in Stockton, officials said.

A reservist with the National Guard based in Stockton, Teausant went to the Canadian border in hopes of traveling to Syria to join the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, or al-Qaida, according to a federal complaint.

Teausant’s “training was minimal,” and “due to his lack of required academic credits, he never attended basic training,” the complaint alleged.

He allegedly said in a phone call that while on a post-Thanksgiving camping trip, his group discussed “hitting” Los Angeles subways with a targeted attack on New Year’s Eve or New Year’s Day, according to the complaint.

According to prosecutors, Teausant made inquiries about buying fireworks “with the biggest boom” and subsequently texted a friend advising, “Don’t go to LA Anytime soo Akhi Please trust me on this… and if you do don’t use the subway.”

A five-month investigation found Teausant had “explored ways of supporting violent extremist activities and providing material support to various terrorist organizations, culminating in his attempt to join” al-Qaida, the complaint alleged.

Teausant allegedly told a confidant that “his goal was maximum fear and a maximum blow to the US government so he could watch it tumble and fall in the wake of a civil war,” according to the complaint.

Teausant was making preparations to fight in Syria and told his confidant he planned to “train fighters in Syria to shoot properly,” according to the complaint. His plan allegedly involved first going to Canada via Greyhound to maintain a low profile.

Prosecutors allege that he confided to his source that he planned to travel during a school break, telling his mom he would be snowboarding at Mount Whistler in Canada, which would ease any concerns over his need for a passport.

If convicted, Teausant faces a maximum statutory penalty of 15 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.

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  1. Islamisdeath says

    Mar 17, 2014 at 5:31 pm

    The media did such a good job of covering up the fact that the two minions of satan who hacked Lee Rigby to death were muslims that at a recent party several people I spoke to, who get all their news from CNN, DID NOT KNOW the animals were muslim! When I told them their jaws dropped!

    We are being led like sheep by their leader over a cliff and like sheep we are mindlessly following.

    • Subee says

      Mar 18, 2014 at 12:25 pm

      We have our heads in the sand and don’t want to know.
      The dumbing down of society is working…across the board. We are getting dumber and cutting corners and living in a fog. Some of us aren’t, but few and far between.

  2. Angemon says

    Mar 17, 2014 at 5:36 pm

    “According to prosecutors, Teausant made inquiries about buying fireworks “with the biggest boom” and subsequently texted a friend advising, “Don’t go to LA Anytime soo Akhi Please trust me on this… and if you do don’t use the subway.””

  3. Wellington says

    Mar 17, 2014 at 6:15 pm

    The whitewashing of Islam by the MSM is arguably the greatest ethical transgression of our time. Damn stupid too. And often times traitorous, at least respecting the spirit of the law if not the actual letter.

    • Shane says

      Mar 18, 2014 at 11:06 am

      Most of the MSM in the USA and Europe are dhimmis to Islam who routinely whitewash the connection between Islam and terrorism and jihad. This article did not mention that the terrorist was a recent convert to Islam, as Spencer pointed out. That is a very relevant fact.

  4. Kyra says

    Mar 17, 2014 at 9:24 pm

    What a sad, pathetic little creep. Especially when I think about what my and my friends’ children his age are doing/accomplishing. Hopefully he’ll get knifed in prison. Doubtful if he will be missed.

    • holy bacon says

      Mar 18, 2014 at 12:19 am

      The prisons are all muslim. That’s where they are breeding the future martyrs of America. Korans supplied and funded by middle eastern allies like Saudi Arabia

  5. tama says

    Mar 17, 2014 at 10:50 pm

    his current username on instagram is
    mercerislandnative.

    ~~ he changes his name from time to time.

    • tama says

      Mar 18, 2014 at 12:40 am

      ALQ:
      http://oi60.tinypic.com/16gk8i8.jpg

      Nguard
      http://oi62.tinypic.com/2dvvjwj.jpg

      • tama says

        Mar 18, 2014 at 11:07 am

        And what he had done in the army plus comments,
        http://instagram.com/p/Vr5EvUNcdy/

        and when he got that national guard belt (june 11 2013)
        http://instagram.com/p/acIqNGNcRQ/

  6. Joel says

    Mar 17, 2014 at 11:07 pm

    Why the hell NOT send him to Syria–with the understanding he cannot return. And send thosudands of like minded assholes also; and while we are at it, the Nation Of Islam and Frakham.

    Perhaps Assad will rid the world of more filth, and they could–at the same time, take out some of tthe Hezbollah crap.

    Win Win. And Syrian soil gets fresh and more fertilzier. free

  7. Bradamante says

    Mar 18, 2014 at 12:22 am

    National Guardsman. Planning to bomb a subway. It goes to show — Islam appeals to twisted people who are looking for permission to take out their frustrations violently on other people.

    On a lighter note, until now I had no idea LA *had* a subway.

    • Defcon 4 says

      Mar 18, 2014 at 1:16 am

      The LA subway is nothing like the ones in any major metropolis. I don’t even think it has twenty miles of track laid yet. There is a metro light rail system which is much more widespread.

    • mortimer says

      Mar 18, 2014 at 10:20 am

      And taught him to be a traitor.

    • gravenimage says

      Mar 20, 2014 at 6:25 pm

      Bradamante wrote:

      On a lighter note, until now I had no idea LA *had* a subway.
      ……………………………..

      Yup. I took it several times when I was staying in Hollywood a couple of years ago, Bradamante. While, as Defcon 4 notes, it is not as extensive as the systems you find in some cities, it is heavily patronized and was *packed* the day I took it from downtown during the evening rush hour.

      Any Jihad attack on it would likely result in a great deal of carnage.

  8. Cindy Mccoy says

    Mar 18, 2014 at 5:51 am

    This is the craziest thing I have ever heard of!! How while in the military you can sucked in by the enemy??? It should be against all rules to read or have the enemies lies. I just don’t get how that works, how are you in our army and want to hurt Americans. My mind just can’t even think that way. What is it these folks are looking for??? What kind of people are they???

  9. PGuud says

    Mar 18, 2014 at 5:54 am

    Muhammad Ali and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar are beloved figures? Only to apologists, coreligionists, and fools.

    They are a disgrace to black history–to all free people. Converting to Islam isn’t progress or salvation; it’s submitting to slavery and enabling terror.

    Other “popular” figures/slaves of Islam from the entertainment and sports world include Shaquille O’Neal (retired basketball player); Larry Johnson (retired basketball player); Jamaal Wilkes (retired basketball player); Ice Cube (rapper/actor); Bernard Hopkins, Jr. (boxer); Ahmad Rashad (sportscaster); Dave Chappelle (comedian/actor); Omar Epps (“House” actor); and more.

    What about their textual Islam is different than that of Usama bin Laden?

    Islam: where freedom ends and slavery begins.

  10. mortimer says

    Mar 18, 2014 at 10:18 am

    Murdering kafirs is the Sunna of Mohammed, Islam’s murderous founder. The sacred murder of kafirs guarantees paradise with great rewards. Muslims are bounty hunters for Allah who pays royally for the blood and heads of kafirs. Good Muslims kill. Bad Muslims are inactive and non-effective.

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