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Oregon: “Carloads” of jihadis turned ranch into jihad terror training camp

Apr 24, 2014 1:28 pm By Robert Spencer

Abu Hamza al-Masri sits next to defense attorney Lindsay Lewis in Manhattan federal court in New York“He said he was there to train men for jihad,” and everyone who heard him say it knew that what he meant was that he would be training men to commit acts of violence against non-Muslims. No one thought that he meant he would be training men for the interior spiritual struggle to better themselves. Yet at the 9/11 Memorial and Museum, Muslim leaders are angry at the Museum’s depiction of the hijackers as waging jihad for the sake of Allah, even though that is what they themselves said they were doing. It is, in other words, an official dogma in the public square today that jihad is peaceful and benign, and only greasy Islamophobes think otherwise. The only people who blithely ignore his dogma and continue about their business are Islamic jihad terrorists.

“‘Carloads’ of terrorists turned Oregon ranch into training camp,” by Rich Calder, New York Post, April 23, 2014:

An Oregon woman says she thought she was opening up her family’s ranch to local Muslims to teach them how to grow and can veggies — and that her husband was even expecting a tax write-off.

But US-born Muslim convert Eva Hatley testified in Manhattan federal court Tuesday that after the “carloads’’ of fellow Muslims she met through her mosque arrived at the 160-acre ranch in Bly in 1999, the couple watched helplessly as their home was turned into an al Qaeda training camp.

“It wasn’t anything like I envisioned for the property,” insisted Hatley, testifying at the trial of one-eyed, hook-handed hate preacher Abu Hamza al-Masri.

Hatley, a two-time witness-protection-program flunky who prefers going by her Muslim name, Ayat Hakimah, said other Muslims from London would soon arrive on al-Masri’s orders.

Hatley’s then-husband, Ivan Rule, was temporarily out of town “shepherding” while his longtime ranch was being overrun with terrorists-in-training, she said.

According to al-Masri’s lawyer last week, the camp was similar to being in the “Cub Scouts,’’ with the men riding horses, tending to little lambs and telling campfire stories.

But Hatley said one of the arrivals, militant Oussama Kassir, boasted about previously running training camps in Afghanistan and being a “hit man” for Osama bin Laden.

She said Kassir told her that al-Masri was his “leader” and that al-Masri sent him and others to the Bly ranch to create a “training camp” where men would learn to shoot guns, throw knives and do calisthenics along open, spacious fields abutting a ravine and desolate dirt roads.

“He said he was there to train men for jihad,” she said. “He said that Abu Hamza sent him. He intended to train them to fight.”

The visitors, she claimed, said the ranch resembled Afghanistan.

She added that some had CDs with information on how to make poisons to “kill people” and regularly “talked” about “robbing and killing truck drivers” on nearby roads.

Kassir, she recalled, claimed there were plans to eventually dig a hillside compound at the ranch for al-Masri to hide out in.

“I was shocked,” said Hatley, who claims she fled the ranch in fear in December 1999, four months after moving in.

During cross-examination, al-Masri’s lawyer Jeremy Schneider painted the gun-loving Hatley as paranoid and having a shady track record.

She admitted to him under oath that she agreed to marry her husband after only their first encounter — and had tricked him into thinking she had money.

She claimed she feared that Rule — who was married four previous times and had 18 kids — wanted to kill her and had “suffocated” his previous wife to death.

When asked if Rule, al-Masri, Kassir or others who stayed at the ranch had ever threatened her, she said, “No, but I am still afraid.”

Hatley went into witness protection in 2004 but was kicked out years later for telling one of her new neighbors her secret.

She was given a second chance, but the feds booted her again after she violated multiple rules, including driving with a suspended license.

Besides setting up the training camp, al-Masri, 56, is accused of conspiring in a 1998 kidnapping in Yemen that resulted in the deaths of four tourists and committing other terror crimes. He faces life in prison if convicted.

Kassir, a Lebanese-born Swede, was convicted in 2009 of plotting to help al Qaeda recruit by trying to set up a weapons training post at the ranch and distributing terrorist training manuals over the Internet.

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  1. Bradamante says

    Apr 24, 2014 at 1:53 pm

    A convert to Islam who didn’t realize what she was signing up for — and is sticking with it even after everything went sideways. Once again we see the intellectual caliber of the people who get recruited. My fear is that we have a huge supply of people who are either stupid and naive or stupid and greedy, and we aren’t doing diddly-squat to keep them from being conned into joining this racket.

  2. john spielman says

    Apr 24, 2014 at 1:55 pm

    ha ha ha, poor Eva hatley, what’s that old saying… .?”if you sleep with the dogs , don’t be suprised when you get fleas”
    Eva has embraced Islam, that was ,and is, (and until Christ reurns), will be; a cult of death darkness murder lying stealing misogyny and pedophilia just like that demon possessed pervert Mohammed!

    • Salah says

      Apr 24, 2014 at 2:22 pm

      The Qur’an itself bears witness that Jesus was Holy while Muhammad was indeed a pervert and a sinner.

      Talking about Jesus, the Qur’an says:
      “He said: I am only a messenger of your Lord: That I will give you a PURE boy.”
      Qur’an 19:19

      And talking about Muhammad, this same Qur’an says:
      “That Allah may forgive thee of thy sin that which is PAST and that which is TO COME.”
      Qur’an 48:2

      http://crossmuslims.blogspot.com/2011/05/saint-and-sinner.html

      • john spielman says

        Apr 24, 2014 at 2:30 pm

        yes, BUT the Qur’an denies JESUS IS GOD, and only

        • john spielman says

          Apr 24, 2014 at 2:36 pm

          oops; premature posting (idon’t know how that happened) i meant to say
          only God can forgive sins and only IF He Himself paid the penalty (Jesus death on the cross). Islam has NO method for Allah to forgive sins and keep the law and the penalty of the law intact. If Allah forgives sin ( which he cannot because he is only Satan) then he would be ignoring the penalty of those laws and be nothing more than a corrupt judge.

  3. mortimer says

    Apr 24, 2014 at 6:48 pm

    How many jihad training camps exit in the U.S.?

  4. Isabella says

    Apr 24, 2014 at 7:43 pm

    I think the woman is full of taqiyya!

    • Lou Bator says

      Apr 24, 2014 at 8:57 pm

      …or she’s full of shi’ite.

  5. doreva says

    Apr 25, 2014 at 12:54 pm

    i think the script writers of the tv series “The Following” must have gone to that camp too, but “mysteriously” changed the bad guys source of inspiration to “christianity”…
    this is quite interesting, in looking at “hollywood” and the media in the west and how much they want to deny what is going on, for example, that new tv series “The Following” is actually about this very kind of thing, except, of course, the way it is written, the “bad guy” uses “christian” mythology/theology in his murder cult hidden away in the woods. How ironic when in reality there is an actual murder cult in the woods in Oregon that uses Islamic mythology/theology to show people how to kill, as they do in the series “the following”. but far be it from America’s politically correct script writers to actually write about what is actually going on, when they can vilify Christianity and “western civilization” as being the bad influence. another example, in the news, those KKK slopeheads who gunned down people at a Jewish centre in states, the media were almost gleeful, nay, relieved, that these dingbats PROVE that “Islam is a Religion of Peace” because, you see, some crazy ass KKK guys killed some people so that PROVES Christianity and THe West are the real culprits and violent jihadists are the VICTIMS of “The West”. Got it????

  6. dumbledoresarmy says

    Apr 27, 2014 at 7:39 am

    I bet this sort of thing is going on in every single non-Muslim country everywhere in the world that there are more than a couple of hundred mohammedans.

    Memo to country or wilderness-dwelling Americans, and to any Australians, New Zealanders, or Canadians, and to those who in Wales, Scotland, and England, and in Ireland, France, Germany, Scandinavia, wherever, who happen to inhabit or who regularly visit/ pass through sparsely-populated rural and “remote” locations (next to national parks or forestry reserves, for example): ** keep your eyes and ears open** for anything at all that looks a bit ‘odd’.

    Because jihadis *will* be “going bush” just like this lot did. They will be slinking about at odd hours. They will be engaging in bomb-making practice and target practice…and perhaps even beheading practice, with goats and such. They will be playing war games in the countryside. Watch out for strangely-dressed “hikers” who don’t act friendly.

    No matter where you are, no matter how far away from anywhere you think it is, don’t assume that a bunch of jihadis like this lot can’t be hanging out there. They might have picked it *just because it IS far away from anywhere*. If you yourself could get there by a couple or a few hours drive from the nearest big town or city…**so can they**.

  7. gravenimage says

    Apr 28, 2014 at 2:55 pm

    An Oregon woman says she thought she was opening up her family’s ranch to local Muslims to teach them how to grow and can veggies — and that her husband was even expecting a tax write-off.
    …………………………………….

    Uh…right. Tell me, if *carloads* of Jihadists showed up at your property, wouldn’t you either drive then off with a shotgun, or—if outnumbered and outgunned—call the sheriff and have them them cleared out?

    But the “Oregon woman” in question is, of course, a Muslim convert. My guess is that Eva Hatley—really, Ayat Hakimah—knew that these fine Jihadists had something rather different from “canning veggies” in mind from the beginning…

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