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Islamic State in Illinois planned another Fort Hood

Mar 28, 2015 10:47 pm By Robert Spencer

edmonds-cousinsTheir plot was foiled, so the next round of “Mosques ask for police protection, local Muslims fear backlash” mainstream media stories will have to wait a bit longer for publication.

“Islamic State In Illinois Planned Another Ft. Hood,” Investor’s Business Daily, March 27, 2015 (thanks to Pamela Geller):

Terrorism: An Illinois National Guardsman sought to fight with Islamic State as his cousin plotted to kill scores at an Illinois National Guard facility. If they had succeeded, would President Obama call it workplace violence?

President Obama’s “JV” terrorist team has metastasized to the point where its franchisees have spread across continents and oceans, with the FBI investigating ISIS-related activities and plots in all 50 states, including a very dangerous one in the commander in chief’s home state of Illinois.

One of those FBI investigations involved the arrest Wednesday of Hasan Edmonds — a supply specialist with the Illinois National Guard, who had trained at the Joliet Armory since 2011 — at Chicago’s Midway International Airport as he prepared to board a plane to Detroit and then to Cairo via Amsterdam, with the goal of joining the Islamic State.

Two hours later, authorities picked up his cousin, Jonas Edmonds, who had planned to wear Hasan’s uniform and attack the facility in the same manner that Maj. Nidal Hasan did at Fort Hood, Texas.

The cousins had scouted out the armory on Tuesday, with Hasan Edmonds picking up a copy of the facility training schedule. The plan was for Jonas Edmonds to carry out the assault using AK-47s and grenades.

As they cased the National Guard facility on Tuesday, according to a report in the Chicago Tribune, the cousins from Aurora, Ill., discussed where soldiers would be stationed inside, which rooms and areas to avoid, and the firepower required to carry out the assault. The plot was uncovered when an FBI source made connections with Hasan Edmonds on Facebook, inquiring about his plans to travel overseas to join the Islamic State.

We are mindful of the fact that not all IS recruits and sympathizers are so careless in revealing their intentions. It may be a cliche, but we have to be right all the time while terrorists only have to be right once.

If successful, the planned assault on the Joliet Armory might have mirrored the terrorist attack by Nidal Hasan, whose Nov. 5, 2009, rampage at the Army base near Killeen, Texas, killed 13, including a pregnant soldier, and wounded 32, as he shouted “Allahu Akhbar!”

The Obama administration would dismiss the attack as “workplace violence,” just as they dismissed the Islamic State as a “JV” terrorist team.

Last August, we editorialized on the implications of an anonymous tweet with a photo showing the front of the Old Republic building on Chicago’s Michigan Avenue. As a shopping mecca dubbed the Magnificent Mile, Michigan Avenue is another symbol of what, from a radical Islamist perspective, is wrong with Western culture and civilization.

The text read: “We are in your state, we are in your cities, we are in your streets, you are our goals anywhere.”

It adds the hashtag #AmessagefromISIStoUS.

As the arrest of the cousins from Aurora, Ill., shows, they are also wearing our National Guard uniforms.

We are reminded of the case of Abdirahmaan Muhumed. Before he went to Syria to fight and die for the Islamic State, he worked at Delta Global Services, a wholly owned subsidiary of Delta Air Lines, at the airport in Minneapolis. His job was to clean aircraft, and he had a security clearance that gave him unfettered access to the tarmac and passenger jets….

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Filed Under: American jihadis, converts to Islam, Featured, Islamic State (aka ISIS, ISIL, Daesh), Jihad in the U.S. Tagged With: Hasan Edmonds


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  1. mortimer says

    Mar 28, 2015 at 10:54 pm

    PROJECTION
    Whenever Islamic terrorists commit murders, it’s the non-participating Muslims who are the REAL victims, so they ask for police protection. WHY? The answer in a word is PROJECTION!

    Muslims assume that dirty kafirs are dirtier than Muslims in their REVENGE! But the reverse is true. The dirty kafirs are actually upholders of the Golden Rule. Our Western society is built on the Golden Rule. Muslims don’t GET THAT, so they PROJECT their own vengefulness onto kind-hearted, generous Western kafirs, then multiply by three.

    Muslims are defended by the Golden Rule and that is shown time and again, but they still don’t get and won’t until they stop PROJECTING onto us their sick Islamic ‘obligation’ to commit REVENGE killing.

    Revenge killing is normative Islam, rather than an aberration.

    • mezcukor says

      Mar 29, 2015 at 9:29 am

      Well said Mortimer

    • Shane says

      Mar 29, 2015 at 9:38 am

      Islam is a religion of jihad created by the mass murdering rapist and Warlord Muhammad. It is foolish to think that Islam will ever be a religion of peace.

      • Stephen Rohaty says

        Mar 29, 2015 at 11:09 am

        Don’t forget illiterate transvestite. Not that there’s anything wrong with that, but mohammadans think there is.

    • gravenimage says

      Mar 29, 2015 at 7:00 pm

      Mortimer wrote:

      PROJECTION
      Whenever Islamic terrorists commit murders, it’s the non-participating Muslims who are the REAL victims, so they ask for police protection. WHY? The answer in a word is PROJECTION!

      Muslims assume that dirty kafirs are dirtier than Muslims in their REVENGE! But the reverse is true. The dirty kafirs are actually upholders of the Golden Rule. Our Western society is built on the Golden Rule…
      ……………………………..

      I believe Muslims *know* this, Mortimer.

      They *might* have believed the first few times that there would be massive revenge attacks, just as they would do.

      But now after over fourteen years of escalating Jihad terror attacks that simply is not plausible.

      So—why the constant claims of fear of such “backlash”?

      For the very reason you note: that civilized Westerners *don’t* do this.

      So, in the wake of a Jihad terror attack, many Westerners quickly shift focus from the horrifying Muslim attack itself to fervently assuring Muslims that we are not going to hurt them, and will, in fact, do all we can to protect them from this phantom threat.

      So the purpose of this theater is not just to distract us, but to instill unearned guilt *in Islam’s victims*.

      And there are all too many fools in the West who fall into this trap after every Jihad terror attack.

  2. Georg says

    Mar 28, 2015 at 11:03 pm

    If anyone from the FBI is reading this, I’d like to say thank you. Although they haven’t done a perfect job, which as the article implies is virtually impossible, I’m impressed.

    “#AmessagefromISIStoUS”

    These dillweeds don’t even know the name of the organization they’re fighting for. What a bunch.

  3. American says

    Mar 29, 2015 at 12:34 am

    It’s going to happen. We can’t catch them all. The question is what happens then. Do we finally confront the enemy? Or do we ignore the obvious and continue life in dreamland until we’re all wiped out?

    • particolor says

      Mar 29, 2015 at 4:56 am

      I wonder how many Onward Christian Soldiers have Infiltrated ISIS ??

    • RG says

      Mar 29, 2015 at 7:54 pm

      @American.
      9/11 happened almost 15 years ago and these ravenous savages are training for their armageddon in every mosque across the country like never before! I’d say, don’t hold your breath, ‘American’, don’t hold your breath!

  4. Gary says

    Mar 29, 2015 at 12:55 am

    Two thousand years ago, Jesus explained why anyone that won’t listen, and heed His words, does what they do………

    “I know that you are Abraham’s descendants. Yet you are looking for a way to kill me, because you have no room for my word. I am telling you what I have seen in the Father’s presence, and you are doing what you have heard from your father.” (John 8:37-38)

    ….they prefer to listen to their father. Satan. The father of all lies.

    • M S case says

      Mar 29, 2015 at 6:10 pm

      If Abraham had just kept his fly zipped Ishmael would not have been born and No Muslims.
      but……the desire for sex has brought many a good man to ruin.. It didn’t seem to ruin Abraham but his seed sure has raised havoc over the centuries……

      • Roy Carey says

        Mar 29, 2015 at 6:42 pm

        It wasn’t that Abraham had a problem with his “fly”…his problem was he wasn’t obedient to what God had told him and was in too big of a hurry. And he also had his wife’s blessing because she made the arrangements with her maid servant.

      • RG says

        Mar 29, 2015 at 8:01 pm

        Actually, you can blame Sarah for that one. She’s the one who put Abraham up to it in the first place. But she realized her big mistake when she through Ishmael and his mother out in the desert! Oh God, why did they have to find water???

  5. Charli Main says

    Mar 29, 2015 at 5:00 am

    These black African Muslims just don´t get it—–to Arab Muslims they are vermin whose only use is as slaves.

    • M S case says

      Mar 29, 2015 at 6:11 pm

      I think they call them apes

  6. duh_swami says

    Mar 29, 2015 at 5:31 am

    Close Gitmo, re-open Alcatraz…These savages and others like them need the deepest darkest hole Alcatraz has to offer. Then throw away the key…

    • umbra says

      Mar 29, 2015 at 8:11 am

      Cannot close gitmo, it is for foreign terrorists. Cannot let foreign terrorists touch US soil. Otherwise bleeding hearts would insist on letting these foreign savages clog up their lengthy cases in the judicial system (with appeals all the way to the Supreme Court and possibly to a dhimmicrat president). Let them sweat in gitmo.

      As for the local variety, the Feds could build a quadriple-supermax prison several 100 feet below ground to house these savages for the rest of their lives.

      • quotha raven says

        Mar 30, 2015 at 12:37 am

        “…As for the local variety, the Feds could build a quadriple-supermax prison several 100 feet below ground to house these savages for the rest of their lives…”

        Umbra – I believe we’ve already built some of these prisons, but it’s not the terrorists “the Feds” intend to put in them. It’s us! Cheers! qr

  7. noellsq says

    Mar 29, 2015 at 9:37 am

    One question are military facilities gun free zones. Seriously I heard that all weapons are locked up.

    • Gary says

      Mar 29, 2015 at 10:20 am

      I sent a request to my northern Illinois Senator to introduce a bill that would allow our military to carry their pistols on and off base. The terrorist are targeting our military. And as expected I received no response.
      I would suggest that if you are concerned with their safety, that you also send letters to your Senators requesting that the military be allowed to carry on base and concealed off base. If they are going to put their lives on the line to protect us. Then we should do what ever we can to help these people.

    • Bezelel says

      Mar 29, 2015 at 1:36 pm

      Bill Clinton saw to that.

  8. Richard Courtemanche says

    Mar 29, 2015 at 1:58 pm

    Accommodation either by allowing Mosques or other services should probably be stopped as theirs is indication of mutual understanding, tolerance and assimilation. Such accommodation and services are incompatible with western civilization and only dismal and destructive for our future security.

    • noellsq says

      Mar 29, 2015 at 8:07 pm

      Any mosque that preachers terrorism in the US should be torn down and a pig planted there.

  9. gravenimage says

    Mar 29, 2015 at 6:46 pm

    Islamic State in Illinois planned another Fort Hood
    …………………………

    This is exactly what I suspected. How many more Muslims in Western militaries are plotting the same?

  10. Jerry says

    Mar 29, 2015 at 7:54 pm

    And the Islamic POTUS is still in the now Shite House

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