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Boston jihadis plotted to behead a police officer

Jun 3, 2015 11:05 am By Robert Spencer

Everett PoliceThe police must have provoked them, right? By being police. If the police had just allowed themselves to be stabbed, all would have been well. It is never wise and always uncharitable to provoke Muslims — everyone knows that.

Note the participation of Globe reporter Lisa Wangsness, who has done so much to whitewash the jihad terror ties of the Islamic Society of Boston, in writing this story. No wonder the mosque’s claims that Rahim didn’t worship there are accepted without question.

“Two men plotted to behead a police officer, official says,” by Maria Cramer, Evan Allen, Laura Crimaldi and Lisa Wangsness, Boston Globe, June 3, 2015:

A police officer lifted a knife in front of a CVS store on Washington Street in Roslindale following the shooting of a man there on Tuesday morning.

The man fatally shot by antiterrorism officers in Boston on Tuesday and the suspect arrested Tuesday night in Everett had conspired to kill a police officer, according to two law enforcement officials briefed on the case.

“We believe the intent was to behead a police officer,” one official said Wednesday morning. “We knew the plot had to be stopped. They were planning to take action Tuesday.”

The other official said Boston police and the FBI and the Joint Terrorism Task Force were aware of the plot because of intelligence that had been gathered, and the suspects had been under surveillance for several weeks.

More details are expected to be released when the suspect from Everett, David Wright, appears in federal court in Boston Wednesday. His appearance is scheduled for 3:30 p.m., prosecutors said.

The Boston police and the FBI have declined comment on the specifics of the plot.

The man shot when he approached the officer and FBI agent with a machete and refused to back down, officials said.

Usaama Rahim, 26, was shot Tuesday in Boston’s Roslindale section by two Joint Terorism [sic] Task Force members — a Boston police officer and FBI agent —when he lunged at them with a menacing military knife, police said.

The shooting sparked an expanded investigation that quickly led to the arrest of Wright in Everett and a search in Rhode Island.

Christina DiIorio-Sterling, a spokeswoman for the US attorney’s office, said that Wright was expected to appear in court Wednesday. She declined to provide any details of the charges against him, saying they would be filed in court.

Law enforcement officials at a news conference Tuesday said Rahim was under 24-hour surveillance. But they declined to explain what had led to the antiterrorism task force probe or detail its scope, although they said it had been going on for a while.

“We believed [Rahim] was a threat,” Boston Police Commissioner William B. Evans said. “He was someone we were watching for quite a time. The level of alarm brought us to question him today. I don’t think anybody expected the reaction we got out of him.”

Rahim allegedly wielded the knife after being approached on Washington Street in Roslindale by task force members Tuesday morning. Evans said the officers did not have their guns drawn when they approached.

Rahim is the brother of a well-known imam who spoke out against terrorism after the Boston Marathon bombing.

One woman who knew Usaama Rahim described him as a highly observant Muslim who married a young convert a couple of years ago. They attended the Islamic Society of Boston Cultural Center but stopped going, also about two years ago. They told her they thought the mosque was too liberal, said the woman, who requested anonymity to protect her privacy.

This kind of claim would be more credible if we didn’t hear it about every jihad terrorist in the U.S. Clearly mosques in the U.S. have a line they give to reporters: this jihadi came here once or twice but we never knew him and he disliked us for being moderate. It may or may not be true, but Lisa Wangsness and her equally hopeless Boston Globe colleagues never make the slightest effort to determine whether or not it really is true.

Yusufi Vali, executive director of the Islamic Society of Boston center, said a company that provides security for the mosque hired Rahim for a month in mid-2013. He said Rahim did not pray regularly at the mosque, nor did he volunteer or hold any leadership positions.

The woman said that although she sometimes disagreed with the couple on their religious views, they never said anything suggesting they supported violent extremism. She last spoke with them about two years ago, she said.

Rahim has no criminal record under his name, an official with knowledge of the case said.

The encounter with Rahim, captured on surveillance video, began about 7 a.m. in the parking lot of a shopping center with a CVS and several fast-food restaurants, authorities said. The task force members approached Rahim to speak with him, according to Suffolk District Attorney Daniel F. Conley.

They had a brief exchange near a bus stop, according to an official with knowledge of the investigation, before Rahim lunged with the knife. The weapon was more than a foot long with a nearly 8-inch blade, according to an evidence picture.

Evans said task force members retreated and repeatedly ordered Rahim to drop his weapon. Officials said there were witnesses to the confrontation. The surveillance video shows task force members backing up before firing, the official with knowledge of the investigation said, and when they fired, Rahim was within 15 or 20 feet. The police officer and the FBI agent fired three shots, according to a police spokesman; two hit Rahim in the front of his torso.

Rahim was pronounced dead at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. The officer and agent were taken to hospitals to be examined for stress.

Vincent Lisi, special agent in charge of the FBI’s Boston office, would not disclose specifics of why Rahim was being investigated….

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  1. Agent of Liberty says

    Jun 3, 2015 at 11:13 am

    CAIR hates ISIS. The violent jihadis are ruining their stealth jihad takeover.

    • Susan says

      Jun 3, 2015 at 11:21 am

      Agreed, I believe that ISIS, in a perverted kind of way, may have saved us from being blind sided by this cult.

    • bobm says

      Jun 3, 2015 at 11:30 am

      respectfully; Does the body of the beast hate the horn?…if one member of the body rails against the body can it stand?… but then there’s Dr. Strangelove.

      • bobm says

        Jun 3, 2015 at 11:34 am

        but then; the members of islam seek unity…ONE… but in fact they are doomed to dissolve ; as the glue that binds them together is fear , confusion, hate, envy. jealousy, avarice, pride, death,lust. ….anything but LOVE.

      • somehistory says

        Jun 3, 2015 at 3:50 pm

        That’s why it can;t *stand* much longer. It is a beast from satan and he can’t make anything *right* as he is full to the brim with *wrong.*

    • pennant8 says

      Jun 3, 2015 at 12:35 pm

      That’s very true. There actually is an ongoing disagreement between the likes of ISIS and Muslim Brotherhood affiliates such as CAIR as to the best way to bring down Western civilization. ISIS likes the violent approach, but the MB believes that route is counterproductive and that undermining the West from within like so many termites is the best way.

  2. mortimer says

    Jun 3, 2015 at 11:14 am

    Lisa Wangsness and people like here only experience a conscience when Muslims go after them or their family.

    Those of us who have received death threats from Muslims live with the sober reality that Islam encourage vigilantism…encourages ordinary Muslims to take the law into their own hands to benefit Islamic supremacism, especially to ‘strike terror into the hearts’ of the dirty kufaar.

    Lisa Wangsness needs to learn more about Islam…especially about the vigilantism enshrined in Sharia law.

    • Alarmed Pig Farmer says

      Jun 3, 2015 at 11:39 am

      Those of us who have received death threats from Muslims live with the sober reality that Islam encourage vigilantism…encourages ordinary Muslims to take the law into their own hands…

      Are you saying that American Unicorns are now carrying butcher knives? In a secret study performed at my farm it was uncovered that hogs are able to hold and wield switchblades in their hooves, so I see no reason a Unicorn, a bigger animal, cannot pack a big ass butcher knife.

      The solution to this is obvious: put controls on butcher knives, make them illegal. I wince at the thought of a big spotted Unicorn showing up at an Infidel grade school and doing a mass murder going from classroom to classroom to perpetrate a bloodbath in the name of some twisted form of Moslem Moderation.

    • Angemon says

      Jun 3, 2015 at 12:49 pm

      mortimer posted:

      “Lisa Wangsness and people like here only experience a conscience when Muslims go after them or their family.”

      I suspect that as she is being raped and the knife enters her neck her thoughts will be “It’s my fault that they are so angry that this is the only way they can express and vent their rage with our white supremacist, christian-ruled, bigoted, islamophobic society”.

      • somehistory says

        Jun 3, 2015 at 3:55 pm

        And as the article is written in her head, she will leave out important words and misspell others.
        Where do these people *learn* to write?

  3. Jay Boo says

    Jun 3, 2015 at 11:23 am

    Good to see that the same FBI that ignored the Boston bombers were paying attention this time.

    But still we should not be too reassured because, somehow Obama’s FBI has been sidetracked and actively involved in investigating the soccer FIFA ‘corruption’ scandal and the person under investigation at the top happens to have a Muslim waiting in line drooling to take his place at the head of FIFA.
    http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/soccer/2015/05/28/the-latest-fifa-scandal-has-big-implications-in-brazil/28056915/

  4. AnneCrockett says

    Jun 3, 2015 at 11:30 am

    After the tragic event in Roslindale, I see no other course of action but for all police officers to resign so as not to endanger bystanders.

  5. Angemon says

    Jun 3, 2015 at 12:46 pm

    The man fatally shot by antiterrorism officers in Boston on Tuesday and the suspect arrested Tuesday night in Everett had conspired to kill a police officer, according to two law enforcement officials briefed on the case.

    “We believe the intent was to behead a police officer,” one official said Wednesday morning. “We knew the plot had to be stopped. They were planning to take action Tuesday.”

    Was he? OK then, couldn’t have happened to a nicer person.

    The police officer and the FBI agent fired three shots, according to a police spokesman; two hit Rahim in the front of his torso.

    Wait, wasn’t he shot three times in the back? “Hands up, don’t shoot, can’t breathe”? #muslimlivesmatter?

    Oh, wait, that was the story his brother concocted. Never mind then.

    Vincent Lisi, special agent in charge of the FBI’s Boston office, would not disclose specifics of why Rahim was being investigated….

    I’m going to go on a limb and say that the agent in charge was not following Obama’s new rulebook that scrubbed all connections between islam and terrorism. And since he was not following the official FBI policy, and it would be unfair to have a charge of “islamophobia” on his record, they’re trying to work an angle where they can justify investigating the murderer by the current set of rules.

    • somehistory says

      Jun 3, 2015 at 4:00 pm

      Perhaps the dead guy had made statements about the most serious threat to the U.S. *not* being changing weather patterns, and they wished to know if anyone was listening to him and forming a group against the idea of global warming.

  6. nabi ZK (pbum) says

    Jun 3, 2015 at 12:57 pm

    These yopes never watched Indiana Jones. NEVER TAKE A KNIFE TO A GUN FIGHT. Duh!

    nabi ZK (pbum)

  7. Don McKellar says

    Jun 3, 2015 at 1:26 pm

    Could they have been provoked by their own Diet Coke incident on a plane just recently?

  8. underbed cat says

    Jun 5, 2015 at 1:07 pm

    Great comment Angeomom…”I may be going to go on a limb and say that the agent in charge was not following Obama’s new rule book that scrubbed all connections between islam and terrorism.” With the sudden uptick in terror events of a “jihadist” going after Police and people who offend them, I agree that they are making the connections….off the ranch sort of thing…to which I say “Thank You”! Now if only the rest of the government officials will wake up, and that could include the military. I recognize the difficulty and the pressure that all involved must be under if they really understand the problem. These individuals work most likely around some people who could strike out…and they are at all levels and types of positions. The Boston police are on it, just be careful, I saw the interview…and know how close you are to individuals….with history.

  9. underbed cat says

    Jun 5, 2015 at 1:17 pm

    I also want to thanks to all FBI too….opps a small plane just flew over….as a individual American, with no connections, but have been able to observe and learn. Thank You.
    God keep us all safe.

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