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FBI, cops watching Rhode Island Muslim linked to Geller beheading plot

Jun 7, 2015 4:06 am By Robert Spencer

Nicholas RovinskiWhat is the real matter of concern is what this apparent convert to Islam will do once the police cars leave his street.

Jihad Watch reader Paul informs me that Rovinski was arrested three years ago and charged with throwing a rock through the glass door of a liquor store. Paul asks: “Do you suppose vandalizing a haram liquor store stilled the fury in his believer’s heart (Qur’an 9:15)?” Probably — apparently at least for awhile.

“NBC 10 I-Team: Warwick man connected to Boston terror suspects,” by Parker Gavigan, NBC 10, June 4, 2015:

WARWICK, R.I. – The NBC 10 I-Team has learned through authorities that the Warwick man questioned by police and the FBI is the third man who met with two Boston terror suspects on a Rhode Island beach.

Court documents released Wednesday said Usaama Rahim and David Wright met a then-unidentified third person on a Rhode Island beach Sunday during a heavy rain storm to discuss a plan which involved beheading an unknown victim and also attacking police officers.

The victim is known.

Two days later, Rahim was shot dead by Boston police and the FBI after they said he lunged at them with a military-style knife. The FBI said Rahim was under 24-hour surveillance by the Joint Terrorism Task Force.

Wright was arrested a short time later in Everett, Massachusetts, and told the FBI, according to an affidavit, about the terror plot that was discussed Sunday on the beach.

“They’re connecting the dots there, and evidently one of the dots is connected to down here,” said Bill Donnelly, a resident of the Governor Francis Farms neighborhood in Warwick, now saturated with police and reporters.

NBC News confirmed police and the FBI have been questioning a Rhode Island man since Tuesday. Authorities said he is the person referred to in court documents as having attended a discussion with Rahim and Wright last Sunday “on a beach in Rhode Island, in inclement weather” to talk about Rahim’s plans.

Separately, the NBC 10 I-Team has identified the Warwick man investigated by police as 24-year-old Nicholas Rovinski, who lives a short distance from Gaspee Point with his mother and younger brother on Aspinet Drive. The information was confirmed by a senior law enforcement official with knowledge of the investigation.

“Growing up with him, he was never a threat to anybody, always a good kid, always really nice too,” said neighbor Brandon Waterman.

Other neighbors are now wondering why the police are on the street for the third day in a row.

“If he’s in there, why not arrest him? My conclusion is they don’t have enough evidence,” Donnelly said.

The NBC 10 I-Team has learned through authorities that the investigation is not yet complete. A representative for the Boston office of the FBI would not confirm nor deny the connection of Rovinski to the third man on the beach.

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Filed Under: American jihadis, converts to Islam, Featured, Jihad in the U.S. Tagged With: David Wright, Dawud Abdul Khaliq, Nicholas Rovinski, Usaama Rahim


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  1. David Quilty says

    Jun 7, 2015 at 6:27 am

    Boston Globe is wondering what connects all these local terrorists; its a mystery solved by reading the
    ‘holy koran’

    “… Lorenzo Vidino, director of the Program on Extremism at George Washington University’s Center for Cyber and Homeland Security, said the number of terrorism cases in Boston is striking, and defies easy explanation.
    “It seems to be more than a coincidence,” he said. “But there’s no good answer.”…
    ‘

    http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2015/06/06/are-boston-terrorism-cases-trend/QYww9mhOags9J91qd5MILJ/story.html#

  2. Angemon says

    Jun 7, 2015 at 6:30 am

    “If he’s in there, why not arrest him? My conclusion is they don’t have enough evidence,” Donnelly said.

    Could be. They could also be turning up the heat and monitoring him to see where he goes and whom he talks to.

    • Bezelel says

      Jun 7, 2015 at 10:38 pm

      I was thinking maybe a forced error would be good but waterboarding would be better.

  3. JamesonRocks says

    Jun 7, 2015 at 9:26 am

    “Nicholas Rovinski, who lives… with his mother and younger brother…”

    What a POS. Living with his mommy. She must be so proud of this loser.

    Time to good cop/bad cop the mommy. Give her some incentive to provide evidence.

  4. voegelinian says

    Jun 7, 2015 at 2:51 pm

    Keystone Kops: Rhode Island

    “If he’s in there, why not arrest him? My conclusion is they don’t have enough evidence,” Donnelly said.

    Police entered his room and found a Koran opened up to

    chapter 33, verse 57: “Lo! those who malign Allah and His messenger, Allah hath cursed them in this world and the Hereafter, and hath prepared for them the doom of the disdained”, with that verse and verse 61 — “Accursed, they will be seized wherever found and slain with a (fierce) slaughter.”
    — copied onto his blog. Also on his desk was a notebook in which he had meticulously transcribed passages in Bukhari’s hadith where Muhammad appeals to his followers to murder the poet al-Ashraf who had written verses Muhammad found insulting.

    Also on his computer was found his main desktop image, which featured beautiful abstract Persian tile designs and in flowery script a list of all the critics of Muhammad and Islam — Asma bint Marwan, Abu Afak, Nadir bin Harith, Abu Muayt, ibn Sufyan, and Fartana (a slave girl of Abdullah ibn Khatal), because she used to recite poems insulting Muhammad.

    “Well…” said Officer Bracken, detective in charge of the Keystone Investigation Unit, scratching his balding pate, “I don’t see anything worth noting here. Certainly nothing incriminating or anything that would give us any clue as to his implication or motivation — other than the fact that it had nothing to do with Islam. I guess we can pack up and leave now…”

    • Mirren10 says

      Jun 7, 2015 at 8:09 pm

      🙂

      Nice one, voeg.

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