Loewen is, of course, yet another convert to Islam who somehow got the notion that Islam required him to seek to spill Infidel blood. Authorities remain, as always, remarkably uncurious about where he might have picked up these ideas.
“Man accused of plotting suicide bomb attack at Kansas airport plans to change his plea,” Associated Press, June 5, 2015:
WICHITA, Kan. – A man accused of plotting a suicide bomb attack at a Wichita airport told a federal court Friday that he intends to change his not-guilty plea.
A docket notation shows the change-of-plea hearing for Terry L. Loewen is set for Monday afternoon before U.S. District Judge Monti Belot in Wichita.
Loewen, a former avionics technician, was arrested in December 2013 after authorities said he tried to bring a van filled with inert explosives onto the tarmac at Wichita’s Mid-Continent Airport, now called the Dwight D. Eisenhower National Airport. He is charged with attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction, attempting to use an explosive device to damage property and attempting to give material support to al-Qaida.
Defense attorney John Henderson did not immediately respond to an email seeking about the development. The U.S. attorney’s office declined comment.
Prosecutors have alleged in court filings in the case that Loewen planned a suicide bomb attack aimed at inflicting “maximum carnage” that would have killed and injured hundreds of people during the busy holiday travel season. The final plan — hatched in an undercover scheme with two FBI agents posing as co-conspirators — was to detonate the device between terminals and Loewen would die as a martyr, prosecutors said.
Early on, Loewen’s defense team raised the issue of possible government entrapment, but their myriad of court filings to get charges dismissed or evidence thrown out have failed. Prosecutors have argued that Loewen was “well on his way” to becoming a violent terrorist before authorities began investigating him….
dumbledoresarmy says
Any moral equivalencers who want to try to pretend that Islam is no different from and no more dangerous than any other faith need to be asked why we are not getting any converts to Buddhism – or, for that matter, Christianity – turning up in court on charges of having plotted or attempted mass murder in the name of their newly-embraced belief system. But we’re getting a hell of a lot of converts to Islam doing exactly that.
Think of assorted celebrity converts to Buddhism. Has even *one* of them been busted by the Feds for plotting to mass murder non-Buddhists?
Another interesting point is that although we have a steady trickle of very brave apostates from Islam – mostly becoming either atheists or Christians – not one of *those* has had to be arrested on a charge of plotting mass murder. And many of them are spending quite a bit of time – in the teeth of death threats from their former coreligionists – to warn about Jihad. Just as defectors from Communism jumped up and down to warn the Free World about communism’s many flaws and its campaign against the Free.
mortimer says
Dumbledore wrote: “moral equivalencers …try to pretend that Islam is no different from and no more dangerous than any other faith”
A Buddhist friend actually ‘explained’ to me how Sufism is real Islam and similar to Buddhism. (Delusional!) I explained to him that Sufi meditation makes Sufis the most fearless jihadists, used historically as the shock troops of Islam! The military leader of ISIS calls himself a Sufi.
It is sad that a normal American can become so deluded by this Death Cult that he will plot to kill members his American family.
Those who have read the hadiths understand why that is so. It is normative, foundational Islam to murder one’s non-believing relatives.
KrazyKafir says
Another colossal loser finds his calling in the Death Cult.
Bezelel says
Entrapment just wont float. Unemployed? Not. Downtrodden minority? Not. It might have something to do with islam. We a comity to study.
Angemon says
They always harp the same tune, don’t they?
mortimer says
Loewen has a right to defense and a fair trial. Hopefully, Loewen will realize the value of these things he tried to deprive others from having.
His case should make Americans realize their vulnerability when jihadists are in positions of trust. Muslims like Loewen cannot be ‘racially profiled’. People like him have to be ‘religiously profiled’.
Islam is per se CONSPIRATORIAL. Law enforcement must learn that.
mortimer says
If America’s law enforcement had a deprogramming protocol, such delusional Muslims as Terry L. Loewen could have been arrested in the early stages, sequestered and deprogrammed from Islam.
You cannot remove jihad from Islam, so all jihadists must have Islam completely debunked by exposing them to historical facts, logic and history so they leave this Death Cult irrevocably.