The Islamic State threat metastasizes and yet not one U.S. leader has asked American Muslim groups why they have no programs to teach against its view of Islam and prevent “radicalization.”
“EXCLUSIVE: The 30 Americans ALREADY arrested in 4th of July terror alert – including ‘bad b******s plotting another Boston bombing’, National Guardsman who wanted to ‘repeat Charlie Hebdo’ and ‘Minnesota Martyrs,'” by Ben Ashford, Dailymail.com, July 2, 2015 (thanks to Anne Crockett):
FBI agents have made at least 30 arrests on US soil this year as they try to combat the murderous reach of ISIS and its warped followers, Daily Mail Online can disclose.
Officials revealed this week that the Islamic terror group has a foothold in all 50 states as it continues to target disaffected Americans through its torrent of online propaganda and slick videos of barbaric beheadings and mutilations.
The stark warning comes days after ISIS-inspired gunman Saif Rezgui unleashed horror on at a Tunisian beach resort, killing 39 vacationers and wounding dozens more.
The FBI has reportedly set up command centers in each of its 56 field officers in case extremists try to mark the July 4 weekend by unleashing similar carnage here in the U.S. American ISIS ‘recruits’ to date have included schoolgirls, a young nurse, a pizza shop boss and even a National Guard soldier who hatched a plan to gun down 120 of his own colleagues.
Some have conspired to travel or send friends abroad to link up with fundamentalist fighters while others have plotted jihad here in the US – with Capitol Hill among the targets for a foiled bombing raid.
Gunmen Elton Simpson, 30, and Nadir Soofi, 34, came perilously close on May 4 when they were shot dead while trying to storm a controversial ‘Draw Mohammed’ event in Garland, Texas.
ISIS claimed responsibility for the raid but officials suspect the pair were more likely radicalized over the web.
Another young fanatic, Usaamah Rahim, 26, was killed last month as he lunged at police with a knife in Boston’s Roslindale neighborhood.
He was allegedly plotting to decapitate controversial anti-Islam activist Pamela Geller, the organizer of the same controversial Texas event.
The deadly incidents are just two from dozens of plots disrupted by police and federal agents since ISIS began to rise from the flames of the Syrian civil war.
Daily Mail Online has pieced together the chilling network of arrests and alleged foiled atrocities.
ISIS-inspired roommates Noelle Velentzas and Asia Siddiqui are accused of plotting a homemade bomb attack on a slain police officer’s funeral.
The two friends from Queens, New York stockpiled gas tanks, fertilizer and a pressure cooker in an apparent bid to emulate Boston marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, prosecutors allege.
Court documents say their list of potential targets included the funeral of NYPD officer Rafael Ramos, who was shot dead in December 2014 along with his partner Wenjian Liu.
Velentzas, 28, is from said to have told an undercover agent who befriended them in 2013 that they wanted to be known as ‘citizens of the Islamic State‘.
On another occasion she pulled out a knife, demonstrated how to stab someone – and allegedly asked: ‘Why can’t we be some real bad bitches?’
Siddiqui, 31, was equally as forthcoming in a 2009 poem she had published in Jihad Recollections, a precursor to the Al Qaeda magazine Inspire.
The warped verse, entitled ‘Take Me to the Lands Where the Eyes are Cooled’, describes her yearning to ‘drop bombs’ and ‘taste the Truth through fists and slit throats’.
Both women were arrested on April 2 before they could had settle on a target but are accused of conspiring to use a weapon of mass destruction.
Authorities doubt they ever had direct contact with ISIS but say the pair accessed the terror group’s propaganda online.
US officials suspect around a dozen men from Minnesota have left the North Star State to fight alongside ISIS extremists in Syria – and two have been killed.
Last August Douglas McArthur McCain, 33, a Muslim convert who went to school in Minneapolis, became the first U.S. citizen known to have died while fighting for the terror outfit.
Days later the White House confirmed that a second Minneapolis native-turned ISIS combatant, father-of-nine Abdirahmaan Muhumed, 29, had also been killed.
The two deaths fueled fears that the Midwestern state is becoming an unlikely recruiting hot-spot for ISIS.
Community leaders have warned that disaffected youths from the large Somali community are particularly vulnerable to jihadist ideology.
A video entitled Minnesota’s Martyrs: The Path to Paradise, was circulated by another Islamist group al-Shabaab in an apparent bid to capitalize on the growing interest in extremism there.
More recently six Somali men were charged in March with conspiracy to provide material support and attempting to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization.
The accused are Mohamed Abdihamid Farah, 21; Adnan Abdihamid Farah, 19; Abdurahman Yasin Daud, 21; Zacharia Yusuf Abdurahman, 19; Hanad Mustafe Musse, 19; and Guled Ali Omar, 20.
It is alleged that the six planned to fly out of Minneapolis, San Diego or New York to reach Syria to join up with ISIS….
Undaunted says
The image of an iceberg comes to mind…
EYESOPEN says
Yep.
somehistory says
Just as they can never arrest all of the thieves, murderers, rapists, and other criminals in the country, never solving some crimes that become cold cases or expire due to statute of limitations laws,
they have not caught all of the jihadists in the country.
They have foiled some attacks, while others have gone forward. They have caught some who were planning, such as documented in this article, but there are so many more who may be planning, scheming, recruiting, getting weapons, etc. After all, no mosques have been shut down and their unholy writings are still being read to those who attend.
Walter Sieruk says
With the arrests of those jihadists , be they of ISIS ,Al Qaeda or whatever, with this 4th of July in weekend it therefore should be reiterated that we, as Americans, should not and need not live in fear or be afraid to go places and do thing because of fear of a jihad threat. For to be afraid would make the Islamic enemy happy. Nevertheless,even-though it’s very important the we don’r live in fear we still should keep aware of our surroundings a be on the outlook for anything that seems not to look quite right. Ad in “What’s wrong with this picture ?” Then if somethings seems to look wrong then go a tell the right person about it. As for example, that tee-shirt vendor at Times Square NY,NY who saw some smoke come out of that parked van and then told a police officer about it. As it had been said “If you see something, say something.” To put it in another way ,the wisdom of the words of Thomas Jefferson might apply more today then they did in his own time. For Mr. Jefferson had stated “Let the eye of vigilance never be closed.”
Alarmed Pig Farmer says
Yeah, and it was Jefferson who sent Admiral Perry over to the shores of Tripoli to stop the piracy by Moslem activists whose ransom demands were consuming just over 50% of the federal budget around 1800. Thus were born the Leathernecks, made to wear such devices because so many Marines were losing their heads in hand to hand combat with the Moslem activists. Literally.
Over two centuries later, Keith Ellison D-MN had Jefferson’s copy of the Holy Ko-Ran used to swear him into office, the implication being that the Founding Father owned it out of interest in and enthusiasm for Moslemism. He was interested, alright. He bought the book to try to figure out what it was that motivated those people.
Not the proudest moment in American history, the swearing in of the first Moslem federal legislator.
PRCS says
“Not the proudest moment in American history”
The average citizen would not know that form Feinstein’s gleeful demeanor there.
Holy Prophet APF says
Me, I’m a big believer in looping back to the past and evaluating for performance. When she was Secretary of the DHS, Janet Napolitano predicted that disgruntled war veterans would be a bigger threat for terror than Moslem activists here in the United States. Well, she musta been right, cuz she was given the job as head man of the University of California system and now works out of a fancy office in Berkeley. I hadn’t noticed that more than 30 disgruntled vets have been arrested for terror plots over the past year, but this must be so.
Pazuu says
And what shall be done with them?
Alarmed Pig Farmer says
That’s the key question. Every time they arrest one of the would be murderer Moslem activists, the challenge is to how to dispose of them without angering the Moslem community, which is sensitive in the first place. Normally, they stall the legal process and then quietly give them an ankle bracelet probation at worst. Sometimes they just let them off.
A bigger problem is how to dispose of a Moslem activist who has moved beyond the would be phase and actually did an attempted murder or the like. They too must be handled with kid gloves, and it may be a dream for the criminal justice system to get them sentenced to only an ankle bracelet probation. In fact, it could end up that they will have to actually do time in the Pokey. This the Moslem community ain’t gonna like, and may even draw in the civil rights activists from CAIR.
Linde Barrera says
To Alarmed Pig Farmer- I really appreciate your take on what’s happening. But I am aghast and very angry that the authorities, or “powers that be” supposedly take into account the so called sensitivity of the Muslim communities whenever one of their own is convicted of a crime. If you are correct, this attitude of protecting Muslim criminals so as not to offend the criminals’ families and neighbors must stop. The government must adapt a new attitude: “tough tacks”, or “when you get out of jail get job training” or “become a volunteer at the White House” or some philosophical point as those but definitely not “sensitivity”. What nonsense the government goes through, and why? What is their motivation?
Pazuzu says
And what will be done with them?
John Alexander says
It’s a given that we’ve got to stop Muslim immigration but as regards IS I DON’T think we should bomb them. We’ve sold tens of billions of arms to Muslim countries. They are rich and populus states and IS is a bigger threat to them than to us so they should deal with IS themselves. They should also be able to take in all their Muslim brothers and sisters fleeing the murder and mayhem of the head-hackers. We should confine our hospitality to the Christians fleeing the head-hackers. There’s a great argument for that here: http://john-moloney.blogspot.com/2015/07/fight-islam-with-islam.html
gravenimage says
Oh, there’s a good argument to be made for it, John—you are quite right.
But the fact is that Muslim nations are neither going to oppose their coreligionists in ISIS in any substantive way, nor are they going to take in Muslim refugees in any significant numbers.
They’ll mostly leave it all to the “filthy Kuffar”, instead.
Kevin says
Minnesota is an “unlikely” recruiting ground?
Really?
Wake up Daily Mail.
Shmooviyet says
Agreed. DM needs to check some stats on muslim infestation in Minnesota before they print another dopey line like that. If they’re interested in occasional truth-telling, that is…
About as “unlikely” as your UK was 40+ years ago, before the Pakistani invasion began.
Angemon says
Didn’t they pledged their allegiance to the islamic state before the attack?
So, what happens to all these wanna-be killers after doing their time? Do the authorities really expect them to become law abiding, America loving citizens? If anything, this proves that America needs Guantanamo.
duh_swami says
Some really smart guy said you are more likely to get killed slipping in the bath tub than by terrorists…So don’t take a bath, take a shower. No one has been killed while showering except that one time at the ‘Bates Motel’…Norman was a little touchy about it…
If thy bath tub offend thee, throw it out, don’t wait for it to attack.
Ashley says
LOL! You made me feel better duh_swami!
Ashley says
Honestly, I just want this upcoming weekend to be over with.
I’m not particularly computer savvy and only learned today about the “Dark Web.” Pretty clever shit. Great…ISIS is communicating in an encrypted manner to countless others while avoiding detection.
Then a buddy called to tell me that word is going around that fireworks drown out the sound of machine gun fire and that is a great concern for the authorities here in Massachusetts (I’m sure applicable to all states). Pretty challenging to “see something, say something” in the dark of night when all you hear is a wall of “boom” from the firework display.
Fortunately, we aren’t big on fireworks or crowds. We’ll do our usual thing (barbecue and booze). Am I concerned? Yes.
So yeah. I strongly believe in going ahead with holiday agendas as planned. But unlike the Boston Marathon, fireworks go off in the dark of night.
Stay safe, all!
gravenimage says
FBI has arrested 30 Muslims on U.S. soil this year for Islamic State plots
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And remember, this is just ISIS related—a Jihad terror outfit that didn’t even exist—what?—two or three years ago. This doesn’t even include all of those Jihadists with links to Al Qaida or Al Shebaab or all the other Jihad terror groups, nor does it include those “lone wolves”.
Especially in light of this insanity, I would like to wish all American Jihad Watchers a very happy Independence Day, and remember the values we are celebrating!
PRCS says
“not one U.S. leader has asked American Muslim groups why they have no programs to teach against its view of Islam and prevent “radicalization.””
Nor, to my knowledge, has anyone in the counter jihad movement/business told television hosts that there is no such thing as “radical” Islam.
Instead, they allow them to perpetuate that myth.
Radical Islam. Radicalized. Extremism.
All deceitful descriptions of Islam–as it’s written–which those who know better should be suddenly and decisively debunked on the spot.
Unfortunately, I can only imagine what the reaction of so called “journalists” would be if an interviewee were to just tell them the truth–so what if they won’t be invited back.