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Federal complaint against NYC jihad bomber omits his journal’s references to the Islamic State

Sep 22, 2016 9:33 am By Robert Spencer

You may recall how the Obama administration edited the transcript of Orlando jihad mass murderer Omar Mateen’s 911 calls, removing his references to Allah and the Islamic State. Here again, the administration seems determined that the public know as little as possible about the nature and magnitude of the jihad threat inside the United States.

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“EXCLUSIVE: Federal complaint against bombing suspect omits journal’s ISIS references,” by Catherine Herridge and Pamela K. Browne, Fox News, September 21, 2016:

Pages from the bloody journal of the New York and New Jersey bombing suspect Ahmad Khan Rahami show he was a follower of Al Qaeda as well as the Islamic State terror group, yet federal investigators made no reference to ISIS in their complaint charging him on Tuesday.

One image of a page from Rahami’s journal was revealed during a House Homeland Security Committee hearing.

At least two pages include references to Anwar al-Awlaki — the American-born Muslim cleric who was killed in a 2011 drone strike and whose preaching has inspired acts of terror linked to ISIS and Al Qaeda. Federal investigators mentioned Awlaki in the complaints.

However, the journal also appears to reference Abu Muhammad al Adnani — the ISIS spokesman killed by coalition forces in August after he called his followers to attack non-believers in their homelands.

“I looked for guidance came Sheikh Anwar, Brother Adnani, Dawla. Said it clearly – Attack the kuffar (non-believer) in the back yard,” one section read. Page 12 of the complaint references this section without naming Adnani.

Rahami’s screed also praised 9/11 mastermind Usama bin Laden and Nidal Hasan, the former Army officer who went on a deadly shooting rampage in 2009 at Fort Hood, Texas. Hasan was also a follower of Awlaki. The Counter Extremism Project’s research counted 77 extremists — 43 U.S. extremists and 34 European extremists — with ties to Anwar al-Awlaki. They include the Pulse nightclub shooter Omar Mateen in June, as well as Syed Farook, one of the shooters in the San Bernardino massacre in December 2015….

The pages appeared to be pierced by a bullet from the shootout that ended with Rahami in handcuffs on Monday. He’s suspected of planting bombs in Seaside Park and Elizabeth, New Jersey, as well as New York City, where the feds said at least 31 people were wounded after an explosion Saturday night.

Fox News has asked the U.S. Attorney’s office and the Department of Justice to explain why Rahami wrote about ISIS in his journal, but unlike the other terrorists he cited, there was no reference to ISIS in the complaint.

A law enforcement official later downplayed the fact that Adnani was not mentioned in the complaint. This individual suggested that more charges against Rahami are likely to come in an indictment – and to that end — this individual would not rule out the possibility that a reference to the Islamic state may be included in an indictment, once the case is brought to a grand jury.

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  1. Allan says

    Sep 22, 2016 at 9:43 am

    There will be a reaction against the obfuscation, and profiling will be resumed.

    All informed adults understand that most, or all, Islamic terrorism is committed by Muslims and that Islam prescribes aggression. So it’s not criminal to develop profiles of Muslims who are most likely to preach Islam or to engage in the lesser jihad, so called. In fact, such profiling ought to be mandatory lest the alleged basis of the criminal justice system be exposed as a hoax and a fraud.

  2. Angemon says

    Sep 22, 2016 at 10:33 am

    I believe this, not Trump’s rhetoric, is giving aid and comfort to an enemy.

    • DFD says

      Sep 22, 2016 at 8:45 pm

      Hi Angemon,

      A guy goes into an adult store and asks for an inflatable doll.

      “Male or female?”
      – “Female”
      “Black or white?”
      – “White”
      “Christian or Muslim?”
      – “What the hell does religion have to do with this?”
      “The Muslim one blows itself up!”

      • JIMJFOX says

        Sep 23, 2016 at 12:11 pm

        1.Military Engineer in Afghanistan develops new type of prayer mat-
        with square of Cemtex under where the muzzie presses his head.
        Interviewer- “Has it been a success?”
        “SUCCESS? prophets are going thru the roof!”

        2. Muslima A to Muslima B– “I haven’t seen your little Mohammad for ages”
        Muslima B- “Not so little now- he’s a proud suicide bomber in training”
        Muslima A- “Yes, they blow up so fast these days!”

        3. Muslima in burka– “Does my bomb look big in this??”

  3. mortimer says

    Sep 22, 2016 at 11:10 am

    SYSTEMIC LYING about Islam from our Western elites is meant to shield Islam from scrutiny by ordinary people. What it does is to keep ordinary people ignorant of the jihad threat.

    The counterjihad community needs to support the AFDI, Pamela Geller, Robert Spencer, Attorney Jerushalmi, et co., which is the only group that is bringing the message of jihad to the American and British public.

  4. mortimer says

    Sep 22, 2016 at 11:16 am

    The significant words on the paper are two groups 1) Sheikh Anwar 2) attack the kufaar in the backyard.

    1) refers to the late Anwar Awlaki whose recordings and sermons are still circulated to recruit jihadists.

    2) refers to the Islamic doctrine of the ‘Near Enemy’ which Islam advises Muslim to attack. Mohammed ordered his followers to attack and murder without warning people within the communities where his followers lived. So any Muslim at any time may feel he has a duty to kill Americans he knows in his community. We have seen this in the last few years. In Orlando and San Bernardino, the jihadists knew many of the people they murdered.

  5. Paul Clark says

    Sep 22, 2016 at 11:49 am

    Where are the Christians ?. Have they fled the cross? Why are they not on the streets by the millions? Why are they not committing civil disobedience in the name of righteousness. Why have they not stopped our “deplorable, irredeemable” hateful administration for more import of Islam’s terrorist and destruction of religious rights. Answer: moral cowardice, apathetic and selfish.

    • JIMJFOX says

      Sep 23, 2016 at 12:16 pm

      EVERYONE has a responsibility to expose and oppose islam.
      Don’t pick on Christians specifically; they are targeted by islam.

      [Written by an atheist]

    • Champ says

      Sep 23, 2016 at 2:34 pm

      Once again “Paul Clark” reveals his nasty intent to “shame” Christians–as he stated his ugly intent on another thread; and here he’s demonstrating his complete hatred for Christians in general. If he were a true Christian, as he pretends to be, then he wouldn’t be stating such rubbish–instead he would “love one another” as true Christians are commanded by our Lord to do.

      No, he isn’t a Christian, but a mohammedan troll who’s *pretending* to be a Christian.

      • Champ says

        Sep 23, 2016 at 2:39 pm

        Question: “What does it mean to love one another?”

        Answer: Jesus knew that relationships are the most valuable asset that we have, but at times the most difficult to maintain. That’s why in John 13:34 Jesus taught, “A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.” Then He added, “By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another” (verse 35).

        The “one another” in these verses is a reference to fellow believers. A distinguishing mark of being a follower of Christ is a deep, sincere love for brothers and sisters in Christ. The apostle John reminds us of this fact elsewhere: “He has given us this command: Anyone who loves God must also love their brother and sister” (1 John 4:21).

        More here:

        http://www.gotquestions.org/love-one-another.html

        ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

        NOTE: The “one another” in these verses is a reference to fellow believers. A distinguishing mark of being a follower of Christ is a deep, sincere love for brothers and sisters in Christ.

        Also note that “Paul Clark” deliberately disobeys this command from Christ given his hateful attitude toward Christians that’s reflected in his nasty anti-Christian remarks.

        And this is the key reason why I think that he’s a mohammedan troll pretending to be a Christian, since all Christians learn the absolute importance of this command–from the Lord–immediately after their conversion.

  6. Denise A says

    Sep 23, 2016 at 6:06 am

    When at war, decimating false information and the concealment of salient facts is a part of stealth jihad. Obama continues to wage his Islamic war against America with the help of his compliant comrades in the government.
    Personally, I believe that he success is a direct result of divine judgement against America.

    • JIMJFOX says

      Sep 23, 2016 at 12:14 pm

      decimating— DISSEMINATING?

      • Allan says

        Sep 23, 2016 at 2:23 pm

        Quite right. To decimate false information would be to delete every 10th falsity. So, if we wanted to reduce some fixed qty of falsities to a manageable amount, say, just 10% of the original amount, we’d need to carry out about 22 decimations. In other words, 0.9^22=0.0985

        Alas, the quantity of falsities is ever changing, and it seems to me that the rate at which the qty of falsities are changing has itself been changing since about the time when the USMC and French barracks were bombed in Beirut in 1983. Now much of the world is drowning in a torrent of BS.

  7. JIMJFOX says

    Sep 23, 2016 at 12:17 pm

    NOV 8, 2017 will go down in history as another “Day of infamy” if Clinton wins

    • JIMJFOX says

      Sep 23, 2016 at 12:19 pm

      Oops, 2016! Typo, typo…

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