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Chicago: Muslim arrested for trespassing at water plant, then vanishes

Nov 19, 2016 2:49 pm By Robert Spencer

“And last year he was charged with a misdemeanor after Palatine police stopped him with ‘an ax in the waistband of his pants’ and a gym bag containing an expandable baton, duct tape and more.”

Yeah, just a tourist, you greasy Islamophobe.

Jihadis have long wanted to poison the water supply. As far back as 2002, the feds arrested two jihadis who were carrying plans about how to poison water supplies. In 2003, al-Qaeda threatened to poison water supplies in Western countries. In 2011, a jihadi in Spain likewise planned to poison water supplies.

And in May 2013, seven Muslim “chemical engineers” were caught trespassing at the Quabbin Reservoir, a key supply of water for Boston, after midnight. Only months later and indirectly did we hear that it was a “criminal matter.” A month later, locks were cut at the aqueduct that supplies water to Greater Boston.

Also in May 2013, jihadists were caught in Canada who had considered poisoning air and water to murder up to 100,000 people. In October 2013, the FBI was investigating a possible water supply threat in Wichita. In January 2014, a Muslim broke into a water treatment plant in New Jersey.

shahroon-augustine

“2 Investigators: Water Plant Trespasser Is Released, Then Vanishes,” by Brad Edwards, CBS Chicago, November 10, 2016 (thanks to Pamela Geller):

(CBS) — Clean drinking water is essential for our health, so when a man with a foreign passport is discovered trespassing in a protected Chicago water plant, the FBI and Homeland security are alerted.

Authorities say Shahroon Augustine entered the Eugene Sawyer Water Purification Plant with a duffle bag, containing a passport from Pakistan.

He was charged with trespassing, then vanished.

“If our water supply isn’t vigorously protected, we as a society could have real trouble,” says Richard Schak, a former Chicago Police official who launched the criminal justice program at National Louis University.

He has studied municipal water systems.

“I hope it doesn’t fall through the cracks because it could indicate someone that’s looking, casing, trying to find something that’s vulnerable,” he says. “He could be an innocent guy that got into the wrong spot, but he could also be the worst type of person that we’re dealing with.”

Augustine, who may have lived in Palatine at one time, has had numerous previous arrests. He has pleaded guilty to two separate drug charges in Wisconsin. And last year he was charged with a misdemeanor after Palatine police stopped him with “an ax in the waistband of his pants” and a gym bag containing an expandable baton, duct tape and more.

Augustine spent 10 days in jail for that.

In the most recent incident, the FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force and Homeland Security were notified after Augustine made his way onto the South Side water plant.

Augustine was released on his own recognizance. But he failed to appear in court and a warrant was issued. Three months later, he pleaded guilty and was re-sentenced to court supervision in late October.

A spokesperson for the city Department of Water Management, citing security, will not say how Augustine got access, though he claims he never breached “critical areas.”…

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  1. Tradiguy says

    Nov 19, 2016 at 3:00 pm

    There is no depravity on earth that these bastards won’t stoop to. They are the very devils troops. Why the hell was he released? a reasonable man might ask.

    • Greyhound Fancier says

      Nov 19, 2016 at 3:11 pm

      I would think that the axe, baton, and duct tape should have been indicative of pretty suspicious behavior.

    • TR says

      Nov 20, 2016 at 11:34 am

      Makes John Q Public wonder if our Security Agencies are run by those in Solidarity with Islamic Jihadists. The current Obama Administration leaves no doubt this Solidarity Bond and leniency is the case
      I pray this will all change after Trump takes office. We have had 50 years of being setup by the Left and their Muslim Brotherhood, with a lethal dose of their hostile insurgency these last eight years.

      • gravenimage says

        Nov 20, 2016 at 10:55 pm

        More likely to be in denial about the Jihad threat than actually in league with it.

  2. Angemon says

    Nov 19, 2016 at 3:15 pm

    He was charged with trespassing, then vanished.

    You mean the guy with the foreign passport? Gee, who could have imagined that?…

    • Rob says

      Nov 19, 2016 at 9:25 pm

      ‘I asked him to sit right there on the bench while I got coffee. When i got back he had disappeared’.

      • somehistory says

        Nov 19, 2016 at 11:25 pm

        It took too long to wrap the donuts.

  3. Stan Lee says

    Nov 19, 2016 at 3:26 pm

    This country has lived under the illusion that “profiling” is unnecessary and “racist.”
    We need to use every possible characteristic to identify trouble. If we happen to be wrong, then “Please excuse me” is far better than “How many died when the bomb exploded?”, or died after poison was added to the city or town’s drinking water supply.
    There are a few universities in the city where I reside. I have noticed that many young men grow facial hair to various lengths, which keeps me looking anymore. Beards of varied growth can be found on many Muslims, and therefore I do profile after first noticing a beard on a person of secondary education age.
    After the beard, I look at clothing worn by a subject, and how it is worn. The manner in which it is worn can alert me to whether one is an American or foreigner in about 75% of the time, IMHO.
    I’m just more alert than I’ve ever been, because there are so many reasons to observe caution in this world today.

    • somehistory says

      Nov 19, 2016 at 11:28 pm

      If you get close enough to make eye contact, look into the eyes. If they are dead, so is the soul and likely moslim.

      • TR says

        Nov 20, 2016 at 11:41 am

        Ive noticed that predatory eye-set with excessive whites exposed and empty looking pupil and iris fixed in a stalking stare set at top of socket. Noticed several Mujihadeen pictures with same predatory stare. This Jasper in the Pic has that same trait.

        • solsticewitch13 says

          Nov 20, 2016 at 6:54 pm

          The eyes of a mass murdering psychopath.

          islam is a mental illness

  4. Ashley says

    Nov 19, 2016 at 3:32 pm

    These are the sort of scenarios that nightmares are made of.

    Why the hell was Augustine released on his own recognizance??? He was previously arrested with “an ax in the waistband of his pants” and a gym bag containing an expandable baton, duct tape and more. That’s the sort of shit serial killers tote around with them.

    I lived only a few miles from The Quabbin when the seven foreign trespassers breached the reservoir…after midnight. Shortly after the Boston Marathon bombings. The Quabbin supplies water to some 2.5 million people in Boston and surrounding communities. The Commonwealth Fusion Center spent many an anxious hour testing the water after the incident, and yet the trespassers were sent on their merry way and never publicly identified.

    Is it any surprise Mr. Augustine has fallen off the radar? Was there even a radar?

    Shake my fucking head…

    • Mak says

      Nov 19, 2016 at 3:51 pm

      These are the sorts of responses we can hope to no longer have now that Trump has been elected. Baraq Hussein Obama filled his cabinet with so many Islamists and Islamic apologists that it filtered all the way down.

      My only fear is that it will take years for the remnants of Obama to clear out. We can hope that the Muslims don’t look at this as a window of opportunity.

    • gravenimage says

      Nov 19, 2016 at 10:27 pm

      Yes–I remember the Muslims at Quabbin from a few years ago. Authorities did not take that incursion seriously enough, either. I worry that Muslims will be able to poison the water supply at some point.

      There was this case from earlier this year, where they came damn close:

      “Muslim hackers infiltrate water utility’s control system, change levels of chemicals used to treat tap water”

      https://www.jihadwatch.org/2016/03/muslim-hackers-infiltrate-water-utilitys-control-system-change-levels-of-chemicals-used-to-treat-tap-water

      And more threats:

      “Fears ISIS Could Poison Paris Water Supply”

      http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2015/11/22/fears-isis-could-poison-paris-water-supply/

      There are many more. I’m concerned it will only be a matter of time.

      • somehistory says

        Nov 19, 2016 at 11:35 pm

        Do you recall the cult group that was in Oregon a number of years ago and put e-coli into salads all over the town to make people sick? They succeeded in making people sick, but not to the extent they wanted. However, they had tried before they succeeded, and learned from their mistakes, so they actually did succeed the second try.
        It will be like that for the moslims trying to poison the water supply.

        And the large number of places on an electrical station that were shot out by high powered rifle, a few years ago. They were successful too, and fears are, next time, it will be much worse. If they knock out enough power at the same time they poison a water supply, there will be more deaths.

        • EYESOPEN says

          Nov 21, 2016 at 10:05 pm

          Those were the Rajneesh “lieutenants” – and what they put into salad bars was salmonella, not e-coli.

  5. underbed cat says

    Nov 19, 2016 at 5:24 pm

    On the morning of 9/11, a day off of work, I was called urgently by my husband to get downstairs to view the news of a plane that struck the Trade Center in N.Y.,C. After the second plane I had the instinct we were at war and being attacked and thought immediately to leave to get a couple of gallons of water.
    I stopped at the closet grocery store, that I rarely shopped at and picked up about six gallons of water and maybe some food and went into the checkout line. A tall. slender, handsome tanned man in a wrinkled suit with a 24 hour beard stood behind me. He had no more than 3 items in his hand one was a shaver. As I placed the water on the conveyor belt he sternly asked if I was going to fill my swimming pool and was slightly rude. I explained my reasons and he seemed to care less, about the events, next second the cashier said either the Pentagon or a building fell, can’t remember which. He again seemed irritated and not concerned. As I was loading the water into the cart, he made his purchase and came behind me and leaned over and said, “you don’t even want to know who I am.” He sent a chill up my spine.

    • gravenimage says

      Nov 19, 2016 at 10:50 pm

      Disturbing…

    • quota raven says

      Nov 21, 2016 at 6:45 am

      To Tradiguy. who says, passionately, “There is no depravity on earth that these bastards won’t stoop to. They are the very devils troops. Why the hell was he released? a reasonable man might ask”There is no depravity on earth that these bastards won’t stoop to. They are the very devils troops. Why the hell was he released? a reasonable man might ask.”

      To find the answer, you have to put on your big boy pants and think rationally, critically, thoroughly and calmly))))) about realism and the law: about how the laws been applied, those that are alleged to have been broken and the evidence to support prosecution. Until we’ve read the transcript of the court appearance/trial, hearings,I feel we don’t know squat. You;d benefit from access to the complete investigative file…things get complicated, deals are made, you know the drill!))))) You have to watch exactly how the laws are enforced…or not.I think it’s all very interesting stuff. I find legal machinations exhilarating, thrilling.

      Cheers!

      quota raven

      cheers

      Cheers!

      quota raven

  6. underbed cat says

    Nov 19, 2016 at 5:45 pm

    They certainly have had a pass for deviousness from this administration, and the tolerant fibs are still being pitched from the media and WH. and some of the students are clueless.

  7. Cretius says

    Nov 19, 2016 at 6:59 pm

    There is no such thing as “Peaceful Islam” or “Peaceful Muslims”. Muslims are encouraged in the Koran to practice deceit when dealing with non-believers.
    http://www.answering-islam.org/Authors/JR/Future/ch16_understanding_dishonesty.htm
    Koran 2:191 “slay the unbelievers wherever you find them”
    Koran 3:21 “Muslims must not take the infidels as friends”
    Koran 5:33 “Maim and crucify the infidels if they criticize Islam”
    Koran 8:12 “Terrorize and behead those who believe in scriptures other than the Koran”
    Koran 8:60 ” Muslims must muster all weapons to terrorize the infidels”
    Koran 8:65 “The unbelievers are stupid, urge all Muslims to fight them”
    Koran 9:5 “When the opportunity arises, kill the infidels wherever you find them”
    Koran 9:123 “Make war on the infidels living in your neighbourhood”
    Koran 22:19 “Punish the unbelievers with garments of fire, hooked iron rods, boiling water, melt their skin and bellies”
    Koran 47:4 “Do not hanker for peace with the infidels, behead them when you catch them”.

    “If we are practicing Muslims, we are above the law of the land”.
    Mustafa Carroll
    Dallas CAIR Director,

    Remember Wahhabism is Sunni = radical Islam = Daesh

  8. Tahlia says

    Nov 19, 2016 at 7:31 pm

    We have had the same thing happen in Australia, only the naive would believe they are trespassing by mistake.

    Let’s hope the governments concerned are taking note of the seriousness of these situations and see them for what they are – an enemy probing for an efficient way to do harm to the maximum number of people with the least amount of effort.

  9. Patrick A Ludwick says

    Nov 19, 2016 at 9:41 pm

    Find him and kill him!

  10. gravenimage says

    Nov 19, 2016 at 10:21 pm

    Chicago: Muslim arrested for trespassing at water plant, then vanishes

    “And last year he was charged with a misdemeanor after Palatine police stopped him with ‘an ax in the waistband of his pants’ and a gym bag containing an expandable baton, duct tape and more.”
    …………………………..

    This was not just “trespassing”. And now these idiots have allowed this Jihadist to vanish. What fools.

    • underbed cat says

      Nov 20, 2016 at 10:03 am

      The Chicago area and suburbs has many mosques and learning centers.along with a large muslim population, would be easy for any potential jihadist or curious guy to disappear. The liberal population, and sanctuary city of Chicago, and Ob old friends, would not take kindly to any factual analysis to a threat. However Chicago sits on the shore of a big lake, a source of water for many states….also dotted with nuclear power plants, don’t know what he had in his bag…he may be very dangerous.

      That he was allowed to vanish, could also be due to diversity….at the wrong place at the wrong time or a hands off approach due to the CVE description he would not be seen as threat, just a member.

  11. davej says

    Nov 19, 2016 at 10:59 pm

    He looks pretty innocent to me.

    Not.

  12. Robert_k says

    Nov 19, 2016 at 11:34 pm

    I read that the Muffti Hah Amin al-Husseini during WW II wanted to do the same thing to Tel Aviv’s water supply. It must be an Islamic tradition.

  13. Baucent says

    Nov 20, 2016 at 2:13 am

    I’ve never heard of a Pakistani with the surname “Augustine”, that is very unusual, and should have been a “red flag” to Police that it could be an alias. I suspect he has now ditched that fake Passport and is now snooping around somewhere else under another name. After the first suspicious incident he should have been denied bail. Unbelievable.

  14. Ashley says

    Nov 20, 2016 at 9:20 am

    A few more details here:

  15. David says

    Nov 20, 2016 at 10:01 am

    Naw! He didn’t just “vanish”.
    He is at the local mosque, of course!
    And will be sent out of the country dressed up as a muslum female! With a female’s Pass Port. Photo showing only The eyes through a slit!
    It works every time!

    • TR says

      Nov 20, 2016 at 12:09 pm

      Like the undercover reporter voting in NY wearing a rug with only eye slits going by the name Hume Abedin . No one wanted to question for fear of being labeled Islamophobic. (Had to be a Hellery vote.)
      Hopefully we have a cleanup broom go through the DHS, FBI and every Security/Investigative/Intelligence Agency to purge the massive numbers of infiltrators jeopardizing our National Security.

  16. Carolyne says

    Nov 20, 2016 at 10:39 am

    Good job, Chicago. Almost as good as stopping the murders on your streets every weekend. Or even caring, so long as you can hide illegal immigrants from the authorities.

    • Ashley says

      Nov 20, 2016 at 12:09 pm

      Right, Carolyne?

      I haven’t even seen an appeal to be on the lookout for this dude. Shouldn’t he be considered a potential threat to the public? He was recently nabbed with that nifty “kill kit”, trespassed a critical infrastructure, skipped out on his court appearance, and has now vanished into thin air.

      Outrageous!

  17. quota raven says

    Nov 21, 2016 at 5:31 am

    I have a distinct and eerie memory of an occurrence that briefly made the local news sometime around 2002 or 2003 in Columbia County, about 90 miles north of NYC.in, NYS..Local news reported that four or five “suspicious characters” who had “Arab demeanor” were hanging around an upstate major reservoir that supplied a large amount of NYC water.. People throughout the country, but most especially those close to NYC during and after 9/11 were still shattered, frazzled and jumpy from the aftermath of 9/11 and acutely vigilant about such occurrences.

    these guys were photographing the reservoir and the treatment plant. We were told that these individuals were detained by security people and/ot State Police and the
    Sheriff’s Department. and questioned, but it was never reported that they were charged with anything.other than possibly :trespassing”, as they had gone behind fences and into an area closed to the public. All the reports were vaguely worded, and in the end, we never found out the whole story. But clearly, “nothing to see here folks, move along” was driving the coverage and the investigation.. What ultimately happened to these men, who they really were, and what their purpose was, was never released or speculated about in the media. The names of the adventurers were finally released, and they all reflected a Muslim/
    Arab backgroun. mention of Jihad or Mohammedans or Islam in connection with the occurrence,was pristinely avoided, and I never felt the matter resolved by anything I read or heard. As I recall in the end these men were deemed tourists who had lost their way, As such, they were probably given a warning and maybe a slap on the wrist.

    This was a relatively small event in a lightly populated rural area where, basically only those who lived around the reservoir took much of an interest.It was significant, though, as the reservoir supplied drinking water to NYC. But I’m sure there have been many, many such occurrences throughout the whole country since 9/11/2001..

    Cheers!…..

    quota raven

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