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Muslim plotter in 1993 NYC jihad bombing set for release despite repeated assaults of prison officials

Aug 1, 2020 4:00 pm By Robert Spencer

What could possibly go wrong? Surely he has been disabused of his jihadist sentiments while in prison, no? No. Of course not. To have attempted that would have been “Islamophobic.”

“Victor Alvarez, conspirator in 1993 NYC terror plot, set for release,” by Ben Feuerherd, Jason Beeferman and Bruce Golding, New York Post, July 30, 2020:

A would-be terrorist convicted in a fiendish plot to bomb New York City landmarks was released to a Manhattan homeless shelter on Thursday — after declaring in court that he would stop taking his meds.

“I want to be free from mental health treatment,” Victor Alvarez loudly told his lawyer during an afternoon court appearance.

“I want to be free now.”

Alvarez, 54, was ordered fitted with an electronic monitoring bracelet by a judge who also signed off on a plan for him to move into the Bellevue Men’s Shelter in Kips Bay once the device is attached…..

Alvarez on Thursday finished serving a 30-year prison sentence for conspiring with the late, blind Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman to blow up the various Big Apple bridges and tunnels, as well as the United Nations and local FBI headquarters.

His crimes included helping stir diesel fuel and fertilizer for what the feds called a “witches’ brew” that was found inside a makeshift bomb factory in Queens when it was raided in 1993, disrupting the terror scheme….

“Between 1993 and 2013, the defendant received 155 prison disciplinary reports, including for assaulting, spitting on, and threatening officers, possessing a weapon, flooding his cell, and keeping containers of urine and rotten milk in his cell.”…

Sanderson briefly argued against the restrictions sought by prosecutors — which also include a “risk assessment and mental health evaluation,” and mandatory participation in a “deradicalization program” — but was quickly overruled by the judge.

Alvarez was among nine followers of Abdel-Rahman who were found guilty along with him in 1995 following a nine-month trial that included audio and video recordings secretly made with the help of a turncoat bodyguard for the radical Islamic preacher.

In addition to planning a day of attacks as part of a “jihad” or holy war against the US, they were also convicted of conspiring with the terrorists who bombed the World Trade Center in 1993.

In court papers filed earlier this month, prosecutors initially sought to have Alvarez sent to a halfway house for his first year of freedom.

But they modified that request on Tuesday, saying he could instead submit a plan for approval by the US Probation Office to live in a “residence, which may include a shelter.”

Under the restrictions approved by Broderick, if Alvarez is kicked out “for failing to abide by shelter rules or for his misbehavior,” he can be ordered into a halfway house for up to a year and only allowed out for “work, healthcare appointments, religious observances or other acceptable reasons as approved by Probation,” court papers say.

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Filed Under: American jihadis, converts to Islam, Featured, Jihad in prisons, Jihad in the U.S. Tagged With: Omar Abdel Rahman, Victor Alvarez


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  1. CogitoErgoSum says

    Aug 1, 2020 at 4:09 pm

    I would set him free – in the middle of the Pacific on raft with a fishing pole and a can of worms.

    • CogitoErgoSum says

      Aug 1, 2020 at 4:13 pm

      Maybe a whale could swallow him and spit him up on an island somewhere. (Hey, it could happen.)

    • william carr says

      Aug 2, 2020 at 6:34 am

      Mandatory execution for all terrorist offenders would solve this problem

    • toomanyhobbies says

      Aug 2, 2020 at 4:46 pm

      +1 they are insane! release him??? sure in a one man boat 1,000 miles out to sea with 3 days provisions and tell him to row east….

  2. J Morgan says

    Aug 1, 2020 at 4:10 pm

    Why is he free? We should be free of him. ..And free – off his meds – indeed, what could possibly go wrong?

  3. elee says

    Aug 1, 2020 at 4:16 pm

    Hey New Yorkers…….do citizens get to appear at parole hearings in your fair state? Oh and either way……MAKE SOME NOISE about this!

  4. vtology says

    Aug 1, 2020 at 5:07 pm

    He’s not good citizenship material. Permanently deport him or permanently end him as a terrorist operative.

  5. 11B40 says

    Aug 1, 2020 at 5:11 pm

    Greetings:

    If he can leave the halfway house for “religious observances”, that would be five times a day, no ???

  6. Keith O says

    Aug 1, 2020 at 5:34 pm

    A big question is, when,not if, this fine example of humanity returns to his interrupted plans for murdering as many infidels as he can, will the judge who let him out be held accountable? Or will he be allowed to continue with his high paid job?
    Anyone who signs off on the release of any violent criminal must be held responsible if this person re offends.
    Then and only then will we see realistic punishments for crimes.

  7. Walter Sieruk says

    Aug 1, 2020 at 6:39 pm

    The question might be put in another way , which is “Has this dangerous and scheming jihadist changed from his Muslim terrorist beliefs and feelings while in prison. The answer obvious and clear it’s “No, of course not.”

    This may be explained by the German philosopher ,Immanuel Kant, had written “Out of the crooked timber of humanity not straight thing can be made .”

    Likewise, The ancient Greek playwright Aristophanes ,wrote “Even the wisest of the wise can never made a crab walk straight.”

  8. b.a. freeman says

    Aug 1, 2020 at 7:39 pm

    let’s see; they’ll let him out of the halfway house for “religious” observances …
    have they considered that killing non-muslims is a “religious” observance in islam?

    the hard-core leftist traitors and f***ing uneducated leftwing idiots who rule us are dooming the nation to destruction. if the leftist policies don’t do the job, the ummah will. well, this is one american who will go down fighting to the very end.

  9. Steve says

    Aug 1, 2020 at 8:08 pm

    “convicted in a fiendish plot to bomb New York City landmarks”

    He’ll fit right in to today’s democrat party. No way to tell him apart.

    • gravenimage says

      Aug 1, 2020 at 9:34 pm

      Not far off the mark, sadly…

    • Steven Burgoyne says

      Aug 2, 2020 at 3:24 pm

      Well said . I imagine he was on the FBI payroll like the other WTC bombers were

      • gravenimage says

        Aug 2, 2020 at 5:35 pm

        Oh, good lord, what *utter crap*. This is more of the idea that Jihad does not exist, but is all the work of Infidels to make Islam look bad.

        Does this witless “Truther” think that all Jihad is actually the work of the filthy Kuffar?

  10. rubiconcrest says

    Aug 1, 2020 at 9:21 pm

    Why are they letting him out 3 years early?

    • gravenimage says

      Aug 1, 2020 at 9:39 pm

      Damn good question. There has been a push to release *non-violent* felons during the Coronavirus, but this Jihadist does not qualify. Far-Leftists have demanded the release of *all* prisoners in places like San Quentin. Imagine what madness *that* would be.

  11. gravenimage says

    Aug 1, 2020 at 9:25 pm

    Muslim plotter in 1993 NYC jihad bombing set for release despite repeated assaults of prison officials
    …………..

    As Robert Spencer says, what can go wrong?

    Unsurprisingly, those who are violent in prison, either with other felons or with guards, are *much* more likely to reoffend.

    What happened to only releasing prisoners on good behavior? Not all of them are safe, of course, but are more likely to be than are those who have been violent in prison.

  12. curious says

    Aug 2, 2020 at 5:02 am

    “Do unto others as they would do unto you.” He killed 6 people. He was trying to kill more.

    He was convicted and sentenced sentenced in 1996 for providing a rifle to the terrorist cell, mixing diesel fuel and fertilizer for a bomb and plotting to steal cars to carry explosives.
    https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/ny-blind-shiekh-follower-released-20200730-vg25whcapncinewi5zuht62kn4-story.html
    His own lawyer said Alvarez was “predisposed to join anything that made him feel important.” For his own safety in addition the public, he should never be allowed out of custody alive.

    He should have been executed, but we cannot change the past.

    His religion commands him to go to Mecca. I propose therefore a simple solution: send him there, on condition he waive any right to return to the USA. If he is not allowed to enter by land, he could be airdropped from a great height.

    • gravenimage says

      Aug 2, 2020 at 5:36 pm

      +1

  13. Ade Fegan says

    Aug 2, 2020 at 6:12 am

    Throw him to the far right .. let them sort them out

  14. Ade Fegan says

    Aug 2, 2020 at 6:14 am

    More blood on the hands of the far left policy makers within weeks of this devotee being released

  15. Robn Searle says

    Aug 2, 2020 at 9:30 am

    Should be put to death!

  16. James Lincoln says

    Aug 2, 2020 at 10:46 am

    “…there is no order currently in place to force Alvarez to continue taking his medication…”

    This will not end well – he should have been executed.

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8581053/Terrorist-follower-Blind-Sheikh-freed-jail-vows-come-meds.html

  17. OLD GUY says

    Aug 2, 2020 at 7:25 pm

    And what really pisses me off we the tax payer paid for all of this, the Judges the lawyers his prison room and board and now his half\way house and meds. Lots of people made lots of money and we the people had vary little to say about any part of his trial or sentencing.

    He should have been executed as should all terrorist, but now he will be turned out and most likely he will reoffend and we the TAX Payers will have to pay the tab again.

    Only one making out here is the LAWYERS.

  18. Sam says

    Aug 13, 2020 at 8:40 pm

    What is wrong with America?

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