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I know Sudbury pretty well, as I used to work there years ago. The fact that a terrorist lives there, would never cross my mind...and i wonder what makes me think this way. And..it is so nice that he is being treated well while in prison, while he had planned on killing and maiming innocent people.
Sudbury man planned terror attacks on malls
Updated: Wednesday, 21 Oct 2009, 12:59 PM EDT
Published : Wednesday, 21 Oct 2009, 8:28 AM EDT
BOSTON - A pharmacy college graduate conspired with two other men on a terror plot to kill two prominent U.S. politicians and carry out a holy war by attacking shoppers in U.S. malls and American troops in Iraq, prosecutors said Wednesday.
But their plans — in which the men used code words like "peanut butter and jelly" for fighting in Somalia and "culinary school" for terrorist camps — were thwarted in part when they could not find training and were unable to buy automatic weapons, authorities said.
Tarek Mehanna worked with the men from 2001 to May 2008 on the conspiracy to "kill, kidnap, maim or injure" soldiers and two politicians who were members of the executive branch but are no longer in office, authorities said, refusing to identify the politicians. Mehanna was arrested Wednesday morning at his parents' home in Sudbury, an upscale suburb 20 miles west of Boston.
Prosecutors said the 27-year-old Mehanna — a graduate of the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy in Boston, where his father is a professor — conspired with two other men: Ahmad Abousamra, who authorities say is now in Syria, and an unnamed man, who is cooperating with authorities in the investigation.
The three men often discussed their desire to participate in "violent jihad against American interests" and talked about "their desire to die on the battlefield," prosecutors said.
Authorities say when they were unable to successfully link up with terror groups in Iraq, Yemen and Pakistan, they turned their interests to domestic terror pursuits and began plotting the attack on shopping malls.
Mehanna had "multiple conversations about obtaining automatic weapons and randomly shooting people in shopping malls," Acting U.S. Attorney Michael Loucks said. Prosecutors would not say which malls had been targeted.
Court documents filed by the government say that in 2002 or 2003, Abousamra became frustrated after repeatedly being rejected to join terror groups in Pakistan — first Lashkar e Tayyiba and then the Taliban.
"Because Abousamra was an Arab (not Pakistani) the LeT camp would not accept him, and because of Abousamra's lack of experience, the Taliban camp would not accept him," according to an affidavit by FBI agent Heidi Williams.
Mehanna and Abousamra traveled to Yemen in 2004 in an attempt to join a terrorist training camp.
Mehanna allegedly told a friend, the third conspirator who is now cooperating with authorities, that their trip was a failure because they were unable to reach people affiliated with the camps. The men, who had allegedly received tips on whom to meet from a person identified in court documents as "Individual A," said half the people they wanted to see were on "hajj," referring to the pilgrimage to Mecca in Islam, and half were in jail.
"They traveled all over the country looking for the people Individual A told them to meet," authorities allege in the criminal complaint.
The two men later decided they were not going to be able to get terror training in Pakistan and "began exploring other options, including terrorist acts in the United States," the affidavit said.
Mehanna, a U.S. citizen, was arrested in November and charged with lying to the FBI in December 2006 when asked the whereabouts of Daniel Maldonado, who is now serving a 10-year prison sentence for training with al-Qaida to overthrow the Somali government.
Mehanna told the FBI that Maldonado was living in Egypt and working for a Web site. But authorities said Maldonado had called Mehanna from Somalia urging him to join him in "training for jihad."
Authorities said Wednesday that Mehanna and his conspirators had contacted Maldonado about getting automatic weapons for their planned mall attacks.
Carney, who represented Mehanna in the previous case, said at the time: "If this is the FBI's idea of a terrorist, they are using a net that is designed to catch minnows instead of sharks."
After his arrest, Mehanna developed a cult following among Muslim civil rights groups and Web sites that believed Mehanna was wrongly arrested. Web sites like the London-based cageprisoners.com, a human rights group that advocates for prisoners at Guantanamo bay and other detainees as part of the U.S. war on terror, asked supporters to write Mehanna in prison to keep up his spirits.
The site MuslimMatters.org asked supporters to pray for his release and published a letter they said Mehanna wrote from prison.
In the letter, Mehanna thanked supporters and said he was being treated well.
"I can only think of the countless imprisoned Muslims in the jails of tyrants around the globe and hope that if it is not Allah's Decree to free them in the near future, that they taste the sweetness that Allah has placed them in prison to taste," Mehanna wrote.
He signed the letter, "Your brother in the green jumpsuit."
mercoledì 21 ottobre 2009
Are we any safer?
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I know Sudbury pretty well, as I used to work there years ago. The fact that a terrorist lives there, would never cross my mind...and i wonder what makes me think this way. And..it is so nice that he is being treated well while in prison, while he had planned on killing and maiming innocent people.
Sudbury man planned terror attacks on malls
Updated: Wednesday, 21 Oct 2009, 12:59 PM EDT
Published : Wednesday, 21 Oct 2009, 8:28 AM EDT
BOSTON - A pharmacy college graduate conspired with two other men on a terror plot to kill two prominent U.S. politicians and carry out a holy war by attacking shoppers in U.S. malls and American troops in Iraq, prosecutors said Wednesday.
But their plans — in which the men used code words like "peanut butter and jelly" for fighting in Somalia and "culinary school" for terrorist camps — were thwarted in part when they could not find training and were unable to buy automatic weapons, authorities said.
Tarek Mehanna worked with the men from 2001 to May 2008 on the conspiracy to "kill, kidnap, maim or injure" soldiers and two politicians who were members of the executive branch but are no longer in office, authorities said, refusing to identify the politicians. Mehanna was arrested Wednesday morning at his parents' home in Sudbury, an upscale suburb 20 miles west of Boston.
Prosecutors said the 27-year-old Mehanna — a graduate of the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy in Boston, where his father is a professor — conspired with two other men: Ahmad Abousamra, who authorities say is now in Syria, and an unnamed man, who is cooperating with authorities in the investigation.
The three men often discussed their desire to participate in "violent jihad against American interests" and talked about "their desire to die on the battlefield," prosecutors said.
Authorities say when they were unable to successfully link up with terror groups in Iraq, Yemen and Pakistan, they turned their interests to domestic terror pursuits and began plotting the attack on shopping malls.
Mehanna had "multiple conversations about obtaining automatic weapons and randomly shooting people in shopping malls," Acting U.S. Attorney Michael Loucks said. Prosecutors would not say which malls had been targeted.
Court documents filed by the government say that in 2002 or 2003, Abousamra became frustrated after repeatedly being rejected to join terror groups in Pakistan — first Lashkar e Tayyiba and then the Taliban.
"Because Abousamra was an Arab (not Pakistani) the LeT camp would not accept him, and because of Abousamra's lack of experience, the Taliban camp would not accept him," according to an affidavit by FBI agent Heidi Williams.
Mehanna and Abousamra traveled to Yemen in 2004 in an attempt to join a terrorist training camp.
Mehanna allegedly told a friend, the third conspirator who is now cooperating with authorities, that their trip was a failure because they were unable to reach people affiliated with the camps. The men, who had allegedly received tips on whom to meet from a person identified in court documents as "Individual A," said half the people they wanted to see were on "hajj," referring to the pilgrimage to Mecca in Islam, and half were in jail.
"They traveled all over the country looking for the people Individual A told them to meet," authorities allege in the criminal complaint.
The two men later decided they were not going to be able to get terror training in Pakistan and "began exploring other options, including terrorist acts in the United States," the affidavit said.
Mehanna, a U.S. citizen, was arrested in November and charged with lying to the FBI in December 2006 when asked the whereabouts of Daniel Maldonado, who is now serving a 10-year prison sentence for training with al-Qaida to overthrow the Somali government.
Mehanna told the FBI that Maldonado was living in Egypt and working for a Web site. But authorities said Maldonado had called Mehanna from Somalia urging him to join him in "training for jihad."
Authorities said Wednesday that Mehanna and his conspirators had contacted Maldonado about getting automatic weapons for their planned mall attacks.
Carney, who represented Mehanna in the previous case, said at the time: "If this is the FBI's idea of a terrorist, they are using a net that is designed to catch minnows instead of sharks."
After his arrest, Mehanna developed a cult following among Muslim civil rights groups and Web sites that believed Mehanna was wrongly arrested. Web sites like the London-based cageprisoners.com, a human rights group that advocates for prisoners at Guantanamo bay and other detainees as part of the U.S. war on terror, asked supporters to write Mehanna in prison to keep up his spirits.
The site MuslimMatters.org asked supporters to pray for his release and published a letter they said Mehanna wrote from prison.
In the letter, Mehanna thanked supporters and said he was being treated well.
"I can only think of the countless imprisoned Muslims in the jails of tyrants around the globe and hope that if it is not Allah's Decree to free them in the near future, that they taste the sweetness that Allah has placed them in prison to taste," Mehanna wrote.
He signed the letter, "Your brother in the green jumpsuit."
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It's terrifying what could have happened had they not caught him IN time.I't s bloody ridiculous that he is actually allowed letters and to write them as well.I am all for human rights...BUT..this can't be right.
(not because he is muslim..but because of what he was planning to do..IN his religions name.).Had he been a R/C or Jew.I would have said the same....well,somebody should tell him ALLAH is not going to be pleased at all.BUT SATAN IS RUBBING HIS HANDS IN GLEE....!!
Are we any safer you ask maggs...NO i don't think so really.There will always be another 'fanatic/s lurking somewhere..in a place now that we LEAST expect .(easier targets ,less security etc)that's what i think anyway.It has hit you harder because you know the area and it's people etc...AND IT IS A SHOCK...like you said , why should you have thought a terrorist would be living there.Yet we can't just stay in and hide from invisible danger.
My friend in Ayreshire (hughie) his cousin had her feet blown off in the london bombings a while ago,she was just going to work --that's all.We just have to try and trust that the intelligence forces..find as many of these evil people as they can.
MAGGIE TERRORISTS ARE OFTEN PROFESSIONALS WITH PHD
PHD's and more...i wonder how many of them are attending universities here in the US, while pursuing their studies in nuclear fields. When a pakistani comes here and wants to study nuclear physics, isnt there a red flag that goes up? The universities are filled with them! oh i could tell u stories. Many of them are sent here under the guise of studying, when in fact they are helpers of the higher hiearchy of the terrorists. It's not to say that theyre all up to no good...but i sure hope we're on top of it.
In the name of religions the most dreadful crimes have been committed. Istitutionalized religions should all be banned from civilized countries. Religious beliefs are personal, you need a contact with your God? you go to your room and pray; no polygamy, no inflammatory speeches allowed in the name of freedom of speech if what one says or is about to say containes germs of hatred against others, which is a violation of the Constitution as there it is said we are all equal.
Maggie you can be sure that all the Muslims in this country are profiled and watched. Are they attending universities or simply vacationing. In the late 70s inthe Us I was followed, my phone tipped and finally forced to live the country only because at the age of 18 I had became a member of the Italian Comunist party, in a country where intellectuals were all leftish, so you were forced to become one if you wanted to even be considered as a writer, a poet or whatever you wanted to be.
It is a struggle, where the terrorists will avoid mistakes and learn from experience what they must not do in order to be not caught,so our intelleigentia must be alert and forseem possible moves and modifications of terrorist's behavior
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