Linkage logarithms

Jewish World Review ^ | Oct. 22, 2003 /26 Tishrei, 5764 | Mark Steyn

[yonif]

http://www.jewishworldreview.com | A year ago, when the self-regarding buffoon Chief Charles Moose was bungling the Washington sniper investigation and the cable-news shows were full of endless psychological profiles of "white male loners," a few of us columnists entertained the notion that the killer was linked to Islamist terrorism.

The Chicago Sun-Times' Richard Roeper thought this was so absurd he very kindly apologized to readers on my behalf. "An awful lot of conservatives really, really wanted the snipers to be terrorists," explained Richard. "But they were wrong. I'll say that because they never will."

Even at the time, the Roeper position required a certain suspension of disbelief. John Allen Muhammad was a Muslim, a supporter of al Qaeda's actions, a man who marked the events of September 11, 2001, by changing his name to "Muhammad" and a man who marked the first anniversary of September 11 by buying the Chevy Caprice subsequently used in the sniper attacks. Coincidence? Of course. It's only a handful of conservative kooks who would even think otherwise.

Interesting item from the London Evening Standard last week:

"Evidence has emerged linking Washington sniper John Allen Muhammad with an Islamic terror group. Muhammad has been connected to Al Fuqra, a cult devoted to spiritual purification through violence. The group has been linked to British shoe bomber Richard Reid and the murderers of American journalist Daniel Pearl in Pakistan last year."

Hmm. Might be nothing. Might be just another coincidence. Lot of them around at the moment — like that Saudi Cabinet minister who coincidentally stayed in the same hotel on the night of Sept. 10 as some of the September 11 terrorists. Just one of those things. But the authorities seem to be taking the links more seriously than when they first surfaced a year ago.

[yonif]

Ping.

[farmfriend]

bttt

[Mr. Bird]

That would also include the pro-Saudi Middle East Institute, whose "adjunct scholar" is one Joseph C Wilson IV.

Kaboom.

[brbethke]

You mean that Joseph "George W. Bush endangered my wife by revealing her identity as a CIA agent!" Wilson is on the Saudi payroll?!?!

Unbelievable!

Sounds like the CIA is long, long overdue for a drastic housecleaning. Or maybe just a flush.

[Mr. Bird]

Breathtakingly absurd, no? If this type of thing was in a freakin' movie, we'd all dismiss it as Hollywood making us out to be buffoons. Turns out, it looks like we are....

[Salem]

"...After all, the Saudis are our friends. Thank goodness."

Indeed. Lovely people.

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[Consort]

I was never an exponent of logarithms.

[Sabertooth]

"Evidence has emerged linking Washington sniper John Allen Muhammad with an Islamic terror group. Muhammad has been connected to Al Fuqra, a cult devoted to spiritual purification through violence. The group has been linked to British shoe bomber Richard Reid and the murderers of American journalist Daniel Pearl in Pakistan last year."

I'm dusting off the Sniper Muhammad ping list.

Freepers were making the connection between Muhammad and al Fuqra last year....

Examine Gunman's Possible Ties to AL FUQRA (Sniper Muhammad)
			Posted by Sabertooth On 10/31/2002 6:24 AM PST with 20 comments SFFT.org ^ | October 30th, 2002 | Christian M. Weber æDefenseWatch æ"The Voice of the Grunt" æSpecial Report: Protect Home Base First æARTICLE 02 October 30, 2002Examine Gunman's Possible Ties to al FurqaBy Christian M. WeberIn the Middle East today, we see a young generation of Muslims being trained to hate Israel and the West while cherishing the thought of martyrdom. It is easy to see the brutal path that has been chosen for these children. However, for those not schooled in this path of destruction, the road to terrorism usually takes on one of two forms.The first form includes Islamic extremists, such as Osama Bin Laden, who rose...
Al Fuqra: Holy Warriors of Terrorism
			Posted by Sabertooth On 11/04/2002 4:16 PM PST with 22 comments Anti-Defamation League (pdf) ^ | 1993 Al-Fuqra Holy Warriors of Terrorism Introduction For over ten years, a secretive Black Muslim sect in the United States and Canada has sought to carry out a self-declared policy of "jihad," or holy war, by taking violent action against its perceived enemies, generally other minorities or other Muslims with whom they disagree. The sect, known as Al-Fuqra, has been linked by law enforcement officials to terrorist violence in Colorado, Arizona, Pennsylvania, the Pacific-northwest and Canada. Most recently, attention has been focused on the group in connection with a plot to bomb public sites in New York, including the United Nations,...
Sniper killings, hideout, clustered near old Al-Fuqra terror target!
			Posted by Sabertooth On 11/04/2002 7:42 PM PST with 54 comments November 4th, 2002 | Sabertooth On September 11th, 2002, suspected Sniper John Allen Muhammad walked into the Camden, New Jersey State Motor Vehicles office, to register the now-notorious "blue Caprice" he'd just purchased. Though the car had not yet converted been into a rolling sniper's nest, what happened in the next several minutes leaves little doubt that Muhammad had something sinister in mind. The registration transaction began at 8:52 am. At 8:58 am., while Muhammad was still standing at the counter, someone (now believed to be fellow suspect, Lee Malvo) phoned a bomb threat at the Motor Vehicles office on the 1st Anniversary of what...
SNIPER LINK TO AL-FUQRA PROBED
			Posted by goody2shooz On 11/10/2002 11:52 PM PST with 38 comments WorldNetDaily.com ^ | 11/11/02 | World Net Daily Staff Sniper suspect John Muhammad fits the profile of a disaffected outcast who becomes increasingly radicalized under the influence of Islamism, say terrorism analysts and investigators, who suspect he is connected with the radical Islamist group, al-Fuqra. According to Christian M. Weber, contributing editor for Soldiers for the Truth, an organization headed by Col. David Hackworth, Muhammad seems to follow the model of John Walker Lindh, Richard Reid and Jose Padilla, men exposed to Islamism who become disenchanted with the movement's pace and progress and who take the road to jihad. "As one traces John Muhammad's life from his conversion to...
Were Snipers Linked to al-Fuqra Muslim Sect?
			Posted by Tailgunner Joe On 11/13/2002 1:20 PM PST with 14 comments www.insightmag.com ^ | Nov. 13, 2002 | Jerry Seper and Steve Miller Federal authorities are investigating whether accused snipers John Allen Muhammad and John Lee Malvo had ties to a growing sect of militant American Muslims committed to waging holy war against the United States. Law-enforcement authorities yesterday said investigators want to know whether the suspects „ now awaiting separate murder trials in Virginia „ were involved with Jamaat al-Fuqra, a militant Muslim group with documented ties to international terrorism that has been linked to 13 slayings and 17 firebombings in the United States and Canada. The al-Fuqra network, through an offshoot group known as the Muslims of America, has established a...

In fact, if I might blow my own horn, I was one of the first, if not the first, to suspect a connection between John Muhammad and Al-Fuqra, here...

It's early yet... as this investigation unfolds, keep an eye out for the word : "Jamaat," as in Jamaat al Fuqra, Jamaat al Islam, or Jamaat al Tabligh. They are front groups for elements within Pakistan's ISI that are shoulder to shoulder with the Taliban and Al Qaeda.
October 24th, 2002 - link

Freepers had this story a week before it was showing up anywhere else, and we saw a lot of our research cribbed in other places.

Hey Shermy and FL Engineer, I know you two also have a bunch of lnks on Muhammad and Fuqra. Time to get them out of mothballs.

[genefromjersey]

Nothing to see here . Move along ! Move along !

By the by, who was the Arab diplomat (or whatever) who spent the night in the same hotel with the hijackers ?

Which of the hijackers ?

What hotel ? Where ?

[Fzob]

bump for later. very interesting read

[yonif]

Can't remember where, but it was a Saudi Arabian "diplomat"

[Sabertooth]

See the links at #8. Freepers were breaking the connection between John Muhammad and Al-Fuqra a full week before anyone else had it, and within days of Muhammad's capture. More links will follow.

A.M., in the meantime, if it's ok with yonif, can we get a parenthetical change on the headline here?

Suggest: Linkage logarithms (Sniper Muhammad - al Fuqra)

This will tie in to a lot of related Sniper Muhammad stories posted here in the last year.

Thanks.

[Southack]

You definitely called it on this one.

[yonif]

Yeah, sure. Make the change in the title. This is an important topic regarding American Muslims.

-Yoni

[TexKat]

Sabertooth at long last there has been a connection found. After all our hard work, long nights, research, it has finally come to the light. Its been a long time coming.

[CHICAGOFARMER]

"Evidence has emerged linking Washington sniper John Allen Muhammad with an Islamic terror group. Muhammad has been connected to Al Fuqra, a cult devoted to spiritual purification through violence. The group has been linked to British shoe bomber Richard Reid and the murderers of American journalist Daniel Pearl in Pakistan last year."

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Good work dude.

[Travis McGee]

FR led the way, by YEARS.

[Grampa Dave]

Thanks for posting these links. For some reason FR's search mechanism is not turning up any of the 2001 and much of the 2002 threads on al Fuqra.

Thanks to the great indexers like you, Fl Engineer, backhoe, ernest at the beach, seamole and piasa, those links will be there.

[cyncooper]

Sounds like the CIA is long, long overdue for a drastic housecleaning. Or maybe just a flush.

Yes, it is.

The real scandal about the Wilson/CIA/Niger affair is not that his wife's affiliation with the CIA was "leaked", but why Wilson was sent on that trip in the first place, and why an anonymous "CIA official" was leaking to the likes of the BBC before Wilson penned his editorial that the Bush administration had misrepresented the uranium intelligence.

It's of a piece with the BBC/Kelly "sexed-up document" brouhaha.