NBC: (muslim) Soldier accused of trying to aid al-Qaida

msnbc ^ | Feb. 12, 2004 | NBC News' Jim Miklaszewski and NBC News' justice correspondent Pete Williams

[miltonim]

U.S. military and Justice Department officials tell NBC News that a U.S. Army National Guardsman was taken into custody Thursday at Fort Lewis, Wash., and charged with attempting to pass intelligence information to the al-Qaida terrorist network.

The officials said that Anderson was caught up in a sting operation conducted jointly by the Army, the Justice Department and the FBI. Anderson, however, is currently being held and charged only by the Army. Anderson is a Muslim, officials said.

[cripplecreek]

Gee its allways a suprise with the muslims isnt it?

[Pikamax]

bttt

[calljack]

Give him a trial. If he is guilty, shoot him.

[Sacajaweau]

Ft. Lewis...hmmm...sniper connection?

[Zeroisanumber]

I believe that that's a hangin' offence under the UCMJ.

[cyncooper]

MSNBC started off the top of the hour with this breaking story. They've moved on, but I expect will return to it as they gather additional info.

[LenS]

It's pretty clear that the only Muslims you can trust in the military are those who fled the Taliban or Saddam. Those gents actually understand who is the bad guy (at least when they fight in Afghanistan or Iraq respectively).

But you can't trust the rest, especially the American converts.

[Hodar]

Spc. Ryan G. Anderson has been charged with "aiding the enemy by wrongfully attempting to communicate and give intelligence to the al-Qaida terrorist network," U.S. officials told NBC News.

Whew ... I'm glad that doesn't sound like anything like 'Treason' ... < sarcasm off>

[armymarinemom]

Give that man a HANO jump.

[thoughtomator]

Should be hung with rope made from pig sinews... and mix up the rest of the pig in with the body when they bury it.

[templar]

Gee its allways a suprise with the muslims isnt it?

Especially with out great leaders assuring us that muslims are not the enemy and that Islam is a 'religion of peace'... Could it be possible that they are wrong? Nah, of course not. They're Republicans ya know.

[CROSSHIGHWAYMAN]

Every mosque in America should be bugged.

[swarthyguy]

Thanks. What timing. And lookee here, shall I wipe that smirk off my face.

Converting Private Ryan, indeed.

Anderson is a Muslim, officials said.

Spc. Anderson, a 26-year-old tank crewmember from the Army's 81st National Guard Brigade, was among the 4,100 troops of the 81st Brigade on their way to Iraq for a one-year deployment.

The face of the fifth column.

[Eva]

Remember that the Muslim chaplain that was arrested at Gitmo was also from Fort Lewis.

[cyncooper]

Did you miss that this was a sting operation?

[happygrl]

It's pretty clear that the only Muslims you can trust in the military are those who fled the Taliban or Saddam. Those gents actually understand who is the bad guy (at least when they fight in Afghanistan or Iraq respectively).

But you can't trust the rest, especially the American converts.

Don't trust, don't want 'em in my country.

[68skylark]

I believe that that's a hangin' offence under the UCMJ.

Well, my copy of the UCMJ doesn't specify the method. But yeah, it says the penalty is, "death or such other punishment as a court-martial or military commission may direct." That's at 904. ART. 104. AIDING THE ENEMY

[cksharks]

Does people on the right killing abortion doctors make all christians evil?

[wtc911]

More help from your boys. Time for another editorial.

[george wythe]

Did the D.C. snipers have anything to do with this base?

Somehow I have a vague recollection that Muhammad the sniper had some friends on this base.

[squarebarb]

Fort Lewis --- DC sniper
Muslim chaplain
This guy

Why are we left to figure this out all by ourselves? (sarcasm)

[DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet]

When was the last time that was carried out, that we know of? (Pardon my ignorance on the topic.) It seems like a long time. Too damned long.

[happygrl]

Hey, and don't smirk at me (grin).

But it just goes to prove my assertion that the needs of the jihad are such that these guys can't quietly remain sleepers and rise to the apex of power but have to produce some immediate fruits for their Wahhabi spymasters. Why ?

Because they're frantic crazies, not commited rationalists.

[Gordian Blade]

You have a good memory. The DC Sniper was stationed there at one time.

[philetus]

Was this one of the PEACEFUL, AMERICA LOVING, MISUNDERSTOOD, muslims?
Was this one of the muslims who DENOUNCES TERRORISM?

Gosh, he must be, homeboy is in the U.S. military.

[malia]

have you seen this?

[kjvail]

It is past time we declare this a religious war - it was already declared on us in that fashion - dancing around in a vain attempt not to offend those that want us dead is delusional. It may not be Christianity vs Islam since the USA is not uniformly Christian (about 78% I believe) but it certainly the US vs Islam. There is no other meaningful, logical way to frame this conflict.
Hatred of the US and Israel in particular and the West in general is as integral to modern Islam as the Eurcharist is to the Catholic Church.

[Rocky Mountain High]

Right on, b/c if you think about it, how in the hell would you actually contact Al Qaeda? Look them up in the yellow pages under "terrorists and terror supplies"? No, he got that little gem of information from a local mosque, probably on the friggin' bulletin board.

[livius]

these guys can't quietly remain sleepers and rise to the apex of power but have to produce some immediate fruits for their Wahhabi spymasters

That's an interesting observation.

[happygrl]

Does people on the right killing abortion doctors make all christians evil?

No.

Christians speak out against our own crazies, unlike Muslims.

[Coroner]

Where in the bible does it say to kill abortion doctors???? Where in the Koran does it say to kill the infidels??? We all know the answer to the second question; Its EVERYWHERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Coroner]

I think you mean the FRAGGIN bulletin board at the local Mosque!!

[68skylark]

Good question -- I don't know the answer. I think it's been a long time since the military carried out a death sentence. They seem very reluctant (maybe they think the news will hurt recruiting or their image or something like that). And the criminal process in the military has a unique double-appeal process to civilian courts that lawyers can surely exploit to put off the day of reckoning for their clients.

[swarthyguy]

Not all Islam but at least against our friends, the Saudis and their wahhab death cult, that has mushroomed like an evil growth around the world, under the not so watchful eyes of the USA.

It is long overdue time to shatter the Saudi state, a festing pus filled cesspool of evil, despite their alliance with the US.

Of course, that goes back to the hole big enough to drive a 7847 through, the socalled war on terror, a tactic, instead of the nationstates and ideologies that hate the world.

It's not Islam vs Christianity,

It's the Wahhabs vs everyone else, especially other islami orders.

But the oil from Saudi tends to overshadow a lot of evil.

[Mr. Mojo]

Nation of Islam punk, most likely.

[happygrl]

SW and I were having a discussion regarding sleeper Muslim converts over here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1076612/posts

[Uncle Miltie]

While your point is true, it is not helpful to say so. Prosecuting a religious war is so-not-done. Fighting terror is.

You and I know the difference, but a fig-leaf is necessary as a sop to modern anti-religious prejudice. If we declared a religious war, Europe might join up against us.

Islamofascists have declared a religious war. Whatever. We'll just kill and imprison them by the hundreds of thousands.

[fortunecookie]

Of course, any racial or ethnic or religious profiling (what used to be referred to as adjectives when properly used) would, oh, just maybe, have weeded out this Caucasian, American muslim saboteur.

Oh, but we can't have that, that's sooooo mean spirited. (With sarcasm and roll of eyes!)

It's just good luck, and good military sting work!, that we caught him when we did.

[Rockitz]

The enemy within strikes again. The following quote bears repeating.

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"A nation can survive its fools and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and he carries his banners openly against the city. But the traitor moves among those within the gates freely, his sly whispers rustling through all alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears no traitor; he speaks in the accents familiar to his victim, and he wears their face and their garments and he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation; he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of a city; he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to be feared. The traitor is the plague."

- Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman Orator - 106-43 B.C.

[AngryJawa]

It's really getting difficult to extend the benefit of the doubt to any of Mohammed's wayward children. The fact that Islam has it's greatest recruiting successes in prisons should tell us something.

[Hank Rearden]

have you seen this?

I have now. Thanks.

[lelio]

Here's King5.com (local TV station) story:

SEATTLE - A member of the Washington National Guard’s 81st Armored Brigade has been taken into custody and charged with attempting to pass intelligence information to the Al-Qaida terrorist network.

According to an NBC news report, SPC. Ryan G. Anderson was arrested Thursday at Fort Lewis, Wash. The report, citing U.S. Military and Justice Department officials, said Anderson, a 26-year-old tank crew member, was caught during a joint sting operation and has been charged with “aiding the enemy by wrongfully attempting to communicate and give intelligence to the Al-Quida terrorist network."

Ryan graduated in 1995 from Cascade High School in Everett, Wash., and received a degree in military history with an emphasis on the Middle East from Washington State University in 2002. According to published reports, Anderson converted to the Muslim faith 5 years ago.

Anderson was interviewed by the Everett Herald newspaper last week during a ceremony to honor the 3,500 Washington National Guard soldiers who will be going to Iraq for at least a year. According to the newspaper, he felt the tour of duty would be an interesting experience.

[fortunecookie]

Spc. Anderson, a 26-year-old tank crewmember from the Army's 81st National Guard Brigade, was among the 4,100 troops of the 81st Brigade on their way to Iraq for a one-year deployment. The face of the fifth column

Scary, isn't it? I wonder if there are more just biding their time, hiding out in our own military units like the cowards they are, that we haven't yet caught? And worse still, this guy represents the changing face of the Muslim fifth column. Just what lesson did they learn about Sep 11 that makes them - traitors?

I wonder what his fellow Guard troops are thinking now? I hope they'll be carefully screening any other muslims members.

[Bogey78O]

High Altitude "No" Opening?

[freeangel]

Ship him to Gitmo and hold him there until the war on terror is over.

[mtbopfuyn]

So they've infiltrated and set up a cell in the middle of Ft. Lewis?

[TomServo]

Give that man a HANO jump.

LOL!!! High Altitude No Opening? ;-)

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

Whatever. This time next month the guy will be facing a dishonorable discharge and some token bitching. The Army can't bring itself to punish its affirmative action recruits that get caught spying.

[r9etb]

Here is one news mention of him....