Posted on 06/12/2006 3:42:59 AM PDT by Oshkalaboomboom
The arrest last week of a 26-year-old Flushing man accused of trying to aid Afghan terrorists is a wake-up call: America's enemies are lurking right in this country's own back yards.
Never mind building walls and pad-locking the border; terror sympathizers can, and clearly do, emerge from within America's own communities - even from good homes.
Like Syed Hashmi, who was nabbed in London while trying to board a flight to Pakistan. Folks who knew him in Queens described him as "a good boy."
He went to Brooklyn Tech HS and earned a degree from Brooklyn College.
"He had a really good heart," an official from an Islamic center in Jamaica said. "He cared about people."
Well, apparently not his fellow Americans. Hashmi was indicted for conspiring to send money and military gear to al Qaeda terrorists in Afghanistan to use against U.S. troops. (Some "good heart.")
And he wasn't even the first former Queens kid to be charged with helping al Qaeda. Muhammad Junaid Babar, an associate of Hashmi, has pleaded guilty to terror-linked charges.
Babar had attended Jamaica HS and St. John's. In video footage from Pakistan aired on Canadian TV, he said his mother had worked at the World Trade Center and that she barely escaped on 9/11.
But Babar stated openly that he considered himself Muslim first, American second. And that, in fact, he sided with the Taliban against the United States.
"I'm willing to kill Americans," he said.
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the Fifth column....
....is the Fourth estate and lets not kid ourselves.
Exactly. It's the leftist 'hate America' media that makes it possible for the Islamonazis to do what they do.
Military tribunal. Summary execution.
But Babar stated openly that he considered himself Muslim first, American second. And that, in fact, he sided with the Taliban against the United States.
Keep an eye on your neighbors who follow the 'Religion of Peace'!
IMHO the "fifth column" includes 89% of the MSM, with imbedded operatives in our colleges and universities, and the Congress itself. These leftist socialist revolutionaries have been eroding our culture, language, and borders for many years.
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ROFL... so true. As well as their al-Reuters/al-p/al-Arabiya counterparts.
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Brooklyn and Queens are full of guys just like these ... Every Storefront "Mosque" should have its tax exempt status thoroughly investigated.
The problem with a lot of Muslims is they consider jihad more important than citizenry.
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