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2 Cousins Nabbed On Terror Charges (Chicago)
The Guardian (UK) ^ | 2-21-2007 | Mike Robinson

Posted on 02/21/2007 2:59:18 PM PST by blam

2 Cousins Nabbed on Terror Charges

Wednesday February 21, 2007 10:16 PM

By MIKE ROBINSON

Associated Press Writer

CHICAGO (AP) - Two cousins were arrested Wednesday on charges of conspiring to commit ``jihad'' terrorist acts against Americans overseas, including U.S. military forces in Iraq.

Zubair A. Ahmed, 27, of suburban North Chicago, and Khaleel Ahmed, 26, of Chicago, were arrested after a grand jury in Cleveland returned an indictment charging them and three other men who already had been facing terrorism charges.

The indictment alleged that the conspiracy included finding fresh recruits to wage ``violent jihad'' against Americans and locating sites for training them in the use of firearms, explosives and hand-to-hand combat.

The cousins, both American citizens, went to Cleveland in July 2004 to meet with a trainer, according to the indictment.

The three others - Mohammad Zaki Amawi, 27, Marwan Othman El-Hindi, 42, and Wassim I. Mazloum, 22 - were already facing charges, prosecutors said. The newly returned indictment added more charges against them.

The names of attorneys who could speak for the two cousins were not immediately available.

(Excerpt) Read more at guardian.co.uk ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: ahmed; charges; chicago; cousins; jihad; rop; terror

1 posted on 02/21/2007 2:59:22 PM PST by blam
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To: blam; tomkow6; tongue-tied; All

OH TOMKOW look one of your fellow Chicagoians try something overseas


2 posted on 02/21/2007 3:01:35 PM PST by SevenofNine ("We are Freepers, all your media belong to us, resistence is futile")
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To: blam
Zubair A. Ahmed, 27, of suburban North Chicago, and Khaleel Ahmed

Those darn southern baptist....

3 posted on 02/21/2007 3:03:11 PM PST by Always Right
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To: blam
>Zubair A. Ahmed, 27, Khaleel Ahmed, 26, ... Mohammad Zaki Amawi, 27, Marwan Othman El-Hindi, 42, and Wassim I. Mazloum, 22 ...

Could have been any
of the guys who sell me gas
or lottery plays . . .

4 posted on 02/21/2007 3:05:57 PM PST by theFIRMbss
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To: blam

Take them out and behead them! (BOTH "heads"!)


5 posted on 02/21/2007 3:05:58 PM PST by proudofthesouth (Mao said that power comes at the point of a rifle; I say FREEDOM does.)
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To: blam
>Zubair A. Ahmed, 27, Khaleel Ahmed, 26, ... Mohammad Zaki Amawi, 27, Marwan Othman El-Hindi, 42, and Wassim I. Mazloum, 22 ...

Could have been any
of the guys who sell me gas
or lottery plays . . .

6 posted on 02/21/2007 3:05:58 PM PST by theFIRMbss
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To: blam

"The cousins, both American citizens.."


No, can't be. American Muslims are of the peaceful kind - they were thoroughly screened before given their immigration visas.


7 posted on 02/21/2007 3:06:05 PM PST by 353FMG (I never met a liberal I didn't dislike.)
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To: blam
Were they targeting archaeologists?
8 posted on 02/21/2007 3:09:08 PM PST by OSHA (Sarcasm detector overload!)
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To: blam

Our current immigration practices are suicidal.


9 posted on 02/21/2007 3:10:09 PM PST by RodgerD (-)
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To: blam

I'm getting tired of these violent Christian fundamentalists.....Why can't they be more like the Religion of Peace?


10 posted on 02/21/2007 3:22:06 PM PST by expatpat
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To: Always Right
Zubair A. Ahmed, 27, of suburban North Chicago, and Khaleel Ahmed
Those darn southern baptist....

Well, hang on there...
Without seeing their photographs, how do we know they are the genuine thing, not the trendy "wannabe" variety?

11 posted on 02/21/2007 3:51:26 PM PST by Publius6961 (MSM: Israelis are killed by rockets; Lebanese are killed by Israelis.)
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To: Always Right

I thought they were Amish.


12 posted on 02/21/2007 4:12:51 PM PST by Blackirish
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Tribune story includes perp details:

Zubair A. Ahmed, 27, 3500 Green Bay Road, North Chicago, Khaleel Ahmed, 26, 4500 N. Keystone Avenue, (aka "K town" in) Chicago.

And connected with the Toledo arrests of Mohammad Zaki Amawi, Marwan Othman El-Hindi, and Wassim Mazloum.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-070221suspects-terror,1,2566521.story?ctrack=1&cset=true


13 posted on 02/21/2007 4:20:14 PM PST by OneLoyalAmerican (Truth was the first casualty in the MSM's war on President Bush.)
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To: proudofthesouth

torture the crap outta both of 'em until they spill about their buddies and then saw their damn heads off.


14 posted on 02/21/2007 4:21:18 PM PST by bobby.223
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To: blam
Zubair A. Ahmed, 27, of suburban North Chicago

This is unsettling. North Chicago is immediately adjacent to Great Lakes Naval Training Center.

BTW, don't be fooled by "suburban." North Chicago is more like a Third World no-man's land. It almost makes the next nearby dump, Waukegan (where I was born & raised), look like a garden spot.

15 posted on 02/21/2007 4:24:35 PM PST by PacesPaines
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To: blam
The cousins, both American citizens, went to Cleveland in July 2004 to meet with a trainer,

So we have terrorist trainers in Cleveland?

16 posted on 02/21/2007 4:27:33 PM PST by lowbridge ("Of course Americans should vote Democrat" -Jihad Jaara, senior member, Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade)
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To: lowbridge

My question is, why are we bothered with this petty nuisance kind of news? Under FDR, J. Edgar Hoover's FBI would have picked these guys up and shipped them off for a secret, quick trial and execution, and the American public would not have heard anything until after the war.

Unless we are going to have quick, public executions, we should just make these guys disappear, permanent-like.


17 posted on 02/21/2007 4:36:30 PM PST by Cincinnatus.45-70 (Patriotism to DemocRats is like sunlight to Dracula.)
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To: Cincinnatus.45-70

Zubair, Kahleel. Kahleel, Zubair.


18 posted on 02/21/2007 6:53:18 PM PST by Wally_Kalbacken (Seldom right but never in doubt)
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