Posted on 08/23/2008 7:00:25 AM PDT by PghBaldy
WNBC News in New York City reports that the NYPD, working with Suffolk Country police and the FBI, have concluded there are no terrorism ties to be concerned about in connection with their discovery that a man, described only as an Egyptian engineer who entered the U.S. on a Sudanese passport, has designed an unmanned aerial vehicle capable of carrying more than 600 pounds of explosives.
The engineer was assisted by a small group of men whom investigators surveilled as they drove a white van onto a tarmac, jumped out, and ground-tested the drone. There was no observation of the UAV ever getting into the air.
The testing of the drone was done in the dead of night on a little used airstrip in Calverton, Long Island...
Second, as I recount in Willful Blindness, the first known activities of the jihadist cell that eventually killed Meir Kahane in 1990, plotted to kill Hosni Mubarak in 1992, bombed the World Trade Center in 1993, and was stopped a few months later in the midst of plotting to bomb other New York City landmarks, was the FBI's investigation of paramilitary training over several weekends in July 1989. The Muslim men in question — who at the time were not known to have ties to any established terrorist organizatoin but went on to carry out the aforementioned plots — piled into vans at a radical mosque in Brooklyn and traveled to a shooting range where they conducted shooting practice with a variety of weapons, including AK-47s. The FBI closed the investigation when the men discovered they were under surveillance and complained that they were being harrassed.
The shooting range they chose for the training was in Calverton, Long Island.
(Excerpt) Read more at corner.nationalreview.com ...
One of these days these “non-terrorists” (per the Gubmint) will actually kill us again.
Just members of the Weekend Predator Drone Flying Club!
“The testing of the drone was done in the dead of night on a little used airstrip in Calverton, Long Island... “
RIGHT!They are just out for a few beers and a little fun! Put them on a plane and send them back where they came from! Stop all new immigration from Middle Eastern countries. Find illegals and send them back, with no returns possible.
What the hell are we waiting for, another 911?
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911? What was that? I can’t seem to recall.
When there is an attack the “It was an isolated incident” and “there is no tie to terrorism” statements are always used. 9/11 was an isolated incident also but they sure as h*** were terrorists.
Calverton - interesting observation.
And I keep learning.
Thanks for the ping.
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