Posted on 10/27/2010 3:40:38 PM PDT by HonestConservative
Federal agents arrested a man Wednesday for plotting to bomb the Washington, D.C., subway system, the Justice Department announced. It was the second arrest in as many days involving Americans hoping to wage violence for al-Qaida or the Taliban, and federal law enforcement officials believe it is part of a wider attempt to launch terrorist attacks.
Farooque Ahmed, 34, of Ashburn, Va., was indicted Wednesday for attempting to provide material support to a terrorist organization, collecting information to assist in planning a terrorist attack on a transit facility, and attempting to provide material support to help carry out multiple bombings in the D.C. Metro subway system.
Ahmed's arrest follows that of Abdel Hameed Shehadeh, arrested Tuesday in Hawaii for lying about a failed attempt to go to Pakistan and join the Taliban. Shehadeh said he was planning to travel to Pakistan to wage jihad, but after that plan failed he tried to join the U.S. Army. According to the indictment, Shehadeh said that in the Army he "would be provided with training, transportation and a weapon" that would help him attack Americans.
Ahmed and Shehadeh are considered to be part of a wider plan by U.S. citizens or residents hoping to serve elements of the Taliban and al-Qaida to conduct terrorist attacks throughout the country, a federal law enforcement official told IPT News.
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Another Amish guy in trouble. /s
Yep. Nothing to worry about here. /s
Will they try to find out how many moooooooderate muslim collaborators he has or would that be a too embarrassing and politically incorrect question to ask?
Will they try to find out how many moooooooderate muslim collaborators he has or would that be a too embarrassing and politically incorrect question to ask?
No, the Feds are looking for the Swedes in Al Queda. /s
You know...after a while...you’d like to require Homeland Security to administer an intelligence test to each of these guys they capture. I suspect the IQ level never goes above 80. They all act like guys who hang around Buddy’s Bait & Tackle Shop, cut firewood for a living, and watch watch a Muslim version of Hee Haw all day.
There. Fixed it.
Who is surprised by this, except the libs?
How odd, that all those wannabe terror/mayhem bombers have Arabic names!!
Back in September, got to meet a nice gal who was a retired federal marshall. She was very young - said she was burned out - couldn’t sleep at night and so on. Anyway, she said if we knew even 1/10th of what she did, we would never close our eyes.
I believe her.
Must be a string of typos.
It’s true.
On the flip side, Americans would systematically wipe them out immediately.
I believe her as well.
Most people don’t know that the Obama administration has given the PLO diplomatic status in DC.
Quant, no?
Especially since they are surely all Amish, funny thing that.
Any photos of the perps?
Farooque Ahmed, 34, of Ashburn, Va., was indicted Wednesday for attempting to provide material support to a terrorist organization, collecting information to assist in planning a terrorist attack on a transit facility, and attempting to provide material support to help carry out multiple bombings... follows that of Abdel Hameed Shehadeh, arrested Tuesday in Hawaii for lying about a failed attempt to go to Pakistan and join the Taliban. Shehadeh said he was planning to travel to Pakistan to wage jihad, but after that plan failed he tried to join the U.S. Army. According to the indictment, Shehadeh said that in the Army he "would be provided with training, transportation and a weapon" that would help him attack Americans.
I’m sure that would be racist hate-mongering and would create an intolerant atmosphere of irrational fear.
Are they Amish?
Well I also mentioned the conversation I had with this retired Fed to a very liberal acquaintance of mine - old chum from high school who I’ve reconnected with via facebook - and he said all of these so-called “threats” are nothing more than theater so scare us.
Right. I just sent him the link for this story and said, “Here’s some more theater for ya.”
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