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Thursday, November 05, 2009 8:09:15 PM · 96 of 101
MestaMachine to bootless
By the time Atta and Shehhi returned to Virginia Beach from their travels in Georgia, Hazmi and Hanjour had also arrived in Virginia, in Falls Church. They made their way to a large mosque there, the Dar al Hijra mosque, sometime in early April.73
As we mentioned earlier, one of the imams at this mosque was the same Anwar Aulaqi with whom Hazmi had spent time at the Rabat mosque in San Diego. Aulaqi had moved to Virginia in January 2001. He remembers Hazmi from San Diego but has denied having any contact with Hazmi or Hanjour in Virginia.74
At the Dar al Hijra mosque, Hazmi and Hanjour met a Jordanian named Eyad al Rababah. Rababah says he had gone to the mosque to speak to the imam, Aulaqi, about finding work. At the conclusion of services, which normally had 400 to 500 attendees, Rababah says he happened to meet Hazmi and Hanjour. They were looking for an apartment; Rababah referred them to a friend who had one to rent. Hazmi and Hanjour moved into the apartment, which was in Alexandria.75
Dar Al Hijrah mosque linked to 9/11 hijackers - Imam is secretary general of Al Qaeda linked Muslim American Society
July 8, 2005
MIM: Dar Al Hijrah mosque was named as the most dangerous mosque in America by Paul Sperry in his book “Infiltration” and is located in what he calls DC’s ‘Wahhabi Corridor’.
Dar Al Hijrah has given aid and support to terrorists and is linked to the 9/11 hijackers. The congregation consists of many Muslims who are involved in politics major Muslim organisations and fundraising fronts in the Washington area.
The mosque is situated at the corner of Leesburg Pike (Route 7) and Row Street around which there are a number of apartment units and single family homes in which numerous Muslim families are living within close proximity to the mosque which is near Washington, D.C..
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2381074/posts?page=227#227
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Saturday, November 07, 2009 4:09:01 PM · 203 of 271
MestaMachine to ~Kim4VRWC’s~
Caught it. We were way ahead of them, Kim.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2379559/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2379559/posts?page=46#46
To: 444Flyer
He came from here, the wahhabi corridor:
By the time Atta and Shehhi returned to Virginia Beach from their travels in Georgia, Hazmi and Hanjour had also arrived in Virginia, in Falls Church. They made their way to a large mosque there, the Dar al Hijra mosque, sometime in early April.73
As we mentioned earlier, one of the imams at this mosque was the same Anwar Aulaqi with whom Hazmi had spent time at the Rabat mosque in San Diego. Aulaqi had moved to Virginia in January 2001. He remembers Hazmi from San Diego but has denied having any contact with Hazmi or Hanjour in Virginia.74
At the Dar al Hijra mosque, Hazmi and Hanjour met a Jordanian named Eyad al Rababah. Rababah says he had gone to the mosque to speak to the imam, Aulaqi, about finding work. At the conclusion of services, which normally had 400 to 500 attendees, Rababah says he happened to meet Hazmi and Hanjour. They were looking for an apartment; Rababah referred them to a friend who had one to rent. Hazmi and Hanjour moved into the apartment, which was in Alexandria.75
Dar Al Hijrah mosque linked to 9/11 hijackers - Imam is secretary general of Al Qaeda linked Muslim American Society
July 8, 2005
MIM: Dar Al Hijrah mosque was named as the most dangerous mosque in America by Paul Sperry in his book “Infiltration” and is located in what he calls DC’s ‘Wahhabi Corridor’.
Dar Al Hijrah has given aid and support to terrorists and is linked to the 9/11 hijackers. The congregation consists of many Muslims who are involved in politics major Muslim organisations and fundraising fronts in the Washington area. The founder of the Free Muslims Against Terrorism , Kamal Nawash, worshipped at Dar Al Hijrah and also solicited clients for his legal practice which was nearby.
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Wednesday, November 11, 2009 10:54:07 PM · 24 of 45
MestaMachine to Nachum; Jet Jaguar; AmericanInTokyo
Gilani
http://www.satp.org/satporgtp/countries/pakistan/terroristoutfits/jamaat-ul-fuqra.htm
Jamaat ul-Fuqra
Formation
Jamaat ul-Fuqra (JF) or “community of the impoverished”, a terrorist outfit operating in Pakistan and North America, was formed by a Pakistani cleric, Sheikh Mubarak Ali Gilani, in New York in 1980, on his first visit to the US. Mubarak Gilani’s intention in forming the outfit was to ‘purify’ Islam through violence.
Ideology, Leadership and Structure
The JF, in its early phase, sought to counter what is perceived as excessive Western influence on Islam. It also concluded that violence was a significant aspect in its quest to purify Islam. In its ideological moorings, the Fuqra regards as enemies of Islam all those who do not follow the tenets of Islam as laid out in the Koran, including those Muslims who they consider as heretics as well as non-Muslims. One of Gilani’s works published by the Quranic Open University in the US and seized in a 1991-investigation instructed his cadres that their foremost duty was to wage Jehad against the ‘oppressors of Muslims’. Members of the group are described as Islamist extremists with much hatred toward their ‘enemies’.
The JF is loosely structured with certain elements working openly through social service organisations to recruit members, raise money, organise activities and carry out propaganda. Individuals selected to live on JF premises agree to abide by the law and discipline of the Jamaat ul-Fuqra. Investigations by the Colorado Attorney General’s Office in the 1980s indicated that the JF was composed of approximately 30 different ‘Jamaats’ or communities, more or less mobile in nature. Most of these ‘Jamaats’ are reportedly existent even today along with what investigators discerned to be several covert paramilitary training compounds, one of which had been located in a mountainous area near Buena Vista, Colorado prior to the Colorado prosecutions in the mid-1990s.
Within 10 years of its formation, Fuqra’s communes in the US attracted many Muslim converts-including some of those recruited in prisons. The JF is said to comprise of some 1,000 to 3,000 members in the US. Secrecy is the hallmark of the outfit and cadres are reportedly well versed in the use of aliases. The Fuqra’s structure is well concealed behind front outfits and consists of a network of safe houses and cells. Furthermore, the JF founder as well as cadres consistently maintain that it does not exist. JF members occasionally travel abroad for ‘paramilitary and survivalist training’ under Gilani’s supervision.
Sheikh Mubarak Ali Gilani, who also calls himself the sixth Sultan Ul Faqr, is the chief of JF.
Jamaat ul-Fuqra is headquartered in Hancock, New York.
Areas of Activity and Influence
Although Gilani, the reclusive chief of Fuqra resides in Lahore, Pakistan, most JF cells are located in North America. Fuqra members have purchased isolated rural properties in North America to live as a community, practice their faith, and insulate themselves from Western culture. The group has set up and funded rural communes that the US authorities allege are linked to murder, bombings and other felonies throughout the US and Canada. Currently, there are half a dozen Fuqra residential compounds in rural hamlets across the US sheltering hundreds of cadres, some of who have reportedly trained in the use of weapons and explosives in Pakistan.
Muslims of the Americas, a tax-exempt group established in the US in 1980 by Gilani, operates communes of primarily black, American-born Muslims in many states in the US, including in Binghamton in New York, Badger in California, York in South Carolina and Red House in Virginia. JF is reportedly linked through court documents to the Muslims of Americas. There is also a road in the name of Sheikh Gilani in the vicinity of Virginia. The cult houses between 100 and 200 people, many of them women and children in about 20 huge trailers. There is also a Virginia newspaper, the Islamic Post, founded by Sheikh Gilani.
One of the nicest bosses I had lived in Oakland, CA. He's got to be seriously up in age now. IMHO gangs are an outrage in America. They are truly America's homegrown and illegal-alien terrorists (not that the corrupt media would or could see what's right in front of their eyes).
Shhhhhhh, the media might be alarmed that tea party supporters post here. They sure as hell would never print articles detailing what you've posted here - they just might offend people who want to kill Westerners. (shaking head and believing journalism is no longer taught or required for media writers / anchors).
I print articles from the internet and email and snail mail them to people who thank me for letting them know what is REALLY happening in the nation and the world. If they counted on the MSM, they'd never know what they need to know in today's world about what's going on and what potential kinds of danger are around them.
To my mind, there have been deals going down between illegals and the high and mighty for quite a long time. Don’t think for a second that some of these pols don’t have nice bank accounts for looking the other way.
Look what happened to Ramos and Campeon for trying to stop a DRUG SMUGGLER.
It isn’t all about hispanics as they love to claim.
What truly bothers me is that “illegals” are ALSO many, many muslims coming in over ALL of our borders, but hardly anyone ever mentions it except people like us.
Many of them come into South America and make their way north. They assume hispanic names and come right through with them. They can pay very well.
You would think even the Hispanics would want that to stop.
ping
I lived in Lancaster Pa. for a time...over the years the Latino/Mexican population grew rapidly until the city was divided between King Street,heart of the city....anything south of it was not a place to go. It indeed became the Mexico/of Lancaster. The police “contained” the gangs pretty much in that area with a few from time to time who went outside their area...but it was a divided community. Don’t know how it is now but that was about ten years ago.
Yep! .... I suspect all borders are going to get hotter as the immigration issues move up in Washington...mad rush to our borders....which is one of the reasons I liked what Arizona did. The illegals don't know what state might follow this next, and realize now it can be a state issue and not just BO throwing his weight around in Washington. That really was a gutsy move Arizona made. I shared with my friend in Cal. now more will be going into Cal. and Texas.
Thank you for timely info about BORDER SAFETY. I copied your post in Hayworth vs. McCain research thread:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2456305/posts?page=280#280
Will also link to your post from Monster Ping.
— FRegards ....
“Look what happened to Ramos and Campeon for trying to stop a DRUG SMUGGLER.”
That was largely due to the ACLU or some legal group if I remember correctly. They are part of a very evil coalition.
Not sure how much of this you want to read. I start naming off the categories of our enemies, thinking ‘out loud’.
The Master Plan, in my opinion, is to reduce the ‘surplus’ population. One faction of our enemies is largely misanthropic. They already have plenty of money and easy ways of increasing those profits. What they want now is more available real estate. We are a nuisance. Our prosperity is a hassle for them, and it makes us less submissive.
Another faction fanies itself as the merry men and women of Sherwood Forest. They want to steal from the rich, give to the poor, and merrily enjoy the entire process. These people are useful idiots for the grim misanthropes.
Then there are the nature worshipers and pagans, another group of useful idiots.
Lastly, there are the minority rights activists who are openly at war with “angry old white guys”.
I think the misanthropes are the ring leaders. They have access to old money and have gotten together in multi-generational group-think off-and-on since the faded glory of ancient Athens. Their useful idiots come and go.
So, now we have the Immigration Fight. That is a clear method for our Fifth Column [the Left], to bring enemies inside our weakened Freedom Fortress. Terrorists can slide in as well as criminals with invisible pasts.
Just how depressed is Bin Laden?
Bin Laden had ‘no clue’ about Sept. 11 retaliation
http://www.wtop.com/?sid=1943289&nid=778
“What happened after the 11th of September was beyond their imagination, “ says Benotman, who adds that al-Qaida thought the U.S. was a “paper tiger.
Sitting on the floor at bin Laden’s compound in Kandahar, Afghanistan during a meeting the summer before the attacks, Benotman shocked bin Laden and more than 200 other international jihadist leaders by telling the al-Qaida leader his jihadi strategy was “a total failure.” Benotman, a highly regarded associate of bin Laden’s at the time, says he surprised him again by rebuffing a plea for help. [snip] [And now bragging about it.]
TM leads the pack!
The businesses hiring foreign invaders should be made examples of!
Here we go! Just as you said Mesta...
Iran hardliner issues Strait of Hormuz warning to U.S.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/04/27/AR2010042701973.html
The Kenyan con-man won’t do anything, except bow and apologize.
Thank you Caww. Adding to Monster Ping. FRegards ....
MestaMachine hightlights Dar Al-Hijrah at the opening of this current TM thread here
For a fuller treatment of the infamous DAR AL-HIJRAH, see:
20 MINUTES FROM THE WHITE HOUSE, THE MOSQUE "DAR AL-HIJRAH’S JIHADIST CREDENTIALS ARE IMPECCABLE"
Groups Protest Dar Al-Hijrah Fundraiser held April 3, 2010
The original flier headlined that seven elected officials were “invited”:
* former Virginia Governor Tim Kaine, now Chair of the Democratic National Committee
* Rep. Jim Moran (D-VA)
* Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-VA)
* Sen. James Webb (D-VA)
* Fairfax Board of Supervisors Chairwoman Sharon Bulova
* Fairfax Supervisor Penny Gross
* Virginia State Delegate Kaye Kory
Saturday, April 03, 2010
COUNTER JIHAD VICTORY UPDATE:
Legislators Shun Jihad Dinner
"Look at their Federal Election Commission reports, these spineless politicians are owned and operated by the radical Islamists and their sinister front groups." James Lafferty
The first action SOIA (Stop Islamization of America) endorsed and supported was VAST's (Virginia Anti-Sharia Task Force) PROTEST AT 9/11 MOSQUE FUNDRAISING DINNER. I was thrilled to be able to work with the wonderful James Lafferty, chairman of VAST.
We denounced the appearances by Congressmen Gerry Connolly (D-Virginia) and James Moran (D-Virginia) and former Gov. Tim Kaine at a fundraising dinner for the controversial mosque Dar Al Hijrah.
Reps. Gerry Connolly, D-Va., and Jim Moran, D-Va., have "trashed their oath to protect and defend the U.S." by agreeing to attend the annual banquet for Dar al-Hijrah Islamic Center, a large mosque in Falls Church, Va., a suburb of Washington, according to the Virginia Anti-Shariah Task Force, or VAST.
VAST criticized Virginia Democrat Gov. Tim Kaine for agreeing to attend the event, while praising Democrat Sen. Jim Webb of Virginia for withdrawing from the event following complaints from concerned constituents. "While brave young Virginia men and women are risking their lives to fight terrorists in Iraq and Afghanistan, Connolly, Moran and Kaine are yucking it up with them and slapping each other on the back over at the Marriott," charged VAST Chairman James Lafferty.
The three politicians' campaign war chests are heavily funded by radical Islamists who support the mosque.
The good news is, with the exception of jihad tool Gerry Connolly, THEY DID NOT SHOW UP TO THE DINNER.
Poster Boy Representative (D) Gerry Connolly
Like that'll ever happen! Total disregard of the Rule of Law is what politicians in our nation stand for (or lay down in bed with lobbyists, activist groups and big business to get those little congressional or senatorial perks they so much love).
Over 70,000 cases of A/H1N1 flu confirmed in Mexico
The Mexican Health Ministry said on Monday that 71,393 cases of A/H1N1 influenza have been confirmed up to March 10, including 1,108 deaths.
Purdue closes drug manufacturer
The only company in North America that manufactures an antibiotic for drug-resistant tuberculosis will be closing its doors--and it's owned by the Purdue Research Foundation.
Leprosy on the rise (Sri Lanka)
Snips: In 2009 there were 1,875 new Leprosy patients reported from Sri Lanka and 48 percent of them were from the Western Province........
According to Dr. Liyanage, this is only the tip of an iceberg and the actual number of leprosy patients in Sri Lanka can be much higher. There are two types of leprosy. One of them is non infectious and the other infectious. The infectious type is on the increase in Sri Lanka at the moment.
Dr. Shantha Hettiarachchi said that pale, white or reddish skin patches, loss of sensation, skin nodules and lumps, painless wounds, inability in closing eyes are some of the symptoms of leprosy. If the number of patches on the skin is less than 5 it is non infectious type PB and if the number of patches is over 5 it is infectious type MB. Treatment plans depend on the type. Leprosy spreads through air born / droplet and the incubation period is 2 to 3 years.
Arizona's new immigration law - not all illegals are Mexicans
Snip: Case No. 09-1149, United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, decided February 4, 2010
Fifteen men in a van stopped by a state trooper. He felt he had probable cause to ask for identification. Some of the illegals admitted right there they were here here illegally and on their way to work at jobs that belong to the people of Rhode Island. The trooper calls ICE and the illegals rightfully get hauled off and jailed. Those criminals who could care less about our laws and stealing jobs from the people of Rhode Island. They sued to go after the deep pockets of state law enforcement, but the cost is borne by the taxpayers.
This case addressed racial profiling in detail. The lower court sided with the defendants. The illegals appealed and the First Circuit upheld the lower court's ruling. The illegals lost. I invite you to read the decision so you can urge your state lawmakers to get the same bill passed in your state - even if they have to call an emergency session. This is an emergency. The lawsuits to over turn Arizona's new law will be filed soon, make no mistake. This should not deter other state legislatures from doing as Arizona has: Stand up to these militant pro-illegal organizations and corrupt politicians who support illegal aliens.
What REALLY Happened in the Middle East
Jimmy Carter's War Against The Jews
Islamic Persecution of Christians
For those who really need to catch up.
Al-Fuqra
LEADER: Sheikh Mubarik Ali Jilani Hashemi
YEAR ESTABLISHED OR BECAME ACTIVE: 1980 (claimed by group)
ESTIMATED SIZE: 3,000 members
USUAL AREA OF OPERATION: Canada, United States, Pakistan, the Caribbean, Europe, and the Ivory Coast
OVERVIEW
Al-Fuqra (also called Jamaat ul-Faqra), a Pakistani-based Muslim extremist sect, was formed by Sheikh Mubarik Ali Jilani Hashemi (commonly called Sheikh Jilani). The group, which terrorizes primarily with murders and fire-bombings, operates in Canada and the United States, but also is present in Pakistan, the Caribbean, Europe, and the Ivory Coast. The name al-Fuqra is derived from Arabic for al-fuqara, meaning “the impoverished.”
According to a Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) report, as stated in the article “Al-Fuqra,” by the National Memorial Institute for the Prevention of Terrorism (MIPT) Terrorism Knowledge Base, the group is actively pursuing its enemies, which include the governments of the United States, Canada, and Israel, along with the Hindus, Hare Krishnas, Jewish Defense League, and Nation of Islam. U.S. law enforcement officials are relatively certain that al-Fuqra headquarters is located in Hancock, New York.
HISTORY
During a first visit to the United States, Sheikh Jilani, a radical Pakistani cleric, found enthusiastic supporters for his new group inside an African-American mosque when he preached about the better life offered through Islam. The sect was subsequently formed in Brooklyn, New York, in 1980 by Sheikh Jilani, who asserts he is a direct descendant of the Prophet Muhammad.
Sheikh Jilani formed Al-Fuqra in order to purify the Islamic religion—primarily through violence—after perceiving it to be contaminated due to western culture. After his recruiting drive, which involved many recruits from intercity areas and prisons, Sheikh Jilani initiated most followers into the international Islamist movement, specifically to fight in the holy war against the Soviet Union’s occupation of Afghanistan.
According to the 1993 article “Al-Fuqra: Holy Warriors of Terrorism.” by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (ATF) have linked sect members, from 1980–1993, to 16 criminal and terrorist activities in the United States and Canada. During this time, Al-Fuqra, unlike many terrorist groups, did not publicly claim responsibility for its violent acts.
The earliest verified attack by Al-Fuqra members, according to the earlier reported ADL article, occurred in 1979 when attacks were made on a Hare Krishna temple in San Diego, California, an Islamic Cultural Center in Tempe, Arizona, and a Shi’ite Iranian mosque in Queens, New York.
However, its existence was first formally verified by the ATF in 1983 when Al-Fuqra began a series of attacks that it called its Jihad Council for North America. The primary verification occurred at the arrest (and later conviction) of Stephen Paster, a leading Al-Fuqra member. Law enforcement officials found materials inside Paster’s home to build pipe bombs. A later raid found handguns, semi-automatic pistols, and plans for electronic bombing mechanisms.
By the early 1990s, ample evidence had been collected by several state and federal U.S. law enforcement agencies, but primarily by the ATF, that Al-Fuqra had developed from a loosely based organization that bombed with crude explosives to a sophisticated network of organized cells whose members committed acts of fraud, violence, and murder using technologically advanced devices.
KEY EVENTS
1979:
First verified attack occurred that was committed by Al-Fuqra members.
1980:
Al-Fuqra was founded by Sheikh Mubarak Ali Jilani Hashemi in Brooklyn, New York.
1983:
The group’s existence was verified by U.S. law enforcement officials.
1984:
Firebombing attacks occurred at Hare Krishna temples in Denver and Philadelphia and at Hindu and Sikh religious institutions in Seattle.
1985:
Attack occurred on a Laotian temple in Rockford, Illinois.
1988:
The sect killed a doctor in Augusta, Georgia.
1990:
Al-Fuqra members murdered Rashad Khalifa, leader of the Islamic Center in Tucson, Arizona.
1993:
Al-Fuqra comes under intense investigation for planning the bombing of the World Trade Center.
2001:
Al-Fuqra is linked to Richard Reid (the Shoe Bomber).
2002:
Al-Fuqra is linked to the kidnapping of reporter Daniel Pearl.
The group came under additional investigation when it was accused in U.S. Congressional testimony, as reported in the 2001 article “Jamaat ul-Fuqra” by the South Asia Terrorism Portal, of planning the February 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center in New York City. One Al-Fuqra member, Clement Rodney Hampton-el, was convicted of the crime. The group was also implicated in the abduction of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl (after Pearl attempted to meet with Sheikh Khalifa in Karachi, Pakistan, in January 2002) and linked with Richard Reid (the “Shoe Bomber,” who was convicted of using explosives in the attempted destruction of a Paris-to-Miami aircraft in December 2001).
PHILOSOPHY AND TACTICS
Al-Fuqra members refer to themselves as “Soldiers of Allah,” although earlier they called themselves “Muhammad Commandos.” Its ideology is based on the belief that all peoples (both Muslims and non-Muslims) are enemies if they do not follow Islam as dictated by the Koran. A paper written by Sheikh Jilani (found during a 1991 raid by the Colorado Attorney General’s Office) instructed Al-Fuqra members to engage in Jihad (holy war) against Muslim persecutors.
Its philosophy requires violence against any person, organization, and country with whom it disagrees. For example, during the 1980s, the sect participated in the Afghan war against the Soviet Union. In the 1990s and 2000s, Al-Fuqra members concentrated on terrorism against the United States, which included attacks against Jewish leaders, Hindu religious buildings, and U.S. and Canadian businesses. Its Pakistani activities were centered near the border of the Kashmir province of India where it aided Muslim separatists.
The sect is organized into cells; each is assigned a geographic location. Because U.S. and Canadian criminal activities of Al-Fuqra are especially strong in certain areas, it is conjectured, according to analysts at the MIPT Terrorism Knowledge Base, that these cells are centered around Brooklyn (New York), Baltimore (Maryland), Philadelphia (Pennsylvania), Tucson (Arizona), Portland (Oregon), Colorado (specifically in Denver and Colorado Springs), and Toronto (Canada).
PRIMARY SOURCE
Specter of Terror; Clinton Administration Has No Plans to Arrest Sheik Now
With the help of a confidential informer operating inside a suspected bombing ring, Federal agents recorded many private conversations of Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman, the fiery Egyptian cleric who has been blamed for inspiring terrorism in Egypt and the United States. But after reviewing those recordings the Clinton Administration does not plan for now to arrest Mr. Abdel Rahman, law-enforcement officials said yesterday.
The decision comes as law-enforcement and Administration officials debate how to proceed with Mr. Abdel Rahman. Senior officials in New York and Washington said the tapes did not reveal enough information to justify an arrest. But others said enough evidence could have been marshaled, but there was a desire to allow Mr. Abdel Rahman to remain free because the Government gains important intelligence about Muslim radicals by watching the people attracted to him as he works from his mosque in Jersey City.
Federal officials continued to gather evidence yesterday, raiding a large, wooded compound with a shooting range in Perry County, Pa., about 35 miles west of Harrisburg, where some of the suspects used the target range and practiced military tactics. The Sunday Patriot-News of Harrisburg said eight F.B.I and United States Navy cars pulled into the compound shortly after noon. A team of Navy divers spent about five hours scouring a small pond, the paper said. F.B.I. officials would not say what they were looking for or whether they found anything.
The owner of the compound, Kelvin Smith, who said he worked for the United State Department of the Interior, told The Patriot-News he had cooperated fully with the agents. He said he did not know any of the suspects.
A decision to hold off action on Mr. Abdel Rahman for now was endorsed by Attorney General Janet Reno, officials said.
The informant who helped break up a major bomb plot last week was a close aide to Mr. Abdel Rahman and worked as a translator and bodyguard for him. It is unclear whether he got the tapes through a hidden body recorder or on the telephone, or whether certain locations were set up for audio surveillance. Six of the eight men arrested on Thursday in a plot to bomb the United Nations, the Federal Building and two tunnels were followers of Mr. Abdel Rahman. The man described by law-enforcement officials as the ring leader of the bomb plot also worked as a translator for Mr. Abdel Rahman.
New details, meanwhile, continued to emerge about the eight arrested suspects and at least three confederates known to investigators and about the enigmatic informer working for the Federal Bureau of Investigation who was credited with exposing the plot. Ties to Radical Group.
One suspect, Clement Rodney Hampton-El, was described by New York City police detectives as having worked closely with a radical Black Muslim group called al-Fuqra. The detectives said Mr. Hampton-El is viewed as a religious leader among Black Muslims in Brooklyn and gave his blessing to violent crimes, from bank robberies to murders.
Investigators said that they were aware of at least three other men who took part in the plot to varying degrees but that the men were not being sought or arrested at this time. The question of whether to charge the Egyptian cleric in the wake of last week’s foiled plot has been hotly debated in meetings of law-enforcement officials in New York and Washington, officials said.
Mr. Abdel Rahman is wanted in Egypt for inciting a riot that left hundreds dead in Cairo four years ago. But Egyptian Government officials have made it clear that they do not really want the political trouble that would be touched off among his followers by extraditing Mr. Abdel Rahman back to Cairo. It is not known how the Egyptian Government would view a decision by the United States to arrest Mr. Abdel Rahman and to try him for crimes here.
Ralph Blumenthal
Source: New York Times, 1993
Various Al-Fuqra compounds are located in remote U.S. and Canadian locations. Seven such compounds, according to law enforcement authorities, are located in the Catskill Mountains of New York, Combermere (Canada), Commerce (Georgia), Dover (Tennessee), north-central South Carolina, western Virginia, and Tulare County (California). The compounds isolate members from western society so members dedicate their lives to the Islamic faith and the Al-Fuqra political agenda. U.S. government officials contend that al-Fuqra also maintains a presence in other U.S. states.
In order to preserve the organization’s structural core, different cell members never contact each other directly. Contact is usually made through telephone calls at prearranged times. The use of safe houses, figurehead organizations (such as Muslims of the Americas, Quranic Open University, and Professional Security International), aliases, and other cover-up techniques are regularly used. Sheikh Jilani and other members regularly deny the existence of the organization.
OTHER PERSPECTIVES
Muslims generally describe Al-Fuqra as an organization that performs helpful Islamic activities such as countering drug dealers, cleaning the community, and performing neighborhood watch patrols.
Supporters of Al-Fuqra declare that Sheikh Jilani has regularly told his followers that a Jewish plot to control the world is being formulated and in order to survive they must leave large cities and move into remote areas. These followers are simply following their leader’s advice. In a similar line of thinking, members of Muslims of the Americas, when presented with accusations that Al-Fuqra is a terrorist organization, counter with statements that declare these accusations are only Jewish propaganda to unjustly target Muslims. Guns found by police in the possession of Al-Fuqra members are said to be used only for defensive protection against enemies.
On the other hand, Al-Fuqra members have frequently been convicted of U.S. and Canadian crimes, including conspiracy to commit murder, fire-bombing, racketeering, forgery, smuggling, and fraud. It has been reported that members are currently suspects in over 10 unsolved assassinations and over a dozen fire-bombings in the United States between 1979 and 1990.
U.S. law enforcement officials have collected evidence over the years showing that members of Al-Fuqra use dangerous equipment and materials. For example, during a police raid in Colorado Springs, as reported by the South Asia Terrorism Portal, 30 pounds of explosives (pipe bombs and components), armaments (handguns and semi-automatic firearms), military manuals, bomb-making instructions, plans of proposed targets (oil and gas installations and electric facilities), and Al-Fuqra publications (”Guerrilla Warfare”) were found inside property owned by Al-Fuqra members.
Many newspapers in states where Al-Fuqra own compounds have reported on illegal activities by Al-Fuqra members. Among them, The Rocky Mountain News in Denver reported in 2002 that Sheikh Jilani was linked to the kidnapping of journalist Daniel Pearl, along with a wide range of illegal activities throughout Colorado.
In Virginia, ATF officials found that members of Muslims of the Americas were illegally buying guns for Al-Fuqua. Later, ATF agent Tom Gallagher described on July 1, 2002 in the article “Militant Muslims Seek Virginia Base” in The Washington Times that al-Fuqra is a “violent, black Muslim extremist sect that acts out jihads against perceived enemies.”
Susan Fenger, a former chief criminal investigator, said within the article “Muslim Terrorists Convicted on Firearms Charges in the U.S.” from the The Roanoke Times on December 1, 2001, that the group shows a peaceful side to the public but, in reality, it is set up to defraud various U.S. government agencies.
SUMMARY
In the early 2000s, U.S. intelligence experts reported that al-Fuqra was found to be a splinter group of Jaish-e-Mohammed (Army of Mohammed), an Islamic extremist group based in Pakistan, along with having direct contact to Al-Qaeda, an international network of Islamist organizations headed by Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri.
At this time, Al-Fuqra was thought by these experts to possess about 3,000 members, many militarily trained in Pakistan and living in rural compounds in 19 U.S. states, the Caribbean, and Europe. Within the United States, Al-Fuqra members are suspected of at least 13 fire bombings and 17 murders, as well as various cases of theft and fraud.
Sheikh Jilani left the United States for Lahore, Pakistan, after the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. As of 2004, Sheikh Jilani, who remains the Al-Fuqra leader, continues under investigation by the U.S. government for his alleged links to Al-Qaeda, ties to Pakistan’s Interservice Intelligence Agency, and laundering of money between the United States and Pakistan.
SOURCES
Periodicals
Brennan, Charlie. “Al-Fuqra Tied To Colorado Crimes: Leader Owned Land In Buena Vista; Followers Convicted In Bombing Of Krishna Temple.” The Rocky Mountain News. February 12, 2002.
McCaffery, Jen. “Muslim Terrorists Convicted on Firearms Charges in the U.S.” The Roanoke Times. December 1, 2001.
Sale, Richard. “Pakistan ISI Link to Pearl Kidnap Probed.” United Press International. January 29, 2002.
Seper, Jerry, and Steve Miller. “Militant Muslims Seek Virginia Base.” The Washington Times. July 1, 2002.
Thomas, Jo, and Ralph Blumenthal. “Rural Muslims Draw New, Unwanted Attention.” The New York Times. January 3, 2002.
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