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Full Title (didn't fit in thread title): NEWSWEEK: Al Qaeda Chief Khalid Shaikh Mohammed Wanted American Terror Suspect Gadahn to Join Plot to Blow Up Fuel Stations Near Baltimore Captured Chief Says the Islam Convert Not Eager to Participate in 'Martydom' Operations, But Was Willing to Help NEW YORK, May 30 /PRNewswire/ -- Captured Al Qaeda chief Khalid Shaikh Mohammed -- "KSM" to his interrogators -- wanted American-born terror suspect Adam Yahiye Gadahn to join a plot to blow up fuel stations outside Baltimore, according to a May 2003 classified FBI document obtained by Newsweek. Gadahn, one of the seven...

<p>TAKOMA PARK, Md. — On the northeast border of the District of Columbia lies a little town that time forgot, except for when it finds itself in the headlines for a brand of activism reminiscent of the 1970s.</p> <p>Takoma Park (search) is an eclectic community of 17,000 that is known to long-time residents as the "People's Republic of Takoma Park."</p>

On September 11th, 2002, suspected Sniper John Allen Muhammad walked into the Camden, New Jersey State Motor Vehicles office, to register the now-notorious "blue Caprice" he'd just purchased. Though the car had not yet converted been into a rolling sniper's nest, what happened in the next several minutes leaves little doubt that Muhammad had something sinister in mind. The registration transaction began at 8:52 am. At 8:58 am., while Muhammad was still standing at the counter, someone (now believed to be fellow suspect, Lee Malvo) phoned a bomb threat at the Motor Vehicles office on the 1st Anniversary of what...

A Junior al-Qaeda . . .: . . . right here at home There are a lot of Baptist churches along rural Virginia's Route 615, just south of Appomattox-"where America reunited," as the county welcome sign puts it-but there's only one Sheikh Gilani Lane. A gate and a guardhouse prevent the public from driving very far down it. What lies beyond, however, isn't a closed-off community of rich retirees. Instead, it's a trailer-park compound of black Muslims, or "The Muslims of America," according to a green billboard by the entrance, where an armed guard keeps a wary eye on the ...

 DefenseWatch  "The Voice of the Grunt"  Special Report: Protect Home Base First  ARTICLE 02 October 30, 2002Examine Gunman's Possible Ties to al FurqaBy Christian M. WeberIn the Middle East today, we see a young generation of Muslims being trained to hate Israel and the West while cherishing the thought of martyrdom. It is easy to see the brutal path that has been chosen for these children. However, for those not schooled in this path of destruction, the road to terrorism usually takes on one of two forms.The first form includes Islamic extremists, such as Osama Bin Laden, who rose...

Federal authorities are investigating whether accused snipers John Allen Muhammad and John Lee Malvo had ties to a growing sect of militant American Muslims committed to waging holy war against the United States. Law-enforcement authorities yesterday said investigators want to know whether the suspects — now awaiting separate murder trials in Virginia — were involved with Jamaat al-Fuqra, a militant Muslim group with documented ties to international terrorism that has been linked to 13 slayings and 17 firebombings in the United States and Canada. The al-Fuqra network, through an offshoot group known as the Muslims of America, has established a...

Sniper suspect John Muhammad fits the profile of a disaffected outcast who becomes increasingly radicalized under the influence of Islamism, say terrorism analysts and investigators, who suspect he is connected with the radical Islamist group, al-Fuqra. According to Christian M. Weber, contributing editor for Soldiers for the Truth, an organization headed by Col. David Hackworth, Muhammad seems to follow the model of John Walker Lindh, Richard Reid and Jose Padilla, men exposed to Islamism who become disenchanted with the movement's pace and progress and who take the road to jihad. "As one traces John Muhammad's life from his conversion to...

Al-Qaida's operational approaches Posted: October 4, 2003 1:00 a.m. Eastern By Tom Marzullo © 2003 WorldNetDaily.com Have you ever wondered how the dispersed terrorist groups manage to operate so discretely and persistently in the West? In considering the unconventional nature of al-Qaida and the other groups aligned against us, it can be immediately noted that the larger, more spectacular attacks are few and far between. What follows is an analysis and discussion of only one of the methodologies used to create major attacks that will be mounted against the United States. If you read one of the recent revelations that...

He sits, fidgeting impatiently at the agonizing crawl of the primitive modem, the glare of his mother's computer burnishing his cheeks. He's too small for the chair he swivels in, and is thin and awkward after the classic model of the thin and awkward fourteen-year-old boy. He is mostly, but not completely, friendless, and will transfer to a new school in the fall, where a classmate will later remember him as "invisible." His parents have begun to clash more intensely than ever, casting a weary pall over the household. Obsessed with hip-hop, he feels spectacularly out of place amid the...

<p>July 4, 2003 -- LOS ANGELES - A bigoted church arsonist beat up American Taliban John Walker Lindh inside a prison chapel, federal authorities said yesterday.</p> <p>Robert Dale Morrison, 29, repeatedly slugged Lindh on March 3 inside the chapel of the federal lockup in Victorville, Calif., said Assistant U.S. Attorney Robert Stacy.</p>

Federal prisoner charged with assaulting John Walker Lindh Thursday July 03, 2003 LOS ANGELES (AP) An inmate was charged with attacking ``American Taliban'' John Walker Lindh at a federal prison, prosecutors said Thursday. Richard Dale Morrison, 29, was charged Wednesday with a misdemeanor count of assault for allegedly striking Lindh on March 3 at the Federal Correctional Institute in Victorville, according to Cindy Lozano of the U.S. attorney's office. Lindh's lawyer has said his client was tackled by an inmate who hit him while screaming obscenities before running off. Lindh suffered a bruised forehead. Morrison could receive up to...

<p>LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - An inmate has been charged with attacking so-called American Taliban John Walker Lindh in an incident at the federal prison in California where Lindh is serving a 20-year sentence for his involvement with militant Islamic fighters in Afghanistan.</p>

<p>VICTORVILLE, Calif. (AP) -- John Walker Lindh, who is serving a 20-year sentence for helping the Taliban, may have been attacked by one or more white supremacists at a federal prison in this desert community northeast of Los Angeles, it was reported Thursday.</p>

<p>WASHINGTON — The kidnappings and killings by Yasser Arafat's thugs at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich was, for many, the first encounter with terrorism. Since then, it has become a fact of life with countless news items about the hijacking of aircraft and cruise ships, taking and executing hostages, arson, shooting and bombing at will — all over the world.</p>

In the post 9/11 world, words are read and heard with a different eye and ear. So when singer/songwriter Steve Earle performed "John Walker's Blues," (as in John Walker Lindh, the so-called American Taliban who was arrested in Afghanistan and admitted he served with the Taliban), there were more than few raised eyebrows: "If my daddy could see me now - chains around my feet He don't understand that sometimes a man Has got to fight for what he believes And I believe God is great, all praise due to him And if I should die, I'll rise up to...

RELIGION OF PEACE WATCH – by Don Feder http://www.donfeder.com/news.ivnu (October 28, 2002) Three incidents last week highlight the peaceable nature of Islam and provide further evidence of just how fortunate we are to have millions of adherents of this enlightened faith living among us. Incident #1 - In Paris, novelist Michel Houellebecq was acquitted by a French court of inciting racial hatred against Moslems when he declared in an interview last year that Islam was "the most stupid religion." In most of Europe, political correctness has reached a fevered pitch -- You can be criminally prosecuted for saying something that...

SEPTEMBER 2002 Kirk Lies about Radical Anti-Israel Activist's Role in Campaign By Phil Magness Campaign ethics reports show that U.S. Senate candidate Ron Kirk employed a controversial anti-Israel activist named Steven L. Hyland on his campaign through mid-June. But Kirk, who avoided the question until a late September meeting in Houston, now suggests that Hyland, a friend of John Walker Lindh, was merely a 19 or 21 year-old campaign volunteer who put together a few yard signs. In fact, Hyland was a paid campaign aide who received nearly $7,000 in salary over a three month period from the Kirk...

<p>ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) -- John Walker Lindh told military and FBI questioners he believed the September 11 attacks were the first of three waves of terrorist strikes against the United States, according to secret documents obtained by CNN.</p> <p>Walker Lindh, the first American taken prisoner in Afghanistan as a Taliban fighter -- and scheduled to be sentenced Friday -- also said he turned down an offer to take part in suicide attacks against the United States, and that he believed as many as 50 operatives had been sent on missions against the United States and Israel.</p>

"You should be shot with the same gun used to shoot your son." The threatening, angry voice of the anonymous caller told John’s mother, besmearing her “Great parenting job” Reported Time, magazine 9/29) This coming Friday, John Walker Lihdh, the American Taliban, will be sentenced for treason against his own country. But did he act alone or are there accomplices? John Walker is singled out as a traitor, the man who shook hands with Osama bin Laden and conspired to kill his own countrymen. Yet John Walker is innocent. The culprit is the society that is now condemning him and...

On 1997's El Corazón, Steve Earle wished for the return of Woody Guthrie to a world sorely lacking voices of righteous dissent. Here, Earle stops pining for ghosts and gruffly makes his own claim to the agit-folk crown. The controversial "John Walker's Blues" drew attention to the album and the ire of many who misunderstood it, but it's only one of many topical tunes on a disc that issues a kind of call to arms: over the distorted guitars and garbage-pail drums of "Amerika v. 6.0" and in the spare and creepy satire "Conspiracy Theory," Earle rallies listeners to resist...