Terrorist attacks reported as "isolated incidents"

Lately there has been a trend in the "mainstream" news media to cover up acts of terrorism, calling them "isolated incidents".  Some examples of this are shown below, but I'm sure there have been other similar cases.  It's not difficult to connect the dots when dots are so plentiful.

One of the most obvious cases of the government dimissing a terrorist attack as an "isolated incident" was the first one after September 11, 2001 — the crash of American 587, in New York City, just two months after the 9/11 attack.  The plane was still smoldering on the ground when government officials began making extraordinary pronouncements that there was "no connection to terrorism" and it was just an "unfortunate accident."  I could go on at length about this case... and I did, on this page.

More examples of suppressed news stories can be found here and here.

More examples of pro-Islam bias in the media can be found here.

An example of an incident being hushed up and thrown down the memory hole is the case of Northwest Flight 327.



Law enforcement's premature dismissal of terrorism as a motivating factor is puzzling — and harmful.
Inverse False Alarms.  The FBI's national spokesman was already prepared to dismiss a connection to terrorism the day after ricin was found in a Las Vegas hotel room. … It is, of course, too early to declare that the Las Vegas incident was connected to terrorism.  But law enforcement's announcement to the contrary was almost certainly premature — and is part of a larger pattern of officials dismissing acts of violence as unrelated to terrorism long before they are in a position to know.

Media fantasy land.  This compelling drama has drawn scant attention from the mainstream media.  And while apologists might attempt to write off the paucity of coverage for various reasons, a slew of other terrorism cases since September 11 have been met with the same media disinterest.  Following the arrests of Mr. Mohamed and Mr. Megahed on Aug. 4 with explosives in the trunk of their car — just seven miles from a naval weapons base in Goose Creek, S.C. — The Washington Post and New York Times made fleeting references.  Each paper ran the brief overviews from the Associated Press, with no independent reporting.

The Myth Of The Lone Gunman.  Since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, the claim has often been made that no further acts of terrorism have occurred on U.S. soil.  But anyone following the news closely knows better.  While there has not yet been another large-scale attack, a number of terrorist plots have been broken up and a variety of suspicious crimes and incidents have occurred across the nation.  But each time, authorities seem to have made every effort to downplay the terrorism angle.

The Editor says...
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Authorities Charge 4 in NYC Terror Plot.  Four Muslim men were foiled from carrying out a plot to destroy John F. Kennedy International Airport, kill thousands of people and trigger an economic catastrophe by blowing up a jet fuel artery that runs through populous residential neighborhoods, authorities said Saturday.
Abdul Kadir, Kareem Ibrahim, Isha Kadir, Abdel Nur, Russell Defreitas.
Amateurs – Not:  All Terror Plots are Serious.  Foiled terror plots often will seem ridiculous and unlikely, especially when they are pre-empted. … If the 9/11 plot had been disrupted at its very inception — with jihadis playing flight-simulator games in Afghanistan — it would have seemed laughable.  This is why even foiled plots deserve to be taken seriously.

Worthington man agrees to plead guilty to terrorism charge.  A Worthington man accused of plotting to help al-Qaida has agreed to plead guilty to working with terrorists — a charge that could put him in prison for life.  According to documents filed shortly after noon in U.S. District Court in Columbus, Christopher Paul has agreed to plead guilty to a charge of conspiracy to use weapons of mass destruction.  Details of the plea agreement were not available.

Bedier Reaches New Low on USF Plea.  On June 13th, Egyptian national and former University of South Florida graduate student Ahmed Mohamed agreed to plead guilty to terrorism charges and is facing a maximum of 15 years in prison.  Mohamed, along with fellow student Youssef Megahed, was stopped by police in South Carolina last August.  Police found in their possession explosives and a laptop which hosted an instructional video for terrorists.

Army translator sentenced to 10 years.  A U.S. Army translator has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for unauthorized possession of classified defense documents, the Justice Department said Monday [5/19/2008]. … The defendant — who goes by various names including Abdulhakeem Nour, Abu Hakim, Noureddine Malki, Almaliki Nour and Almalik Nour Eddin — pleaded guilty in February 2007 to unauthorized possession of classified documents.  He pleaded guilty to false identity in December 2005.

The Terror Nobody Knows:  Thwarted Attacks on the U.S..  In July 2005, the Los Angeles Police Department caught a group of men who had been robbing gas stations in the area.  While investigating, police uncovered something far worse:  The gas station hits were bankrolling a terrorist plot to attack National Guard facilities, synagogues, the Israeli consulate and Los Angeles International Airport.

List of Thwarted Terror Attacks Since Sept. 11.

Airline Passenger Arrested with Pipe Bomb Components.  Who is Kevin Brown and what was he doing with what appears to be a pipe bomb in the making at Orlando International Airport yesterday [4/1/2008]?

Passenger Arrested with Box Cutter in Hollow Book.  21-year old Benjamin Baines, Jr. was arrested on Sunday at Tampa International Airport after a TSA screener found a box cutter in a hollowed-out book in his backpack. … According to a report from the TSA, the books in Baines' backpack included "Muhammad in the Bible," "The Prophet's Prayer" and "The Noble Qur'an."

Student truck driver faces deportation.  Federal terrorism officials and Rhode Island authorities converged this week to arrest an Indian citizen enrolled in a Smithfield tractor-trailer training school who was trying to obtain a commercial driver's license and permit to haul hazardous materials.  The man, Mohammed Yusef Mullawala, of Jamaica, N.Y., is being held in federal custody for overstaying his student visa.  State police Maj. Steven O'Donnell said that after two days of truck-driving classes, Mullawala's behavior was suspicious enough to prompt school officials to contact the Department of Homeland Security late last month.  "His behavior was consistent with terrorist-type activity," O'Donnell said.  "He showed no interest in learning the fine art of driving a tractor-trailer.  He had no interest in learning how to back up."

Sailor Started E-Mail on Terror, U.S. Says.  When Hassan Abujihaad was a sailor on a United States Navy destroyer in 2001, federal prosecutors said, he began exchanging e-mail messages with a man who ran an Internet site seeking to raise money for terrorist causes. … Now, Mr. Abujihaad, 31, of Phoenix is accused of supporting terrorism with the intent to kill American citizens and with transmitting classified information to unauthorized recipients.

Why's a Nice Guy Like You Doing a Terrorist Act Like This?  According to former Detroit Public Schools Superintendent Eddie Green, Kifah Jayyousi is "a great guy, one of the nicest people I've ever met." … Jayyousi is now charged, according to the Detroit Free Press, with "conspiring to kidnap, maim and murder by providing money, recruits and equipment for Islamic struggles in Bosnia, Kosovo and Chechnya from 1993 to 2001."  He could get life in prison.

If Scare = Terrorism, then...
Man involved in airport scare faces deportation.  An Iraqi immigrant faces deportation after triggering a security scare at Los Angeles International Airport when authorities found a suspicious device lodged in his body, officials said.  Fadhel Al-Maliki, 35, of Atlantic City, N.J., prompted the alert March 6 during a screening for a flight to Philadelphia when he tried to go through security with two objects in his rectum.

U.K. Man Faces Terror Charges In Connecticut.  The indictment claims he helped run web sites that raised money for terrorists. … Syed Talha Ahsan, 26, was arrested at his home in London on a federal indictment in Connecticut charging him with conspiracy to support terrorists and conspiracy to kill or injure people abroad.

Not an attack, but definitely an incident related to terrorism and perhaps even treason.
Florida Doctor Convicted in Terror Case.  A Florida doctor was convicted Monday [5/21/2007] of providing material support to terrorists by agreeing to treat injured al-Qaida fighters so they could return to Iraq to battle Americans.

Police:  Man Charged in ATM Killings.  A convicted bank robber charged with killing two armored car guards spotted the vehicle on the road and followed it to the ATM machine, a homicide detective said Saturday.  Mustafa Ali, 36, of Philadelphia, then shot the two retired Philadelphia police officers as they serviced the cash machine, police said.

Ex-Convicts Plead Guilty in Plotting Attacks on Military Sites.  Two men accused of plotting behind prison walls to launch attacks on military sites, synagogues and other targets in 2005 pleaded guilty Friday [12/14/2007] to conspiring to wage war against the United States.  Kevin James, 31, and Levar Haley Washington, 28, both pleaded guilty to seditious conspiracy charges.  Authorities say James, Washington and two others were part of a California prison gang cell of radical Muslims planning attacks in the Los Angeles area.

Third Guilty Plea in Calif. Terror Case.  A third man accused of plotting to attack Southern California military sites and other targets pleaded guilty Monday [12/17/2007] to a terrorism conspiracy charge in federal court.  Gregory Vernon Patterson, 23, entered his plea in U.S. District Court in Santa Ana to one count of conspiring to levy war against the U.S. government through terrorism.

Cache Of Weapons Found In Dallas Apartment.  Federal sources tell CBS 11 News that law enforcement officers have confiscated a large cache of weapons found in an apartment near the federal building in downtown Dallas. … Authorities tell us the tenant travels to the Middle East frequently and just returned from there this morning.  That information and the amount of weapons found lead to the involvement of the North Texas Terrorism Task Force.  However, authorities say there is no reason to suspect terrorism as a motive.

The Editor says...
Yeah, right.  It's just a guy who spends a lot of time in the Middle East and has a downtown Dallas apartment full of weapons.  I don't think the people on the North Texas Terrorism Task Force would know a terrorist if they saw one.

Muslim women face felony charges.  She is on the terrorist watch list but authorities say she's been watching something else:  local airports.  Then Monday [7/16/2007], there was a standoff with police.  But Asma Al-Homsi tells News 8 she is not a terrorist.

Lawyers:  Ohio terror probe could grow.  Government investigators are tightlipped about the possibility that a terrorist cell investigation could extend beyond the three people already charged, but lawyers for two men found guilty say they were part of a group that had as many as 10 members.

Frontier Airlines Plot Twist:  2 Incidents in 36 Hours.  Two deranged "Asian" men, two rolls of duct tape, two planeloads of John Doe passengers, two arrests in 36 hours.  What's going on aboard Frontier Airlines?  Here are the two flights -- Flight 561 on Thursday night and Flight 514 on Saturday morning [8/25/2007] -- both of which involved vigilant passengers that helped to avert disaster.

FBI:  Incident on Flight to RDU Posed No Threat.  The FBI early Saturday [9/22/2007] said a misunderstanding apparently sparked an incident on a flight from Florida that Raleigh-Durham International Airport officials initially classified as a possible terrorist incident.  FBI agents determined that a "misperception" caused the alert and said there was never any threat to passengers or crew members. ... Early reports said the FBI arrested two passengers, but hours later, the FBI said it had arrested no one and was closing the case.

Egyptian student denies explosives charge.  An Egyptian college student accused of making an Internet video demonstrating the construction of a detonator for terrorist bombs pleaded not guilty to federal charges Wednesday [10/24/2007].  Ahmed Abdellatif Sherif Mohamed, 24, remained jailed on charges of distributing information relating to explosives, destructive devices, and weapons of mass destruction.

Teacher who attacked base had death wish, FBI says.  Wielding two butcher knives bought at Wal-Mart and vodka bottles to use as explosives, Tahmeed Ahmad chanted "Death to America" and told Homestead Air Reserve Base guards he wanted to kill soldiers.  But Ahmad was no terrorist, authorities believe. Rather, the Miami Central High School math teacher wanted to "commit suicide by cop" when he attacked military policemen stationed at the west gate just before midnight Sunday, the FBI said.

Islamic terrorists target Army base — in Arizona.  Fort Huachuca, the nation's largest intelligence-training center, changed security measures in May after being warned that Islamist terrorists, with the aid of Mexican drug cartels, were planning an attack on the facility.



Fort Dix

6 arrested in plot to kill soldiers at Fort Dix.  The six men charged with plotting the slaughter of U.S. soldiers in an armed assault on Fort Dix were held without bail this afternoon during an initial appearance in federal court in Camden.  The men, identified by authorities as homegrown Islamic terrorists inspired by Osama bin Laden and his al Qaeda network, each spent about 10 minutes before a judge in U.S. District Court, saying they understood the charges against them.

6 Charged in Plot to Attack Army Post.  Six foreign-born Muslims were arrested and accused Tuesday [5/8/2007] of plotting to attack the Army's Fort Dix and massacre scores of U.S. soldiers … The defendants, all men in their 20s from the former Yugoslavia and the Middle East, include a pizza deliveryman suspected of using his job to scout out the military base.

Al Qaedism, Again.  Why would Albanian-speaking Muslim refugees from the Balkans try to murder American soldiers?  After all, the United States — not bin Laden's rag-tag jihadists — saved Bosnia and Kosovo?  And we did that by bombing the capital of a Christian European nation.  But then, why did a mixed-up Albanian Muslim in Salt Lake City, one Sulejman Talovic, go on a shopping-mall shooting spree?

Update:
Man pleads guilty in Fort Dix Six case.  A 25-year-old man pleaded guilty today [10/31/2007] to providing weapons to a group of men charged with planning to attack soldiers at Fort Dix.  Agron Abdullahu, of Buena Vista Township in Atlantic County, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to provide weapons to illegal aliens.  He faces up to five years in federal prison when he is sentenced Feb. 6.  Five of the six defendants — Mohammad Shnewer, 22; Serdar Tatar, 23; and brothers Dritan Duka, 28; Shain Duka, 26; and Eljvir Duka, 23 — have been charged with plotting a paramilitary attack on Fort Dix that was inspired by al-Qaeda, the government says.



Salt Lake City

Police identify gunman as 18-year-old Bosnian.  Police Tuesday [2/13/2007] identified the gunman accused in Monday night's Trolley Square shooting as Sulejman Talovic, an 18-year-old Bosnian refugee who lived in Salt Lake City.

Coworkers:  Talovic 'stayed to himself'; FBI rules out terrorism.  Snyder said nothing had been completely ruled in or out yet as a motive.  Addressing concerns from some in the public that Talovic's Muslim beliefs may have played a role, she said there was still no evidence pointing either way as to whether that was the case.

Salt Lake Jihad?  When Sulejmen Talovic entered the Trolley Square mall in Salt Lake City Monday night [2/12/2007] with a shotgun, a pistol, and a backpack full of ammunition, he intended to "kill a large number of people," according to Salt Lake City Police Chief Chris Burbank. … Why did Talovic do it?  No one knows. … Could he have been motivated by jihadist sympathies?

[Most news articles about the incident omitted any reference to Talovic being a Muslim.]

Coworkers:  Talovic 'stayed to himself'; FBI rules out terrorism.  Addressing concerns from some in the public that Talovic's Muslim beliefs may have played a role, [detective Robin Snyder] said there was still no evidence pointing either way as to whether that was the case.  The FBI said it has no reason to believe the shootings were an act of terrorism.

Utah Authorities Guard Against Backlash.  Mayor Rocky Anderson blasted vitriolic Internet postings and e-mails sent to newspapers that concluded the shooter was an Islamic terrorist, calling such criticism "unjustified" and "outrageous."

[Oh, really?  He's a Muslim.  He committed an act of terrorism.  He killed as many strangers as he could -- in a shopping mall -- in the final violent act of his life.  Why then is it so "outrageous" to call him a terrorist?]

What Motivated the Salt Lake City Shooter?  We are, of course, not supposed to mention the elephant in the room, but at least one editor was asleep at the wheel when this story went through.

The Salt Lake shooter and Sudden Jihad Syndrome.  If you only read the news as reported by the Main Stream Media, you would never know that we had just recently experienced another Jihad style attack by a Muslim on American soil. ... The media showed an interesting and obvious reluctance to initially disclose, let alone discuss, eighteen year old Talovic's religious persuasion.

The Salt Lake City Murders: A Jihad?  This article is being written on behalf of the victims of the Trolley Square murders perpetrated by Sulejman Talovic, a Bosnian immigrant who went on a shooting rampage at a Salt Lake City shopping mall on February 12, 2007.  The FBI and mainstream media have all but ruled out the murders had any link to terrorism.

Mall shooting prompts Bosnian backlash fears.  The mayor and police chief assured Bosnian immigrants Thursday [2/15/2007] that authorities would not stand for any backlash against them after an Bosnian teenager shot five people to death in a crowded shopping mall and then died in a shootout with police.

Father of Shooter Believes Someone Told His Son to Kill People.  The father of Trolley Square shooter Sulejmen Talovic apologizes over and over for the ordeal.  Suljo Talovic says no one who knew his son saw this coming, and he believes someone pushed him to do it.  Suljo Talovic doesn't know where his son got the guns or how he learned how to use them.

The Editor says...
I find it difficult to believe that this killing spree came as a complete surprise to the young man's family, friends, and co-workers.  A sane, well-adjusted and peaceful person doesn't suddenly produce a collection of firearms and ammo, and then go out in a blaze of glory.  Nobody knew he had a gun or a grudge?  In almost all the incidents recounted on this page, the surviving family members claim that the perpetrator had always been a harmless citizen, and there must be someone else to blame.  Nonsense!



San Francisco

Just Nuts?  What would possess a Muslim motorist to drive around San Francisco Bay Area streets in his SUV and deliberately run over pedestrians, including kids?  Insanity, shrugs the mainstream media.  Omeed Aziz Popal was taken into custody Tuesday [8/29/2006] after a hit-and-run spree that terrorized pedestrians, bicyclists and motorists for a full hour, killing one and injuring 14.  The news treated the bloody rampage like a random act of violence. … War is no time for apologetics.  In their tired effort to claim the mantle of tolerance, the media only disserve Americans by continuing to sugarcoat the ugly truth about the enemy.

Driver's rampage:  "Everyone needs to be killed," Omeed Aziz Popal calmly told officers as he sat in the back of a police car after a hit-and-run rampage that left one person dead in Fremont and 19 injured in San Francisco.  Just why the 29-year-old unemployed automotive worker allegedly said that remains a mystery.

Leaning over backwards indicates head not screwed on straight.  Omeed Popal was 29 years old, but apparently totally sheltered and controlled by his parents, who, according to the paper, "believed they needed to protect him from America's 'evil society.'"  He had recently traveled to Afghanistan to be married to a woman his family picked out for him.



Nashville, Tennessee

Cabbie Runs Down Students.  Two students visiting from Ohio were coming from a bar downtown when they got into an argument with their driver over religion, said police.  After they paid the driver he allegedly ran them down in a parking lot.  Ibrihim Ahmned, of United Cab, was arrested and charged with assault, attempted homicide and theft.

Muslim Cabbie Tries to Run Down Fares.  The Religion of Peace has struck in Nashville, Tennessee, where a local cabbie tried to run down a couple of customers after an argument over religion became heated, leaving one of them hospitalized.  Ibrihim Ahmned was arrested and charged with assault, attempted homicide, and stealing the license plate he was using on his cab.



Rockford, Illinois

'Lone Wolf' Charged With Plotting Attack During Christmas Rush.  A Chicago-area man has been charged in an alleged plot to attack a local mall and government buildings.  Derrick Shareef was arrested Wednesday as he attempted to buy grenades and a handgun from an undercover FBI agent posing as a weapons dealer.

Feds Arrest Man They Say Planned to Detonate Grenades in Illinois Shopping Mall.  A man has been arrested by federal agents on charges of planning to set off hand grenades at an Illinois shopping mall on Dec. 22 as part of his plan to commit "violent jihad" against civilians.  Derrick Shareef, 22, of Rockford, was arrested when he carried out a rendezvous with an undercover agent in a parking lot to trade a set of stereo speakers for four grenades and a handgun.

Mall bomb suspect's mother shocked at his arrest.  Even before federal agents said they foiled his terrorism plot, Derrick Shareef's growing commitment to radical Islam worried his mother. … Shareef converted to Islam seven years ago, a move that did not surprise his mother.  Shareef's father was a member of Nation of Islam, led by minister Louis Farrakhan, and several paternal relatives practiced the faith.

Jihad in Rockford, IL:  What the MSM Won't Tell You.  President Bush and supporters of the war in Iraq have told us that "We're fighting them over there so that we don't have to fight them over here."  Apparently, someone forgot to explain that to Derrick Shareef.  This 22-year-old black man converted seven years ago to the Nation of Islam.  Over 24 hours after the first news reports, his race and the black Muslim connection are still missing from national news reports.

Update:
23-year-old pleads guilty to 'jihad' plot at Rockford mall.  A 23-year-old man who dreamed of waging violent jihad while under surveillance by the FBI pleaded guilty Wednesday [11/28/2007] to plotting a hand grenade attack on a Rockford mall crowded with Christmas shoppers.  Derrick Shareef, 23, a softspoken, bushy bearded young man apparently inspired by the violent acts of Mideast terrorists, faces 30 years to life when he is sentenced March 14, according to federal prosecutors.



The Three Guys with 1000 Cell Phones

Three Middle Eastern Men Found With 1000 Cell Phones, Now Face Charges.  Around 1:00am August 11th the three men purchased cell phones from the Wal-Mart store on M-81 near the corner of M-24 in Caro [Michigan].  Wal-Mart places a limit on the number of cell phones that can be purchased at once, that number is three.  The three men allegedly bought 80 by purchasing them three at time so that an alert wouldn't be triggered by the cash register.  They also paid cash.

Three Texas Men Arraigned on Terror Charges.  Three Texas men were arraigned Saturday on terrorism-related charges after police found about 1,000 cell phones in their minivan.  A magistrate set bond at $750,000 for each of the men, who are charged with collecting or providing materials for terrorist acts and surveillance of a vulnerable target for terrorist purposes.

FBI:  No Terror Groups in Cell Phone Case.  The FBI said Monday [8/14/2006] it had no information to indicate that the three Texas men arrested with about 1,000 cell phones in their van had any connections to a known terrorist group.  Authorities had increased patrols on Michigan's 5-mile-long Mackinac Bridge after local prosecutors said investigators believed the men were targeting the bridge.

The Editor says...
Terrorists use cheap disposable cell phones one time only and throw them away, as an untraceable means of communication.  And any time young Muslim men are going from one Wal-Mart to another in the middle of the night, buying hundreds of cell phones with cash, they're up to something.  This is not just a group of enterprising young men hoping to sell the phones at a profit.  If that were true, they wouldn't have opened up all the packages.  Have we learned nothing about Islamic terrorists in the last several years?  Any time young Muslim men do anything as unusual as this, it is more than a little suspicious.



Killer's daughter admits it was political.  Ali Abu Kamal's relatives say they are tired of lying about why the Palestinian opened fire on the observation deck of Empire State Building, killing a tourist and injuring six other people before committing suicide.  Kamal's widow insisted after the shooting spree that the attack was not politically motivated. … But in a stunning admission, Kamal's 48-year-old daughter Linda told the Daily News that her dad wanted to punish the U.S. for supporting Israel — and revealed her mom's 1997 account was a cover story crafted by the Palestinian Authority.

Man in Houston Taliban case gets 10 months.  Shiraz Syed Qazi, 26, one of four Muslim men charged in the so-called Houston Taliban case, was sentenced today [5/17/2007] to 10 months in prison.  The men were arrested in November and accused of training to join the Taliban's fight against U.S.-led forces overseas.

Man, Attendants Fight Aboard Qatar Plane.  A man aboard a Qatari Airways flight fought with flight attendants Thursday [8/10/2006], prompting the pilot to return to Amman, but the incident was not a hijacking attempt, a government spokesman said.  Initial reports from airport security officials and a Qatari Airlines spokesman said the man, identified as an Eritrean, tried to force his way into the cockpit carrying a canister that the officials said contained a liquid.

2 Chicago-Area Men Arrested In Terror Case.  Two Chicago-area cousins were arrested Wednesday [2/21/2007] on charges out of Cleveland accusing them of conspiring to commit terrorist acts against Americans overseas, including U.S. military forces serving in Iraq.  Zubair A. Ahmed, 27, of suburban North Chicago, and Khaleel Ahmed, 26, of Chicago, were arrested after a Cleveland grand jury returned an indictment charging them and adding charges against three other men from Toledo, Ohio, who already face terrorism charges.



Seattle

 Read this   'Lone Individual'.  The smoke had barely cleared in Seattle, where one Naveed Afzal Haq, a 30-year-old Muslim, killed one woman and shot five others Friday after taking a 13-year old hostage and forcing his way into the offices of the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle, when the effort began to tamp down the significance of the event.

'I am a Muslim American, angry at Israel'.  On the eve of the Jewish Sabbath, a 31-year-old man claiming he was upset about "what was going on in Israel" opened fire at the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle building, killing one person and wounding five women, one of them pregnant.  Three of the women were in critical condition Friday night [7/28/2006] with gunshot wounds to the stomach.

Open Season on Jewish Women.  [Naveed Afsal] Haq's brutal attack is no ordinary crime.  It is the product of an Islamic culture that denigrates women in general and a jihadist culture that specifically seeks to destroy life.  Thus, many Islamic suicide killers will purposely target pregnant women or women with small children before they blow themselves up.

Seattle Suspect Hid Behind 13 Year Old.  The man suspected in a fatal shooting rampage hid behind a potted plant in a Jewish charity's foyer and forced his way through a security door by holding a gun to a 13-year-old girl's head, the police chief said.

Media ignores or downplays homegrown terror attack in Seattle.  Are these the actions of a crazy person?  A crazy person might cause harm to himself, maybe even someone close to him.  Haq, though, did not know anyone at the Seattle Jewish Federation.  He traveled some distance late last month from central Washington, getting there after determining his target following an Internet search for "something Jewish."

Update:
Accused Jewish center shooter pleads insanity.  Naveed Haq, accused of shooting six women — one fatally — at a Seattle Jewish center last summer, pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity Wednesday as prosecutors tacked on 11 additional charges against him.



Baltimore County, Maryland

Moviegoer Killed In Maryland.  As his victim lay bleeding in the aisle, police say Mujtaba Rabbani Jabbar walked out of the theater, placed the gun with one bullet left on a counter and told the manager he had shot someone.

Same story:
Muslim Shooting Spree in Jewish Community?  The victim was Paul Schrum, 62, from the 900-block of Bittersweet Road. … The Reisterstown area is Baltimores largest community of Jewish families.

And again...
The Jihad That Failed:  "Leaderless resistance" barely dents the USA.  Was it just a random moment of violence, or was it an act of jihad?  The shooter is called Mujtaba Rabbani Jabbar — not a name that suggests Buddhism or Scientology — and Owings Mills is a heavily Jewish suburb.



Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Quite a stretch.  On March 3, Mohammed Taheri-azar, a 22-year-old graduate of the University of North Carolina, rented an SUV and drove it into "the Pit," an area between two libraries on the UNC campus in Chapel Hill where students congregate, injuring nine.  Mr. Taheri-azar told police he made the attack "to avenge the deaths of Muslims around the world."  Mr. Taheri-azar smiled and waved at his arraignment, and told reporters he was "thankful for the opportunity to spread the will of Allah."

Calling terror terror at UNC:  In an obvious case of terrorism, a Muslim alumnus of the school attempted to run down and kill a large crowd of students in a popular meeting area on campus.  However, the school's hard-left, P.C. mentality has not allowed the chancellor to provide a sufficient response to the incident.  Indeed, he will still not even acknowledge the heinous act as one of terrorism!

Alleged UNC campus crasher said he wanted to use a gun.  A man charged with trying to kill students by hitting them with a car said he would have preferred using a gun but screening laws were too stringent, according to a letter read at a hearing in his case.  Mohammed Taheri-Azar drove a Jeep Cherokee into a crowd of students March 3 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and hit nine people, none of whom had life-threatening injuries.

Sudden Jihad Syndrome (in North Carolina).  A just-graduated student named Mohammed Reza Taheri-azar, 22, and an Iranian immigrant, drove a sport utility vehicle into a crowded pedestrian zone.  He struck nine people but, fortunately, none were severely injured.  Until his would-be murderous rampage, Mr. Taheri-azar, a philosophy and psychology major, had a seemingly normal existence and promising future.

Media won't report radical Islamic events.  Most of the world today not only is in denial concerning the truly appalling likely consequences of the rise of radical Islam, it often refuses to even accept unambiguous evidence of its existence.  The latest minor example of the latter is occurring at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Students Are Terrorized.  But It's Not "Terrorism".  On Friday afternoon [3/3/2006], an act of terrorism at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill left students and faculty in disbelief, wondering why a former student would ram an SUV into a crowded group of students.  Many of them extended their disbelief to include a willful denial that the attack was an act of terrorism at all.

Update:
Muslim Suspect Charged With Driving Into Crowd at UNC to Offer Mental Defense.  Mohammed Taheri-Azar, 24, told investigators he hoped to "avenge the deaths of Muslims around the world" when he drove the rented SUV into the plaza at the school's Chapel Hill campus in March 2006, authorities have said.  Nine people were injured, none seriously.



Man Arrested in Airport Knife Scare.  A man with a one-way ticket to Yemen attempted to board a plane with a knife hidden in a book, authorities said.  Mohammed Ghanem, 21, of Hamtramck, was jailed Saturday on $500,000 after being arraigned on a charge of possessing a weapon in the sterile area of an airport.

A Case for Guantanamo:  This is not the case of a few isolated, scattered incidents.  FrontPage Magazine columnist Daniel Pipes has documented more than 30 such incidents post-September 11, 2001.  Some of the highlights are:
· July 2002 - Hesham Mohamed Ali Hadayet's double murder at the El Al counter in Los Angeles airport.
· March 2003 - Hasan Akbar's fragging of his two officers (at an overseas U.S. military base).
· August 2003 - Mohammed Ali Alayed's murder of Ariel Sellouk in Houston.
· January 2005 - The Armanious family massacre.
· May-July 2005 - The Jam'iyyat Ul-Islam Is-Saheeh robbery spree to fund future terrorist activities.
Pipes cites "more than 200" cases in which American Muslims have "turned to terrorism."

Denying [Islamist] Terrorism:  Anyone following the investigation into the mid-January slaughter of the Armanious family (husband, wife, two young daughters), Copts living in Jersey City, N.J., knows who the presumptive suspects are:  Islamists furious at a Christian Egyptian immigrant who dares engage in Internet polemics against Islam and who attempts to convert Muslims to Christianity.  The authorities, however, have blinded themselves to the extensive circumstantial evidence, insisting that "no facts at this point" substantiate a religious motive for the murders.

Teen charged with driving into crowd.  A Virginia teen has been charged with driving his car into a crowd of people outside a bar that had just evicted him in a wealthy part of Long Island, N.Y. Sayed Khaled El-Waraky, 19, of Vienna, Va., was being held without bond Tuesday [6/20/2006] after the incident early Sunday morning in Glen Cove.

In Praise of Routine Traffic Stops:  In July 2004, Michael Wagner's not wearing a seat belt got him stopped in a SUV near Council Bluffs, Iowa, that had in it "flight training manuals and a simulator, documents in Arabic, bulletproof vests and night-vision goggles, a night-vision scope for a rifle, a telescope, a 9mm semiautomatic pistol and hundreds of rounds of ammunition."

America's Homegrown Troop Killers:  It's bad enough that Americans are bad-mouthing American troops fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq.  But an alarming number of Muslim-Americans are plotting to kill them.

Oklahoma bomber had jihad material.  An Oklahoma University student who killed himself by detonating a bomb strapped to his body outside a packed stadium over the weekend was a "suicide bomber" in possession of "Islamic jihad" materials, according to a new report.

Media ignores homegrown Islamic terror trial.  The trial of Hamid Hayat, 23, is not taking place in the dark of night nor in a military tribunal from which the media is barred.  It is in an open California courtroom, the very kind that has been overrun for trials of the likes of Scott Peterson and O.J. Simpson.  Yet in the month of February, the New York Times had exactly one story on the alleged terror cell in Lodi, California.  The Washington Post had none.  And on the cable news channels, the trial has received scant attention.

Terrorism?  Naah … .  Last Friday [April 29, 2005], firefighters conducting a routine inspection in a Brooklyn supermarket found 200 automobile airbags and a room lined with posters of Osama bin Laden and beheadings in Iraq.  An element in the airbags can be used to make pipe bombs.  The owner of the building, according to the New York Post, "served jail time in the late 1970s and early 1980s for arson, reckless endangerment, weapons possession and conspiracy, according to the records."  But officials were definite:  this has nothing to do with terrorism.



The DC Snipers, aka the Beltway Shooters

The Psychology of Junior Sniper Lee Malvo:  There is no such thing as a psychological disorder which leads people to become so loyal that they're willing to kill.  It's conjecture and excuse-making taken to a nearly incomprehensible extreme.

The Washington DC Snipers, John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo:  Numerous additional links to news articles about this case.

Teen Sniper Malvo Gets Life Without Parole.  A judge sentenced teenage Beltway Sniper Lee Boyd Malvo to life in prison without parole Wednesday [3/10/2004], but he may still face the death penalty if other states have their way.  It is unclear what will happen next with the 19-year-old, who took part in an October 2002 killing spree in the Washington, D.C., area that left 10 people dead.

Police union probes Moose.  The police union here has formed a special committee to investigate Montgomery County Police Chief Charles Moose's handling of look-out information during the Beltway sniper manhunt, union officials told WorldNetDaily.  Officials complain that Moose, who led the multi-agency sniper investigation, withheld critical information about the sniper suspects from investigators and patrol officers, thereby jeopardizing their safety.

D.C. sniper Malvo confesses to killing Tucson man on golf course, police say.  One of the Washington D.C. snipers confessed to killing a man on a Southeast Side golf course four years ago, Tucson police said Friday [10/27/2006].  The confession from Lee Boyd Malvo on Thursday brings a sense of closure to Jerry Taylor's family, who for many years have believed that Malvo and fellow sniper John Allen Muhammad were behind the slaying on March 19, 2002.

The Rise and Fall of Charles Moose:  Was it just a coincidence that the publicized spate of shootings began in Moose's jurisdiction?  Moose and Muhammad had served in the Oregon National Guard at the same time but in different units in Portland.  Moose claims they never met.  Can we take that at face value, now that we have proof Moose lied about several important aspects of the case?  Why, after shooting deaths by the same rifle were confirmed in other states didn't the FBI take over as the lead agency?  By leaving Moose in charge, police were led on a wild goose chase looking for a white man driving a white van or truck.  Members of the task force, presumably including the FBI, knew there were credible eyewitness reports to the contrary.

The Rush From Judgment:  Like many people, it crossed my mind early in the Beltway Sniper case that this might be a terrorist attack.  I reserved judgment, realizing — unlike the armchair experts who flocked to fill airtime on cable news channels -- that I did not know all of the facts available to the police.  But the moment I heard the suspect's name, John Muhammad, the conclusion was obvious.  These killings were motivated by a version of the same Islamic ideology that has inspired mass murder around the globe.

The other beltway shooter:  At least one crazed Middle Eastern gunman has sought revenge on behalf of Muslims by gunning down Americans near the nation's capital and slipping in and out of our country with murderous ease.  Could it be happening again?

Back when they were looking for the Beltway snipers...
Police suppress terrorism angle:  ATF official says releasing descriptions of Mideast suspects would cause "panic".

Malvo calls daughter of sniper victim.  In March 2002, Malvo shot and killed [Cheryll] Witz's father, Jerry Taylor, as he practiced chip shots on a golf-course practice green.  Taylor's murder was a precursor to a killing spree that terrorized the Washington, D.C., area, in which the teenage Malvo and partner John Allen Muhammad killed 10 people and wounded three others over a three-week span that began Oct. 2, 2002.

Read this article:
Rehabbing The D.C. Snipers.  When news of the snipers' identity first broke, CNN anchors were so determined to avoid making the obvious connection to radical Islam that they called the lead sniper, a Muslim convert, by his old name.  Police were looking for John Allen Muhammad, but CNN insisted on referring to him as John Allen Williams.  Now the network has completely scrubbed Islam from the picture, offering child abuse (boo-hoo) and spousal revenge as alternative motives for the snipers' bloody rampage.  Nowhere in its one-hour special — promoted as "The Minds of the D.C. Snipers"  — is Islamist brainwashing even hinted as a motivating factor behind their serial assassinations.



Los Angeles International Airport

Nothing to see here.  Move along.  The watchdogs in the national press … insist on clouding our vision.  Since 9/11, I've reported on the media's reluctance to highlight the convicted Washington, D.C.-area snipers' Islamist proclivities and journalists' refusal to call Egyptian gunman Hesham Hadayet's acts of murder at the Israeli airline counter at Los Angeles International Airport on July 4, 2002, "terrorism."

Los Angeles airport shooting kills three.  A gunman opened fire Thursday [7/4/2002] at Los Angeles International Airport while standing in line at the ticket counter of Israel's El Al Airlines, officials said, killing two and wounding four others before an airline security officer shot him dead.

"An isolated incident at LAX":  When I heard an FBI spokesman try to dismiss the Fourth of July attack on El Al passengers at Los Angeles International Airport by Egyptian Muslim Hesham Mohamed Hadayet as "an isolated incident," something about those words troubled me.  I had heard them before.

The FBI's B.S.:  It seems as if the only ones who refuse to acknowledge that this was terrorism are the folks at the FBI.  It seems that they are not willing to go any further than to say that the gunman, came to LAX with the intent to kill.  Just how dumb do they think we are?

Terror and Denial:  It is obvious why Hesham Mohamed Ali Hadayet targeted Jews in a highly visible place on so prominent a date:  to engage in terrorism against Israel.  But one important institution — the U.S. government — claims not to know Hadayet's goals.



What really happened to AA Flight 612.  What makes the evidence particularly compelling is that the pilots apparently saw what the radar was reporting:
      ATC: Flare or a rocket?
      AA 612: It looked more like a rocket.
      ATC: American 612, how far away was it from your position?
      AA 612: It was about half way between us and the coastline when we first called that last center guy.

This sounds very similar to the case of TWA 800.

More on Possible Surface to Air Missile Attempt Against Passenger Aircraft.  Just as suddenly as the story was broadcast, it seemed to have disappeared from the media.

That's why this page exists.

Possibly related information:
Shoulder-Fired Missiles Pose a Serious Threat to Passenger Jets.  Worldwide, at least 24 civilian aircraft have been brought down by shoulder-fired missiles, and more than 500 people have been killed.  And experts say that shoulder-to-air missiles can be bought for only a few thousand dollars on the black market.  But U.S. commercial aircraft still have no defense system against these portable missiles.

Buncefield fuel depot near Hemel Hempstead
Massive blaze rages at fuel depot.  A police investigation into the incident has begun, including investigations by anti-terrorist police.  But Chief Con Whiteley said there was "nothing to suggest anything other than an accident".

[Yeah, right.  The eyewitness accounts of the initial explosion describe exactly the effects of a car bomb.]

Exxon-Mobil Workers Got Fake Flu Shots.  As many as 1,000 Exxon Mobil employees and 14 residents of a senior citizens home were injected with fake flu vaccine, authorities said Friday [10/28/2005], and the owner of a home health care company was arrested. … Iyad Abu El Hawa, 35, was arrested Thursday. … "This is a very callous and disturbing crime," [U.S. Attorney Chuck] Rosenberg said. "He purposefully put at risk many, many people."

Editor's Note:  The item above is being mentioned here only because someone with a middle eastern name is charged with intentionally endangering the health and safety of hundreds of Americans.  Sounds like a willfully malicious act.  Fits the pattern.  That's all I'm saying.

'Sudden jihad syndrome' poses domestic risk.  Sympathy for al Qaeda has produced "sudden jihad syndrome" in domestic terror cells unaffiliated with foreign terrorists and people seeking to carry out attacks in the U.S., a law-enforcement intelligence analysis says.  The Dec. 6 report by the Texas Public Safety Department's Bureau of Information Analysis warns officials not to dismiss individual or homegrown terror cells as "wannabes," saying they pose a credible threat to homeland security. … "As a result, law enforcement should not be too quick to judge their attacks as having no nexus to terrorism."



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