Showing posts with label terrorism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label terrorism. Show all posts

Monday, August 27, 2007

al-Qaeda Plots To Hit West

There is an interesting story indicating that al-Qaeda has an active plot to hit the West. The United States knows about it but doesn’t have enough tactical detail to issue a precise warning or raise the threat level, says Vice Admiral (ret.) John Scott Redd, who heads the government’s National Counterterrorism Center. In an interview at his headquarters near Washington, D.C., Redd told Newsweek’s Mark Hosenball and Jeffrey Bartholet that the country is better prepared than ever to counter such threats. But he also believes another successful terror attack on the U.S. homeland is inevitable.

Please take a few moments to read the entire story as it is quite interesting and parellels what many of us believe, and have said or written about in recent weeks. It is not so we can be convinced it is alright to attack another country, (Iran?), but so we can remain vigilant everyday!

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Friday, May 25, 2007

Israel Responds To Rocket Attacks

What a twisted world this continues to be when many call on Israel to stop attacking “innocents” in the Gaza Strip. This completely ignores the fact that the Israeli’s are trying to protect their citizens from continued rocket attacks from the Hamas militants. It is Hamas that started these rocket attacks and it is Hamas who can stop firing the rockets and Israel would in turn stop attacking targets in Gaza. To put the onus of stopping the fighting on Israel is ridiculous. They are merely doing what any nation that comes under attack would do, which is to defend itself, and any government that did not respond would not be in power very long.
The White House on Friday urged Israeli’s and Palestinian’s to spare “innocents” from attacks, but said it expected that Israel would defend itself from rockets launched at it by the Islamist movement Hamas. You think, why make any statement if it is going to be a nonsensicalstatement like that, If “innocents” are injured in attacks by Israel it is only by accident as they attempt to stop the people firing the rockets, whereas the “innocents” being attacked by Hamas are intentionally targeted.
No matter what happens it seems that Israel is always supposed to be the ones to stop fighting first, which makes absolutely no sense when rockets continue to rain down on their citizens. Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas is obviously not strong enough to force Hamas to stop attacking Israel with the rockets.
An Israeli woman was killed on Monday by a rocket and Israel warned Hamas ,of which Prime Minister Ismail Haniya , is a prominent member that neither he nor any of the Hamas leadership were immune from attack.
They should in fact be primary targets as they allow the militants to continue assaulting Israel with the rockets. Perhaps if some of the leadership was killed it might encourage them to commit to a ceasefire with Israel.
We should not issue statements like the one mentioned above from the White House which almost equates what each side is doing as the same. There should be no doubt in anyone’s mind that we stand with our friends. And Israel is a friend that has taken a great deal of punishment from many of the nation’s of the world over the years. They have had many of their innocent citizen’s killed by militants, suicide bombers, etc.,. America has long stood by them in their time of need and we should not be giving anything to the militants in the form of words or encouragement that their cause is just, or in anyway makes them doubt our resolve to stand by Israel.
There are innocents on both sides, but while Israel is defending itself, the “innocents” on the Palestinian side allow the militants to use them as human shields, and many actively support Hamas, so they bring the death and destruction on themselves by this misguided support for the terrorists in their midst.
I hope Abbas can convince Hamas to stop firing their rockets, but until they stop Israel must be allowed to protect its people from this reign of terror and we need to give them our full support.

Tuesday, May 08, 2007

Luck Foils Terrorist Attack

To the Hollywood elite and the politicians who think we are safe, pay attention to the story out of New Jersey, with the 6 would be islamic terrorists and their plot to kill soldiers at Fort Dix.
If this does make you morons see the dangerous world that still exists then there is no hope for any of you. Now couple this plot with the idea of pulling out of Iraq and surely you can see what would happen. If we were not fighting them in Iraq, there would not be 6 terrorists here, there would be thousands upon thousands here all wanting to kill americans for Allah.
Six foreign-born Muslims were arrested and accused Tuesday of plotting to attack Fort Dix and slaughter scores of U.S. soldiers — a scheme the FBI says was foiled when the men asked a store clerk to copy a video of them firing assault weapons and screaming about jihad.
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.
Their goal was "to kill as many American soldiers as possible" with mortars, rocket-propelled grenades and guns, prosecutors said.
"Today we dodged a bullet. In fact, when you look at the type of weapons that this group was trying to purchase, we may have dodged a lot of bullets," said FBI agent J.P. Weis.
"We had a group that was forming a platoon to take on an army. They identified their target, they did their reconnaissance. They had maps. And they were in the process of buying weapons. Luckily, we were able to stop that."
Authorities said there was no direct evidence connecting the men to any international terror organizations such as al-Qaida. But several of them said they were ready to kill and die "in the name of Allah," according to court papers.
Investigators said they infiltrated the group with two informants well over a year ago and bided their time while they secretly recorded the defendants, five of whom lived in Cherry Hill, a Philadelphia suburb about 20 miles from Fort Dix.
"This is what law enforcement is supposed to do in the post-9/11 era — stay one step ahead of those who are attempting to cause harm to innocent American citizens," U.S. Attorney Christopher Christie said.
Weis saluted the unidentified New Jersey store clerk who noticed the suspicious video as the "unsung hero" of the case. "That's why we're here today — because of the courage and heroism of that individual," the FBI agent said.
In addition to plotting the attack on Fort Dix, the defendants spoke of assaulting a Navy installation in Philadelphia during the annual Army-Navy football game and conducted surveillance at other military installations in the region, prosecutors said.
One defendant, Eljvir Duka, was recorded as saying: "In the end, when it comes to defending your religion, when someone ... attacks your religion, your way of life, then you go jihad."
The six were arrested Monday night trying to buy AK-47 assault weapons, M-16s and other weapons from an FBI informant, authorities said.
They appeared in federal court Tuesday in Camden and were ordered held without bail for a hearing Friday. Five were charged with conspiracy to kill U.S. military personnel; the sixth was charged with aiding and abetting illegal immigrants in obtaining weapons.
Four of the men were born in the former Yugoslavia, one was born in Jordan and one came from Turkey, authorities said. All had lived in the United States for years. Three were in the United States illegally; two had green cards allowing them to stay in this country permanently; and the sixth is a U.S. citizen.
One defendant, Mohamad Ibrahim Shnewer, spoke of using rocket-propelled grenades and other weapons to kill at least 100 soldiers, according to court documents.
"My intent is to hit a heavy concentration of soldiers," he was quoted as saying. "You hit four, five or six Humvees and light the whole place (up) and retreat completely without any losses."
"It doesn't matter to me whether I get locked up, arrested or get taken away," another defendant, Serdar Tatar, was alleged to have said. "Or I die, it doesn't matter. I'm doing it in the name of Allah."
The men trained by playing paintball in the woods in New Jersey and taking target practice at a firing range in Pennsylvania's Pocono Mountains, where they had rented a house, authorities said.
They often watched terror training videos, clips featuring Osama bin Laden, a tape containing the last will and testament of some of the Sept. 11 hijackers, and tapes of armed attacks on U.S. military personnel, erupting in laughter when one plotter noted that a Marine's arm was blown off in an ambush, authorities said.
Asked if those arrested had any links to al-Qaida, White House spokesman Tony Snow said it appears "there is no direct evidence of a foreign terrorist tie."
The FBI's Weis said the U.S. is seeing a "brand-new form of terrorism," involving smaller, more loosely defined groups that may not be connected to al-Qaida but are inspired by its ideology.
"These homegrown terrorists can prove to be as dangerous as any known group, if not more so. They operate under the radar," Weis said.
In court documents, prosecutors said the suspects came to the attention of authorities in January 2006 when a Mount Laurel, N.J., shopkeeper alerted the FBI to a "disturbing" video he had been asked to copy onto a DVD.
The video showed 10 young men "shooting assault weapons at a firing range ... while calling for jihad and shouting in Arabic 'Allah Akbar' (God is great)," the complaint said. The 10 included six of those arrested, authorities said.
Within months, the FBI had managed to infiltrate the group with two informants, according to court documents.
One of the suspects, Tatar, worked at his father's pizzeria and made deliveries to the base, using the opportunity to scout out Fort Dix for an attack, authorities said. "Clearly, one of the guys had an intimate knowledge of the base from having been there delivering pizzas," Christie said.
The men also allegedly conducted surveillance at other area military installations, including Fort Monmouth in New Jersey, Dover Air Force Base in Delaware, and a Philadelphia Coast Guard station.
Besides Shnewer, Tatar and Duka, the other three men were identified in court papers as Dritan Duka, Shain Duka and Agron Abdullahu.
Fort Dix is used to train soldiers, particularly reservists. It also housed refugees from Kosovo in 1999.
The arrests renewed worries among New Jersey's Muslim community. Hundreds of Muslim men from New Jersey were rounded up and detained in the months after the Sept. 11 attacks, but none were connected to that plot.
"If these people did something, then they deserve to be punished to the fullest extent of the law," said Sohail Mohammed, a lawyer who represented scores of detainees after the 2001 attacks. "But when the government says `Islamic militants,' it sends a message to the public that Islam and militancy are synonymous."
"Don't equate actions with religion," he said.
This has got to be paid attention too, we were so lucky that these idiots decided to dub a video and a great american chose to put his life on the line, otherwise their could be scores of dead soldiers right now. This man will now have to fear for his life as the terrorists know who he is and I am sure some moronic media elite type will leak his name as quickly as they find out who he is, for the do not care anymore about this country then do the hollywood elite and the politicians who choose surrender and retreat over victory.
This is life or death, and words and nonsense that you people spout will not save you anymore. The terrorists want all of us dead, we need to understand that, and know it is true, because they pray to Allah for that to be the case everyday. The next time they may be smarter and then we will have another bunch of dead americans.

Monday, April 30, 2007

Accident Not Terrorism This Time And More Killings

It has been a long weekend of nice weather and not much business. The events in San Francisco involving the accident and subsequent fire that caused an important part of their bridge overpass system to collapse should be a reminder of what a terrorist could do with a tanker truck.
Just think of the carnage they could create if their were dozens or hundreds of such tanker trucks taken at the same time around the country and then if they use the vehicles as suicide trucks to hit overpasses, bridges, buildings, malls, etc., they could cause as much or more death and destruction than they did at the World Trade Towers and the Pentagon with airplanes. We should not underestimate the ideas that they might get by seeing what this fire has done to the Bay Area. I am thankful that they have not thought of this so far or if they have they have,they have not acted upon it. There are thousands of tanker trucks on the road each day and each one is a potential fiery bomb.
I am sure or should I say I am hopeful that our counterterrorist units are looking over every conceivable scenario that the terrorists will employ once the Al-Queda Democratic Party forces our troops home and the terrorists follow us home, with even more fervor than before as they shall see the retreat as merely the end of one battle and the beginning of the ultimate war to destroy civilization. With there allies in the House of Representatives and the Senate, they will have every reason to believe that coming to the United States of America to finish us off shall be far easier than if they had to fight without their Al-Queda Democratic party friends assisting them by demoralizing the troops and the citizens to just accept all forms of defeat. I know I should not taken it personally, but everytime the mullahs Reid and Pelosi do their cheshire cat smiles as they gloat over our impending defeat, I wish someone would just slap that smile of their faces. How does every citizen that cares about this country not see that they are committing treason with their actions. Bringing the troops home sounds so nice, but when the terrorists hit us again it will all too apparent what a stupid idea it was to accept defeat and leave Iraq, it will also be too late to stop the destruction that it will bring to our country.
Well enough fun bashing of the Al-Queda Democratic Party for today. I shall slam them more tomorrow or later in the week, whenever they say or do something stupid and treasonous which is nearly everyday.
I noticed that just a short while ago the Virginia Governor closed the loophole that all Cho to purchase the guns which he used to kill 32 students at Virginia Tech. This is good on his part, but we should forget that these disturbed people always seem to find a way to obtain the weapons that they use for their. It would have been better if more of the students at the school would have been carrying guns, so that they could have responded and fought back, perhaps killing him before he killed so many of them. I also think it is imperative to allow campus security to carry weapons and to do so as soon as possible. It would have made it less likely that Cho would have killed all of those students if the campus security had guns to respond to the unfolding nightmare on campus. In addition, all campuses should have cameras and security watching those cameras every minute of every day. This may take little freedom away from the students, but isn’t it better to lose a little freedom then to lose your life.
As I write this there is news of another crop of killings, this time in Kansas City, Kansas where a gunman killed a young woman, took her automobile, then shot a policeman at a gas station who confronted him about driving a stolen vehicle. This man then raced to a Mall with a Target, where he was employed, killed people in vehicles on either side of his now parked vehicle. He then fled into the mall shooting people as he went and finally when confronted by police, resisted arrest and was pleasantly shot and killed by police. It is shame that innocent people were killed, but thank goodness that this situation ended the way all such events should end, with the death of the assailant, so that some smart ass defense attorney cannot later get him off or get a reduced sentence, by someway making it the victims fault that they were killed. This is the all killers should be dealt with and in my opinion all pedophiles should also be dealt with, quickly and deadly force should be used in all instances so that they cannot hurt anyone in the future. I am not just an advocate of the death penalty, but the street justice that was given out today. The police that killed him will go through more pain than he did as they must live with the death. This citizen hopes you see the good that was done by stopping him and know that he caused his death not you. You are the good guys and do not listen to the do not kill in any circumstance, for it is their fault that creeps like the killer can do what they do. May he rest in Hell!!