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sheikh Osama al-Odah, as an advocate for peace - come on!

2025-10-02

[X] sheikh Osama al-Odah and Middle East Democracy Center

A Washington, D.C., think tank with ties to Democrat and Republican administrations posted a video on X on Sept. 11 depicting Osama Bin Laden's mentor, sheikh Osama al-Odah, as an "advocate for democratic reform" and as a moderate.

The post by the Middle East Democracy Center…
— John Rossomando ☦ (@John_Rossomando) October 1, 2025

… Middle East Democracy Center (MEDC) called for the release of the sheikh, a prominent Saudi cleric and jihadist preacher.

Saudi authorities arrested al-Odah in 2018 on charges that he belonged to al-Qaida and allegations that he helped found Syria's former al-Qaida affiliate, Jabhat al-Nusra, that now rules Syria as Hayat Tahrir al-Sham.

Tess McEnery, the group's executive director, served as director for Democracy and Human Rights on the National Security Council and Global Affairs Section Chief in the State Department's Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor in the Biden and Trump administrations.

McEnery is a typical Washington insider; however, other leading individuals who work for her have ties to the sheikh and other Islamic extremists.

The organization's senior director, Abdullah Alouadh (also Alodah), is the son of Sheikh Salman al-Odah.

Despite his father's long history of extremism and terror ties, Abdullah Alouadh is his most fervent supporter in America. He always omits his father's extreme pronouncements.

Alouadh declined a request for comment.

Al-Odah blamed America for the 9/11 attacks, saying the number of skulls "caused by American oppression" would "build pyramids that would have surpassed twice the height of the collapsed World Trade Center, adding that the U.S. is the "lordship of terror."

In 2004, al-Odah signed a communique with other Saudi clerics sanctioning jihad against the American and allied forces in Iraq.

"Fighting the occupiers is a duty for all those who are able. It is a jihad (holy war) to push back the assailants," the letter said. "Resistance is a legitimate right. A Muslim must not inflict harm on any resistance man or inform about them. Instead, they should be supported and protected."

The son appears to have inherited at least some of his father's extremism. Alaoudh supports Islamist political agendas such as those found in the 10 Principles of Hassan al-Banna in the Muslim Brotherhood, with which he says the secretive Islamist movement Tablighi Jamaat
A peaceful group of itinerant Deobandi preachers who form one of al-Qaeda's recruiting arms...
's teachings have similarity. He condemned Saudi Arabia for banning the group.

He noted that Tablighi is formally apolitical. However, it promotes victimhood narratives used by terrorist groups like al-Qaida to recruit jihadist terrorists. The Saudi Ministry of Islamic Affairs banned Tablighi Jamaat in December 2021 calling it a "gateway to terror."

Tablighi Jamaat's members have included Britain's 7/7 bombings and Madrid's 2004 transit system attacks; convicted al-Qaida terrorist and dirty bomb plotter Jose Padilla; American Taliban John Walker Lindh; "Lackawanna Six", a group of six Yemeni-Americans who trained in Afghanistan in 2001 to fight for al-Qaida on U.S. soil.

Hamas was founded as the Palestinian wing of the Muslim Brotherhood.

Alouadh is careful with his public commentaries but has called the Jewish state an "apartheid state." He has also posted videos on TikTok documenting his participation in an anti-Israel protests in Washington, D.C., in May 2021.

In June 2022, he denounced Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman for "sheltering" behind "the racist occupying state." In 2024, Alouadh disclosed his friendship with Fuad Kawther, a radical exiled Saudi academic residing in northern Virginia, who endorses Hamas on his social media and celebrated the "martyrdom" of the late Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar.

Kawther has also reportedly praised Osama bin Laden and denied his involvement with the 9/11 attacks. In February, Alouadh appeared with another exiled Saudi activist, Emad Mubaid, who openly endorses Hamas, calling the terror group a "unique and inspiring liberation movement of the modern era."

The sheikh praised the Oct. 7 attacks, reportedly declaring, "May Allah bless your days with joy and happiness" and prayed that Muslims would rejoice in the "victory" of the massacres.

Alouadh's connections also include those supportive of the Muslim Brotherhood in Yemen.

Alouadh has worked together and shared platforms with Yemeni Nobel Prize winner Tawakkol Karman, a leading member of Al-Islah, Yemen's Muslim Brotherhood party, social media posts show. Karman served on the board of directors of Democracy for the Arab World Now (DAWN) during Alaoudh's tenure as the organization's research director.

Al-Islah is controversial because of its historical connection with al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP). Its late leader was Sheikh Abdel Majid al-Zindani, who the U.S. Treasury identified in 2013 as a spiritual adviser to the terrorist group. Karman eulogized al-Zindani in an April 2024 post on X.

"May God have mercy on Sheikh Al-Zindani. To God we belong and to Him we shall return. My deepest condolences and sympathy to his family and loved ones," she wrote.

The U.S. Treasury designated al-Islah leader Nayif Salih Salim al-Qaysi as a specially designated terrorist in 2016, likewise identifying him as "a senior AQAP official and a financial supporter of AQAP." AQAP's emir acknowledged cooperation between al-Islah and AQAP against the Houthis in 2015 that was later suspended in 2018.

Karman has previously shared statements by late al-Qaida leader Ayman al-Zawahiri, favorably quoting Zawahiri saying "democracy is a failed path and it is not accessible to those who belong to the Islamic stream."

MEDC legally is the alter ego of the Project on Middle East Democracy (POMED), an Islamist group that received significant funding from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), according to Influence Watch. Last year, POMED merged with the Freedom Initiative to form the MEDC.

POMED appeared to attract other radical staff. Alouadh's former research assistant at POMED, Nour Taha, has written an essay defending Hamas, seeking to distance the terror group from ISIS. Taha condemned calling Hamas "radical Islamic terrorists" in an undated letter to the University of California Davis newspaper, in which he lauded the terror group as a "grassroots resistance movement."

Between 2019 and 2023, NED provided $2.9 million to the Project on Middle East Democracy (POMED), today known as the MEDC.

Mohamed Soltan, the founder of the Freedom Initiative, now serves as the merged organization's treasurer. Soltan was released Egyptian prison in 2015, having been imprisoned by the Sisi regime, which accused Soltan of being a member of the Muslim Brotherhood.

Soltan has a history of involvement with radical causes. According to Canary Mission, Soltan participated in a "flotilla" to Gaza in 2009 that met top Hamas leaders. He has supported the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions movement and has spoken at a conference of American Muslims for Palestine (AMP), whose reported "ties" to the designated terrorist organization Hamas have been noted by members of Congress.

In recent years, Egyptian media outlets have continued to accuse Soltan of serving as a secret Brotherhood member whose role is to engage in public relations on the group's behalf in the West.

Meanwhile, Egyptian journalist Hany Ghoraba reported in 2019 that Soltan cofounded a group called Egyptian Americans for Freedom and Justice (EAFJ), a leading advocacy group for the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood.

Soltan's sister, Hanaa Soltan, is also a MEDC board member. She organized the political movement that secured her brother's release from prison in 2015. Their father, Salah Soltan, is a notorious senior Muslim Brotherhood preacher, who said in 2012 that people all over the world "thirst for the blood of the Jews."

The elder Soltan has been imprisoned for over 10 years because of his involvement with the late Muslim Brotherhood Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi.

Public funding of organizations that employ or endorse individuals who glorify terrorists undercuts American foreign policy and national security interests. Greater transparency and oversight are essential — not only to protect taxpayer dollars but also to ensure these funds do not facilitate extremism under the guise of promoting democracy.

Groups such as this use liberal-sounding terms while supporting authoritarian individuals who reject American values.

© 2025 Newsmax. All rights reserved.

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American Taliban' John Walker Lindh illegally met with convicted ISIS supporter three times while on supervised release from prison, FBI says

2023-02-04

[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]

John Walker Lindh, 41, met with ISIS extremist Ali Shukri Amin in 2021, FBI says

Amin was convicted of supporting the Islamic State and was released in 2020

He has been re-arrested on suspicion of violation supervised release terms

Lindh has not been charged with violating parole for reasons that are unclear

He was sentenced to 20 years and released in 2019 after capture in Afghanistan

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18 years later: Remembering CIA Officer Johnny Spann

2019-11-26

[LI] Killed in the Battle of Qala-i-Jangi (11-25-2001). John Walker Lindh, the American Taliban interrogated by Spann just before Spann was killed, was released from prison last May.

For many years, on November 25 and also Memorial Day, we have remembered Johnny Micheal Spann, a CIA Operations Officer who was the first American killed in Afghanistan after 9/11.

We have told Spann’s story many times, but it never gets old. Our 15th Anniversary post summed up much of what we had learned, 15th Anniversary: Johnny "Mike" Spann, first American killed in Afghanistan.

A small group of special operations officers, often riding on horseback, helped organize the Northern Alliance forces and overthrow the Taliban.

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Re: John Walker Lindh out of prison. WoT continues.

2019-05-23

[Hot Air] Remember John Walker Lindh? One of America’s first detainees in the war on terror walked out of prison today after serving seventeen years of a 20-year sentence for terrorism. Reports that Lindh spent time in prison evangelizing for violent Islamist radicalism has some questioning why the federal government let him out ever:

John Walker Lindh, the so-called "American Taliban" whose capture in Afghanistan riveted a country in the early days after the September 11 attacks, has been released from prison.

After serving 17 years of a 20-year sentence, Lindh, the first US-born detainee in the war on terror, on Thursday walked out of a federal prison in Terre Haute, Indiana, and will join the small, but growing, group of Americans convicted of terror-related charges attempting to re-enter into society.

Lindh will live in Virginia subject to the direction of his probation officer, his lawyer, Bill Cummings, tells CNN. But some are already calling for an investigation into his time in prison ‐ where he is said in two US government reports to have made pro-ISIS and other extremist statements ‐ that could send him back into detention.

Reports of Lindh’s maintained radicalization, detailed in two 2017 official counterterrorism assessments, are also driving questions about the efforts of the US government to rehabilitate former sympathizers like him, who are expected to complete prison sentences in waves in the coming years.

Lindh’s behavior must have been particularly good, at least from the prison system point of view. Federal guidelines require prisoners to serve at least 85% of their sentence regardless of their disposition while incarcerated, and that’s precisely what Lindh served. Even so, Lindh would have been released no later than three years from now regardless of his behavior, unless he committed other prosecutable crimes while in prison.

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'Slap in the face': Daughter of CIA officer killed after 9/11 slams 'American Taliban' release

2019-05-22

[Washington Examiner] The last time Alison Spann saw her father, she was 9 years old. "My family drove to CIA," she recalls. "I was the only one who cried. The last memory I have of my dad is him walking away from us in the dark with all his bags."

That was shortly after the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Johnny "Mike" Spann was 32, a CIA paramilitary officer and former Marine who knew he was bound for northern Afghanistan and might never return. Less than two months later ‐ and moments after he had been questioning a bedraggled Taliban detainee named John Walker Lindh ‐ he was killed by a mob of prisoners attempting to escape from the remote fortress of Qala-i-Jangi.

In a cruel twist of fate, Alison Spann's mother died of cancer a month later. Suddenly, the young girl became the first orphan of what was already known as the War on Terror.

Now 27, Alison Spann is a television reporter working in Biloxi, Mississippi. After her father was killed, Lindh, now 38, was recaptured and it was discovered he was an American who had grown up in California, converted to Islam at age 16, and at 20, traveled to Afghanistan, joining the Taliban before 9/11 and attending al Qaeda training camps. After being captured by Northern Alliance fighters on Nov. 25, 2001, he was taken to Qala-i-Jangi.

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John Walker Lindh, American ex-Taliban fighter, to be released in May

2019-03-20

[FoxNews] John Walker Lindh, a former American Taliban militant convicted in 2002 for supporting the terrorist organization, is due to be freed in May.

The former Islamist fighter, dubbed “Detainee 001 in the war on terror,” was arrested in 2001, just months after the Sept. 11 attacks and the start of the war in Afghanistan. Then just 20 years old, he was among a group of Taliban fighters who were captured by U.S. forces.

Within a year, Walker Lindh was convicted of supporting the Taliban and sentenced to 20 years in prison -- even as some hardliners urged authorities to consider treason charges that could have resulted in the death penalty.

Walker Lindh’s release later this year is likely to be met with headaches for security services across the globe, especially since he has since acquired Irish citizenship and plans to move there -- even though he hasn’t denounced radical Islamic ideology and has even made pro-Isis comments to the media.

The National Counterterrorism Center penned a document dated Jan. 24, 2017 claiming the former Taliban fighter remains as radicalized now as he was in 2001.

“As of May 2016, John Walker Lindh (USPER) — who is scheduled to be released in May 2019 after being convicted of supporting the Taliban — continued to advocate for global jihad and to write and translate violent extremist texts,” the Foreign Policy magazine reported.

The report added Walker Lindh told “a television news producer that he would continue to spread violent extremist Islam upon his release.”

It appears, however, that the Irish government won’t follow the example of the British government -- which rescinded a Jihadi bride’s British citizenship -- and won’t stop Walker Lindh from entering the country.

Walker Lindh confirmed his plans to head to Ireland after his release in remarks he made to CAGE, a London-based organization focused on supporting people impacted by the War on Terror.

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Judge in Manafort trial has a sharp wit, sharp tongue

2018-08-03

WASHINGTON (AP) ‐ "I’m not in the theater business," Judge T.S. Ellis asserted during jury selection in Paul Manafort’s financial fraud trial. "You have to be better-looking for that."

Objection, Your Honor.

The trial of President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman has plenty of drama and it’s coming from the judge.

Easily exasperated, and with a sharp wit, the U.S. district judge called out attorneys for both sides this week when he heard they’d been rolling their eyes, apparently at him. The judge judged their expressions to mean, "Why do we have to put up with this idiot judge?"

Privately, lawyers who have appeared before him say Thomas Selby Ellis III likes to be seen as the smartest person in the courtroom, not a huge leap for a judge. With his Princeton-Harvard-Oxford education and experience spanning consequential cases in an era of war and terrorism ‐ "American Taliban" John Walker Lindh’s among them ‐ Ellis is known to cut lawyers down to size, sometimes subtly, sometimes not so much.

That’s what happened when Justice Department attorney Michael Dreeben, a legend in legal circles, appeared at a pre-trial hearing in the Manafort case. As soon as Dreeben began making his arguments for the prosecution, Ellis cut in ‐ "Would you spell your name for the record?" That’s not a question he asks others appearing in his Washington-area Eastern District of Virginia court.

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The Revenge Of The Lost Boys

2015-07-13

by Tom Nichols

Not sure I buy the thesis completely but it's an interesting read.

In almost every case, they dress their anger in the clothes of ideology: white supremacy, jihad, hatred of abortion, or anti-government paranoia. Stuck in perpetual adolescence, they see only their own imagined virtue amidst irredeemable corruption...

This is the battle cry of the narcissist, and we’ve heard it before. Western societies are producing more and more of these Lost Boys, the fail-to-launch young men who carry weighty social grudges. Some of them kill, but others lash out in other, more creative ways: whether it’s Edward Snowden deciding only he could save America from the scourge of surveillance, or Bowe Bergdahl walking away from his post to personally solve the war in Afghanistan, the combination of immaturity and grandiosity among these young males is jaw-dropping in its scale even when it is not expressed through the barrel of a gun.

There are others: John Walker Lindh, “the American Taliban,” spent his teen years hanging around in Internet chat rooms before became a jihadi at 20. Timothy McVeigh, a bullied little boy, planned his terrorist attack on a federal building after quitting the Army in his twenties. John Salvi, another loner, shot up an abortion clinic at 22. The list could go on.These young losers live through heroic fantasies and constructed identities rather than through work and human relationships: on the Internet, Snowden was “Wolfking Awesomefox,” which almost defies parody, while McVeigh thought of himself as a modern Paul Revere. Their lives, until the moment of their individual tragedy, are full of desperate attempts to spackle over the gaping hole of insecurity that should have been filled by the arrival of manhood sometime after high school.

Jihadis, of course, are the object lesson in this kind of deformed male identity. For all their faux piety and supposed distaste for Western immorality, the young men from North America and Europe who gravitate toward jihadism are often gleeful consumers of forbidden Western delights, and they have a particular obsession with rape, pornography, and an adolescent fixation on the subjugation of women. Terrorist organizations overseas are happy to accommodate this need: it’s not a coincidence that almost every time a jihadi nest gets raided, there’s plenty of porn to be found. Even Bin Laden had a voracious appetite for it.

It seems unarguable, however, that young black males who prey on their own society share one essential trait in common with the white losers who act out and harm strangers: they are not men in any sense of the word that connotes responsibility, restraint, self-discipline, or the other traditional masculine virtues.

The argument here is not that Bergdahl and Snowden are potential killers, or that all introverted or awkward young men threats to society. Indeed, any man who has never gone through phases of introversion and awkwardness is unusual. In fact, sometimes extroverted young men are monsters: in the case of the Boston bombing, the older Tsarnaev brother fits the bill of the creepy, disappointed narcissist, while his younger brother, now sentenced to death, really does seem to be nothing more than an aimless pothead who knew how to have a good time, but who could not bear to disappoint his weird brother.

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American Talibunny wins prison prayer lawsuit

2013-01-12

John Walker Lindh, an American who was convicted of helping the Taliban, should be allowed to participate in group prayer with other Muslim inmates at a high-security prison in Terre Haute, a federal judge ruled Friday.

The American Taliban fighter sued the Federal Bureau of Prisons, demanding that he and other Muslims in the Federal Correctional Institution should be allowed to conduct group prayers, and that not doing so is a violation of Religious Freedom of Restoration Act of 1993. Prison officials said allowing inmates such congregation poses security risks.

Ruling in Lindhs favor, U.S. District Judge Jane Magnus Stinson stated in her decision that the denial of daily group prayer opportunities substantially burdens Mr. Lindhs religious beliefs.

Lindh, who claims to follow the Hanbali school of Islam, said Islam requires him to pray with fellow Muslims five times a day daily. In his testimony during a three-day trial in August, he said the restrictions on group prayers were forcing him to sin.

"And what fun is sin if it's not voluntary?"

Currently, all 43 inmates in the Communications Management Unit within the Terre Haute facility, including 24 Muslims, are allowed to pray together for an hour each week and daily during Ramadan. All inmates also can pray at any time in their individual cells. But Lindh said it wasn't enough, and called security concerns about group prayers baseless.

Prison officials said Lindhs demands are not only dangerous, but also not fair to other inmates. Theyre also concerned that allowing group prayers could result in the inmates having a leader. But Stinson said that group prayers have not resulted in serious incidents or security threats in at least the past three years. Nor have such activities led to leadership issues among inmates, she said.

If Stinsons decision stands, it could reach beyond the federal prison in Terra Haute. Though the ruling does not bind other federal prisons in other districts, it could encourage other inmates to challenge prison rules if they think their religious freedom is being restricted, said Indianapolis civil rights lawyer Karen Celestino-Horseman.

She said, Certainly, when one judge decides that, it does make it more interesting. The biggest impact is that there are going to be other Muslims who follow this particular belief and will certainly look at this case. Ultimately, it would not surprise me at all to see this decision one day end up in the U.S. Supreme Court.

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US prison top chaplain: Clerics advised policy

2012-08-28

A policy that American-born Taliban fighter John Walker Lindh claims violates his Muslim beliefs by barring inmates in the tightly controlled prison unit where he is held from praying together more than once a week was based on advice from Islamic clerics, the head chaplain of the U.S. prison system says.

Anyone think Mr. Lindh has 'reformed'? His family likes to claim that he is a different person than the one captured in 2001. This whole lawsuit is evidence that Mr. Lindh is still waging war.

The government is defending its policy this week in Indianapolis against a lawsuit filed by Lindh, who claims it flouts a 1993 law restraining the government from curtailing religious expression without showing it has a compelling interest.

The key to the case is the tension between the need for security in a post-9/11 world and guarantees of freedom of religion, even behind bars.

According to court documents, Muslims in the tightly controlled Communications Management Unit in Terre Haute -- one of only two in the country -- are allowed to pray together only once a week, except during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan. Other faiths' gatherings are also limited. At other times, they must pray alone in their individual cells, which Lindh said doesn't meet the requirements of his school of Islam.

"I believe it's obligatory," Lindh said of daily group prayer during his testimony Monday. "If you're required to do it in congregation and you don't, then that's a sin."

Michael R. Smith Sr., chief chaplain for the Bureau of Prisons, testified Monday in federal court in Indianapolis that the agency consults with leaders of various religions before setting policy. However, he said prison policy doesn't recognize religious services if they aren't led by chaplains. He said officials decided group religious services must be supervised following a 2004 report about efforts to radicalize Muslim inmates following 9/11.

The government claims in court documents that Lindh delivered a radical sermon to other Muslim prisoners in February. It also says he delivered the sermon entirely in Arabic, which is not allowed under Bureau of Prison regulations that require all speech but ritual prayers to be in English.

Ken Falk, legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Indiana, which is handling Lindh's case, said the speech wasn't radical and Lindh wasn't disciplined for it.

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Islamic Radicalization U.S.A.

2009-12-24

by Ryan Mauro

If a major homegrown terrorist attack happens on U.S. soil in the coming years, 2009 will be looked at as the year when the warning signs were missed. According to the Rand Corporation, the U.S. has experienced 30 homegrown terrorism plots since 9/11. One-third of these occurred in 2009; a frightening spike that warrants more attention than it is currently being given by public officials.

The Obama Administration began its term by refusing to include terms like "radical Islam" as part of its lexicon. The Global War on Terrorism was alternatively called an "overseas contingency operation" or "a campaign against extremists who wish to do us harm."

The Secretary of Homeland Security, Janet Napolitano, described terrorism as a "man-caused disaster. When asked about not even mentioning the word "terrorism" in her first address to Congress, she said, "That is perhaps only a nuance, but it demonstrates that we want to move away from the politics of fear towards a policy of being prepared for all risks that can occur."

The homegrown terrorist activity this year has startled the Obama Administration, which now is forced to privately conclude that the radicalization of American-Muslims is increasing.

In today's 30-second news culture, shocking incidents such as these quickly fade away as the topic of coverage as other news develops. A summary of some of the biggest incidents this year is needed for the American people to understand how much activity took place:

* In May, authorities broke up a plot by four prison converts to bomb two synagogues in the Bronx and fire Stinger missiles at aircraft flying around the Air National Guard base in Newburgh , New York .

* On June 1, a Muslim convert shot up a military recruiting center in Arkansas, killing one soldier and wounding another. The attacker, Abdulhakim Muhammad, was previously jailed in Yemen for traveling on a fraudulent Somali passport. Robert Spencer of JihadWatch.org reported that a "well-placed source" informed him that he had gone to Yemen to try to study under a radical cleric named Yahya Hajoori.

* In July, seven Muslims were arrested in North Carolina for training with high-powered weapons in preparation to join a jihad overseas. The leader of the group, Daniel Patrick Boyd, had previously trained in guerilla camps in Afghanistan during the Soviet invasion and enlisted his two sons in his plans.

* In September, FBI and local law enforcement raided two apartments owned by Afghans in New York after the occupants were visited by Najibullah Zazi, a suspected terrorist who had traveled to an Al-Qaeda training camp last year. Nine backpacks and cell phones were confiscated, and Zazi was found to have purchased chemicals similar to those used in the 2005 London subway bombings, causing concern that the suspects were planning an attack styled after that operation.

* Also in September, FBI sting operations led to the arrest of two desiring to carry out acts of terror. A Jordanian named Michael Finton, an admirer of the "American Taliban" John Walker Lindh, was arrested for planning to set off car bombs outside of a courthouse in Illinois and a skyscraper in Texas . Hosam Maher Husein Smadi was arrested in Texas after trying to detonate a decoy car bomb underneath an office tower.

* In October, the FBI tried to arrest a radical imam in Detroit connected to a range of criminal activity. When they arrived at a warehouse to get Imam Luqman Ameen Abdullah, he responded with gunfire, killing one of the FBI's dogs before he was shot and killed. Six of his associates were arrested. In the same month, Tarek Mehanna was arrested in Boston for planning to attack a shopping mall and assassinate two public officials.

* The next month, Nidal Malik Hassan carried out the horrific shooting at Fort Hood , killing 13 people. He is now known to have previously expressed his support for suicide bombers and to have communicated with Anwar al-Awlaki, a radical imam in Yemen who has acted as a recruiter for Al-Qaeda and praised Hassan's shooting. To this day, President Obama and senior officials have not publicly described the incident as terrorism.

* Most recently, five Americans were arrested in Pakistan on their way to link up with the Al-Qaeda and Taliban. They were arrested at the home of a member of the Jaish-e-Mohammed terrorist group, who is the uncle to one of the suspects.

These are only some of the major incidents related to radical Islamic activity in the U.S. that occurred this year. A total of 14 Somali-Americans from Minnesota have been indicted for helping to recruit fellow members of their community to join the Al-Shabaab terrorist group fighting for control of Somalia . The case of Rifqa Bary received considerable attention, as did the honor killing in Arizona of a daughter by her father for being "too Westernized."

The Christian Action Network, where I serve as a national security researcher, released the "Homegrown Jihad" documentary in February about the isolated communities in the U.S. run by a radical Islamic group used as paramilitary training and recruitment centers. A new tape provided to me as part of CAN's investigation into the group called "Muslims of the Americas " shows female recruits of the organization receiving such training at their headquarters in New York called "Islamberg."

The media is failing to compile all these events and see the frightening increase that the Obama Administration is now admitting exists. When the problem is mentioned, the ideological component is not discussed or is misunderstood. On December 12, Kimberly Dozier reported on the Obama Administration's realization regarding the problem on CBS Evening News, but attributed the rise in homegrown terrorism to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan , saying they were "portrayed by the militants as America 's war on Islam."

Dozier also said that "Muslim community leaders here say young people are also being driven to extremes by post-9/11 anti-Muslim propaganda" and cited the Council on American-Islamic Relations as saying that civil rights complaints by Muslims have increased by ten percent in 2009, attempting to draw a connection between bigotry against Muslims and homegrown terrorism. If Dozier had done her research on her source, she would have found that the view of the War on Terror as a war on Islam that she says is causing the increase in homegrown terrorism is actually promoted by CAIR.

2009 should put to rest the idea that any homegrown terrorist plot is an isolated incident. The participants in these plots might not be operationally connected, but a political-religious ideology binds them together. The fight for the home front continues into 2010.

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Man accused of trying to bomb Dallas building

2009-09-25

A 19-year-old Jordanian man living in Texas was arrested Thursday on charges he intended to bomb a downtown Dallas skyscraper, federal officials said.

Hosam Maher Husein Smadi was arrested after placing what he believed to be a car bomb outside the 60-story Fountain Place office tower Thursday, according to a statement from the U.S. attorney's office in Dallas. The decoy device was given to him by an undercover FBI agent, the statement said.

Smadi was charged with attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction. Federal officials said the case has no connection with the major terrorism investigation under way in Colorado and New York or the arrest Thursday of a man facing charges in a similar plot in Springfield, Ill.
Another Muslim mass murderer are popping out of the woodwork? Common as cockroaches they are.
Smadi drove to Dallas on Thursday, met one of the undercover agents and then drove to the targeted building, the FBI agent wrote. Smadi then allegedly drove a vehicle with the device into the parking garage beneath the building, parked it and attempted to detonate the bomb by setting the device's timer and flipping its power switch.

Smadi met again with the undercover agent, who drove several blocks away and Smadi dialed a cell phone he was led to believe would detonate the car bomb, according to the affidavit.

The case is unrelated to that against Najibullah Zazi, a 24-year-old shuttle driver at the Denver airport also indicted in New York on charges of conspiracy to use weapons of mass destruction. It was also unrelated to the case against Michael C. Finton, who was accused of planning to bomb the federal courthouse in Springfield, Ill, White said.
Another one? What is the score? Three horrific islamic mass murder plots stopped this week.
In the Illinois case, a 29-year-old man who idolized American-born Taliban soldier John Walker Lindh was arrested after attempting to detonate what he thought was a bomb inside a van outside a federal courthouse, officials said.
Unpaid parking ticket?
Michael C. Finton, also known as Talib Islam, was arrested and charged in a criminal complaint with one count of attempting to murder federal officers or employees and trying to detonate a weapon of mass destruction.
But the Media told us if we elected Hussien Obama and kowtowed to the Saudis and Iranians, the muslims would love us.

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