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Sudden Jihad Syndrome?: Missing Egyptian “Devout Muslim” Drove Into San Diego Nightclub Crowd, Injured 36

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Explosions Reported At MDOT Headquarters

Update 2:34 PM: ABC Radio reports it was two package bombs, one in Hanover and one in Annapolis. All State mail rooms are on lockdown.

Possible Explosions Reported At MDOT Headquarters - Baltimore News Story - WBAL Baltimore:

"Firefighters and hazmat crews were sent to the MDOT building in the 7200 block of Corporate Center in Hanover shortly before 1 p.m. Thursday.
County officials said they were responding to a possible explosion and hazmat situation."

Update 1/07/11: The authorities now describe the devices as incendiaries, not explosives.  A note was in one complaining about highway signs.


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Update to Baltimore recruiting center bombing plot

Update to yesterday's story.

In plan to attack recruiting center, echoes of Christmas tree bombing plot - CSMonitor.com:

"Antonio Martinez, 21, of Baltimore appeared in federal court on Wednesday and was charged with attempting to explode a car bomb at a military recruiting station in Catonsville, Md.

There was no real bomb. It was all a setup arranged by undercover FBI sources and operatives posing as militant Muslims."

Yesterday, a CBS affiliate reported Martinez went by Mohamed O. Mohamud and Mohamed Hussain (I still prefer Mohamed O'Mohamud).   More from CSM:

The operation nearly fell apart because of similarities to the Nov. 26 case in Portland. After seeing news accounts of the sting operation and arrest, Martinez phoned the same unnamed confidential source and expressed concern about an undercover FBI agent who was posing as an Afghan militant.

Martinez told the source that he needed to know “who this brother is. … I’m not falling for no B.S.,” according to the affidavit.

And -

“Every person Mr. Martinez asked to join in his scheme either declined to participate, tried to talk him out of it, or reported him to the FBI,” US Attorney Rod Rosenstein said in a statement. “There is no evidence that Mr. Martinez received direction or support from any other person.”

 CBS Evening News reports:

According to an affidavit the government was tipped to Martinez back in October, recording numerous conversations he allegedly had with an informant as well as an undercover agent over two months. In one conversation, Martinez said, "[W]e blow one recruiting center up, then we hit another one, there's no more recruiting centers in Maryland." 

As evidence the government also cites Facebook postings including, "[T]he sword is cummin (sic) the reign of oppression is about 2 cease..."

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Mohamed O. Mohamud Arrested In Baltimore Bomb Plot

See Dec. 9 2010 update.
From the 'If these guys do not stop, their religion might get a bad name' department:

Jihad Barbie models winter boots.

Person Arrested In Baltimore Bomb Plot:

"An official who was briefed on the arrest told AP on the condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to release the information that the person was given a phony bomb and was arrested after trying to detonate it.

U.S. law enforcement officials told CBS News that the case was 'similar to Portland.' Mohamed O. Mohamud is accused of trying to detonate a van during a Christmas tree lightening ceremony in Portland, but the FBI infiltrated the plot in its early stages and supplied Mohamud with fake explosives.

The Baltimore man is expected to be charged with attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction and was under surveillance by law enforcement for months.

Sources tell CBS that the man is 21 years old, a United States citizen and a convert to Islam."

The Wikileaks nation must be in tears about another headline getting in the way of Julian Assange news.  Also, I suspect a typo.  Mohamed O'Mohamud has such an IRA/Hamas fusion to it.

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Blowin' It Up on the West Coast, Plus Adam Savage on Big Blades

Serbian immigrant, software consultant, and naturalized US citizen, George Djura Jakubec in California goes into the explosive hardware business, government shuts it down.

San Diego County authorities confirmed Thursday they have found pentaerythritol tetranitrate, or PETN, a favorite of al Qaeda bomb-makers that is now the target of new U.S. airport body scans and pat downs.

They also found more hexamethylene triperoxide diamine, or HMTD, in a bottle inside the house, but the two types of homemade explosives were not immediately removed because they are too volatile and the house is too cluttered to negotiate safely, Assistant Sheriff Ed Prendergast said.

Authorities had already recovered 8 or 9 pounds of HMTD, an explosive powder that suicide bombers use, authorities said.

The search of the house also turned up items “suggestive of armed robberies,” Prendergast said in a written statement.

Rapper, naturalized, Somali born American citizen, Mohamed Osman Mohamud arrested in Christmas tree bombing attempt. via Gawker

Rapper Mohamed Osman Mohamed

Under pen name "Ibn al-Mubarak," he wrote an article in 2009 for the inaugural issue of Jihad Recollections about how to shape up for violent Jihad: "Getting in Shape Without Weights." In it, he blasts "un-Islamic" gyms with "music, semi-naked women, free mixing and the danger of showing off." 

Mohamud was also a rapper in a former life. According to the FBI's affadavit, Mohamud considered launching a Mumbai-style attack using small arms: "He said that because he had been a rapper, he could obtain a pistol or AK-47." We were unable to determine Mohamud's Jihadi emcee name, or the potency of his flow.

Portland police have refused to cooperate with FBI in joint terrorism investigations since 2005.

Portland Oregon Muslim leader, Kayse Jama, denounces violence after Christmas tree bomber arrested.

Stop snitching movement blazes it up in Portland mosque, where members are suspected of reporting the Christmas Tree Bomb Rapper to authorities.

Adam Savage, of Mythbusters, flies with big blades.  Yes, that is how he roll.  Video:





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Man charged in bomb plot against Washington DC subway

Updated 28 October 2010

Man charged in bomb plot on Washington DC subway:

"Washington - A Pakistani-born man (Farooque Ahmed) has been arrested for a plot to bomb subway stations in and around Washington DC on Wednesday.

The Virginia man was indicted on charges that he attempted to aid what he thought were al-Qaida operatives in planning the bombings of several subway stations in the Washington area, according to a Washington Post report."

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Photo taken by Virginia neighbor of ex-New Yorker Farooque Ahmed shows federal agents poised to raid the terror suspect's home.

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/2010/10/28/2010-10-28_accused_dc_bomb_plotter_farooque_ahmeds_goal_was_killing_as_many_metro_riders_as.html#ixzz13fETTFYE

From the NY Daily News article:

"Ahmed wanted to kill as many military personnel as possible," the complaint alleges.
Ahmed is the second would-be terrorist from Staten Island arrested this week. Abdel Hameed Shehadeh was charged Tuesday with lying to the feds about attempts to join the Taliban.

Sahar Mirza and child via Gawker

For some reason, the above quote is not used very much and "METRO riders" replaces "military personnel".
Other items from the story -  In Staten Island, he was registered as a Republican in 2002 (note: something not unheard of from radicals trying to stay below the radar) 
- His wife, Sahar Mirza, ran the Northern Virginia Meetup.Com group Hip Muslim Moms, under the banner of Moderate Muslim Moms. Some reports say she is from Birmingham, England.
- Farooque Ahmed is the son of a retired Pakistani bank executive.
- Farooque Ahmed is reported to have a LinkedIn profile that matches this one.
In predictable form, Salon asks: Did the FBI cook up a fake bomb plot?  without so much as a peek at the FBI's legal complaint.  They continue to poo-poo several of the pending cases against alleged terrorists.  At least they stop short of theorizing that the FBI placed the gun in the hand of MAJ Hasan to cook up a fake shooting spree.


I agree with others, like Joshua Pundit, that a radical wahabi imam/mosque connection is in this story somewhere waiting to be revealed.

The AP has this video report:

Refresh yourselves with the one story to tie them all together.






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Times Square Bomber - Faisal Shahzad - Sentencing Today

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Osama Bin Laden Liberaltarian tape on relief work: 'Stop fighting me with armies and spend your money elsewhere'

BBC News - 'Osama Bin Laden' tape on relief work:

"In the 11-minute undated tape, Bin Laden expresses concern over natural disasters and calls for more aid for victims, said intelligence group Site.

The tape shows a still image of Bin Laden and scenes of people in disaster zones receiving aid.

The tape would be Bin Laden's first public comments since March, but its authenticity has not been confirmed.

In it, the voice says more people are affected by climate change than wars and appears to refer to recent flooding in Pakistan.

'The catastrophe (in Pakistan) is very big and it is difficult to describe it,' he says.

'What we are facing... calls for generous souls and brave men to take serious and prompt action to provide relief for their Muslim brothers in Pakistan.'"

Translation: Stop fighting my people with your military and spend your money on something else.

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Racing to the bottom on Zoning and Property Rights

Reason, and its blog, have been on top of eminent domain abuse since their inception. They shined with learned opposition to the Kelo decision. Even this week, Hit & Run posted an insightful article exposing property rights abuses (through 'blight' ordinances) in Montgomery, Alabama (Sorry, I swear this evidence was on their blog this AM. I was sent a working link to it. Memory holes have been tricky since 1984).

All of that experience and insight evaporates as soon as religion is an element in the topic at hand. The Saint Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church languishes, bound and strangled in New York Port Authority red tape for seven years, then cuts a deal with the Port Authority to relocate in the same neighborhood. If you want to read about that one on Reason you have to go into the comments to read what their online readers have to say about this blatant abuse of private property rights.

Does Reason ignore every religious property that gets stepped on by the state? Of course not. In true, Left-leaning form, they leaped to take sides on the Cordoba Mosque project. They joined the Leftist echo-chamber with shouts of bigotry and made sure to bash Sarah Palin in the process. Where is the outrage about the zoning abuses? For months a handful of their commentators, like some other fellow who goes by John, Suki my blog partner, and others were talking about the uneven handedness of New York City when it comes to property rights as soon as Reason began championing the Cordoba Mosque and their new-found support of freedom to worship. Frankly, this unwavering freedom is frequently expressed in the form of calling a wide swath of Christians 'fundamentalists' or 'fundies' in their stories, morning links, and in the comments' section of their blog. The commentators frequently pointed out that mayor Bloomberg never gave a care about property rights before a Mosque was making its way through the approval process. A process that ran at light-speed compared to others.

I wonder, if this were an Episcopal Church that got so many government favors, would perhaps another story be found besides “freedom of religion”? Especially with Commonwealth Edison as one of the property owners where the new place of worship is going to be built? Just a hunch that Matt Welch or Nick Gillespie could type that up between cosmotarian martinis and intern interviews.

The relevant issue for Libertarians (and libertarians) is, and always has been, the government using its regulatory power in an unequal manner. No matter if anybody besides the principles of the Greek Orthodox Church and the Port Authority of New York were the only ones aware of the Church issue, the basic issue remains. The Port Authority and the City used their powers to favor one organization while continuing to obstruct others. Discovering that the Greek Orthodox congregation has been stonewalled for almost ten years just makes the abuse that much worse.

Good thing Rush Limbaugh mentioned the Greek Orthodox situation on his show earlier today. Perhaps this aspect will get the mainstream media attention that has been missing since 9/11. The talkers on the Roe Cahn show (WLS-AM, 890, Chicago) even got it wrong right after the Limbaugh show.

Series tie-in: zoning boards are generally crippled in the future. You can build what you like on your own property.

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Islam vs. Other Religions at Ground Zero, NYC and the MSM

Following up on Suki's earlier post: The Greenroom God and Man at Ground Zero

Notice anything interesting about the following links? They are the top ones from a Google News search for St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church, Manhattan:

Leading article: Mr Obama stands up for tolerance

(mainstream UK news, does not mention the Church at all)

Mosque Moves Forward, Yet Church in Limbo

St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church, which once sat right across the street from the World Trade Center, was crushed under the weight of the collapse of Tower Two on September 11, 2001. St. Nicholas was the only church to be lost in the attacks, and nine years later, while City of New York officials are busy removing every impediment to the building of the Cordoba mosque two blocks from the site, St. Nicholas’ future remains unclear.

Human Events is not that mainstream.

God and Man at Ground Zero

The one Suki blogged and Hot Air is not exactly mainstream either.

Church Near Ground Zero Asking For Attention

Here we go, MyFOX is a little closer.

Up at the top, the paid news links, a Washington Post article comes up, by accident, because a blog commentator mentions the St. Nicholas Church that was destroyed by Muslims in Europe. Interesting parallel to the one destroyed by jihadists Muslims in Manhattan.

Here is the scoop. The arrogant controllers of power in New York City have been preventing the reconstruction of the Saint Nicholas Church for almost ten years.  As soon as a questionable imam wants to put a "cultural center" within stoning distance of Ground Zero, every zoning obstacle is removed and they get the green light. Then Obama sends the questionable imam on a federal paid world tour to raise an additional $100 million for the project.

The Greek Orthodox project, on the other hand, already has pledges and donations from around the world and are ready to build, as soon as they get permission from Big Brother.

Too bad, in the eyes of Big Brothers Bloomberg and Obama, "zoning fairness" means Muslims first, at government expense.
 


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WikiTerrorist Julian Assange To Write For Swedish Tabloid

via Slashdot: Julian Assange To Write For Swedish Tabloid

"Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has signed on as a columnist for Swedish tabloid Aftonbladet. Why such a move? Maybe there's something more to be found in Swedish law when you are employed by a newspaper."

Here's an account in English, including a translation of the interview that forms part of the linked Aftenbladet article.

In case you forgot about the WikiLeaks little gem of deception, how about looking at the rebuttal for a dose of truth.





Why don't they hire Major Hasan, Jihad Jane, and every other treasonous jerk out there - in addition to the WikiTerrorist too?

No direct series tie-in, other than I hope whenever doctored video comes out it is countered with the truth quickly. Also, national security is tighter but not as much is classified in the future.


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