Lessons from the Terror Arrests of Americans in Pakistan
Five Americans from the northern Virginia and Washington, D.C., area have been arrested in Pakistan on their way to commit jihad. The fact that they were caught before they got to hook up with those to-die-for 72 virgins (the ones that, according to one Saudi preacher, are white and have no phlegm, feces, urine, or perhaps most appealingly, menstrual cycles) is itself a success in the war on terror. In order to capitalize on this success, though, we need to learn several lessons from the episode.
The first lesson is that we cannot ignore how Pakistan-based extremist groups have penetrated America’s shores. One of the student’s uncles, who is part of the Jaish-e-Mohammed terrorist group, provided them with a safe house where they were ultimately captured. This group was created in the year 2000 after Maulana Masood Azhar, a former senior leader of Harakat ul-Ansar, was released from prison in exchange for 155 hostages. The group is primarily focused on fighting India over Kashmir and has carried out many attacks, including the 2001 attack on India’s parliament, and they are suspected of being linked to plots to kill former Pakistani President Musharraf when he was in office.
The group had training camps in Afghanistan when the Taliban was in power and has received funding from Osama bin Laden. According to the Australian government, the group met with various terrorist organizations in June 2008, where they agreed to shift their focus to removing coalition forces from Afghanistan.
These aren’t the first Americans that JEM has recruited. In 2004, a man in Colorado was deported after it was learned that he had been trained in one of the group’s camps. There are also sympathizers, as found out earlier this year when four men were arrested for plotting to bomb two synagogues in the Bronx and to use Stinger missiles to shoot down military aircraft flying out of the Air National Guard base in Newburgh, New York. The plot was busted when an FBI informant posed as a member of JEM, with whom the ringleader discussed his desire to join the group.
Investigators should be on the lookout for a potential link between the five Americans and Jamaat ul-Fuqra, known in the U.S. as “Muslims of America.” The United Press International reported in 2002 that ul-Fuqra “is a splinter group” of JEM and is also linked to Harakat ul-Mujahideen. As discussed previously, ul-Fuqra has isolated communities in the U.S. that are used as paramilitary training centers, as a videotape recently released by the Christian Action Network shows.
Muslims in the West are supporting Jihad? No surprise here. It is a religious duty of all Musims without exception to wage war on non-Muslims until the entire world is Islamic or acknowledges Islamic supremacy. This is a clash of civilizations between Islam and the West, and if the West does not want to lose people had better start taking this conflict more seriously. Stopping Islamic immigration would be a good place to start.
Understand that jihad is part of Islam. It’s in the Koran, if you care to read something that sure won’t help you go to sleep. Jihad is also known as the 6th Pillar of Islam. Get used to the idea that the madrassas in Virginia are creating the very thing we are trying to stop. I do not see how we can continue as a civilization with all the craziness disrupting modern life and commerce. We will be spending billions just to keep this violent crap to a minimum instead of spending it on human/social needs such as education, health care, etc. It is sad and pathetic to me to hear these sob sisters whine and cry over treating barbarians and religiously dysfunctional people who are psychopaths and destructive with some sort of PC crap that just isn’t going to work.
Lesson is: they weren’t Ameicans — unless you think whelping animals on our soil gets Americans. All the media, including yours continues the fiction: “5 American terrorists…” instead of FIVE AMERICAN MUSLIMS.
Sometimes we can’t help who we are, but we CAN have better teachers.
Mr. Mauro, please stop referring to these dirtbags as “five Americans”. They are not Americans. They are merely five walking talking pieces of excrement. Ideally, Pakistan will execute all of them and do both of our countries a huge favor. While we’re at it, their families that are here in the US should be rounded up and deported.
This report is racist. You ought to be ashamed! Where are all the photos of the white terrorists?
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The question is how did these 5 get together? Did they attend the same mosque? Did they share a mentor? Meeting over the internet would seem to invite infiltration by authorities.
Five moon god worshipers with American passports want to murder in the name of allah. Their not extremists, they are following Mohammed.
BTW, search the Mosque, Imam, family, and friends of these so called Americans. I suspect where there are 5 cockroaches, there may very well be 500.
Keep letting in the ROP America. They can’t help but prove me correct.
ROPMA!
What makes these guys Americans? Strip them of their citizenship and send them to Afghanistan dressed in Taliban sheets and let the US Army take ‘em out.
100 years from now Americans will be paying in blood for our allowing Islam into the USA.
Any doubts?
9@ehunter:
>100 years from now Americans will be paying in blood for our allowing
>Islam into the USA.
Probably the same people who let you in.
Kochevnik
Fair enough..lets see if the “new immigrants” can pass the test my ancestors did..ready? My grandparents emigrated from Scotland in 1920.
1. They spoke English.They were Presbyterian.
2. They came from Christian, white, Europe and understood the USA, and loved it. They were patriotic..no matter how hard life was in the USA.
3. My Grandfather came with a valuable skill..ie. Master Mason.
4. They came in legally and were self supporting from the start.
5. Even during the Great Depression they refused any Govt welfare whatsoever.
6. Their son..my father fought in 3 wars WWII, Korea, Vietnam for the USA
Not an uncommon story..now compare it to what Islam brings to the USA.
ehunter,
Cool story. Please tell your Father,(if alive), thanks for his service to our country. He was part of the solution.
Islam is part of the problem.