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The Miami Seven
Posted by Raven on June 23rd, 2006
And another group of young men who mean to harm America have been caught and arrested. I applaud the government, the FBI- for making this happen.
WASHINGTON — Seven men described as “homegrown terrorists” have been charged with conspiring with Al Qaeda to “levy war against the United States” by committing acts of violence that included blowing up Chicago’s Sears Tower and an FBI building in Florida.
Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said Friday that the seven suspects were part of a group of who sought to work with Al Qaeda but ended up conspiring instead with a law enforcement informant. These men were living and working in the cities they were planning on attacking, Gonzales said, just as the Madrid, London and Toronto bombers — or would-be bombers — were.
Heh…
“They were persons who for whatever reason came to view their home country as the enemy,” Gonzalez said.
We need to find the answers to this. Were they members of a mosque that allowed hate preaching?
The men — five of whom are American citizens — along with others yet unknown, set out to “combine, conspire, confederate, and agree to provide material support and resources” to Al Qaeda “by agreeing to provide personnel, including themselves, to work under Al Qaeda’s direction and control, knowing that Al Qaeda has engaged or engages in terrorist activity,” according to a four-count indictment handed up Thursday against the seven men.
In other words, some of them would have been willing to blow themselves up; others would have been more than willing to fly a plane into a building; still others would have grabbed some hostages and cut off their heads…you know- the tactics of the Religion of Peace AKA Al Qaeda.
Gonzales said the terror suspects had the intent to carry out the attacks, but not necessarily the capability at the time of their arrest.
I see the ACLU coming to the rescue of the seven scum. And the liberals and democrats. Give them a few days.
“We try to identify plots in the earliest stages possible because we don’t know what we don’t know about a terrorism plot. Once we have sufficient information to move forward with a prosecution, that’s what we do and that is what has occurred here,” Gonzales said. “We took action when we did because we believe we have an obligation to protect America … We felt that the combination of the planning and overt acts taken were sufficient to go forward with this prosecution. There is no immediate threat.”
They stopped a plan in it’s tracks. No matter how early in it’s planning- the attacks won’t be happening now.
He continued: “These seven individuals are members of a homegrown terror cell. They lived and worked in the United States and enjoyed all the great freedom our nation offered. Yet they pledged their allegiance to Al Qaeda, or at least who they thought was Al Qaeda.”
He noted that the suspects planned attacks as big, if not bigger, than those of Sept. 11, 2001, that killed over 3,000 people.
“The struggle is far from over. We cannot afford to become complacent, as the threats are real, and the stakes are high,” Pistole added.
During a press conference later in Miami, Jonathan Solomon, FBI special agent in charge of the Miami office, stressed that the indictment is against individuals, “it is not an indictment against any religion or segments of our community.”
He’s being PC. I would indite the entire religion. Without hesitation. Have we heard any reaction from the Muslim community yet?
June 23rd, 2006 at 3:29 pm
One suspected terrorist is an illegal alien from Haiti.
I was shocked yesterday when CNN called him an ILLEGAL ALIEN. I thought they were big on “undocumented workers”.
Raven –
I think the official word from the muslim community was:
SHIT, Plan B.
June 23rd, 2006 at 7:01 pm
I’ve seen nothing on CAIR’s site yet. But today is Friday, so the whole bunch may be at the Wahhabist-funded mosque for “prayers.”
I actually heard a Muslim today on talk radio call in and say that the Koran doesn’t authorize violence. Puhleeze! The radio host is an excellent fellow, but he didn’t have the knowledge to come back with the truth, even though he didn’t let the guy off the hook and pointed out that Muslims don’t turn in their own.
June 23rd, 2006 at 9:38 pm
CNN used that term??? WHERE WAS I??
Plan B…so long as the NYT doesn’t disclose how we track the plans.
And Muslims stick together like super glue.
June 23rd, 2006 at 11:09 pm
Although I’m not exactly sure what “indite” means, I’m sure you’re right in saying it’s a thing we should do to the Muslim religion.
June 23rd, 2006 at 11:12 pm
Those people aren’t even Muslim.
They were a cult that included a hodgepodge of judaism, christianity and islam. More than anything they seem to be a black panther style spinoff of “the moors”. One of them is supposedly into witchcraft. They’re vegetarians. Just because you’ve been conditioned to believe so, not all domestic terrorists are muslim.
Not only that, but the way they were bragging and leaking about all their ideas and plans, they don’t seem like that big a threat or serious for that matter. At the very least not experienced or learned in what they were doing.
June 24th, 2006 at 3:56 pm
They weren’t Muslim but they subscribed the Islamic manner didn’t they? By pledging their effort to AQ….and praying and acting like Muslims.
June 25th, 2006 at 6:05 pm
Gee, domestic terrorists attempting to affiliate with the main enemy of the time. Imagine that.
June 27th, 2006 at 10:44 am
So, let me get this straight. If an undercover law enforcement agent approaches a bunch of moronic wannabe gangbangers and orders a hit on a rivalling gang, convincing them to acquire weapons and carrying out the hit, it’s not entrapment?
WoW! You guys must’ve been wearing your thinking caps when you wrote that constitution of yours. :roll:
As for the Koran promoting violence – of course it does, as is the case with most thousand-year old dogmatic teachings outthere – your precious bible included.
Here’s an idea: Relate to people instead of the scriptures they follow – or are you too dogmatic in your own ways and too rigid in your own value systems to avoid the galactically retarded ways of stereotyping and generalizations?
Home of the free, land of the brave… My ass…