Jihadists plead guilty to plotting attacks on US synagogues
posted at 7:37 pm on December 15, 2007 by Bryan
More misunderstanders, I’m sure, who didn’t get word that jihad is supposed to be a personal, inner struggle.
Two men accused of plotting behind prison walls to launch Jihad-style attacks on military sites, synagogues and other targets in 2005 pleaded guilty on Friday to conspiring to levy war against the United States.
Kevin James, 31, and Levar Haley Washington, 28, entered their pleas in separate appearances before U.S. District Court Judge Cormac J. Carney.
Washington also pleaded guilty to using a firearm to further the conspiracy. Prosecutors said he used a shotgun to rob a Torrance gas station on July 4, 2005.
The gas station robbery was supposed to finance the jihad.
Prosecutors say the plot was orchestrated by Washington, Patterson and Samana at the behest of James, a California State Prison, Sacramento, inmate who founded the radical group Jamiyyat Ul-Islam Is-Saheeh, or JIS.
Washington converted to Islam while imprisoned with James, then looked to recruit other members of the group, authorities said. Neu said Patterson and Samana were recruited in part because they had no criminal records and could acquire weapons without suspicion.
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Prosecutors assert that James also prepared a press release that the men planned to send out after an attack.
“This incident is the first in a series of incidents to come in a plight to defend and propagate traditional Islam in its purity,” James allegedly wrote. “We are not extremists, radicals, or terrorists. We are only servants of Allah.”
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Resist We Much on April 23, 2013 at 11:24 AM
That link from the Jester site is verrrry interesting. I suppose the powers that be could be playing dumb and saying we think they acted alone so other conspirators aren’t put on notice.
mikeyboss on April 23, 2013 at 11:29 AM
Are they sure it wasn’t a Ben Affleck movie?
RadClown on April 23, 2013 at 11:36 AM
The one guy — a boxer, no advanced education. The other guy, a pothead college student, no technical education.
The difficult part is (a) detonator and (b) radio control of detonation. Would appear difficult, yes? Apparently not. The info is readily available on the interwebs. Like here. If you can use Google, then read and look at pictures, yes you can create a remote detonator out of toy parts.
Welcome to the 21st century.
SunSword on April 23, 2013 at 11:42 AM
Yep. And even that example is overly complicated.
stvnscott on April 23, 2013 at 12:00 PM
Here’s the real problem believing these two did this alone.
Where?
Tamerlan had his wife and mother living with him. So the wife has to be an accomplice. I wouldn’t doubt the mother is.
Jahar had several roommates. Some of these winners are being arrested and released, rinse repeat.
Neither had a job that provided the workspace.
So to believe no one else was involved, means they bought the supplies just a few days before and built it that morning, during the race. With no training or testing.
Along with the other IED’s.
And several guns.
And hundreds of rounds.
Just got it all over the weekend.
The Feds are lying that no one else was involved. Whatever statement Jahar gave them fit their needs.
Hell, he could have said yes to a question that asked “was anyone else involved with the Marathon bombing”?
That’s totally different than “Are you working with any groups”?
budfox on April 23, 2013 at 12:08 PM
Looks like Tamerlin may have murdered a few friends on September 11th 2011…
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Smoothies on April 23, 2013 at 12:13 PM
All I can say is “no shiite sherlock”.
dentarthurdent on April 23, 2013 at 12:33 PM
Yup, so obviously the laws that make it illegal to make a bomb, and the laws that make it illegal to kill and maim lots of people are just not effective – so all we need is some more laws to make those things more illegal and we can solve the problem.
dentarthurdent on April 23, 2013 at 12:37 PM
I’m sure a guy who’s blown people up, shot a cop in cold blood and tried to kill some more in a getaway, would never tell a lie.
IndieDogg on April 23, 2013 at 12:39 PM
Exactly how would the RUSSIANS have pegged one of the two “lone wolves” operating in America as a terrorist if this is true. Are they doing a better job of monitoring American internet traffic than our own intelligence agencies. Either that or our govt is lying to us – again. We are screwed either way.
LarryinLA on April 23, 2013 at 1:18 PM
It was a joke.
farsighted on April 23, 2013 at 1:46 PM
Acted alone?? Really??
Where did the MONEY come from?? For the clothes, the cars, the apartments, the GYM and boxing. I guess they just came in from the internet as well.
Michael73501 on April 23, 2013 at 2:13 PM
I hear the term ‘self radicalized’ all over the news. They can’t understand how the bombers don’t have a direct connection to terrorists, but can do this.
It is imperative to understand it is not ‘radical’ Islam.
It is Islam – the antithesis of western civilization.
TfromV on April 23, 2013 at 8:18 PM
They’ll conveniently come out with information that attacks the internet, and freedom but they won’t tell us who funded these guys. Probably because it was the Sauds or the FBI.
fatlibertarianinokc on April 23, 2013 at 8:46 PM
It’s still too early to say what his motivations were, but I have a hunch he’s a tea partier.
/msm
jhffmn on April 25, 2013 at 12:59 PM
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