Among his Internet postings, the commissioner said, was an article that states: "People have to understand that America and its allies are all legitimate targets in warfare."
This is the type of Jackass we need to look out for.
pretty spooky how close he was to pulling off his bombing plot, I watched last night as they showed the video of how powerful the little bombs were, that was not pretty.
My question is, if he is an Al Qaida Sympathizer, he goes by the name of Muhammad Yusuf, has a website called TrueIslam1, was a ghey follower of Anwar Al-awlaki( the very deceased Al Qaida leader) and really believes in Jihad, Why can nobody call him what he is, A Muslim? They just keep saying he is an American ! This is true but with all the evidence against him he is also a Muslim !
Bloomberg and his Douches are ignorant,
"He appears to be a total lone wolf," the mayor said. "He was not part of a larger conspiracy emanating from abroad."
Yeah Al Qaida is not a large organization looking to recruit Americans of Hispanic or south American ethnicity.
CBS news
An "al Qaeda sympathizer" accused of plotting to bomb police and post offices in New York City as well as U.S. troops returning home has been arrested on numerous terrorism-related charges.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced at a news conference Sunday the arrest of Jose Pimentel of Manhattan, "a 27-year-old al Qaeda sympathizer" who the mayor said was motivated by terrorist propaganda and resentment of U.S. troops in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said police had to move quickly to arrest Pimentel on Saturday because he was ready to carry out his plan.
"We had to act quickly yesterday because he was in fact putting this bomb together. He was drilling holes and it would have been not appropriate for us to let him walk out the door with that bomb," Kelly said.
Monday, November 21, 2011
NYC suspect was close to ready with bomb
Friday, October 14, 2011
Three U.S. Muslims convicted in terrorism case
Yet again Muslims convicted of conspiring to commit acts of terror within the United States and abroad against Americans.
Just three more Muslims in the ever growing list, Nothing to see here, Move along Sheeple, Quit being such an Islamaphobe.
The L.A. Times
A federal jury has convicted three Muslim men from North Carolina of plotting to attack unspecified targets overseas, as well as the Marine Corps base in Quantico, Va., in what prosecutors called a case of "homegrown terrorism."
After two days of deliberations, Omar Aly Hassan, 22, Ziyad Yaghi, 21, and Hysen Sherifi, 24, were convicted Thursday of providing material support for terrorists. Yaghi and Sherifi were also convicted of conspiring to kill, kidnap or maim unspecified people overseas; Hassan was acquitted on the conspiracy charge.
Prosecutors in the three-week trial said the men traveled overseas, raised money and trained with weapons to support a jihadist plot to kill perceived enemies of Islam. Defense lawyers said audio and video recordings played in court did not show the defendants discussing or agreeing to any specific attack.
At issue in the case was the extent to which someone in the U.S. can discuss violent jihad and spread radical propaganda in the post-Sept. 11 era, even while committing no violent acts.
Thursday, September 29, 2011
Homegrown Terrorist.
And yet another Homegrown Terrorist asswipe caught again.
And does this guy fit the profile or what.
Ultimately we must be more alert and watch for idiots like this, profile if you will.
Boston.com
An Ashland man who holds a physics degree from Northeastern University was charged yesterday with an Al Qaeda-inspired plot to send a remote-controlled aircraft carrying explosives into the Pentagon and the US Capitol “to kill as many people as possible,’’ according to a complaint filed in federal court.
Rezwan Ferdaus, 26, a US citizen whose only known previous crime was vandalism, told FBI agents working undercover as Al Qaeda members that he wanted to “change the world,’’ according to the complaint.
“I just can’t stop; there is no other choice for me,’’ he told the agents, according to an affidavit written by FBI Special Agent Gary S. Cacace.
“This is what we have to do. This is the righteous way . . . to terrorize enemies of Allah,’’ he said, calling for the deaths of any kafir, the Arabic term for nonbeliever.
Federal officials said that at no point did Ferdaus have sole control of explosive materials, such as C-4, or guns and that he was closely monitored by the FBI during his alleged plotting in the past year. But they also say that he was repeatedly questioned about his plans and that he was committed to carrying out the attacks.
Tuesday, September 13, 2011
Three Plead Guilty to Conspiracy to Provide Support to Terrorist Group
The assholes keep trying and they keep getting caught.
And many will still deny that Islam is a Religion of hate filled war mongers who are hell bent on killing us.
Why else would terrorists need to be in this country?
Foxnews
The three Pakistani men accused of trying to smuggle someone they thought was part of the Pakistani Taliban into the United States pleaded guilty to charges filed against them in a U.S. District Court Monday.
Irfran Ul Haq, 37, Qasim Ali, 32, and Zahid Yousaf, 43, pleaded guilty to one count each of conspiracy to provide material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization, Taherik-e Taliban Pakistan, at a hearing before U.S. District Judge John Bates in the District of Columbia, according to a statement released by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. They each face up to 15 years in prison at a sentencing Dec. 9, and a fine up to $250,000.
Prosecutors say law enforcement agents worked with confidential sources to ask the three to help get someone they were told was a member of the terrorist group into the U.S. early this year. The men were living in Ecuador and are accused of getting the fictitious person a false Pakistani passport.
Thursday, October 28, 2010
Metro calls for vigilance by riders and employees
Be vigilant ! Excellent .
But are we going to go to jail if we are Vigilant ?
That's a good call , We don't know what to do so you guys just watch out for anything suspicious .
The Washingtonpost
The Washington Metro system is an open and vulnerable target for terrorists and must rely largely upon vigilant riders and employees to prevent potential attacks, Metro officials said Wednesday.
In the aftermath of the arrest of terrorist suspect Farooque Ahmed and the revelation of an alleged plot to bomb multiple Metro stations, officials underscored the need for customers to remain alert to any suspicious activity, stressing that a single observation could prove essential.
"Transit is an open environment, and so we don't have a lot of technologies that one can use," said Metro Transit Police Chief Michael A. Taborn. "We depend heavily on employee training, public awareness and emergency preparedness to get the message out."
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
Gunman sought in Pentagon shooting
And this after shots were fired at the National Museum of the Marine Corps, over in Virginia.
Another D.C. Sniper type Thing ?
The Washington Post
Authorities searched Tuesday for a gunman who fired shots at the Pentagon in the early morning, possibly using a high-powered rifle. No one was injured.
The shots were fired shortly before 5 a.m., shattering, but not penetrating, windows on the third and fourth floors, officials said. They said the walls of the building might have been struck.
"Right now, we are considering this a random event," said Pentagon Force Protection Agency Director Steven E. Calvery. "We can only process what we have."
Federal and local authorities spent the morning searching for evidence, closing adjacent Interstate 395 briefly and combing through grassy areas. The FBI also was examining bullet fragments lodged in the windows.
Wednesday, September 15, 2010
U.S. Eyes Terror Charges for Radical Cleric Awlaki
One thing I still do not understand here , With all the U.S Government knows about Anwar al-Awlaki , Why has this Traitor not had terrorism charges brought against him already?
Muslim Appeasement ?
Foxnews
WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration is considering filing the first criminal charges against radical cleric Anwar al-Awlaki in case the CIA fails to kill him and he is captured alive in Yemen. The decision continues the White House's strategy of fighting terrorism both in courthouses and on battlefields.
Al-Awlaki, a U.S. and Yemeni citizen born in New Mexico, has inspired a wave of attempted attacks against the United States and has become Al Qaeda's leading English-speaking voice for recruiting and motivating terrorists. Counterterror officials said al-Awlaki, since mid-2009, has become a major operational figure who selects targets and gives orders.
Friday, September 10, 2010
Report: U.S. Fails to Counter Homegrown Terror Threat
Yep , The Country has some issues , I see it more as a denial thing .
Nobody here in the States wants to believe Terrorists are out to harm us , but they are , denying what is right in front of your face can be very dangerous , especially when you are talking about Muslim Extremists .
Sometimes you just need to call it what it is , Terrorism , And you should fight it at all costs , But it sure seems like A lot of people just want to bow down and take it !
Foxnews
WASHINGTON -- The U.S. was slow to take seriously the threat posed by homegrown radicals and the government has failed to put systems in place to deal with the growing phenomenon, according to a new report compiled by the former heads of the Sept. 11 Commission.
The report says U.S. authorities failed to realize that Somali-American youths traveling from Minnesota to Mogadishu in 2008 to join extremists was not an isolated issue. Instead, the movement was one among several instances of a broader, more diverse threat that has surfaced across the country.
"Our long-held belief that homegrown terrorism couldn't happen here has thus created a situation where we are today stumbling blindly through the legal, operational and organizational minefield of countering terrorist radicalization and recruitment occurring in the United States," said the report, which was obtained by The Associated Press.
As a result, there is still no federal agency specifically charged with identifying radicalization or working to prevent terrorist recruitment of U.S. citizens and residents, said the report, slated to be released Friday by the Washington-based Bipartisan Policy Center's National Security Preparedness Group.
Monday, May 10, 2010
Officials Consider New Tactics to Keep Pace With Evolving Terror Threat
"We're now dealing with international terrorism, and I think we have to think about perhaps modifying the rules that interrogators have, and somehow coming up with something that is flexible and is more consistent with the threat that we now face," Holder said. "We certainly need more flexibility."
Holder stressed that any modifications would be "constitutional."
Reading someone who just knocked off a gas station or Robbed a house , their Miranda Rights , Is Good !
Doing the Same for a Suspected Terrorist , No Good !
Glad to see someone taking things seriously !
( Heads up "Anonymous" )
Foxnews
U.S. officials are considering new tactics -- including re-examining the right to remain silent -- in the ever-evolving war against Al Qaeda and its affiliates, with some saying the changes are needed to keep up with foreign terror groups in the wake of the failed Times Square bombing.
Officials say the plot proves foreign networks are intent on using American citizens to launch deadly attacks on U.S. soil. Attorney General Eric Holder and White House counterterrorism adviser John Brennan said Sunday that the investigation has revealed that the Pakistani Taliban were behind the failed attack, and that suspect Faisal Shahzad -- a U.S. citizen -- likely acted on their direction.
It would mark the first time the militant group has breached America's defenses to launch an attack and signal a shift in focus, from attacks inside Pakistan to a more global target range -- using people like Shahzad as well-placed pawns.
"We certainly have seen with the Shahzad incident that they have not only the aim, but the capability of (infiltrating the United States)," Attorney General Eric Holder said on ABC's "This Week."
Holder, whose Justice Department has taken criticism for reading rights to terror suspects like Shahzad and alleged Christmas Day bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, revealed Sunday that the administration plans to work with Congress to propose possible changes to Miranda rights.
"This is in fact big news," Holder said on NBC's "Meet the Press." "It is a new priority."
Holder would not reveal many details but acknowledged he may try to change the law so investigators have more time to question terror suspects before reading them their rights and so flexibility is added to allow more evidence to be admissible in court.
Sunday, May 2, 2010
New York City Police Investigate Failed New York City Bombing
Another Homegrown Terrorist group almost pulled one off , in Times Square .
Maybe some Anti-Nuclear Radicals ,Protesting ahead of the big U.N. nuclear talks , over the NPT , Non-Proliferation Treaty !
Foxnews
Local and federal authorities worked Sunday to identify the person or group behind an "amateurish" but potentially powerful bomb planted inside a car parked in New York City's Times Square.
Police found the bomb that apparently began to detonate but did not explode in a smoking sport utility vehicle on Saturday, prompting thousands of tourists to be cleared from the streets for 10 hours while the explosive was dismantled.
"We avoided what we could have been a very deadly event," Mayor Michael Bloomberg said. "It certainly could have exploded and had a pretty big fire and a decent amount of explosive impact."
Investigators removed three propane tanks, fireworks, two filled 5-gallon gasoline containers, and two clocks with batteries, electrical wire and other components from the back of the Nissan Pathfinder, Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said. A black metal box resembling a gun locker was also recovered and will be detonated off site, he said.
Thursday, April 29, 2010
Father testifies Hutaree suspect visited militia activist Mark Koernke
Crazy whacked out Militia leaders like to hang out together .
It won't be long before somebody decides it is time to retaliate against the rotten Evil U.S Government , You can almost smell it brewing , Radical "Religious" Militia's are on the verge of Rampage ! And It is every bit as disturbing as waiting for Al Qaida to strike again !
Militias are not necessarily a bad thing , there are plenty of them in Michigan Alone (About 47) , But as with everything there are extremists , Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols , both of Oklahoma City Bombing fame , had ties to the Dexter Area Militias ,As well as the Deckerville area Militias in the Thumb of Michigan .
detnews.com
Detroit -- The alleged leader of the Hutaree militia, David Stone Sr., was a regular visitor to the home of Dexter-area militia activist Mark Koernke, a federal court hearing was told Wednesday.
At a bond appeal hearing, Stone's father, Ray Stone of Clayton, testified he has visited Koernke, 52, and his son David did several times since Koernke's release from prison in 2007. He served about six years for charges that included assaulting police.
Koernke was considered a leader of the militia movement and has hosted a "Mark from Michigan" radio show. He is also credited with the trilogy of "America in Peril" videos about the "New World Order" -- an alleged conspiracy involving international bankers, the United Nations and officials in the U.S. government.
Koernke, who did not immediately respond to a telephone message this morning, said in an Internet radio broadcast that militias would respond violently to the Hutaree arrests, Newsweek reported on April 2. But there has been no such reaction, and some militia members have taken credit for reporting the Hutaree's activities to the FBI.
Stone and eight alleged followers face seditious conspiracy and other charges in a federal grand jury indictment unsealed March 29, accused of plotting to kill police officers who Stone allegedly saw as members of a "brotherhood" aligned with the New World Order.
Sunday, April 18, 2010
Mueller: Home-Grown Extremists as Threatening as Al Qaeda
Timothy McVeigh ,on The Oklahoma city Bombing...
“I feel no shame for it,” he says. “This was something that I saw as a larger good, and I know that, as I analyzed the history of not just the U.S., but all nations throughout the history of mankind. People have killed for what they believed was the greater good, and it’s accepted. Sometimes killing is accepted.”
As long as it's Assholes like the McVeighs , and the Bin Ladens, and the Mullah Omars of the world , I tend to agree !
A final Admission of Guilt !
So Yes , Home grown Extremists are ever bit as Deadly as Al Qaida !
And the Underlying theme in all Radical Extremism ?
Religious Extremism !
When you Confront the Enemy with the same views they have , You become one of them !
....
Foxnews
Fifteen years after the Oklahoma City bombing, the specter of domestic terrorism has returned to haunt the Obama administration, with a warning from the FBI that “home-grown and lone-wolf extremists” now represent as serious a threat as Al Qaeda and its affiliates, The Times reported on Saturday.
The warning, from the FBI Director, Robert Mueller, came as the former President Clinton drew parallels between the Oklahoma City tragedy and a recent upsurge in anti-government rhetoric, while American television audiences heard Timothy McVeigh, the Oklahoma City bomber, describe the “absolute rage” that drove him to plan an attack that killed 168 men, women and children.
An FBI spokesman said Friday that Mueller was referring to right-wing extremist groups and anti-government militias, as well as American Islamists, in his testimony to the Senate committee that must approve the FBI’s $8.3 billion budget.
Last month federal agents arrested nine members of a Christian militia based in Michigan, calling itself the Hutaree. They have been charged with plotting to murder local police with a stash of guns, knives and grenades.
Since the passage of President Obama’s health reforms, the FBI has also made arrests in Seattle and San Francisco after death threats were sent to Democratic senators.
“It’s one thing to express dissatisfaction with the Government but once you cross the line with a violent threat, that’s a violation that we take extremely seriously,” Bill Carter, the bureau’s spokesman, said.
The Oklahoma bombing was followed by an exhaustive civilian trial in which McVeigh became a hate figure to most but a hero to some members of the survivalist fringe on which he was radicalized.
He was executed in 2001, but not before granting 45 hours of death-row interviews to the authors of a book, American Terrorist, whose tapes will be broadcast for the first time on Monday.
McVeigh never confessed to the bombing in court but he appears to do so on the tapes.
“I feel no shame for it,” he says. “This was something that I saw as a larger good, and I know that, as I analyzed the history of not just the U.S., but all nations throughout the history of mankind. People have killed for what they believed was the greater good, and it’s accepted. Sometimes killing is accepted.”
Thursday, February 4, 2010
An imam, convicted of murder, caught smuggling box cutters to prison inmates
An imam was busted trying to smuggle box cutters and a pair of scissors to inmates into a lower Manhattan jail.
The imam, Zulqarnain Abdu-Shahid previously known as Paul Watts, served 14 years in prison for murder. He converted to islam while serving time and chose his name Zulqarnain Abdu-Shahid. Shahid in Arabic means martyr.
How many red flags did the authorities miss on this occasion? Who would have guessed that a convicted murderer who converted to islam in prison and chose the name Abu Shahid might be a security liability??? NY Post
A city Department of Correction Muslim chaplain who served 14 years in prison for murder and robbery was arrested today for carrying three utility blades and a pair of scissors into a lower Manhattan jail, authorities said.
The dangerous items were found after an X-ray machine alerted correction officers to the presence of metal in the bag, the DOI said.[...]
Authorities did not say why Abdu-Shahid was visiting the jail, commonly known as the Tombs, or why he was carrying the scissors and the rectangular blades, which were 1-and-1/2 inches long by three-quarters of an inch wide.
Abdu-Shahid, 58, was arrested at the scene and charged with four counts of first-degree promoting prison contraband — a felony carrying a maximum 7-year prison term — and four counts of the same charge in the second degree, a misdemeanor.
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Muslim convert busted with cache of weapons, night vision scope and maps of military base
Lloyd R. Woodson was busted with a bullet proof vest, and a semi-automatic rifle by New Jersey police while he was in a convenience store. After police searched his hotel room, they found more semi-automatic weapons, a grenade launcher, hundreds of rounds, traditional muslim clothing and maps of nearby military bases.
Lloyd R. Woodson has a history of spending time behind bars so it would be a pretty good bet he was converting by those imams who obviously misunderstand the religion of peace.
The FBI have released a statement saying that so far there does not appear to be a connection to terrorism. HELLO...one doesn't need to be connected to al Qaeda or any other terrorist group to carry out terrorist attacks in the name of islam.
Fox News
Authorities in central New Jersey seized a cache of weapons and ammunition including rifles, a grenade launcher and a night vision scope from the motel room of a Virginia man arrested early Monday by officers responding to a report of a suspicious person, MyFoxDC.com reported.[...]
Detectives later searched the room where Woodson had been staying at the Red Mill Inn in Branchburg. Forrest said they seized another Bushmaster .308-caliber semiautomatic rifle with a defaced serial number, a 37 mm Cobray grenade launcher, a second bulletproof vest, a Russian-made night vision scope, a police scanner, a map of a U.S. military installation and a map of an out-of-state civilian community, a Middle Eastern red and white colored traditional headdress and hundreds of rounds of .50-caliber and .308-caliber ammunition.
Woodson is being held at the Somerset County Jail on numerous charges, including unlawful possession of weapons, possession of prohibited weapons, obstruction of justice and resisting arrest.
Tuesday, December 15, 2009
Video of Imam Mahdi Bray at Hizbollah, Hamas rally
Imam Mahdi Bray, who recently stated that Christians are just as likely to become suicide bombers as muslim youth, attended a rally in support of Hamas and Hizbollah back in 2000
Muslim leader worried Catholic youths might become terrorists
"This is a wake-up call involving our youths — Muslims and Catholics," Imam Mahdi Bray said
in response to the 5 American traitors arrested in Pakistan for suspicion of terrorism. The 5 suspects were apparently radicalized through the internet and Imam Mahdi Bray has the gall to say that Christian youth are just as likely as muslim youth as becoming suicide bombers.
Washington Times
Muslim leaders said Friday the five American youths arrested in Pakistan for allegedly attempting to join the al Qaeda network were lured through the Internet into embracing terrorist ideology and that they will wage a cyber counterattack.
"This is a wake-up call involving our youths — Muslims and Catholics," Imam Mahdi Bray said outside the Islamic Circle of North American Center, the Northern Virginia mosque in which the men worshipped and participated in youth-group activities. "They see great injustices, and their emotions and passions are stirred, as they should be. … But we are determined not to let religious extremists exploit the vulnerability of our youth through slick, seductive and destructive propaganda on the Internet. We will respond in kind on the Internet. Silence in cyberspace is not an option."
Sunday, December 13, 2009
Pakistan: Hard line madrassas lure foreigners.
From MSNBC:
He is one of thousands of foreigners who have flocked to conservative Islamic schools in Pakistan, despite a government ban, the Associated Press has found through interviews with officials, documents, visits to the schools and encounters with dozens of students.
Pakistan and foreign governments consider the international students a potential security threat. The students could export extremism back to their own countries, or stay and fight in Pakistan and neighboring Afghanistan, where the United States is battling a resurgent Taliban eight years after the invasion. Pakistan stopped granting student visas in 2005, but many students still arrive on travel visas and never leave when they expire.
For his part:
When asked about the problem, Interior Minister Malik Rehman, lied tried to downplay the existence of the problem.
"We have a tendency to soft pedal in Pakistan, especially when it comes to Islamic affairs," said the official, who asked for anonymity to discuss the sensitive subject.
Thais and Africans appear to make up the bulk of the foreign students studying in the Madrassas. Happy thought.
Read the whole article here. And if you'd like some additional background on the last time Jamia Binoria was in the news, check these posts out:
American kids trapped in Pakistan Madrassa.
Update: The Karachi Kids.
American Madrassa kids on their way home.
Karachi Kids: A statement by Imran Raza
Karachi Kids: The latest.
American girl still held at Jamia Binoria
I keep thinking about those Karachi Kids
Karachi Kids II: Jamia Binoria and the American kids
Karachi Kids: Finally, word about the Karachi Girl.
US citizen David Headley was in the Mumbai Massacre "control room": confirms Pak Army officials are in on jihad, too.
Here is another prime example of an "al Qaeda Crown Jewel".
From Expressbuzz:
Sources privy to the investigations of the terror suspect's trail in India said 48-year-old Headley was very much present in the room4 from where the 10 LeT terrorists were being guided to various locations during the 26/11 attacks.
The investigators re-visited the intercepts and found that there were specific instructions being given to terrorists about entry and exit including that they had taken more time before reaching their final targets which included Taj Mahal hotel, Oberoi and Trident towers and Nariman House.
India has asked for a voice sample of Headley from the FBI to match with a voice which was unidentified so far for the security agencies. This voice was giving information on exact surroundings of the targets attacked by Lashker-e-Taiba militants. However, there was no firm response from the FBI on providing the same to the Indian investigators, the sources said. (Ed. note: I wonder if this is because Headley is being said to be cooperating with the FBI?)
Other places that Headley was able to get into using his connections as an American?
This is in addition to the actual Mumbai targets: Nariman House, the Taj Mahal hotel, the Leopold Cafe, Chatrapati Shivaji Terminus and the Oberoi-Trident hotels.
The Times Of India is also reporting that:
The FBI interrogation of David Coleman Headley alias Daood Gilani has, for the first time, confirmed what India has always known, army officers" are working in collaboration with India-specific jihadi groups like LeT and JeM.
MIA DC Muslim 5: "al-Qaeda's Crown Jewels"
Not much to report on the fate of the DC Muslim 5 (shown above), today. Although, I thought this comment from Rick Nelson of the CSIS very succinctly sums up the public relations and operational value of these douchebags to al Qaeda.
Per ABC News:
Rick Nelson, a senior fellow with the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, said he sees these homegrown terrorists as "sort of the the crown jewel for international terrorist organizations like al Qaeda."
"To be able to get someone who can put a Western face on radical Islamic terrorism, someone who has the ability as a legal U.S. resident to travel fairly freely throughout the world with a passport makes them a very, very useful tool," Nelson said.
They are indeed tools, that's for darned sure.
Thursday, December 10, 2009
MIA DC Muslims used Facebook and Youtube to start their careers in terror.
More details on the MIA DC Muslims keep on coming in.
We read here how the MIA DC 5 were rebuffed by al Qaeda because they lacked the right terror resumes and recommendations. Now we learn they had used Facebook and Youtube to try and make the right contacts.
Per the AP:
I'm sure you'll be happy to know that the MIA DC 5 have been in touch with the US State Dept.The men used the social networking site Facebook and the Internet video site YouTube to try to connect with extremist groups in Pakistan, said S.M. Imran Gardezi, the press minister at the Pakistani Embassy in Washington. When they arrived in Pakistan, they took that effort to the street.
"They were trying to link up to some groups, but there is no evidence for now that there was a definite plan," Gardezi said.
Local Pakistanis became suspicious of the young men and tipped off police, he said. Police arrested the group in a home belonging to the uncle of one of the men. Gardezi said the uncle had past ties to extremist groups.
Gardezi said the men have not been turned over to the FBI and said Pakistan intended to carry out its own legal process.
"We have had access to the five detainees," Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton told reporters Thursday at an unrelated news conference. She called the move "part of the usual outreach" of the U.S. government and declined further comment.
For his part President Obama had this to say about the matter. And no, he did not say they 'acted stupidly'. (evidently only white American cops do that.)
President Barack Obama declined to talk specifically about the case Thursday, but said, "We have to constantly be mindful that some of these twisted ideologies are available over the Internet."
Obama, in Oslo, Norway, to accept the Nobel Peace Prize, also praised "the extraordinary contributions of the Muslim-American community, and how they have been woven into the fabric of our nation in a seamless fashion."
(I wonder if by 'seamless fashion' he means arranged marriages, honor killings and terror attacks?)
