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Islamolosers wanted to wage economic jihad
2002-04-05
  • An Algerian man and his roommates, arrested last year in the terrorism investigation, were attempting to wage "economic jihad" against the government and American businesses, especially Jewish-owned ones, a federal agent testified Friday.
    Sounds pretty awful. Care to elaborate?
    U.S. State Department agent Edward Seitz gave no details of the allegation against Farouk Ali-Haimoud, 21, Karim Koubriti, 23, and Ahmed Hannan, 33. Koubriti, Hannan and another man, Youssef Hmimssa, 30, were indicted Sept. 27 on charges of fraud and misuse of visas. Ali-Haimoud was indicted earlier this week on charges of fraud, misuse of visas, and conspiracy to engage in fraud and misuse of visas, permits and other documents.
    Wow. They sound like pretty desperate criminals.
    Ali-Haimoud was arrested Tuesday at an Edy's ice cream shop at Detroit Metropolitan Airport where he worked, said his lawyer, Kevin Ernst.
    Ummm... You got jihadis workin' at an Edy's icecream shop? I'll take my business to Baskin-Robbins, thank you.
    "I think it's far-fetched that a kid who worked at Edy's could wage an economic jihad on American businesses," Ernst said.
    You're prob'ly right. On the other hand, he could try to, couldn't he?
    A federal magistrate ordered Ali-Haimoud detained Friday.
    Guess the judge thought so, too.
    Federal prosecutor Richard Convertino said Friday that, based on information gleaned from witnesses and informants that the government has interviewed, Ali-Haimoud could be linked to terrorist activity. The roommates had "association with a known group outside the country that has been identified as a terrorist group by the U.S.," he said.
    Y'mean, like Hamas or Islamic Jihad?
    Convertino alleged Ali-Haimoud, Koubriti and Hannan were:
  • Involved in an attempt to obtain weapons to be used in the United States and transferred outside the country.
  • Desired to bring economic harm to American businesses.
  • Desired to obtain false documents to bring people into the country
  • Tried to get a mail drop under a fictitious name to pursue terrorist activity.
    Y'know, this ain't soundin' all that Big Time...
    Koubriti, Hannan and Ali-Haimoud were arrested after a Sept. 17 raid at a Detroit apartment. That raid yielded more than 100 audiotapes in Arabic and a day planner with notations in Arabic that investigators believe were plans for attacks on the Alia airport in Jordan and a plot to kill former Defense Secretary William Cohen during a visit to Turkey.
    Did it also contain their fantasies of naked parties with Britney Spears and her new breasts? And they were gonna knock over some banks and use the money to establish world domination?
    "Allah, take away the Jews and the Christians, and whoever helped them and stood with them," said one tape, according to a government translation read in court Friday.
    And God save us all from boomer wannabes who aren't ever gonna amount to anything unless they manage to blow up.
    • Posted by:Fred Pruitt

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