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| Teacher witnessed transformation of some bomb-plot suspects |
| 2006-06-09 |
| A Muslim religious leader in Toronto who knows some of those charged in the suspected bomb plot says the young men underwent rapid transformations from normal Canadian teenagers to radicalized introverts. Sayyid Ahmed Amiruddin got to know Saad Khalid, 19, and some of the other alleged conspirators at a local mosque. Khalid was arrested last Friday at a warehouse, where he and another suspect allegedly took delivery of what they thought was ammonium nitrate, a fertilizer, and the same substance used in the deadly Oklahoma City bombing in 1995. Fifteen others are also facing charges connected to the alleged plot. Amiruddin says Khalid used to come to his mosque to pray, sometimes in the company of Zakaria Amara and Fahim Ahmad, two of the alleged ringleaders. "They would enter into the mosque to pray, and they would pray in a very aggressive manner, and they would come in military fatigues and military touques and stuff. It looked to me that they were watching a lot of those Chechnyan jihad videos online and stuff." |
| Posted by:ryuge |
| #13 Fatigues are all the rage at the local high schools here in the middle of the Midwest, Cyber Sarge. The local different schools even have their own colour waves, according the Army Surplus store -- one is red/black, another blue/grey/black, and so forth. And the girls like to wear them with little lacy tops. Of course, that kind of an outfit worn with a hijab might be a bit startling... especially on a big, bad jihadi-boy like the kids arrested up north.... ;- |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2006-06-09 23:37 |
| #12 If your local muslims are waltzing around town in fatigues and NOT GI issue, it is time to take them down HARD. |
| Posted by: Cyber Sarge 2006-06-09 19:21 |
| #11 Sufis reject the ideology of jihad!? That's a new one on me. I'll have to look into this. @ bigjim-ky : Jihad Watch Bostom Sufism Without Camouflage (Beyond Stephen Schwartz) Plus IIUC traditional north-african islam was sufism (salafism being rapidly supplanting it), didn't stop them from being pirates and raiding christian coastal villages to capture slaves, or to commit countless atrocities during independence war. |
| Posted by: anonymous5089 2006-06-09 14:40 |
| #10 "They would enter into the mosque to pray, and they would pray in a very aggressive manner, and they would come in military fatigues and military touques and stuff. It looked to me that they were watching a lot of those Chechnyan jihad videos online and stuff." ie. Pointing A$$ up to Allen while furiously pounding forehead on floor and chanting, Al-Snack-Bar Al-Snack-Bar Al-Snack-Bar Al-Snack-Bar |
| Posted by: RD 2006-06-09 14:03 |
| #9 head-slamming |
| Posted by: Frank G 2006-06-09 12:57 |
| #8 "Pray in a very aggresive manner"? Interesting concept. |
| Posted by: Unomosing Unavinter9201 2006-06-09 12:26 |
| #7 Sufis reject the ideology of jihad!? That's a new one on me. I'll have to look into this. |
| Posted by: bigjim-ky 2006-06-09 10:59 |
| #6 "Excuse me teacher, me and me blokes are going out for a bit of the old ultraviolence". |
| Posted by: mcsegeek1 2006-06-09 10:24 |
| #5 Straight out of A Clockwork Orange. Weird, huh ? |
| Posted by: wxjames 2006-06-09 10:03 |
| #4 "You mean like Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold's parents, associates, and school authorities contacted authorities? " There was a few little things called 11 September and 7 July, that came in the interim between Columbine and now. Columbine it self should have been enough of an alert. |
| Posted by: Fordesque 2006-06-09 09:47 |
| #3 Touques? Take off, eh! |
| Posted by: 11A5S 2006-06-09 09:44 |
| #2 PlantDan - You mean like Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold's parents, associates, and school authorities contacted authorities? |
| Posted by: Glaising Glaigum5899 2006-06-09 09:04 |
| #1 His observations: -from normal Canadian teenagers to radicalized introverts -military fatigues and military touques -watching a lot of those Chechnyan jihad videos -try to recruit younger teens to the fundamentalist Wahhabi view -once preached that Canadian forces were in Afghanistan to rape Muslim women So did he contact the authorities? |
| Posted by: PlanetDan 2006-06-09 08:28 |