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2009-05-21 Home Front: WoT

FBI, NYPD Arrest 4 in Alleged Plot to Bomb NY Synagogues

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Posted by Steve White 2009-05-21 00:05|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top
File under: al-Qaeda

#1 How dare the government intrude in the affairs of - oh, they're not Muslim? Guilty as hell, send them away!

Posted by gromky 2009-05-21 01:50|| 2009-05-21 01:50|| Front Page Top

#2 VARIOUS NETTERS > believe the USA = Amerika is or will be TOO ECON OR $$$ BROKE TO EFFECTIVELY STOP IRAN OR RADICAL ISLAM FROM GOING NUKULAAR, and beyond???

Posted by JosephMendiola 2009-05-21 03:16|| 2009-05-21 03:16|| Front Page Top

#3 Grom,
You imply they're not Muslim, but:
Cromitie said his parents live in Afghanistan
If not, it appears at least one has strong sympathies that way. The plot against synagogues was not an anti-Juice thing, but a pro-Muslim/anti-US thing.

Posted by Glenmore 2009-05-21 08:06|| 2009-05-21 08:06|| Front Page Top

#4 "...posing as Pakistani militants linked to Al Qaeda".

Just walk up to someone in the mosque and say, "I'm from Pakistan", then terrorist aspirants seem to come right out of the woodwork.

Posted by Jack Salami 2009-05-21 08:26|| 2009-05-21 08:26|| Front Page Top

#5 "no chance" the alleged plot could succeed. Some officials have called them an "unsophisticated" group.

I'd say most Pakistanis, Afghans, and other jihadis are unsophisticated but dangerous nontheless.

Posted by Lumpy Elmoluck5091 2009-05-21 09:33|| 2009-05-21 09:33|| Front Page Top

#6 If not, it appears at least one has strong sympathies that way. The plot against synagogues was not an anti-Juice thing, but a pro-Muslim/anti-US thing.

I don't know how large a difference that is these days.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2009-05-21 09:44|| 2009-05-21 09:44|| Front Page Top

#7 The FBI said the Muslim suspects were angry and full of hate for America.

"Hatred of the West. The leader of the group, James Cromitie was concerned about deaths at the hands of the U.S. military in Afghanistan," and also expressed anti-Jewish sentiment, Joseph Demarest the head of the New York FBI said.

According to the criminal complaint, Cromitie said "I hate those f-ing Jewish bastards." He bragged that it would be a "piece of cake" to bomb a Jewish Center in Riverdale, according to the complaint.

He said his father lives in Afghanistan and he was upset about U.S. military presence there.

The fact that this type of hatred exists means that we all have to be vigilant all of the time," city councilman Jeffrey Dinowitz said Thursday.

Cromitie was the first to approach the informant, authorities said. He told the informant he has ties to the terrorist group Jaish-e-Mohammad. Authorities said Cromitie had 27 past arrests and had recently been working at a nation-wide discount retailer, authorities said.

NBC

The Brigadier General of the United States Air Force Office of Special Investigations ("AFOSI"), announced the arrests tonight of JAMES CROMITIE, a/k/a "Abdul Rahman," a/k/a "Abdul Rehman," DAVID WILLIAMS, a/k/a "Daoud," a/k/a "DL," ONTA WILLIAMS, a/k/a "Hamza," and LAGUERRE PAYEN, a/k/a "Amin," a/k/a "Almondo," on charges arising from a plot to detonate explosives near a synagogue in the Riverdale section of the Bronx, New York, and to shoot military planes located at the New York Air National Guard Base at Stewart Airport in Newburgh, New York.

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In June 2008, an informant working with the FBI met CROMITIE in Newburgh, New York. CROMITIE explained to the informant that his parents had lived in Afghanistan and that he was upset about the war there and that many Muslim people were
being killed in Afghanistan and Pakistan by the United States Military forces. CROMITIE expressed interest in returning to Afghanistan and spoke to the CW about how if he, CROMITIE, were to die a martyr, he would go to "paradise." CROMITIE also
expressed an interest in doing "something to America." The following month, CROMITIE and the informant discussed the organization Jaish-e-Mohammed, a designated Foreign Terrorist Organization based in Pakistan, with which the informant claimed to be involved. CROMITIE stated to the informant that he, CROMITIE, would be interested in joining Jaish-e-Mohammed to "do jihad."

Complaint

Strange. Cromitie is black, yet he says his parents lived in Afghanistan. How many blacks are in Afghanistan?

Posted by KBK 2009-05-21 09:55|| 2009-05-21 09:55|| Front Page Top

#8 According to the AP article I read, the FBI has been onto these ~~jihadists~~ misguided citizens for more than a year.

(Just in case anyone is thinking of sending Oblahblah a thank-you note for keeping them safe).

Posted by Zorba 2009-05-21 09:59|| 2009-05-21 09:59|| Front Page Top

#9 Where the hell is religious freedom in America. Muslims must practice jihad just like Catholics receive the eucharist and Methodist sing hymns.

Posted by Jack is Back!">Jack is Back! 2009-05-21 10:39|| 2009-05-21 10:39|| Front Page Top

#10
I am surprised we caught them they do not look like ex-military, right-wing extremists that Obama seems to be worried about.

This investigation must of started prior to these 4 guys voting for Obama.

Posted by airandee 2009-05-21 13:32|| 2009-05-21 13:32|| Front Page Top

#11 I thought surely these guys would have been Mormon or Quaker or Amish. What a shock to find they were muslims. Jihad is part of their religion. I guess they were just doing their religious thing. They certainly don't fit any of the profiled groups in the Homeland Security Report that came out a couple of weeks ago.

Posted by JohnQC 2009-05-21 14:41|| 2009-05-21 14:41|| Front Page Top

#12 I thought everything would be euphoric again in the new Obama kingdom! Wait. Now I understand. When he replaces the intelligence community with Clintonites, THEN all will be September 10, 2001 again. At least for a day or two...

Posted by Pliny Sninelet4308 2009-05-21 16:45|| 2009-05-21 16:45|| Front Page Top

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