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2009-10-04 Home Front: WoT

Radical influences all around NYC terror suspect

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Posted by ryuge 2009-10-04 07:54|| || Front Page|| [13 views ] Top
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#1 rotten apple didn't fall far from the tree? Isn't there a saying like that?

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2009-10-04 12:34|| 2009-10-04 12:34|| Front Page Top

#2 Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheeps clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles? Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit. Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them. (Matt 7:15-23)

Posted by Chandler 2009-10-04 13:36|| http://www.chandlerswatch.com/]">[http://www.chandlerswatch.com/] 2009-10-04 13:36|| Front Page Top

#3 Halimi and the Zazi family joined others who split from their Queens mosque during a leadership dispute.

What this article leaves out (and another article covered) is the reason they split - the other mosque wasn't radical enough. I wonder if a congregant ratted him out or his frequent trips to Pakistan aroused suspicion.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2009-10-04 19:42|| http://timurileng.blogspot.com]">[http://timurileng.blogspot.com] 2009-10-04 19:42|| Front Page Top

#4 His family's apartment was in the same small building as that of Saifur Rahman Halimi, an imam who was a chief representative for top Afghan warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar. Halimi attended the same mosque as the Zazi family. In Queens, Halimi became a trusted voice for Hekmatyar's cause and a vocal supporter of the global jihad. A video from one of Halimi's speeches in 1992 captures his zeal for a "pure Islamic system" in Afghanistan and denunciations of Western intervention. "In the very near future, we will liberate all human beings from these devils," he said then. "They know the power of Islam.

Halimi, 61, now imam of a Philadelphia mosque,

No doubt Mr. Halimi's phones and computer are bugged, his mosque wired for sound and vision, his movements tracked, and his friends and relations traced.

Posted by trailing wife 2009-10-04 19:54|| 2009-10-04 19:54|| Front Page Top

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