Home Grown Terrorism
[Guest post by DRJ]
Following reports that American authorities are worried about homegrown terrorists, the AP reports 5 young American men have been arrested in Pakistan for investigation of links to terror groups:
“Frantic relatives and worried FBI agents have been searching for the five college-age men for more than a week, since their disappearance in late November. The missing students have family roots in the northern Virginia and Washington, D.C., area.
Two U.S. officials said one of the group — they did not say which one — left behind what investigators believe was a farewell video message, in which he talks about defending Muslims and shows images of U.S. casualties. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the case.
Pakistan police officer Tahir Gujjar said five Americans were picked up in a raid on a house on Sarghoda in the eastern province of Punjab. He did not identify the five, but said three are of Pakistani descent, one is of Egyptian descent and the other has Yemeni heritage.”
The men are all from Muslim families:
“The families, members of the local Muslim community, took their concerns to CAIR, which put them in touch with the FBI and got them a lawyer, [Ibrahim Hooper, spokesman for the Council on American-Islamic Relations] said.”
— DRJ
notice it didn’t occur to them to go straight to the FBI……. and i wonder how much the CAIR lawyer kept them from cooperating?
here’s hoping the Paks put them up against a wall and solve their issues once and for all.
and no, i’m not particularly sympathetic to their families, who should have raised them so this was never an issue. maybe if a enough of these “volunteers” reach such an ignominious end, it will stop looking like a valid option to the bored yutes of the muslim community.
redc1c4 (fb8750) — 12/9/2009 @ 3:01 pmNow let’s hear about all the unfairness of actually mentioning their religion, and then the inconvenient truth of going to CAIR, the worst apologist for terrorist actions in this country.
Dmac (a964d5) — 12/9/2009 @ 3:19 pmI love how they conceal the names so that we can’t determine who their friends and families in the US are. They can put the treasonous terrorists back into US society this way, with us being none the wiser.
j curtis (5126e4) — 12/9/2009 @ 3:45 pmI thought the same thing. Like they heard there was an investigation and they wanted to lawyer up quick.
Hey, don’t question their loyalty!
Patricia (b05e7f) — 12/9/2009 @ 4:32 pmThey’ll wish that their families had turned them in to the FBI after the Paks get through with them.
AD - RtR/OS! (160cdd) — 12/9/2009 @ 10:36 pmNo Habeus Corpus in Pakland, and Cruel and Unusual is a punch-line.
Sounds like racial profiling to me. I think we just need work harder to accept Muslims, and then they won’t keep turning into terrorists.
Steve B (5eacf6) — 12/9/2009 @ 10:47 pmWhy’s the FBI involved? Any laws that were broken are Pakistani, aren’t they?
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