The never-ending tiny minority of extremists, via Latest NYC terror case aided by NYPD Internet sleuths tracking homegrown threats.
NEW YORK, N.Y. — When Abdel Hameed Shehadeh arrived at Kennedy Airport in early 2008, he was carrying a one-way ticket to Islamabad and a backpack with a sleeping bag inside.
He was briefly interviewed by federal agents and sent on his way — gone, but not forgotten. The very same day, New York Police Department detectives began surfing the Internet for information about him.
Authorities say the police department’s Intelligence Division investigators found a treasure trove of evidence against Shehadeh that help make the homegrown terror case against him. The evidence, they say, also offered more proof that the Internet has become an incubator for extremism, and demonstrated how a special NYPD unit identifies and tracks cyberthreats.
Shehadeh, 21, failed to get into Pakistan. The New Yorker was arrested last week in Hawaii on charges he made false statements. He was in federal custody and was expected to eventually appear in federal court in New York. No date was set.
There was no immediate response to a message left Tuesday with Shehadeh’s attorney in Honolulu. A spokesman for the U.S. attorney’s office in Brooklyn declined to comment on Tuesday.
The NYPD investigative unit was formed after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks — part of the department’s strategy for homeland security that has resulted in the redeployment of about 1,000 officers to counterterrorism duty. Many of the unit’s members are foreign-born and fluent in languages like Arabic and Farsi.
The NYPD assisted in another case earlier this year in which two men were arrested at Kennedy on charges they wanted to travel to Somalia to get terror training. Investigators allege they were radicalized in part by other Americans preaching violent jihad over the Internet.
In Shehadeh’s case, the NYPD investigators discovered that he had created a radical roadmap with websites that posted speeches by al-Qaida leaders including Abu Yahya Al-Libi and Ayman al-Zawahiri, authorities said.
A criminal complaint says he also put up a photo of himself wearing a keffiyeh headdress, another snapshot of a man holding a sign reading “Jihad is Our Way,” videos of Osama bin Laden and a recording titled “Benefits of Jihad in Our Times.” One of his sites had “a montage of still images of jihadist fighters under the heading, ‘What is the least we can do?’” the complaint said.
In one militant missive, investigators say he wrote: “My brothers of the revolution of Islam, I am with you as long as you keep struggling. Trust me, there are many brothers and sisters in America that are ready to speak up. They just need a push.”
The investigators followed Shehadeh’s Internet footprints to business records showing his site emanated from two Staten Island addresses. In June 2008, members of the joint FBI-NYPD terror task force went to one of addresses to interview him. The complaint said Shehadeh told them he had tried to travel to Pakistan to “study Islamic law.”
Four months later, Shehadeh showed up at a Times Square military recruiting station and tried to sign up, authorities said. An unidentified friend he had worshipped with later told investigators Shehadeh had hoped the Army would deploy him to Iraq, where he could desert and join insurgent forces.
Investigators closed in on Shehadeh after he again tried to travel to the Middle East, this time to Jordan. As with Pakistan, he wasn’t allowed into the country and came home, where he was greeted by FBI agents asking about his websites.
Shehadeh at first denied he had started the sites, the complaint said. He later admitted one was “designed to mirror and reformat the teachings” of radical U.S.-born Muslim cleric Anwar al-Awlaki.
Al-Awlaki is believed to help inspire recent attacks including the Fort Hood shooting, the Times Square bombing attempt and the failed Christmas Day airline bombing.
In February, Shehadeh met with FBI agents to try to talk them into taking him off a “no-fly” list, the complaint said. He also insisted that he had no interest in jihad, it said.
But in April, Shehadeh told agents he once believed “he needed to get back at the United States and that if he died as a martyr in Pakistan he would have received 72 virgins as a reward,” the complaint said.
Update: Terror case suspect held in NY without bail
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I am surprised nypd catches anyone, reason being Muslim officers in uniform and employed by nypd.
I think the NYPD is a force for anti-terror that has as many or more accomplishments in the federal DHS under Obama.
Needless to say the above virgin wouldn’t get to first base with a genuine woman anywhere except in his dreams and Big
Mo would place restrictions even on them if he could. What a fun religion the religion of peace is. No piece in this life
but 72 pieces in the next.
DEMONS ARE THE ONES CAUSING SO MUCH CONFUSION IN THE WORLD OF ISLAM, THAT IS WHY SUCH REPORTED OCCURRENCES ARE SO COMMON AND CAN NEVER BE STOPPED
For the first 13 years of preaching his new religion of islam, Prophet Mohammed tried and failed to get the pagans, the Jews and the Christians to accept him as a prophet of God, as he was unable to perform any miracle, unlike other people whom God had called personally. Mohammed claimed the Quran was his ‘miracle’.
Of course the Jews, the Christians and the pagans of his day refused to accept this illiterate man’s outrageous claims to be a prophet without being able to perform any miracle to prove the Quran s God’s words, especially when it was not properly compiled into any scroll or book yet.. So the frustrated Mohammed launched raids on their caravans and settlements to plunder their wealth and massacre their people.
Thus islam was born in the blood of the innocent whom Mohammed and his unholy band of jihadists had robbed and massacred, and their women raped and/or taken as wives. That was also how Mohammed acquired his pretty Jewish wife who later succeeded to take revenge on him by feed him with a poisoned goat to inflict a slow and agonising death on this self-proclaimed prophet of God.
Despite all his 13 years of preaching, during which he was badly injured in a battle and nearly died, Mohammed could only succeed to convert about 150 people to islam.
Then one day, a group of roving jinns (demons) heard a recitation of the Quran, and were so enraptured by its ‘beautiful’ recitation, that they got themselves converted to islam and became Muslims too. Such Muslims would of course be the literal demonic Muslims, something of an oddity seemingly possible only in islam. So these demonic Muslims decided to help Mohammed to spread islam.
As a result, Mohammed started to succeed converting large numbers of people, largely through military conquests with their long islamic swords of the roving jihadists keen to have a share of the war booties (with Mohammed taking the first 1/5 for himself). The tide had finally turned in Mohammed’s favour, with victories after military victories after the demonic Muslims helped Mohammed and his jihadists to their triumphs and forced conversion of many to islam. Consequently, a chapter of the Quran was named in honour and memory of the great help demons rendered to spread islam. So Quran chapter 72 was appropiately named “Jinns” (i.e. demons), thus enabling demons to have a pride of place and haven inside islam’s holiest book.
However, when demon spirits tried helping Jesus to spread the Gospel by correctly and loudly proclaiming the truth about Him: “You are the Son of God!” Jesus forbade them to do so (Mark 3:11). So demons are capable of speaking and proclaiming the truth of the universe and are not always lying.
So why did Jesus forbade demons proclaiming truth about Him? Because preaching the Gospel is not given to demons or angels, but to mortals like you and me who have been redeemed by the Blood of Jesus. Moreover, demons would be telling the truth today, and the next day, telling half-truths, and then lies mingled with some truths to create graet chaos and great confusion.
And this was exactly what had happened to islam to this very day. It was the biggest mistake of Mohammed to accept the offer of help from demons, and to allow them to be converted to Islam and become Muslims to help him spread islam. Hence big and impossible-to-disentangle chaos and confusion envelope and entrap islam and the Muslim minds to this very day.
DEMONS ARE THE ONES CAUSING SO MUCH CONFUSION IN THE WORLD OF ISLAM, THAT IS WHY SUCH REPORTED OCCURRENCES WILL BE UNABLE TO STOP
For the first 13 years of his preaching of islam, Prophet Mohammed failed to get the pagans, the Jews and the Christians to accept him as a prophet of God, as he was unable to perform any miracle, unlike other people whom God had called personally. Mohammed claimed the Quran was his ‘miracle’.
Of course the Jews, the Christians and the pagans of his day refused to accept this illiterate man’s outrageous claims to be a prophet without being able to perform any miracle. So the frustrated Mohammed launched raids on their caravans and settlements to plunder their wealth and massacre their people.
Thus islam was born in the blood of the innocent and disbelieving whom Mohammed and his unholy band of jihadists shed and had robbed and massacred, and their women raped and/or taken as wives. That was also how Mohammed acquired his pretty Jewish wife who later succeeded to take revenge on him by feeding him with a poisoned goat to inflict a slow and agonising death on this self-proclaimed prophet of God.
Despite all his 13 years of preaching, during which he was badly injured in a battle and nearly died, Mohammed could only succeed to convert about 150 people to islam.
Then one day, a group of roving jinns (demons) heard a recitation of the Quran, and were so enraptured by its ‘beautiful’ recitation, that they got themselves converted to islam and became Muslims too. Such Muslims would of course be the literal demonic Muslims, something of an oddity seemingly possible only in islam. So these demonic Muslims decided to help Mohammed spread islam.
As result, Mohammed succeeded to convert large numbers of people, largely through military conquests with the long islamic swords wielded by his roving band of jihadists and caravan raiders keen to have a share of the war booties (with Mohammed taking the first 1/5 for himself).
The tide had finally turned in Mohammed’s favour, with victories after military victories after the demonic Muslims helped Mohammed and his jihadists to their triumphs and forced conversion of many to islam.
Consequently, a chapter of the Quran was named in honour and memory of the great help of demons in the spread of islam. So Quran chapter 72 was appropriately named “Jinns” (i.s demons), thus enabling demons to have a pride of place and haven place inside islam’s holiest book.
However, when demon spirits tried helping Jesus to spread the Gospel by correctly and loudly proclaiming the truth about Him: “You are the Son of God!” Jesus forbade them to do so (Mark 3:11). So demons are capable of speaking and proclaiming the truth of the universe, as they are not always lying.
So why did Jesus forbade demons from proclaiming the truth about Him? Because preaching the Gospel is not given to demons or angels, but to mortals like you and me who have been redeemed by the Blood of Jesus. Moreover, demons would be telling the truth today, and the next day, telling half-truths, and then lies mingled with some truths to create great chaos and great confusion.
And this was exactly what happened to islam. It was the biggest mistake of Mohammed to accept the offer of help from demons and to allow them to be converted to Islam and become Muslims—to help him spread islam. Hence the big and impossible-to-disentangle chaos and confusion envelop and entrap islam and the Muslim minds to this very day.
Sorry for the accidental repeat post. Can the administrator please delete the above?
unfortunately;ALL Moslems are guilty of being Muslim;The fifth column supports the previous 4;known as the MINERET BRIGADE.
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