Father of Marine Lance Cpl. Greg Buckley Jr. slain by Afghan “police” pleads for help (video)

via Michael Savage interviews father of slain Marine – Looking for justice from the Gov’t

The Facebook page here.

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Report: Muslims using Boston as jihadi headquarters since at least 1993

via Report: City has proven attractive to al Qaeda-linked jihadists | Washington Free Beacon.

Muslim extremists with ties to al Qaeda have been using Massachusetts and the city of Boston as a jihadi headquarters since at least 1993, according to a recent report by a top terrorism analyst.

At least 26 residents were found to have ties to al Qaeda, according to the report by the Henry Jackson Society. The activity dates from before the Tsarnaev brothers, radical Muslim immigrants to the United States, were identified as the suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing.

Jihadist activity has taken place in Massachusetts since at least 1993 and includes in-state fundraising for terrorism, “those convicted of planning jihad, and even those who have been killed while fighting abroad,” according to the report by terrorism analyst Robin Simcox.

“The city [of Boston] and state of Massachusetts has a long history of ties to AQ [al Qaeda] and AQ-inspired militancy,” the report states.

“Even prior to last week’s Boston bombing, there had been twenty six individuals with links to Massachusetts connected to AQ [al Qaeda] and AQ-inspired terrorism,” the report states. “Fifteen had lived in Massachusetts, with eleven 9/11 hijackers using the Boston area as a temporary base from which to launch their attacks.”

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Boston itself has become home to several extremist groups and individuals who have either plotted attacks against the United States or funneled money to terrorist enterprises, according to the report.

One such group, Care International, was engaged in “fundraising, recruiting, and providing other forms of logistical support for violent jihad.”

Care was founded in 1993 in Boston and “solicited funds and support for mujahideen fighters and jihadist causes, including Bosnia and Chechnya,” according to the report.

Care was found to have direct ties to the Al Kifah Refugee Center, the U.S. branch of Maktab al-Khidamat (MAK), an organization founded in part by Osama bin Laden to combat Soviet forces in Afghanistan.

“Prior to 9/11, the fact that Care International was based in Boston is significant,” Simcox noted in a subsequent interview.

At least three individuals were later convicted for having ties to Care and its radical activities, the report found.

Emadeddin Muntasser, a Libyan citizen who founded Care, was convicted in 2008 along with two other Massachusetts residents for falsifying IRS documents and failing to disclose that Care “was engaged in soliciting funds and support for mujahideen fighters and jihad,” according to the report.

Muntasser and his compatriots raised $1.7 million in tax-exempt donations that were designated to be used “for ‘mujahideen’, ‘fighters’, ‘martyrs’, and ‘Jihad’,” and other terrorist causes, according to the report.

Additionally, Care published a newsletter, Al-Hussam (or “The Sword”), which proclaimed itself as Boston’s “authentic source of information about ‘Jihad action.’”

Al-Hussam regularly included “instructions such as, ‘Fight them, and Allah will punish them by your hands, and disgrace them, and help you (to victory) over them,’” according to the report.

“Boston offers more martyrs,” one March 1993 article in Al-Hussam announced. It detailed the jihadist acts of Morabit Yahya, a Moroccan immigrant “who was described at the fourth recruit from the Boston area who went to fight jihad in Afghanistan,” the report found.

The magazine ceased publishing in 1997.

Another Boston transplant who became enmeshed in a terrorist plot to kill Americans is Abdel Ghani Meskini, who pleaded guilty in March 2001 to charges stemming from a plot to attack Los Angeles International Airport on New Year’s Eve 1999.

“In 1994, Meskini left Algeria for Boston, and subsequently moved between Boston and Brooklyn due to the fact that he could not stay in one place too long for fear of being arrested,” the report notes.

Several Massachusetts-based terrorists were found in the years following the 9/11 attacks.

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Minnesota: Somali Muslims get 10- and 20-year sentences in terror case

Another episode of “Meet a Muslim Person” that doubles on the #MyJihad campaign. via Judge gives Somali men 10- and 20-year sentences in terror case | StarTribune.com.

Kamal Said Hassan will serve 10 years in prison for his role in the “Minnesota pipeline” that carried young men to Somali to fight in that country’s civil war.

U.S. Chief Judge Michael Davis issued the sentence Monday afternoon in federal court in Minneapolis. Hassan was facing up to 38 years in prison but federal prosecutors recommended that he serve no more than 10 to 12 years because of “extraordinary cooperation” with the investigation.

Hassan was one of the key witnesses who testified against Mahamud Said Omar last October. Omar was sentenced to 20 years.

Of the nine people to be sentenced this week, federal prosecutors have sought the longest prison terms for Omar, who helped arrange travel for Hassan and other young men.

Four people will be sentenced Tuesday and three more on Thursday.

Kamal Said Hassan: “I was a foot soldier”

Hassan pleaded guilty Aug. 12, 2009, to two terror-related counts, and in 2012 he testified against Mahamud Said Omar in hopes of receiving a shorter sentence.

In Omar’s trial Hassan testified that he left Minneapolis for Somalia in 2007. He went to a training camp where he learned to fight and was featured in a promotional video encouraging other Americans to join the fight.

In 2008 he said he and other Minnesotans were involved in an ambush of Ethiopian soldiers. After that, he said he fled Al-Shabab with the help of his family and the FBI.

In a memorandum filed last month, prosecutors said the long sentence was necessary to both deter Hassan from using violence “to bring about change in the governments of foreign countries” and to “send a message to the community at large that the United States does not tolerate such abhorrent criminal conduct.”

They noted that while Hassan cooperated with the FBI, he lied to agents about some of his activities in initial interviews.

His defense attorneys, Manny Atwal and Andrew Mohring, argued in a pre-sentence brief that their client had only been “a foot soldier” rather than a leader, and he “has shown real real remorse for his actions by cooperating with the government.”

Mahamud Said Omar: ‘No evidence … I committed any crime’

Prosecutors want a 50-year sentence for Omar, who was convicted in October 2012 of five terror-related counts.

Three men who went to Somalia to fight testified that Omar arranged their travel. They said Omar flew to Somalia, visited an Al-Shabab safe house in early 2008 and provided cash for rifles. Prosecutors said Omar helped arrange travel for six more recruits in 2008 even after Shirwa Ahmed, of Minneapolis, blew himself up in a suicide attack in Somalia.

In November 2008 Omar sought asylum in the Netherlands, but was extradited. During closing arguments in his trial, he said, “No evidence proves that I committed any crime.”

Isn’t that always the case?

How about some deportation and banning any relatives from ever visiting the U.S.?

Pope canonises 800 Italians beheaded by Muslims for refusing conversion or submission to Islam

Will we all be Otrantians?

via BBC News – Pope canonises 800 Italian Ottoman vi’ctims of Otranto. (um, note to BBC:  they were victims of invading Muslims for the sake of Allah, not victims of Otranto as your title incorrectly states)

Pope Francis has proclaimed the first saints of his pontificate in a ceremony at the Vatican – a list which includes 800 victims of an atrocity carried out by Ottoman soldiers in 1480.

They were beheaded in the southern Italian town of Otranto after refusing to convert to Islam.

Their names are unknown, apart from one man, Antonio Primaldo.

The Italian “Martyrs of Otranto” were executed after 20,000 Turkish soldiers invaded their town in south-eastern Italy.

There was no hint of any anti-Islamic sentiment in the homily that Pope Francis delivered before tens of thousands of worshippers gathered in St Peter’s Square, the BBC’s David Willey in Rome reports.

The Pope may refuse to acknowledge the source and the BBC may be quick to grasp for anti-Islamic straws, but history cannot be rewritten by the dhimmi.

The BBC sidebar notes:

Otranto 14 August 1480

• The `’Martyrs of Otranto” were 813 Italians beheaded for defying demands by Turkish invaders to renounce Christianity
• The Turks had been sent by Mohammed II, who had already captured the “second Rome” of Constantinople
• His fleet landed in Otranto, Italy’s easternmost city, and laid siege
• Its citizens held out for two weeks, allowing the King of Naples to muster his forces and prevent the fall of Rome

More via Antonio Primaldo, the Saint Who Stood to the End:

Blessed Antonio was a tailor in the city of Otranto, Italy, in the 1400s.  In 1480 the city was invaded by Turkish Moslems, their 150 ships and 18,000 troops greatly outnumbering the 6,000 inhabitants of the town.  The conquerors executed the elderly bishop, Archbishop Stephen Pendinelli, and took the women and children into slavery.  They rounded up all the men between the ages of fifteen and fifty—some 800 men in all.  The Ottoman captors threatened to kill all the men, but promised to grant their lives and the freedom of their women and children if the men would simply renounce Christ and become Muslim.

Blessed Antonio remained firm, and encouraged his fellow citizens to stand strong in their faith.  “My brothers,” he said, “until today we have fought in defense of our homeland, to save our lives, and for our earthly governors.  Now it is time for us to fight to save our souls for the Lord.  And since he died on the cross for us, it is fitting that we should die for him, remaining firm and constant in the faith, and with this earthly death we will earn eternal life and the glory of martyrdom.”

Blessed Antonio was the first to be beheaded, followed by 799 others.  Tradition holds that Blessed Antonio’s headless body remained standing and could not be knocked down by the Turkish soldiers.  Only when the last of the men was slain did his body collapse of its own accord.  One of the Muslims, seeing this miracle, was converted and professed his faith in Christianity—after which he was immediately impaled upon a scimitar by his own comrades-in-arms.

Legacy of jihad: The Skull Cathedral of Otranto

The Ottoman Wars were motivated by territory gains and eradicating the Christian faith while spreading the Muslim one.

Image: Laurent Massoptier

For knowing, Otranto, recognized as one of the most beautiful villages in Italy, in 2010 was declared by UNESCO World Heritage of a culture of Peace.

A similar remnant of Muslim conquest and barbarism in Serbia: Chele Kula: Tower of Skulls.

The Mass Exodus of Christians from the Muslim World

Muslim conquered and occupied territory would seem more appropriate. via The Mass Exodus of Christians from the Muslim World |

A mass exodus of Christians is currently underway. Millions of Christians are being displaced from one end of the Islamic world to the other.

We are reliving the true history of how the Islamic world—much of which prior to the Islamic conquests was almost entirely Christian—came into being.

The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom recently said: “The flight of Christians out of the region is unprecedented and it’s increasing year by year.”  In our lifetime alone “Christians might disappear altogether from Iraq, Afghanistan, and Egypt.”

Ongoing reports from the Islamic world certainly support this conclusion.  Iraq was the earliest indicator of the fate awaiting Christians once Islamic forces are liberated from the grip of dictators.

In 2003, Iraq’s Christian population was at least one million.  Today fewer than 400,000 remain—the result of an anti-Christian campaign that began with the U.S. occupation of Iraq, when countless Christian churches were bombed and countless Christians killed, including by crucifixion and beheading.

The 2010 Baghdad church attack, which saw nearly 60 Christian worshippers slaughtered, is the tip of a decade-long iceberg.

Now as the U.S. supports the jihad on secular president Assad, the same pattern has come to Syria: entire regions and towns where Christians lived centuries before Islam came into being have now been emptied, as the opposition targets Christians for kidnapping, plundering, and beheadings, all in compliance with mosque calls that it’s a “sacred duty” to drive Christians away.

In Egypt, some 100,000 Christian Copts have fled their homeland soon after the “Arab Spring.”  In September 2012, the Sinai’s small Christian community was attacked and evicted by al-Qaeda linked Muslims, Reuters reported.

But even before that, the Coptic Orthodox Church lamented the “repeated incidents of displacement of Copts from their homes, whether by force or threat. Displacements began in Ameriya [62 Christian families evicted], then they stretched to Dahshur [120 Christian families evicted], and today terror and threats have reached the hearts and souls of our Coptic children in Sinai.”

Iraq, Syria, and Egypt are the Arab world.  But even in “black” African and “white” European nations with Muslim majorities, Christians are fleeing.

In Mali, after a 2012 Islamic coup, as many as 200,000 Christians fled.  According to reports, “the church in Mali faces being eradicated,” especially in the north “where rebels want to establish an independent Islamist state and drive Christians out… there have been house to house searches for Christians who might be in hiding, church and Christian property has been looted or destroyed, and people tortured into revealing any Christian relatives.” At least one pastor was beheaded.

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Even in European Bosnia, Christians are leaving en mass “amid mounting discrimination and Islamization.”  Only 440,000 Catholics remain in the Balkan nation, half the prewar figure.  Problems cited are typical:  “while dozens of mosques were built in the Bosnian capital Sarajevo, no building permissions were given for Christian churches.”

“Time is running out as there is a worrisome rise in radicalism,” said one authority, who further added that the people of Bosnia-Herzegovina were “persecuted for centuries” after European powers “failed to support them in their struggle against the Ottoman Empire.”

And so history repeats itself.

One can go on and on:

And for those willing to ignore history preferring the fantastic lies we tell ourselves about moderate Islam, this will also be the fate of non-Muslims in America during this century. It has already begun.

Read it all at Raymond Ibrahim.com.

If that’s not enough, read Ibrahim’s ongoing, monthly “Muslim Persecution of Christians” series – all ignored by U.S. and Western media.

NYC: Muslim Immigrant Arrested, Wanted to Use Green Card to Recruit, Plot Jihad

via FBI — Tunisian Man Charged with Visa Fraud Related to Terrorism, Intended to Remain in U.S. to Facilitate an Act of International Terrorism.

As alleged in the indictment unsealed today in Manhattan federal court and other documents filed in the case:

Abassi, who previously resided in Canada, traveled to the United States in mid-March 2013, where he remained until his arrest. While in the United States, Abassi, who was under surveillance by law enforcement agents at all times, maintained regular contact with an FBI undercover officer (the UC) and also met with Chiheb Esseghaier in New York City. Esseghaier, who was recently arrested in Canada and is currently incarcerated there on terrorism charges, was previously radicalized by Abassi. During Abassi’s discussions with Esseghaier and with the UC, which were recorded by the UC, Abassi discussed his desire to engage in terrorist acts against targets in the United States and other countries and his intention to provide support and funding to organizations engaged in terrorist activity—including the al Nusrah Front, which is recognized by the U.S. Department of State as an alias for Al Qaeda in Iraq—and to recruit other individuals for terrorist plots. In particular, Abassi discussed with the UC a number of individuals known to Abassi and/or to his associates, whom he described as like- minded and who, in his view, would be willing to engage in terrorist activity.

On April 12, 2013, Abassi and the UC discussed Abassi’s efforts to recruit others for terrorist plots and that he might be able to obtain immigration documents to remain in the United States, purportedly in order to work for the UC’s U.S.-based company. In reality, Abassi made clear that he wanted to obtain immigration documents and to remain in the United States so that he could engage in “projects” relating to future terrorist activities, including recruitment. Thereafter, Abassi made false statements on two immigration forms, under penalty of perjury, and subsequently mailed those forms to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services for processing.

The indictment charges Abassi with two counts of knowingly making false statements in an application to the immigration authorities for a green card and work visa in order to facilitate an act of international terrorism. Each count carries a maximum term of 25 years in prison.

And via Jawa Report, Abassi studied Chemical Engineering at a Quebec University

A man arrested in a U.S. terror plot in New York April 22 was a graduate student studying chemical engineering at Laval University in Quebec City, CBC News has learned.

Ahmed Abassi’s major is “particularly chilling” in conjunction with other evidence presented against him by the FBI, said CBC’s Greg Weston.

More: FBI: Terror Suspect Ahmed Abassi Allegedly Plotted To Poison The Air Or Water Supply

Nothing was imminent in the FBI controlled operation. So why did it take until May 9th to announce the April 22 arrest?

Update: It turns out he waived his Miranda rights and was interrogated for nine straight days that led to part of the delay.

Video: Exposing the coverup of attack on SEAL Team 6

Another coverup by the Obama administration and the media. You probably don’t have two hours to watch this in its entirety in one sitting but once you start watching this you may make the time. If not, come back to it. It is critical to share with as many as possible. The media has ignored it.  via TrentoVision 5.9.13 – Navy SEAL Extortion 17 EXPOSED – Obama Failures – YouTube.

May 9, Thursday 10:00 AM, National Press Club, Washington, DC:

Watch these Navy SEAL Team VI families and other family members as they reveal the Obama Administrations culpability in death of their sons in the fatal helicopter crash in Afghanistan following the successful raid on bin Laden’s compound. This is a powerful and riveting briefing thatincluded some of America’s most significant military leaders.

Muslims kill 55 in latest Nigeria attack

via 55 killed in northeast Nigeria attack: military – Xinhua | English.news.cn.

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria May 7 (Xinhua) — Military and police officials on Tuesday confirmed that at least 55 people were killed when suspected Boko Haram sect attacked security formations in the Nigeria troubled northeast Borno State.

Spokesman of the military led Joint Task Force (JTF) in Borno, Lt- Colonel Sagir Musa said that the gunmen attacked Bama, a commercial town about 187 kilometers away from Maiduguri, the epicenter of the insurgency in the early hours of Tuesday.

“Suspected Boko Haram terrorist today at about 5 am in the morning, about 200 Boko Haram terrorist in 18 seater buses and Hilux Vehicles mounted with anti aircraft machine guns, attempted to attack on 202 Battalion Barracks in Bama, about 10 insurgents were killed during exchange of fire. We lost 2 soldiers during the attack,” he added. “They came in army uniform pretending to be soldiers but were able to detect them,” Musa said.

According to him, the Boko Haram terrorist also killed 14 Nigerian prison officials at about the same time this morning.

“A total 105 inmates were also freed by the terrorist.” Musa said.

The suspected terrorist also burn down police station and police barracks as well as a local magistrate court and Bama Local Government Secretariat where some of the buildings were still on fire as at the time reporters visited.

Police Area commander in charge of Bama town, Alhaji Sagir, said the divisional police station and police barracks were attacked while 22 police officers lost their lives, three Children and a woman were burnt to death.

And that’s after the Nigerian government offered AMNESTY to the terrorists:

Long list of deadly attacks by Muslims in Nigeria, here.

Author says Muslim group’s $30M libel suit will expose terror ties

via Bring it on: Author says Muslim group’s $30M libel suit will expose terror ties | Fox News.

The shadowy leader of an American Muslim organization accused of running terror training camps in the U.S. could find himself being questioned under oath if his outfit follows through on its $30 million defamation suit against the Christian group that leveled the charges in a best-selling book.

Muslims of the Americas, a group founded in the 1980s by elusive Pakistani Sheikh Mubarak Ali Gilani, is suing the Christian Action Network for defamation and libel following CAN’s recent publication of the book “Twilight in America: The Untold Story of Islamist Terrorist Training Camps Inside America.” Co-authored by CAN founder Martin Mawyer and Patti Pierucci, the book accuses MOA of “acting as a front for the radical Islamist group Jamaat al-Fuqra.”

In the suit, filed this year in federal court in Albany, N.Y., the Muslim group accuses Mawyer, Pierucci and CAN of “malicious, repetitious and continuous pronouncements and publication of defamatory statements against plaintiff.”

“We’re calling their bluff,” said Mawyer. “I would have thought this would have been dropped a while ago, but I guess they feel they have to defend themselves to their own members.”

Many of the book’s allegations are based on the claims of a former NYPD undercover informant who spent eight years posing as a member of the Muslim group, which has secretive bases in rural areas around the country, including Hancock, N.Y., and York County, S.C.

The book alleges organized criminal activity on the part of MOA and claims profits from “street crimes, drugs, brothels, unemployment fraud and other offenses” have been funneled to Jamaat al-Fuqra. Part of the money has been used to establish a series of Jihadi training camps on American soil, according to the book.

Both Muslims of the Americas — made up primarily of African-American converts to Islam — and the Pakistan-based Jamaat al-Fuqra, are guided by Sheikh Mubarik Ali Gilani, a highly controversial cleric who lived in the U.S. during the 1980s and who was the subject of an investigation by the late Wall Street Journal journalist Daniel Pearl.

In 2002, Pearl was in Pakistan on his way to a pre-arranged interview with Gilani when he was kidnapped by Al Qaeda and eventually beheaded in a brutal case that shocked the world. Gilani was questioned in relation to the investigation but released without being charged.

“Twilight in America” highlights some 17 purported terrorist training camps inside the U.S. Mawyer said he learned of the camps from NYPD informant Ali Aziz, who said one of the camps – often attended by 100 or more followers — was only 30 miles away from the CAN office in Forest, Va.

Mawyer and Pierucci say in the book that MOA has been linked to 10 unsolved assassinations and 17 bombings since the 1980s, including the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.

Mawyer said if the civil suit goes to trial, he will move to bring Gilani to the U.S. and put him on the stand. For an organization that so jealously guards its privacy, that may be enough to drop the suit.

“I think they hoped that we would not have the money to fight it and it would serve the purpose of telling their own members, ‘See, we took care of that Martin Mawyer fellow,’” Mawyer said. “They say we have declared war on Islam, but I can tell you that is definitely not the case. This group is against Christians, Hindus, Hari Krishna, Jews, and any Imams who do not preach their strict view of Islam.”

See previous posts on Gilani’s compounds:

Known terrorist training camps in the U.S. (map)

Video: ‘Muslims of America’ guerilla warfare training in NY

New video, Homegrown Jihad: The Terrorist Camps Around U.S.

Chicago: Fed judge reverses ruling that would have released Muslim terror suspect

Are we really posting about this a few weeks after Boston? via Judge reverses decision to free Chicago terror suspect

CHICAGO –  A federal judge Friday quashed another judge’s surprise order to release an Illinois teenager pending trial on charges he sought to join Al Qaeda-linked militants in Syria.

Abdella Ahmad Tounisi, 18, of Aurora, posed a potential threat not just to Illinois and the U.S. but to “the entire world community,” said U.S. District Judge Edmond Chang.

Standing in court in orange jail garb and his legs shackled, Tounisi showed no emotion at the ruling, which snuffed out his chance at freedom as he awaits trial. But his mother, Seham Tounisi, was distraught, crying as she left the Chicago courtroom and leaning against her husband, Ahmad Tounisi. A woman with them said, “This is unfair!”

On Thursday, U.S. Magistrate Judge Daniel Martin ruled Tounisi could be released on home confinement. He stayed his own order to give the government 24 hours to appeal.

The American-born Tounisi was snared in an Internet sting after contacting a sham website set up by the FBI purporting to connect would-be fighters with terrorists, according to court filings. He was arrested at O’Hare International Airport last month as he allegedly prepared for the first leg of a trip to Syria to join Jabhat al-Nusrah.

Judge Chang cited emails in which Tounisi allegedly stated his intention to join the Al Qaeda-affiliated group fighting Syrian President Bashar Assad’s regime. That suggests “the defendant was knowingly attempting to join this group — a very dangerous group,” Chang said.

To drive home Tounisi’s apparent determination and resourcefulness, prosecutor William Ridgway said the cash-strapped teen even managed to divert financial aid to attend the College of DuPage in suburban Chicago to pay for his plane ticket.

Even after worried family members had told Tounisi he “will be killing (his) mother” by persisting in plans to travel abroad, he pushed ahead, the judge said.

The judge also cited Tounisi’s friend, Adel Daoud, who was arrested last year for allegedly trying to detonate a device he thought was a bomb outside a Chicago bar. Daoud has pleaded not guilty.

Prosecutors say Tounisi helped brainstorm potential targets with Daoud, though Tounisi was never charged in that case.

Chang said an FBI interview with Tounisi about Daoud last year should have so frightened Tounisi as to make other alleged plots unthinkable to him.

“That should have been a life-altering event,” he said. “But it did not dissuade him.”

via Judge OKs home confinement for accused terrorist – News – Pekin Daily Times – Pekin, IL.

CHICAGO, Ill. — In a rare move for terror cases, a federal judge agreed Thursday to release on home confinement an Illinois teenager charged with seeking to travel abroad and join an al-Qaida-linked militant group in war-torn Syria.

Abdella Ahmad Tounisi, 18, of Aurora, was arrested at O’Hare International Airport last month as he allegedly prepared for the first leg of a trip to join Qaida-affiliated Jabhat al-Nusrah, which is fighting Syrian President Bashar Assad’s regime.

In arguing for continued detention, prosecutors also noted Thursday that Tounisi had allegedly spoken with a friend of his last year about bombing targets in Chicago. Tounisi is not charged in that case, though the friend, Adel Daoud, was and is in jail awaiting trial.

After announcing his surprise ruling, the otherwise soft-spoken U.S. magistrate judge leaned forward on his bench Thursday and raised his voice, telling the teenager he should take the allegations seriously.

“This is no game, Mr. Tounisi. OK?” Judge Daniel Martin told him.

Approving the release of anyone accused on terrorism charges is uncommon, said Phil Turner, a former federal prosecutor and now private attorney in Chicago.

“It’s incredibly extraordinary,” he said. “It’s usually a different realm with terrorist suspects. They’re not viewed as standard criminals but as enemies of the U.S.”

Update: Obstruction in a case that killed Americans, you’re free to go, Boston Marathon bomb suspect’s friend to be released on bail:

Under a joint motion by federal prosecutors and Phillipos’ attorney, U.S. Magistrate Judge Marianne Bowler ordered Phillipos, 19, released from jail, where he’s been held since his May 1 arrest. He’ll be confined to his mother’s home and be required to wear an electronic monitoring device 24/7 while he awaits trial. He’ll also have to post a $100,000 bond.

Phillipos is accused of repeatedly denying he knew about the removal of a backpack from the room that night. According to an affidavit, he admitted the fourth time he was questioned that he had not been telling the truth.If convicted, he faces up to eight years in prison and a $250,000 fine if convicted.

If Bowler sounds familiar, she ended the interrogation of the second Muslim bomber. Who Exactly is Judge Marianne Bowler ? Who Directed Her, and Why?

China: More arrests after more Muslim separatist violence

Wherever Islam is found so too are violence and jihad on non-Muslims. Uighuristan is no different. via Daily Times – Leading News Resource of Pakistan – China makes more arrests over Xinjiang violence.

BEIJING: China has arrested more suspects over clashes in the ethnically divided region of Xinjiang last week that left 21 people dead, state media said Monday.

China blamed the violence in the western Chinese region on “terrorists”, but rights groups say the charge is used to justify the authorities’ use of force against members of a Muslim minority.

State-run broadcaster CCTV said Monday that “another group of terrorists has been arrested”, citing senior security official Meng Hongwei and adding that police had seized weapons and flags belonging to a separatist group.

The report did not say how many people had been arrested.

Local authorities have said that eight members of the Uighur ethnic group were arrested in connection with last week’s unrest in the region, which is often hit by violence.

Chinese officials have said that 15 police officers and social workers were among the 21 killed in gun fights on April 23 in Barchuk county.

Many Uighurs complain of religious and cultural repression by Chinese authorities, which rights groups identify as the source of unrest in Xinjiang. Chinese authorities and state media often blame the unrest on “terrorism”.

And guess what, China says clash suspects met to study Quran

The group was led by Kasmu Memet, who began hosting the Quran study sessions in September, according to an account from the Xinjiang police that was posted to official websites.

In March, they began manufacturing swords and conducting test explosions in preparation for carrying out a major attack this summer in densely populated areas of Kashgar, the account said.