Argentine Indictment Accuses Iran of Terror Plots, Cells in Latin America

via Latin Times.

A prosecutor from Argentina, Alberto Nisman has accused Iran of planning to carry out terror attacks in various Latin American countries, BBC reports. Nisman believes Iran is sending spies to gather intelligence in order to execute terror plots in Brazil, Chile, and other countries in Latin America.

Alberto Nisman is investigating the 1994 bombing of a Jewish community in Buenos Aires. 85 people were killed in the attack. On Wednesday, the New York Times reports that Alberto Nisman accused Iran of masterminding the attack.

“I legally accuse Iran of infiltrating several South American countries to install stations, in other words espionage bases destined to commit, encourage, and sponsor terror attacks like the one that took place against Amia,” BBC reports Nisman as saying.

The Japan Times reports that Nisman accused the former cultural attaché from Iran in Buenos Aires, Mohsen Rabbani of working to build an intelligence network over the past two decades.

“These are sleeper cells,” Nisman said in an indictment. “They have activists you wouldn’t imagine. Sometimes they die having never received an order to attack.”

According to reports this past February Argentine legislators worked out an agreement with Iran to set up an international commission in order to get to the bottom of the 1994 Buenos Aires bombing.

The Argentines have issued indictments and called for the arrest of several high level officials but Iran has not turned over anyone wanted in the bombing.

That’s odd. The ever so trustworthy U.S. State Dept. just released a report declaring there were No Active Al Qaeda, Hezbollah Terror Cells in Western Hemisphere. More via the BBC:

He said the countries targeted included Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay, Chile, Colombia, Guyana, Trinidad and Tobago, and Surinam.

Argentina has issued arrest warrants for several Iranian nationals and a Lebanese national in connection with the bombing.

Hezbollah getting passports in Belize to travel from Mexico to U.S.

Found this via an incoming search that hit our blog via Method used by Hezbollah to travel from Mexico to the U.S., connection Belize :: Latin America Current Events & News.

1. In 2012 Labboun Rafic Mohammed (Muslim cleric) with alleged links to Hezbollah was arrested in Merida Mexico. He was also a fugitive from U.S. justice.

2. He arrived in Yucatan and apparently used a network of Lebanese government officials. These officials colluded with parties in Belize who provided a fake passport from Belize.

3. Labboun’s fake passport was in the name of Wilhelm Dyck. Dyck was a deceased Mennonite child. Labboun also possessed a drivers license in the same name.

4. Razur Antonio Elias – Director of the Mexican Drug Observatory indicated in a report that Islamist organizations are linked to Mexican drug traffickers on the Yucatan Peninsula. Traffickers are providing passports, birth certificates, and drivers licenses from Belize. COST REPORTED $25,000.

5. The network is also providing transfers of Hezbollah members with forged paperwork to pass through Mexico to the United States. Merida Mexico appears to be the Nexus of this operation.

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More at channel5belize.com, Who helped Hezbollah terrorist get Belizean passport and IDs?

We have been able to establish that that very same day, a person posing to be Wilhelm Dyck made an application for a Belizean passport at the Passport Office in Belize City; that’s on the twenty-ninth of August, 2012 and that he paid a hundred dollars to expedite the process for the express issuance of the passport. And we’ve also been able to establish that the following day, a passport was indeed issued; that is the thirtieth of August, 2012, in the name of Wilhelm Dyck.

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“The information in the computer also had a photograph of the person purporting to e Wilhelm Dyck. And immediately upon pulling up the photograph, the senior immigration officer without any prompting from the police authorities said that that person looks like a Lebanese national. Which raised the question; which has to be asked to the relevant persons who accepted the application and processed the application: if there weren’t some alarms that went off in their head when they saw a person looking like he did appearing before them claiming to be Wilhelm Dyck. As you know, when you now apply for a passport, you have to physically go to the office and have your photo be taken. In the past, there was system where you would bring a photograph already taken, the J.P. would just sign the photograph and the birth certificate and would certify you as being the person who appears on the photograph and someone who they have known for a period of time. This instance, there is a Justice of the Peace that has now been detained and is being interviewed by police authorities. That person incidentally was the same person who had their home burnt down over the holidays and so she could not be immediately found yesterday. She has since been found and is now being interviewed.”

That was several months ago. No news since on what appears to be infiltration in Belize.

Related: California Muslim Arrested in Mexican Hezbollah Bust

Muslim group: Illegal Latina immigrants flocking to Islam, taking it south

via Latina Immigrants: The New Ambassadors of Islam – New America Media.

SOMERSET, N.J. — Tucked away in a quiet rural neighborhood in Somerset, New Jersey is an old brownstone that houses the New Jersey Chapter of the Islamic Center of North America’s (ICNA) WhyIslam Project. Within its confines, in a second floor office decorated with rose-colored walls, sits the administrative assistant and only female employee of the department, Nahela Morales.

In a long black garment and gray headscarf, Morales sits in front of a computer entering notes and taking phone calls from the program’s hotline, 1-877-WhyIslam, a resource for individuals hoping to learn more about the religion. A Mexican immigrant and recent convert, Morales is the national Spanish-language outreach coordinator for the program, part of ICNA’s mission to disseminate information about Islam nationwide.

But Morales’ efforts go beyond U.S. borders: the 37-year-old recently led a trip to bring Islamic literature, food and clothing to her native Mexico.

Morales, who was born in Mexico City but later moved to California and then New York, is part of a growing population of immigrant Muslim converts from Latin America – many of them women — now helping to bring the religion back to their home countries.

“Many immigrants are here by themselves,” says Morales, noting that Latina immigrant women are drawn to Islam because of the sense of “belonging” they find within the Muslim community. “When they come into the mosque and see smiling faces, they feel welcome.”

According to WhyIslam’s 2012 annual report, 19 percent of the some 3,000 converts it assisted in 2011 were Latinos, and more than half of those (55 percent) were women. The 2011 U.S. Mosque Survey, which interviewed leaders at 524 mosques across the country, found the number of new female converts to Islam had increased 8 percent since 2000, and that Latinos accounted for 12 percent of all new converts in the United States in 2011.

Experts attribute the phenomenon to recent migration trends.

Morales found her own place in Islam after a turbulent past.

In 1979, Morales’ mother risked crossing the border into the United States illegally and alone, leaving her infant daughter behind in Mexico under her grandmother’s care. When Morales was 5 years old, she was finally reunited with her mother, who by that time had settled in Los Angeles. Mother and daughter gained amnesty under the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986. However, even as a U.S. citizen, Morales recalls feeling out of place.

During one of her visits to the NHIEC mosque in 2009, a WhyIslam worker overheard Morales speaking Spanish and asked if she would be interested in a bilingual position with the company.

“I asked [God] to please send me a job where I would be able to worship and wear my veil. I knew right then my prayer was being answered,” recalls Morales.

She has now been working with NHIEC for more than three years, and recently led a campaign to deliver Islamic literature and audio, clothing, and toiletries to a needy Muslim community in Mexico City.

During that trip Morales met with her own family members in Mexico, who are mostly Catholic. She says that initially they were not accepting of her decision to practice Islam or of her modest style of dress. They accused her of turning her back on her culture. But on her most recent trip to her hometown of Cuernavaca, she took the opportunity to talk to them more about her religion.

“It is obvious that Islam is still very strange in Mexico,” admits Morales, who says that since her last visit her own family has become more receptive. “But it is also very clear that people want to learn about it.”

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“I felt that Muslims in the states are already part of the fabric of the society,” Anaya explains. “But here [in Colombia], we are in the baby steps. If I want something, I have to create it. If I want Islamic classes for my children, I have to create them.”

Anaya and her husband are now in the process of establishing an Islamic school for the Muslims of Barranquilla. Both say that given their commitment to the work, return to the United States is unlikely.

 Lot’s more propaganda from the Muslim Brotherhood’s U.S. newspaper (Muslim Link). Oh, and as we’ve posted many times:

ICNA was named in a May 1991 Muslim Brotherhood memorandum as one of the Brotherhood’s likeminded “organizations of our friends” who shared the common goal of destroying America and turning it into a Muslim nation.

On numerous occasions, ICNA has explicitly excluded non-Muslims from its public gatherings. In September 2004, for example, ICNA sparked widespread controversy when, in cooperation with the management of the Great Adventure Theme Park in New Jersey, it organized a “Great Muslim Adventure Day” that barred non-Muslims from the park on that day. This annual tradition is still observed. Source

Previous posts on the continuous stream of Islamic dawah infiltrating the United States including this info:

ICNA executive and original Director of the Why Islam campaign – Sabeel Ahmed has written:

“…showing happiness and joy on Christmas, Halloween, Easter, Good Friday is like shaking hands with Satan and telling him to carry on the good work. Indeed Islam came to tear down the pillars of kufr and replace them with the pillars of Islam”

Iran’s Revulotionary Guard push into Peru

via The IRGC’s push into Peru. h/t Jawas

The Islamic Republic of Iran, represented by elements and individuals linked to the IRGC and answering to Ayatollah Khamenei, are building on their success elsewhere in Latin American, with a move into Peru. This has been going on for two or three years, and involves known IRGC operatives, local recruits, training/indoctrination trips to Qom, the bank rolling of local political organizations, and the establishment of an Iran-Peru “cultural” mission. All this activity is enabled by ascendent socialists of the Bolivarian type, both civilians and in the military. Recruitment activities are largely focused on, and conducted under the cover of, organizing and aiding indigenous people who self-identify as Incan (mostly Quechua). Last December – February saw the first group of recruits travel to Iran for two months. As of September 2012 efforts were being made to organize a second trip.

The Peruvian front man for this effort was a walk-in. He reached out to the IRGC’s recruiter in Latin American, converted to Shia Islam, and was sent to Iran for training.

Edwar Quiroga Vargas
a/k/a Edwar Quiroga
a/k/a Hossein Vargas
a/k/a Yaku

Vargas is a classic ‘red hot’, a newly-minted radical activist with lots of energy and many projects and ambitions. He is credited by the IRI’s point man with recruiting/converting at least 60 people so far. He also travels throughout Latin America, attending various socialist, youth, and first people’s conferences, and has documented the various regional leaders he has met:

Continue reading at The IRGC’s push into Peru.for much more detail and images of Vargas with leading Latin American leaders.

California Muslim Arrested in Mexican Hezbollah Bust

Morning note: Please read and tweet the posts stuck to the top of the home page in memory of those lost on 9/11 – thank you.

via Hezbollah Suspected Terrorist Arrested in Merida – The Yucatan Times. h/t Gateway Pundit

The American citizen of Arab origin Rafic Mohammad Labboun Allaboun, a suspected member of the terrorist network Hezbollah, was arrested Saturday night in Merida through an operation conducted by the National Migration Institute (INM) and the State Police.

Labboun Allaboun was arrested in a house located in the street 41-B, between 56 and 5 of the colony Francisco de Montejo in the west part of the city. At the moment of the arrest, the suspect identified himself with a fake passport from the government of Belize.

Eyewitnesses from the colony, where the operative took place, recalled that close to 9 PM vehicles from the INM and the SSP parked front of the premises, several officers heavily armed got out, and in a very quick and effective operation arrested three men. The suspects were taken, apparently, to a security complex located on the loop highway escorted by a high security convoy.

In the same operation, George Abdalah Elders and Justin Yasser Safa were also arrested; both Belizeans citizens with valid migratory forms (FM1) issued by the INM.

Official sources stated that intelligence agencies from the United States were tracking down this group, allegedly part of the terrorist network of Hezbollah, this cell operates in Mexico and Central America.

After the arrest, information leaked that somehow Labboun Allaboun is linked to the 911 attack of the Twin Towers in New York, the data has not yet been fully confirmed.

Allegedly the group arrested were participating in financing activities in an attempt to bail out incarcerated Hezbollah members jailed in the United States.

However, Mohammed Labboun was deported to the U.S. a few hours after his arrest, Sunday very early in the morning. The head of the INM in Yucatan, Benito Rosell Isaac declared that there is a warrant against Labboun from Houston, Texas.

What was the warrant for?

Connecting this guy to 9/11, which by almost all historical accounts was funded and perpetrated by Saudi’s – despite a recent court attempt to pin it on Iran, would seem tenuous at best. The timing, a day before the 9/11 anniversary and with hawks calling for war with Iran, is also curious. We anxiously await that evidence but until then remain skeptical.

Reporter Lee Kaplan has more on this Californian, Saba Islamic Center Imam Nabbed with Hezbollah Cell in Mexico:

Sharia food expo in Chile

Creeping along South America.

Some of you might be wandering what “halal” is. Watch the video below. Not suitable for children.

Guyana: Muslim scholar in boy-sex scandal re-arrested after more victims come forward

via Muslim scholar in boy-sex scandal re-arrested after more victims come forward | Latest.

The Muslim scholar was Tuesday re-arrested after five more boys alleged that he sexually assaulted them, police said.

East Coast Demerara Divisional Commander, Assistant Commissioner David Ramnarine confirmed that a total of nine boys including four brothers have leveled the accusations against the Mufti.

“The eminent scholar has been arrested after five more boys came forward and made allegations against him,” he told Demerara Waves Online News (www.demwaves.com).

Earlier Tuesday, Police Chief of Criminal Investigations, Assistant Commissioner, Seelall Persaud had confirmed that medical examinations conducted on one of two boys at that time had confirmed that he was anally sexed.

Up to late Tuesday, police did not divulge details about whether the three others were similarly sexually assaulted.

The scandal broke last week when the mother of four sons was approached by an official of the Child Care and Protection Agency (CPA) and told of the allegations against the Mufti.

The alleged instances of sexual assault took place at a Mosque based in Section D, Turkeyen between December 2011 and January 2012.

Prior to the Mufti’s arrest, he had been placed on GUY$150,000 station bail and asked to report periodically.

He has been sent on leave pending the outcome of the investigation and prosecution.

Police are yet to dispatch a file to the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) for advice. Authorities have 45 days within which to compile evidence before seeking a committal before a magistrate.

Earlier Tuesday, the rights organisation- Red Thread- picketed the Ministry of Human Services, urging that swift action be taken against the accused. The organisation is worried that the man could tamper with the victims, their parents or other associates.

Update: Excellent observation by reader Juniper, who notes that Guyana and Suriname have joined the ranks the enemy Organization of Islamic Countries (now Conference) – aka the Ummah.

 

Islamic University of North America aka Sharia Academy

Now that people are waking up to sharia and the term rightfully carries a negative connotation, this madrassa has undergone a name change from Sharia Academy to the nondescript Mishkah. The organization caught our attention with it’s dawah on Twitter. After a quick search, it’s clear they are all about sharia and spreading Islam.

Sharia Academy is now Mishkah University!

Mishkah – A new name for new beginnings. Our name change is symbolic of many transformations within your university intended to make your learning experience more enriching and fulfilling. It also marks the formal merger between Sharia Academy and International University of Latin America.

The Sharia Academy is marketing itself as an “accredited university” in North America but it appears the only accreditation it has is through it’s merger with the International University of Latin America. The reason it merged with IULA, based in Panama, was to spread Islam and sharia to South and Central America.

Thus our decision to establish the main center of learning in the Republic o f Panama was due to its strategic location in between Central and South America…

They are however based out of the US and Egypt (home of the Muslim Brotherhood), and have branches in Houston, Detroit and Montreal:

USA Office
4111 Central Avenue NE Suite 207, Columbia Heights MN 55421-2955 USA
info@mishkahuniversity.com
Phone: 813-322-3722
Fax: 866-263-5782

Egypt Office
1 Zaker Hussein Street, 3rd floor, Nasr City, Cairo Egypt
info@mishkahuniversity.com
Phone: 202-2270-1069
Fax: 202-2275-7006

Most of the “faculty” are from Egypt’s Al-Azhar University. That should set off alarm bells for anyone worried about the infiltration of Islamic sharia law – that is what these people are teaching with a goal getting it established in the Americas.

If any of you have time for some open source analysis on the faculty, staff and board – as well as those running the IULA feel free to post your results or post on your blogs and we’ll link in.

Muslim guilty in US of drug-running for Qaeda, FARC

via AFP: Malian guilty in US of drug-running for Qaeda, FARC. h/t Shariah Finance Watch

NEW YORK — A Malian man faces up to 15 years in jail after pleading guilty to trafficking cocaine to fund the activities of Al-Qaeda and FARC guerrilla fighters in Colombia, US prosecutors said on Tuesday.

Oumar Issa, who was arrested in Ghana in December 2009 at the request of the United States, and subsequently transported to New York, admitted one count of “conspiring to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization.”

Why did Obama and Holder bring this guy onto U.S. soil? Now he’s locked up at taxpayer expense, but what happens when he is freed on U.S. soil?

Court papers said he agreed to move cocaine through West and North Africa to support the drug-trafficking activities of Al-Qaeda, Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC).

From September 2009 through December 2009, Issa and two other Malians agreed to provide the FARC with “logistical assistance and secure transportation for a shipment of cocaine across Africa, (and) false identification documents,” despite knowing the FARC “was engaged in terrorist activity,” prosecutors said.

“The defendants also agreed to provide material support and resources, including property, and currency and monetary instruments to Al-Qaeda and AQIM, knowing that these groups were engaged in terrorist activities,” they added.

Issa is scheduled to be sentenced by US District Judge Richard Holwell on February 15, 2012. Cases against his two conspirators are ongoing.

Preet Bharara, US Attorney for the southern district of New York, said narcotics trafficking provided vital cash to terrorist organizations, and Issa’s guilty plea underscored prosecutors commitment to catching wrongdoers.

Documentary on Emerging Iranian Threat to U.S. and Latin America (video)

via Documentales Univision Premieres “La Amenaza Iraní,” a Documentary on the Emerging Iranian Threat to the U.S. and Latin America on December 8 – Yahoo! Finance.

NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)– “La Amenaza Iraní” (The Iranian Threat), Documentales Univision’s latest production, will premiere on Thursday, December 8, 2011. Debuting at 10 p.m. ET/PT (9 p.m. Central) on the Univision Network, “La Amenaza Iraní” looks at Iran’s growing political, economic and military ties in Latin America, and the threat this offensive poses to the Latin American region and the United States. The documentary, which was produced in collaboration with Univision News’ Investigative unit, reveals exclusive findings, including secret video and audio recordings that provide a rare window into an alleged Iranian-backed cyber attack against the United States from Mexico. “La Amenaza Iraní” also features unseen video footage taken by extremists linked to Iran and an interview with an undercover journalist who infiltrated clandestine military training camps in Venezuela.

“The goal of our documentary productions is to explore and expand in depth on the stories behind pressing global matters,” said Juan Rendon, director of Documentales Univision. “‘La Amenaza Iraní’ showcases the inner workings of terrorist networks and depicts the threat posed to the United States as well as Latin America.”

In making “La Amenaza Iraní,” a team of journalists spent months tracking the silent but steady expansion of Iranian interests in the hemisphere – including money laundering and drug trafficking activities by terrorist groups supported by Iran. Univision Investiga reporter Vytenis Didziulis, who visited several countries throughout Latin America, obtained unpublished video of a failed bomb attack against New York’s JFK airport. In Mexico, producer Jorge Motta uncovered covert recordings of the alleged Iranian plan to cripple the computer systems of the White House, the FBI, the CIA and several nuclear power plants.

“Univision Investiga, the investigative team behind ‘La Amenaza Iraní,’ went through great lengths to uncover critical evidence of terrorist networks that threaten global security,” said Gerardo Reyes, director of Univision News’ Investigative unit. “The work of this team reflects Univision’s commitment to offer its audience thoroughly researched products that go beyond daily news.”

During the past seven months, Univision’s investigative unit reviewed dozens of hours of secret recordings, conducted extensive interviews with people who participated in the meetings, including a former Iranian ambassador, and examined documents ranging from hand-written notes to internal federal reports.

Narrated by award-winning Univision News co-anchor Maria Elena Salinas, “La Amenaza Iraní” will broadcast with English and Spanish subtitles via closed captions.

We’ve been documenting the growing jihad threat coming from Latin America and will post these videos if they become readily available.

Honduras: President opens session with Koran reading, Islamic prayer

It’s creeping in Honduras, via La Prensa: Consejo de Ministros empieza con invocación a Alá

Tegucigalpa, Honduras

With the sudden invocation of Allah and reading the Quran, President Porfirio Lobo began yesterday’s session of Council of Ministers.

The president received in the session hall of the Presidential House female members of the Islamic community.

During his speech, the ladies prayed for the future of Honduras, the government and its officials, including President Lobo.

Every Tuesday, the government has been getting used to starting the meetings of the Council of Ministers with prayers to God by inviting representatives of religious leaders of different denominations.

“So far the invocation of God has been alternating with representatives of Catholic and Evangelical churches, but also invited the Adventists,” said a source.

At the opening ceremony, Lobo also received a letter, apparently with some requests, which were given to him by two women in the Islamic community, whose contents are not released.

The Council of Ministers is similar to Congress. El Heraldo added this:

Following their participation, the representatives of the Islamic community gave gifts and a letter to the President, who has proclaimed his open government at all levels and all religions.

With the highest murder rate outside of Afghanistan and evidence that Islamic terrorists are working with gangs like MS13, it’s appears that Islamists are also working their way into the political theater in Honduras.