"Today, following the trail of money launderers or identity thieves can lead to a terrorist plot. In “Operation Smokescreen,” the FBI linked cigarette smugglers in North Carolina to a group raising money for the terrorist organization Hezbollah..." --- FBI
Color codes:
Red: nationwide warnings
attempted terror attack
Rightwing extremists: KKK, neo Nazi
Islamic: Orange: Al Qaeda, Purple: Jamaat ul Fuqra, Dark Red: Hezbollah, Sky Blue: CAIR (MB affiliate; Islamic Association of Palestine and affiliates, Hamas or the Muslim Brotherhood), Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), Aiding the Taliban, Black Panthers, Left helping Islamists. homegrown, *entered country illegally or is in the country illegally.
Leftwing extremists: animal rights, environmental movements, anti-war
End of color codes.
You may also want to review testimony from Robert Mueller, Director of the FBI given on September 30, 2009 to the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, Eight Years After 9/11: Confronting the Terrorist Threat to the Homeland:
..."Since the 2001 terrorist attacks, we have frequently received credible reports that al Qaeda remains committed to attacking the United States and U.S. interests abroad. Al Qaeda’s primary threat continues to come from the tribal areas of Pakistan and Afghanistan, but we are seeing persistent activity elsewhere, from Europe to the Horn of Africa and Yemen. Of particular concern to the FBI are individuals who can travel with fewer restrictions to these areas of extremist activity and then enter the United States under less scrutiny..."
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12/25/09 Michigan FAILED BOMB ATTACK : Man sets off small explosive as plane lands in Detroit! May be connected to Al Qaeda.
12/14/09 Illinois TERROR SUSPECT: Chicago terror suspect said 'good job' on Mumbai attacks: prosecutors
In a court filing this afternoon, prosecutors said a Sept. 7, 2009 intercepted recording between the businessman, Tahawwur Rana, 48, and his friend David Headley, shows Rana met with a retired Pakistani military major last year in Dubai. The major, Abdur Rehman — referred to as “Pasha” in the recording — told Rana and Headley of the planned assaults days before dozens of buildings in Mumbai were blown up in a series of coordinated attacks, prosecutors allege. Rehman was charged Dec. 7 in the Danish plot.
12/09/09 Nationwide WARNING: Shocking airline security breach discovered by blogger!
12/09/009 Virginia ARRESTED in PAKISTAN: Five American students arrested in Pakistan - are missing Muslims from D.C. area!
12/7/09 Illinois CHARGED: Chicago Man Charged For Role In 2008 Mumbai Terror Attacks
David Headley was charged in a 12-count criminal information with six counts of murdering U.S. citizens in India, conspiracy to bomb public targets in India, conspiracy to murder and maim persons in India, providing material support to terrorists, conspiracy to murder and maim persons in Denmark and conspiracy to provide material support to terrorism in Denmark.
12/03/09 Nationwide WARNING: Napolitano warns of homegrown terrorists
11/20/09 Florida SENTENCED: Miami man gets 13-year sentence for Sears Tower plot
11/17/09: New York CONVICTION UPHELD: Conviction of Sheik’s Lawyer for Assisting Terrorism Is Upheld A federal appeals court panel in Manhattan on Tuesday upheld the conviction of Lynne F. Stewart, the outspoken defense lawyer who was found guilty in 2005 of assisting terrorism by smuggling information from an imprisoned client to his violent followers in Egypt...The panel also sent the case back to the trial judge, John G. Koeltl of Federal District Court, to determine whether she deserved a longer sentence in light of the seriousness of her conduct and the possibility she had lied at trial. Prosecutors had sought a term of 30 years.
11/13/09 Georgia NEW TRIAL DENIED: Judge Rejects New Terror Trial Eshanul Islam Sadequee. The ruling paves the way for a December 14th sentencing date for Sadequee and co-defendant Syed Haris Ahmed.
11/5/09 Texas KILLINGS: Fort Hood Army Base shooting: 14 dead Army Maj. Malik Nadal Hasan committed the killings
11/02/09 Nationwide: Muslim Public Affairs Council warns government agenices and media
11/01/09 Nationwide: 400000 Names on FBI Terror Watch List
10/31/09: Smaller-Scale Terrorism Plots Pose New and Worrisome Threats, Officials Say
10/29/09 Illinois ATTACKED: Video of news photographer attack by Muslims in Detroit
10/28/09 Illinois GUNFIGHT: FBI fired upon; Islamic leader dead in Dearborn, Michigan!
10/27/09 Illinois ARRESTED: Two Chicago men arrested today on terrorism-related charges! The three American based terrorists intended to attack the Danish newspaper.
The American national's most important meeting was with Ilyas Kashmiri, the head of Al Qaeda's hardcore 313 Brigade. The unit's name refers to the number of men the Prophet Mohammed had with him at the Battle of Badr in 624. Kashmiri's importance in Pakistan's terrorist network is such that the Pakistani government has placed a $600,000 reward on his head, while the American military has fired three Hellfire missiles at it.
Brigade 313 is actually a coalition of five of the world's deadliest, Muslim terrorist organizations: Lashkar-e-Toiba; Jaish-e-Muhammad; Harkatul Jihad al-Islami; Harkatul Mujahideen al-Alami; and Lashkar-e-Jhangvi. Some believe the unit was created in 1991 to combat India in Kashmir, while another version has it forming a decade later in response to the American invasion of Afghanistan. What can't be disputed, however, is its direct links with both al Qaeda and the Taliban.
10/28/09 Illinois SENTENCED: Ali al-Marri, convicted Al-Qaeda conspirator, to be sentenced in Illinois
10/22/09 Ohio SENTENCED: Three Sentenced for Conspiring to Commit Terrorist Acts Against Americans Overseas
Mohammad Zaki Amawi, 29, Marwan Othman El-Hindi, 46, and Wassim I. Mazloum, 28, have
been sentenced to prison terms ranging from more than 8 years to 20 years for conspiring to commit terrorist acts against Americans overseas, including U.S. military personnel in Iraq, and other terrorism-related violations.
10/21/09 National: Congress approves Guantanamo Bay trials in the U.S.
10/21/09 Mass. ARRESTED: Terrorism plot uncovered in Boston Tarek Mehanna, 27 was arrested today in his Sudbury, Mass. home -- "...Ahmad Abousamra, the son of a prominent physician, who fled to Syria was also named in the indictment.
10/21/09: Convicted Muslim terrorists to be sentenced this week in Ohio
10/20/09 New York INDICTED: Imam is indicted in NY Zazi case
10/16/09 New York SUSPECT: Accused Denver terror suspect was in contact with al-Qaeda
10/11/09 Washington, D.C. ARRESTED: Muslim threatened to kill self and others in D.C.
10/08/09 Colorado INDICTED: Father of Denver terror suspect indicted
10/07/09 Illinois SENTENCE UPHELD: Appellate court upholds sentence of ex-professor linked to Hamas
10/01/09 National: FBI post domestic investigations guide; CAIR whines
09/25/09: New York ARRAIGNED: Brooklyn-born jihadist arraigned on terror-related charges
09/25/09: Washington MARTYRED: FBI comparing DNA to link Somalia bombing with Seattle father,
09/24/09: Illinois ARRESTED: 09/24/09 Texas ARRESTED: *BREAKING: Jordanian Muslim arrested for attempting to bomb a Dallas skyscraper!
09/24/09 New York INDICTED: Najibullah Zazi indicted for plotting to use weapons of mass destruction!
09/22/09: Nationwide ALERT: Mass transit in U.S. on high alert
09/21/09 Colorado ARRESTED: Al-Qaeda cell suspect arrested - more under survelliance!
09/15/09: Nationwide ALERT: FBI warns police nationwide after NYC terror raids
09/04/09 Washington ATTACK: Left-wing eco-terrorists destroy radio towers in Washington
09/04/09: American jihadist identified; charges await him
08/30/09 Nationwide: Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff critcize efforts to combat extremism with PR
08/20/09 Ohio ASSETS UNFROZEN: Islamic charity, KindHearts shutdown for ties to Hamas, has assets unfrozen!
08/17/09 California SENTENCED: Man sentenced for role in plot to kill Jews, attack military bases
Hammad Riaz Samana is the fourth member of Jami'yyat Ul-Islam Is-Shaheeh, or JIS, a prison-founded group that wanted to make a political statement that also had plans to attack the Israeli consulate in Los Angeles and El Al Israel Airlines at the Los Angeles International Airport.
Samana was 21 when he was charged in the case in July 2005, along with the cell's mastermind, Kevin James, and members Levar Haley Washington and Gregory Patterson.
08/10/09: Yemen leader U.S. conviction thrown out; new plea leads to freedom
08/07/09 Texas SENTENCED: Texan sentenced for aiding the Taliban
08/05/09 North Carolina ARRESTED: Homegrown jihadists in North Carolina on fed's radar for nearly three years
08/04/09 New Jersey: New trial sought in Liberty City terror
08/01/09: Georgia TRIAL: Ehsanul Islam Sadequee could face up to 60 years in prison on four charges that he conspired to help overseas terrorists wage "violent jihad" on America. Jury selection is to begin Monday and the trial is expected to last at least a week.
07/29/09: Letter sent by several U.S. Reps. to AG Eric Holder representing the political agenda of several highly controversial Islamist organizations in the U.S. More here.
07/29/09: United States SPOTTING TERRORISM: US enlists citizens in anti-terrorism strategy AFP A top US domestic securty chief announced Wednesday a strategy to make ordinary citizens the first line of defense against an increasingly multi-faceted terrorist threat. Napolitano urged a "much broader society response" in which the public helps curb a growing phenomenon of so-called home-grown terrorism..."We have to be careful," she said. "That's a balance to be struck." An example, she said, was the need to respect mosques and other Islamic institutions.
"We have to be very careful about profiling a religious institution just as we have to be careful about profiling individuals," she said. "We have to be very, very careful about interfering with the free exercise of religion...."
07/29/09 Washington CAIR: CAIR Questions Legality of fbi's 'Cruel Trick' on Suspect's Family
07/28/09: North Carolina ARRESTED: Federal authorities are searching for an eighth alleged member of a North Carolina group that authorities say plotted "violent jihad" overseas, the prosecutor's office said Tuesday...All seven are accused of engaging in weapons training and military tactics in North Carolina, the Justice Department said
07/27/09: Virginia SENTENCE INCREASED: A Falls Church man convicted of plotting with al-Qaeda to kill President George W. Bush was resentenced to life in prison Monday after the judge said his release would threaten "the safety of the American citizenry." Ahmed Omar Abu Ali had been given a 30-year prison term after he was convicted in 2005 of joining an al-Qaeda conspiracy to mount a series of Sept. 11-style attacks and assassinations in the United States. Ali was the valedictorian in 1999 at the controversial Saudi Islamic Academy located in Alexandria, (Fairfax County) VA which is very near the capitol.
This academy is seeking to expand.
07/23/09: New York ARRESTED: An American Muslim convert from Long Island, N.Y., who was captured while fighting for Al Qaeda in Pakistan is now cooperating with authorities, opening a rare window into the world of Western militants in the network's hide-outs, U.S. and European anti-terrorism officials said. Bryant Neal Vinas, 26, is one of the few Americans known to have made the trek to Al Qaeda's secret Pakistani compounds, the officials said.
07/14/09 Minnesota INDICTED: Grand jury indicts two Minneapolis Muslims on terrorism charges
07/13/09 Nationwide: Napolitano Announces Task Force to Review Warning System CQPolitics.com
07/10/09 Nationwide: American jihadist in Somalia post audio to President Obama
06/20/09: Congressional investigators build live bomb in federal building!
06/10/09 Washington, D.C. SHOOTING: James von Brunn shoots a guard at the Holocasut Museum killing the young man. Since Brunn hated Brush, thought 9/11 was an inside job, hated capitalism and admired fascist dictator Hitler, he really cannot be classified as right-wing despite what the left-leaning media claim.
see: The Rev. Wright and James von Brunn -- Creepy Coincidence That ...
"Any authority not derived from the authority of God is a state of rebellion," he said. "As a Muslim, it's not right for me to use those laws to my benefit." The judge found him guilty and he faces 15 years in prison
06/01/09 Arkansas ARRESTED: Muslim shoots two army recruiters in Arkansas based on his religious convictions. One dies. He will likely be charged for committing terroristic acts. zTruth
05/31/09 Kansas ARRESTED: Late-term abortion doctor, who terminated over 60,000 pregnancies, killed by 51-year-old Scott Roeder.
NBC Suggests Bill O'Reilly Fueled Murder of Dr. George Tiller
05/20/09 New York ARRESTED: Synagogue targeted in NY plot, four charged Reuters James Cromitie is one of four men from Newburgh, N.Y., who were arrested and charged with trying to carry out what they believed was a bomb attack on two synagogues in the Riverdale section of the Bronx and the simultaneous shooting down of military aircraft in Newburgh.
05/20/09 Minnesota GUILTY: Minnesota man pleds guilty to providing support and aid to Al-Qaeda DOJ Press Release
05/19/09 Oklahoma PLEDS GUILTY: Thwarted Tulsa jihadist attacker pleds guilty zTruth
05/14/09 Rhode Island VERDICT UPHELD: US judge OKs $116M ruling in deadly terror attack A federal judge in Rhode Island has upheld a $116 million verdict against the Palestine Liberation Organization...
05/12/09 Florida GUILTY: Liberty City Six al Qaeda Cell Convicted for Conspiracy to Kill USA Today
05/12/09 Washington GUILTY: Oussama Kassir was convicted on all eleven counts he faced, including conspiracy to provide material support to Al-Qaida and conspiracy to kill or maim persons overseas. NEFA Foundation
05/02/09 New York SENTENCED: Man who broadcasted Hezbollah TV in New York goes to prison zTruth
04/30/09 Illinois GUILTY: Al-Qaeda sleeper agent pleads guilty in Illinois zTruth
04/29/09 New Jersey SENTENCED: Final two sentenced in Ft. Dix terror case zTruth
04/28/09 New Jersey SENTENCED: Three New Jersey Muslim brothers sentenced to life in prison zTruth
04/27/09: Washington ISLAMIC MILITANT TESTIFIES: A Denver native convicted of helping the Taliban has testified at a terrorism trial that he tried to create a militant jihad training camp in Oregon but that he no longer supports terrorist causes. Ujaama was called by prosecutors as a witness in the trial of Oussama Kassir.Kassir is accused of helping al-Qaeda by trying to set up a weapons-training post in Bly, Ore. Denver Post
04/21/09 California WANTED: Left-wing terrorist, Andreas San Diego, added to FBI's most wanted terrorist list! zTruth
04/20/09: CAIR to the FBI: Our mosques, our Koran are off-limits!
04/16/09 District of Columbia SENTENCED: Wesam al-Delaema, an Iraqi-born Dutch citizen was sentenced to 25 years in prison today for conspiring to murder Americans overseas, including by planting roadside bombs targeting U.S. soldiers in Fallujah, Iraq, and by demonstrating on video how these explosives would be detonated to destroy American vehicles and their occupants. DOJ press release
04/14/09 NATIONWIDE: Department of Homeland Security: Right-wing extremists a growing threat! The reports states on page 8 at the bottom: DHS/I&A assesses that lone wolves and small terrorist cells embracing violent rightwing extremist ideology are the most dangerous domestic terrorism threat in the United States.
04/03/09 CT SENTENCED: Hassan Abu-Jihaad, Former U.S. Sailor Who Leaked Navy Secrets, Sentenced To 10 Years Courant.com
In what a federal judge called a betrayal of his country and fellow service members that stretched from San Diego to the Persian Gulf and London by way of Connecticut, a former U.S. sailor was sentenced Friday to 10 years in prison.
Hassan Abu-jihaad was a signalman on the guided missile destroyer USS Benfold when his San Diego-based battle group was ordered to the gulf to participate in operations against Iraq, the Taliban and al-Qaida.
04/03/09 Florida NOT GUILTY:
03/21/09 Illinois ARRESTED: Muslim man arrested for sending threatening letters to Jewish high school zTruth
02/27/09 Illinois INDICTED: The indictment against Ali Saleh Kahlah al-Marri, filed Thursday and unsealed today, marks a dramatic shift from the Bush administration's stance that the United States could indefinitely detain terror suspects caught in the U.S. without filing charges. ABC News
2/24/09 Nationwide WARNING: Director of FBI warns of possible U.S. terror attacks
02/24/09 California CHARGED: Man with alleged terror ties aided police in 2007 Mercury News
The alleged brother-in-law of Osama bin Laden's bodyguard charged with lying about alleged ties to terrorist groups on his citizenship application reported a Muslim convert for making terrorist threats two years earlier, according to court documents.
Ahmadullah Niazi, 34, was scheduled to appear in U.S. District Court on Tuesday for a bail hearing after his arrest last week on charges of perjury, procurement of naturalization unlawfully, passport fraud and making a false statement. He could face up to 35 years in prison if convicted of all charges.
...Niazi is referred to as Ahmad Niazi—not Ahmadullah Niazi—in the 2007 court documents and in several police reports taken around that time.
CAIR spokeswoman Munira Syeda confirmed that Niazi is the same man who was arrested by federal agents last week.
02/23/09: Utah GUILTY FRAUD: Terrorism case ends with 1-year fraud sentence SLT
02/19/09: New York RELEASED: Khalid Duhham Al-Jawary will be released at age 63 after serving about half his 30-year prison term for planting three car bombs in New York City. He was deported.
But an Associated Press investigation — based on recently declassified documents, extensive court records, CIA investigative notes and interviews with former intelligence officials — reveals publicly for the first time Al-Jawary's deep involvement in terrorism beyond the plot that led to his conviction.
Government documents link Al-Jawary to Black September's murderous letter-bombing campaign targeting world leaders in the 1970s and a botched terrorist attack in 1979. Former intelligence officials suspect he had a role in the bombing of a TWA flight in 1974 that killed 88 people.
"He's a very dangerous man," said Mike Finnegan, the former FBI counterterrorism agent who captured Al-Jawary. "A very bad guy." Read more.
02/18/09 Florida TRIAL: 3rd trial starts for 6 men accused of terror plot AP
02/01/09: Ex-U.S. jihadist testify at Guantanamo terror trial Idaho Statesmen
jailed ex-jihadist testified at the war court Thursday that, as an American al Qaeda recruit in Afghanistan, he was twice shown a two-hour propaganda film created by Osama bin Laden's media secretary — and was horror-struck.
''The target was clearly the United States and Israel. I was surprised and didn't want no part of that,'' said Buffalo, N.Y., native Yassein Taher, 30, now serving an eight-year federal sentence as a convicted terrorist of the so-called Lackawanna Six.
01/30/09 National: FBI Cuts Ties With CAIR Following Terror Financing Trial FN
01/27/09: Minnesota ARREST: FBI arrest Minnesota Somalian Muslim on possible terror threat
01/20/09 Florida TRIAL SET: Sami Al-Arian: A federal judge has declined to dismiss contempt charges against Sami Al-Arian, saying a jury should decide whether he has committed a crime by refusing to testify in a case against an Islamic charity. The ruling means a jury will convene in Alexandria, Va., in March. In 2005, Al-Arian accepted a plea agreement with federal prosecutors after a six-month trial in Tampa, where he was acquitted on most of the charges he aided terrorists in the Middle East, while the jury deadlocked on two charges. He later pleaded guilty to one count of helping associates of Palestinian Islamic Jihad - branded a terrorist group by the U.S. - with nonviolent activities. Al-Arian contends his plea agreement exempted him from testifying again and that he would be deported to the Middle East when his sentence was completed in early 2007. WUSF
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Also see:
Fact Sheet: Justice Department Counter-Terrorism Efforts Since 9/11
Find Law resource on terrorism cases (is not current)
2008, 2007, 2006, 2005 and earlier; Terrorism in the U.S.
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