Saturday, October 24, 2009
So reads the headline on Americans for Peace and Tolerance's fact sheet on the recent Boston-area terror arrests:
Father moves out of town weeks after son questioned by the FBI
- Media reports on the Boston terror arrest have named three individuals as conspirators in the plot to machine gun people in shopping malls and kill American officials.Two, Daniel Maldonado and Tareq Mehanna, are in custody. The third, however, Ahmad Abousamra, escaped to Syria after being questioned by the FBI in 2006.
- According to the complaint, it was Abousamra who introduced Maldonado and Mehanna to each other during an afternoon of watching "jihad videos" in which Islamic terrorists killed and mutilated American soldiers...
- ...Ahmad Abousamra is the oldest son of Abdul-Badi Abousamra, former vice president of the Boston branch of the Muslim American Society, which operates the largest Islamic center in the Northeast. The MAS has branches in 34 cities within 23 states.
- The Muslim American Society, according to Federal prosecutors, "was founded as the overt arm of the Muslim Brotherhood in America." The Muslim Brotherhood is considered to be the first truly modern Islamic supremacist movement. As such, it has spawned or aided most of the Islamic terrorist organizations functioning around the globe today, including Al Qaeda, Hamas, and Lashkar-e-Taibah.
- In December of 2006, Abdul-Badi Abousamra suddenly left Boston and moved to Detroit, just weeks after his son was questioned by the FBI.
- In the 1990s, Abdul-Badi Abousamra became the president of the Islamic Center of New England (ICNE)...
There's a lot more there in very readable bullet-point format. There are ties to various local Islamic groups, other Imams deported for immigration fraud and ties to Pakistani terror group Laskar-e-Taibah.
This all connects together (sometimes obliquely, but still in a very real way) with these other local issues, like the Immigration Imams. This is a tangled web, as we've been remarking for some time.
Miss Kelly is doing her usual thorough examination of the goings on, and she has the following posts that are well worth clicking through: Feds Arrest Tarek Mehanna of Sudbury, Reading Between the Lines - FBI Affadavit on Tarek Mehenna (lots of good detail there), and Mehanna Timeline / Boston Globe Notices Abousamra.
At PJM, Rusty Shackleford tries to answer the question of what's a nice kid like this doing plotting such horrible things? Boston Terror Suspect: Just Another 'Typical American Kid' with Terror Aspirations - "An exclusive report on the recent arrest of American Tarek Mehanna and the author's online monitoring of his jihadist activities..."
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