America's Homegrown Troop Killers
By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY
Tuesday, June 17, 2008 4:20 PM PT
It's bad enough that Americans are bad-mouthing
American troops fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq.
But an alarming number of Muslim-Americans
are plotting to kill them.
It's a story you don't like to hear from the
mainstream media:
U.S. soldiers increasingly are the prime targets of
terrorism, both at home and abroad. And those who
want to do them harm include fellow citizens.
Thanks to the anti-war crowd, the trend may only
worsen. The ACLU recently pressured the Pentagon to
shut down a domestic counterterror unit set up after
9/11 to protect troops and bases.
Convicted last week by a federal jury in Toledo of
plotting to attack U.S. soldiers in Iraq were three Ohio
men, from left: Marwan El-Hindi, Wassim Mazloum
and Mohammed Amawi.
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And a new congressional re****t finds that the U.S.
government has no "coordinated strategy" to deal with
grass-roots jihadists who more and more are meeting,
training and conspiring to kill troops over the Internet.
In the most recent case, a federal jury last week
convicted three Toledo, Ohio, Muslims of plotting to
attack U.S. military personnel in Iraq and elsewhere.
Mohammed Amawi, Marwan El-Hindi and Wassim
Mazloum were learning to shoot guns and make
explosives while raising money to fund their plans to
wage jihad against U.S. troops.
Amawi and El-Hindi are U.S. citizens, and Mazloum
immigrated to the U.S. legally from Lebanon.
In addition, El-Hindi's two cousins from Chicago face
trial next year for conspiring to kill American soldiers.
The Toledo case is just the latest in a string of troop-
killing plots by homegrown terrorists.
€ Earlier this month, Muslim convert and al-Qa'ida
trainee Christopher Paul, a U.S. citizen also from
Ohio, pleaded guilty to planning to use bombs to
blow up U.S. military bases overseas.
€ In March, Hassan Abu-Jihad, a Muslim convert and
former U.S. sailor, was convicted on federal charges
of sending classified information on naval ****p
movements to an al-Qa'ida Web site, and arranging
to obtain weapons to attack U.S. military installations.
€ Last year, six Muslim men, including a naturalized
U.S. citizen from Jordan, were charged with plotting
to attack troops stationed at Fort Dix in New Jersey.
€ In 2005, three black Muslim converts from Torrance,
Calif., were jailed for planning to attack Army
recruiting stations.
€ In 2003, a group of Virginia jihadists, some of whom
were born in the U.S., were busted for training to kill
U.S. troops in Afghanistan.
€ Last week, a student in Tampa, Fla., pleaded guilty to
terror charges after police found him and a
co-defendant with pipe bombs near a South Carolina
naval brig holding enemy combatants. His plea deal
says he produced terror videos "to be used against
those who fight for the United States."
€ March 2003, muslim convert in 101st Airborne frags
senior officers in their sleep ~~ see details below
Homegrown American jihadists are waging a battle
against U.S. troops right here at home ‹ not in Anbar
province or Kandahar ‹ but right here, in Torrance,
Toledo and Tampa.
The Pentagon ought to make force protection a priority
over the privacy concerns of the ACLU crowd, who by
turning the military into the enemy has put the lives of
troops at risk on American soil. It shouldn't apologize
for monitoring Islamists who pose a threat to facilities.
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A NATION AT WAR: ATTACK;
One Dies in Attack at U.S. Camp; Soldier Is Held
By JIM DWYER, NYTimes
Published: March 23, 2003
In an apparent fratricide attack, one soldier was killed and 13 others
were
wounded early this morning when grenades were thrown and shots were fired
into a tent used by leaders of a brigade from the 101st Airborne Division,
military officials said.
''An American soldier is in custody,'' Maj. Trey Cate, a spokesman for the
division.
Major Cate did not identify the detained soldier or suggest a motive, but
military sources described him a sergeant attached to an engineering unit,
an American citizen, and a Muslim convert. He was found in a scud bunker
when senior officers took a head count after the attack.
The attack took place at 1:21 this morning in Camp Pennsylvania, where
soldiers from the First Brigade were sleeping. The tent was in a ''command
and control area'' for the brigade, which was poised to move later today
into Iraq as part of the second wave of ground troops from the 101st,
according to Major Cate.
One soldier died from injuries suffered in the attack, two military
officials said, on the condition that they not be identified.
Major Cate said between one and four grenades were used in the attack.
Shots
were fired from a gun, another military source said. The explosions in the
middle of the night, after two full days of scud alerts and attacks,
created
a chaotic scene of smoke, alarm, and cries for help.
Jim Lacey, a correspondent for Time Magazine, told CNN that the attack had
occurred in the tent immediately behind his at Camp Pennsylvania, and that
the tents were still smouldering as medical personnel evacuated the
wounded.
''The people who did it ran off into the darkness,'' Mr. Lacey said.
The injured were brought to two field hospitals that have been set up for
battlefield casualties. The injuries ''range from very serious, to
scratches,'' Major Cate said.
Col. Richard Thomas, the division's surgeon, said fragmentation from the
grenade explosion was responsible for most of the injuries. In addition,
at
least one soldier was treated for gunshot wounds.
''Most of the soldiers are expected to recover,'' Colonel Thomas said,
''but
several of the injuries were very serious.''
Immediately after the attack, two Kuwaiti men who worked at the camp as
contractors were seized. Within an hour, attention turned to the American
soldier who is suspected of carrying out the attack. ''A criminal
investigation is under way,'' Major Cate said.
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"Islam isn't in America to be equal to any other
faith, but to become dominant. The Koran should be
the highest authority in America, and Islam the
only accepted religion on earth."
€€€€ Omar Ahmad, the chairman of the board of CAIR,
the Council on American-Islamic Relations, a div'n
of the Muslim Brotherhood.
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