ABOUT THOSE FIVE MUSLIM AMERICANS ARRESTED IN PAKISTAN
Hey all, some quick first thoughts as this case develops. It is the latest in a wild and disturbing string of homegrown Islamic terrorism plots, attacks and arrests these past seven months:
http://blogs.cbn.com/stakelbeckonterror/archive/2009/12/10/more-on-5-american-muslims-detained-in-pakistan.aspx
One thing to consider here: what if these men would have returned to their Washington, D.C. home base as battle-hardened jihadists after a few months of tutelage from the terror masters in Pakistan? With the White House, Capitol Hill and Pentagon in striking distance? From the cases I’ve studied of homegrowns who have trained overseas, that hunger for jihad never leaves. It’s not like you can just go from killing infidels on the battlefield to settling into a quiet life as a short order cook in Virginia. Witness the case of alleged North Carolina terror cell leader Daniel Boyd, who trained in Afghanistan in 1989 as a 19 year old, then was indicted on terrorism charges 20 years later.
But perhaps these five Americans planned to never return. A source with knowledge of the investigation told me today that one of them made a “martyrdom tape” that featured graphic footage of Coalition forces being killed by the Taliban in Afghanistan, as well as vicious anti-Semitic rhetoric. No surprise on either count. In literally every single homegrown case I have covered, the two common themes are hatred of Jews and Israel and hatred of the U.S. military, which the jihadists see as the symbol of “imperialist, Crusader aggression” against the Muslim world.
Also noteworthy is that one of the men arrested is a middle-class, dental student at Howard University. Yet another example that Islamic ideology, not poverty or lack of opportunities (as some have suggested), fuels Islamic terrorism.
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