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As we remember the loss of Stephen Tyrone Johns this week in the June 10, 2009 terrorist attack on the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM), the USHMM also urges all to make a gift to the USHMM Stephen Tyrone Johns Summer Youth Leadership Program Endowment Fund.
The anti-democracy group Hizb ut-Tahrir America is planning another event on July 11 in a Chicago suburb of Oak Brook, IL.
According to the Counterterrorism Group’s Madeleine Gruen
— “Hizb ut-Tahrir America (HTA) released a video announcement for its 2010 “Khilafah Conference,” to be held on July 11 at the Chicago Marriott, Oak Brook. The conference is titled, ‘Emerging World Order: How the Khilafah Will Shape the World.'”
— “Last year, HTA announced its presence in the United States by hosting a conference at the Hilton in Oak Lawn, Illinois. The conference drew approximately 500 supporters, but did not appear to generate lasting momentum for HTA beyond the flurry of press reporting surrounding the event.”
— “Hizb ut-Tahrir (HT) has a presence in more than 45 countries around the world and seeks to establish an Islamic state. Once its government has been established, HT intends to spread Islam to the rest of the world.”
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According to HTA the event will be at:
Date: Sunday, July 11th 2010
Time: 1:00PM – 6:00PM
Venue: Chicago Marriott Oak Brook
1401 W. 22nd St.
Oak Brook, IL 60523
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See additional R.E.A.L. postings on the anti-democracy Hizb ut-Tahrir movement at:
FOX News: Radical Islamist Group Is Returning to Chicago for Major Recruitment Drive
Hizb ut-Tahrir America Announces Annual Conference – by Madeleine Gruen
In NYC’s John F. Kennedy airport, two New Jersey men were arrested and have been charged with planning terrorism . The initial reports have indicated that the two men arrested, Mohamed Hamoud Alessa and Carlos Eduardo Almonte, were planning to join terrorist groups in Somalia, and were flying from JFK airport to Egypt en route to Somalia. In Somalia, they planned to join the Al Shabaab, which has been linked to Al-Qaeda. They planned to arrive in Cairo, Egypt, and then perhaps take a boat to Somalia. They had previously been in Jordan in 2007, and AP reports that they unsuccessfully tried to get to Iraq in the past.
The criminal complaint against them has been unsealed and released to the press. In the criminal complaint, Mohamed Alessa sought to better accused Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan in killing American soldiers.
The accused Alessa and Almonte had been training in an “outdoor facility in West Milford, New Jersey” and had been teaching military tactics to an undercover law enforcement officer in Jersey City, New Jersey. The accused repeatedly listened to and played recording of American cleric Anwar al-Awlaki “promoting violent jihad and martyrdom.” Anwar al-Awlaki, who is now believed to be in Yemen, has regularly praised terrorist organizations and was in contact with the Fort Hood accused terrorist Nidal Hasan. In addition, the accused reportedly also watched videos by Adam Gadahn (aka Azzam al-Amriki) praising Nidal Hasan.
The criminal complaint also addresses the accused regularly discussing plans to “wage violent jihad” and join “violent jihadist groups operating in Somalia.” In their discussions, they reportedly considered joining various “violent jihadist groups that were operating in Somalia, including Al-Shabaab, Hizbul Islam, and Ahlu Sunna wa’l Jama’a, ” but Almonte viewed that Al-Shabaab “is the main one… the main thing.”
The criminal complaint states that “On November 29, 2009, in Jersey City, New Jersey, in the presence of Almonte, Alessa stated, in part: “We’ll start doing killing here, if I can’t do it over there.” Alessa also reportedly stated “A lot of people need to get killed, bro, swear to God… I have to get a… assault rifle and just kill anyone that even looks at me the wrong way, bro. Nah, I swear to God, bro. I wanna, like – I’m not – my – my soul cannot rest until I shed blood. I wanna, like, be the world’s known terrorist… I swear to God.” He also reportedly stated: “I’m gonna get a gun…. I’ll have more bodies on it – than the – than the hairs on my beard. You know what I’m saying? It’s already enough, you don’t worship Allah, so… that’s a reason for you to die… We’re being pushed by every corner of the earth, yanni. They only fear you when you have a gun and when you – when you start killing them, and when you – when you take their head, and you go like this, and you behead it on camera, and you – you have to be ruthless bro. I swear to God, bro. Enough of this punk (expletive). It’s that everyone has to be ruthless to – with these people. We’ll start doing killing here, if I can’t do it over there. I’m gonna get locked up in the airport? Then you’re gonna die here, then. That’s how it is. Freaking Major-Nidal-shaved-face-Palestinian-crazy guy; he’s not better than me. I’ll do twice what he did.”
According to the complaint, on November 30, 2009, Alessa instructed Almonte and the FBI undercover agent on how to kill a guard with a knife, and then Alessa told the FBI undercover agent “and whenever they think I’m leaving, they always think I’m gonna come back, yanni. I leave this time, God Willing, I never come back. I’ll never see this crap hole. Only way I would come back here is if I was in the land of jihad and the leader ordered me to come back here and do something here. Ah, I love that.”
The complaint also reveals Alessa talking to Almonte and the FBI undercover agent about saving up money for the trip to Somalia. The complaint indicates that the duo planned to fly to Cairo, Egypt, and then considered various options on getting to Somalia, including taking a boat from Egypt to Somalia. During the discussion on funds saved for the Somalia trip, Alessa reportedly told Almonte and the FBI undercover agent that about stealing equipment, saying “you get your weapons when you get there… and then, you kill non-Muslims and you take the spoils of war. The leader gets them (referring to weapons), and distributes it amongst the ranks. Best life.”
The duo frequently worked out, and according to the complaint “Alessa stated [on January 3, 2010] that stronger muscles mean bigger muscles which means killing more non-Muslims.” On the same date, they listened to another lecture from Anwar al-Awlaki who “emphasized that an individual need not rely on others or have a leader in order to wage violent jihad.”
According to the complaint, on January 17, 2010, Alessa providing instruction to Almonte and the FBI Undercover Agent regarding: “(1) how they should love believers of Islam and hate non-Muslims; (2) the enemies of Allah, specifically: (a) the devil; (b) one’s self; (c) non-believers; (d) hypocrites; (e) Jews; and (f) Christians; and (3) the importance of waging violent jihad.”
THe FBI had been watching the accused for 4 years, and according to the criminal complaint, “On October 9, 2006, a member of the public (‘Individual 1’) who knows the DEFENDANTS sent a tip through the FBI’S website concerning the activities of the DEFENDANTS. In that electronic message, Individual 1 stated” ‘every time they (referring to the DEFENDANTS) access the Internet all they look for is all those terrorist videos about the Islam holly [sic] war and where they kill US soldiers and other terrible things… They keep saying that Americans are their enemies, that everybody other than Islamic followers are their enemies.. and they all must be killed.”
The complaint also stated that a family member told law enforcement that the accused “watched a video on the computer about suicide vest bombs.”
Criminal Complaint
— Criminal complaint against Mohamed Mahmood Alessa and Carlos Eduardo Almonte
List of media reports:
— New Jersey Star-Ledger: Two N.J. men arrested at JFK airport before boarding plane to join Islamist terrorist group, authorities say
— New Jersey Star-Ledger reports: “Mohamed Hamoud Alessa, 20, of North Bergen, and Carlos Eduardo Almonte, 26, of Elmwood Park were apprehended at John F. Kennedy International Airport in Queens before they could board separate flights to Egypt, where they were to start journeys to Somalia”
— “Officials said the suspects were not planning an imminent attack in the New Jersey-New York area but were believed to be joining with the terrorist fight against Americans in Somalia.”
— “Authorities said the men planned to wage jihad as part of a Somalia-based Islamist terror group called al Shabaab, an organization of several thousand fighters spread through Somalia’s southern region. Al Shabaab, whose full Arabic name means ‘Mujahideen Youth Movement,’ has had ties to al Qaeda since 2007, according to national security experts.”
— New Jersey Star-Ledger: Federal authorities charge 2 men from N.J. with pursuing dream of ‘holy war’ in Somalia
— Star-Ledger: “Also according to the complaint, Alessa said he wanted to be more successful at waging jihad than the Fort Hood shooter. ‘He’s not better than me. I’ll do twice what he did.'”
— “He also said he would start his holy war in the United States if he couldn’t get overseas and then hauntingly foreshadowed his own apprehension. “We’ll start doing (killing) here, if I can’t do it over there. I’m gonna get locked up in the airport? Then you’re gonna die here, then.'”
— AFP: Two charged with terror plot against Americans abroad
—- FBI Samuel Robinson: “The defendants discussed in substance and in part, violent jihadist groups operating in Somalia”
— NY Times: 2 New Jersey Men Arrested on Terrorism Charges
— Cliffview Pilot: “Locals charged with joining ‘holy war’ versus U.S.”
— FOX News: Feds Unseal Terror Charges Against 2 NJ Men
— AP: NYPD: 2 NJ terror suspects had tried to go to Iraq
On the New York Post website, at least one individual is continuing to use the reader “comments” sections to post terrorist threats calling for Americans to “blow up” the planned 45 Park Place, NYC mosque renovation, which has been called in the press the “ground zero mosque” (it is two blocks away from the “Ground Zero” 9/11 attack area).
As we reported on June 3, 2010, individuals have been using the NY Post reader “comments” section on articles about the 45 Park Place renovation and Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf to post hateful comments and to post open terrorist threats calling for the facility to be “blown up.”
We first noticed this in a NY Post article dated May 24, 2010, where a reader “Truthful” writes in the comments section that “I say let them build it and when that expensive beautiful building is built, someone should blow it up… 9when it is filled with people… What a fitting tribute to 9-11.”
On June 5, 2010, such threats were once again made on the NY Post website. One of the individuals making such public threats calls himself “Truthful,” “TheTruth15,” “Herman Muster,” and other screen names.
In the June 5, 2010 NY Post article, “Imam unmosqued – Ground Zero booster tied to sea clash,” by writer Andy Poltis, the New York Post links Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf as a member of a group Perdana Global Peace Organization that has provided funding for the Gaza flotilla.
The June 5 reader comments, below the article, calling for terrorism in NYC in the reader comments of the NY Post state that:
— “I know I’ve said this before, but I’ll say it again: After it’s built, blow it up. Preferable on a Friday afternoon…” and “I am… advocating death again”
— (graphic snapshots of hate comments – June 5, 2010 image 1, image 2, May 24)
Articles on Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf and the 45 Park Place mosque have seen a wide range of hate comments in the New York Post reader comments section of the newspaper, in addition to the above blatant calls for terrorist violence.
Calls for violence by Americans against the 45 Park Place mosque have also included an open call for the bombing of the 45 Park Place mosque, during a broadcast from the KPRC-950 AM radio station by Michael Berry, a regular broadcaster with a daily program on that radio station.
Responsible for Equality And Liberty (R.E.A.L.) condemns such calls for hate and terrorism.
R.E.A.L. has reported these comments for abuse and is writing the author of the June 5 New York Post article on this, so that the New York Post can be more vigilant in reviewing comments on such articles. We will update this post with any comments we hear back from the New York Post.
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Responsible for Equality And Liberty (R.E.A.L.) promotes our universal human rights for all people and for all Americans. We reject calls for hate and violence. We reject calls to deny any of our fellow human beings their universal human rights, including their freedom of religion, freedom of conscience, and freedom of worship. We urge our fellow Americans to be consistently responsible for equality and liberty – for all people.
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