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Homegrown Jihadists

Traitor Adam Gadahn on Jihadist/US Army Major Nidal Hasan

8 March 2010

The Lessons of Adam Gadahn (FrontPage/Robert Spencer, 8 March 2010)
The first American to be charged with treason since World War II was back in the news Sunday, both for a new videotape he released and for reports of his capture that turned out to be false. In the videotape, al-Qaeda operative Adam Gadahn, an American [...]

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Britain’s Islamic Republic

5 March 2010

Channel 4, UK, 1 March 2010: Dispatches investigates a fundamentalist Islamic group headquartered in Britain, and its claims to have placed its ‘brothers’ in positions of political power here. Using undercover recordings, investigative journalist Andrew Gilligan reveals the group’s ambitions to create a worldwide ‘Islamic social and political order,’ and the concerns of a mainstream [...]

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Muslim radicals jailed for up to 12 years for planning Frankfurt terror attack

4 March 2010

Times of London, 4 March 2010: Germany’s biggest terrorist trial of recent times has wound up with jail terms of between 5 and 12 years for four Muslim radicals who plotted to blow up US military installations, airports and night clubs in the Frankfurt area.
The men, said Judge Otmar Breidling, were planning to bring the [...]

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Pakistan lays out terror charges for 5 Americans

3 March 2010

AP, 2 March 2010: Prosecutors seeking to indict five Americans on terrorist charges submitted their case to a Pakistani judge Tuesday, accusing the men of waging war against Pakistan and plotting to attack the country. All young Muslims from the Washington, D.C., area, the five were arrested in December in Punjab province not long after [...]

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Homegrown terrorist freed after pleading guilty

1 March 2010

Toronto Star, 26 Feb 10: Jahmaal James pleaded guilty on Friday to having gone to Pakistan to obtain paramilitary training for the benefit of the so-called Toronto 18 and was set free after being sentenced to time served. The 26-year-old was to have been released from jail hours after admitting in a Brampton court he [...]

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Zazi: Genome of the Homegrown Jihadist

24 February 2010

By Dr. Walid Phares, Director of the Future Terrorism Project at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, CI Centre instructor, author of Future Jihad: Terrorist Strategies against the West, The War of Ideas: Jihadism against Democracy, and The Confrontation: Winning the War against Future Jihad
When are we detecting them? Almost at the end.
In a [...]

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Exposed, the ‘Blackburn Resistance’: Gang ‘filmed preparations for terror’

24 February 2010

Daily Mail, 24 Feb 10: Brandishing machetes and guns, the young men pose for the video camera. The three British Muslims filmed themselves as they prepared for a terrorist attack, a court was told yesterday. They also recorded themselves crawling on their bellies through piles of leaves in a town centre park for a military-style [...]

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Generation Jihad, Episode 2

22 February 2010

BBC Peter Taylor investigates the terrorist threat from young Muslim extremists radicalised on the internet. Following the attempt to bomb an airliner over Detroit on Christmas Day, this landmark series looks at the angry young men of Generation Jihad who have turned their backs on the country where they were born. (See also Episode 1)

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Pile of evidence grows in North Carolina terrorism case

22 February 2010

WRAL, 19 Feb 10: The amount of evidence continues to grow in the case of seven area men accused of terrorist activities, and defense lawyers said Friday that they might not be able to sift through it all in time for a trial this fall.
Daniel Patrick Boyd, 39, his sons, Dylan Boyd, 22, and Zakariya [...]

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Five Australians jailed for jihad plot

15 February 2010

Reuters, 15 Feb 10: Five Australian Muslims found with weapons and chemicals to make bombs and convicted of plotting a terror attack in Australia were jailed on Monday for terms ranging from 23 to 28 years. The men were found guilty in October 2009 of conspiring to commit an attack between July 2004 and November [...]

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Young British Muslim ex-prisoners unrepentant on views

8 February 2010

BBC, 8 Feb 10: Two young British Muslims who have served short prison sentences for terrorism offences have spoken frankly about their views to a new BBC documentary investigation into the extent of the radicalisation of Muslims in the UK. The views of Rizwan Ditta and Bilal Mohammed, two young Muslims born and brought up [...]

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German Islamists planned mass murder

4 February 2010

DPA, 4 Feb 10: The chief prosecutor in the German trial of four alleged militantss said on Wednesday that they had planned “mass murder” on a scale unknown in Germany. State prosecutor Volker Brinkmann said the members of the so-called Sauerland Group were driven by an overwhelming hatred of US soldiers and by a desire [...]

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How al-Shabaab Targets Western Youth

1 February 2010

Investigative Project on Terrorism, 29 Jan 10: As the new year begins, al-Shabaab, a terror group fighting to overthrow the government of Somalia, has served notice that it intends to play an increasingly prominent role in international jihad.
Al-Shabaab fighters declared their support for Al Qaeda in Yemen following the attempted Christmas Day bombing of Northwest [...]

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UK students recruited for Somali jihad

25 January 2010

Times of London, 24 Jan 10: STUDENTS from some of Britain’s top universities are travelling to Somalia to fight with a terrorist group linked to Al-Qaeda. Almost a dozen young British Muslims, including a female medical researcher, are said recently to have joined Al-Shabaab, an extremist rebel organisation blamed for hundreds of deaths in the [...]

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American-Born Jihad

20 January 2010

New York Times/op-ed, 20 Jan 10: We Americans used to be more than a little smug about the integration of Muslims into U.S. society in contrast to the way Europeans get along — or don’t get along — with Muslims living in Europe. Unlike Western Europe, America did not import large numbers of Muslims from [...]

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Accused terrorist wanted Toronto Al Qaeda branch

14 January 2010

Tornoto Star, 14 Jan 10: Accused terrorist Shareef Abdelhaleem wanted to pack a truck with two tonnes of explosives and detonate it outside the Toronto Stock Exchange to cause “blood, glass and debris (for) several blocks,” court was told Wednesday. The comments surfaced during testimony by undercover police agent Shaher Elsohemy, recalling a May [...]

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Little to Learn from Duke/UNC Study of Anti-Terror Lessons

12 January 2010

Investigative Project on Terrorism, 11 Jan 10: A hallmark of research is that it is neutral and thus open to unanticipated results and findings. Reading “Anti-Terror Lessons of Muslim-Americans,” a new report by researchers at Duke and the University of North Carolina, it seems like these two NCAA rivals came together to violate this cardinal principle [...]

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It’s time to connect the dots

11 January 2010

AISH, 9 Jan 10:  . . . .Â
• October 2008 – Shirwa Ahmed, a 27-year-old born in Somalia, became the first American citizen suicide bomber. He left his home town in Minnesota to return to Somalia and commit jihad. FBI officials believe he was radicalized in Minnesota, one of 20 Somali men who disappeared from [...]

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Homegrown terror suspects in US mostly young men who plan violence overseas

7 January 2010

Los Angeles Times, 6 Jan 10: A new study on homegrown terror found that most American Muslims who planned violent attacks in since 2001 were young, male U.S. citizens who became radical as part of a group. Still, researchers seeking lessons on preventing extremism found no definitive pattern of how the suspects turned to violence [...]

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2009: The Year of Homegrown Jihad

5 January 2010

CBN/Erick Stakelbeck, 5 Jan 09: From the Fort Hood massacre to the failed attempt to blow up an airliner on Christmas day, Islamic jihadists have never been more active in their attempts to attack the U.S. . . . .

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Va. suspects in Pakistan say mission was jihad not terrorism

5 January 2010

Washington Post, 5 Jan 10: Five Northern Virginia men arrested in Pakistan indicated Monday that they plan to fight terrorism charges that Pakistani police are recommending by using a strategy seen in U.S. courtrooms: that they were preparing for jihad but not planning any terror attacks.
The men told a Pakistani court that they had neither [...]

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2009: The Year of Homegrown Terror

4 January 2010

ABC News, 1 Jan 10: Before the Underwear Bomber, and the vows of Yemen-based terrorists to strike Americans, 2009 was notable for the number of terror threats that originated within the United States. From Fort Hood, Texas to the D.C. suburbs, Americans have been surprised to find their own neighbors plotting or committing violence. [...]

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Domestic Terror Incidents Hit a Peak in 2009

23 December 2009

TIME, 23 Dec 09: You may not have noticed because most of the plots were foiled, but 2009 saw an unprecedented surge in terror “events” on U.S. soil. When analysts tally these events, they refer to anything from a disrupted plot to U.S. citizens traveling abroad to seek terror training or a lone gunman running [...]

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Islamic Radicalization U.S.A.

22 December 2009

FrontPage, 22 Dec 09: If a major homegrown terrorist attack happens on U.S. soil in the coming years, 2009 will be looked at as the year when the warning signs were missed. According to the Rand Corporation, the U.S. has experienced 30 homegrown terrorism plots since 9/11. One-third of these occurred in 2009; a frightening [...]

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The Truth About Prospects For U.S. Jihad

17 December 2009

CBS News, 17 Dec 09: . . . . .America is having a European moment; the harrowing recognition that terrorists are among us. As in France in 1995 – when a second generation French Algerian tried to bomb its trains, or in Britain in 2004 – when a group of British Pakistanis were stopped before [...]

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Homegrown Insurgency

17 December 2009

FrontPage/Paul Sperry, 17 Dec 09:
Paul Sperry, a Hoover Institution media fellow, is the author of Infiltration: How Muslim Spies and Subversives have Penetrated Washington.
You’ve heard the narrative from the Beltway punditry: Our Muslims are better assimilated than Muslims in Europe. Our Muslims are more Westernized, less radicalized. Well, it’s a false narrative. We are seeing the [...]

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Crazy for jihad

17 December 2009

Washington Times, 17 Dec 09: Jihadists take note: The insanity defense may not work for you. On Tuesday, Naveed Haq, a self-styled soldier of Islam, was found guilty of aggravated first-degree murder and seven other counts related to a 2006 shooting rampage in Seattle. The prosecution successfully argued that Haq was a jihadi terrorist on [...]

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Jihad maneuvers taught at New York compound

16 December 2009

WND, 15 Dec 09: A new video released by the Christian Action Network shows Muslim women at a compound in New York state practicing throat-slitting techniques and assault weapons attacks.
The video was distributed by the makers of the movie “Homegrown Jihad: The Terrorist Camps Around the U.S.,” which documents how a jihadist group has [...]

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Terrorism Defendants Sentenced

15 December 2009

FBI, 14 Dec 09: EHSANUL ISLAM SADEQUEE, 23, of Roswell, Georgia, and SYED HARIS AHMED, 25, of Atlanta, Georgia, were sentenced today in federal court following their convictions earlier this year in separate but related criminal trials.
“With their words and their actions, these defendants supported the wrongheaded but very dangerous idea that armed violence aimed [...]

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Homegrown Terror on the Rise in 2009

14 December 2009

Fox News, 14 Dec 09: The five young Americans accused last week of traveling from Washington to Pakistan to wage jihad cap what appears to be a record year for homegrown terror plots, exposing a dangerous trend that experts say poses the biggest challenge America’s security officials have ever faced.
Not including the Pakistan case, the [...]

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Feds weigh public risk, evidence in terror probes

14 December 2009

AP, 13 Dec 09: A small group of FBI agents huddled outside a Home Depot in Atlanta in January 2006, watching a young man suspected of being linked to terrorists as he walked out the door with materials that could be used to make a bomb.
They knew Syed Haris Ahmed had researched bomb-making techniques online [...]

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Five from Northern Virginia had months of contact with Taliban, officials say

14 December 2009

Washington Post, 12 Dec 09: The five men from Northern Virginia under arrest in Pakistan had exchanged e-mails written in code for months with a recruiter for the Pakistani Taliban and had a map indicating they were bound for the tribal area where al-Qaeda is thought to be based, Pakistani police officials said Friday.
The [...]

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Terrorist recruiters leverage the Web

14 December 2009

Washington Post, 13 Dec 09: Pakistani authorities on Saturday were searching for an insurgent figure believed to have aided five Northern Virginia men who allegedly tried to join al-Qaeda, saying the case could help unravel a growing network of terrorist recruiters who scour the Internet for radicalized young men.
Investigators have identified the man, known [...]

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Did five Torontonians join jihad in Somalia?

14 December 2009

Toronto Star, 12 Dec 09: They hung out at a Somali restaurant in “Little Mogadishu” in the northwest corner of the city, played basketball together, and worshipped at a North York mosque.
The five friends, in their early to mid-20s, grew up and attended schools in Toronto. They spoke English and Somali. At least two [...]

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Arrests Raise Fears of American Jihad

14 December 2009

Wall Street Journal, 12 Dec 09: U.S. counterterrorism officials say 2009 has turned into the year of homegrown jihad, with the unmasking of the most serious suspected terror plots involving Americans in about five years. . . .
. . . . A common thread in these and other cases, terrorism officials say, is that they [...]

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U.S. Muslims pen strategy to wrest ‘narrative’ from militants

11 December 2009

CNN, 11 Dec 09: A leading Muslim-American civil rights group is advocating intense grassroots engagement among police and U.S. Muslim neighborhood leaders to thwart the emergence of homegrown Islamic terrorists.
A report, issued Friday by the Muslim Public Affairs Council, reflects the shock among American Muslims over the Fort Hood massacre, the arrests of five American [...]

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Muslim radicalization gains momentum in US: analysts

11 December 2009

AFP, 10 Dec 09: Long-feared by US intelligence, Muslim radicalization is gaining momentum in the United States, hit by a spate of recent cases featuring youths recruited and trained overseas for jihad, analysts say.
The latest case — five US nationals arrested in Pakistan Wednesday on suspicion of plotting an attack — deepened concern that militant [...]

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Road to Jihad: Americans Recruited for Terror

11 December 2009

ABC, 11 Dec 09: ABC News has obtained the investigative report prepared by Pakistani police that offers insight to what had become the road to jihad for five young Americans.
Pakistani police this morning showed the pictures and the U.S. passports of the five young college students from the Washington, D.C., suburbs, who authorities say had [...]

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A parent’s dilemma: a child with ties to terrorism

11 December 2009

 Always good for parents to sit down and have that frank “Jihad” talk with their teens. Parents: The Anti-Jihad.
AP, 10 Dec 09: It’s a dilemma no parent wants to face — fearing a son or daughter may be mixed up in terrorism, wondering whether to turn in a loved one.

Just say no to Jihad

It was [...]

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Five Americans arrested in Pakistan don’t fit typical profile

11 December 2009

Christian Science Monitor, 10 Dec 09: The arrest of five American Muslims in Pakistan for involvement in possible terrorist activities is challenging the US Muslim community in ways they may have not expected: It appears that some of their best and brightest may have been susceptible to recruitment efforts by international terrorist organizations.
According to the [...]

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Jihadist magazine re KSM charges

10 December 2009

Jihadists appear to be getting quite frustrated that the West just won’t believe that Jihadists are motivated, inspired and directed by Islamic doctrine and Islamic law.
MEMRI, 10 Dec 09: The article, titled “Replies to the American Charges: Khalid Sheikh Muhammad, and Colleagues vs The United States of America,” appeared in the Nawa-i-Afghan Jihad, a monthly [...]

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Americans held in Pakistan “wanted to join jihad”

10 December 2009

Reuters, 10 Dec 09: Five young Americans detained in Pakistan, which is fighting a violent Taliban insurgency, wanted to join a holy war and were in contact with militants through the Internet, officials said on Thursday. The five men, students in their 20s from northern Virginia, were detained this week in the city of Sargodha [...]

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Pakistan arrests 5 men reported missing in United States

9 December 2009

CNN, 9 Dec 09: Five people arrested in Pakistan had been reported missing in the United States, and police are confident they were planning terrorist acts, a Pakistani police official told CNN. . . . The five were from Virginia and their families had contacted the FBI soon after they went missing, he said. They [...]

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Authorities Search for Five Missing Washington, DC-Area Muslim Men

9 December 2009

Investigative Project on Terrorism, 8 Dec 09: Federal investigators are searching for a Howard University dental student and four other missing Muslim men reported missing from the Washington, D.C. area, the Investigative Project on Terrorism (IPT) has learned. There is concern they may have been sent abroad to train for jihad. The five were last [...]

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UK: Extremism strategy ‘lacks clarity’, minister admits

8 December 2009

BBC, 8 Dec 09: The government’s flagship strategy to stop young people becoming terrorists has suffered from a “lack of clarity”, the communities secretary has said. John Denham used a speech to defend the Prevent strategy – but also conceded that some parts of it must change.
The strategy has been dogged by controversy over its [...]

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U.S. sees homegrown Muslim extremism as rising threat

7 December 2009

Pearl Harbor–Jihad on American soil
Los Angeles Times, 7 Dec 09: The Obama administration, grappling with a spate of recent Islamic terrorism cases on U.S. soil, has concluded that the country confronts a rising threat from homegrown extremism.
Anti-terrorism officials and experts see signs of accelerated radicalization among American Muslims, driven by a wave of English-language online [...]

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Radical Movement’s Leader Forecasts America’s Demise

7 December 2009

Investigative Project on Terrorism, 4 Dec 09: As the spotlight moves away from the Fort Hood massacre, one of America’s most openly radical Islamist organizations has taken to the murderer’s defense. As-Sabiqun, a Washington D.C.-based organization with branches in four other major American cities, released a flyer labeling shooter Nidal Malik Hasan as “victimized” and the [...]

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UK Jihadist charged with soliciting soldiers’ murder

4 December 2009

More in-country Jihadists targeting soldiers:
London Evening Standard, 4 Dec 09: A religious bookstall owner appeared at the Old Bailey today charged with trying to get undercover police officers to kill British soldiers in Afghanistan.
Munir Farooqui, 52, who runs Dawa stalls in Manchester and Stockport, was accused of making approaches to two officers. Farooqui, of Victoria [...]

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New Jamaat al-Fuqra/Muslims of America domestic terror training videos to be released

4 December 2009

Jawa Report, 4 Dec 09: Earlier this week Ryan Mauro reported on two Jamaat al-Fuqra/Muslims of America domestic terror training videos set to be released by the Christian Action Network. These videos supplement the excellent reporting by CAN in their full-length documentary released last year, “Homegrown Jihad: The Terrorist Camps Around the US“.
In a press [...]

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American Jihad: New Details Emerge About al-Shabaab Recruitment in North America

4 December 2009

Jamestown Foundation, 3 Dec 09: On November 23, federal prosecutors in the United States unsealed indictments against members of a group of Minneapolis natives accused of being at the heart of a cell sending men and boys to fight with al-Shabaab, a radical Islamist movement in Somalia with close ties to al-Qaeda. . . . [...]

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