2 men from New Jersey arrested for trying to aid Somali jihad
Another case I'm belatedly noting, two Muslims were arrested at JFK airport as they were attempting to travel to Somalia to participate in jihad abroad:
ELMWOOD PARK, N.J. – Two New Jersey men who envisioned a terrorist attack in the U.S. with a body count twice that of the Fort Hood massacre were arrested at a gate at New York’s Kennedy Airport as they were about to board flights on their way to Somalia to seek terrorist training from al-Qaida-affiliated jihadists, officials said.It's possible that both of them are converts, and they're certainly both dangerous. Here's more at the NY Post (via The Jawa Report).
Mohamed Mahmood Alessa, 20, and Carlos Eduardo Almonte, 26, were arrested Saturday before they could board separate flights to Egypt and then continue on to Somalia, federal officials in New Jersey and the New York Police Department said.
Law enforcement became aware of the men in the fall of 2006 after receiving a tip. New York Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said they had traveled to Jordan in 2007 and tried to get into Iraq, but were turned back by their would-be recruiters.
Since then, a New York undercover officer recorded conversations with the men in which they spoke about jihad against Americans.
“I leave this time. God willing, I never come back,” authorities say Alessa told the officer. “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.”
Alessa also was allegedly recorded telling Almonte that he would outdo Maj. Nidal Hasan, the Army psychiatrist accused of killing 13 people at Fort Hood, Texas, last year.
Labels: anti-americanism, islam, jihad, Somalia, terrorism, United States, war on terror
