September 28, 2011, - 6:03 pm
Hey, Another Plot to Blow Up Pentagon & the Religion is (DRUMROLL) . . .
Yup, you guessed it. The “Religion of Peace.” A Muslim U.S. Citizen, Rezwan Ferdaus, a grad student, planned to blow up the Pentagon using small drone planes.
Federal authorities today arrested and charged a 26-year-old Ashland man with plotting to damage the Pentagon and US Capitol with a remote-controlled aircraft filled with C-4 plastic explosives.
Rezwan Ferdaus, a US citizen, was also charged with attempting to provide material support and resources to a foreign terrorist organization, specifically to al-Qaida, in order to carry out attacks on US soldiers stationed overseas, the US attorney’s office said in a statement.
And here’s my fave part, courtesy of U.S. Attorney Carmen Ortiz:
She added, “I want the public to understand that Mr. Ferdaus’ conduct, as alleged in the complaint, is not reflective of a particular culture, community or religion. In addition to protecting our citizens from the threats and violence alleged today, we also have an obligation to protect members of every community, race, and religion against violence and other unlawful conduct.”
Uh-huh. Keep tellin’ yourself that, honey. The perpetrators are almost always from one religion, one culture, one ethnic background. And the obligation to protect the rest of us from them isn’t really taken that seriously, as I can tell you from personal experience.
Federal prosecutors said that Ferdaus, a Northeastern University graduate with a physics degree, began planning to commit violent “jihad” against the US in early 2010.
He allegedly obtained mobile phones and modified them to act as switches for improvised explosive devices, and provided them to FBI undercover agents, believing the devices would be used against US soldiers overseas. Prosecutors said that in a June 2011 meeting, he “appeared gratified” when he was told that one of his triggers had killed three US soldiers and injured four or five others in Iraq.
“That’s exactly what I wanted,” Ferdaus allegedly said. Ferdaus delivered more of the devices and was anxious each time to know if they had worked and how many Americans had been killed.
In recorded conversations beginning in January, Ferdaus allegedly also told a cooperating witness that he planned to attack the Pentagon using aircraft similar to “small drone airplanes” laden with explosives and guded by GPS devies.
In April, he allegedly expanded his plans to include attacking the US Capitol. In May and June, he allegedly delivered two thumb drives to agents that contained detailed plans of his proposed attacks.
In May, he allegedly traveled to Washington, conducting surveillance and taking photos of targets, as well as his proposed launch site, East Potomac Park. He told an undercover agent after his Washington visit that he wanted to couple his “aerial assault” with an armed ground attack, involving six people with automatic firearms.
Between May and September, prosecutors said, he ordered and acquired materials for his plans, including a remote controlled aircraft. He also received from undercover agents on Tuesday “(what he believed to be) C-4 explosives, six fully-automatic AK-47 assault rifles (machine guns) and grenades,” prosecutors said in a statement.
One Muslim grad student out of many thousands in America–some U.S. citizens like he is and others here on student visas–wishing and/or actually planning to do the same.
Tags: Arab, Muslim, Pentagon, Pentagon plot, Rezwan Ferdaus
Thanks for the information again DS, once again you’re spot on as usual. I heard this story on 710 WOR radio where I live in the New York City, NY area, and so far, I haven’t seen or heard this news story elsewhere in the MSM! And I doubt that I’ll see this story in the NY Daily News (which the NYDN completely sucks with their left wing crap) or in the NY Post tomorrow?
“A nation is defined by its borders, language & culture!”
Sean R. on September 28, 2011 at 7:26 pm