February 6, 2009, - 3:52 pm
Scary, But the Usual: U.S. Will Release Hardened Black September Terrorist to Freedom
By Debbie Schlussel
The story of Khalid Duhham al-Jawary is a familiar one.
Muslim Palestinian terrorist easily comes to America and stays. Muslim Palestinian terrorist plots to blow up New York City and finally gets caught. Muslim Palestinian terrorist gets relatively short prison term and will soon get out. Muslim Palestinian terrorist will either get deported to plot yet more terrorist attacks from overseas a la Fawaz Abu Damra or get to stay here and live amongst us in freedom.
But read about who this guy is and ask yourself why this Black September Islamic terrorist will get to go free. Ask yourself if we should ever give this guy another breath of fresh air in freedom.
Oh, and one other thing: Black September, the P.L.O. faction that carried out the Munich Olympic massacre of Israeli athletes in 1972, is named for the 1970 mass slaughter of 10,000 plus Palestinians by . . . JORDANIAN Muslim Arabs (with King Hussein atop them), not Jews. (Its leader, Abu Iyad, was, at the same time,Yasser Arafat’s deputy.)
He built three powerful bombs – bombs powerful enough to kill, maim and destroy – and put them in rental cars scattered around town [New York City], near Israeli targets.
The plot failed. The explosive devices did not detonate, and Jawary fled the country, escaping prosecution for nearly two decades – until he was convicted of terrorism charges in Brooklyn and sentenced to 30 years in a federal penitentiary.
But his time is up.
In less than a month, the 63-year-old Jawary is expected to be released. He will likely be deported; where to is anybody’s guess. The shadowy figure had so many aliases it’s almost impossible to know which country is his true homeland. . . .
An Associated Press investigation – based on recently declassified documents, extensive court records, CIA investigative notes and interviews with former intelligence officials – reveals publicly for the first time Jawary’s deep involvement in terrorism beyond the plot that led to his conviction.
Government documents link Jawary to Black September’s murderous letter-bombing campaign targeting world leaders in the 1970s and a botched terrorist attack in 1979. Former intelligence officials suspect he had a role in the bombing of a TWA flight in 1974 that killed 88 people.
“He’s a very dangerous man,” said Mike Finnegan, the former FBI counterterrorism agent who captured Jawary. “A very bad guy.” . . .
On Jan. 12, 1973, Jawary flew to Boston via Montreal and then to New York City. He began scouting targets for a terrorist attack.
He picked two Israeli banks on Fifth Avenue and the El-Al cargo terminal at Kennedy Airport.
Possibly working with two or more people, Jawary rented three cars and assembled three bombs consisting of large containers filled with gasoline, propane tanks, plastic explosives, blasting caps and batteries, according to FBI and federal court records.
Two of the bombs used alarm clocks, but a third employed a sophisticated electronic-timing device commonly referred to as an “e-cell,” said Terence McTigue, who worked on the New York Police Department’s bomb squad. It was twice as powerful as the other two bombs.
On March 4, Jawary – and possibly others – readied the cars in anticipation of Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir’s visit to the city.
Each car contained a Hebrew-language newspaper with propaganda from Black September – the terrorist organization that carried out the massacre of Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics just months earlier – tucked inside.
But the bombs failed to explode. They were discovered after the two cars on Fifth Avenue were towed, and the FBI learned about the third car at JFK and notified police.
McTigue disarmed the e-cell bomb at JFK. . . . McTigue also recognized something else as he examined the car bomb: a plastic explosive called Semtex from Czechoslovakia. It had been used in scores of letter bombs sent around the world the previous year, targeting Jews and Israelis and even US Secretary of State William Rogers. One had killed an agricultural counselor at the Israeli Embassy in London, and another mangled the hands of a 26-year-old postal worker in The Bronx.
McTigue knew those letter bombs. He had handled them. The letters had pressure-release firing devices and were the work of Black September, Palestinian guerrillas believed by intelligence officials to be controlled by Yasser Arafat. . . .
The FBI began a large investigation. Agents lifted 60 fingerprints; they all matched Jawary’s. They uncovered a fake Jordanian passport behind an air-conditioning duct and bomb materials from a room Jawary had rented at a hotel near JFK. . . .
Jawary also worked as a document forger for the PLO and Hawari.
Jawary is also believed to be the perpetrator of several plane bombings, killing over 100 people. Read the rest of the details. But they were beyond the FBI purview, and he’s never faced justice for those. This is not a guy who should ever breathe freedom again.
Judge Jack Weinstein sentenced Jawary to 30 years in prison in April 1993. In a written opinion issued after the trial, Weinstein said Jawary was a serious threat.
“It is highly likely that were this defendant released he would continue his dangerous terrorist activities,” the judge said. . . .
But those countless hours behind bars are almost over. Freedom looms for this gaunt and graying terrorist who was transferred recently to a federal detention center in Manhattan.
Jawary is scheduled to be released Feb. 19 after completing only about half his term, which includes time served prior to his sentencing and credit for good behavior, according to the federal Bureau of Prisons.
Once he is released, Jawary will be handed over to US Immigration and Customs Enforcement and held until his deportation.
It remains unclear where he’ll go, largely because Jawary’s true identity remains in question – even to this day.
Those who helped put Jawary behind bars believe he’ll pick up where he left off.
“What is he going to do when he gets out?” McTigue said. “He’ll be deported and received as a hero and go right back into his terrorist activities.”
You got that right. What the heck are we doing letting this guy out? We keep child molesters in prison longer than their sentences, when we believe they will molest again. But we don’t do the same for would-be mass murderers like this terrorist creature.
So typical. And lest you think otherwise, there are many Jawarys on our soil and in our midst, just waiting for the right time and place to do their “work.”
Why ARE we letting him go? Seriously, why? Ahve we lost our minds
mindy1 on February 6, 2009 at 5:27 pm