Faisal Shahzad Was Blogging On Terror Websites Since 2006 But Obama Administration Took Him Off Terror Watch List Anyway
Posted by Jim Hoft on Saturday, May 8, 2010, 2:03 PM
Earlier this week it was reported that the Obama White House removed confessed terrorist Faisal Shahzad from the Department of Homeland Security travel lookout list sometime after Barack Obama came into office.
Terrorist Faisal Shahzad had substantial connections to the Taliban, reached out to the Taliban, was influenced by Yemeni terror leader Anwar al Awlaki, made at least a dozen return trips to Pakistan since arriving in the United States in 1999, and he bought a one way ticket with cash to Pakistan.
Now we find out that he was “blogging” and asking for jihad as far back as 2006 but that the Obama Administration took him off the terror watch list anyway.
Terror expert Walid Phares weighed in on the confessed Times Square bomber today in an interview on FOX News:
To be clear, Shahzad was actually commenting on terrorist websites and not actually blogging.
Earlier this week it was discovered that Shahzad was posting on terror websites since 2006.
FOX News reported:
FoxNews.com has uncovered several dozens of postings by a man named Faisal Shahzad on radical Islamist Salafist websites devoted to a variety of different jihadist sects.
Experts suspect this is the same Faisal Shahzad whom authorities have charged with plotting to explode a massive car bomb in New York on Saturday. If so, then he has been educating himself on the Internet for years on the legitimacy of holy war.
Shahzad visited numerous websites devoted to ideological discussion of Islamism and Shariah law. His apparent online posts date back to at least 2006 — three years before the Times Square suspect became a naturalized American citizen.
“If the person on these websites is indeed the suspected bomber, the postings show that he was intellectually thinking about engaging in jihadism for a few years,” said Dr. Walid Phares, director of the Future Terrorism Project at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. “Knowing that, the ideology of jihadism often has inspired violence and terrorism…
“These can be coined as Islamist Salafist websites where lots of material is posted, including theological, ideological and political texts and blogs,” Phares said, noting that he saw discussions about fatwas, jihad and other Islamist causes on these sites.”
As Walid Phares said in an interview on FOX and Friends earlier in the week, Faisal was no lone wolf:
“When a guy makes a phone call, he’s no longer a lone wolf. A lone wolf is somebody who doesn’t tell anybody else about the issue. He doesn’t share that information. He made phone calls… He may be deployed as a lone wolf. It is much easier to send one terrorist as 10 terrorists. But, he is not alone with conducting terror.”
If the Obama Administration removed a guy like Faisal Shahzad from the terror watch list sometime after 2008, just what does a guy have to do to make Team Obama’s list?
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bitterclinger commented:
You mean he was foreclosed as early as 2006? Oh, the humanity!
Mahdi Al-Dajjal commented:
They HAD to take Faisal off the terrorist watch list. Do you have any idea how pissed-off he would’ve gotten had his name been retained on that list? Why… he might have gone out and tried to blow something up!! Oh wait…
squeaky commented:
“sometime after 2008, just who are they watching anyway?” tea party folks and anyone else who notices the emperor has no clothes.
and from free republic – a ucla professor calling for a mexican revolution.
http://video.yahoo.com/watch/7165215/18659668
Corporal Vere commented:
They’re just being consistent.
Tea baggers are the real threat to the regime!
Jihadis and the regime have the same objectives: destruction of our country and our way of life.
Taqiyyotomist commented:
Here is what our Dear Leader is going to cause:
http://americandigest.org/mt-archives/terrorwar/the_event.php#005714
Taqiyyotomist commented:
—Snip—
“After clearing the border the Tecate Truck followed Highway 94 north to it’s merge with Highway 8 at La Mesa, California, and then drove west towards Highway 5. It pulled off the road at a rest stop where it picked up a technician in a Tecate uniform who was carrying a case with the necessary electronics and a couple of weapons. After that, the two men followed the road thought the heart of San Diego. It got off the freeway in downtown and quickly made its way to the intersection of North Harbor Drive and West Broadway. It’s total travel time from the border to downtown San Diego was just over an hour. It was running close to schedule. It was about 11:30 in the morning.
The truck pulled over and parked along North Harbor drive and the technician took out some binoculars and scanned the harbor beyond the Navy Region Southwest Complex whose entrance was less than 100 yards away. Intelligence was correct. The USS Ronald Reagan was in its home port and riding comfortably at anchor.
The technician opened his case and took a wire that ran from the back of the truck along the floorboards. He plugged it into a jack in the simple switching device in the case. He looked at the driver and smiled. The driver smiled back. They both began to recite a prayer in Arabic while looking over the San Diego harbor. At some point in the prayer, without really thinking about it, the technician threw the switch. In the next instant, at the intersection of North Harbor Drive and West Broadway in San Diego, California on a warm August morning, a miniature version of the Sun appeared on the surface of the Earth.
During the following brief moments, everything within a quarter mile radius of the truck was heated to a temperature equivalent to that found at the center of the sun and became, essentially, vapor. Beyond that, for about four miles, every living thing was blinded, then incinerated and crushed to death. This included all the exotic animals at the San Diego Zoo, a myriad of birds, reptiles, cats, dogs, fish and marine and plant life. It also included about 500,000 men, women and children. Those that survived close to, but outside of, this killing zone came quickly to wish that they too had died.
The blast not only destroyed most of downtown San Diego but the Navy and Marine bases, along with capital ships, cruise ships returning from Baja, and civilian and military airplanes as well — including those on close approach.
Beyond the immediate blast zone, the 250 mph wind and 700 F. heat created a moving vortex of flame. From this a firestorm soon formed and grew to engulf all flammable structures for a distance of ten miles. The light from the blast in the first few moments blinded all who had happened to be looking in that direction for a radius of 15 miles. The cloud that rose up over what had been San Diego to a height of 12 miles was visible from Los Angeles, 120 miles to the north. Along with many of its citizens and buildings, communication with the San Diego metropolitan area evaporated, but the cloud hovering above it left no doubt as to what had happened.
Of the 3,000,000 people in the San Diego area, it was later determined that nearly 60% had been killed or severely injured. But that took a number of years to determine. The number who survived but were exposed to radiation that shortened their lives is still being worked out today.”
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Taqiyyotomist commented:
Allahu barAck….I mean Ackbar.
Mrgoodwench commented:
Who knew that Shahzad was on a terrorist watch list and
who ordered it removed just in time for him to get his citizenship ?
How many other jihadies were on that watch list whose names got removed ? Where are those jihadies now and what are they upto ?
Joe commented:
This bunch in the White House is incompetent, unfit to hold office and is going to get a lot of us killed. Pray we can hold on until 2012. It appears this country is in real danger in many areas, not the least is national security and our economy which could also cause security problems.
Chippy commented:
Mmm? I wonder if the socialist/kook/libs are going to organize a”March On Washington” for their new symbol of injustice hero Faisal? I mean, his privacy rights were violated. The big bad government was spying on him. This is a disgrace! What has this nation become! Someone call Dershowitz, Steinem, Glover and Penn.
bg commented:
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Top Takes on National Security
[Muslim youth and young adults will continue to be susceptible to the separatist jihadist ideas of radical Islamists unless we provide alternative liberty-based winning ideas for their identification with this nation. Already, many (including Sec. Janet Napolitano) are rushing to say that this Faisal Shahzad, the first one arrested so far in this incident, was basically a “lone-wolf.”
Whether he ends up being connected to a militant jihadist Pakistani network or not, he is not a lone wolf. The ideas that drove him to act did not hatch in his own mind. We ignore to our own detriment the common ideology, the common malignant virus of the slippery slope of political Islam that takes over these Muslims. When are we going to collectively wake up as a nation?]
My Fellow Muslims, We Must Wake Up!
[When will the United States learn that our current behavior and lack of a coordinated existential strategy since 9-11 is obviously not working? As a devout and concerned American Muslim working tirelessly against radical Islam and its root cause of political Islam, I thought the Fort Hood massacre would teach us that. It did not. Witness the Pentagon report blind to ‘radical Islam’. I thought the Christmas bomber would tip us toward the battle of ideas, but nothing. And now on May 1, naturalized American citizen, Faisal Shahzad, is the next in the growing line of homegrown radical Islamists. And again the immediate fallout in the media, government, and academe is still one mostly of denial, dismissal, and fear of even mentioning the real theo-political battle we face against political Islam.
[..]
Whether we declare it or not, the United States is at war with the ideology
of militant Islamism. Islamists are not afraid to call for the complete destruction of the principles that built our great country. The United States cannot afford to be timid in our response to their actions. We, Americans, especially American Muslims, must show Islamists that their ideology is beyond being simply ‘dangerous’, or ‘violent’. It is in fact treasonous and punishable as a capital crime against the state as an act of war. Our founding fathers knew how to articulate the values of liberty over theocracy. Where has that American penchant for the defense of religious freedom and liberty gone?]
much more here & here..
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bg commented:
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M. Zuhdi Jasser
[Unfortunately, there is no simple answer to how to stop the continued uptick in attacks stemming from jihadists on our soil. In the short term, we are going to have to continue to have faith in our Homeland Security apparatus, FBI, police, and supporting agencies to continue doing the great work they are doing in prevention, counterintelligence, and monitoring. This has certainly included our share of good fortune as we saw in this most recent case at Times Square. More importantly, in the long term, our nation desperately needs to wake up to the war of ideas. We have taken major steps backward in the past year [,] too many to mention here. While the Obama administration wastes its time striking the words “Islam,” “Islamic,” “Islamist” and “Jihadist” from the government lexicon, the Jihadists continue to virally spread their unopposed narrative that “American society, government, and media are against Islam and against Muslims.”]
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theotherjimmyolson commented:
so, a lone wolf doesn’t make phone calls? No he trots on down to the office of his dentist to make an appointment for a cleaning and check-up.He visits his mother in Seattle in person rather than phone her. The stupid she burn.
jenny commented:
This administration makes idiots look good; bumbling, incompetent and rude with a touch of maliciousness thrown in. Idiots just don’t know any better.
Stuart commented:
This administration is not stupid. They are not making errors. This is malice. No one in that high level of authority is that stupid. I repeat this is deliberate.
Militant Conservative commented:
This means you are on your own. WE the people are the only thing standing between justice and the tacke over of America. 2nd amendment is in full action and needed. WE the people are the saviors of or own country.
POWDER IS DRY.
Iconoclast commented:
Back when I was young and naive, I thought LBJ the poster child for wasteful spending and jimmuh piddle pants the all-time exemplar of the Peter Principle. Later, I realized that slick ankle pants & its shrew stood for all the bad lawyer jokes, arrogance of power and deceit in its purest form. I was wrong each time.
No, it is the vile *THING* befouling the Oval Office which embodies all the worst of its predecessors, then raised to the 3rd power.
This nation would be better served by a jar of single cell algae suspended in polluted swamp water.
Fuzzy commented:
“If the Obama Administration removed a guy like Faisal Shahzad from the terror watch list sometime after 2008, just what does a guy have to do to make Team Obama’s list?”
We already know the answer to this one. Remember last April’s DHS memo about conservative “extremists” who might be pro-life or veterans of the armed services? To this administration, you and I are the “terrorist threat” not actual terrorists who want to bomb, kill, and maim American citizens.
mike191 commented:
Remember Steny Hoyers’ gibberish about team Obama is better than Bush against fighting terrorists?What is the odds of anyone in our vaunted “fourth estate” asking him a clairification of his premise,in light of this new evidence?