Two N.J. men arrested at JFK airport before boarding plane to join Islamist terrorist group, authorities say

By Josh Margolin/Statehouse Bureau

NJ.COM

June 06, 2010, 2:07AM

NEWARK — Two New Jersey men intent on killing American troops were arrested Saturday as they boarded flights to link up with a virulent jihadist group in Somalia, authorities said.

The men, both North Jersey residents, were charged with conspiring to commit an act of international terrorism through a group tied to Osama bin Laden’s al Qaeda network, according to officials familiar with the details of the arrests.

Mohamed Hamoud Alessa, 20, of North Bergen, and Carlos Eduardo “Omar” Almonte, 24, of Elmwood Park were apprehended at John F. Kennedy International Airport in Queens before they could board separate flights to Egypt, where they were to start journeys to Somalia. The men were arrested by teams of state and federal law-enforcement agents who have been investigating the pair since October 2006, according to the officials, who requested anonymity because they are not authorized to discuss the operation publicly.

Late Saturday night, the state homeland security agency confirmed a police action at the airport but gave few details.

“Two individuals were arrested at JFK in connection with an ongoing investigation. At this time, we can provide no further details because the investigation is ongoing. The arrests do not relate to an immediate threat,” said Jose Lozano, a spokesman for the state Office of Homeland Security and Preparedness.

U.S. Attorney’s Office spokeswoman Rebekah Carmichael issued a similar statement just after midnight, , saying “the arrests do not relate to any known immediate threat to the public or active plot against the United States.” Continue Reading →

Michael Coren: Bat Ye’or and Sam Solomon

By the way, both these excellent speakers as well as David G. Littman will be speaking live in Ottawa Canada at the National Archives Theatre on Wellington St. 7:00 PM June 7th don’t miss it. This will be such an important evening.

Tribute to some brave Canadians

Canada, one of the first nations to sell out it’s heritage as freedom fighters and a self reliant people for the illusion of communism, socialism and the nanny state, has some exceptionally hard working, and dare I say, lonely  bloggers fighting against the tide of hate from the left and Islam, and the government malaise that aids it even if by its silence let alone its selectively enforced, ‘Human Rights Commisions’.

I just thought I would point out a few of them. People who risk and many who have lost close friendships because they swim against the tide of political fashion, and lost careers and opportunities.

First, The Steynian. (Free Canuckistan) Check him out today he has some great material.

Blazing Cat Fur who braved Govt. union thuggery to film a hostile public demonstration but was assaulted for videotaping it

Five Feet Of Fury One of Canada’s great wits and she has her own stories as to how speaking truth to morons can get one in trouble.

I expect to add many more here soon. But for the moment, in wwhat appears to be a rapidly looming dark dark hour, I wanted to say thanks to them all.

Thank you for risking so much to preserve truth, and our shared Greek heritage of reasoned debate.

Eeyore for Vlad Tepes

Petition against NYC 13 story ground zero Mosque to open 911 2011

We Oppose the Mosque at “Ground Zero”

Add your name to the group of 30,914 people who have already signed using the Internet!

Please read our petition below and fill in the form to add your signature. Then, forward this petition to your friends and family.

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We Stand With the Victims of 9/11,
We Oppose the Mosque at “Ground Zero,” and
We Urge You to Join Us in Opposition

To Mayor Michael Bloomberg and the Elected Officials of New York:We the undersigned join with millions of Americans who are opposed to the founding of a mosque at the very site where Islamist jihadists destroyed the World Trade Center and took the lives of nearly 3,000 people.

We are opposed to the grotesque symbolism represented by the building of this mosque at “ground zero.” We are especially appalled that those pushing for this mosque have designated its grand opening date for September 11, 2011 – the ten year anniversary of the worst terrorist attack in U.S. history.

We are deeply disturbed by the insensitivity to the families of the victims of the 9/11 jihadist attack exhibited by Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf and his supporters. We find it grossly hypocritical that Islamists and their allies repeatedly lecture Americans about the need to be “sensitive” to Muslims while Imam Rauf and his allies practice the height of intolerance and insensitivity through the blatant act of building a mosque at “ground zero.”

We are offended by the views Imam Rauf has expressed about 9/11, such as his conspiratorial theory that Muslims did not perpetrate the 9/11 attack and that America’s policies were partly to blame for the attack. Such views are a slap in the face of the victims and families of 9/11.

We find it repulsive that Imam Rauf and his followers and supporters would seek to build a mosque near ground zero promoting the same Sharia ideology that the 9/11 hijackers used as the justification for their act of unconscionable murder.

Therefore, in deference to the families of the 9/11 victims and their memory, we call upon the elected officials of New York to oppose the building of this mosque near ground zero and for them to urge Feisal Abdul Rauf and his followers to find another location for it.

Please click here to go to the form and sign the petition. No matter how genuine or peaceful the principles of this mosque are, the fact that they intend to open on the 10th anniversary of 9-11 shows a poor intent as there simply is no way they cannot be aware of how it looks. It is a clear incitement and must be opposed.

EDL video for Newcastle

I hope the demo is as good as the beer.

If any people are reading this that can attend, please join the EDL as they fight for Magna Carta, rational rights from the nation that invented rational rights, and all of British cultural heritage. They are it folks. There is no other force in England that is actually doing anything to fight the tidal wave of irrational leftism and irrational violent religious authority which is rapidly turning England into an unrecognizable and more importantly, one where laws seem arbitrary and based on superstition and identity politics over reasoned evidence and true egalitarian principles.

By the way, this is also the best video yet. Congrats to whoever does their video work. Great job!

David G. Littman: 25 years at the UN Human Rights bodies. A retrospective:

This is some compelling watching. David G. Littman himself speaks on some of his impressions in new interviews on his eperiences in the UN Human Rights Council and other UN bodies, and the extraordinary degree of obfuscation and other tactics used by the various members of the UN to avoid any discussion of actual human rights.

This is some compelling watching. There is more interviews on this with Mr. Littman to come, but this is the second in his retrospective on the UN.

Enjoy

Untitled from Vlad Tepes on Vimeo.

Burqas are all the rage in France.

Burka rage as female lawyer rips veil off Muslim woman in French clothes shop

By Peter Allen
Last updated at 1:19 AM on 19th May 2010

From The DailyMail U.K.

France nabs 12 Islamic suspects

Straitstimes:

PARIS – FRENCH intelligence officers have arrested 12 suspected Islamic extremists in a series of raids in Paris and the surrounding region, judicial officials told AFP on Tuesday.

The detainees were picked up over the weekend and on Monday before being remanded in custody under anti-terrorism legislation, which gives police up to four days to question them, one of the officials said.

The magistrate Thierry Fragnoli ordered the arrests and is, according to the website of news magazine L’Express, hunting a network that recruits militants in France and sends them to fight in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Officers from the French domestic intelligence service DCRI carried out the raids. Some of those arrested were Tunisian-born, the official said. — AFP

Two men arrested over fire at Vilks’ house

From The Local.SE

21-year-old suspect arrested

Two men arrested over fire at Vilks’ house

Published: 16 May 10 10:05 CET
Updated: 16 May 10 14:17 CET
Online: http://www.thelocal.se/26664/20100516/

Two men, aged 19 and 21, have been arrested in connection with an arson attack at the home in southern Sweden of artist Lars Vilks.

The 21-year-old was arrested late on Saturday at his home in Landskrona, 40 kilometres from the house where Vilks lives. He is being held on suspicion of aggravated attempted arson.

A police spokesman said he was detained after personal items were found near Vilks’ house in the village of Nyhamnsläge, which was slightly damaged in the attack overnight Friday.

“He is of Swedish nationality but originally from Kosovo … He was unknown to the police so far,” Scania district police spokesman Calle Pärsson told AFP. Continue Reading →