ISLAMIC
TERRORISM IN AMERICA TODAY
#1)
Osama bin Laden, one of the Islamic world's leading terrorists was behind
the bombing of the American Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.
Twelve Americans were killed and there were hundreds of other deaths due
to the bombings. Bin Laden has
declared open season on American civilians, women and children included.
He says Islamic scholars have allowed the targeting of civilians because
their taxes support the American military, therefore, they too are at war with
Bin Laden's Islamic goals.
Bin Laden was interviewed by a Muslim journalist, and the interview
appears in the Jan 11, 1999 issue of Newsweek.
Here are some excerpts:
QUESTION:
"Why have you asked Muslims to target civilian Americans all over
the world? Islam prohibits its
followers from killing civilians in war?"
BIN
LADEN: "If the Israelis are
killing small children in Palestine and the Americans are killing the innocent
people in Iraq, and if the majority of the American people support their
dissolute president, this means the American people are fighting us and we have
the right to target them.
QUESTION:
"All Americans?"
BIN
LADEN "Muslim scholars have
issued a fatwa [a religious order] against any American who pays taxes to his
government. He is our target,
because he is helping the American war machine against the Muslim nation.
Below
is an excerpt from ABC news.
ABCNEWS.com
(on Osama bin Laden - edited for length)
His
fatwa was clear: Americans must die, within the next few weeks.
U.S.
troops will leave Saudi Arabia when Islamic terrorists "send the bodies of
American troops and civilians home in wooden boxes and coffins," Osama Bin
Ladin vowed in an exclusive interview with ABC NEWS Correspondent John Miller.
"We don't differentiate between those dressed in military uniforms and
civilians. They are all targets in this fatwa."
Bin
Ladin recently convened a meeting of fundamentalist extremists and sponsors of
terrorism. More than 150 clerics named themselves the "International
Islamic Front for the Jihad against Jews and Crusaders," and issued a
variety of fatwas. But Bin Ladin's is the one that most concerns U.S. security
analysts.
#2)
Bombing the World Trade Center in New York
On February 26, 1993, Muslim terrorists bombed the World Trade Center in
New York City, killing 6 people and injuring over 1000 more.
It was found that these terrorists were tied in with a Muslim cleric
named Sheik Omar Abd al-Rahman, who was also accused of terrorist actions in
Egypt. Omar preached that the
United States is a den of evil and fornication and regularly called upon Muslims
to attack their enemies.
#3)
In June 1993 eight Muslims were arrested by the FBI.
There were reportedly planning bombings targeting the United Nations
headquarters, FBI offices, and the Holland and Lincoln tunnels, as well as
several assassinations.
#4)
In Jan. 1993, a Pakistani Muslim shot and killed several CIA employees
outside of the CIA headquarters. He
fled to Pakistan. Later he was
apprehended and returned to America for trial.
The day after he was found guilty, Pakistanis in Pakistan murdered four
American businessmen - probably as revenge for our judicial system finding their
comrade guilty.
#5)
An arrested Hamas terrorist in Israel told authorities that Hamas leaders
in held a workshop in Chicago where Hamas inductees were taught how to make car
bombs.
#6)
Last year, a Muslim who converted to Christianity was attacked and his
home was firebombed by Muslims in Minnesota.
#7)
On November 4th, 1979, Muslims in Iran took many American Embassy
employees hostage. There were held
for 444 days. Some died in
captivity. They were released
around the time Ronald Reagan became president.
#8)
Here is another foiled terrorist attempt in America....
Palestinian
Guilty in Subway Plot
NEW
YORK (AP) - A Palestinian who said he wanted to kill as many Jews ``as I could
take'' was convicted today of plotting to blow up a busy subway station. Gazi
Ibrahim Abu Mezer, who faces life in prison, jumped to his feet after the
verdict was read and shouted ``Allahu Akbar! (God is great)'' as he held up the
Koran, the Muslim holy book. The federal jury acquitted a second Palestinian,
Lafi Khalil, of plotting the suicide-bombing. Last Monday, testifying against
his lawyers' wishes, Abu Mezer said he had planned to ``martyr'' himself and
kill ``as many (Jews) as I could take.''
#9)
In Nov., 1989, a Palestinian Muslim and his wife, murdered their own 14
daughter. Their daughter had not
lived according to their view of Islam. Finally,
the father and mother assaulted the girl. The
mother held the girl down while the father stabbed her to death.
Unknown to this Muslim family, this man was under investigation by the
FBI, and a bug had legally been planted in the house.
The entire murder was called on tape.
As the girl struggled and begged her mother to help her, the father said
in Arabic, "Die, die quickly, die quickly”.
This murder is written about in People magazine, 1/20/92.
#10)
Even in America's military there are Muslim who are charged with aiding
the terrorists who have murdered American citizens.
The following is from a recent news article:
NEW
YORK (Reuters) - A former U.S. Army sergeant was
indicted Wednesday for allegedly participating in a conspiracy led by Saudi
exile Osama bin Laden to kill Americans abroad.
Ali
Mohamed, 46, was charged with acting with others including bin Laden's group al
Qaeda to plan the murders of U.S. military personnel stationed in Saudi Arabia
and Somalia and last August's bombings of the U.S. embassies in Nairobi, Kenya,
and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
Bin Laden, a fugitive, was indicted last year for the attacks. The
charges filed Wednesday allege that in September Mohamed lied to a Manhattan
federal grand jury investigating al Qaeda's role in last year's African
bombings. According to information
from the U.S. Army Reserve Personnel Center, Mohamed was in the reserves at the
time of some of the alleged offenses. He joined the
reserves
in 1989 after a term of active duty and left the reserves in 1994.
Mohamed, a former major in the Egyptian Army, was granted a visa to enter
the United States in 1985 and became an American citizen. According to U.S. Army
Reserve he enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1986 and was stationed at Fort Bragg,
N.C.
The indictment charges that at least as early as 1989, bin Laden and
others made efforts to recruit U.S. citizens including Mohamed to travel in the
Western world to help al Qaeda carry out operations.
It is also charged that as early as 1990 Mohamed provided military and
intelligence training for al Qaeda in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Sudan. The
indictment further alleges that Mohamed, with others, helped bin Laden in 1991
to move from Peshawar, Pakistan, to Sudan.
The indictment charges that bin Laden, an exiled Saudi multi-millionaire,
issued a fatwa, or religious decree, calling for the killing of U.S. citizens
and financed the embassy bombings and other attacks on Americans.
It is alleged that al Qaeda functioned both on its own and through other
organizations that operated under its umbrella, including the Al Jihad group
based in Egypt and the Islamic Group that was led by Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman.
The sheik was convicted in 1996 for a plot to bomb New York City
landmarks and kill political and religious figures.
The indictment accuses Mohamed of sending a document about Abdel Rahman's
trial to another defendant in Kenya for delivery to bin Laden. Court papers do
not describe the document, sent from California in 1995.
Another part of the indictment alleges that Mohamed traveled to Nairobi
in 1994 using a fake Egyptian passport. He then showed his U.S. passport to
enter the U.S. embassy there. The
indictment alleges that the same year he met members of al Qaeda and reviewed
files ``concerning possible terrorist attacks'' against the embassy in Nairobi
and other places in Nairobi, including the building housing the U.S.
Agency for International Development and British, French and Israeli
targets. It is further charged that
Mohamed discussed targets in countries other than Kenya. According to the
indictment as of August of last year, Mohamed had documents about surveillance
and explosives and ``the planning of terrorist operations and the structuring of
a terrorist group into different cells.''
Fortunately,
America is not a hotbed of Islamic terrorism.
Not yet anyway.
Unfortunately, Muslim terrorists are at work all throughout the world.
Violence is part and parcel with Islam.
Here is just a small sampling of some of the Islamic terrorist actions
that have occurred in the last 15 years.