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Wednesday, 17 March 2010
Tarek Mehanna: the dangerous campaign to free a home grown terrorist
  Last October, the FBI arrested Tarek Mehanna, a 27 year old American born Muslim and a Doctoral graduate of the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences (MCPHS) on charges of lying to authorities, planning terrorist attacks on malls and possible assassination attempts on US officials. Tarek was teaching religion and science at the Al Huda Academy in Worcester, Massachusetts. Tarek’s Egyptian-born father Ahmed Mehanna is a professor of pharmacology at the MCPHS. Ahmed said in a WCVB Channel 5 TV report from the family’s Sudbury, Massachusetts home : We've been living in this country for 32 years. We are very peaceful people. We are very, very loyal citizens, including my son. The issue of killing, well, that is a surprise to me.
Here is what Steve Emerson of The Investigative Project wrote about Tarek and his Jihadi accomplice, Ahmad Abousamra:
In October, the U.S. Attorney for Massachusetts announced that [Tarek] Mehanna had been charged in a complaint with conspiring to provide material support to terrorists. A press release explained that from 2001 through May 2008, "Mehanna conspired with Ahmad Abousamra, and others to provide material support and resources for use in carrying out a conspiracy to kill, kidnap, maim or injure persons or damage property in a foreign country."
In addition, [Tarek] Mehanna and his co-conspirators "discussed their desire to participate in violent jihad against American interests and that they would talk about fighting jihad and their desire to die on the battlefield."
According to an affidavit in the case signed by FBI Special Agent Heidi Williams, [Tarek]Mehanna and Abousamra had discussions about assassinating members of the executive branch of the U.S. government. [Tarek] Mehanna and Abousamra, inspired by the snipers who terrorized the Washington, D.C. area in 2002, discussed obtaining automatic weapons, going to a shopping mall and randomly shooting people.
According to Williams' affidavit, [Tarek]Mehanna traveled to Pakistan and Yemen in unsuccessful attempts to find a terrorist training camp and engage in jihad. A search of his computer revealed that [Tarek] Mehanna translated and distributed Al Qaeda propaganda materials and numerous jihadist videos. These included videos of [Tarek] Mehanna joking about a remote-control bomb attack against U.S. soldiers and a picture of [Tarek] Mehanna and others posing at the former site of the World Trade Center.
The computer included a picture showing [Tarek] Mehanna and others at the Ground Zero construction site "with large grins and Mehanna has one finger pointed up in the air," the affidavit says.
Mehanna remains in jail awaiting trial. Abousamra disappeared in 2007 and is believed to be outside the United States, [having fled to Syria].
[Tarek] Mehanna’s arrest last fall came just a few weeks prior to Maj. Hasan’s lone Jihad attack at Fort Hood that killed 14 and injured 30. One disturbing element in the charges against [Tarek] Mehenna was his plan to indiscriminately attack shoppers with automatic weapons fire in a mall. This is eerily like a scenario that we warned about in a June 2009 NER article, “Foot Soldiers of Islam” concerning possible swarming attacks by home grown terrorists similar to the Mumbai attacks of November 2008.
[Swarming attacks] could be perpetrated by homegrown Jihadis . . . . They could orchestrate swarming attacks against public facilities in this country using so-called low tech means: cheap weapons and pickup trucks. These possible swarming attacks could be devastating ‘mini- 9/11events.’ Deadly scenarios might include simultaneous attacks against exposed queues of customers at so-called ‘big box stores’ especially on high sales days like Black Friday, the start of the Christmas holiday retailing season. The casualties from such orchestrated swarming attacks could be devastating and the economic impacts significant.
Charles Jacobs of Americans for Peace and Tolerance (APT) released a video on You Tube “From Sudbury to Mumbai –The Boston Terror Plot”- see here- that connects the dots between Tarek Mehanna’s, his accomplice Ahmad Abousamra, and the latter’s father, Abdul.
Acording to a report in the Boston Globe, Dr. Abdul Abousamra, a native of Syria, spent over two decades at Massachusetts General Hospital and was President of the Islamic Center of New England (ICNE) located in Sharon, Massachusetts. ICNE was where Tarek Mehanna and Ahmad Abousamra met as childhood friends. Dr. Abousmara now lives in the Detroit area. Dr. Abousamra was a former vice president of the Boston Chapter of the Muslim American Society (MAS), a Muslim Brotherhood front identified as an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation trial. The Boston Chapter of the MAS controls the controversial Islamic Society of Boston Cultural Center (ISBCC) that embroiled Jacobs and others in a law suit that was withdrawn in 2007. We wrote about Jacobs and the APT protest of the ISBCC dedication in an NER article, “Chelm on the Charles River.”
The APT video further connects the dots between Dr. Abousamra and Hafiz Mohammed Masood who was hired by Abousamra as Imam at the ICNE. Masood is a brother of Hafiz Mohammed Saeed a radical Cleric and founder of the Lashkar- e- Taibah terrorist group in Pakistan that planned and executed the Mumbai swarming attack which killed over 167 persons, including Jews gathered at a Chabad facility. Masood was deported from the US in 2008 for immigration fraud, and while in the US was accused of raising funds for Lashkar-e-Taibah.
What prompted the APT video was a fierce campaign to free Tarek Mehanna waged using the social network Facebook against the US prosecutor in the case. Note this from the APT news release:
Jacobs noted that Tarek's Internet support groups are rife with anti-American and anti-Semitic sloganeering (such as "Close Guantanamo Bay, Reopen Auschwitz") and support for violence in the name of Islam.
Jacobs said the decision to release the film now was precipitated by a campaign of intimidation launched by Tarek's supporters against Aloke Chakravarty, the assistant US attorney in Boston responsible for Tarek's prosecution.
As part of what they call a "Pressure Campaign to Free Tarek Mehanna," Islamic extremists in collaboration with the Boston branch of the International Socialist Organization have sought to clog the prosecutor's office phone and fax lines with bizarre messages demanding Mr. Chakravarty drop the case against Tarek or face charges of prosecutorial misconduct. Tarek's supporters claimed they were turned away from the prosecutor's office when they showed up there en masse in an attempt to harass Mr. Chakravarty in person.
The APT video graphically illustrates the extent of radical Imams preaching doctrinal Islamic Jihad in American Mosques. David Gaubatz, author of Muslim Mafia, has uncovered the extent of these Jihadi doctrinal underpinnings in investigations of more than 200 Mosques and infiltration of the Muslim Brotherhood front group, the Council of American Islamic Relations.
We hope that Jacobs and the APT team will get the message across about the dangers from home grown Jihadis to the obsessively ‘political correct’ Boston community and all Americans. Otherwise the dangerous campaign of the Boston ‘red-green’ alliance might free Tarek Mehanna. Posted on 03/17/2010 9:22 PM by Jerry Gordon
Comments
17 Mar 2010
Hugh Fitzgerald
Good and relentless work by Charles Jacobs. 17 Mar 2010
dumbledoresarmy
Know what really gave me the creeps, reading this? These bits.
First: '27 year old ...Doctoral Graduate of the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences'...Hmmm. What did he research for his PhD? Anybody checked?
Second: 'teaching religion and science at the Al Huda Academy in Worcester Massachusetts'...Hmmm. Anybody checked what, precisely, he taught, in those science classes. Fast poisons, slow accumulative poisons, perhaps? And the religion classes. Might be an idea to get a hold of the textbooks, for both.
'Tarek's Egyptian-born [Muslim] father Ahmed Mehanna *is* a professor of pharmacology at the MCPHS'. Why *is*, not *was*? Surely he should be getting the third degree in interrogation.
And what was Professor Mehanna teaching, exactly, to whom? Where did he gain his original qualifications...in the USA, or somewhere else? How many Muslims *are* there, studying, researching, teaching PHARMACOLOGY - i.e. MEDICINES AND POISONS - at the MCPHS, and everywhere else across the Lands of the Non-Muslims?
And what about Dr Abdul Abousamra, 'a native of Syria', who 'spent over two decades at Massachusetts General Hospital'? Doing what, precisely, to whom? How did his Infidel patients and colleagues fare, in those twenty years? And would it not perhaps be a good idea, just in case, to check his record at that hospital...go through it with a fine-tooth comb? 18 Mar 2010
 John P.
The scenarios ( or something similar) outlined in this article are bound to happen at some point.
'Moderate' Islam tends to turn individuals into sociopaths who, though relatively peaceful, reject the surrounding society, and limit interactions with it to the strictest minimum. More virulant forms of this theology turn people into outright psychopaths who have absolutely no qualms about committing acts of mass murder.
There are simply to many hard core Muslims miling about nursing various so-called grievances and just seething with frustration and hatred for this not to happen.
We'll soon be paying for our oil and our gas with our blood.
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