The Terror Factory (30 page)

9
. “Government's Response to Defendant's Motion for Order Directing the Government to Cease and Desist from Inappropriate Pretrial Comment,” United States v. Mohamed Osman Mohamud, January 10, 2011,
http://theterrorfactory.com/documents/mohamud_doc20.pdf
.

10
. Email originally obtained by reporter Josh Bernstein.

11
. “Home Grown Terror? FBI: Plots Foiled in Two States,” ABC News, September 25, 2009.

12
. “Criminal Complaint,” United States v. Hosam Maher Husein Smadi, September 24, 2009,
http://theterrorfactory.com/documents/smadi_complaint.pdf
.

13
. “Indictment,” United States v. Farooque Ahmed, October 26, 2010,
http://theterrorfactory.com/documents/ahmed_indictment.pdf
.

14
. “Taborn on Arrest of Farooque Ahmed,” video clip, YouTube, October 27, 2010,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmyJO5Pue4I
.

15
. Justin Elliott, “Fact-Check: How the NYPD Overstated Its Counterterrorism Record,” ProPublica, July 10, 2012.

16
. Jerry Markon, “Post-9/11 Probe Revived Stolen-Cereal Incident,”
Washington Post
, June 15, 2005.

1
. Richard Lord, “Accused Local Taliban Sympathizer Detained Without Bond Until Trial,”
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
, March 16, 2012.

2
. Dane Schiller, “Accused Terrorist Secretly Recorded Talking
Jihad,”
Houston Chronicle
, November 9, 2011.

3
. U.S. Department of Homeland Security, “Rightwing Extremism: Current Economic and Political Climate Fueling Resurgence in Radicalization and Recruitment,” April 7, 2009,
http://theterrorfactory.com/documents/rightwing.pdf

4
.
FoxNews.com
, “Chorus of Protest Grows Over Report Warning of Right Wing Radicalization”, April 15, 2009,
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/04/15/chorus-protest-grows-report-warning-right-wing-radicalization/

5
. “RAW VIDEO: West Memphis Shooting,” video clip, YouTube, June 30, 2010,
http://youtu.be/acLpCbbZ1fk
.

6
. J.J. MacNab, “‘Sovereign' Citizen Kane,”
Intelligence Report
, Fall 2010.

7
. Author interview with Bob Paudert, 2012.

8
. Kristina Goetz, “No Hints at Violence in Sovereign Citizen Jerry Kane's File,”
Commercial Appeal
, May 20, 12.

9
. FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin, “Sovereign Citizens: A Growing Domestic Threat to Law Enforcement,” September 2011,
http://www.fbi.gov/stats-services/publications/law-enforcement-bulletin/september-2011/sovereign-citizens

10
. Bob Willis, “U.S. Recession Worst Since Great Depression, Revised Data Show,”
Bloomberg
, August 1, 2009.

11
. Adam H. Beasley, “Florida: A Ponzi Schemer's Paradise,”
Miami Herald
, July 7, 2012.

12
. David K. Shipler, “Terrorist Plots, Hatched by the F.B.I.,”
New York Times
, April 28, 2012.

13
. Rick Lyman and Nick Madigan, “Officials Puzzled About Motive of Airport Gunman Who Killed 2,”
New York Times
, July 6, 2002; William K. Rashbaum, “Terror Suspect Is Charged with Preparing Explosives,”
New York Times
, September 25, 2009; William K. Rashbaum, Mark Mazzetti, and Peter Baker, “Owner of S.U.V. Arrested in Times Sq. Bomb Case,”
New York Times
, May 4, 2010.

14
. Paul Finkelman, “John Brown: America's First Terrorist?”
Prologue Magazine
, Spring 2011.

ABC, 37, 70, 211–13

 

 

See also
media coverage of terrorism

Abdel-Rahman, Omar,
31

Abdul-Latif, Abu Khalid,
175–79
,
193

Abdullahu, Agron,
165–68

See also
Fort Dix Five

Abraham, Patrick,
68
,
83

See also
Liberty City Seven

Abuali, Hussein,
216

Abuali, Nasser,
216

Abu Ghraib,
31

ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union),
49
,
54
,
105
,
107
,
110
,
131
,
207

See also
civil rights

Acosta, Alex,
72–73

Afghanistan,
21
,
25
,
26
,
27
,
43
,
105-106
,
133
,
161
,
202
,
210
,
222

Ahearn, Peter,
27–28
,
45
,
198
,
233

Ahmed, Farooque,
213

Ahmed, Rabi,
216

Akili, Khalifah Al-,
219–24

Aksoy, Hakki Cemal,
60
,
64

Al-Akili, Kalifah,
219–24

Alanssi, Mohamed,
158–63

al-Awlaki, Anwar,
25–26
,
185

al-Aziz, Farouk.
See
Monteilh, Craig

Albany, New York, terror plot.

See
Hossain, Mohammed
.

Albany Times Union
,
131

See also
media coverage of terrorism

Almighty Black P. Stone Nation,
77–78
,
84
;

al-Moayad, Mohammed Ali Hassan,
159
,
162
,
163

Al Qaeda:

FBI agents and informants posing as operatives of,
10–11
,
62
,
72–73
,
80–83
,
85
,
160–61
,
173
,
174
,
213
,
225
;

FBI early awareness of,
35–39
,
52
(
see also
O'Neill, John
);

FBI perception of,
53
;

focus of CIA Counterterrorism Center,
47
;

operations and influence since September 11, 2001,
25–27
,
42–43
,
226
;

presence in the United States,
193
,
207
;

referenced in George W. Bush's 2003 State of the Union address,
202
;

responsible for fewer terrorism plots than
the FBI,
23–24
;

role in September 11, 2001, attack,
24–25
;

salafism in,
182
;

See also
Inspire
magazine
;
Khan, Samir
;
Lackawanna Six
;
Mandhai, Imran
;
Mehanna, Tarek
;
Moayad, Mohammed Ali Hassan al-
;
Padilla, José
;
Shukrijumah, Adnan El
;
Yazid, Mustafa Abu al-
;
Zazi, Najibullah

al-Saidi, Abbas,
73
,
75–80
,
84
,
87

See also
Liberty City Seven

Al-Shabaab,
24

al-Yazid, Mustafa Abu,
97

al-Zawahiri, Ayman
193

American Civil Liberties

Union,
49
,
54
,
105
,
107
,
110
,
131
,
207

See also
civil rights

Andreu, Patricia,
67-68

See also
media coverage of terrorism

An-Nur Islamic Center,
219

Ansar al Islam,
131

anti-Semitism,
11
,
83
,
138–40
,
142
,
146–49
,
170
,
197

See also
Cromitie, James
;
Ku Klux Klan
;
Newburgh Four
;
Shareef, Derrick
;

white supremacist movement

Arango, Jacqueline,
86

Arar, Maher,
137

Aref, Yassin,
120–21
,
125–32

Arkansas domestic terror attack,
228–32

See also
extremism and extremists
;
Kane, Jerry R.
;
sovereign citizen movement
;
terrorism, domestic

Assaad, Elie,
60–64
,
67
,
73
,
79–84
,
87-88
,
95
,
180

Atheea, Master G.J.G.,
84–85

Atta, Mohamed,
58

Augustin, Burson,
68
,
83
,
88
See also
Liberty City Seven

Augustine, Rothschild,
68
,
83
See also
Liberty City Seven

Awlaki, Anwar al-,
25–26
,
185

Ayloush, Hussam
112
,
113

See also
CAIR

Aziz, Farouk al-.
See
Monteilh, Craig

Bakalli, Besnik,
164–68

See also
Fort Dix Five

Baltimore, Maryland, terror plot.
See
Martinez, Antonio
.

Bangladesh,
115–116
,
130–31

Barry University,
94

Batiste, Narcisse,
74

See also
Liberty City Seven

Batiste, Narseal,
68
,
73–75
,
77–86
,
235

See also
Liberty City Seven

Bay, Sultan Khan.
See
Charles James Stewart

bayat
,
81–83
,
85

Begin, Menachem,
236

Bergman, Lowell,
13–15

Berky, Rad,
70

See also
media coverage of terrorism

Bhutto, Benazir,
118
,
136

Bieshelt, Joseph,
223

bin Laden, Osama:

Americans' perception of,
135
;

adherent of salafism
182
;

inspiration for terror plots,
10
,
167
,
178
,
202
,
212
;

FBI agents and informants claiming to have ties to
62
,
79–83
;

FBI early awareness of,
36–37
;

forced into hiding,
25
;

responsible for fewer terrorism plots than the FBI,
23–24
;

See also
Al Qaeda
;
Lackawanna Six
;
Niazi, Amadullah Sais

Blind Sheikh, The,
31

Board of Immigration Appeals,
98

See also
immigration

“Bojinka” bomb plot,
36

Boston Globe, The
,
110
,
129

Brandenburg v. Ohio
,
110

Briccetti, Vincent L.,
190–91

Brooklyn, New York, terror plot.
See
Shah, Tarik

Broward Community College,
59
,
63

Brown, John,
235–36

Buffalo, New York, terror plot.

See
Lackawanna Six

Bulger, Whitey,
155

See also
informants: criminality of
;
organized crime

Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives,
47

Bush, George W.,
33
,
39
,
47
,
68–69
,
91
,
96
,
128
,
156
,
162
,
191
,
194
,
202–203

See also
war on terror

CAIR (Council on American-Islamic Relations),
54
,
97–98
,
106
,
112–113
,
205

Capitol Building terror plot.
See
Ferdaus, Rezwan

Capraro, Anthony,
66

Carley, Barbara A.,
72

CBS,
68
,
188

See also
media coverage of terrorism

Chicago, Illinois, terror plot.
See
Liberty City Seven

Choudhury, Nusrat,
105

See also
ACLU
;
civil rights

CIA,
16
,
39
,
46-49
,
58
,
68
,
128
,
185

Circuit City.
See
Fort Dix Five

citizenship.
See
immigration

civil rights
48–55
,
57
,
101–103
,
110
,
112
,
205
,
225–226

See also
ACLU
;
CAIR
;
Muslim Advocates

CNN,
191

See also
media coverage of terrorism

Cointelpro,
16
,
45

Cole, David D.,
198

Coll, Timothy,
120
,
126
,
132

Confidential Informant Accountability Act,
157

Conrad, Miriam,
175

Cornell University,
101

Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR),
53
,
97–98
,
106
,
112–113
,
205

counterterrorism.
See
FBI
;

surveillance; war on terror

Cromitie, James,
138–52
,
190–91
,
197
,
202
,
222
,
235
,
236

See also
Newburgh Four

Cummings, Arthur,
40-44
,
51
,
226–27