Some news on those two Middle Eastern fireworks enthusiasts arrested in South Carolina as they drove by a Naval Base. First, check out my first post to see the timeline of the event and then check out the earlier updates here.
Now onto the latest. It appears these two men have some tenuous ties to Islamic Jihad. Here is Debbie Schlussel:
In investigating Pipe Bomb possessors, Mohamed and Megahed, the FBI searched a house owned by a man who now occupies a house owned by Sami Al-Arian co-conspirator and co-defendant, Palestinian Islamic Jihad official Sameeh Hammoudeh. Sounds confusing, but that’s how they work. Like the Mob, terrorist groups have a million interlocking companies, directorates, and property (including houses).
Here’s the report, courtesy of reader Duane, from the St. Petersburg Times:
TAMPA – The FBI on Saturday raided a home in Temple Terrace in connection with two University of South Florida students who stand accused of carrying explosives in a Toyota Camry.
Agents executed a search warrant about 8 a.m. at 12402 Pampas Place and stayed several hours, said FBI spokesman Dave Couvertier. The home is owned by Noor Salhab, property records show.
A neighbor said Thursday night that Salhab and his wife are living in a rented home nearby on Soaring Avenue. Records show the owner of the house on Soaring Avenue is Sameeh Hammoudeh, a co-defendant in the trial of Sami Al-Arian.
So in a nutshell we have Sami Al-Arian, the University of South Florida Professor who founded Islamic Jihad and headed it up from his university office. His co-defendant in the terrorism trial that alleged his terrorist ties owns a house that is rented to a couple who also owns a home nearby that they in turn rent out to one of the fireworks enthusiast.
Might coincidental huh?
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I would say I am surprised and shocked, but I am not. These open terror ties are far too common and ominous as is the Islamist apologists/appeasers’ defense of them. I am awaiting the media self-blackout now that the ties to terror groups in the USA are becoming clear. The media will not allow itself to acknowledge that these students ARE terrorists, but will of course blame Bush when and if an attack occurs.
The media, the left, and even a few on the center-right will all bury their heads in the sand and shout “Religion of Peace(tm)” and “Profiling is racism” (but the left had no qualms with it in the 90s).
We have been trying to keep the wolf at the door for decades. However, the wolf has come in through an open window that is our universities, their extremist professors, and refusal to define the enemy. We are allowing the double standard of “separation of Church and State” but only when it applies to Christians and Jews, NOT to Muslims. For Muslims, we bend over backwards to appease and give everything.
We will be our own undoing.