VA Man Arrested with Grenade Launcher, Map of Military Base

[Warrior-Mentor]

Hat Tip to FOX News, whose story prompted the search for this:

SOURCE:
http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2010/01/suspicious_virginia_man_had_we.html

Anyone else find it interesting that they were able to rule out terrorism this quickly?

http://www.jihadwatch.org/2010/01/grenade-launcher-weapons-cache-seized-in-new-jersey-hotel-room-from-man-with-middle-eastern-headdres.html

http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2010/01/new-jersey-terror-bust-grenade-launcher-weapons-cache-from-virginia-man-at-motel.html

http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2010/01/virginia_man_with_weapons_cach.html

[Pete]

Interesting - from the story

"...Mixed in among Woodson’s belongings, the prosecutor said, was a Middle Eastern, red-and-white traditional headdress......"

Jihadie Wannabe?

[testedone]

Anyone else find it interesting that they were able to rule out terrorism this quickly?


I find this completely interesting....:confused: :confused:

[SF-TX]

Anyone else find it interesting that they were able to rule out terrorism this quickly?



No. Why?


Mixed in among Woodson’s belongings, the prosecutor said, was a Middle Eastern, red-and-white traditional headdress...

Forrest, citing security risks, declined to identify the military base or the civilian community depicted on Woodson’s maps. He said the civilian neighborhood was not in New Jersey....

A U.S. Navy spokesman, Lt. Justin Cole, said Woodson joined the service in February 1988 and served aboard the USS Orion, a submarine tender, before deserting in April 1989. It would be eight years before he was returned to Navy custody, Cole said. A month later, in August 1997, Woodson was discharged.

[Team Sergeant]

Just because there "is" a mosque 5 miles from where he was arrested and the fact he was packing illegal weapons and body armor and that he was sporting ME head dress, or that he might have targeted Fort Dix in New Jersey, a prior islamic target and "failed" islamic mission (http://www.ice.gov/pi/news/newsreleases/articles/070508camden.htm)in 2007, should not be construed that he meant anyone harm.

janet napolitano, Director of Department of Homeland Security is on the job......




Five bucks says he was praying at that local mosque (getting in his last prayers) before he was arrested.......;) Five bucks, anyone?

[Pete]

......janet napolitano, Director of Department of Homeland Security is on the job......?

Don't worry - everthing worked like it was supposed to. All Quick Stop employees are secret agents for the Department of Homeland Security .

[rubberneck]

janet napolitano, Director of Department of Homeland Security is on the job......

If he was a white military veteran she would have called him a terrorist already.

[Utah Bob]

This isn't the terrorist you're looking for....
He can go now.

[Team Sergeant]

Guess what is "12 minutes" (3.2 miles) from this guys house in Reston Va. no connection I'm sure. ;)





UCF funded by Al Qaeda linked IIIT for Islamic chair "to promote Islamisation of knowlege" refuses to cancel Islamofacist event
March 10, 2006


University of Central Florida Slated To Become Cultural Jihad Hub

...Imam Dremali's Islamist-Fest Seen As Program's Debut...

By Beila Rabinowitz & William A. Mayer - E&P PipeLineNews.org

March 10, 2006 - Washington, DC - PipeLineNews.org -

On March 8 PipeLineNews.org correspondent Beila Rabinowitz broke a story University Of Central Florida Funding Islamist Da'wa Event which detailed how this publicly funded college was promoting and hosting a Muslim Da'Wa [conversion] seminar featuring noted radical Imams.

We have been in touch with UCF officials, including Kerry P. Welch who is the Director of Student Involvement at the campus, with the intent of making clear our concern that this event should not take place as scheduled on March 17.

We were informed by Mr. Welsh that the event will go forward regardless of the concerns of many organizations including the American Jewish Congress.

We have discovered that there is a reason for UCF's intransigence in this matter.

Our research shows that the college is looking to create - through a huge endowment by the IIIT [International Institute of Islamic] a Saudi group linked to al-Qaeda - an "Islamic Studies" chair which will in actuality serve to propagate Islamist intolerance throughout the Southeast.

IIIT's Terror Links

Anwar Ibrahim is a founder and director of the Muslim Brotherhood affiliated International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT), a think tank in Virginia that has alleged links to terrorism. IIIT's 2003 tax-exempt IRS filing lists a $720 donation to the al-Haramain Islamic Foundation of Ashland, Oregon, which was designated as a terrorist funding organization by the U.S. government in 2004. Among the Treasury Department's findings were that the Oregon branch of al-Haramain engaged in tax fraud, money laundering, supporting Chechen mujahideen affiliated with al Qaeda, and had "direct links between the U.S. branch and Usama bin Laden." In fact, many of al-Haramain's offices around the world were closed for supporting terrorism.

"There is more evidence of IIIT's links to terrorism. A few examples: according to court documents, in the early 1990s IIIT donated at least $50,000 to a think tank run by Sami al-Arian, the World Islamic and Study Enterprise (WISE), that served as a front group for Palestinian Islamic Jihad. IIIT is also named as a defendant in two class-action lawsuits brought by victims of the 9/11 attacks. One alleges that IIIT received the bulk of its operating expenses from the SAAR network, whose component groups are accused in another class-action suit of being "fronts for the sponsor of al Qaeda and international terror." The same suit lists IIIT as well as every officer of IIIT besides Anwar Ibrahim as a supporter of the SAAR network. This public information was available to SAIS, yet the school extended a fellowship to Ibrahim." - Source Link, Campus Watch

Not wanting to lose that funding UCF policy is being twisted to accommodate and explain away what can only be described as a troubling - March 17 "Returning to Our Rabb" [Lord] Muslim proselytizing - presence on the campus.
Background:

In February noted American Islamist apologist John Esposito, ended an address at UCF in this manner:


"...Esposito closed his speech with a reminder of the important role UCF and other universities around the country play in fostering the understanding of Islam that is crucial to its relationship with the West. He expressed optimism in UCF, noting that its growing international focus and interest in Middle Eastern studies is being noticed around the country...UCF must continue to build and develop programs offering dynamic curricula and study abroad opportunities in the Middle East and other Muslim countries, Esposito said. UCF also should bring others from the Muslim world to the campus to interact with students and faculty..." - Georgetown Professor: Wars, Repression, Media Helped Build Conflicts Between Islam, the West
Professor Esposito is closely linked to the International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT) which has been promoting the below referenced - "Al Ghazli Islam Studies Project." Esposito's Alwaheed Center at Georgetown University was funded by Saudi Wahhabist money - the same methodology apparently playing out at UCF.

Of this project IIIT states:


"...The International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT) will match donations to an endowment for a chair in Islamic studies at the University of Central Florida. The idea of an islamic studies chair is the initiative of a small group of community and university members under the auspices of Al-Ghazali Educational Foundation, LLC. This endowment seeks to bring a distinguished Islamic scholar to the University of Central Florida in the College of Arts and Sciences' Middle Eastern Studies Program.
Led by Imam Tariq Rasheed, Sr. Safia Ansari and Professor Husain Kassim, Al-Ghazali Educational Foundation's effort seeks to help establish chairs for Islamic studies at selected university campuses."

The IIIT mission statement shows that their agenda is indoctrination not education and that adding UCF would merely be one more trophy in the Wahhabist campaign.

From the IIIT website, in which announce that they are engaged in,


"Signing agreements of cooperation with various universities, research centers and academic institutions throughout the world to carry out activities of mutual interest...The International Institute of Islamic Thought is dedicated to the revival and reform of Islamic thought and its methodology in order to enable the Ummah to deal effectively with present challenges, and contribute to the progress of human civilization in ways that will give it a meaning and a direction derived from divine guidance. The realization of such a position will help the Ummah regain its intellectual and cultural identity and re-affirm its presence as a dynamic civilization. - Source Link, IIIT Website
In his response to our request to cancel the conference, the UCF Director of Student Involvement Kerry Welch replied that, "...freedom of speech is what makes this country great."

This is a twisted and cynical justification for holding an extremist Muslim conference. It is also transparent in that the primary consideration at this point seems to be avoiding any offense to the Wahhabis who might potentially endow UCF's Islamic Studies chair.

If the University of Central Florida carries through with the plan to accept funding from the IIIT, it will have made the decision that the University's "mutual interests" are with the supporters of terrorism and Islamofacism.

In that manner the University of Central Florida will be opting to become the "UCF - Ummah of Central Florida" joining the ranks of Jihad U [the University of South Florida] as a hub of terror.



http://www.militantislammonitor.org/article/id/1735

[Team Sergeant]

Funny how the International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT) is connected to a different attempted terrorist attack, on a military base just last year.......

I'm sure our boy who was planning an attack on a military base and that lived within walking distance of the International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT) had no connection to each other.

TS





Are There Lessons To Be Learned At USF?
By Bill West

Today, Ahmed Abdellatif Sherif Mohamed, an Egyptian student in Tampa, Florida, entered a guilty plea in Federal Court in Tampa to one count of providing material support to terrorists. The plea stems from the case wherein he and a cohort, Youssef Megahed, who is another student at the University of South Florida (USF) and whose charges are still pending, were stopped by Sheriff’s deputies near a US Naval facility in Charleston, South Carolina. During the traffic stop, their vehicle was found to contain explosives material and jihadist training materials on Mohamed’s computer. Mohamed’s plea relates to the circumstances of that traffic stop and what he told investigators were the purpose of those training materials...namely to assist terrorist fighters in their jihad against the “invaders,” who Mohamed identified as US military personnel in Muslim lands and those who assisted them.

Mohamed now awaits sentencing and faces up to fifteen years incarceration. Pursuant to prior media reports, Mohamed came to the US on a student visa to attend USF and had been arrested for as yet detailed charges in Egypt prior to coming to the United States. Seemingly, there may be some questions concerning the student visa issuance process related to Mohamed that hopefully the State Department and/or the Department of Homeland Security will one day answer.

Beyond that, Mohamed joins a growing list of Islamic terror-linked operatives who have also been connected with the University of South Florida. Those include former Professor Sami Al-Arian, who was a tenured computer engineering professor there and is now convicted of having provided support to the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ). It includes Al-Arian’s brother-in-law Mazen Al-Najjar who was deported after a multi-year legal battle that linked him to the PIJ. Al-Najjar was a part-time professor at USF, and worked there in violation of US immigration law. It includes Ramadan Shallah, the current chief of the PIJ who Al-Arian and Al-Najjar brought to the US to ostensibly work in their PIJ front organization in Tampa. Shallah worked for a while as a professor at USF...in violation of US immigration law. Indirectly, the list includes Fawaz Damra, the convicted and deported former imam of the Parma mosque in Cleveland, Ohio who lied on his naturalization forms about his support for PIJ and other radical Islamist organizations. Damra was involved with Al-Arian and Al-Najjar with their Tampa PIJ front organization that also happened to have a formal “research” working agreement with USF. The list includes Hussam Abujubarra, the similarly (like Damra) convicted and deported computer engineering professor at the University of Central Florida (UCF) who was convicted of lying in his own immigration proceedings. Abujubarra helped Al-Arian and Al-Najjar set up that Tampa PIJ front organization with links to USF. The list includes Bashir Nafi, a notable PIJ operative who, like Shallah, Al-Arian and Al-Najjar brought to the US with visa applications to work at their Tampa PIJ front organization affiliated with USF but who, in reality, wound up working at the northern Virginia International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT), the very “charity” under Federal investigation wherein Al-Arian was detained for contempt for refusing to testify about in Grand Jury proceedings. Nafi was deported in1996 for visa violations and, like Shallah and Al-Najjar, remains under Federal indictment in Tampa for Federal charges, though they remain at large since they are outside the US.

From the earliest days of the Al-Arian, et al investigation, various iterations of the USF Administration have claimed they have done all they can to cooperate with federal law enforcement authorities and to conduct all available internal audits and reviews to make certain the school is free from radical, terror-involved personnel and influences. University administrators are not counter-terrorism law enforcement personnel. There are, however, significant and strong administrative and legal inquiry procedures that remain available to State university and education officials when it is suspected that serious subversive activity is occurring on their campuses or being committed by their faculty or students. The cases of the suspects and defendants named above spanned a period of nearly fourteen overt years. That is a long time for a university to learn some tough lessons. The question is, has USF learned those lessons and has it really done all it can to resolve what some may call a substantial problem?

If the USF Administration cannot answer that question, maybe the Florida Attorney General or the Governor can.


June 18, 2008 04:54 PM Print

http://counterterrorismblog.org/2008/06/are_there_lessons_to_be_learne.php

[AngelsSix]

Let me get this straight: This AHole spends one year in the Navy before he disappears for 8 years. No one seems to concerned when he pops up with lots of guns and ammo now. I think there are some serious unanswered questions. First is, where the hell was this guy for 8 years that the Navy couldn't find him? Training camp, perhaps?:munchin

[greenberetTFS]

The more this s**t goes on and no one or nothing seems to be able to stop it....:mad: It's really just a matter of time before,well I think you know where I going with this..... :mad: When will we say enough is enough and start to get our country back on track again,what will it take?........... :mad: janet are you listening??????

Big Teddy :munchin

[Crue]

The list of what he actually was caught with on this link matches up with what my contacts in the NYPD are saying


they seized another Bushmaster .308-caliber semiautomatic rifle with a defaced serial number, a 37 mm Cobray grenade launcher, a second bulletproof vest, a Russian-made night vision scope, a police scanner, the maps and hundreds of rounds of .50-caliber and .308-caliber ammunition

http://abcnews.go.com/US/man-busted-massive-weapons-cache/story?id=9662593

[Ret10Echo]

First is, where the hell was this guy for 8 years that the Navy couldn't find him? Training camp, perhaps?:munchin


Working as a TSA screener.

Don't feel bad Navy, TSA couldn't find him either.

[Warrior-Mentor]

The list of what he actually was caught with on this link matches up with what my contacts in the NYPD are saying




http://abcnews.go.com/US/man-busted-massive-weapons-cache/story?id=9662593

Would be nice to know what locations he had maps of....

[Crue]

Maps were Fort Drum :

http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2010/01/virginia_man_facing_nj_federal.html

[The Reaper]

Would be nice to know what locations he had maps of....

As I understand it, Ft. Drum was one of the mapped bases.

I am sure that he has been Mirandized and lawyered up already.

TR

[Stras]

As I understand it, Ft. Drum was one of the mapped bases.

I am sure that he has been Mirandized and lawyered up already.

TR

Hell, he probably had tea at the white house on thurs.... as an honored guest.

[Buffalobob]

Glad the maps were not of Quantico. I have an F-class shoot tomorrow.