BREAKING! FEDS FOIL MUSLIM TERRORIST BOMB PLOT – NYC SYNAGOGUES TARGETED

Riverdale Jewish Center, Riverdale Temple targeted.

 

 

 

BREAKING: Feds Bust Bomb Plot Against Riverdale Temples; Rabbi Relieved
Stewart Ain, NY Jewish Week
(Posted 11:30 PM Wednesday, 5-20-2009)

Four men who planted what they believed were bombs outside two Riverdale synagogues Wednesday night were arrested before they could escape, police announced in a late night press conference.

All four men were also charged with attempting to use antiaircraft missiles to shoot down military planes at a military base in Newburgh, N.Y. They were charged with conspiracy to use weapons of mass destruction in the United States and conspiracy to acquire and use anti-aircraft missiles.

Authorities said a federal agent had infiltrated the group and that the FBI -- which had the men under surveillance for a year -- arrested them in their car before they could flee the scene.

Rabbi Judith Lewis, spiritual leader of the Riverdale Temple, one of the two targeted synagogues, said she was in the synagogue Wednesday evening attending several meetings and was unaware of the drama unfolding outside.

"I was inside the sanctuary until 8:30 and when I went to the lobby I saw two men," she said. "I was about to ask them to leave when they identified themselves as police officers. They said police action was taking place and they asked us to leave through the back of the building."

She said the officers carried a picture of a suspect they said they had arrested.

"It seemed very well planned like they knew every last detail [of what was happening]," Rabbi Lewis said of the police.

Authorities said the group, which they identified as "home grown terrorists," had also planted "bombs" around the Riverdale Jewish Center about three blocks away. And they said the men had also placed "bombs" under cars parked in front of the Riverdale Temple and had planned to detonate them by remote control.

The "bombs," in fact, were fake devices that were constructed in the lab by FBI technicians.

Authorities said the men were angry over the U.S. war in Afghanistan and had voiced hatred of Jews. All were born in the United States. The alleged ringleader is the son of an Afghan immigrant and the other three are reportedly jailhouse converts to Islam.

Rep. Peter King (R-Long Island) told CNN that the suspects were associated with a mosque in upstate Newburgh.

Rabbi Lewis said she was "relieved" to learn that authorities had the men in their sights all along.

"The police clearly did their job efficiently and graciously and really kept everyone calm," she said. "They made sure there was no panic on the part of everyone in the vicinity."

This was the second attack on synagogues in Riverdale in the last several years. The Conservative Synagogue of Riverdale was attacked with Molotov cocktails by Islamic extremists. The bombs struck the front door and extinguished itself, causing minimal damage.

The alleged ringleader was identified by authorities as James Cromitie. The other three were identified as David Williams, Onta Williams and Laguerre Payen, all of Newburgh, in Orange County.

The AP report:

APNewsBreak: 4 arrested in plot to bomb NYC temple
By TOM McELROY – 11 minutes ago

NEW YORK (AP) — The FBI arrested four men Wednesday in what authorities called a plot to detonate a bomb outside a Jewish temple and to shoot military planes with guided missiles.

Officials told The Associated Press the arrests came after a long-running undercover operation that began in Newburgh, N.Y., about 70 miles north of New York City.

James Cromitie, David Williams, Onta Williams and Laguerre Payen, all of Newburgh, were charged with conspiracy to use weapons of mass destruction within the United States and conspiracy to acquire and use anti-aircraft missiles, the U.S. attorney's office said.

The men had planned to detonate a car with plastic explosives outside a temple in the Bronx neighborhood of Riverdale and to shoot military planes at the New York Air National Guard base at Stewart Airport in Newburgh with Stinger surface-to-air guided missiles, authorities said.

The defendants planned to "destroy a synagogue and a Jewish community center with C-4 plastic explosives," Acting U.S. Attorney Lev L. Dassin said.

The religious targets were the Riverdale Temple, founded in 1947, and the Riverdale Jewish Center, authorities said.

In their efforts to acquire weapons, the defendants dealt with an informant acting under law enforcement supervision, authorities said. The FBI and other agencies monitored the men and provided an inactive missile and inert C-4 to the informant for the defendants, a federal complaint said.

The investigation had been under way for about a year.

In June 2008, the informant met Cromitie in Newburgh and Cromitie complained that his parents had lived in Afghanistan and he was upset about the war there and that many Muslim people were being killed in Afghanistan and Pakistan by U.S. military forces, officials said.

Cromitie also expressed an interest in doing "something to America," they said in the complaint.

In October 2008, the informant began meeting with the defendants at a Newburgh house equipped with concealed video and audio equipment, the complaint said.

Beginning in April 2009, the four men selected the synagogue and the community center they intended to hit, it said. They also conducted surveillance of military planes at the Air National Guard Base, it said.

Rep. Peter King, the senior Republican on the House Homeland Security Committee, was briefed on the case following the arrests.

"This was a long, well-planned investigation, and it shows how real the threat is from homegrown terrorists," said King, of New York.

Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., said if there can be any good news out of this case it's that "the group was relatively unsophisticated, penetrated early and not connected to any outside group."

The defendants, all arrested in New York City, were expected to appear in federal court in suburban White Plains on Thursday.

They were jailed Wednesday night and couldn't be contacted for comment. The FBI didn't immediately return a telephone message Wednesday night seeking information on whether the men had lawyers.

Associated Press writer Devlin Barrett contributed to this report from Washington, D.C.

Comments

[Dr. dave]

Reform, MO, Hareidi. We all looked the same to the Nazis and we all look the same to the muslims.

[A. Nuran]

Ayup.

[Jerome Soller]

What I find most troubling is that the mainstream press refuses to identify the terrorists as Muslims, who met and were motivated by their ties to extremist Islamic groups in the US, which are directly or indirectly funded by middle eastern countries. The press is more concerned with portraying Islamic extremists as victims of discrimination, pushing their political agenda, and sugarcoating radical Islam's promotion of violence as being morally equivalent to Jewish ethics.

[Aharon Varady]

J.S.: Or maybe news sources simply don't want to tar all Muslims as closet anti-Semites (which they aren't, btw).

[Ben]

Not identifying this guys as muslims, driven by muslim extrimist ideology is a travesty. Until the source of hatred is identified there can be no cure.

Quran should be must read by all the Westerners. It is clear that Jews and Christians and other "infidels" are targeted by this book, whether we want to believe it or not.

[J.J. from Good Times]

When Ukranian anti-Semites attacked Jews in the old country Shmarya had the "perfect explanation" how big bad Jews deserved it and had it coming.

Surely it's even easier to explain away a little indiscretion by African-Americans of all people. We need to understand their perspective since they came to this country as slaves and Shmarya no doubt has information on their mistreatment by orthodox Jews.

[J.J. from Good Times]

http://media-newswire.com/release_1091711.html

The 2009 resumed session of the Committee on Non-Governmental Organizations ( NGOs )

Institute of Noahide Code – 7 Laws for 70 Nations, a national organization based in the United States that follows the teachings of Lubavitcher Rabbi M.M. Schneerson, which encourage the practice of the Seven Laws of Noah. The representatives of China and Egypt had further questions about the organization’s activities and the lack of information in its application form;

[Isa]

Arrested are:James Cromitie, David Williams, Onta Williams and Laguerre Payen
Hmmmm ,home grown terrorists? Because these are not typical Islamic or Arab names

[Yochanan Lavie]

Isa: They're jailhouse converts. I agree with the other posters that the Islamic angle is the only motivation and cannot be downplayed. If they were neo-nazis, that fact would not be downplayed. Not all Muzzies are haters, but a disproportionate amount of anti-Semities are Muzzies. But it's the religion of peace...

[J.J. from Good Times]

http://www.crainsnewyork.com/article/20090520/FREE/905209985

May 20, 2009 12:28 PM

7 NYers busted in Craigslist prostitution ring

The defendants each face a maximum 25 years in prison if convicted.

Those being held are: Scott "Sal" Rosenberg, 45, who posted bail Wednesday and was released;

Messers. Rosenberg and Davenport are accused of being the operations co-owners; the others are accused of being bookers.

[Ben]

JJ I don't understand relevance of your post to the discussion at hand. You seem to try to divert this thread by any means possible. Why?

[Shmarya]

>>>What I find most troubling is that the mainstream press refuses to identify the terrorists as Muslims, who met and were motivated by their ties to extremist Islamic groups in the US…<<<

Really?

What about this?

>>>Rep. Peter King (R-Long Island) told CNN that the suspects were associated with a mosque in upstate Newburgh.<<<

Past that, the arrests were made last night. No one has many details yet. You can't blame the press for not reporting WHAT THE GOVERNMENT ITSELF HAS NOT YET ALLEGED.

[J.J. from Good Times]

Ben, you need to get a sense of humor. The perp has the same name as the blog master.

[Yochanan Lavie]

Proud Mullah (apologies to Tina Turner, et al):

I left a good mosque in the country
Working for the mullah every night and day
And I never lost one minute of sleeping
Worrying 'bout slaughtering infidels

Big crescent keep on turning
Proud mullah keep on burning
And we're rolling, rolling
Rolling on to Riverdale

Cleaned a lot of plates in prison
Pumped a lot of water down in Gitmo
But I never saw the good side of the dhimmis
Till I hitched a ride on a 767

Big crescent keep on turning
Proud mullah keep on burning
And we're rolling, rolling
Rolling on to Riverdale

If you come down to Riverdale
I bet you gonna find some people who kill
You dont have to worry if you got no money
Terrorist jihadis just do it for thrills

Big crescent keep on turning
Proud mullah keep on burning
And we're rolling, rolling
Rolling on to Riverdale

[Dr. Dave]

Thank G-d for the FBI

[Office of the Chief Rabbi]

First heard Creedence, YL, do this when I was living in that very same Newburgh. [City Motto: Founded by the Dutch in 1609, and going downhill ever since].
Tina certainly did one fine job!

[Yochanan Lavie]

Thanks, OCR. I guess Newburgh is a Dutch treat.

[Anonomyous]

They all look like our president, whats wrong with this picture!?

[itchiemayer]

anonomyous - I disagree. They don't look half white to me.

[Jerome Soller]

Thank you, Shmarya, for unintentionally supporting my position on mainstream media bias.

You provide a quote from Jewish week.

>>>Rep. Peter King (R-Long Island) told CNN that the suspects were associated with a mosque in upstate Newburgh.<<<

By design (in my opinion), the two main articles on CNN web sites were edited to not mention the words, "mosque" "Muslim", and "Islam". Yesterday, there was an article on the CNN web site that mentioned that the perpetrators sympathized with Muslims in Iraq (did not identify the perpetrators as Muslim). However, I can not find that article today on any CNN site. While Peter King may have told CNN information about the suspects affiliation with a mosque, CNN has chosen not to include that information in the two main articles (they may be others hidden away) on their web site. In summary, they knew information, but they have chosen not to include in their web-based articles.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/05/21/ny.bomb.plot/index.html?iref=newssearch

http://cnnwire.blogs.cnn.com/2009/05/20/four-arrested-in-alleged-synagogue-bomb-plot/

Again, my point is not to paint the majority of Muslims in the US as terrorists. Most US Muslims are law abiding citizens. However, in this case, CNN has chosen to leave out pertinent information. If the perpetrators were neo-nazis that belonged to the "World Church of the Creator", CNN would definitely prominantly mention that fact.

[itchiemayer]

kind of like those riots in France last year. The media kept referring to the hoodlums as "French youths". What they didn't say was that those youths were not named Pierre and Michel, but rather Mohammud and Abdul. Political correctness is a contributing factor to the continued demise of this once great nation. While there are certainly a majority of Muslims that are not terrorists, I reckon that there are more Islamo-fascist terrorists in the world today than Jews. If even 1% of Muslims are terrorists, do you realize how many millions that is?

[MisterApikoros]

They're actually Algerian, like most French criminals.

[Reb Doniel]

The rov of the RJC, Jonathan Rosenblatt, actually opened up his shul to an Indonesian Muslim foreign exchange atudent last year- check it out on Vos Iz Neias.

Many are speculating that maybe this student tipped off her co-religionists.

[Chicago Samson]

Information about Muslim attacks are deliberately suppressed in the media; the gov't wants everyone to believe that there are no Muslim terrorists in our country, right? Well, not quite. For those of us who read newspapers, we know a different story.

Years ago, when I first read about a San Francisco motorist who deliberately drove into lots of people and murdered at least one, critically injuring many others and ending in front of the Jewish Community Center (JCC), I wondered what the man's name was. Was it a Muslim name?

Yes, it was: Omeed Aziz Popal, an Afghani Muslim. The reason given by his relatives for his attempt at mass murder of non-Muslims: He was upset over the start of his stressful arranged Islamic marriage. "Religion of Peace" displaying yet more "Peace." Hate of American Infidel victims had nothing to do with it, right? That's why he drove far from his home in Fremont to the San Francisco JCC.

It's not surprising that he turned out to be a Muslim, because Popal's method isn't new, in terms of Islamic terrorism in America.

Gee, maybe with anger-management therapy, Popal might eventually get over his problem, right?

In fact, it's the third such incident of Islamic Terror by Auto in the last year. You've heard of "Driving While Black," and the alleged "Flying While Arab"? Welcome to Living/Walking While Infidel (or trying to live, anyway).

In March, Mohammed Reza Taheri-Azar, an Iranian Muslim--inspired by Allah and hatred for America--purposely drove his Jeep into students at the University of North Carolina.

And in December, Ali R. Warrayat, a Palestinian Jordanian Muslim, drove his car into a Home Depot in Arizona, for the purpose of mass destruction of the store and those in it. He wanted to set the place ablaze. He, too, inspired by his anger toward America and his Koran in his trunk.

And then, there are the other incidents of Dr. Wameeth Fadhli, a Muslim medical doctor in Texas, who did a drive-by, "random" shooting of a bicyclist (tip from Sue Bob's Diary). A Muslim in Baltimore, Mujtaba Rabbani Jabbar, shooting and murdering a Jewish guy at a movie theater. A Pakistani Muslim, Naveed Haq, in Seattle shooting women at the Jewish Federation, murdering one.

But these are all lone, random guys. And all of them just happen to be "mentally unstable" Muslims who deliberately target non-Muslims. Right, Neil Cavuto? The latest one ended, by "coincidence," at the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco, where he mowed over two people--7 are now critically injured, one dead. But it and the Seattle incident and the Baltimore incident (and the bombing of the Hebrew University of Baltimore before that) have nothing to do with Islamic anti-Semitism.

[itchiemayer]

Chitown Samsonite - I couldn't have said it better myself, brother.

[Chicago Samson]

Thanks Ichie, in another year this story will be almost competely forgotten; as the Muslim terrorists become increasingly more emboldened, their methods will eventually become more sensational and dangerous.

Ichie, I think we have an idiot in the White House.

[Yonah]

I first read about this on The Huffington Post. The story didn't trouble me as much as the comments... 80% of them seemed to think the whole thing was orchestrated by the government and/or Israel to shore up sympathy and make people give up their rights, and the remaining 20% were the "all Muslims are terrorists" types. That is some scary business...

[Ben]

In Europe, where islamization reached further stages then here in US we can observe next stage of Islamization, which features increased rape of non-muslim women and kufir no go zones. Norway and Denmark have now much higher rape rates then the US. Great majority of rapes are done by Muslims. This is just another stage in Islamic Jihad. The goal is to make infidels feel "utterly subdued" (as required by Quran of course).

[itchiemayer]

Chitown - I totally agree with the idiot in the White House comment. He would rather worry about the Islamo-fascist terrorists "rights" over the safety of the countrymen he swore to protect and defend. He even said in his most recent press conference that even if he knew there was an imminent threat to this nation, he would not use advanced interrogative methods to get information, even though in same conference he admitted it could mean getting information more quickly. Listen up, everyone - this man is a threat to our safety. By the way, so he is against waterboarding that sheik mohammud in order to possibly save thousands of American lives, yet he ordered the killing of those Pirates. Look, I'm all for the killing of Pirates (not the Manny Sanguillen type), but isn't he a bit hypocritical. He can murder the Pirates to save a life or two, but can't waterboard to try to save thousands. Are you freaking kidding me? It is not moral to waterboard a terrorist to save thousands of lives? Really, are you liberals freaking kidding me? The man is an ultra liberal, bordering on socialist, idiot. He is a stumbling, bumbling fool, and he is definitely not qualified to be our President. His resume is thin, thin, thin. Moreover, for a guy who claims transparancy, he can't even provide his college records or a legitimate birth certificate. I know many of you will say the birth certifate is a non-issue. I think it is an issue, but even discounting that, argue the logic in what this man does. He throws out the constitution, bankruptcy laws, politicizes the census. This guy is a power hungry, arrogant, narcissist. He gave the queen an ipod with his speeches on it. If that is not narcissistic, what the hell is? In spite of all this, I'm sure many of you are still drinking the kool-aid. Let me give you a clue, it's poison!

[omg]

Thanks for the run-down, Chicago Samson. It sure is infuriating.
We never retaliated at them when we should have. We are afraid of them. They decapitate on You Tube. They have traumatized the globe. To a certain degree this is true. So that is why the press doesn't use the words that ID them, as they are afraid, as our government is afraid.
Obama is the laughing stock of that Venezuelan, and who he thinks he is?? The rest of the world see right through him, as a big zero, but here, in the USofA, here they didn't see right through him, here he became a hero overnight. Well, he's coming down fast.
I pray that things get better.

[Yochanan Lavie]

Come on fellas! It's the religion of peace, and our president is a genius (/sarcasm).

[Yochanan Lavie]

Europe became Islamicized, but first it became secularized. The Euros no longer thought Judaeo-Christian civilization was worth defending.

[Yochanan Lavie]

Jihad Train (apologies: Yusuf Islam):

Now I've been holy lately, thinking about the Jihad to come
And I believe it could be, something bloody has begun

Oh I've been scowling lately, dreaming about the world as dar Islam
And I believe it could be, next day it's going to come

'Cause out from the heart of darkness, there rides a jihad train
Oh jihad train trash this country, come take me Hajj again

Now I've been killing lately, thinking about the bad things to come
And I believe in Allah, something evil has begun

Oh nuke bombs sounding louder
Launched from jihad train
Come on jihad train
Yes, jihad train holy roller

Everyone jump upon the infidels
Come on now jihads train

Get your suicide belts
together, go bring your martyrs too
'Cause it's getting nearer, it soon will blow up you
Now come and join the dying, get 72 virgins, too
Paradise is getting nearer, soon it will all be true

Now I've been crying lately, thinking about the world full of Jews
Why must we go on living, why can't we die in bliss

'Cause out from the heart of darkness, there rides a jihad train
Oh jihad train, I want 72 raisins, come take me home again

[Office of the Chief Rabbi]

YL: Yusuf Islam reminds me of the Cheech and Chong truth: "I was all messed up on drugs, then I found the Lord. Now I'm all messed up on the Lord."

Not drugs like Jimi or Janis, not suicide like Phil, but a death of the soul. A waste of great talent. Contra, say, Andy Statman who went frum, plays frum music, but still plays in this world. Saw him with Bela Fleck some months back.

שבת שלום

[Chicago Samson]

++Europe became Islamicized, but first it became secularized. The Euros no longer thought Judaeo-Christian civilization was worth defending.++

In a cultural and religious vacuum like you have in Europe, the arithmetic becomes obvious: something--even if that "something" happens to be Jihadist Islam--always fills the space of nothing.

[Yochanan Lavie]

CS: Those who stand for nothing will fall for anything.(I forgot the attribution).

Nature abhors a vacuum (Aristotle).

OCR: rock on! Shabbat shalom.

[Chicago Samson]

Ichie and the gang, thanks but there is a solution: decent Muslims must do a better job policing their own communities. It's that plain and simple. Fatwas condemning this kind of violence is essential, for to be silent is to be complicit. Unfortunately, the vast majority of mosques refuse to take this kind of stance.

In Semitic cultures, the idea of corporate responsibility is a common belief; communities are responsible for the sins of its members; this idea runs like a stream of consciousness in the Bible as well, but I believe this mindset exists in the Koran as well. The scourge of Islamic terrorism will not go away until Muslims start taking more of an active role in eradicating its presence. Honestly, I would feel the same if it were Jews blowing themselves up in the name of YHWH, but fortunately, with the exception of Baruch Goldstein and his ilk, Jews generally don't commit acts of terrorism--unless they have abandoned their faith and have accepted leftist ideologies such as Communism or anarchism, or other fringe organizations that are sociopathic in nature.

[itchiemayer]

So I'm waiting for you Obama apologists to defend him...nu, I'm waiting...

[Shmarya]

So I'm waiting for you Obama apologists to defend him...nu, I'm waiting...

Defend him from what?

[itchiemayer]

varios comments above - chitown sam, omg, myself...

[Shmarya]

I don't see anything that Obama needs to apologize for.

[itchiemayer]

so you are asking the U.S. to fight a war differently than we ever have before. I say this because sometimes we have to do what we have to do..we always have, and that is how we became this great nation. Chairmain Obama wants us to play like sissies, when we never have prior. Killing the pirates is justified, but not waterboarding sheik Mohammud? Really? And when Obama said that this advanced interrogation methods have helped our enemies recruitment efforts, I say that is a load of crap. 1993 attack at WTC, and then again in 2001, not to mention many other islamo fascist terror attacks which happened prior to the waterboarding, proves their recruiting efforts were just fine anyway. It is a lame argument. They salivate at the mouth at the thought of cutting our heads off. Again, our lives are endangered because he has a perverted sense of what is moral and what is not moral.
During the first year after the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act was introduced in mid-1995, many opponents of the bill, such as NARAL's Kate Michelman and syndicated columnist Ellen Goodman, insisted that anesthesia given to the mother painlessly kills the babies before they are pulled feet-first from the womb and stabbed through the back of the skull. But in congressional testimony in 1996 -- virtually ignored by the news media -- this myth was emphatically refuted by the heads of the two major professional societies of anesthesiologists. Other experts testified that the babies are alive and fully capable of experiencing great pain during a partial-birth abortion. Well, in your chaiman's world, this is moral. Also, in his world, advanced interrogative methods on the Sheik are immoral. Again, his sense of morality is perverted. His beliefs put all of us in more danger each and every day. Sometimes the USA needs to play dirty. We have always done it, when necessary, and none of us would be as free as we are today if we didn't. Obama and his supporters want to change the way we operate during times of war, thus endangering our freedom. I'm an american citizen and I would like to think that my President considers my safety, and the safety of all Americans a high level priority. Obama clearly does not consider it such a top priority. He would rather go around the world apologizing for how horrible he thinks our country has been. He's a world class idiot. And I haven't even started on Michelle, with that world class sized chip on her shoulder.

[Chicago Samson]

Ichie,

Obama was not responsible for what happened in Riverdale, but if you think he was, I would like to know your thoughts on this matter ...