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| Clerk rings up New Jersey jihad jerks |
| 2007-05-13 |
| It all began on a frigid January day with 10 bearded Muslim men huddled in the parking lot of a Circuit City debating who would go inside to have a copy made of a tape showing them firing guns and praising jihad. Eventually, the group - who'd been seen standing outside earlier that January 2006 week - selected two men to go inside while the rest waited in the parking lot, an employee who was outside smoking at the time recalled. Once inside, the two men approached the television section of the electronics store where videos could be transferred to DVD and copies could be made. They handed the teenage clerk a mini-cassette tape from a camcorder and asked for a $20 transfer to be made to DVD. As they waited, the two men calmly walked around the store looking at televisions, video games and DVDs. What they didn't know was that they had sealed their ultimate fate. When the teen and another employee went into a back room and began the conversion of the tape, they saw a group of bearded men wearing "fundamentalist attire" and shooting "big, f-ing guns," the teen later told co-workers. Throughout the 90-minute-long tape, above the booming gunfire at a Pennsylvania target range, the jihadists could be heard screaming "God is great!" The two employees "freaked out," their co-worker recalled. At first, the teenage clerk didn't know what to do, his pal said. "Dude, I just saw some really weird s-," he frantically told his co-worker. "I don't know what to do. Should I call someone or is that being racist?" The fellow employee tried to calm his friend and told him that if what he saw terrified him so much, he should tell the police. The teen first consulted with a manager before making the 911 call. FBI agents got a copy of the tape from Circuit City, and went to the teen's house and interviewed him at length. That call to authorities set in motion a 16-month undercover investigation in which six of the men caught on tape chillingly discussing killing soldiers "in the name of Allah." As the FBI continued its investigation, the clerk - who has not been identified - quietly went about his life, his co-workers said. Then when news broke on Tuesday that federal authorities had arrested six foreign-born Muslims in the terror plot, the frightened teen decided to lay low - not coming to work or going to school until the situation blew over, his pals said. He was too terrified of reprisals to be interviewed by The Post yesterday. Authorities have charged five of the six men, Mohamad Shnewer, 22, Serdar Tatar, 23, and brothers Dritan Duka, 28, Shain Duka, 26, and Eljvir Duka 23, with conspiring to murder U.S. military personnel. A sixth man, Agron Abdullahu, 24, was charged with aiding and abetting the others. The feds, still investigating the plot, have said 10 men appeared on the firing-range DVD but that the six arrested men are the core group. Authorities believe the men were in the last stage of planning the attack. |
| Posted by:ryuge |
| #16 Why our government hasn't already banned CAIR and arrested all of its executive leadership is simply criminal. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2007-05-13 19:34 |
| #15 If the jihadi's through CAIR sue this kid, we need to create the biggest PAC ever and fund the Pacific Legal Foundation and others like it to defend them, and to declare legal war on every thing CAIR does or says. Literally drive them out of business with nuisance suits of every description. |
| Posted by: JustAboutEnough 2007-05-13 19:22 |
| #14 America wouldn't have as many of these problems if there weren't any Muslims living within our borders. Exactly how much strife, and I mean predictable and totally expectable set-your-watch-by-it strife, are Muslims going to have to cause here before we simply throw every one of them out of this country? Islam is wholly incompatible with Western civilization and constitutional law. The sooner this is recognized, the more quickly we can begin to save ourselves from this menace. I no longer have the least patience or tolerance for Islam. It is a Neanderthal creed that lacks any redeeming value and must be dismantled by force if necessary. Anyone with a brain knows that Islam will push things to the tipping point. It is only a matter of time and opportunity. We are idiots not to act pre-emptively. Any delay in doing so merely ups the death toll for Westerners and Muslims alike. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2007-05-13 19:09 |
| #13 The thing I do not get is why the didn't rip it themselves - the equipment isn't that costly, and you know people in the store will view the vid..? It seems more than stupidity. |
| Posted by: EvilPlot#198372658890 2007-05-13 18:58 |
| #12 The rattlesnake metaphor is not quite complete. More than being concerned about an annoyance suit from PETA, there is a very real risk that the federal government would initiate a case for killing an animal on the endangered species list. Just as all the turtle and tortoise species are considered at minimum threatened, I believe that all the rattlesnake species are also listed. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2007-05-13 17:51 |
| #11 OP and wxjames we all have the same fears and concerns for our Nation. It makes me damn proud to know that there are many like us who Love Country, believe in Duty to it and Honor those who gave all for it. Even these young American kids in the video store overcame years of mindless and wrong-headed brain-washing about race they were subjected to in school and thru TV programing. |
| Posted by: RD 2007-05-13 17:25 |
| #10 I could say a lot about this situation, the Minneapolis taxicab stupidity, CAIR, and 80% of all muslims, but I don't want to be banned for life! See, it's not just multiculturalism that's in play, it's the idea that criticizing muslims in a meaningful way isn't "nice". Frankly, the sooner we nuke the mme, the better off we'll be. |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2007-05-13 14:24 |
| #9 Woozle Elmeter2970 The Muslims in the US Berkeley Law school may be, on the average, less anti-American than the other attendees. |
| Posted by: mhw 2007-05-13 13:11 |
| #8 Let 'em bring their cases, hear 'em and then throw 'em out. Make 'em pay all defendant legal fees and court costs until every dollar we've sent to saudi for oil is right back here in America... |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2007-05-13 12:52 |
| #7 Lawyers = Legal terrorists. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2007-05-13 12:22 |
| #6 If we're smart we'll knock off every one of them before they become lawyers. (falsetto voice)Oh, but that would be doing something illegal, and we would never do anything illegal. Maybe if we opened a dialog. (/pittiful snark) |
| Posted by: wxjames 2007-05-13 11:45 |
| #5 There was an article in SF Chronicle some months ago noting the rise in Muslim admissions to UC Berkely Law School. One of the admittees was interviewed and divulged the intention of Muslims to take advantage of the US judicial system "in a positive way beneficial for Muslims". They intend to coopt and petrify our court system. All their idiot cases ought to be thrown out the first day of hearing. The common sense of the judges is all that will prevent this takeover. I'm very worried. Depending on the quality of these judges is like jumping off a building and thinking you can fly like Superman. |
| Posted by: Woozle Elmeter2970 2007-05-13 11:11 |
| #4 Well, after CAIR sues the living shit out of him and hounds him with legal trouble for years, virtually ruining his life, others will be even less likely to report similar discoveries. After the airport passengers get identified and sued that will add to the anxiety that muslims need to give them room to breath while they operate. |
| Posted by: bigjim-ky 2007-05-13 10:58 |
| #3 Imagine this scene: A man is cleaning out his garage, and has a shovel in his hand, when he moves some old boxes and discovers a coiled rattlesnake...which begins to rattle! Does the man... (a) kill the rattlesnake (realizing that even re-locating it will not ensure his family is safe) (b) think: "What will PETA think of me if I kill this innocent snake?" While I doubt any NORMAL human would think twice in this scenario, it troubles me deeply that the young clerk even CONSIDERED not exposing this nest of rattlesnakes! The Left has so infected the pysche of this country that some consider Political Correctness before Self-Preservation. The alarm blared on 9/11...and we hit "Snooze". The alarm is blaring... |
| Posted by: Justrand 2007-05-13 10:52 |
| #2 Yes, that caught my eyes too. Pretty much summarize the whole breakdown of our collective cultural immunitary system, doesn't it? |
| Posted by: anonymous5089 2007-05-13 10:28 |
| #1 Should I call someone or is that being racist? |
| Posted by: Thinemp Whimble 2007-05-13 10:13 |