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The Patriot Act At Work

Here’s two recent events that have occurred in the Sacramento area that has my antenna going back and forth.

First, lets go back to the “Ice Cream Man” Terror Cell in Lodi. Apparently, there was a “mole”, or a government agent or informant at work in the mosque since 2002. Gosh, imagine that!

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“The man, who called himself Nasim Khan, was a government mole, they believe, an informer whose surreptitious tape recordings of one of the suspects are at the heart of the federal probe.”
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“In his three years in Lodi, Khan -- who spoke fluent Pashto, Urdu and English -- forged deep ties in the Muslim community. He once lived in one of two apartments that overlook Lodi's mosque, helped set up a Web site for a Muslim school”
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"Little is known about Khan's background, his connection to the government or how he became involved with Muslims in Lodi. Efforts by The Chronicle to reach him have been unsuccessful. An Oregon woman who shared a post office box with him said she did not know him, describing him as a friend of a friend who needed a place to receive mail. She declined to comment further."
(Note: Oregon? Shared PO Box?. hmmmm )
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“Moreover, his actions provide a look at one of the ways the government has been searching out Islamic extremists since Sept. 11, 2001. Some experts say such surveillance is critical to the war on terror, while critics say it violates people's freedom to practice their religion.”
(Note: wait for it...)
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"Hamid Hayat, who like his father is a U.S. citizen, was arrested June 5 after returning on May 29 from a long trip to Pakistan. According to an FBI affidavit, Hamid and Umer Hayat first denied to federal agents that Hamid Hayat had attended an al Qaeda-sponsored training camp in Pakistan but later admitted it.
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According to the affidavit, Hamid Hayat told agents he attended the camp for six months in 2003 and 2004, was trained how to "kill Americans" and chose to return to the United States to carry out an attack. Federal authorities have said they have no evidence of a specific plot."

(Note: Now, In light of that fact, you can see how asinine the previous text about violating peoples “freedom to practice their religion”. It’s a good thing were fighting Radical Islam and not Cannibals or the leftists would find themselves justifying the eating of human flesh as just another "faith tradition". )

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"An FBI informant named Khalid Ibrahim Mostafa was a key witness in an investigation of seven Portland residents accused in 2002 of conspiring to join the Taliban in Afghanistan and fight against U.S. troops after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. All but one pleaded guilty, and the seventh was killed by Pakistani troops in 2003, authorities said. "

(Note: Now the Oregon Connection becomes clearer!)
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"Mostafa, an Egyptian-born mechanic, became an informant to avoid being charged in an unrelated case, according to the Oregonian. The newspaper reported that Mostafa presented himself as a fanatical Taliban supporter to targets of the Portland probe. In an interview with the newspaper, Mostafa said he did his patriotic duty."

"When an informant goes in and talks about jihad, and that you will be at the hand of Muhammad, and rattles sabers and builds up the religious fervor, to me that's a form of entrapment -- but legally it's not," John Ransom, a Portland attorney who represented one of the defendants who pleaded guilty in that case, told The Chronicle".

(Note: Portland and Sacramento are probably the bluest of the “blue “ when it comes to leftist ideas and voting patterns, but Im sure there’s no connection between this and the Lodi Cell and Portland Cells. I respect Mr. Mostafa for doing his duty. Funny how all the press is on a woman in Texas helping the very people that Mr. Mostafa did his duty to stop. )

Now, lets look at this:

From KXTV( A Local Sacramento TV Station):

"FBI SWAT teams swept into two Sacramento neighborhoods and a Rancho Cordova apartment complex Thursday morning and arrested two ex-convicts on weapons charges in what one suspect's wife said was a terrorism investigation.

The FBI says the Sacramento men, Richard James Pulley, Jr., 32, and Alan Richard Ferger, 29, were arrested without incident. Three firearms were seized at Pulley's residence. It's illegal for felons to possess firearms.

Pulley's wife said agents raided their home on 53rd Avenue at 7 a.m. They seized the guns, a computer and several boxes of items, she said. They took her and her 1-year-old daughter out of the house and began questioning the woman about terrorism.

"There's no terrorism," said Pulley's wife, Sofiyyah Mateen. "I was telling them that, and they were trying to switch my words around. And they're asking about cells, terrorist cells, and what attack they're planning. There's no attack."

FBI SWAT teams worked over a couple of former Inmates of Folsom State Prison

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At first I thought, “Richard James Pulley, Jr, Alan Richard Ferger”. Probably just a couple of meth heads with “born to lose” tattoos on their arms, and then I thought - “Sofiyyah”, that’s an interesting name for the wife of a crackhead ex-felon to have. Sure enough at the very end of the story, something very interesting gets revealed:

“Mateen said she believes her husband and his friend were targeted because they are Muslim. Pulley goes by the name Khaliq Abdul Assalam. Ferger is also Muslim and goes by the name Amin Khaleel. "I think it's because we're Muslim," Mateen said. "They're just harassing us."”

So lets do a little “data shifting” and pattern recognition to see if the story becomes a little clearer:

Khaliq Abdul Assalam – age 32
Amin Khaleel – age 29

Recently incarcerated in Folsom Prison, just 10 miles from their current domicile of Rancho Cordova and just 10 miles from the State Capital and just 30 miles from Lodi.

Think of the California Prison System as the biggest terror training camp in the western hemisphere, and you wont be half wrong.

They seized the guns, a computer and several boxes of items from Khaliq Abdul Assalam. The wife was continually questioned about terrorism, not the meth trade, not passing bad checks, not half a dozen other things that ex-felons get involved with, they go right for the “Big T”. I notice that computers are gathered at each location, including a relatives house which was also raided. Thats some seatch warrant you boys got there...

Ferger( Read as Khaliq Abdul Assalam) is charged with being a felon in possession of a firearm. In state court documents, an undercover officer alleges Ferger (Khaliq Abdul Assalam) sold him a semi-automatic handgun and "bragged he could get weapons all the time."

( Note: An undercover officer – assigned to watch Khaliq Abdul Assalam closely enough to get him to sell him a weapon. It looks to me like someones got your number Khaliq. )

( Oh, and I just had to laugh when Sofiyyah Mateen explains that the guns are really hers. Sure they are honey, sure they are..)

So, the Hard Work continues. For those that say we "arent any safer", I have to say its not because nothing is happening and the government isnt doing anything, its because such a high percentage of our own population seems to want to give aid and comfort to the very people who want to kill us.

Lead, Follow or get the hell out of the way....

Posted @ August 28, 2005 12:23 PM | Current Affairs

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