Americans thought 'jihad must be waged,' Pakistani report says
December 11, 2009
Islamabad, Pakistan (CNN) -- Several American men arrested in Pakistan this week amid suspicion that they were plotting terrorist attacks planned to go to Afghanistan, a Pakistani police interrogation report said.
The report, dated Thursday, sheds more light on a case that led Pakistani police to arrest five Americans Wednesday at a home in Sargodha, a town about 120 miles south of Islamabad. The men will be transferred to Lahore, Pakistan, for security reasons, Interior Minister Rehman Malik told CNN on Friday.
The report carries details about the men and shows pictures of Internet sites, laptops, mobile phones, an iPod and an external hard drive seized by police.
"They had deep interest in the religion, and they were of the opinion that a jihad must be waged against the infidels for the atrocities committed by them against Muslims around the world," said the report, which refers to the five as college student.
The report focused on one of the suspects identified as Ahmed Abdullah Minni, a 20-year-old American born in Virginia. It said he regularly went online to watch attacks on the U.S. military in Afghanistan and that he left comments praising the actions. That caught the attention of militants, and he was eventually contacted by a person named Saifullah, the report says.
A Yahoo! e-mail account was set up so the men and militants could communicate, the report says. E-mails were never sent from the account, but people would leave messages in the draft folder and delete them after reading, the Pakistani police report said.
"This mode of communication enabled them to pass on messages without fear of interception by the FBI," it said.
The report said the suspects made a plan with Saifullah to go from Pakistan to Afghanistan. They gathered in Karachi and left for Hyderabad on December 1. They tried to hook up with two militant groups -- Jaish-e-Mohammed and the Jamaat ud Dawa -- but neither showed interest.
"They went to the madrassah (a Muslim school) of Jaish-e-Mohammad where they informed them about their desire for jihad. However, the management of the madrassah refused to keep them, and advised them to go to Jamaat-ud-Dawa Lahore," the report said. "Interestingly, the Jamat also refused to keep them as they could not provide a surety. Thus, they came along with their friend Umar Farooq to Sargodha."
The FBI said Pakistani authorities detained the men Wednesday. Four of them were said to have American passports. An FBI statement did not give further details and did not identify the men.
Pakistani authorities arrested five men Wednesday, and a sixth man -- the father of one of the five -- was arrested afterward, police said. Officials said the six men include three Pakistani-Americans, an Ethiopian-American, an Egyptian-American and an Eritrean-American.
Along with Minni, there were snapshots and brief profiles of only four others -- Umar Farooq, Aman Hassan Yemer, Waqar Hussain Khan and Ramy Zamzam -- all from the Washington D.C. area. The sixth man was Khalid Farouk, father of Umar, the report says.
Subira Farouk, the wife of Khalid and mother of Umar, told CNN Thursday that she and her husband had traveled to Pakistan to arrange a marriage for Umar, and to her surprise, her son had arrived in the country shortly afterward.
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What is interesting about this news brief, is not the arrest, it is not that a few men decided to go on jihad; it isn't even that they are American; although each of those issues is in itself worthy of consideration. What I believe to be interesting is why.
Why did five males (or six or however many) many born in the US (at least one is mentioned to have been born here) decide to go on a jihad against the country of their birth. They woke up one day and decided they wanted to die? Doubtful. They were at school and suddenly they had an epiphany and wanted to die? Doubtful. This desire to die is inspired, it comes out of something wholly evil, a desire to kill, a passion to die - and that is not rooted in the American system nor in our education system, which if anything is feminized and anti-aggression.
It came from their mosque(s), it came from their religious teachers, it came from their families (fathers), who instilled this insanity that death was a great reward in itself; and based upon that insanity they would proceed to kill and be killed to reach heaven and their 72 grapes (any interest in this grape theory is due to the Journal of Syriac Studies and an article published in it several years ago about Arabic and the language of the 7th century in Arabia, a variation of Arabic but not the exact same, and it is through the misunderstanding of that meaning that women and grapes are confused). In any case, it was their mosque, yet again, that filled their heads with the desire to die, to kill and in the end be killed while serving a cause they believe greater.
Recently in the Philippines more than 50 people were slaughtered like pigs. The media here do not report it very accurately, but I would suggest anyone interested look deeper into who it was that carried out those attacks. There have been many attacks in Indonesia, the Philippines, and Pakistan over the last decade of Christians being slaughtered; school girls beheaded on their way to school, a family slaughtered in their home, a school burned. There has been an ongoing attack against Christianity - not against THE WEST, but against Christianity.
The young men, who will at some point be killed either after a trial or in between, believe Islam is under attack from the West and they need to defend their faith.
There are many millions in the Islamic world who are truly enlightened, educated, and adroit at seeing through the lies and obfuscation of the evil in Islam; but there are millions more who believe the West is attacking Islam, and as a result of their mosques pushing and promoting the defense of their faith, they buy their tickets, occasionally with the help of their mosque) and fly off to murder, and be killed.
Yet the West is NOT attacking Islam. For that matter, I wouldn't use the term 'West' as our coalition is held together by fragments - the West does not want to continue with this war - they grew tired a few days after they started, and those who remain, have grown weary of the political judgment in Washington. In any event, the West is NOT attacking Islam. The West is, if truth be told, protecting Islam, saving it, from the evil within.
We are trying to root out those malicious foes of humanity who seek to deprive men and women of liberty and hope while offering them imprisonment and death. We are trying to root out the terrorists in their midst, to prevent those terrorists from co-opting the entire faith and gaining control through the forceful manumission of the peaceful beliefs held by the majority of Muslims.
Setting aside that vague argument, we are not waging a war of Christianity against Islam. While England is ostensibly a Christian nation, it's churches sit empty, its people tolerant and accepting of ideas and beliefs that go against everything taught and believed by Muslims going back to the Old Testament (Archbishop of Canterbury is the best example of this). They feign religiosity, but little more than show. The Australians - equal to the English. The Germans - Protestants - have never had a desire to spread Lutheranism since the 17th century. The United States - where religion is celebrated, as long as it is private, in your home, quiet, and doesn't bother anyone.
These fools would have us believe we are waging a religious war against them? A war we didn't once invoke religious ideas, nor suggest, imply, connote, or otherwise reference anything religious. Yet, these same monsters are slaughtering Christians and pagans around the globe - from Indonesia, Philippines, Sudan, Uganda, and to Egypt, and Afghanistan. They invoked religion each and every time they killed a Christian.
I would think it reasonable to provide them with their greatest fear that has never been - the war they so desire. Otherwise, Christians are dying, and the media and governments are pretending it is something it isn't and allowing the evil to spread.
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