In reading a lot of Conceal Carry books, its often mentioned that in Israel the first terrorist attacks against the Jews were mass-shootings, until Israel requested their citizens to carry concealed weapons, then the terrorists switched to the bomb and rocket attacks that are more familiar to us. Well this seems like a similar idea.
Al-Qaida urged Muslims in western countries to weld deadly steel blades to SUV vehicles and then plough into civilian crowds, in the second edition of the group’s online English-language magazine…In an article titled “The Ultimate Mowing Machine”, illustrated with a picture of an imposing civilian Ford four-by-four truck, the group suggests arming the vehicle as a spiked battering ram and targeting crowded areas.
I don’t know how they’ll conceal the ride getting to the crowd, but you can’t say driving it through a street fair, or a farmer’s market, or a line waiting to get into an event.
See we need to focus on “Gun Death” rather than violent crime, because while you’re working your ass off banning guns, a terrorist in a blade-studded F-150 will decapitate you and disembowel your kids!
NICE!
h/t Cueball
“What round for Ram?”
.357 Magnum will crack an engine block, right?
I think it was .44 Magnum, but only from a Blued Model 29 with target sights.
Oh right. The target sights make the bullet go faster, I forgot.
I was thinking more on who the gun belongs to
http://tinyurl.com/2wkeq9z
(yeah, that’s Harry Callahan’s Badge and Gun in my grubby mitts!)
So Osama Bin Laden finally saw Ben-Hur?
Well I suspect he was dead long before these guys thought up the idea. I was thinking more of D&D Siege engines.
Maybe they were War Crack players
http://www.wowwiki.com/Siege_weapon
But terrorism doesn’t happen here, right?
Smadi, a Jordanian national, was arrested Sept. 24, 2009, after federal officials said he parked what he thought was a car bomb in a garage under the 60-story Fountain Place building in downtown Dallas. Once he was a safe distance away, Smadi dialed a cellphone that he thought would detonate the explosive device. The bomb, which had been provided by undercover FBI agents posing as an al Qaeda sleeper cell, was inert.
http://www.star-telegram.com/2010/10/19/2560585/would-be-dallas-bomber-gets-24.html#ixzz12uZmfGuj
One person who wanted to cause mayhem in what amounts to my city. How many people would it take to initiate a “Mumbai Style” attack in Fort Worth, Arlington — Oh wait, I remember something about Arlington.
A prominent Islamic scholar who has battled accusations of extremist beliefs has been arrested along with his wife on federal charges that they married other people to get U.S. citizenship….
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Arlington imam, wife accused of marriage fraud
12:00 AM CDT on Tuesday, October 19, 2010
By JASON TRAHAN / The Dallas Morning News
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A prominent Islamic scholar who has battled accusations of extremist beliefs has been arrested along with his wife on federal charges that they married other people to get U.S. citizenship.
Ibrahim Abdelrahman Dremali and Safaa Rashad Eissa were arrested by immigration agents, Arlington police and the FBI on Oct. 6 on a warrant out of Des Moines, Iowa. They were released on their own recognizance after appearing before a federal judge in Fort Worth the same day.
They are scheduled to enter pleas Nov. 12 in Iowa on charges of conspiracy to defraud the United States, which can carry a five-year sentence, and procurement of citizenship or naturalization unlawfully, which can result in 10 to 25 years in prison.
Dremali, who earned degrees in geology and Islamic law in Cairo, immigrated to the U.S. in 1989 and has served as an imam, or Muslim spiritual leader, in south Florida, Iowa and Austin and worked at Islamic schools.
This summer, he and his wife moved to a house on Virginia Lane near the Islamic Society of Arlington, where he helped lead a local Islamic school.
“They’re a very nice family,” said Guy Snodgrass, who owns the home the couple rents and is mayor pro tem of Dalworthington Gardens. “Having to go through all this, it has to be hard for his wife and two young children.”
Delayed by illness
Reached by phone this past week in Arlington, Dremali said he was too sick to talk. He was originally supposed to report to court Wednesday in Des Moines. His attorney, Alfredo Parrish, sought a delay because doctors treating Dremali, who has hepatitis C and is awaiting a liver transplant at Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas, said he cannot travel.
Parrish declined to talk about the marriage fraud allegations or accusations that his client is an extremist. “I don’t think it’s appropriate to comment on what’s taken place in the past,” he said.
He also declined to elaborate on meetings he has had with federal prosecutors in Manhattan about Dremali and whether they result in additional charges.
Saeda Aljurf, director of the Madinah Academy early child development center, which is affiliated with the Islamic Society of Arlington, said Dremali had made a positive impression in the more than two years he has been consulting at their school. “He’s really inspired the children here.”
She said he is not an extremist. “I’ve heard his lecture,” she said. “I haven’t heard him speaking out against the United States. We all love this country, and we’re against anybody who would say anything bad. We all live here.”
The U.S. attorney’s office in Des Moines declined to discuss the case against Dremali and his wife.
After Dremali emigrated to the U.S., he co-founded the Islamic Center of Boca Raton in 1998. In 2000, the Gaza native, participated in a pro-Palestinian rally in Miami that featured the burning of Israeli flags and a mock funeral for Palestinians killed in the Israeli conflict. According to a published report, Dremali told the crowd “not to be sad for those who were martyred, and to not be afraid to die for what they believe in.”
After the 9/11 terrorist attacks, Dremali denied making the statement amid criticism from conservative bloggers about his role in the rally and other associations.
http://www.txcn.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/localnews/tv/stories/DN-imam_19met.ART0.State.Edition1.332e825.html
Guess things can happen in my city after all. Be it with a suicide vest, a car bomb or inflammatory words to incite a riot; we have to be ready to defend ourselves. Just ask the people in Mumbai India if they would prefer to have been armed or not when the terrorists were running wild in their streets.
Sorry about that, the copy and paste picked up more then I expected.
Actually I thought it was Brilliant. Links to Cars.com in an article about a car bomb? What would have been better was also an ad for a wireless carrier.
You know when I got my new Droid 2 phone they didn’t do a background check on me. Cellphone Loophole, anybody?
Autoshow Loophole?