- Media reports on the Boston terror arrest have named three individuals as conspirators in the plot to machine gun people in shopping malls and kill American officials.Two, Daniel Maldonado and Tareq Mehanna, are in custody. The third, however, Ahmad Abousamra, escaped to Syria after being questioned by the FBI in 2006.
- According to the complaint, it was Abousamra who introduced Maldonado and Mehanna to each other during an afternoon of watching “jihad videos” in which Islamic terrorists killed and mutilated American soldiers.
- Abousamra seems to be the most extremist of the three, as well as the one most educated in radical Islamist ideology. According to the criminal complaint:
“Abousamra expressed his belief that suicide bombings were permissible. … Abousamra found justification for his position in the religious writings of Muslim extremists. Abousamra justified attacks on civilians, such as the September 11, 2001 attacks. Abousamra stated that civilians were not innocent because they paid taxes to support the government and because they were Kufar (non-believers). … Abousamra always justified their extremist views by citing Islamic teachings.”
- Ahmad Abousamra is the oldest son of Abdul-Badi Abousamra, former vice president of the Boston branch of the Muslim American Society, which operates the largest Islamic center in the Northeast. The MAS has branches in 34 cities within 23 states.
- The Muslim American Society, according to Federal prosecutors, “was founded as the overt arm of the Muslim Brotherhood in America.” The Muslim Brotherhood is considered to be the first truly modern Islamic supremacist movement. As such, it has spawned or aided most of the Islamic terrorist organizations functioning around the globe today, including Al Qaeda, Hamas, and Lashkar-e-Taibah.
- In December of 2006, Abdul-Badi Abousamra suddenly left Boston and moved to Detroit, just weeks after his son was questioned by the FBI.
- In the 1990s, Abdul-Badi Abousamra became the president of the Islamic Center of New England (ICNE).
- In 1998, Abdul-Badi Abousamra hired Hafiz Mohammed Masood as a new Imam at the Islamic Center of New England. At that time, Hafiz Masood was in the United States illegally.
- By 1999, Abdul-Badi had also become president of the Islamic Academy of New England (IANE), a parochial school run by the ICNE. (He is still listed as the school’s president in filings with the MA Secretary of State.) By then, Hafiz Masood was teaching classes at IANE.
- Hafiz Mohammed Masood has since been deported for filing a fraudulent religious worker visa sponsored by the ICNE.
- Hafiz Mohammed Masood is the brother of Hafiz Saeed, the founder of Lashkar-e-Taibah (LeT). Lashkar-e-Taibah is the terrorist group responsible for the 2008 Mumbai massacre, carried out by machine gun wielding LeT terrorists against civilians in the city’s public places.
- After the Mumbai massacre, The Times of India reported that Hafiz Masood was, while in his role as Imam at the Islamic Center of New England, promoting extremism, raising funds, and recruiting for LeT.
- LeT was the first terrorist group, according to the criminal complaint, which Abousamra contacted when he decided to seek terrorist training.
- Abdul-Badi himself is briefly mentioned in the Mehanna criminal complaint:
“Confidential Witness 2 asked if Abousamra told his father, to which Mehanna responded: “You don’t tell your parents, ‘I’m going to fight jihad,’ … you just tell them ‘I’m leaving.’”… [Abousamra] would have told where they [Abousamra and Mehanna] went and people made their own deductions.”
FOR MORE, CHECK OUT MISS KELLY’S EXCELLENT ORIGINAL REPORTING ON THE BOSTON TERROR PLOTS HERE.
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