Feds Arrest Would-be Terrorist Allegedly Planning to Attack Chicago-area Mall During Christmas Rush

[sabra]

http://abcnews.go.com/

Breaking News FEDS ARREST WOULD-BE TERRORIST ALLEGEDLY PLANNING TO ATTACK CHICAGO-AREA MALL DURING CHRISTMAS RUSH

more:

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=2710776&page=1

'Lone Wolf' Charged with Plotting Attack During Christmas Rush
Feds Arrest Would-Be Terrorist Allegedly Planning Attack in Chicago Suburbs

Dec. 8, 2006 — ABC News has learned a Chicago-area man has been charged with plotting a terrorist attack.

Sources say the man is accused of planning to use firearms and explosives to attack a specific mall in Rockford, Ill. The alleged plan was to target this mall during the holiday shopping season.

The suspect is being described as a "lone wolf" style terrorist and is not believed to have ties to any organized terrorist group.

Charges are expected to be formally announced in Chicago later today.

[onecent]

1. Here WE go again. Scarey Scarey!

[nebenaube]

2. a beer says that it's a freeper or a dominionist... n/t

[TexasLawyer]

12. in which case

we'll hear no more about it.

[DerBeppo]

24. Looks like you owe someone a beer. -nt-

[JackBeck]

3. Freepers up to no good yet again. n/t

[Ian David]

4. Just as Bush's approval rating hits an all-time low. How convenient and predictable.

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[stopbush]

5. Oh noooo! Maybe we should cancel seating that new D Congress in January!

We know that Rs are better on terra than Ds. Do we really want to turn the nation's safety over to a bunch of terra appeasers
at a time that the evil ones are ramping up their attacks?

:sarcasm:

[Webster Green]

6. Yeah, right.

Whatever.

[Ian David]

7. 'Lone Wolf' Charged with Plotting Attack During Christmas Rush

'Lone Wolf' Charged with Plotting Attack During Christmas Rush
Feds Arrest Would-Be Terrorist Allegedly Planning Attack in Chicago Suburbs

Dec. 8, 2006 — ABC News has learned a Chicago-area man has been charged with plotting a terrorist attack.

Sources say the man is accused of planning to use firearms and explosives to attack a specific mall in Rockford, Ill. The alleged plan was to target this mall during the holiday shopping season.

The suspect is being described as a "lone wolf" style terrorist and is not believed to have ties to any organized terrorist group.

Charges are expected to be formally announced in Chicago later today.

More:
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=2710776&page=1

What do you think his FreeRepublic screen name is?

[RaleighNCDUer]

21. Now, he's no freeper.

Freepers ban muslims, and this guy is being called a terrorist, ergo, he is a muslim.

Right?

[no_hypocrisy]

8. Why do they hate Christmas? n/t

[acmavm]

9. Sarcasm and scepticism are okay, up to a point. But there will

come a time where there will be a nasty incident. Or one will narrowly be avoided due to diligent work by those who are hired to protect us.

There are a lot of crazies out there. Lots of them. They seem to be multiplying. And Christmas is NOT bringing out the best in people, which is ironic.

We'll see.

[ShortnFiery]

49. And the people who often we can depend on to truly SERVE and PROTECT

are IMO, Our Local Police Forces, not the ham handed (with many bribed informants) FBI.

[Telly Savalas]

54. It's just that back in the day we didn't call people who did stuff like this "terrorists."

We called them "postal employees".

[XNASA]

10. Rockford is not considered 'Chicago Area' by anyone around here.

Really. Not only is the story pure bullshit, the headline isn't even close to being accurate.

Rockford is not, and never has been, part of Chicagoland.

[jbonkowski]

14. Seriously

I live an hour Northwest of Chicago proper, and Rockford is about another hour west of there.

Not even close to Chicago area.

jim

[Judi Lynn]

46. They're playing to the people who have no grasp at all! Saying "Chicago"

lends itself to the fantasy of mega-calamities, after all. So many more people in one place. Seems really scarey to those who don't know it's TWO HOURS away.

[lpbk2713]

18. Not to derail the thread, but ....

isn't that the mall where one of the chase scenes from the "Blues Brothers" was filmed?


Just wondering.

[XNASA]

20. Nope. That was Dixie Square Mall in Harvey.

Near 155th and Dixie Hwy (Western Avenue).

[frylock]

11. i'm guessing the absence of any reference to his religious ideology..

can only mean that he's white and christian.

[jbonkowski]

15. I'll bet he gets due process

But just because he's white and not a Muslim. Double standards now apply to our justice system, sadly.

jim

[Beetwasher]

16. Yup, If He Was Muslim They Would Highlight It

Since he's white, we won't see any pictures.

[Bitwit1234]

13. Note----terrorist was played up....

Then in the article it was "lone wolf". Which means it could have absolutely nothing to do with the terrorists and a disgruntled individual that wants to kill and get attention.....the media is still on bush's side.

[EFerrari]

50. Or, in his pay. Sometimes I have this suspicion that

there's a pricelist somewhere -- so much for a mention, so much for a paragraph, so much for a story.

:tinfoilhat:

[sinkingfeeling]

17. Maybe, it's one of O'Lielly's soldiers in the 'war on Christmas', planning to blow up

Santa and his reindeer.

[Parche]

19. TERRA TERRA TERRA

This has all the signs of an AL-KrisKringle plot.......................

[praeclarus]

22. since when does going postal = terrorist?...

... Is that new?

Dude is "lone wolf" and not tied to any organized group.
So just your average nutcase who decides to go shoot up
(school, place of employ, MacDonalds).

[0rganism]

23. if he had a political agenda he was trying to further, it might count

doesn't matter tho.

If announcing the crime as terrorism could potentially boost the president's influence, he's a terrorist.

[DerBeppo]

25. Looks like he's a Muslim.

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/1208061shareef1.html

[IA_Seth]

26. Lol, more devout words never spoken...

"I swear by Allah man, I'm down for it too, I'm down for the cause, I'm down to live for the cause and die for the cause, man."

courtesy of the smokinggun link above.

Lol, this dude is a crackpot.

[seriousstan]

27. Shopping Mall Terror Plot Foiled

Shopping Mall Terror Plot Foiled
FBI: Man planned "to disrupt Christmas" with "acts of jihad"
DECEMBER 8--An Illinois man plotted to set off hand grenades at a Chicago-area shopping mall in a holiday season terror campaign that was thwarted by federal investigators. According to an FBI affidavit, Derrick Shareef, 22, told a confidential source that he wanted to "commit violent acts of jihad," and spoke of killing judges and blowing up public buildings. A copy of the affidavit can be found below. Shareef told the snitch that he sought "to disrupt Christmas," adding that, "I swear by Allah man, I'm down for it too, I'm down for the cause, I'm down to live for the cause and die for the cause, man." The document does not further describe the supposed cause of Shareef, who was named today in a federal felony complaint. Shareef is quoted telling the FBI source, "I probably would have eventually ended up stabbing the shit outta some Jews or something. Just stabbing them niggers with a steak knife...Because during that war with Hezbollah, man, I had already started to look at synagogues out here..." In advance of a planned attack on a Rockford mall, Shareef prepared a martyr's videotape in which he let the "enemies of Islam" know that "the time for jihad is now." He added, "This is a warning to those who disbelieve, that we are here for you, and I am ready to give my life...May Allah protect me on this mission we conduct.
11 pages here....
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/1208061shareef1.html

Drudge Breaking.....with hotlinks


CHRISTMAS MALL TERROR ATTACK THWARTED: A 22-year-old Chicago man, Talib Abu Salam Ibn Shareef, has been charged with plotting a terrorist attack on a Rockford, Ill. mall during the holiday season. The suspect is accused of planning to set off 4 hand grenades at the CherryVale shopping mall. The suspect is described as an unaffiliated 'lone wolf-style terrorist' who wanted to commit 'violent jihad'. ... A press conference is forthcoming... Developing...

[Captain Hilts]

28. Targeting all those people following the Prez's orders to fight terrorism by going shopping. nt

[seriousstan]

31. It is Bush's fault I people are shopping for Christmas????

:tinfoilhat:

[Captain Hilts]

42. He told the US people to "go shopping" as a means to participate in the war effort. nt

[Ignacio Upton]

29. I would say this is a legitimate alert (election is over and nothing coming up until 2008)

Although I'm not as worried about lone wolves as I am organized terrorist cells, as lone wolves don't have the insight or money to plan attacks as well as organized groups.

[Katzenjammer]

41. I don't think so. This sounds like the prelude to another police-state increment.

This guy isn't a terrorist. At most he's a violent criminal, but probably really someone who's a little loosely wrapped. Terrorists have political goals.

[ShortnFiery]

53. The INFORMANT asked the TARGET if he *needed grenades.*

Could this investigation be any more pathetic? Read the transcript at The Smoking Gun Site and discover that the FBI INFORMANT planted all weaponry ideas save for the knife into their TARGET's mind.

Yes, please read the formal report to get a full realization how shoddy the FBI conducted this so called "Terrorist" investigation.

When they discovered that this "crazy man" did not have any connections, they should have placed him in custody for a Mental Health Evaluation vice waste all those resources nabbing a man who is potentially violent to others. :(

[Howardx]

30. is it derek or..

Talib Abu Salam Ibn Shareef? the latter sounds scarier is suppose. did he actually have 4 hand grenades? is this a total handjob?

[ShortnFiery]

32. I vote for the latter ...

In other words, we are being figuratively given a "total handjob." The FBI made it clear that they were "wise to" this guy from the first onset of his initial plans. Oh, how much would you like to bet that there's an informant who *fed him* all the steps so that our hapless FEDs can look competent during the Holidays? :eyes:

I have not read the specifics on this guy but it wouldn't surprise me, like the Miami dudes, he sold fake, knock off perfume at the malls and lived at home with his mother. :thumbsdown:

[seriousstan]

33. Did he have a knife or did you miss the part about stabbing people?

page 6 of the affidavit?

He procured 4 hand grenades and a 9mm handgun. He didn't know the hand grenades and ammo were non-functional. This maniac was going to carry through with his plan.

[ShortnFiery]

51. Yes, and I'd bet big money that the FBI bribed Informant "hooked him up"

but still, a knife is dangerous. And it was good BASIC police work to get this hate-filled and potentially violent man off of the streets. :applause:

[demnan]

34. I find something curious in this

his use of the phrase "them n_____" That's the kind of phrase you would imagine someone from the south using, not someone from a foreign country.

Oh well, "I hate Illinois Nazis" has been said before.

[seriousstan]

35. Where did you see it stated he was a foreigner?

He might just as easily be a jail house convert to Islam, originally from Illinois.

[Telly Savalas]

55. Despite the fact that the Right pretty much ignores them

White Supremicists who advocate violence deserve the term "terrorist" just as much as an al-Qaeda member.

[THUNDER HANDS]

60. you're sorely mistaken

if you think that only white southerns use the N word like that. Or only white people in general.

[ShortnFiery]

36. OMFG, the formal write up is a hoot!

Oh, you must go to the smoking gun and read this bunk, if for no other reason, peruse for B-rated entertainment value. :puke:

It's contrived and baits us (the 'Merican people) by using the horrid N-word as well as reflect that "the informant" was teamed with him the entire time.

Can we say entrapment? Our FBI must be at wit's end to use such tainted tactics (Informant as coach) so they can pass this CRAP-off (one crazy wannabe domestic terrorist) as a valid investigation much less one of quality. Pathetic. :( I've experienced better narratives listening to the Old Time Radio Series (1940s), "I was a Communist for the FBI." :rofl:

p.s. Hey there - agents Mary and Mike. This must be one useless and boring-assed way to earn a buck. ;)

[DerBeppo]

38. How was this entrapment?

Seems like a valid and likely threat was investigated over a long period of time and removed before he could carry out his plan. Nothing curious or strange about it.

[ShortnFiery]

48. It is clearly entrapment when you BRIBE a local (untrained) man

to function as an informant. These are not ever CLEAN investigations as, because he's getting paid big-bucks, the informant will feed the TARGET resources (by the FBI) and FEED lines to him. This is so clearly staged that yes, it's laughable.

Don't get me wrong, I'm glad that this ANGRY and potentially violent man is off of the streets. However, had he not had as a #1 buddy, the FBI informant, the target may not have been able to score hand grenades on his own. But he could do some damage with a knife so this is GOOD POLICE WORK. Gee, maybe we should start paying our FBI regular beat cop's pay? I see nothing special about this investigation that a third year city "task force" Police Officers could not accomplish. :shrug:

[Zewe]

52. yes

seems like to me

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[meegbear]

43. wow

does it matter??

[Zewe]

39. wow

was he gay??

[meegbear]

44. wow

does it matter??

[izzie]

40. I wish they would just call them anarchist like they used to.

We will now have to re-do the 'terrorist' thing all over.

[Zewe]

45. Baker/Hamilton

This sounds fishy to me,no doubt this was a set up to get the peoples minds of the Baker /Hamilton Comm.

[Tight_rope]

47. uhh humm!....n/t

[BrokenBeyondRepair]

56. BS

[DerBeppo]

57. How so? -nt-

[BrokenBeyondRepair]

58. a 22 yr old w/ stereo speakers is not a threat..

the whole story is BS and should have never made it to a national level..

on bright side.. maybe it will cause a few braindead consumers to stay home and save their $$$ instead of blowing it on useless material items

[DerBeppo]

59. That's what I figured...

Nothing is real except the warm glow of the monitor.