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Bronx Terror Suspects Found Guilty On 30 Of 32 Counts

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Suspect James Cromitie being escorted by police last year (AP)
A federal jury has found the four men accused of plotting to blow up synagogues in Riverdale, as well as shoot down military planes in Newburgh, guilty on 30 of 32 counts. James Cromitie, David Williams, Onta Williams, and Laguerre Payen, whose lawyers argued that a government informant entrapped them, face up to life in prison—sentencing is next March. U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said, "Homegrown terrorism is a serious threat, and today’s convictions affirm our commitment to do everything we can to protect against it. The defendants in this case agreed to plant bombs and use missiles they thought were very real weapons of terrorism."

The four men were arrested in May 2009, and prosecutors characterized Cromitie as an anti-Semite and said the group wanted to use heat-seeking air missiles in their schemes. Their defenders insisted that they were coerced by an aggressive government informant and noted that Cromitie had doubts about the plot. Their lawyers said they would appeal the ruling.

According to the Post, after the judge excused the jury, David Williams' aunt exclaimed, There's no f--king justice." She also told the Times, "This case should have never happened. You come in to a small isolated urban community to do your wickedness. We have been used and nobody cares."

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  • The barbary pirates! Now you're just babbling. The reality is, I/P is the reason we we're attacked on 911. (cited quotes below...)

    The reality is the foundation of Israel has been a brutal occupation from the beginning. A giant war crime, packaged into biblical proportion, that even 60 years later you can’t acknowledge in the USA. I cant acknowledge reality cause it'd be offensive to a religion? Please.

    How much longer is this farce going to go on for?



    http://www.representativepress.org/Motivesfor911.html

    "We swore that America wouldn't live in security until we live it truly in Palestine . This showed the reality of America, which puts Israel's interest above its own people's interest. America won't get out of this crisis until it gets out of the Arabian Peninsula , and until it stops its support of Israel." -Osama bin Laden, October 2001

    "For over half a century, Muslims in Palestine have been slaughtered and assaulted and robbed of their honor and of their property. Their houses have been blasted, their crops destroyed. And the strange thing is that any act on their part to avenge themselves or to lift the injustice befalling them causes great agitation in the United Nations which hastens to call for an emergency meeting only to convict the victim and to censure the wronged and the tyrannized whose children have been killed and whose crops have been destroyed and whose farms have been pulverized " - Osama bin Laden May 1998

    "Your position against Muslims in Palestine is despicable and disgraceful. America has no shame. ... We believe that the worst thieves in the world today and the worst terrorists are the Americans. Nothing could stop you except perhaps retaliation in kind. We do not have to differentiate between military or civilian. As far as we are concerned, they are all targets, and this is what the fatwah says ... . The fatwah is general (comprehensive) and it includes all those who participate in, or help the Jewish occupiers in killing Muslims. " - Osama bin Laden May 1998



  • JackoPaidOffVictims

    Islamic terrorism was in existence long before 1948.

    The Arab pogroms against Jewish civilians in 1920, 1921, and the Hebron Massacre in 1929 all occurred prior to "occupation". The Jews of Hebron had lived there continuously for thousands of years. It was the first ethnic cleansing of the Holy Land in the 20th century. These attacks were incited by the Palestinian Nazi war criminal Haj-Amin al-Husseini who was allied with Hitler and directly involved in the Holocaust. The next ethnic cleansing was of Jews from Jerusalem by Jordanian forces during the illegal occupation from 1948-1967.

    Israel WILL ALWAYS EXIST. The San Remo conference guaranteed this. No amount of lies and propaganda from a muslim terrorists named bin laden, arafat, abbas or nasrallah will change that.

    Jews were being attacked by Arab Muslims before Israel's Independence in 1948. Terrorism preceded occupation and this is a fact you cannot refute. Between 1948-1967, there were thousands of Arab attacks on Jews which resulted in thousands of murders and injuries. The Palestinians honor these murderous thugs today by naming schools & streets after them.

    Barry Rubin analyzed every statement made by the "World Islamic Front for Combat Against the Jews and Crusaders", Al-Qaeda's original name, between 1994-2002. Fewer than 10% mentioned Israel. The statements mentioned the anger of US military bases "on Muslim land" in Saudi Arabia as well as their ultimate goal of; the desire to establish an Islamic caliphate.

    http://www.brookscole.com/earthscience_d/templates/student_resources/0030339669_salter/news_updates/alqaeda.html

  • JackoPaidOffVictims

    ALLOW ME TO SHUT YOU UP:

    Who are the founding fathers of Palestine? I'll give you $25,000 cash if you can accurately tell me who the founders of Arab "Palestine" were.

    I can name the founders of America, Israel, and other countries, but NOBODY has ever been able to answer that question I've asked.

  • before I answer that incredibly important question, I need to see the money.

    tonight Max Blumenthal is giving a talk about palestine, why dont you meet me there.. its from 7:00pm - 9:30pm, Room 102, 19 University Place.

  • nik13

    Those militant Mormons again!

  • homeland security has a 50 billion dollar budget. you have all this money coming in, but the 19 people who did attack you are already dead...the few hundred other people who might have attacked us are also dead, in Gitmo or cant get visas.

    what do you do?

    we all gotta justify our existence somehow...so you entrap a few people here...enlarge the definition of terrorist to encompass all muslims or person not wearing a flag on their lapel...before you know it...you've got more terrorists than you know what to do with..

    I dont know about you, but I dont feel safer.

  • JackoPaidOffVictims

    I would like to personally thank everyone on that jury. Non-Muslims feel safer.

    New Yorkers feel safer.

    Of course 'nakbanut' doesn't feel safer, she's constantly apologizing for Islamic terrorists and blaming the Jews. Just like the Pakistani woman terrorist who was also convicted this summer. You're one of them, cause you sure as hell are not one of us (If you support the enemy you are the enemy)

    Stop apologizing for the evil murderers that have committed over 16,000 terrorist attacks in the name of Islam since 9/11/2001. You mentioned 19 Muslim hijackers.... do you know why there were exactly 19 ? It happens to be the most mystical number in Islam, much like 12 in Christianity or 18 in Judaism!

  • You define critical thinking as supporting the enemy.

    lets think critically...

    Why do the terrorists say they are attacking us?

    Our involvement in I/P. Thats what they say. Thats not what the US govt and media say, but thats what the people attacking us say.

    Now of course, anyone who attacks 'us' no matter what their motives should be branded a 'terrorist', tracked down and brought to justice....

    but what about stopping future terrorist attacks?

    the fact that the motives of the terrorists are ignored...the fact that US politicians are falling over themselves to support what amounts to a colony...that paints a clear picture that stopping terrorism is not the goal.

    Now you maybe okay with that, but I'm not. I'm not okay with being asked shoulder the burden of fighting terrorism, without even being given a truthful answer of WHY we were attacked. If that makes me an enemy in your eyes, so be it.

    mondoweiss dot net

  • JackoPaidOffVictims

    You said: "Our involvement in I/P. Thats what they say."

    Who is they? The Muslim conspiracy theorists that falsely claimed no Jews died at the WTC ? (nearly 400 of those murdered on 9/11 were Jewish)

    According to investigative reports that analyzed ALL statements & memos from top Al-Qaeda terrorists between 1994-2002 Israel was mentioned less than 10% of the time. The reason we were attacked was entirely due to US bases in Saudi Arabia, financial support of the Saudis, and passages in the Koran. The majority (15) of the Islamic terrorists were Saudis. In 1993, Palis & Egyptians were absolutely involved in the WTC bombing and later convicted, but not in 2001.

    Do you ask what motives pedophiles have? Do you ask about the motives of the KKK? NO? Then why care for the M.O. of Islamic terrorists like Hamas and others who viciously murder people in Israel, Egypt, Lebanon, India, Pakistan, Russia, Indonesia, Philippines, Spain, U.K., U.S.A. and other nations?

    The reason they attack us can be FOUND IN THE KORAN. Why do Muslims mention Jews a dozen times a day in their prayers? The funny thing is that Israel is mentioned several times in the Koran, but Palestine is NEVER mentioned and surely not Jerusalem.

    Jews have been the majority population in Jerusalem, Israel since 1854! That has not changed in over 150 years! So explain how that is a colony...

    In 1948, Robert F. Kennedy reported on the fact that 500,000 Arabs from surrounding areas moved INTO Israel between 1932-1944 due to the better living conditions created by Jewish progress.

    Try picking up a book like "Power, Faith, and Fantasy" which is filled with facts, instead of getting half-truths and outright lies from a blog dedicated to demonizing Israelis.

    "They" (Muslims) were attacking Americans and 'infidels' back in the 1700's and 1800's. Ever hear of the Barbary Coast? What was their motive then? You speak of "colonies" yet refuse to acknowledge the historical ties and Jewish communities (Hebron, Jerusalem) that have had continuous presence on the land going back more than 3,000 years. You might actually learn something like this:

    George Perkins Marsh, Elwood Mead (Lake Mead was named for him), and Mark Twain all wrote about the dilapidated state of the Holy Land which was due to Arab indifference to the land and over-grazing. Their writings echo these photos:

    http://www.eretzyisroel.org/~dhershkowitz/

    Jews purchased land in modern-day Israel from the wealthiest Arab families, such as the Nashashibis, Husseinis and others. Haj-Amin al-Husseini was a Palestinian Arab Nazi war criminal who was allied with Hitler & directly involved in the Holocaust!

    He was also AIDS victim Yasser Arafat's uncle, Arafat's real name was:

    Mohammed Yasser Abdel Rahman Abdel Raouf Arafat al-Qudwa al-Husseini

    Your obsession with hating Israel is clearly warping your mind!

  • JackoPaidOffVictims

    You said: "Our involvement in I/P. Thats what they say."

    Who is they? The Muslim conspiracy theorists that falsely claimed no Jews died at the WTC ? (nearly 400 of those murdered on 9/11 were Jewish)

    According to investigative reports that analyzed ALL statements & memos from top Al-Qaeda terrorists between 1994-2002 Israel was mentioned less than 10% of the time. The reason we were attacked was entirely due to US bases in Saudi Arabia, financial support of the Saudis, and passages in the Koran. The majority (15) of the Islamic terrorists were Saudis. In 1993, Palis & Egyptians were absolutely involved in the WTC bombing and later convicted, but not in 2001.

    Do you ask what motives pedophiles have? Do you ask about the motives of the KKK? NO? Then why care for the M.O. of Islamic terrorists like Hamas and others who viciously murder people in Israel, Egypt, Lebanon, India, Pakistan, Russia, Indonesia, Philippines, Spain, U.K., U.S.A. and other nations?

    The reason they attack us can be FOUND IN THE KORAN. Why do Muslims mention Jews a dozen times a day in their prayers? The funny thing is that Israel is mentioned several times in the Koran, but Palestine is NEVER mentioned and surely not Jerusalem.

    Jews have been the majority population in Jerusalem, Israel since 1854! That has not changed in over 150 years! So explain how that is a colony...

    In 1948, Robert F. Kennedy reported on the fact that 500,000 Arabs from surrounding areas moved INTO Israel between 1932-1944 due to the better living conditions created by Jewish progress.

    Try picking up a book like "Power, Faith, and Fantasy" which is filled with facts, instead of getting half-truths and outright lies from a blog dedicated to demonizing Israelis.

    "They" (Muslims) were attacking Americans and 'infidels' back in the 1700's and 1800's. Ever hear of the Barbary Coast? What was their motive then? You speak of "colonies" yet refuse to acknowledge the historical ties and Jewish communities (Hebron, Jerusalem) that have had continuous presence on the land going back more than 3,000 years. You might actually learn something like this:

    George Perkins Marsh, Elwood Mead (Lake Mead was named for him), and Mark Twain all wrote about the dilapidated state of the Holy Land which was due to Arab indifference to the land and over-grazing. Their writings echo these photos:

    http://www.eretzyisroel.org/~dhershkowitz/

    Jews purchased land in modern-day Israel from the wealthiest Arab families, such as the Nashashibis, Husseinis and others. Haj-Amin al-Husseini was a Palestinian Arab Nazi war criminal who was allied with Hitler & directly involved in the Holocaust!

    He was also AIDS victim Yasser Arafat's uncle, Arafat's real name was:

    Mohammed Yasser Abdel Rahman Abdel Raouf Arafat al-Qudwa al-Husseini

    Your obsession with hating Israel is clearly warping your mind!

  • dgeee

    The evil murderers are zionists and supporters of AIPAC.

  • CR

    Not exactly a surprising response coming from you.

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