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Monday, October 18, 2010 12:21 PM
AURAPTOR
America loves a winner!
Quote: 4 are found guilty in NYC synagogue bomb plot case From Christina Romano, CNN October 18, 2010 4:31 p.m. EDT New York (CNN) -- Four men were found guilty Monday of planning to bomb a synagogue and Jewish center in New York City and plotting to shoot military planes with missiles. James Cromitie, David Williams, Onta Williams and Laguerre Payen -- all from Newburgh, New York -- were charged with conspiring to blow up a synagogue and Jewish community center in the Riverdale section of Bronx, New York. They were also accused of planning to fire surface-to-air-missiles at the New York Air National Guard Base at Stewart Airport in Newburgh, New York.....
Quote: NY Synagogue Bomb Plotters Convicted on 30 of 32 Counts Updated: Monday, 18 Oct 2010, 4:01 PM EDT Published : Monday, 18 Oct 2010, 4:01 PM EDT By Bruce Golding (New York Post) - A jury found four Muslim converts guilty Monday on 30 of 32 counts in the May 2009 plot to bomb two Riverdale, N.Y., synagogues and shoot down military aircraft. Prosecutors had accused James Cromitie of hatching the scheme with a paid FBI informant he met at a mosque in Newburgh, N.Y. They also said Cromitie recruited his three co-defendants -- David Williams, Onta Williams and Laguerre Payen -- to fire heat-seeking missiles at cargo planes at Stewart Air National Guard Base in Newburgh.
Monday, October 18, 2010 1:15 PM
KPO
Sometimes you own the libs. Sometimes, the libs own you.
Monday, October 18, 2010 1:16 PM
KANEMAN
Monday, October 18, 2010 1:40 PM
WHOZIT
Monday, October 18, 2010 1:46 PM
CHRISISALL
Quote:Originally posted by AURaptor: Wait a minute...what's missing from this story ?
Monday, October 18, 2010 1:52 PM
Quote:Comedy Ceneral: Where comedy went to die.
Monday, October 18, 2010 2:41 PM
Quote:Originally posted by chrisisall: Look AU, I dislike all organized religions. But to pin all of the world's troubles on any ONE of them is... foolish need to identify enemies. Nuts find a WAY to make themselves feel better about their nutty-ness; that's all it is. Bipedo-terrorists... The laughing Chrisisall
Monday, October 18, 2010 2:56 PM
DREAMTROVE
Monday, October 18, 2010 3:02 PM
Quote:Originally posted by AURaptor: Foolish need to identify enemies ? Surely, you can't be serious Listen up, Sissy. These weren't just some poor foreign brown folks, who live in a 3rd world country, far far away. They CONVERTED to the religion of peace. Which religion was that ? Buddhism ? Oh, wait...they are kinda peaceful, after all. Let's see.. what was it then... oh, I know, from the story - ISLAM! But the POINT of my little thread here is to show you that - yes, there IS a bias in the media, and that bias is to withhold information, to craft the news, so as to slant the story so that the public doesn't fully understand what is going on here. It wouldn't be very PC, you see. And this is what TRULY grates on me. Who didn't " connect the dots " before 9/11 ? Oh, easy...that was Bush. Just Bush, only Bush, no one else BUT Bush. So, when we have terrorist warnings in Europe ( again ) and the Eiffel Tower has been evacuated - twice now - there's the Major Malfunction Muslim at Ft Hood, and these clowns trying to buy big boy , military grade munitions to kill as many civilians as they can.... those look like pretty darn big dots to me. It's only hysteria and hatred when there's a Dem in the White House, but otherwise, it's " connecting the dots" . I really do tire at it all. The double standard, then intentional act of playing dumb and excuse making, and the PC mind set that so many have, simply because it rocks their sensibilities to think bad thoughts about others. When those others are overtly trying to kill you, after shouting about how they want to kill you.....it's o.k. to say bad things about them. Really. it's fine.
Monday, October 18, 2010 6:26 PM
Tuesday, October 19, 2010 7:56 AM
Quote:Originally posted by AURaptor: what did you disagree with, in particular?
Tuesday, October 19, 2010 8:09 AM
Tuesday, October 19, 2010 8:11 AM
STORYMARK
Quote:Originally posted by kpo: Quote:Comedy Ceneral: Where comedy went to die. If conservatives think they can do a better political comedy show than the Daily Show, I'd love to see it...
Tuesday, October 19, 2010 8:18 AM
Quote:Originally posted by kaneman: And, if dumbisall can't see that radical islam is behind 87.4% of the world's trouble... dumbasall is really stupid.... or a liar.
Tuesday, October 19, 2010 9:22 AM
Quote: Of course... you don't get it, do you?
Tuesday, October 19, 2010 9:36 AM
Quote:Originally posted by chrisisall: Quote:Originally posted by kaneman: And, if dumbisall can't see that radical islam is behind 87.4% of the world's trouble... dumbasall is really stupid.... or a liar. 87.4%, eh? Somehow, being called "dumbasall" by an idiot doesn't seem to bug me... The laughing Chrisisall
Tuesday, October 19, 2010 9:45 AM
KWICKO
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." -- William Casey, Reagan's presidential campaign manager & CIA Director (from first staff meeting in 1981)
Tuesday, October 19, 2010 9:46 AM
Tuesday, October 19, 2010 9:56 AM
Quote:Originally posted by Kwicko: Quote:Originally posted by chrisisall: Quote:Originally posted by kaneman: And, if dumbisall can't see that radical islam is behind 87.4% of the world's trouble... dumbasall is really stupid.... or a liar. 87.4%, eh? Somehow, being called "dumbasall" by an idiot doesn't seem to bug me... The laughing Chrisisall Brian Kilmeade says KKKaney is lying. According to Kilmeade, all terrorists are Muslim. 100% of them. The modern definition of "socialist" is anyone who's winning an argument against a tea-bagger. AURaptor's Greatest Hits: Friday, September 24, 2010 I hate Obama's America. You're damn right about that. Friday, May 28, 2010 - 18:26 To President Obama: Mr. President, you're a god damn, mother fucking liar. Fuck you, you cock sucking community activist piece of shit. ... go fuck yourself, Mr. President.
Tuesday, October 19, 2010 9:58 AM
Quote:Originally posted by Kwicko: .... and more to an Anthrax attack that his administration never did solve.
Tuesday, October 19, 2010 10:45 AM
Tuesday, October 19, 2010 10:53 AM
Tuesday, October 19, 2010 11:07 AM
Quote:Originally posted by AURaptor: This has no more to do w/ 'occupation' than blaming the Jews for the ills of post WW 1 Germany. You're sadly falling for the phony excuses, and classically ignoring all the other NON Mid-East violence by Muslims, around the world. ( Palestine was never a country, btw ) Kudos to the Buddhists. They're a shining example for us all.
Tuesday, October 19, 2010 11:11 AM
Tuesday, October 19, 2010 11:26 AM
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Tuesday, October 19, 2010 11:48 AM
NIKI2
Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...
Quote:The two discussed possible targets including bridges, community centers and cafes. Upon returning home to Newburgh, surveillance at Hussein's rented house recorded a conversation where Cromitie said, "I think it's time we make jihad right here in America, something like that has to be done." In another taped conversation, Cromitie said he hated "those Jewish bastards" and suggested hitting an unnamed Brooklyn synagogue. He then went on to say, "I've got to come up with something...I've got to come up with a plan, I just want to make one big noise."
Quote:Three Muslim men accused of trying to blow up two New York City synagogues and shoot down military planes were denied bail on Friday by a U.S. judge. But U.S. District Judge Colleen McMahon said prosecutors had exaggerated the case against the men who were arrested in an FBI sting operation and had no connections to international terrorist organizations.
Quote:The informant helped make hundreds of hours of surveillance tapes that were played at the trial. The defense argued the government entrapped their clients. The trial had come perilously close to a mistrial. The judge last week let the jury continue deliberations with just 11 members after one said she could not reach a fair verdict after mistakenly seeing a report of transcribed FBI wiretaps. It featured a video demonstration of a car being blown to bits by the same type of bombs the Muslim converts allegedly thought they were deploying against the synagogues last year. The 22-second video dramatically demonstrated the Mazda 626 being reduced to smithereens in a huge orange fireball that sent shards of metal hurtling through the air. Cromitie was portrayed as someone who “hated Jews and Jewish people," a government informant testified. He also "hated the American soldiers and the American government," Shahed Hussain told jurors. "He was full of hateful against those subjects," the Pakistani immigrant said.
Quote:”defense lawyers accused the FBI informant of distorting the truth to win favor with the feds and avoid being deported. Defense lawyers also argued the informant had to continue to throw money at Cromitie and the men he recruited...and that nothing would have been possible without the FBI informant providing bombs and missiles. But the government countered that these men practiced with what they thought were real anti-aircraft missiles...”
Quote:The trial featured 13 days of testimony by undercover informant Shahed Hussain, who met Cromitie at a mosque north of New York City. Prosecutors also relied on hundreds of hours of video and audiotape of the men discussing the scheme at the informant's home, handling fake weapons — even praying together. The film director, lawyers said, was Hussain — a 53-year-old Pakistani immigrant they sought to portray as a master manipulator who entrapped a crew of aimless nobodies. They also argued he would do anything to win the government's favor and escape serious punishment in a separate fraud case. The FBI assigned Hussain in 2008 to infiltrate a mosque in Newburgh, about an hour north of New York. After meeting Cromitie, he told him he was a representative of a Pakistani terror organization that was eager to finance a holy war on U.S. soil. Prosecutors alleged that in meetings with Hussain, the 44-year-old Cromitie hatched the scheme to blow up the synagogues in the Bronx with remote-controlled bombs. They say he also recruited the other men — Onta Williams, 34, David Williams, 29, and Payen, 28 — to help him shoot down cargo planes at the Air National Guard base in Newburgh with heat-seeking missiles. In one of several videos played at trial, the men could be seen practicing with a shoulder missile launcher and praying together in a bugged warehouse in Connecticut two weeks before the planned attack. At the end of the tape, Cromitie, two of his cohorts and the informant bow their heads in prayer. In other tapes, Cromitie was heard ranting against Jews and expressing his desire to retaliate against U.S. military aggression in the Middle East. "I'm ready to do this damn thing," he said. "Anything for the cause."
Quote: The double standard, then intentional act of playing dumb and excuse making, and the PC mind set that so many have, simply because it rocks their sensibilities to think bad thoughts about others.
Tuesday, October 19, 2010 11:52 AM
Quote:Originally posted by AURaptor: Nothing you do will excuse or explain away the evil done by the Islamozealots, so what's the point of trying to ignore it ?
Tuesday, October 19, 2010 11:57 AM
Quote: Okay, Raptor, back to you...rail against me and spout your buzz words, I’m not talking to you, I’m asking whatever thinking people there are here who are capable of questioning and wanting to know facts, not be colored by “Muslim converts”—can you find anything to back up that “converts”, please? I’d really like to have it—WITH links, please...you identified the first quote as coming from CNN, but neglected to mention that the second quote was a DIRECT LIFT off Fox. You wanna counter, please provide links, I did to everything I found. Thank you.
Tuesday, October 19, 2010 12:01 PM
Quote:Originally posted by AURaptor: It's very easy, Niki. You're WAY over thinking this,
Tuesday, October 19, 2010 12:02 PM
Quote:Why is it that some folks, when shown the face of extreme Islam today, have an automatic, knee jerk reaction to hold up the evils of Christianity, from 100's of years ago, or to try to equate a handful of unrelated violent acts by nutjob Christians and play they " SEE ? THEY DO IT TOO ! " game ??
Quote:D'ya think that some folks, when shown the automatic, knee jerk reaction of blaming all the evils of terrorism on Muslims today, and to equate a handful of unrelated violent acts by terrorists to all Islam, feel the need to remind others that Christians DO IT TOO??
Tuesday, October 19, 2010 12:06 PM
Quote:Originally posted by chrisisall: Quote:Originally posted by AURaptor: It's very easy, Niki. You're WAY over thinking this,As opposed to your underthinking it? The laughing Chrisisall
Tuesday, October 19, 2010 12:12 PM
Quote:Originally posted by chrisisall: It's evil from OUR perspective, ya gotta remember that. Okay, it's evil from any civilized perspective...
Tuesday, October 19, 2010 12:18 PM
Quote:Originally posted by Niki2: By the way, claiming an anthrax-attack case is "closed" because someone apparently suicided, doesn't make it "solved". You just really love and trust your government completely and absolutely, don't you? And they call ME naive and unwilling to see conspiracies!
Tuesday, October 19, 2010 12:19 PM
Quote:Originally posted by Niki2: there are nutjobs everywhere, in every religion, all over the world, throughout history. I would say "get it?", but it's obvious by now you can't. Obsession is a sad thing to see.
Quote: By the way, claiming an anthrax-attack case is "closed" because someone apparently suicided, doesn't make it "solved".
Quote: You just really love and trust your government completely and absolutely, don't you?
Tuesday, October 19, 2010 12:22 PM
Quote:Originally posted by AURaptor: I'd even submit that it's evil from the perspective of MOST Muslims, would you not agree ?
Tuesday, October 19, 2010 12:29 PM
Quote: chrisisall wrote: Tuesday, October 19, 2010 12:19 Quote: Originally posted by Niki2: there are nutjobs everywhere, in every religion, all over the world, throughout history. I would say "get it?", but it's obvious by now you can't. Obsession is a sad thing to see. I keep trying to get to him somehow, even to the point of conceding some stuff, and he still persists in the "you're blind" meme.
Quote: Originally posted by Niki2: there are nutjobs everywhere, in every religion, all over the world, throughout history. I would say "get it?", but it's obvious by now you can't. Obsession is a sad thing to see.
Tuesday, October 19, 2010 12:41 PM
Quote:Originally posted by AURaptor: It's the sense of context and perspective you folks lack, which remains so baffling.
Quote:A jury found four Muslim converts guilty Monday on 30 of 32 counts in the May 2009 plot to bomb two Riverdale, N.Y., synagogues and shoot down military aircraft. Prosecutors had accused James Cromitie of hatching the scheme with a paid FBI informant he met at a mosque in Newburgh, N.Y. They also said Cromitie recruited his three co-defendants -- David Williams, Onta Williams and Laguerre Payen -- to fire heat-seeking missiles at cargo planes at Stewart Air National Guard Base in Newburgh. The informant helped make hundreds of hours of surveillance tapes that were played at the trial. The defense argued the government entrapped their clients. The trial had come perilously close to a mistrial. The judge last week let the jury continue deliberations with just 11 members after one said she could not reach a fair verdict after mistakenly seeing a report of transcribed FBI wiretaps. It featured a video demonstration of a car being blown to bits by the same type of bombs the Muslim converts allegedly thought they were deploying against the synagogues last year. The 22-second video dramatically demonstrated the Mazda 626 being reduced to smithereens in a huge orange fireball that sent shards of metal hurtling through the air. Dozens of plastic human dummies arrayed around the vehicle were also leveled by the blast. Cromitie was portrayed as someone who “hated Jews and Jewish people," a government informant testified. He also "hated the American soldiers and the American government," Shahed Hussain told jurors. "He was full of hateful against those subjects," the Pakistani immigrant said. Two of the charges, on which all four men were convicted, carry mandatory life sentences.
Quote:Four men were found guilty Monday of planning to bomb a synagogue and Jewish center in New York and plotting to shoot military planes with missiles. James Cromitie, David Williams, Onta Williams and Laguerre Payen -- all from Newburgh, New York -- were charged with conspiring to blow up a synagogue and Jewish community center in the Riverdale section of Bronx, New York. They were also accused of planning to fire surface-to-air-missiles at the New York Air National Guard Base at Stewart Airport in Newburgh, New York. The men, who could now face life in prison, were arrested last year after planting what they thought were live explosives. They had unknowingly been working with an FBI informant, who supplied them with what they were told was military-grade explosive material and a Stinger surface-to-air guided missile. "Homegrown terrorism is a serious threat, and today's convictions affirm our commitment to do everything we can to protect against it," Preet Bharara, the U.S. attorney in Manhattan, said in a statement soon after the verdict. "The defendants in this case agreed to plant bombs and use missiles they thought were very real weapons of terrorism. We are safer today as a result of these convictions," he added. The jury spent some six weeks listening to testimony and undercover tapes made by the FBI informant who posed as a member of a Pakistani terror group. Jurors delivered their verdict after deliberating for eight days. They requested an escort out of the courthouse. The four men were found guilty on seven of the eights counts against them, including conspiracy and attempts to use and acquire weapons of mass destruction and anti-aircraft missiles. Cromitie and Williams were also found guilty of attempting to kill officers and employees of the United States. Each of the seven charges the men were found guilty on carry a maximum term of life in prison. Members of the defense team had argued their clients were victims of entrapment. Last week, the judge presiding over the case denied the defense's request for a mistrial. Defense attorneys argued that jurors could be swayed by evidence that was not permitted in the trial, but had mistakenly been put in one of the juror's packet of evidence. That juror was dismissed -- and the case continued. After the verdict, Mark Gombiner, an attorney for Onta Williams, said the defense would likely file a motion. It was not clear whether the planned motion would be an appeal. Soon after the verdict was read, Alicia McWilliams, David Williams' aunt, was escorted out of the courtroom. She had begun screaming expletives and repeatedly yelling, "There's no justice!" The judge asked that she be removed.
Tuesday, October 19, 2010 12:43 PM
Tuesday, October 19, 2010 12:54 PM
Quote:It's the sense of context and perspective you folks lack, which remains so baffling
Tuesday, October 19, 2010 12:57 PM
Tuesday, October 19, 2010 1:00 PM
Tuesday, October 19, 2010 1:04 PM
Quote:Originally posted by Niki2: Fox reports them as Muslim converts. Nowhere else are they reported as converts (can YOU find any facts to back that up, Raptor?). What does that tell you? Last word: I STILL wonder why nobody but me finds something fishy about this whole entire story...where's Frem? Frem? Somebody?
Tuesday, October 19, 2010 1:46 PM
Quote:Originally posted by Niki2: TRY to get a grip, Raptor. All those half-toothless lions, tigers and bears aren't gonna getcha today, I promise.
Tuesday, October 19, 2010 1:51 PM
Quote:Originally posted by chrisisall: My friend SAW the first plane hit the Towers IN PERSON. He says the government reaction was in error. If HE can see that clearly, why can't YOU???? Let go of your fear... that leads to the Dubya Side.
Tuesday, October 19, 2010 1:57 PM
Tuesday, October 19, 2010 2:31 PM
Quote:Originally posted by AURaptor: WTH does THAT have to do w/ anything ?
Tuesday, October 19, 2010 2:35 PM
Tuesday, October 19, 2010 2:40 PM
Quote:Originally posted by AURaptor: Quote:Originally posted by Kwicko: .... and more to an Anthrax attack that his administration never did solve.
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