Houston jihadi caught in Somalia tied to murder of flight attendant

Internet Haganah:

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clearguidance.com was a site whose denizens were so crazed as to earn the collective nickname "Islam on Crack". Active members of the site included Zakaria Amara and Fahim Ahmad, who were central to the plot to carry out a series of bombings and other terrorist attacks in Canada.

That was then, and Amara and Ahmad are in jail, along with 16 of their companions. It is a counter-terrorism success story: the bad guys got busted and everyone else lived happily ever after.


This is now, and not everyone made it back alive.

Source: USA v. DANIEL JOSEPH MALDONADO
superseding criminal complaint, filed 13 Feb 2007
United States District Court Southern District of Texas

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Much has already been written about Daniel, and no doubt much more will be written. Some have been quick to label him a "blogger", as though that contributes to our understanding of the man or of the global Islamist insurgency he is a part of (and in point of fact, he has a blog). But if you want to get to the heart of the matter, you need to understand Daniel's involvement in the Islamist forum at talk.islamicnetwork.com

When Sasjamal was interviewed in Houston by the Globe and Mail in August of 2006, he said he shutdown the clearguidance site because "I just lost interest." That he turned around and opened up a new forum at islamicnetwork.com suggests a different motivation, but motive aside the fact remains that clearguidance was replaced by islamicnetwork, and the beat went on.

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There is much more. I don't think this guy is on our side. Hat tip Little Green Footballs.

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