Were you aware that a series of small bombs have been detonated in NY? Neither was I...
Small Bomb Goes Off Outside Upper East Side Starbucks
New York Daily News ^ | Barry Paddock and Jonathan Lemire
A small improvised explosive device detonated outside an Upper East Side Starbucks early Monday morning, shattering the coffee shop's windows and raising fears of terrorism.
The bomb tore a hole in a wooden bench outside the coffee chain's outpost at Third Ave. and E. 92nd St. when it exploded at 3:30 a.m.
No one was injured in the blast, but it terrified residents who had been fast asleep early on Memorial Day.
"I heard a giant noise -- a big, giant noise, like a crash -- and there was a flash," said Jordan Kovnot, 26, a law student who lives above the Starbucks. "It made me jump up."
"It felt like an earthquake," said Adrianna Ebans, 28, who was among more than a dozen residents evacuated from the apartments above the Starbucks. "We were all really scared."
Scores of detectives are crawling over the blast site, looking for surveillance video and trying to determine the nature of the low-grade explosive device, which investigators believe was either placed on or taped to the bench.
"We don't know the motive. Obviously it's a cause for concern," said Police Commissioner Ray Kelly. "We're going to do an in-depth investigation."
No one had claimed credit for the blast, nor was it called in ahead of time, said Kelly.
Kelly -- who noted that Starbucks branches have been victimized in other cities by protestors angry at the chain's global reach -- said investigators were also exploring whether this morning's blast was connected to other previous small explosions in the city.
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Move along folks, nothing to see here....
---Katie
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
Homegrown Islamic Jihad in the Bronx: Now We Are All Israelis
From the Chesler Chronicles:
Riverdale, in the Bronx, is a gloriously leafy, hilly, and peaceful suburb. I have visited its extraordinary gardens and gracious homes which overlook the Hudson river. More often, I’ve visited a close friend and her family who live there. I have studied, dined, and prayed with them. I have attended lectures at Riverdale synagogues. Riverdale is as close to me, both personally, psychologically, and geographically, as was the World Trade Center.
In response to a gruesome series of Islamic-Palestinian synagogue bombings in Europe, police officers guarded Europe’s synagogues and Jewish Centers. Now, synagogues all over New York City, tend to have barricades or some kind of police presence outside. We are now all Israelis: Not just the Jews, but the world’s civilians.
And thus, four African-American converts to Islam, all of whom converted to Islam in prison, have been arrested by the FBI just as they attempted to bomb two Riverdale synagogues, (the Riverdale Jewish Center and the Riverdale Temple), in the Bronx and a New York National Guard air base in Newburgh, New York where they lived and attended a mosque.
Click on the title to read the rest of the article by Phyllis Chesler.
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This is pretty ominous. African-Americans who converted to Islam in prison plotted to bomb synagogues in New York. Most media reports of this incident did not include the race or religion of the suspects. The article goes on to quote statistics of prison conversions to Islam, to note that the funding for this recruitment comes from the Saudis, and to suggest that we "reform our prison system, including a reform of our drug laws, so that we jail fewer inmates and do not provide such a fertile breeding ground for anti-American and anti-Jewish Islamic terrorism."
One item I found interesting is that Islam is possibly presented to inmates as a "religion of many colors, as especially friendly to men of African descent with jihad presented as a way to overcome oppression." It is probably not presented that Islamic leaders were instrumentally involved in the African slave trade to America and even today keep slaves and persecute black Africans (Christians and Animists?) in Darfur.
Quite an informative article.
---Katie
Riverdale, in the Bronx, is a gloriously leafy, hilly, and peaceful suburb. I have visited its extraordinary gardens and gracious homes which overlook the Hudson river. More often, I’ve visited a close friend and her family who live there. I have studied, dined, and prayed with them. I have attended lectures at Riverdale synagogues. Riverdale is as close to me, both personally, psychologically, and geographically, as was the World Trade Center.
In response to a gruesome series of Islamic-Palestinian synagogue bombings in Europe, police officers guarded Europe’s synagogues and Jewish Centers. Now, synagogues all over New York City, tend to have barricades or some kind of police presence outside. We are now all Israelis: Not just the Jews, but the world’s civilians.
And thus, four African-American converts to Islam, all of whom converted to Islam in prison, have been arrested by the FBI just as they attempted to bomb two Riverdale synagogues, (the Riverdale Jewish Center and the Riverdale Temple), in the Bronx and a New York National Guard air base in Newburgh, New York where they lived and attended a mosque.
Click on the title to read the rest of the article by Phyllis Chesler.
------------
This is pretty ominous. African-Americans who converted to Islam in prison plotted to bomb synagogues in New York. Most media reports of this incident did not include the race or religion of the suspects. The article goes on to quote statistics of prison conversions to Islam, to note that the funding for this recruitment comes from the Saudis, and to suggest that we "reform our prison system, including a reform of our drug laws, so that we jail fewer inmates and do not provide such a fertile breeding ground for anti-American and anti-Jewish Islamic terrorism."
One item I found interesting is that Islam is possibly presented to inmates as a "religion of many colors, as especially friendly to men of African descent with jihad presented as a way to overcome oppression." It is probably not presented that Islamic leaders were instrumentally involved in the African slave trade to America and even today keep slaves and persecute black Africans (Christians and Animists?) in Darfur.
Quite an informative article.
---Katie
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