don't complain about the way your enemy fights. On Thursday, January 30, 2014 3:55:26 PM UTC-6, Travis wrote: > > > > > > > > > An Islamist’s pipe > dream?<http://blogs.ottawacitizen.com/2014/01/20/a-pipe-dream-of-terrorism/> > > January 20, 2014. > > > *Posted by: Robert Sibley > <http://blogs.ottawacitizen.com/author/bitplayer1/>* > > I can only assume the authorities are being deliberately naïve. > > Late last week, a 26-year-old man (I use the term loosely) by the name of > Asef > Mohamed got himself stuck several feet inside an unused pipe at a water > treatment plant in Manalapan, New > Jersey<http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2014/01/17/trespasser-freed-from-pipe-at-united-water-plant-in-new-jersey-faces-criminal-charges/>. > > Passersby eventually heard him screaming for help. Rescue crews spent > several hours extricating the idiot. > > A spokesman for the plant owner, Rich Henning, later explained that > Mohamed had scaled an 11-foot chain link, barbed wire fence, climbed into a > water holding tank and then crawled up a dozen feet or so into the 20-inch > diameter vertical section of an outflow pipe. The pipe lays vertically on > the ground and then drop vertically into a basin. Firefighters had to > dismantle the pipe to rescue him. > > Spokesthingies for United Water, the company that operates the treatment > plant, expressed amazement at the young man’s actions and, according to > media > reports<http://www.app.com/article/20140117/NJNEWS/301170054/Man-freed-from-24-inch-pipe-United-Water-Manalapan-facility?nclick_check=1>, > > had “no idea by Mohamed did it.” > > Yeah, right. > > OK, maybe no one wants to say anything until all the evidence is in – > surely we aren’t so politically corrected or afraid of offending someone’s > religious sensibilities that we’re afraid to acknowledge the obvious – > before pronouncing on Mohamed’s motives. > > But given past precedents it is not unwarranted to consider the terrorist > hypothesis. Over the last decade or so there has been several cases > involving Muslims plotting attacks on the water supply systems of western > countries. > > Last May, shortly after the Boston Marathon bombing, five men and two > women, all Muslims from Pakistan, Singapore or Saudi Arabia, were caught > after midnight trespassing at the Quabbin Reservoir near > Boston<http://boston.cbslocal.com/2013/05/14/7-cited-for-trespassing-at-quabbin-reservoir-patrols-stepped-up-across-state/>. > > When police questioned them some of the group explained that they were > chemical engineers and recent college graduates and had an educational > interest in the reservoir. > > Quabbin Reservoir is one of the U.S.’s largest man-made water supplies, > providing water to hundreds of thousands of people in the Boston area. > > In Canada, meanwhile, at about the same time as this was going on in the > U.S., a couple of would-be jihadists were taken into custody for, among > other things, wanting to poison the water supplies of North American > cities<http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/u-s-terror-suspect-studied-chemical-engineering-at-quebec-university-1.1333162> > and kill “100,000 > people.”<http://news.nationalpost.com/2013/05/09/fbi-arrested-third-suspect-related-to-alleged-via-rail-terror-plot/> > > A decade earlier, in 2003, security officials in the Privy Council > Office<http://www.sdcwa.org/clips/2003/nov/111203/111203alqaeda.html> had > issued a report warning of this kind of threat > <http://www.wwdmag.com/al-qaeda-may-add-toxins-water-canada>– > Al Qaeda supporters trying to poison food and water with lethal substances > such as ricin and botulinum as part of a terrorist campaign. > > Poison plots certainly seem popular with the jihadists. > > The same year of the PCO report, British authorities arrested a group of > Islamists who, it seems, were plotting to place ricin in the food supply > of a military > base<http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/24/world/threats-responses-terror-network-plot-poison-food-british-troops-suspected.html> > in > the United Kingdom. > > In 2002, American authorities picked up a couple of Islamist devotees – > James > Ujaama and Semi Osman > <http://www.foxnews.com/story/2002/07/30/feds-arrest-al-qaeda-suspects-with-plans-to-poison-water-supplies/>– > > who were walking around with how-to manuals for poisoning the nation’s > water supplies. > > In Spain, in August of 2011, Abdellatif Aoulad > Chiba<http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5i5kz7A_aBEdpjzFtgPCrBR159ZVQ>, > > a Moroccan, was arrested charged with plotting to poison tourists’ water > supplies. He’d gone so far as to obtain manuals on poisons, toxins and > explosives on jihadist websites. > > Given all this it would be obtuse of authorities not to question where > young Asef Mohamed had more on his mind than an adventure in some warped > version of*parkour* (or, in this case, spelunking?). > > No doubt, the FBI will be asking Asef about his interest in water > treatment plants. Presumably waterboarding won’t be necessary despite his > apparent fondness for the liquid. > > · > <http://blogs.ottawacitizen.com/2014/01/20/a-pipe-dream-of-terrorism/?share=email> > > > > > __._,_.___ > > > > > > __,_._,___ > > >
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