This is a list of some of the actual, or averted, terrorism incidents related to Islamic influence in the United States ... in the last six months alone. There are others not mentioned here in the same period.
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November 4, 2009 - Seattle
Naveed Haq is currently on trial in Seattle for a mass shooting at the office of the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle in Jully 2006. Though mental illness was initially promoted as the motive, subsequent taped phone calls revealed him bragging to friends that he did the shooting in the name of jihad and hoped to become a martyr.
September 24, 2009 - Seattle
The FBI is investigating reports that one of the men responsible for a suicide truck-bombing in Mogadishu last week, killing 21 people, was a Seattle man who may have been recruited from the local Somali community, according to federal law-enforcement sources.
September 24, 2009
In July, a 25-year-old graduate of Seattle's Roosevelt High School, Abdifatah Yusuf Isse, pleaded guilty in Minnesota to providing support to terrorists in connection with U.S. recruitment efforts by al-Shabaab. His attorney said in court filings that Isse was being recruited to be a suicide bomber.
September 15, 2009 - New York
Oussama Abdullah Kassir sentenced to life in prison for trying to establish a jihad training camp in Oregon. He was involved with a Seattle resident named James Ujamma who had previously been convicted in the training camp incident.
September 24, 2009 - Dallas
Hosam Maher Husein Smadi was arrested by the FBI for attempting to use a weapon of mass destrucion near Fountain Place in Dallas. Believing he was a soldier for Osama Bin Laden, he actually triggered the bomb, not realizing the weapons materials were inert as they were provided by undercover law enforcement officers.
September 24, 2009 - Denver
Najibullah Zazi, a Colorado resident was arrested by the FBI for conspiracy to use a weapon of mass destruction - this after both visiting Pakistan and receiving instructions from Pakistan on the means to build such a weapon. Other have been arrested in connection with this case.
October 22, 2009 - Boston
Tarek Mehanna, 27, of Sudbury, Mass., conspired with at least two men to carry out an Islamist holy war, or jihad. That included discussions about killing two prominent U.S. politicians, attacking American troops in Iraq and shooting at shoppers in U.S. malls, according to those authorities and detailed FBI affidavits that were unsealed Wednesday in connection with the case.
October 29, 2009 - Detroit
Luqman Ameen Abdullah shot by the FBI in Detroit. Mr. Abdullah was imam of the Masjid Al-Haqq mosque and was connected to a group known as "Ummah," a brotherhood that seeks to establish a separate state within the U.S. that would be ruled by strict Islamic or Sharia law, the U.S. attorney's office said.
November 5, 2009 - Fort Hood. Texas
Maj. Nidal Hasan, the Army psychiatrist accused of killing 13 at the Fort Hood, Texas, Army base, communicated 10 to 20 times with a radical Islamic cleric in Yemen who on Monday called Maj. Hasan a "hero" and criticized U.S. Muslim groups that condemned the killing spree.
October 29, 2009 - Peoria, Illinois
Ali Saleh Al-Marri. An admitted Al Qaeda sleeper agent who arrived in the US one day before the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon was sentenced to eight years and four months in prison on Thursday.
October 22, 2009 - Peoria, Arizona
Noor Faleh Almaleki. Police in Arizona are hunting for an Iraqi-American father who they say ran over his daughter with his car to punish her for becoming "too Westernized" and rebuffing the conservative ways he valued.
December 7, 2009 - Chicago
Charges filed in Chicago against David Coleman Headley, a U.S. resident, over involvement with the terrorist attacks on November, 2008 in Mumbai, India leaving 160 people dead.
October 3, 2009 - Chicago
David Coleman Headley (also of story above) and Tahawwur Hussain Rana, both U.S. residents, arrested for plotting to blow up Danish newspaper which published 'offensive' cartoons of Mohammed.
November 10, 2009 - Virginia
John Allen Muhammad - known as the D.C sniper - was executed for his crimes and murders in 2002. Muhammad, a convert to Islam, had mentored Lee Boyd Malvo, his young accomplice. Though not widely publicized at the time, The younger Boyd believed, due to Mohammad's tutoring, that the shootings were part of a confused Islamic 'jihad' in the name of Allah.
June 2, 2009 - Little Rock, Arkansas
Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad, a Muslim convert, acting alone, attacks a military recruiting station in Arkansas. Muhammad, previously known as Carlos Bledsoe, acted alone, the police chief said. Based on an interview with officers, he added, the suspect "probably had political and religious motives for the attack." In a jailhouse telephone interview a week after his arrest, Muhammad told The Associated Press that his actions were justified because the U.S. military has targeted Muslims in the Middle East.
September 24, 2009 - Springfield, Illinois
Michael Finton, also known as Talib Islam, was arrested in Springfield, Illinois, and charged with attempted murder of federal officers or employees and trying to use a weapon of mass destruction, charges that carry a life sentence. He actually tried to detonate the weapon with a cell phone, similarly (and ironically) to an attempted detonation of a WMD in Dallas in the name of Islam on the same day. The perpetrator of the Dallas incident was arrested the same day.
July 22, 2009 - North Carolina
Daniel Patrick Boyd, 39, led a U.S. group that plotted international terrorism attacks, authorities said Monday. Boyd, a North Carolina drywall contractor, got military-style training while in Pakistan and Afghanistan from 1989 to 1992 and recruited his two sons and four other men to wage a "violent jihad," the indictment said.
November 19, 2009 - Minnesota
Omer Abdi Mohamed was charged with conspiracy to provide material support to terrorists, providing material support to terrorists and conspiracy to kill, kidnap, maim or injure. As many as 20 young Somali men left the Twin Cities over the last two years for Somalia, and are believed to have joined the terror group al-Shabab. At least three have died, including one who carried out a suicide bombing in Somalia in October 2008.
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