Homegrown Jihad: Terrorist Camps Around the U.S.
It has been reported that there is a terrorist training camp in Dover, Tennessee. There are 35 para-military training camps in 22 states in the U.S. and Canada and it appears that law enforcement hands are tied because these camps are not on the State Department list. The Christian Action Network is trying to raise awareness about these compounds. It is time to get our government officials to take action.
Below is Sean Hannity of Fox News discussing the Homegrown Jihad on February 16, 2008.
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The Christian Action Network (CAN) has produced an important new film about the 35 para-military training camps in 22 states in the U.S. and Canada. These camps are sponsored by the terrorist group Jamaat ul-Fuqra (JF) or “community of the impoverished” and its notorious Pakistani founder, Sheik Mubarak Ali Gilani. The film is entitled: “Homegrown Jihad: Terrorist Camps Around the U.S.” This is an important documentary on a subject I’ve written about in the New English Review,” Jamaat ul-Fuqra: The best positioned group to help al-Qaeda launch an attack in the US.” I noted the following in the NER article on JF:
The group here in the US has committed attacks and robberies, acquired contraband arms, engaging in counterfeiting activities, and proselytized effectively among Afro-American prison inmates. JF members participated in the 1993 terror bombing of the World Trade Center.
JF seeks to “purify Islam” through violence.
What is of great concern is that federal and state law enforcement authorities have investigated and monitored JF and its front group Muslims of the Americas (MoA) and delisted the group as a terrorist organization. Nor has the IRS taken away MoA’s charitable tax exempt status.
Last summer an investigator with homeland security training contacted me after reading my JF piece about experiences at the JF/MoA compound in Dover, Tennessee. The Dover compound is problematic as it lies near the US Army’s Fort Campbell, home of the 101st Airborne, “Screaming Eagles”, Fort Donelson and a number of TVA power dams. The investigator noted in an email to me the threats to facilities in the region:
9 miles to Ft. Donelson
60 miles to Kentucky Lake Dam and a smaller dam
68 miles to Milan Army Ammunition Plant
20 miles to power plant
18 miles to the back entrance to Ft. Campbell
The property seems to lie right along a powerline easement. If you follow the easement for a little over 7 miles east, you’ll find yourself at the TVA’s Cumberland Fossil Plant, a plant that produces more power than any other plant in the TVA system.
Go 12 miles northeast from the encampment and you’ll run into Fort Campbell, home of the Army’s 101st Airborne Division as well as a couple of Special Forces units.
I think that is pretty scary cuz’ I mean you don’t know if they know where you live or not and they could come and get you.That some pretty scary stuff.
My problem is …..I do not trust my leaders. Federal or State or municipal.