Feds suspect terrorist link to L.A. robberies

[Eugene]

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2002442862_terror17.html

Wednesday, August 17, 2005 - Page updated at 12:00 AM

Feds suspect terrorist link to L.A. robberies

By Amy Argetsinger and Dan Eggen

The Washington Post

LOS ANGELES — A police probe that began with a series of gas-station
holdups here has broadened into an investigation of a possible
terrorist plot and connections to a radical Islamic group believed to
be operating in the California prison system, law-enforcement sources said.

The crime spree, which police said ended with last month's arrest of
two local men, drew the interest of counterterrorism officials when a
search of one suspect's home turned up "jihadist" literature,
bulletproof vests and a list of addresses for area synagogues, the
Israeli consulate, National Guard centers and other sites.

Now, federal officials have arrested a third man, a Pakistani national
who lived in south Los Angeles near the others, in connection with the
investigation, and a law-enforcement official said more arrests may follow.

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The official said investigators are looking into whether the suspects
have links to a radical Islamic group known as Jamiyyat Ul Islam Is
Saheeh, roughly translated as the Assembly of Authentic Islam, which
has been known to have a presence in a state prison where one of the
suspects was recently incarcerated.

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[ConcernedCanuk]

1. Prison systems are infamous for breeding hardened criminals

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It only makes sense that they would evolve in this new era of global terrorism

Training terrorists at the taxpayer's expense

only in America, eh?

probably not,

I imagine there are many prisons the world over that are just full of disillusioned inmates that will embrace this OTHER side of "The New World Order"

But the USSA DOES have one of the highest inmate population per capita in the world, no?

And some, soon to be released in a neighbourhood near YOU

(sigh)

[krkaufman]

2. Link to '60 Minutes' story discussing crime network based in CA prisons

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/05/12/60minutes/main694851.shtml