Merry Xmas: Free-Lance Terrorist Wanted to Blow Up Mall on the 22nd

[SteveGrenard]

You don't have to be a member of any group to be a terrorist:



December 8, 2006 4:41 p.m. EST

Linda Young - All Headline News Staff Writer

Chicago, IL (AHN) - A Rockford, Ill. man plotting to plant four hand grenades at a local mall on the Friday before Christmas was arrested and formally charged. The 22-year-old Muslim convert said he wanted to wage a jihad and had chosen that date and place to kill the maximum number of people, authorities said.

The mall was the initial target, but he had other things in mind as well including courthouses and city hall, FBI officials said.

Although Derrick Shareef did not actually have any grenades and was acting alone, one of the acquaintances he confided his plans to tipped authorities and the FBI began investigating him in September.

Shareef was charged with one count of attempting to damage or destroy a building by fire or explosion and one count of attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction.

He made a videotape in case he died in the mall bombing, the Chicago Sun Times reported Friday.

http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7005797799


Investigators said Derrick Shareef, 22, an American citizen from Rockford, was acting alone and never actually obtained any grenades. He was arrested Wednesday when he met with an undercover agent in a parking lot to trade a set of stereo speakers for four hand grenades and a gun, authorities said.

"He fixed on a day of December 22nd on Friday ... because it was the Friday before Christmas and thought that would be the highest concentration of shoppers that he could kill and injure," said Robert Grant, the agent in charge of the Chicago FBI office.

http://www.foxnews.com/wires/2006Dec09/0,4670,TerrorArrest,00.html


Prosecutors say Shareef may appear to be a simpleton -- but his goal was sinister.

"When they engage in purification process ritual that they shave their body hair and make video should they die you have to take that seriously," said Patrick Fitzgerald, U.S. attorney.

The 22-year-old Shareef converted to Islam seven years ago, according to his mother. She tells the Daily Herald, "I don't believe that my son purposely has done anything wrong. I believe he has gotten involved with the wrong people & I don't know who he's running with."

Prosecutors say Shareef was a lone-wolf intent on causing chaos and willing to die doing it.

http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=local&id=4834956

[Darth Rotor]

You don't have to be a member of any group to be a terrorist:

Please forgive me, Steve, but f*** Andy Warhol and his bloody "fifteen minutes of fame" sound byte. That useless cultural icon, or anti icon, is the fuel to the fire of this sort of foolishness, as well as such sh**wits as Paris Hilton.

If ever a God had His patience tried over His creation, I'd wager it's crap like this that brought the proverbial 40 days and 40 nights of flushing the sh** off of the planet.

Invest in umbrellas.

DR

[steverino]

Please forgive me, Steve, but f*** Andy Warhol and his bloody "fifteen minutes of fame" sound byte. That useless cultural icon, or anti icon, is the fuel to the fire of this sort of foolishness, as well as such sh**wits as Paris Hilton.

If ever a God had His patience tried over His creation, I'd wager it's crap like this that brought the proverbial 40 days and 40 nights of flushing the sh** off of the planet.

Invest in umbrellas.

DR

Why did Andy Warhol hate America?

[SteveGrenard]

You are forgiven .... especially for not recognizing the sarcasm of my prefatory remark and the thread title.

Did you like the part where his mother says she doesn't know who he is "running with" followed by the remarks of the federal prosecutor(s) who say he is a lone wolf?

[Skeptic]

Derrick Shareef

Derrick Shareef?

"Here are our great warriors, fighters for the truth of Islam: Muhammad, Abdullah, Derrick, Mustafa..."

[BPSCG]

Derrick Shareef?

"Here are our great warriors, fighters for the truth of Islam: Muhammad, Abdullah, Derrick, Mustafa..."I remember when that name was uniformly spelled "Derek" (Boston Bruins fans will fondly remember Derek Sanderson). "Derrick" was something you saw in oil fields.

Anyway, I don't buy this "lone wolf" theory. You don't become a terrorist in some kind of societal vacuum. I'll be curious to see what further investigation turns up. I'm sure the police are visiting his local mosque as we speak.

[WildCat]

Derrick Shareef?

"Here are our great warriors, fighters for the truth of Islam: Muhammad, Abdullah, Derrick, Mustafa..."
Oh, he has a better one (http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/166248,CST-NWS-terror09.article):
Shareef, also known as Talib Abu Salam Ibn Shareef
Mama shouldn't have been so surprised:


Shareef's family reportedly had watched him become so radical, they asked him to leave their home. Still, his mother couldn't believe her son wanted to harm people. "I am shocked," she said from her home near DeKalb. "I am stunned."

[steverino]

Derrick Shareef?

"Here are our great warriors, fighters for the truth of Islam: Muhammad, Abdullah, Derrick, Mustafa..."

Well "Adolph" does not, in itself, sound menacing, or at least it didn't a hundred years ago.
(Adolph Marx, pictured)

[Cello Man]

Oh come on. Who here hasn't had the urge to blow up a mall at some point?:D

[steverino]

Oh come on. Who here hasn't had the urge to blow up a mall at some point?:D

Good point. That urge came to me when I was charged like two bucks for a mushy Mrs. Fields cookie. I had to chill in a mushy Sharper Image massage lounge chair on the third floor for half an hour...I was so relaxed I couldn't find my car in the crappily-designed labyrinth of a parking garage and became anxious again so I returned for a second cookie.

[Cylinder]

The FBI affidavit (http://counterterrorismblog.org/site-resources/images/Shareef%20Affidavit%2012-8-06.pdf) shows that Shareef wanted to strike government targets and the FBI's confidential source steered him toward the shopping mall instead.

On or about Wednesday, November 29, 2006, in a recorded conversation, SHAREEF and the CS [the FBI's confidential source] discussed SHAREEF’s goals regarding an attack.2 The CS said to SHAREEF, “when you were talking to me earlier, you seemed really upset.” SHAREEF responded: “I was already upset from previous things.” The CS then asked: “So, what you wanna do? I was thinking about it upstairs.” SHAREEF responded: “A target? . . . I want some type of city hall-type stuff right now, federal court houses.” The CS then asked: “I didn’t know how serious you are, ‘cause I gotta know . . .” SHAREEF interrupted: “No, hell no, I don’t talk calm when it comes to this. I’m talking about stuff that’s like, . . . ‘cause man the courthouse in DeKalb where I be going every month them ******* do weak as hell. You go in there and you clock the first three ******* at the door that they got, and you up in there, you know what I’m saying? And everything else is gonna have to be tactical. But see when you dealing with stuff like that, the courthouse, there’s always a PD [police department] right down the block. Know what I’m saying? I just want to smoke a judge.”

After some additional discussion, the CS asked SHAREEF: “When you wanna plan on doing this? Because we have to make specific plans and dates, time.” SHAREEF responded: “Well, I wanna case one first, we can case one when you get the car back.” The CS then asked: “What about time frame? . . . ‘Cause you got to prepare for everything?” SHAREEF responded: “What do you think? I like the Holiday season.” A few moments later, SHAREEF stated: “You gotta do stuff, hell we ain’t gotta hit nobody, just blow the place up. You gotta do stuff under severe weather conditions. That helps too. Doing stuff in the snow, rain because you see less pigs out there. That’s tactical.”

Later in the conversation, SHAREEF stated: “I’m thinking stuff like courthouses, city hall, government places, government facilities.” The CS then asked: “So, you serious,” and SHAREEF responded: “I’m serious. . . .”

The next day, the confidential source suggested targeting a shopping mall:

The CS and SHAREEF then engaged in a discussion about places where they could conduct an attack against civilians. Specifically, the CS then asked if SHAREEF believed it was a better idea to “hit the mall,” and SHAREEF responded that the mall was “just one potential place.” The CS
then stated: “I mean, alright, we gotta look at it this way, we want to disrupt Christmas.” SHAREEF responded: “Oh hell yeah, the mall is where it’s at.”

The CS then asked SHAREEF if he believed that they needed grenades for the attack, and SHAREEF responded that they did. The CS stated: “You go in there and toss a grenade, and no one’s gonna know who did it.” SHAREEF responded: “No one’s gonna be expecting no **** like that.” SHAREEF then stated: “The last thing anybody gonna be thinking about at the mall is a damn grenade.”

Later in the conversation, the CS asked SHAREEF: “What targets you wanna hit, the mall’s good?” SHAREEF responded: “Any place that’s crowded, like a mall is good, anything, any government facility is good.”

[fuelair]

I would think four hand grenades would be worth more than two average stereo speakers.

[Cello Man]

By the way, in case the Feds are watching this board, my earlier post was a joke.

[Darth Rotor]

By the way, in case the Feds are watching this board, my earlier post was a joke.
*perks up ears*

Cello, I think I hear black helicopters. :jaw-dropp

DR

[President Bush]

By the way, in case the Feds are watching this board, my earlier post was a joke.

Who's behind (http://youtube.com/watch?v=9YUZGBGB1UU) the tree?