America’s Homegrown Troop Killers
War On Terror: It’s bad enough that Americans are bad-mouthing American troops fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq. But an alarming number of Muslim-Americans are plotting to kill them.
It’s a story you don’t like to hear from the mainstream media: U.S. soldiers increasingly are the prime targets of terrorism, both at home and abroad. And those who want to do them harm include fellow citizens.
Thanks to the anti-war crowd, the trend may only worsen. The ACLU recently pressured the Pentagon to shut down a domestic counterterror unit set up after 9/11 to protect troops and bases.
Convicted last week by a federal jury in Toledo of plotting to attack U.S. soldiers in Iraq were three Ohio men, from left: Marwan El-Hindi, Wassim Mazloum and Mohammed Amawi.
Convicted last week by a federal jury in Toledo of plotting to attack U.S. soldiers in Iraq were three Ohio men, from left: Marwan El-Hindi, Wassim Mazloum and Mohammed Amawi.
And a new congressional report finds that the U.S. government has no “coordinated strategy” to deal with grass-roots jihadists who more and more are meeting, training and conspiring to kill troops over the Internet.
In the most recent case, a federal jury last week convicted three Toledo, Ohio, Muslims of plotting to attack U.S. military personnel in Iraq and elsewhere.