If only that were the case we would see much less disturbance from that tiny minority of extremists who seem to have not gotten the memo.
Los Angeles is a scary place, more so because of the large islamic presence. The jokes about gas stations being run by people from the Middle East is really true, and if you think about it, Middle Eastern males and oil go together.
Deputy Police Chief Michael P. Downing seems to have a greater grasp of the dangers of Islam, so he is dedicating time and resources to dig into the world of jihadists and Islamists within the City of Angels. Downing identifies the top three threats to L.A. as Hizballah, Al-Qaeda and Hamas. He is very worried about a Mumbai-style attack and wants to know how to identify those bent on creating havoc. "The biggest fear I have is just what I don’t know...do we have an idea of all the cells here? Do we know all the players? Do we know their associates?" he asks, and answering these questions is the top item on his to-do list.
Any minute now we should hear from CAIR about the profiling, anit-Muslim bigotry and rampant Islamophobia causing this scrutiny by LAPD's finest.
Mr. Hooper? Any comment?
From The Washington Times April 11 by Bill Gertz
LOS ANGELES | Police are using a combination of aggressive spy operations and community outreach to counter what Deputy Police Chief Michael P. Downing called the growing threat of Mumbai-style terrorist attacks — car bombings and small-arms-equipped suicide teams.
“The biggest fear I have is just what I don’t know,” Chief Downing, commanding officer of the counterterrorism and special operations bureau, said in an interview, in which he warned that the terrorism threat in the area remains “very real.”
“You need good intelligence. Do we have an idea of all the cells here? Do we know all the players? Do we know their associates? Does al Qaeda have good access to [weapons of mass destruction]? And how sophisticated can they get? That worries me,” he said.
For the Los Angeles Police Department, the top priority is countering violent, ideological extremism from several Muslim communities in the region made up of diaspora from Yemen, Libya, Egypt, Somalia, Pakistan, Afghanistan, India and elsewhere.
Most of the communities are linked to their home nations and are quick to respond to events there, something the police monitor closely.
Chief Downing identified the main terrorism threats as violent Islamists such as al Qaeda, Hezbollah and Hamas, along with three other terrorist categories: black separatists, white supremacist/sovereign citizen extremists, and animal rights terrorists.
Al Qaeda, he said, has “morphed” into a more ideological threat that motivates spinoffs such as the Yemen-based Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula.
Domestically, “now we kind of have a type of AQ in the United States,” Chief Downing said. “It’s where we have people who follow al Qaeda’s goals and objectives and mission and ideology.”
One likely attack scenario is a multitarget, synchronized assault by teams armed with smaller weapons, such as the 2008 terrorist attack on Mumbai that killed 174 people in 10 locations. A Mumbai-type attack is less expensive and would be designed to sow chaos and trigger media coverage, Chief Downing said, noting that a vehicle bomb like the one attempted in Times Square last year also is a risk.
A major threat is an effort by radical Muslims to take over the mosques in a region with the second-largest Muslim population in the U.S., Chief Downing said. He said radical Islamists have offered money to area mosques on the condition of replacing the imam with an extremist and then have threatened mosque leaders when they refused.
There is much more, read it all
Los Angeles is a scary place, more so because of the large islamic presence. The jokes about gas stations being run by people from the Middle East is really true, and if you think about it, Middle Eastern males and oil go together.
Deputy Police Chief Michael P. Downing seems to have a greater grasp of the dangers of Islam, so he is dedicating time and resources to dig into the world of jihadists and Islamists within the City of Angels. Downing identifies the top three threats to L.A. as Hizballah, Al-Qaeda and Hamas. He is very worried about a Mumbai-style attack and wants to know how to identify those bent on creating havoc. "The biggest fear I have is just what I don’t know...do we have an idea of all the cells here? Do we know all the players? Do we know their associates?" he asks, and answering these questions is the top item on his to-do list.
Any minute now we should hear from CAIR about the profiling, anit-Muslim bigotry and rampant Islamophobia causing this scrutiny by LAPD's finest.
Mr. Hooper? Any comment?
From The Washington Times April 11 by Bill Gertz
LOS ANGELES | Police are using a combination of aggressive spy operations and community outreach to counter what Deputy Police Chief Michael P. Downing called the growing threat of Mumbai-style terrorist attacks — car bombings and small-arms-equipped suicide teams.
“The biggest fear I have is just what I don’t know,” Chief Downing, commanding officer of the counterterrorism and special operations bureau, said in an interview, in which he warned that the terrorism threat in the area remains “very real.”
“You need good intelligence. Do we have an idea of all the cells here? Do we know all the players? Do we know their associates? Does al Qaeda have good access to [weapons of mass destruction]? And how sophisticated can they get? That worries me,” he said.
For the Los Angeles Police Department, the top priority is countering violent, ideological extremism from several Muslim communities in the region made up of diaspora from Yemen, Libya, Egypt, Somalia, Pakistan, Afghanistan, India and elsewhere.
Most of the communities are linked to their home nations and are quick to respond to events there, something the police monitor closely.
Chief Downing identified the main terrorism threats as violent Islamists such as al Qaeda, Hezbollah and Hamas, along with three other terrorist categories: black separatists, white supremacist/sovereign citizen extremists, and animal rights terrorists.
Al Qaeda, he said, has “morphed” into a more ideological threat that motivates spinoffs such as the Yemen-based Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula.
Domestically, “now we kind of have a type of AQ in the United States,” Chief Downing said. “It’s where we have people who follow al Qaeda’s goals and objectives and mission and ideology.”
One likely attack scenario is a multitarget, synchronized assault by teams armed with smaller weapons, such as the 2008 terrorist attack on Mumbai that killed 174 people in 10 locations. A Mumbai-type attack is less expensive and would be designed to sow chaos and trigger media coverage, Chief Downing said, noting that a vehicle bomb like the one attempted in Times Square last year also is a risk.
A major threat is an effort by radical Muslims to take over the mosques in a region with the second-largest Muslim population in the U.S., Chief Downing said. He said radical Islamists have offered money to area mosques on the condition of replacing the imam with an extremist and then have threatened mosque leaders when they refused.
There is much more, read it all
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