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Terror From Hartford (Part II)

Jeremy Reynalds, Ph.D. - 8/29/2005

[Part I can be found here] While checking activity recently on the Yahoo groups message board "Islamic Resistance," I found a very disturbing message. From kashmirmujahideen@yahoo.com, (km) it read in part, "I wish I could fight in jihad, but who will supply me? I'm just one man in my eyes. I say, I can help, put me on the first flight, but (are) there other men and women of Islam like me? In dreams I can see myself in battle strong and brave, sweat on my face into battle I go. I just want the day to come to me. Is there anyone that (I can) ask? Maybe I can be a leader, or just a jehadi reading the Quran and praying to my god that I fear. Oh god, I wish I had money. I would help my Muslim brothers and sister. This letter is to the world."

Using a pseudonym, I wrote a sympathetic letter to KM, offering "assistance." His response read, "If you could start sending (sic) donates to my address, I will also be sending hand written letters and photos. Or do you want to wait (to) write back to me brother ... you are more than a brother, you are the reason I can go to jihad in Iraq, Afghanistan, Chechnya, Kashmir. I hope we will meet in paradise. May Allah bless you. I shall pray for you and your family."

Corresponding with KM over the next few weeks, I came to learn KM's real name – Justin Kadafi Singleton – a bank account number, and his home address. He also sent me two pictures of him.

The full story of this correspondence is at www.joyjunction.org/bulletin/modules.php?name=News&file=showarticle&threadid=1176.

All of the information I received about KM I turned over to the FBI. I am unaware at the time of writing as to whether there are (potential) legal proceedings against him, and if so how they are being handled.


MORE FROM KM

However, Islamic Resistance was not the only Yahoo group on which KM was apparently posting. I also found some chilling messages that KM had posted on two other Yahoo groups. Having communicated with KM a number of times during the last few weeks and seen firsthand the unsophisticated nature of his writing, I suspect that KM took these comments from somewhere else and posted them on the Yahoo group without attributing authorship. However, I assume that as they were posted under his name they reflect at least to a great extent what was on his heart.

A number of KM's postings were on a group titled "New Al- Qaeda" (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/New_Al-Qaeda).

One June 27 message apparently posted by KM read, "Call on every Muslim who believes in God and wishes to be rewarded, to comply with God's order to kill the Americans and plunder their money wherever and whenever they find it. We also call on Muslim Ulema, leaders, youths, and soldiers to launch the raid on Satan's U.S. troops and the devil's supporters allying with them, and to displace those who are behind them so that they may learn a lesson.

"Almighty God also says,‘O ye who believe, what is the matter with you, that when ye are asked to go forth in the cause of God, ye cling so heavily to the earth! Do ye prefer the life of this world to the hereafter? But little is the comfort of this life, as compared with the hereafter. Unless ye go forth, He will punish you with a grievous penalty, and put others in your place; but Him ye would not harm in the least. For God hath power over all things.'"

A July 13 posting also apparently from KM seemed to explain at least some of the reason for the anti-American sentiment. It read, "Mentioning the name(s) of Clinton (or Bush) or that of the American government provokes disgust and revulsion. This is because ... (they) directly reflect in our minds the picture of children with their heads cut off before even reaching one year of age.

"The hearts of Muslims are filled with hatred towards the United States of America and the American president The President has a heart that knows no words. A heart that kills hundreds of children definitely, knows no words. Our people in the Arabian Peninsula will sent him messages with no words because he does not know any words.

"I say that this represents an a blatant provocation to 1,250 million Muslims. To these mothers I say if they are concerned for their sons, then let them object to the American government's policy and to the American president. Do not let themselves be cheated by his standing before the bodies of the killed soldiers describing the freedom fighters in Saudi Arabia as terrorists. It is he who is a terrorist who pushed their sons into this for the sake of the Israeli interest."

Another message apparently posted by KM on the same day read in part, "A believer must rest assured that life is only in the hands of Allah, and sustenance is also in the hands of Allah, the Almighty. As for fearing for one's life, it is difficult to explain to you how we think of ourselves, unless you have full belief.

"We believe that no one could take out one breath of our written life as ordained by Allah. We see that we see that getting killed in the cause of Allah is a great honor wished for by our Prophet ... He said in his Hadith, ‘I swear to Allah, I wish to fight for Allah's cause and be killed, I'll do it again and be killed, and I'll do it again and be killed.'"

"Being killed for Allah's cause is a great honor achieved by only those who are the elite of the nation. We love this kind of death for Allah's cause as much as you like to live. We have nothing to fear for. It is something we wish for."

The New Al- Qaeda group is self- described as "formed to stress the irrationality and illegality of the United States' ‘war on terror' and America's attacks on Afghanistan, and other vulnerable oppressed people around the globe. This site emphasizes the rationality of some of the arguments put forward by Osama Bin Laden to justify his war on America."

Interestingly, in spite of KM's postings, the group description still reads, "The facilitator is a pacifist and rejects all forms of violence by state and non-state actors. He is also a proponent of the world wide social justice movement and despite rejecting Osama Bin Laden's call to the use of force against the United States supports the war against the United States' oppression and exploitation of the majority of the world's people."

A July 31 message (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Jehaad/message/254) from KM, now writing under the name of Black Hand Militia, appeared on another Yahoo group called "Jehaad." It was titled, "Jihad is duty of all."