Terrorist plot unravels at rural Oregon ranch

Les Zaitz/The Oregonian

James Ujaama says he chose the 360-acre Dog Cry Ranch near Bly for a terrorist training camp because the terrain, with small trees and rocks and widely varying temperatures, is similar to Afghanistan's.

link: http://www.oregonlive.com/news/index.ssf/2009/10/terrorist_plot_unravels_at_rur.html

Oussama Kassir, a self-proclaimed al-Qaida tough guy, flew into a rage after his late-night arrival at a remote Oregon ranch.

The barren rangeland, suggestive of Afghanistan, was to become an Islamic fighter training base.

Kassir expected to be welcomed by Muslim recruits, eager to learn the ways of war. Instead, he got an Islamic leader from Seattle, a mentally impaired 18-year-old and two women more interested in canning jars than jihad.

Kassir expected access to a weapons armory.

He got one pistol and a .22-caliber rifle.

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Kassir recently was sentenced to life in prison for his effort, and his two partners in the enterprise are awaiting extradition to the U.S.

The whole set up was in fact a hustle by a petty crook from Seattle named James Ujaama.

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more @ link:

http://www.oregonlive.com/news/index.ssf/2009/10/terrorist_plot_unravels_at_rur.html

is alive and well in Miame and exhibiting his artwork no less. War on Terror, my granny.

Journalist Ann Louise Bardach on How Cuban Exile Luis Posada Carriles Remains a Free Man in Miami Despite His Role in Airline and Hotel Bombings

Luis Posada Carriles is accused of masterminding the 1976 bombing of a Cuban airliner that killed all seventy-three people on board, and he has publicly admitted ties to a series of hotel bombings in Cuba in 1997. In 2000, he was arrested in Panama City for plotting to blow up an auditorium where Fidel Castro would be speaking. Despite his record, Luis Posada Carriles is currently living freely in Miami. He is awaiting trial in Texas early next year on charges of immigration fraud and lying to authorities about his involvement in the hotel bombings. A new book by award-winning investigative journalist Ann Louise Bardach provides an insider’s view on the case against Posada. Bardach first interviewed Posada in 1998 for the New York Times in one of his only in-depth interviews.

http://www.democracynow.org/2009/10/16/journalist_ann_louise_bardach_on_how

Published on Friday, February 8, 2008 by CommonDreams.org
Our Terrorist in Miami

by Medea Benjamin

On the streets of Miami, Luis Posada Carriles might look like just one of the dozens of nice, elderly Cuban gentlemen who gather outside the Versailles Restaurant for a strong cup of java. But there is nothing nice or gentle about Posada Carriles. For starters, he is responsible for the 1976 downing of a Cuban passenger plane with 73 people on board-the first act of aviation terrorism in the Western hemisphere. In 1997 he orchestrated the bombing of hotels in Havana that resulted in the death of Italian businessman Fabio Di Celmo. In 2000 he was arrested, and later convicted, in Panama for plotting to assassinate Fidel Castro by blowing up an auditorium full of students.

On a recent trip to Venezuela, I learned of his sordid history of torturing and assassinating suspected leftists when he worked for the Venezuelan secret police. Jesus Marrero, a student leader in 1973, painfully recounted how Posada Carriles supervised his torture, including electrodes to his penis. Brenda Esquivel, captured when she was 8-months pregnant, says Posada ordered his men to "destroy the seed before it was born"--kicking her so brutally that the baby died in her womb. Her sister Marlene, who was imprisoned with her 20-day-old baby, was forced to watch as Posada's agents burned her baby with cigarettes.

The U.S. Justice Department has called Posada "an unrepentant criminal and admitted mastermind of terrorist plots and attacks. " When he was being held in a U.S. immigration detention center in 2005 for having sneaked into the country with a false passport, the Department of Homeland Security said that due to his long history of criminal activity and violence, his release from detention would "pose a danger to both the community and the national security of the United States."

So why, then, does Luis Posada Carriles live freely in Miami, eating lechón asado at the Versailles Restaurant, socializing at the Big Five Club, exhibiting his paintings at the Miami Art Museum? Why isn't he behind bars?

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/02/08/6919

Apparently you aren't a real terrorist in this country until the FBI has LOST you, the CIA has RECRUITED you and you've had at least one exhibition in Miami.

Here's one of his early installations that no one in Miami saw:

...we'd be at war.

about terror plots against Cuba, not about our national security at all.

Maybe they'll learn to paint in prison.

:wow:

Maybe Cheney was right after all.

asked her about this when it was happening and she said no one cared or knew about it. Bly has about ten people and its beautiful. Up the road is Lakeview and Bend.

Merrill and Dairy, too.

:)

Not exactly a hotbed of terrorists, except for all the white guys with guns in their pickups.

for about 70 years.