02/12/2012
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Diverse Muslims continue to behave badly in America, as shown by the recent guilty plea of Uzbek citizen Ulugbek Kodirov (pictured) for plotting to murder the President. Apparently the more hostile members of the Religion of Peace no longer regard Mr. Obama as a secret Muslim and one of their own tribe (although BHO has gone to great lengths to embrace his Muslim heritage, including his famous Cairo outreach speech).
The would-be assassin Kodirov entered the US on a student visa, but never attended any college (only the mosque), making him an illegal.
He escaped a life sentence by agreeing to a plea deal, so the details of yet another Islamic threat are being swept under the rug from the view of the public.
Interestingly, The New York Times recently reported that the Muslim terror threat is overblown, according to a recent study:
Radical U.S. Muslims Little Threat, Study Says, NYTimes, February 7, 2012
WASHINGTON — A feared wave of homegrown terrorism by radicalized Muslim Americans has not materialized, with plots and arrests dropping sharply over the two years since an unusual peak in 2009, according to a new study by a North Carolina research group.
The study, to be released on Wednesday, found that 20 Muslim Americans were charged in violent plots or attacks in 2011, down from 26 in 2010 and a spike of 47 in 2009. [ … ]
Are we supposed to find those numbers reassuring? Nineteen determined jihadists managed to murder nearly 3,000 Americans on September 11, 2001. The police need to catch every dangerous plotter to keep us safe, and if the bad guys get lucky just once then innocent citizens will die. If the Uzbek got even close to the liberal media’s darling Obama, they would be squawking up a storm about the lack of security against obvious threats from abroad.
Back to the recent case:
Uzbek man pleads guilty in plot to kill Obama, Associated Press, February 10, 2012
Birmingham, Ala. (AP) — A man from Uzbekistan who pleaded guilty Friday to plotting to kill President Barack Obama with an automatic rifle claimed he was acting at the direction of an Islamic terror group in his home country.
Authorities said Ulugbek Kodirov had discussed trying to kill the president as he campaigned for re-election because he would be out in public more often. Kodirov entered the plea during a hearing in Birmingham before U.S. District Judge Abdul K. Kallon, an Obama appointee.
Defense attorney Lance Bell said the 22-year-old Kodirov avoided a potential life sentence by pleading guilty. He faces up to 30 years in prison, though Bell expected Kodirov to receive about half that. The judge also told Kodirov that he will face deportation once he’s released from prison.
Kodirov pleaded guilty to three counts: Threatening to kill the president, possessing an automatic weapon, and providing material support to terrorists. Four other charges were dropped as part of the deal.
Area Muslims who knew Kodirov were stunned to learn of his plans.
“I really didn’t want to believe it,” said Ashfaq Taufique, president of the Birmingham Islamic Society. “I knew him. He attended mosque. He never demonstrated any radicalization in his behavior, his words.”
U.S. Attorney Joyce Vance said members of the Islamic community assisted in the case against Kodirov.
The plea agreement said that in July 2011, Kodirov claimed he had been communicating with a person known as “the Emir.” Kodirov said the person was a member of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, which has been designated a terrorist organization by the U.S. State Department. Authorities did not reveal the identity of the Emir.
The Emir “asked Kodirov if there was anything Kodirov could do about President Obama since Kodirov was closer geographically to the president than the Emir,” according to his plea agreement.
Kodirov and a person who helped authorities discussed possible ways to kill Obama, including from long distance using a sniper rifle.
The agreement said Kodirov became disheartened when he realized how expensive sniper rifles are and realized he lacked the skill to pull off the shot. Kodirov then decided he could shoot the president from a closer distance in public.
“Kodirov said that he did not care if he got shot and killed, as long as he killed President Obama,” according to the plea deal.
Kodirov then struck up a friendship with another person in Birmingham who spoke Uzbek, and the two often attended mosque together. The two often looked at jihadist websites and videos on Kodirov’s laptop, the agreement said.
On July 11, after the two went to a mosque in Birmingham to pray, Kodirov asked his friend to buy a gun for him so he could kill Obama.
Kodirov told the person he “knew this was what he was supposed to do for Islam,” the plea agreement says.
Kodirov was arrested in July.
Bell, the defense attorney, said Kodirov regrets what happened and “accepted responsibility for the charges he pled guilty to.”
He was accused of making four separate threats against Obama within a five-day period when he was meeting either with a witness who went to police or an undercover officer.
Vance, the prosecutor, said Kodirov’s threats were serious enough that law enforcement officers felt they had to intervene.
“He had developed a plan, he was reaching out to other individuals for aid and acquiring firepower necessary to kill the president,” Vance said.
A complaint said Kodirov contacted an unidentified person trying to buy weapons in early July, and that person became a confidential source for the government. Accompanied by the witness, Kodirov purchased a Sendra M115A1 automatic rifle from an undercover agent at a Birmingham-area motel on July 13, when authorities said the final threat was made against the president. The agent also gave Kodirov four hand grenades with the powder removed.
Authorities say Kodirov was in the country illegally because he obtained a student visa but never enrolled in school.
Uzbekistan is located in central Asia and was once part of the former Soviet Union. It is slightly larger than California and the vast majority of its population is Muslim. Islamic terrorists have been linked to sporadic violence in the country for more than a decade, according to the State Department.
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