Oct

15

Good News: NY Times May Have Compromised a Terror Investigation!

by Stephan Tawney | 11:06 am 

That lovable NY Times. Can’t mention the bestowing of an award on an American war hero, but has no issue potentially compromising a terror investigation.

Michael Moss of the New York Times has outted Inshallashaheed, the al Qaeda supporting blogger who we’ve been investigating for over a year. I’ve been sitting on his true identity for months, but in one fell swoop Samir ibn Zafar Khan, who lives in Charlotte North Carolina, has been identified.

Thanks a lot to Michael Moss and the New York Times for blowing an ongoing investigation into a known al Qaeda sympathizer who lives here in the United States. I’ve known about this piece for a few weeks and wrote the NY Times to ask Moss not to run it. No reply from the Times.

While we appreciate Moss’s commitment to spreading the word about the Internet Jihad, we really wish he would have consulted with us on the matter. He has a right to out Inshallahshaheed as Samir Khan, but doing so has jeopardized an ongoing investigation into a terror ring which begins in the US and ends in Somalia.

The FBI was apparently contacted by The NY Times, and said there was no investigation going on into Samir. However, right in the Times’ own article, it notes that Samir acts as a Western relay for video productions of “violent Islamic groups”. It also knew The Jawa Report was investigating Samir, referring several times to “citizen watch groups” and “vigilante groups”, acknowledging the shut downs TJR was responsible for. Rusty also emailed them asking not to compromise his investigation, but received no response.

In an interview at a local mosque, where he sat on a prayer rug wearing a traditional Arabic robe, Mr. Khan traced his increasing militancy.

His blog has attracted enough notoriety that vigilante groups opposed to jihadi sites have gotten him shut down a few times in recent months. He said he was somewhat surprised he had not been confronted by government authorities, although, he said, “I’ve never told anybody to build bombs.”

Yeah, he also denied he was an American.

Of course, The New York Times has a history of compromising terror investigations, most notably for compromising the NSA Terrorist Surveillance Program and SWIFT. American national security be damned, they’ve got papers to sell!

Allah sums this up:

Do it now because this story could get very big in one of two ways: either the Times did blow an investigation, in which case it’ll make that story from last week about the SITE leak pale by comparison, or Inshallahshaheed’s a strong candidate to turn up in the mix of a terror plot someday. Either way, build your knowledge base now.

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