Kayla Morgan (blog #6)
2/25/11
12:10 a.m.
Saudi Arabian man charged with plotting terrorist attack
Twenty year old Khalid Ali Aldawsari is a college student from Saudi Arabia, who is studying chemical engineering in the state of Texas. He was caught buying explosive chemicals over the internet as part of his plan to make bomb materials. His scheme was to hide the explosives inside dolls and baby carriages to blow up dams, nuclear plants and also the Dallas home of former President George W. Bush. He was already reported to the FBI on February 1st by the Carolina Biological Supply after making suspicious purchases. In the ongoing weeks, federal agents tracked down other purchases he had made and found extremist post he put up online. One thing they found wrote, “It is war…. until the infidels leave defeated.” Aldawsari first came to the states in 2008 making him legal in the U.S. on a student visa. He was charged on Thursday with attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction, and will appear in court on Friday. Aldawsari apparently sent emails to himself of places he was planning to bomb, listing twelve reservoir dams in Colorado and California. Also on the list he mentioned the “Tyrant’s House” which had former president Bush’s address attached to it. FBI said the North Carolina company that reported Aldawsari, was asking him a lot questions concerning why he was purchasing all the different chemicals, making him frustrated, so he later canceled his order and learned how to make the explosive TNP himself.
I read a comment regarding this article and it stated that this is why we should let no foreign male into the U.S. especially after 9/11. I disagree with this comment completely. Yes there are some sick and heartless people in the world, but that does not give us the right to label everyone who may look a certain way, or be from a certain part of the world. This terrorism case did prove that foreigners can live quietly in the U.S. without any suspicions from peers, teachers and anyone else around them. But we have to keep an open mind and not think that every foreigner is a terrorist. I’m sure there are many other people in the world planning terrorist attacks right now against the U.S., and some might be just like Aldawsari, the type that no one suspects. But luckily this time law officials responded to the threat quickly and no one was hurt.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/feb/24/saudi-man-charged-plotting-terrorist-attack/
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Professulas love foreign students because they are servile and do not make the professulas work for their paycheck. The professullas don’t care about students, they only care about their grant grubbing parasitism at taxpayer expense. They want all their students to be commy nutty ochronosers like Obama, not get real jobs. So many foreign born professullas fled to the USA because we are better but then they have the audacity to insist we become like the places they fled.
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