The cell was nabbed last week after a year-long police dragnet that involved an informant, who the Times of London reported probably is Shahed Hussain, a former New York state motel owner. He began collaborating with the FBI in 2002 to avoid deportation to Pakistan after being arrested on charges of fraud.

NAMAW appealed to the Justice Department to investigate the case, accusing the FBI of plotting to entrap the cell as part of a campaign against Muslims. It said that the FBI is “creating the illusion that all Muslims are either terrorists or potential terrorists, thereby substantiating the use of racial and religious profiling on Muslims and Arabs.

“The FBI, posing as Al Qaeda-backed militants to brainwash and coax 'vulnerable' men into the walking trap of their own foiled terrorist plot, causes grave concern to the representatives of Muslims in American society," the organization said in a statement.

Police and federal investigators, after tracking the cell, sold them fake bombs and a phony Stinger missile that the four men planned to use to attack two Jewish buildings, including a synagogue, and a National Guard air base.

The cell wanted to create “a fireball that would make the country gasp, “according to a police officer.

The Muslim women’s group, which previously has asked for a probe of Jewish lobby groups for allegedly spreading hate messages, claimed that one of those arrested has been diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia. They also charged that the FBI informant “persuaded these men into believing that their religion obligated them to carry out acts of violence in the United States in retaliation for U.S. war crimes being carried out in the Muslim world.'   "
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 " A Michigan man who was aboard Northwest Airlines Flight 253 says he witnessed Umar Farouk Abdul Mutallab trying to board the plane in Amsterdam without a passport.

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In the Name of Allaah...
Instead of running to America ,( saying Im going for dawah), or hiding in a room, saying I want to increase ammal and imaan (while muslim brothers and sisters are being slaughtered) I should act. Of course. If my wife and sister are being raped, the last thing i want to hear from a supposingly muslim brother is that he has to increase his Ammal and imaan first...He would then reveal his hypocrisy in the worst time for me..

With action, Allaah(Ar Rahman) increases Imaan and ammal. Muslims are under attack, and Imam Imran Hosein admitted to an armed resistance in Pakistan.
In his article, the hypocrites would line up for US visa (of course with an excuse of increasing their Imaan first before fighting or giving dawah) and the true muslims  would take up what little arms they have and fight for the sake of Allaah fearing Him alone. These muslims that stay may not be the scholars but Allaah(swt) would give them Imaan and Ammal above the rest!  I know this for a FACT! once you act according to what the Ummah needs then your Imaan increases...

I am trying to use this knowledge ,that Allaah(swt) gave us the responsibility of knowing ,to prepare. That's the main reason we were given this knowledge(Al Hamdu Lillaah), not just to discuss and be amazed as it unfolds infront of us...
So in conclusion, those Muslim brothers in Pakistan, learn how to use a weapon, get and make links for weapons, learn bomb making skills if u can, prepare for this future for the sake of Allaah swt, for we want the great honour of benefitting this Ummah in the best way we can.
Others, recruit from your country to send funds and men to the battlefield of this Jihad, if you cant migrate, do what you can according to your means, Allaah alone knows your heart.

Just remember, when the Mehdi is leading the muslims with his army you can't just go and buy a one way ticket to Khorasan from US or UK...Migrate to the reigon, prepare for what was revealed to us...sell the life of this world, you would definately have to in order to come to this area of Pakistan and Afghanistan. But the Hereafter is much more lasting and better, of course.

Please share your ideas on " the ways of preparing for this future armed resistance",

May Allaah(swt) guide us, give us strength, and bless the best of His creation, Muhammad(s.a.w.) ... Ameen.

US special forces conducted secret raids inside Pakistan

Paul Woodward, Online Correspondent

A former Nato officer says multiple incursions into Pakistan's tribal areas by US special forces occurred between 2003 and 2008 but the Pakistanis 'were kept entirely in the dark about it'.

Meanwhile the US is applying increasing pressure on Pakistan's military to conduct operations against the Taliban in Balochistan, but a senior intelligence official with the Inter Services Intelligence says that there have already been 60 joint CIA-ISI operations in the south western province this year. The official told The Guardian that Pakistan's overstretched military 'can't fight everywhere at once'.

"American special forces have conducted multiple clandestine raids into Pakistan's tribal areas as part of a secret war in the border region where Washington is pressing to expand its drone assassination programme.

"A former Nato officer said the incursions, only one of which has been previously reported, occurred between 2003 and 2008, involved helicopter-borne elite soldiers stealing across the border at night, and were never declared to the Pakistani government.

" 'The Pakistanis were kept entirely in the dark about it. It was one of those things we wouldn't confirm officially with them,' said the source, who had detailed knowledge of the operations.

"Such operations are a matter of sensitivity in Pakistan. While public opinion has grudgingly tolerated CIA-led drone strikes in the tribal areas, any hint of American 'boots on the ground' is greeted with virulent condemnation."

In September 2008 it was reported that then-president George Bush had issued a secret order in July of that year, authorising US special forces to conduct operations inside Pakistan.

US commandos, backed by helicopter gunships, launched a ground raid in early September last year which the US claimed killed about two dozen insurgents. The raid was condemned by Pakistani officials who said most of the dead were civilians.

Declan Walsh reported on the growing strategic importance of Balochistan, a province that covers two-fifths the area of Pakistan and that now serves as a rear base for the Afghan Taliban.

"The new US approach to Balochistan is driven by battlefield realities. By next summer 30,000 western soldiers - a third British, the rest mostly American - will be based across the border in Helmand. Seth Jones, a civilian adviser to the US special forces commander in Afghanistan, said this month that the US must 'target Taliban leaders in Balochistan' through an expanded drone strike campaign. Pakistani officials trenchantly oppose the idea.

" 'We can't fight everyone, everywhere. We need to be pragmatic. And we will not be dictated to,' said a senior official with Inter Services Intelligence (ISI), speaking on condition of anonymity. The official admitted that insurgents 'do come and go' in Balochistan, but insisted the ISI was already cooperating with the CIA in the province, citing 60 joint raids over the past year.

"Drone strikes in densely populated Quetta would be 'disastrous', he said, both in terms of civilian casualties and anti-American hostility. 'I think this is just pressure tactics, the Americans aren't stupid enough to [extend drone strikes]. But if their objective is to destabilise Pakistan, that would be a good way to do it.'

"Analysts say Pakistan is playing a complicated strategic game - fighting the 'bad' Taliban in Waziristan, but secretly allying with the 'good' militants attacking Afghanistan. 'I can imagine the Pakistanis symbolically allowing the Americans to take out a few guys from the Quetta shura,' said Rifaat Hussain, a defence studies professor at Islamabad's Quaid-I-Azam University. 'But I can't see them entirely turning the tables. Pakistan's main concern is not to burn its boats with all shades of the Taliban.'"

In a report for McClatchy Newspapers, Jonathan Landay noted: "Less than a month after he unveiled it, President Barack Obama's Afghanistan strategy is in trouble, overtaken by new political turmoil in Pakistan that threatens to distract its bickering leaders from the fight against al Qa'eda and its Afghan and Pakistani allies.

"Washington and Islamabad were already embroiled in a nasty quarrel over US demands that Pakistan 'do more' to eliminate Afghan guerrilla and al Qa'eda sanctuaries on its side of the remote border with Afghanistan.

""Resolving the dispute now may have to await the outcome of what could be a long, messy battle for survival by the ruling Pakistan Peoples Party-led coalition against the judiciary, the opposition and the powerful military.

" 'Everyone's attention in Pakistan will be on the new political order,' said Nasim Ashraf, a scholar with the Middle East Institute who served in Pakistan's former military-run regime.

"Even without the crisis, Pakistani generals were unmoved by American denials that Obama's engagement in Afghanistan is limited, and they still see the Afghan militants as their best tools to stop rival India from enlisting Afghanistan in a plot to 'encircle' Pakistan after a US withdrawal, many experts believe."

Meanwhile, in Pakistan's Dawn newspaper, Huma Yusuf wrote: "The stage is being set for a military operation in North Waziristan, whether the Pakistani establishment likes it or not. American military heavyweights have urged the government and army to expand operations into the tribal agency, and refusals to do so have not been taken lightly.

"More than US demands to eliminate the Quetta shura, and certainly more than the South Waziristan operation, the possibility of an operation in North Waziristan raises fundamental questions about the course of the US-Pakistan partnership in the war against terror. Are we fighting our war, or their war? In either case, what does victory look like? And can there be a long-term solution to militancy in this region?

"For the moment, President Asif Zardari has refused to expand military operations into North Waziristan. But the US is not taking no for an answer. David Sedney, US deputy assistant secretary of defence for Pakistan and Afghanistan, has admitted that tensions between Washington and Islamabad are heightening over plans for the agency. He added that as soon as the US has 'exact targeting information', it will be passed on to Pakistan - and Islamabad's cooperation is expected."