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    Mr. Ortega’s behavior and the age at which it appears to have begun to suggest that he has “a textbook case” of schizophrenia, said Dr. E. Fuller Torrey, who researches the disease and is the founder of the Treatment Advocacy Center in Arlington, Va
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    Manhunt underway for Iraq War vet around Mt. Ranier



    AUTHORITIES say the body of an Iraq war veteran suspected of killing a Mount Rainier National Park ranger is believed to have been found dead in the park.




    Barnes allegedly shot Anderson with a high-powered assault rifle before fleeing into the wilderness on foot. Picture: AP

    He apparently died after trudging into chest-deep snow while trying to elude snow-shoe wearing SWAT team members and other police who were on his trail.

    Twenty-four-year-old Benjamin Colton Barnes reportedly fled to the remote park following an earlier shooting that wounded four near Seattle.

    Washington State Patrol spokesman Guy Gill says a body believed to be Barnes was found face down in the snow. The identity of the body has not been confirmed.

    Almost all park visitors had been evacuated from the area following the Sunday slaying of Margaret Anderson.

    Ms Anderson, 34, who was married to another park ranger, was gunned down on New Year's Day after setting up a roadblock to stop a driver who had failed to pull over when flagged by other rangers in Mount Rainier National Park, The Daily Telegraph reported.

    The gunman, named last night as Benjamin Colton Barnes, 24, stepped out of the vehicle and opened fire with a shotgun.

    It took authorities nearly 90 minutes to get to Mrs Anderson because Barnes continued to fire an assault rifle at SWAT team officers as they tried to assist her.
    Barnes fled on foot into the wilderness where officers were tracking him through the snow. Police found weapons, body armour and survivalist gear in his vehicle.

    He was already wanted for the shooting of four people about eight hours earlier at a party where police said an early-morning session of "show and tell" with guns among several armed partygoers ended with a shoot-out.

    Witnesses told the police Barnes was asked to leave the party earlier in the night before returning and opening fire.

    Barnes is reported to be a former soldier with previous run-ins with the law. He allegedly shot Anderson with a high-powered assault rifle before fleeing into the wilderness on foot around 6.11pm (AEDT) local time.

    Nighttime temperatures below -1C were expected as law enforcement officers search the expansive 953 square-kilometre national park in Washington state, south of Seattle.

    A car with weapons, body armour, and survivalist gear was discovered, although it was initially unclear if that car belonged to Barnes.

    Law enforcement personnel flooded the national park, centred on the spectacular snow-capped volcanic Mount Rainier, which is south of Skyway.

    The park, which had only just opened for New Year's Day, was immediately closed after the shooting.

    A popular destination for hikers and outdoors enthusiasts, Mount Rainier National Park boasts miles of hiking trails offering spectacular vistas of the 4392-metre peak.

    Massive manhunt underway in Washington park for heavily armed suspected killer


    By Mike Carter, Craig Welch, Steve Miletich and Jack Broom, Seattle Times January 2, 2012

    Seattle, Wash., - A man who was being sought in the shooting of four people at a New Year's party in South King County early Sunday is suspected in the fatal shooting of a park ranger in Mount Rainier National Park later in the morning.

    Park Ranger Margaret Anderson, a mother of two who was married to another ranger at the park, was shot about 10:30 a.m. after setting up a roadblock to stop a car that was fleeing another officer.

    She was shot when the driver apparently stepped out of the vehicle with a shotgun and opened fire. It took authorities nearly 90 minutes to get to her because the assailant continued to fire an assault rifle at Pierce County SWAT team officers as they tried to assist the injured ranger, officials said.

    Anderson was the first park ranger shot and killed in the line of duty at Mount Rainier.

    Nearly eight hours earlier, King County sheriff's deputies responded to shots fired at a party in Skyway, where an early-morning session of "show and tell" with guns among several armed partygoers devolved into a shootout, according to detectives.

    Four people were shot, and three people fled the scene. One of them was identified as Benjamin Colton Barnes, 24.

    Kevin Bacher, a spokesman for Mount Rainier National Park, said the vehicle recovered at the scene of Anderson's shooting was registered to Barnes. Authorities say they found weapons, body armor and survivalist gear in the vehicle.

    Pierce County sheriff's spokesman Ed Troyer said they know the suspect is carrying an assault rifle because shell casings were found at the scene, but no assault rifle was found in the car. Troyer displayed photos of Barnes, including one showing him holding two assault-style rifles.

    "He had come up here fully armed with equipment to hide out," Troyer said.

    The manhunt Sunday resulted in the shutdown of the park, and 125 visitors and 17 staff members were held in lockdown at the park's Jackson Visitor Center.

    Authorities late Sunday night had planned to keep the visitors in lockdown until at least Monday morning, but actually started an evacuation at midnight.

    "The brought people out in their own vehicles, in small sets accompanied by law enforcement vehicles," Spokesman Lee Taylor said. "It took a couple of hours, but by 3:30 a.m. they had evacuated all 125 and another 25 who were still at Longmire."

    Taylor said there was a plan at some point yesterday to use an armored vehicle to evacuate people, but authorities instead let visitors drive their own cars under escort.

    The park would remain closed Monday, officials announced.

    Searchers flew over the park Sunday night in a plane with infrared equipment that picks up signs of body heat.

    Meanwhile, a tactical team was trying to track the assailant through nearly 2 feet of fresh snow as temperatures fell. More than 100 law-enforcement officers from the National Park Service, FBI, Pierce County and the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife were on the scene.

    "We believe we have a good track on him," Troyer said. "But he's way out ahead of us."

    The gunman's tracks went into creeks and other waterways, making it more difficult for crews to follow. "He's intentionally trying to get out of the snow," Troyer said.

    FBI spokeswoman Ayn Sandalo-Dietrich said the bureau has dedicated "considerable resources" to the shooting, which involves the death of a federal officer in a national park, meaning any prosecution will likely wind up in federal court.

    "We're talking about a subject that has an advantage," State Patrol spokesman Guy Gill said. "He's barricaded down in the woods, armed. It puts officers at a disadvantage. It requires a lot of planning."

    Barnes is the father of a 1-year-old daughter, and custody documents filed in Pierce County Superior Court by the child's mother describe him as an Iraq war veteran plagued by anger and depression who was hospitalized after threatening suicide last January.

    In July, the mother, Nicole Santos, petitioned the court for an amended parenting plan and restraining order, citing threats of violence by Barnes.
    "I just feel there is so much instability," Santos wrote in a July 19 petition seeking to restrict Barnes' access to the child.

    "I think it is important for the court to know that Benjamin was also deployed to Iraq in 2007-2008 and has possible PTSD issues," she wrote, referring to post-traumatic stress disorder. "He gets easily irritated, angry, depressed and frustrated.

    "Benjamin also has a lot of weapons in his home, such as, firearms and knives," Santos wrote. "I am fearful of what Benjamin is capable of with the small arsenal he has in his home and his recent threats of suicide."

    Attempts to contact Barnes' family were unsuccessful. A man who answered the phone at a number associated with his parents in California said he had no comment and hung up.

    The incident at Mount Rainier started about 10:15 a.m., Taylor said, when park rangers attempted to pull over a vehicle on the road just above Longmire after it blew past a tire-chain checkpoint. Pursuing officers radioed ahead for backup.

    In response, Anderson drove to an area known as Barn Flats, about a mile or so south of Paradise, and used her cruiser to block the road.

    When the fleeing car approached, according to Taylor, the driver stopped.
    "He just jumped out and shot her," Taylor said.

    A maintenance worker and his colleague had been driving up the road toward Paradise when they heard on the park's radio system that rangers were chasing what appeared to be a blue Pontiac in the same direction. They pulled over and let the car and law-enforcement officer pass them, the worker said.

    "As soon as they went by, we pulled out and started to follow," said Steve Young, who was in the passenger seat. "At that point we heard they had an officer who was coming down who was going to try and stop the vehicle from above."

    Young said the ranger's vehicle that they were following was around a corner about 100 yards ahead of them, when he heard at least five shots. Suddenly, the ranger's vehicle started backing down.

    "His windows were shot out," Young said by phone from Longmire.

    Lisa Pyle, from Auburn, said she and her husband, Derek Pyle, were on their way up because their daughter had been camping at Paradise, but a ranger turned them away. They saw a ranger's car near the visitor center with three bullet holes through the windshield. Their daughter and other guests were locked down inside the park.

    Authorities think the ambush at Mount Rainier had its beginnings at the house party in Skyway, where deputies responded to a 911 call of a shooting, according to King County sheriff's Sgt. Cindi West, spokeswoman for the department.

    Deputies arrived to find three men and a woman shot. All were taken to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle, where two were listed in critical condition late Sunday. All four are in their 20s.

    Deputies say witnesses told them that a man — now believed to be Barnes — had been at the party and got into an argument.

    West said at least one person at the party appears to have returned fire, although it was not believed that the assailant was injured, she said. The man left the scene afterward.

    West said numerous rounds were fired: "It was quite a shootout," she said.
    She said three children were in the home and that none of the victims had a significant criminal history.

    Anderson and her husband, Eric Anderson, had both worked at Rainier for about four years. They have two daughters, ages 3 and 1.

    "Margaret is a wonderful, wonderful young lady," said her mother-in-law, Cynthia Anderson, of Hanson, Mass.

    Margaret Anderson was born near Toronto and grew up in Connecticut and Westfield, N.J.

    Gov. Chris Gregoire, in a statement Sunday night, said: "We are grateful for her service and for the service of the community of park rangers and employees who are no doubt impacted by this senseless tragedy."

    Congress lifted a ban on carrying loaded guns in national parks in February 2010 amid warnings by critics that the action would lead to gun violence and poaching.

    Rangers have one of the most widely varying jobs at Mount Rainier. As the park's front-line law-enforcement officers, they drive lonely rural roads by themselves and do everything from issue speeding tickets to respond to car accidents to arrest lawbreakers. But they also hike trails, respond to fires and are some of the first called out to search for lost or injured visitors. During winter, rangers also help set up signs and prepare recreation spots for snowshoers.

    The park has about 15 law-enforcement officers at this time of year, Snook said.

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    Man arrested with explosives at airport was Army expert



    Police booking photo of Trey Scott Atwater provided by the Midland County Sheriffs Office on January 2, 2012. Atwater, 30, was booked in the Midland County Jail after a routine TSA check noticed he had explosives in his carry on luggage while trying to board an American Eagle flight from Midland International Airport to Dallas Saturday morning, according to an FBI statement.

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    By Jim Forsyth
    SAN ANTONIO | Mon Jan 2, 2012 7:24pm EST

    SAN ANTONIO (Reuters) - A man arrested on New Years Eve at a Texas airport with explosives is an Army-trained demolitions expert and member of the elite Green Berets who served in Afghanistan and is stationed at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, military officials said on Monday.

    Trey Scott Atwater, 30, was being held in the Midland, Texas County Jail on a federal charge of attempting to board an aircraft with an explosive, the FBI said.

    He was detained after a routine Transportation Security Administration (TSA) check noticed he had explosives in his carry on luggage while trying to board an American Eagle flight from Midland International Airport to Dallas Saturday morning, according to an FBI statement.

    Officials declined to speculate on the reason Atwater had the explosives, which city officials said were in "military grade explosives wrapping" in his bag.

    "At no time was there any danger to the people at Midland International Airport or the people of Midland Texas," Mark Morgan, Special Agent in Charge of the El Paso office of the FBI said in a statement.

    Michael Martinez, an FBI spokesman in El Paso, declined to say what type of explosive he was carrying, or the quantity of the explosive. It is not known whether he was in uniform at the time. Records show Atwater is a 1999 graduate of a Midland, Texas high school.

    The address listed for Atwater in the Midland jail records is the home of Bonnie Atwater, Trey's mother. A woman who identified herself as Bonnie Atwater at that address told Reuters "I have no comment," and then hung up the phone.

    Lt. Col. Tom Bryant, a spokesman for Army Special Operations Command at Ft. Bragg confirmed that Atwater is an Army Sergeant First Class in the elite Green Berets, assigned as an instructor at the John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School at Ft. Bragg, where he is a member of the Special Forces Engineers.

    Bryant told Reuters on Monday Atwater is an engineering and demolitions expert, and in that role would be "comfortable" with explosives, although he did not know whether he would have had explosives on his trip back home to Midland.

    "I can't say if that might have been required," Bryant said.

    Bryant confirmed that Atwater recently returned from deployment to Afghanistan. A notice in the Odessa American newspaper in March of 2010 said at that time Atwater was preparing for his third deployment to Afghanistan.

    Bryant said Atwater's arrest had surprised military personnel at Ft. Bragg.
    "We in the Special Operations Command take pride in upholding the highest standards. The entire team is disappointed," Bryant said.

    The Army is cooperating with the FBI and local authorities in Texas, and he said military punishment is also possible for Atwater, regardless of the outcome of the federal case.

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    Tweeting the word 'drill' could mean your Twitter account is read by U.S. government spies

    • Fake profiles used by Department of Homeland Security, says privacy group
    • List of keywords flags 'danger' signal
    • DHS may attempt to identify users from their accounts
    • Keywords include 'virus', 'drill' and 'illegal immigrant'

    By Rob Waugh

    Last updated at 9:59 AM on 28th December 2011




    The Department for Homeland Security announced plans to scan social networks for keywords such as 'human to animal', 'outbreak', 'strain' and 'drill', and then identify users, claims an online privacy group

    The Department of Homeland Security makes fake Twitter and Facebook profiles for the specific purpose of scanning the networks for 'sensitive' words - and tracking people who use them.

    Simply using a word or phrase from the DHS's 'watch' list could mean that spies from the government read your posts, investigate your account, and attempt to identify you from it, according to an online privacy group.

    The words which attract attention range from ones seemingly related to diseases or bio-weapons such as 'human to animal' and 'outbreak' to other, more obscure words such as 'drill' and 'strain'.

    The DHS also watches for words such as 'illegal immigrant'.

    The DHS outlined plans to scans blogs, Twitter and Facebook for words such as 'illegal immigrant', 'outbreak', 'drill', 'strain', 'virus', 'recovery', 'deaths', 'collapse', 'human to animal' and 'trojan', according to an 'impact assessment' document filed by the agency.

    When its search tools net an account using the phrases, they record personal information.

    It's still not clear how this information is used - and who the DHS shares it with.

    An online privacy group, the Electronic Privacy Information Centre has requested information on the DHS's scans, which it says the agency announced in February.

    The privacy group has requested information on the DHS, and contractors it claims are working with the agency to scan social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter.

    The group says that the government has used scans of social media before to analyse specific events - such as the 2010 BP oil spill - but this general 'watching' of social media using fake profiles is new.

    'The initiatives were designed to gather information from 'online forums, blogs, public websites, and message boards,' to store and analyze the information gathered, and then to 'disseminate relevant and appropriate de-identified information to federal, state, local, and foreign governments and private sector partners,' the group said in a court filing.

    The group claims that a request under the Freedom of Information Act to access the documentation has gone unanswered.

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    Gosh... I had an illegal immigrant deliver me an electric drill, but he had a flu virus and we're not sure what strain it was... but the drill was heavy and he strained his gonads doing it.

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    Domestic Terrorism: A Persistent Threat in the United States

    Thursday, 23 August 2012 16:14 Scott Stewart

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    A string of incidents over the past month has served as a reminder that despite the intense, decadelong focus on the jihadist threat, domestic terrorism is still an issue in the United States. On Aug. 5, Wade Page opened fire on the congregation of a Sikh temple in Oak Creek, Wis., killing six and wounding three others.

    Though Page killed himself and did not leave any evidence explicitly listing his motives for the attack, his long association with the white supremacist movement was clearly a factor in his target choice.

    On Aug. 15, Floyd Corkins shot and wounded a security guard in the lobby of the Family Research Council's office in Washington after the guard blocked him from entering the office. Corkins reportedly was carrying a bag containing a box of ammunition and a number of Chick-fil-A sandwiches. He apparently targeted the Family Research Council because of its public support for Chick-fil-A in the wake of the controversy over statements made by the fast food chain's founder regarding gay marriage. According to media reports, Corkins said, "I don't like your politics," before opening fire. And on Aug. 16, an off-duty sheriff's deputy was shot and wounded while working as a security guard at an oil refinery in St. John the Baptist Parish, La.

    When two other deputies responded to a nearby trailer park where a vehicle reportedly associated with the shooting was spotted, the trailers' occupants ambushed and killed the deputies. An additional officer was wounded, along with two of the suspects involved in the shooting, Brian Smith and Kyle Joekel. Seven people have been arrested in connection with the incident, including Smith's father and brother. News reports indicate that the group was associated with the sovereign citizen movement, and members of it were under investigation for weapons offenses and previous threats to law enforcement officers in other states. All three of these incidents stem from distinct ideological streams: the white supremacist skinhead movement, the radical left and the Posse Comitatus/sovereign citizen movement. While unrelated as far as timing and motive, when taken together they show that extremist ideologies subscribed to by certain individuals on the fringes of U.S. society continue to radicalize some to the point that they are willing to take violent action in accordance with those ideologies. Domestic terrorism is thus alive and well.

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    First, we need to remember that terrorism is a tactic practiced by actors from a wide array of ethnic and religious backgrounds who follow various ideologies stretching from anarchism to neo-Nazism. Terrorism does not equal jihadism.

    Long before jihadism reared its head in the United States, anarchist Leon Czolgosz assassinated President William McKinley, white supremacist James Earl Ray assassinated Martin Luther King Jr., and Posse Comitatus member Gordon Kahl killed three law enforcement officers in a multistate spree of violence. Indeed, as we look at all of the recent attention being paid to lone assailants and small cells, it must be remembered that anti-government and white supremacist leaders in the United States embraced the leaderless resistance model of operations long before jihadist groups began to promote it. In 1989, William Pierce wrote his novel Hunter, which detailed the exploits of a fictional lone wolf named Oscar Yeager and was loosely based upon real-life lone wolf Joseph Paul Franklin. In 1990, Richard Kelly Hoskins published a book titled Vigilantes of Christendom, in which he introduced the concept of a "Phineas Priest," or a lone wolf militant chosen and set apart by God to be his agent of vengeance upon the earth.

    In 1992, former Ku Klux Klan leader Louis Beam published an essay in his magazine, The Seditionist, that provided a detailed outline for moving the white supremacist movement toward a leaderless resistance model. Jihadists such as Abu Musab al-Suri first began to promote leaderless resistance only after the U.S. response to the 9/11 attacks began to severely affect al Qaeda. But even so, groups such as al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula did not really embrace al-Suri's concept of leaderless resistance until late 2009, and the al Qaeda core did not follow suit until 2010. The recent spate of incidents is also not all that unusual.

    Other examples stand out in recent years of different streams of domestic radicalism leading to a confluence of attacks by different types of actors. For example, on April 19, 1995, a large truck bomb built by anti-government extremists Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols detonated outside the Alfred P. Murrah Building in Oklahoma City, killing 168 people. Five days later, on April 25, timber lobbyist Gilbert Murray became the third fatality and final victim of Unabomber Theodore Kaczynski's long Neo-Luddite bombing campaign. Another such convergence occurred in the summer of 1999.

    After conducting arsons at three Sacramento-area synagogues, brothers Matthew and Tyler Williams killed a gay couple in their home in Happy Valley, Calif., on July 1. On July 2, World Church of the Creator adherent Benjamin Smith began a multistate shooting spree that killed two and wounded nine and that only ended when he killed himself July 4. On Aug. 10, former Aryan Nations member Buford Furrow mounted an armed assault against a Jewish day care center in Los Angeles, during which he wounded five people before killing a Filipino-American mailman on the street. Domestic terrorism in the United States is a cyclical phenomenon.

    There are discernable peaks in that cycle, like those we've discussed -- and like the one the country is currently experiencing. The intense political polarization that has occurred in recent years in the United States, the widespread distrust of the government on both the extreme right and the extreme left, and the current election-year rhetoric will further inflame political passions. This means that the current cycle of domestic terrorism plots and violence is likely to continue for at least the next several months.

    Implications


    While domestic terrorism is currently at the peak of the cycle in the United States, it is important to remember that most domestic terrorism cases tend to be simple attacks conducted by a lone actor or small cell. There are far more instances of simple bombings, such as those conducted by Olympic Park bomber Eric Rudolph or animal rights bomber Daniel Andreas San Diego, than the sort of large truck bomb attack committed by McVeigh and Nichols, which was an anomaly. Even more common than bombing attacks are the armed assaults that we've seen recently, and they are generally implemented against soft targets -- something we've talked about in relation to other terrorist threats. And that means that the implications for domestic terrorist threats are essentially the same as they are for the jihadist or Iranian threat.

    First, it is critical for people to remember that terrorist attacks do not appear out of a vacuum.

    Individuals planning an attack -- no matter what their motivation or ideology -- follow a discernable cycle, and that cycle involves behavior that can be identified and detected before the attack is conducted.

    Indeed, it appears that the Smith family and their associates involved in the Louisiana shooting were known by authorities in several jurisdictions and were considered armed and dangerous.

    It is also important for individuals to understand that it is physically impossible for governments to protect all potential targets from every sort of attack.

    This means that many places are vulnerable to an attack, should an assailant choose to strike and should the assailant's preoperational activities go undetected.

    Therefore, citizens need to assume responsibility for their own security.

    This involves citizens not only reporting suspicious activity to the authorities, but also practicing good situational awareness and having updated and appropriate contingency plans in place for their families and businesses.

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    On Aug. 15, Floyd Corkins shot and wounded a security guard in the lobby of the Family Research Council's office in Washington after the guard blocked him from entering the office. Corkins reportedly was carrying a bag containing a box of ammunition and a number of Chick-fil-A sandwiches. He apparently targeted the Family Research Council because of its public support for Chick-fil-A in the wake of the controversy over statements made by the fast food chain's founder regarding gay marriage. According to media reports, Corkins said, "I don't like your politics," before opening fire. And on Aug. 16, an off-duty sheriff's deputy was shot and wounded while working as a security guard at an oil refinery in St. John the Baptist Parish, La.
    Chick-fil-a sanwiches eh? Now why in the world would a guy intent on killing Christians be carrying sandwiches from Chick-fil-a? And to top this all off - wasn't the guy supposedly gay or something? So why would he be BUYING them in the first place?

    This is a clear case of brain washing if you ask me.
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    Seems to be a lot of brainwashing going on lately with the subjects of that brainwashing going on rampages.

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    Obama imports 13,210 Syrian Refugees So Far in 2016; Up 675% from 2015; 99.1% Are Muslims

    http://cnsnews.com/news/article/patr...ber-675-99-are


    Hillary Clinton Supports ‘500% Increase in Syrian Refugees’


    http://www.breitbart.com/big-governm...rian-refugees/

    First month of fiscal year 2017: 9,935 refugees admitted to the US
    https://refugeeresettlementwatch.wor...ted-to-the-us/



    Canadian Major Muslim Leader Declares - ‘Donald Trump Cannot Stop The Muslims- If He Is Elected We Will Rise Up And Start A Civil War’
    http://www.inquisitr.com/3660462/haz...adiyya-caliph/




    US Islamist group arming up in anticipation of Trump, report claims

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    Gilani issued a statement right after Trump was elected, according to the report. (Christian Action Network)

    An Islamist group with secretive compounds around the U.S. is arming up in anticipation of raids by the incoming Trump administration, according to a new report from a nonprofit think tank.

    Muslims of America, which is headquartered in Hancock, N.Y., and run from Pakistan by leader Sheikh Gilani, operates 22 “Islamic villages” around the nation. The compounds are legal, but Gilani has recently ordered all unarmed members to gather firearms, licenses and hunting permits, according to Clarion Project. Gilani believes his group will be targeted by Trump.

    “I foretold disastrous results should this man be elected as the American President,” Gilani said in a statement shortly after Trump was elected president on Nov. 8. “He has come as a test and trial for the faithful adherents of the holy books.”

    Supporters say the compounds are simply Islamic communes for mainly African-American Muslims who seek to follow Gilani’s teachings in a rural setting. While they have been the subject of numerous accusations and undercover reporting, the group is not known to have supported or conducted terrorist activity, and its critics are widely dismissed as conspiracy theorists.

    A confidential source allegedly inside the organization told Martin Mawyer of the Christian Action Network and Ryan Mauro of the Clarion Project that the group expects the FBI to reopen its cases against them as a “homegrown terrorist organization,” according to the report.

    According to the report, the sources stated that members across the country were given instructions by Gilani to “be prepared to fight,” against President-Elect Trump, who the group believes is part of a satanic-Zionist conspiracy to destroy Islam.

    Muslims of America’s headquarters in rural New York is known as “Islamberg.” According to a 2007 FBI report obtained by the Clarion Project, MOA “possesses an infrastructure capable of planning and mounting terrorist campaigns within the U.S. and overseas.”

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