Well, you don’t read things like this everyday:
He never made it to Afghanistan to fight for the Taliban, but Yong Ki Kwon — a Northern Virginia engineer who fled the United States nine days after the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks — said it wasn’t for lack of effort.
Kwon, 29, is a South Korea-born graduate of Virginia Tech who is serving an 11-year prison sentence as a result of his guilty plea last year on federal conspiracy and weapons charges. He has emerged as the prosecution’s star witness in the case against Ali Al-Timimi, an American Islamic scholar charged with recruiting soldiers for the Taliban just five days after Sept. 11…
(HT to reader)
Note: Would it be too much to ask that commenters refrain from a general gyopo-bash in my comment section, or am I pissing in the wind here?
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This reminds me of some of the coverage just after 9/11. There were a lot of security “experts” on the news being asked why American agencies had not seen the attacks coming. A common answer was that terrorist groups could not be “cracked”; it was impossible to get agents in undercover.
(I know that they did see it coming, on some levels, and I know about the memo with the now-famous title: “Bin Laden set to attack on American soil.” I’m talking about what was on tv just days after the attacks.)
But, if a Korean-American dude can get in real close, to the point what he is now a key witness, it appears that getting people into terrorist groups is easier than it was first claimed.
I don’t mean: Korean-Americans usually can’t do anything right, and even they can get close to terrorist groups.
I do mean: seems like you don’t have to have much in the way of muslim “street cred” to get a foot in the door.
This is just too bad. What a poor, misguided individual this guy is… I’m sure things will be better in an American prison than what it would for him back in Korea.
“Paintball jihad network”? ***ROFL***
Marmot: I will never make fun of gypos ever again, after seeing first hand how they are discriminated against and made fun of here in Korea. What is funny is to imagine the reaction to a gyopo in North Korea that is upset that his bulgogi dinner tastes like rat meat, and keep muttering in American English “where’s the beef?”
–Remort
last night on cnn, there was an hour long special on some white american guy who is an active member of al qaeda. currently, he’s making tapes for the group urging fellow westerners to convert to islam before it’s too late.
asides:
‘john carr lived in area of bangkok filled with prostitutes, pimps, drug dealers, and expats.’ direct from a ny times article.
White converts participating in terrorist organizations have already made headlines - shoe bomber Richard Reid and that American Taliban whose name I’ve forgotten. Three of the eleven men convicted in the case were converts with English names. The remaining seven were Arab or Pakistani immigrants, most holding US citizenship. Kwon got the lightest sentence - three years - because he pleaded guilty and cooperated with the feds.
The so called prophet mohammed was a paedophile. This is even well documented in the Koran. This is only one aspect of his dubious behaviour. How a supposedly moral, intelligent and ethical person, can convert to a so called religon, or practice a so called religon established by a war mongering paedophile, beats me.
This case proves it. Kyopos are scum.
Immigration should deport all these fifth columnist Muslim terrorists endangering our way of life.
Robert, I dont think there is any need to warn about ‘kyopo bashing’ because this hardly constitutes anything ‘typical’ about kyopo. What pisses people off and makes them attack kyopo on your site is when they make statements like “you white guys fu**ing up my country”, or “you burger flippers cant hack it in your own country” etc - shockingly hypocritical statements like that cause ‘kyopo bashing’. Honestly, I dont remember and ‘kyopo bashing’ that wasnt started by a kyopo.
Sounds like Kwon was a misfit in the Korean community. Probably tried to make friends on the internet, but his let-me-tell-you-about-5000-years-of-marvelous -culture posts were ignored or ridiculed. Needy for attention he lashed out w/ expletives, racist tirades, and name calling such as “trashiest” and “bug eyes”. Then he was off to Pakistan.
Whoops, wrong guy. Confused him with another gyopo.
for those that don’t get enough satisfaction from trashing america on a bulletin board, this is merely the next logical step for the fighting44s.
Sonagi, kinda of a stretch to call
Richard Reid white. Contrast him to the whiteyness that is
John Walker Lindh, aka Johnny Jihad.
Couldn’t find a photo of Kwon, but this one should suffice.
-Robert Kim, on how he believed military documents would improve Red Devil cheering.
Good news fellas: The doctor says these are not “bug eyes” and I am in good health!
Guess the gyopos will have to resort to calling you “shifty eyes”.
That’s good news. I feared we’d hear a cautionary tale of when reverse double-eyelid surgery goes awry.
A lot of Korean women go under the knife to get “bug eyes” like that, except they can’t get purty blue ones like Mr. Carr’s without resorting to contacts.
Austin blurted:
Different time, different place. Perhaps some information is missing.
Perhaps the most disturbing thing is your eagerness to expect your (quaint, American?) twenty-first century morality to extend right across human history – if not earlier.
What can we expect to hear next? – cries of protest against the infanticide practiced by T-Rex?
Pyotyr, your response ignores the fact that Mohammed is the role model for Muslims today. No one here is modeling their bahavior on the T-rex, canibals or any other backward custom. So your sarcastic reply to Austin is foolish and irrelevant.
Somehow I prefer the “(quaint, American?) twenty-first century morality” to the medieval one that condones blowing up children and killing members of another branch OF THE SAME RELIGION simply because they Sunni or Shiite as the case may be. Lectures on morality coming from Russia are ironic in the extreme.