3/28/2008: Intel news Brief: Homegrown terror site based in New York:
On any given day, log on to
RevolutionMuslim.com and a host of
startling images appear:
-- The Statue of Liberty, with an ax blade cutting through her side;
-- Video mocking the beheading of American journalist Daniel Pearl,
entitled "Daniel Pearl I am Happy Your Dead :) ";
-- Video of a puppet show lampooning U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq;
-- The latest speech from Sheikh Abdullah Faisal, an extremist Muslim
cleric convicted in the UK and later deported for soliciting the
murder of non-Muslims.
Even more surprising is that
RevolutionMuslim.com isn't being
maintained in some remote safe house in Pakistan. Instead, Yousef al-
Khattab, the Web site creator, runs it from his home in the New York
City Borough of Queens.
And, because al-Khattab enjoys the First Amendment right to freedom of
speech, all the authorities can do is watch.
Formerly known as Joseph Cohen, al-Khattab is an American-born Jew who
converted to Islam after attending an Orthodox Rabbinical school,
which he later described as a "racist cult."
