Storm Track Infiltration: Jihad in New Jersey

While Pelosi and her gang are trying to limit government surveillance of terrorist communications and local cells, the FBI has been successful using the very same tools the Democrats would like to remove.

Osama bin Laden may be hiding in the impenetrable mountains near the Afghanistan border, but FBI counterterror officials say they have identified several of his associates in a far more accessible spot -- northern New Jersey. The FBI's elite Joint Terrorism Task Force in Newark says it is not only monitoring a number of North Jersey residents with ties to al-Qaida, but that agents have quietly "disrupted" their activities and even deported a few.

For the past six years, FBI officials have routinely declined to discuss counterterror measures in northern New Jersey. But last week, the FBI granted The Record limited access to the offices of its Joint Terrorism Task Force, in a gleaming glass building in Newark overlooking the Passaic River.

This unusual glimpse into the inner workings of North Jersey's primary counterterrorism force revealed the following:

# Task force investigators have discovered that every major terrorist group in the world, including Hamas and Hezbollah, has at least one North Jersey contact. The lone exception is Afghanistan's ultra-fundamentalist sect, the Taliban.

# The task force is currently conducting more than 400 counterterror investigations. These range from probes into Bin Laden's network to neo-Nazis to environmental terrorists.

# Each month, a task force "response" squad receives as many as a dozen new tips about possible nuclear, biological or chemical terrorism in New Jersey. These range from citizen concerns about a mysterious powder to the report that three ships were sailing to New Jersey with radiological material on board. Squad members were even dispatched to Emerson last month after school administrators received a threat to blow up schools.

# Undercover agents attend all professional football games at Giants Stadium. Agents also plan to monitor the upcoming Breeders' Cup at Monmouth Park Racetrack.

# Task force agents routinely travel overseas. One is currently in Iraq; another is in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, helping to question suspected al-Qaida captives at the U.S. naval base there. Newark-based agents also played a role in the investigation of the murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl and provided information to assist the interrogation of 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed.

William Sweeney Jr., whose squad monitors potential terrorists in Hudson County, said some tips for local investigations can originate in the unlikeliest places.

In one case, Sweeney described how U.S. soldiers confiscated a laptop computer when they captured a suspected al-Qaida operative in Iraq. When the laptop's files were examined, investigators discovered several New Jersey phone numbers.

"Why was a person in New Jersey in the address book of a bad guy picked up in Iraq?" Sweeney asked. "We have to check it out."

Yeah. Why? Do You Have At Terrorist Living Next Door?

Sometimes it takes a picture to see the threat that lives within us. You may have a known Terror Cell next door. From America’s Truth Forum.

Cities

Arlington, TX
Boca Raton, FL
Boston, MA
Charlotte, NC
Chicago, IL
Cleveland, OH
Columbia, MO
Dallas, TX
Dearborn, MI
Denver, CO
Detroit, MI
Ft. Lauderdale, FL
Ft. Worth, TX
Herndon, VA
Houston, TX
Kansas City, MO
Laurel, MD
Los Angeles, CA
Madison, WI
Minneapolis, MN
New York, NY
Oklahoma City, OK
Orlando, FL
Plainfield, IN
Potomac, MD
Portland, OR
Raleigh, NC
Roanoke, VA
Seattle, WA
San Diego, CA
San Francisco, CA
Santa Clara, CA
Shanksville, PA
Springfield, VA
St. Paul, MN
Tampa, FL
Tucson, AZ
Tulsa, OK
Washington DC

Terror Groups
Abu Sayyaf
Al Fuqra
Al Gama'at Islamiyya
Al Muhajiroun
Al Qaeda
Algerian Armed Islamic Group
Algerian Islamic Salvation Front
American Islamic Group
Hamas
Hezbollah
Islamic Jihad
Islamic Liberation Party
ISNA
Jamaat e-Islamia
Jamaat ul-Fuqra
Mara Salvatruchas
Muslim Brotherhood
National Islamic Front
Yemen Islamic Jihad

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