"Typical American" Ph.D Terek Mehanna Plotted Terror Attacks

The AP reports Tarek Mehanna was just a "typical American kid" who earned a doctorate degree according to friends, though he did want to kill two former unidentified members of the Executive Branch now out of office and shoot down taxpayers in a shopping mall because their tax dollars supported the Iraq War and they were unbelievers.

Thank God there wasn't anything unusual about him and his friends. They might have managed to pull it off.

BOSTON (AP) -- Tarek Mehanna grew up in Boston's upscale suburbs, earned a doctorate in pharmacology, taught religion and math at a Muslim middle school and was considered a typical American kid by those who knew him. Yet Mehanna, who had Egyptian and U.S. citizenship, told a friend he felt out of place in America, according to documents filed in court. And prosecutors say he used his hostility toward this country in a plot to kill U.S. troops in Iraq, assassinate top politicians and shoot down shoppers in U.S. malls.

Mehanna, 27, was arrested early Wednesday at his parents' home in Sudbury, an affluent town around 20 miles west of Boston. He was charged with conspiring with two others - Ahmad Abousamra, an American now in Syria, and an unidentified man who is cooperating with authorities - to support terrorism.

Ultimately, the trio never came close to pulling off an attack. Authorities say they never got the terrorist training they sought. The men told friends they were turned down because of their nationality, ethnicity or inexperience, or that the people they'd hoped would get them into such camps were either in jail or on a religious pilgrimage.

They abandoned the mall attack plans after their weapons contact said he could find only handguns, not automatic weapons, authorities said.

Acting U.S. Attorney Michael Loucks said the men justified the planned attacks on malls because U.S. civilians pay taxes to support the government and are "nonbelievers," Loucks said. He refused to identify the targeted malls.

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[seekeronos]

Terrorists are usually caricatured as extremely poor or displaced people with little hope on this earth but to blow themselves and a few hundred others along with them to kingdom come.

Funny how this guy (along with - surprisingly a number of others) are from educated, wealthy backgrounds, yet they still embrace the death cult of an ancient Babylon moon god religion.

[xerocky]

"Acting U.S. Attorney Michael Loucks said the men justified the planned attacks on malls because U.S. civilians pay taxes to support the government and are "nonbelievers," Loucks said. He refused to identify the targeted malls."

How does he know which ones are the "nonbelievers" and which ones aren't? I've seen some Coptic Christians who you may mistake for Muslim, and I've seen some Sikhs who you would swear were Muslim. I've seen people from eastern Europe who you wouldn't know their religion, they could be Muslim, they could be Eastern Orthodox, or whatever. Sounds to me like Tarek was doing some RACIAL PROFILING!!

Tisk tisk Tarek. Tisk tisk. You know we can’t have any of that.