On November 10, 2010, we met with Boston Globe's
religion reporter Lisa Wangsness and briefed her for over two hours on a
troubling story. A year before, the FBI had arrested Tarek Mehanna, an
Islamic extremist from Sudbury, Massachusetts whom it accused of
providing material support to Al Qaeda and plotting a shooting spree at
the Emerald Square Mall in North Attleboro, MA. In intercepted
conversations, Mehanna celebrated the 9/11 hijackers as heroes.
According to the indictment, "Mehanna and his coconspirators, who shared
videos and took real pleasure in the deaths of American servicemen,
seemed to delight in the most horrific atrocities." Watching Iraqi
terrorists tearing open a dead U.S. Marine's rib cage and setting it on
fire with gasoline, Mehanna gloated:
"heh yeah... nice juicy BBQ... Texas BBQ is the way to go." Trial
documents show that Mehanna and his co-conspirators referred to
themselves as the American wing of Al Qaeda in Iraq. Mehanna was
convicted on all charges last year and sentenced to 17 years in prison.
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