Islamic Jihadi Camps found in U.S.

This had been reported already from bloggers in Canada and America. This story has made a trickle into mainstream media via a Christian web news publication called WorldNetDaily from investigative reports by the Northeast Intelligence Network and blogger CP - all links to these websites can be accessed from WorldNetDaily.

The Northeast Intelligence Network has been used as a link for reference by HR in a past post and well as reference material for CBC's Sunday Report .

Here is an excerpt from the investigative report from the link above:

"The Pakistani terrorist group Jamaat ul Fuqra is using Islamic schools in the United States as training facilities, confirms a joint investigative report by an intelligence think tank and an independent reporter
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The group seeks to counter "excessive Western influence on Islam" through any means necessary, publicly embracing the ideology that violence is a significant part of its quest to purify Islam. The enemies of Islam, the group says, are all non-Muslims and any Muslim who does not follow the tenets of fundamentalist Islam as detailed in the Quran.
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An investigation of the group by the Colorado Attorney General's office in the early 1980s found several of the communities operate covert paramilitary training compounds, including one in a mountainous area near Buena Vista, Colo.
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U.S. authorities have probed the group for charges ranging from links to al-Qaida to laundering and funneling money into Pakistan for terrorist activities. The organization supports various terrorist groups operating in Pakistan and Kashmir, and Gilani himself is linked directly to Hamas and Hezbollah. Throughout the 1980s, JF was responsible for a number of terrorist acts across the United States, including numerous fire-bombings.

Gilani was at one time in Pakistani custody for the abduction of American journalist Daniel Pearl. Intelligence sources have determined Pearl was attempting to meet with Gilani in the days before he disappeared in Karachi. "

I have to put a caveat on this. I read through the report in the above link and others at the following blogs and websites. There are problems with the investigation from individuals who are not trained in the area of counter-terrorism or reconnaisance. When a story quotes "suggested links" to one group or another I'm usually skeptical. I tried to post facts that should be the focus of the story.

The Colorado State Attorney's office currency is recent so the subject info is good - here is the link and from CP blogger I got a link to MIPT Terrorism Knowledge with supporting data on the above group:

" members of Fuqra, the FBI found links to 10 additional suspects and a federal grand jury indicted all 15 on charges that they plotted to bomb the United Nations and other New York City landmarks, and plotted to assassinate Egyptian leaders.

Fuqra is a radical Islamic sect whose followers are believed to be responsible for a string of crimes in the United States. "