New Jersey Jihadist Talked of Mutilating Homosexuals

From Weasel Zippers:

They were two men who seemed fundamentally different: one so stridently anti-American that school officials alerted federal authorities about him in 2006, while the other was shy and a late convert to Islam.

But Mohamed Mahmood Alessa, 20, of North Bergen and Carlos Eduardo Almonte, 24, of Elmwood Park stood together in federal court in Newark on Monday, accused of seeking to wage jihad on American troops overseas.

Authorities said Alessa, though the younger of the two, led the burgeoning pair of terrorists and school officials painted a picture of a misguided student who early on was deemed a danger to others.

Alessa, a U.S. citizen of Palestinian heritage, transferred to North Bergen High School in December 2004 from Al-Huda School, a private Islamic school in Paterson, said Paul Swibinski, spokesman for the North Bergen school district. A few months later, in February 2005, school administrators placed him on home instruction for reasons Swibinski would not disclose in detail.

….A school official who was at KAS at the time said Alessa talked about mutilating homosexuals, subordinating women in the name of Islam and bringing a gang of Muslims to blow up the school.