Rocket Launcher, Jihadist Materials Found in Houston Apartment
And no charges were filed.
On New Years’s Eve, Houston police found an AT4 rocket launcher when investigating a domestic disturbance. According to Houston’s KPRC news, the police also found “jihadist” materials in the apartment (see the video here).
Does anyone else’s hair stand up when shoulder-launched rockets capable of destroying tanks and jihad paraphernalia are found in one room?
Now spent AT4 launchers may be legal to possess, and the First Amendment protects jihadist materials (unless one acts upon it of course). But if Janet Napolitano’s DHS determined that I was a right-wing “extremist,” found that I had documents calling for the murder of Obama administration officials (or their conversion to the Republican Party), and also found that I had a weapon capable of destroying tanks and bunkers… does anyone think that I would be let go?
According to KPRC, Houston police found no ties to terrorism. That’s disappointing – because it seems that Doug Hagmann at the Northeast Intelligence Network has. The apartment’s tenant stated that the weapon belonged to Nabilaye Yansane – who happens to be Muslim – but would not say who the jihadist materials belonged to. According to Hagmann, sources familiar with Yansane stated that he had ties to the Al-Maghrib Institute in Houston. That’s the same Al-Maghrib Institute that Umar Farouk Abdul-Mutallab (the Nigerian jihadist that attempted to blow up Delta-Northwest Flight 293 on Christmas) spent two weeks “attending a seminar” according to the Star-Telegram.
Is Hagmann jumping to conclusions? No. Just someone putting the pieces together, which is what the media should be doing. These connections may be one big coincidence, but let’s not discount the possibility that Yansane could be training other jihadists in the use of rockets or other deadly skills he learned while serving with the Marine Corps – right in our own backyard.