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ment. Authorities said the two
planned to use machine guns and
grenades in the attack. In audio
and video recordings, they dis-
cussed the plot, including strate-
gies to time their attack on mili-
tary recruits, such as by tossing
grenades in the cafeteria, the com-
plaint said.
The attack would not target
“anybody innocent - that means
old people, women out of uni-
form, any children,” Abdul-Latif
allegedly said. “Just people who
wear the green for the kaffir army,
that’s who we’re going after.”
Abdul-Latif was recorded in
conversations with the informant
where he spoke admiringly of the
2009 massacre at Fort Hood,
Texas, that claimed 13 lives. He
referred to war crimes charges
against five soldiers accused of
killing Afghan civilians for sport
last year, saying “he was not com-
fortable with letting the legal sys-
tem deal with these matters,”
according to an FBI agent’s affi-
davit filed in U.S. District Court.
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mother in a long time. He also
said he “huffed” gasoline and
smoked marijuana to get high, and
that he tried to kill himself in 2001
by deliberately overdosing on
seizure medication.
He served prison time on the
robbery charge from January 2002
until July 2004. State Corrections
Department spokesman Chad
Lewis said “nothing in Davis’
records that indicates that he con-
verted to Islam while he was in
prison.”
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Sutinen needs about 2,800 signatures and to
win a legal battle against the city. Supporters
have turned in 3,628 but believe they will need
hundreds more in the coming weeks after offi-
cials finish sorting through which ones are
valid.
Longview has about a dozen cameras cover-
ing three intersections and two school zones.
Mayor Kurt Anagnostou said he is sensitive to
the concerns about the cameras and initially
opposed them himself - until he got feedback
from the public about red-light runners and
intersection accidents.
“I heard from enough citizens that we have a
problem in Longview,” Anagnostou said.
“They changed my opinion.”
The city began a one-year trial of the cam-
eras this year, and Anagnostou said the pro-
gram has made people more aware at intersec-
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sion of firearms.
“The complaint alleges these
men intended to carry out a dead-
ly attack against our military
where they should be most safe,
here at home,” U.S. Attorney
Jenny A. Durkan, of Seattle, said
in a statement. “This is a sobering
reminder of our need to be vigi-
lant.”
Abdul-Latif was previously
convicted
for
robbing
a
Bremerton, Wash., convenience
store and for custodial assault, as
well as for obstructing a law
enforcement officer, assault and
theft. When he faced the robbery
charge in 2002, he was found to
have some “issues” during a psy-
chological evaluation but allowed
to stand trial, FBI Special Agent
Albert C. Kelly III wrote in the
complaint.
A copy of the evaluation
showed that Abdul-Latif believed
he suffered from depression and
abandonment issues, because his
father served time in prison in
California and he had not seen his
Mujahidh confessed after the
arrest, saying the attack was
aimed at preventing the U.S. mili-
tary “from going to Islamic lands
and killing Muslims,” court docu-
ments said. He is also known as
Frederick Domingue Jr., 32, of
Los Angeles.
Court-appointed lawyers for the
men declined to comment.
The arrests and news of the plot
come after a May 31 assessment
from the Homeland Security
Department that said coordinated
terrorist attacks against military
recruiting and National Guard
facilities were unlikely. But it
warned that lone offenders or
groups would try to launch attacks
against those facilities.
Abdul-Latif and Mujahidh face
federal charges of conspiracy to
murder officers and employees of
the United States, conspiracy to
use a weapon of mass destruction,
and possession of firearms in fur-
therance of crimes of violence.
Abdul-Latif was also charged
with two counts of illegal posses-
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the first local initiatives to reach the ballot in
those cities.
Longview leaders are looking to block the
proposal, contending that the issue is not sub-
ject to the initiative process. They have instead
proposed that the public take an advisory vote
on the matter.
The nine states that have banned red-light
cameras are Arkansas, Maine, Mississippi,
Montana, Nevada, New Jersey, New
Hampshire, West Virginia and Wisconsin,
according to the National Conference of State
Legislatures. Arizona did not renew its speed
enforcement camera program last year. Several
other states have passed laws limiting the use
of camera enforcement.
tions.
Sutinen is certainly aware. He avoids the
traffic cameras at all costs, taking detours that
extend his three-mile commute to five. Even
before he had a driver’s license, Sutinen said
he hated the idea of the cameras and sought
help from Eyman, who provided the initia-
tive’s wording.
Comparatively,
local
initiatives
in
Washington can be more challenging that
statewide ones because they typically require
activists to gather signatures equaling 15 per-
cent of voters registered in the area during the
previous election. Statewide initiatives require
signatures totaling 8 percent of the number of
people who voted for governor in the previous
election.
Supporters believe the proposals in
Longview, Monroe and Redmond would be
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2011 lake uNioN wooDeN Boat FeStiVal: the
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Saturday & Sunday 10 a.m. – 6 p.m. monday 10
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library, 1000 Fourth ave. For more info call 206-
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27th aNNual NaturaliZatioN ceremoNY. over
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p.m. Saturday 10 a.m. – midnight and Sunday 11
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