The American Terrorist

by Ron L. Carter

His next targets would be in Dove Creek, Michigan. Out of the one hundred thousand residents located there, thirty two thousand are Muslim. The chief of police is also Muslim. According to what Doug read, despite a court order the police have been enforcing Islamic Sharia law in Dove Creek for several years. Some of the main parts to the Sharia Law that Muslims believe expresses the highest and best goals for all societies and they are; drinkers and gamblers should be whipped, husbands can hit their wives, an eye for an eye, thieves must have hands cut off, highway robbers to be crucified, adulterers to be stoned to death, homosexuals must be executed, death to non-Muslim critics, apostates to be killed and offensive and aggressive jihad. (6) These are the laws the hard-liner Islamic people living in America would like all people of the world to live by. Doug felt some of the younger Muslims in America may have a different attitude or belief toward these laws but as long as they are Muslims they still believe we should follow the Sharia laws to a major degree,

  Since September 11, 2001, there have been ten men living in Michigan or that have strong Michigan connections that have been arrested in Terrorism - related cases. The government is convinced that the al-Qaeda terrorists are hiding in southeast Michigan, (Detroit). Federal investigators have been focusing much of the governments “Secret War” on terrorist in Metro Detroit neighborhoods. There has been a massive undercover agent infiltration into the Arab and Muslim communities since 9/11/2001. (23) Doug was hoping the agents wouldn’t be near his targets when he blew them up.

  One man who was said to be the leader of a radical Sunni Islam group was fatally shot while resisting arrest and exchanged gunfire with federal agents in Detroit. Agents went to a warehouse of the fifty year old male and tried to arrest him for conspiracy to sell stolen goods and illegal possession and sale of firearms. He and ten others were listed in a criminal complaint. He refused to surrender and fired his weapon at the agents. He was killed by the agents returning fire. He was an Imam or prayer leader of a radical group whose primary mission is to establish an Islamic state within the United States. (23) Doug had to infiltrate one of the groups and find out where his next target would be. There were too many Muslims in Dove Creek to just go in and randomly kill everyone in an entire mosque, including innocent women and children. He was after the radical Muslim terrorists and not peaceful Muslims.

  He found an RV Park called Greenfield Village in Dove Creek and decided he would set up camp there for a few days. After he was settled in he started checking around to find where the Muslims that talked hatred toward the Christian and Jewish people were located. After dark, he drove to a secluded area, put on his Muslim disguise and made his way to a local mosque and went inside. He began a conversation with a Muslim man that spoke Arabic. He quietly asked him where he could attend a rally for Muslims against the Jews. The man told him that the mosque he was in didn’t support that type of activity. Doug asked him if he knew a mosque he could go to that did. He gave Doug the names of two groups he said were pretty outspoken about the Jews and Christians. One of them was located in a house on the outskirts of Dove Creek on Rail Street. Doug thanked him in Arabic and quickly left the mosque and headed for the house.

  When he arrived at the house on Rail Street he saw a few Muslim men gathered in front of the house and he knew this was the place. He drove past the house and parked a few blocks away. He still had on his Muslim disguise so he got out of his car and walked back to the house. As he approached the men standing out front, he asked them if they spoke Arabic and one of the men replied that he did. He asked Doug in Arabic where he was from. Doug told him he was from Kabul and looking for a place here in Dove Creek with fellow Muslims that believed the way he did about the Jews and Americans. He knew if this guy talked bad about the Jewish and Christian people this was the group he was looking for. The guy immediately went into a full blown discussion about how America was guilty of backing up the Jews for their acts of crime against Palestine. Doug just nodded his head in agreement with everything he said. This was exactly the kind of guy he felt he needed to eliminate and now he was standing there talking to him. He would’ve liked very much to pull out a pistol, put it to this man’s head and pull the trigger.

  Doug kept his composure and finally asked the guy when the next big meeting would be coming up to discuss everyone’s anger toward the Jews and the Christians. He told Doug they have their big meeting every Thursday evening at 7:00 p.m. That was four days away so Doug asked him if they had any other meetings he could attend someplace else before Thursday. The guy told him about another meeting that was going to take place in Detroit on Tuesday night. He gave Doug the name of the group and the name of the street but wasn’t sure of the exact address. Doug thanked him and told him he would see him at the meeting on Thursday as he headed to his car.

  He wanted to find out more about this place in Detroit. When Doug arrived there he drove around for a while in the location the man had given him and finally found the house on a corner in a rundown neighborhood. It was an older two story house off the ground about three feet. It had four steps that led to a large covered dilapidated porch. Doug was worried about leaving his car for very long in this neighborhood for fear of it being stolen or stripped. As he slowly drove by he was sure this was the place because there was a lot of activity going on. As he glanced through the windows and the open front door there were several men sitting around talking.

  He had a block of C-4 and a few detonators with him under his back seat. He waited until the middle of the night to see if he would be able to attach it to the house where it would not be seen. To not bring any attention to himself he waited down the street, about a quarter of a mile away. As he waited he kept an eye on the house for a few hours. There was a lot of activity that night with men coming and going. As he sat there watching until around 1:00 am a very “scruffy looking” man tapped on his driver’s side window. At first it startled him because he hadn’t seen the man come up from behind his car. He was an African American and he looked like one of the homeless guys Doug had encountered a few times during his mission. He had not shaved for a few days and it looked like he had not showered in several days. When he opened his mouth to speak Doug could see he was missing one of his top front teeth. His hair was in braids but it looked loose and dirty. He was wearing a dirty gray hooded sweat shirt that was pulled up partially over his head. Doug rolled the window down a few inches to hear what the guy was saying. He asked Doug what he was doing just parked there. Doug quickly told him that he was from Kabul and was looking for his brother Amid Youssef’s house but didn’t know where to look. The guy said in an angry voice, “I don’t think he lives around here. I’ve never heard of him and the name doesn’t sound familiar. You better get out of here. It ain’t safe around here at night.” Doug thanked him, rolled up his window and quickly drove away. He decided he would get out of this area for a few hours so he went into the main part of town and just waited in a parking lot until later that night.

  It was around 3:00 a.m. when he went back to the house that was now his target. He drove around the streets a few times to see if anyone was walking around or near the house. After he felt comfortable that no one was watching he drove around to the side of the house with his lights off. Like a cat in the night, he jumped out of his car with a block of C-4 wrapped in duct tape, ran up to the house and attached it and a detonator to an exposed board underneath an open part of the house. He ran back to his car and was gone before anyone could’ve possibly known that he attached a bomb to the house. He was coming back on Tuesday night during their meeting and blow the house to pieces. Once he was finished he drove back to the RV Park to get some much needed sleep.

  It was around noon when Doug finally woke up and started his day. He spent the day just thinking about his other target in Dove Creek and trying to figure out how he was going to get the bomb on that location. He didn’t like exposing himself in a neighborhood during the day
light because there were too many ways to get caught. He decided this would be the perfect place to dress up as a service representative from Parker’s Pest Control. That afternoon he carried the uniform, sprayer, and pesticide from the motor home and put it in the trunk of his Mercedes. He drove to a secluded area of a shopping center, parked his car, put on a baseball cap, mustache, goatee, and sun glasses. He walked to an area where he could take a taxi to a car rental company. He rented a white van under his assumed name and drove it to his car. He got everything he needed from the trunk and put it in the van. He flattened out the block of C-4 and attached it to his chest and stuck the detonator in his pocket. What he liked about C-4 is that you could mold it into any form or shape you wanted and it wouldn’t explode unless it was detonated. You could light it with a match or shoot it with a gun to try to make it explode and it wouldn’t. There had to be some type of a detonator spark that set it off.

  When he got to the house there were a few Muslim men standing around talking. Doug went up to one of them and told him he was from Parker’s pest control and needed to spray the outside of the house for spiders and insects. The guy just gestured okay with a wave of his hand toward the house. There weren’t any questions asked as he went about his business of slowly spraying around the base of the house. When he got around to the back, he made sure no one was watching as he pulled out the C-4 from under his shirt and stuck it in one of the large cracks in the wall of the house. He took out the detonator and stuck it into the C-4 and then it was armed. He sprayed around the other side of the house and back to the front and just like that the bomb was set. He kept the van he had rented and parked it in an overnight public parking lot, not too far from his campground.

  On Tuesday evening he made sure he had his remote detonator as he walked to the van. Once inside he headed for the house in Detroit. It was around 8:00 p.m. when Doug arrived at the house. There were a lot of men already in the meeting and several just standing around outside. Some of them seemed to be guards keeping an eye the place. He drove past the house and then pushed the button. The house went up with a loud explosion and a ball of flames. As he looked back in his rear view mirror he was pleased with the size of the explosion. He drove back to his campsite and relaxed for a few days.

  On Thursday evening he drove by next his target in Dove Creek and made sure the meeting was in full swing as he pushed the button. He was excited to see the house go up in a loud explosion and huge red flames as he watched it from his rear view mirror. He had two hands on the wheel and smiling, that’s one the law enforcement agencies won’t have to worry about.

  The next day, he put on his disguise again and returned the van to the car rental company. That afternoon he watched the news as it reported that the “American Terrorist” had struck again in two locations in Michigan. One was in Dove Creek and the other one in Detroit. The news report said that the houses in Detroit and Dove Creek had long been suspected of terrorist activity and were under FBI watch. It also reported that eleven men were killed in the house in Detroit and several wounded, nine men were killed in Dove Creek and six wounded. It wasn’t the number he was expecting but he was completing his mission and keeping his promise to Michael and the radical Muslim terrorist organizations.

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