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Feel like a loser?
Never cool at school?
Not much luck with women?
Don't want to work for a living?
Become a jihadist!
Suddenly, a loser becomes a soldier of Allah with the power of life and death!
Take Mohamed Mahmood Alessa and his buddy Carlos Eduardo Almonte. They were just two nondescript New Jersey video gamers with futures promising only more of the same. Then they grew bushy beards and declared themselves jihadists. They started talking about playing video games for real and maybe cutting off a few heads.
The problem for them was that they looked like jihadists the way young men of other times looked like greasers or hippies.
And, the last thing a serious and therefore secretive terrorist organization needs are recruits who might well be wearing big signs saying TERRORIST.
"I wanna, like, be the world's known terrorist," Alessa was recorded saying.
No this is not a protest outside of Whole Foods or Robeks… Still, it’ll be cold comfort when a dirty bomb goes off in Times Square that the perpetrator has an IQ of 75. Almonte is seen here at a protest in New York in 2008.
Almonte is not the first accused terrorist to be labeled a bonehead
Originally posted by schrodingers dog
New Jersey terror wannabees Alessa, Almonte are jihadis because they can't land hotties
Mission accomplished.
"I wanna, like, be the world's known terrorist," Alessa was recorded saying.
I don't even have anything to say ... funny and tragic at the same time ... mostly funny.
A photo of Mohamed Alessa, with his cat, Princess Tuna, taken by his mother two weeks ago. www.nytimes.com...