Portland is a haven for terrorists, refusing to participate in the Joint Terrorism Task Force. So it comes as no surprise that one of the terrorists behind the London bombings trained fellow terrorists in Oregon:
July 21, 2005 — An al Qaeda operative who once traveled to the United States to help set up a terrorist training camp in Oregon was identified yesterday as the chief organizer of the London subway bombings.
U.S. and British officials named Haroon Rashid Aswat, who is British-born and of Indian descent, as the mysterious “fifth man” in the London attacks.
They said he entered Britain two weeks before the attacks despite being on a terror watch list, likely led the operation and then left the country a day before the blasts.
The Times of London reported cellphone records indicated he had 20 conversations with two of the London bombers in the days before the attacks and telephoned one of them the morning of the attack.
There were numerous reports that Aswat was already under arrest in Pakistan, but U.S. officials were unable to confirm that last night.
U.S. intelligence and counterterrorism officials said they believe Aswat is likely the same man who surfaced in 2003 in the Justice Department prosecution of a group of fanatics who tried to set up a jihad training camp in Bly, Ore., in 1999.
Actions have consequences, and coddling terrorists leads to more terrorist actions. This isn’t rocket science, folks.
Of course, to be fair, Bly isn’t even close to Portland, being 300 miles away in Klamath county, not exactly a Jihadist-friendly part of Oregon.
Well, yeah, but the Portland mind has no limits.