Illinois – Would-Be Terrorist Considered Synagogue Attacks

Illinois – The man indicted on charges of planning grenade attacks on a shopping mall also considered an attack on synagogue-goers.

Federal authorities on Friday announced the arrest of Derrick Shareef, 22, because he had planned to plant grenades in garbage cans at a shopping mall in Rockford, Ill., about 90 miles west of Chicago.

A transcript of a conversation with an informant reports Shareef saying that Israel's war with Hezbollah this summer enraged him and he had identified synagogues in the DeKalb area for a stabbing attack. "I knew that they do their thing on Saturdays, right," the indictment quotes Shareef as saying. "I was like, I'm gonna lay low out here, I'm gonna camp out overnight, be out there on Friday night after Jumma Friday payer or Saturday morning about 12:00 or 1:00 o'clock., I be there. And as soon as I see them fools going in the building, I had planned on trying to grab one, depending on how it was, niggers trying to run in the building all at once and open up shop, I was just going to go over there and shank one or two of them."

He also is recorded as saying: "They definitely gonna know that this shit ain't over, and they not as safe as they thought."