Via LA Times -
A federal grand jury Wednesday indicted four men -- including the alleged leader of a radical Islamist prison gang -- accusing them of plotting a string of terrorist attacks on U.S. military facilities and synagogues in Southern California.
The six-count indictment accuses Kevin Lamar James, 29; Levar Haney Washington, 25; and Gregory Vernon Patterson and Hammad Riaz Samana, both 21, of planning attacks on sites including National Guard recruitment centers and the Israeli Consulate in Los Angeles.
All four were charged with conspiracy to levy war against the U.S. government through terrorism. The plot, the indictment says, was hatched by James, currently an inmate at one of the two state prisons in Folsom, Calif., and alleged founder of a small gang of radical Muslims.
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According to another LA Times article, 2 of those indicted have plead guilty.
For more information on the JIS (Jamiyyat Ul Islam Is Saheeh) prison group, check out this JIS profile from InsidePrison.com.
If this type of home-grown radicalism is happening in the prison system, then it is happening on the streets of this country. No question.
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