- September 2009 – Colorado/New York
A Colorado man with alleged links to Al Qaeda is charged with conspiracy to detonate explosive bombs in the U.S. Najibullah Zazi allegedly possessed handwritten notes on bomb-making and handling instructions and admitted to receiving training in explosives and weapons at an Al Qaeda training facility in Pakistan. Prosecutors also allege that Zazi purchased a large quantity of beauty products that contain the components needed to make the explosive Triacetone Triperoxide.
Hosam Maher Husein Smadi was arrested for attempting to detonate explosives at the 60-story Fountain Place building in Dallas. The affidavit alleges that Smadi stated his desire to attack the U.S., which he perceived to be an enemy of Islam, in part for its incursions in Iraq and Afghanistan. "Everything that helps America on its war on Arabs will be targeted," Smadi allegedly told an undercover agent. Smadi has also espoused a hatred for Israel and Jews, calling for the “destruction of the Jews” and seeking to kill the Jews as retribution for Israel’s activities in Gaza.
- September 2009 – Illinois
A U.S. citizen from Illinois who expressed anger at the United States for supporting Israel was arrested for attempting to bomb the federal courthouse in Springfield. According to court documents, Michael Finton told a law enforcement source of his desire to obtain military training and travel to Gaza to fight the Israelis on behalf of the Palestinians. Finton, who allegedly stated ambitions to join Palestinian terrorist organizations like Hamas or Islamic Jihad, projected that an attack on American soil would force the U.S. government to curtail its financial support of Israel, and the “big bully behind Israel (the United States) would not be there anymore.”
- July 2009 – North Carolina
A U.S. citizen arrested for plotting to attack a Virginia military base, as well as six others charged for engaging in weapons training and conspiring to carry out "violent jihad" overseas, may have been motivated by hatred of Israel. According to initial reports, the group raised money and trained for possible terrorist attacks in Tel Aviv, Israel. Several of the men returned to the U.S. from Tel Aviv in June 2007 after "having failed in their attempt to engage in violent jihad," according to the indictment. The Facebook profile of one of the suspects includes a quote that reads, "I am not going to give 1 inch of Palestine to the Jews."
- June 2009 – Washington, DC
James Von Brunn (also known as James Wenneker Brunn), the suspect in the shooting at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC, is a longtime white supremacist and anti-Semite.
Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad (also known as Carlos Bledsoe) an American Muslim convert who shot two uniformed American soldiers - one of whom was killed - at a military recruiting center in Little Rock, Arkansas, reportedly searched for information about Jewish institutions on the Internet. He used the Google Maps application to investigate these Jewish institutions, as well as a Baptist church, a day-care center, a post office and other military recruiting centers in several different cities.
Scott Philip Roeder was charged in the shooting death of provider of abortion services. Not only is Roeder a radical anti-abortion extremist, but he was an active member of anti-government extremist movements, including the sovereign citizen and tax protest movements. The sovereign citizen movement believes that virtually all existing government in the United States is illegitimate and seeks to "restore" an idealized, minimalist government that never actually existed.
Shawna Forde, the head of a border vigilante group, along with two other members of the group, allegedly dressed as law enforcement officers and forcibly entered a residence in Arivaca, Arizona, searching for drugs and money to fund their anti-immigrant activities. A Latino man and his nine year-old daughter were murdered, and the man's wife was shot. The three suspects pleaded not guilty, and they are due back in court on August 18.
Four Muslim converts, three American and one Haitian, were arrested for an alleged plot to attack two synagogues in the Bronx and to shoot down planes at a military base in Newburgh, New York. The men allegedly began surveillance of several synagogues and a Jewish Community Center in the Bronx in April 2009. "These were people who were eager to bring death to Jews," Assistant U.S. Attorney Eric Snyder said at a court hearing the day after the arrests.
The suspect in a May shooting near Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut expressed threats in his personal journal toward Wesleyan and its Jewish students.
- April 2009 – Pennsylvania
Richard Poplawski, the man charged with killing three Pittsburgh police officers during a standoff, held virulently anti-Semitic and racist beliefs that he openly shared with others on white supremacist online discussion forums. Poplawski's increasingly conspiracy-oriented online postings expressed his belief that Jews controlled the U.S. government and his conviction that some sort of collapse of the economic and social order of the U.S. was inevitable.
- January 2009 – Massachusetts
Police officers in Brockton, Massachusetts arrested a white supremacist after he allegedly killed two people and raped and attempted to kill a third. The arrest pre-empted what authorities believed was a planned racially motivated killing spree directed at Jews and non-whites that would have continued later that evening.
