A recent terror plot was avoided by the FBI recently. The target of the Jihad was the Riverdale Temple and the Riverdale Jewish Center. Four men from the surrounding New York area were wanting to hit ‘America’ because of it’s actions in Afghanistan and Iraq against muslims. The four men were James Cromitie, 55; David Williams, 28; Onta Williams, 32; and Laguerre Payen, all of Newburgh, were charged with conspiracy to use weapons of mass destruction within the United States and conspiracy to acquire and use anti-aircraft missiles (like the one pictured above).

An FBI informant infiltrated the group when he heard them express wanting to ‘do Jihad’. The informant pretended to be have ties to the largest Pakistani terrorist Jaish-e-Mohammed. He provided them with a non-working anti aircraft stinger and inert C-4. When the four men planted the bombs in cars nearby the Riverdale Jewish Center and Riverdale Temple within a few blocks, the authorities closed in.

All the suspects except Payen appeared in federal court in White Plains on Thursday, their hands shackled to their waists. Payen was expected to appear in court later Thursday.

Lawyers for the defendants, all of whom are U.S. citizens, did not seek bail.

In arguing against bail, Assistant U.S. Attorney Eric Snyder told the judge “it’s hard to envision a more chilling plot” and described the men as “extremely violent.”

They were “disappointed…that the best target (the World Trade Center) was hit already,” he said, adding that the men were “eager to bring death to Jews.” He also said Cromitie wanted to see what he did on TV and be able to say, “I’m the one who did that.”

Earlier, Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly spoke at a news conference outside the Riverdale Jewish Center in the Bronx.

“They stated that they wanted to commit jihad,” Kelly said. “They were disturbed about what happened in Afghanistan and Pakistan, that Muslims were being killed.”