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NY man pleads guilty to plotting New Year’s terror attack
[IsraelTimes] Emanuel Lutchman was in contact with now-deceased Islamic State terrorist Abu Issa Al-Amriki

A 26-year-old ex-convict pleaded guilty in federal court Thursday to plotting a New Year’s Eve machete attack at a Rochester restaurant in the name of the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
 terrorist group.

Emanuel Lutchman,
...who soon will have a permanent place in the prison mental ward, taking him out of reach of those sane jihadis who would have happily turned him into cannon fodder...
of Rochester, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to provide material support to a foreign terrorism organization, a charge that carries a maximum sentence of 20 years in federal prison, US Attorney William Hochul said. He’ll be sentenced Nov. 15 in US District Court in Rochester.

Officials say Lutchman explored websites related to violent jihad and initiated contact with now-deceased Islamic State terrorist Abu Issa Al-Amriki in Syria in December 2015. Prosecutors say Al-Amriki told him to plan an attack on New Year’s Eve and kill non-believers, or "kuffar."

The FBI says it used paid informants to uncover the plot and take Lutchman to a Walmart store to purchase black ski masks, two knives, a machete, ammonia and other supplies for the attack.

On Dec. 30, 2015, prosecutors say Lutchman made a video pledging allegiance to the Islamic State in which he said, "the blood that you spill of the Moslem overseas we gonna spill the blood of the kuffar." Immediately thereafter, agents placed in durance vile
Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out!
 him.

Lutchman’s family told the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle he has a long history of mental problems and was unable to get a job after serving time in prison for robbing a man of his cellphone, bus pass and cigarettes when he was 16. His grandmother said he would never have carried out the attack.
But he would have put on a suicide vest if someone had given it to him, then walked into a crowd to be detonated.

Posted by: trailing wife 2016-08-12
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