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NYC college student died fighting for ISIS in Syria last year, facilitator on trial
[NYDailyNews] A New York City college student was killed last fall while fighting for ISIS in Syria, new papers filed in Manhattan Federal Court show.Samy Mohammed El-Goarany, 24, traveled to 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 Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... stronghold in February 2015 after "expressing an increased interest in turban forms of Islam," prosecutors say. He died in November 2015. Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara's office has charged that Ahmed Mohammed El Gammal facilitated El-Goarny's trip. The new court papers -- part of Bharara's push to use communications between El-Goarany and El Gammal in trial -- reveal additional details about their alleged relationship. El-Goarany messaged El Gammal on Facebook in August of 2014, after seeing he had posted pro-ISIS comments online, the filing says. They swapped messages and El Gammal ultimately traveled from Phoenix to New York City that October to meet with El-Goarany. El Gammal then plotted with a co-conspirator in ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... who could help set El-Goarany up in the terrorist organization, Bharara's office claims. El Gammal was arrested in August 2015 for providing and conspiring to provide material support to ISIS. He was also hit with charges of aiding and abetting the receipt of military training from ISIS, and conspiring to receive training from the group. Shortly after El Gammal was nabbed, his co-conspirator in Turkey asked El-Goarany to make a video to vindicate him. The video, he said, was to show that El-Goarany went to Syria on his own -- and that El Gammal "had nothing to do" with his decision. El-Goarany, who’d attended a college in Manhattan, recorded the video on Sept. 8 2015. "I came here and I made this video to let you know that I came here out of my own will. It was my own choice, and it was out of my own resources," El-Goarany said, according to prosecutors. "I didn’t come to this decision with anybody’s influence or anybody’s recruitment. I came here. It was my decision and mine alone. Nobody financed me to come here. Nobody bought my plane ticket. All that with my own money. Nobody showed me the way to get here." He insisted that "nobody" included "Ahmed Mohammed El Gammal, in America. And I’m making this video just to let the authorities know this. This is my statement, and use it however you wish." El Gammal's lawyer doesn’t want the "help" and is fighting against the video's use in court, claiming it can't be verified and would be "overly prejudicial" against her client. El-Goarany’s parents, who live in Middletown, declined comment.
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... without telling his friends or family in January 2015. He received religious and military training and continued on to Syria by February. Samy sent el Gammal a message that read, "It's been a long time, but I'm doing well and just want you to know I'm safe and secure and everything is going according to plan," the documents say. One social-media account created by Samy showed him standing near a bullet-riddled mural of a Syrian political figure. Samy also sent a text to a friend telling him he was living in "bilad al Island, and it's beautiful." Posted by: trailing wife 2016-10-19 |
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