|
North Carolina man pleads guilty to plotting U.S. terrorism attacks with a member of Islamic State that would have killed 1,000 people
Justin Nojan Sullivan, 20, pleaded guilty in federal court in Asheville on Tuesday to one count of attempting to commit an act of terrorism transcending national boundaries. He planned an attack at a concert, bar or club where he believed as many as 1,000 people would die, according to federal officials. 'Justin Sullivan planned to kill hundreds of innocent people,' said John A. Strong, a special agent in charge of the FBI's office in Charlotte. 'He pledged his support to ISIS and took calculated steps to commit a murderous rampage to prove his allegiance to the terrorist organization.' Sullivan said in court that he planned shootings in North Carolina and Virginia that would cause mass casualties, according to U.S. Attorney Jill Westmoreland Rose. He also claimed he had 'frequent and direct communications' with Junaid Hussain - an 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.... member who asked him to make a video of the attack. Hussain, who was responsible for online recruitment and providing inspiration for attacks in Western countries, began conspiring with Sullivan by June 2015. Hussain was killed in a U.S. dronezap in Syria in August 2015. But then Sullivan discussed those plans on social media with an undercover FBI employee, whom Sullivan tried to recruit to participate in the attacks, according to authorities. He asked the undercover FBI employee to build silencers and told him that he planned to carry out his attack in the next few days. Federal authorities have said they began investigating Sullivan after his father called 911 in April 2015 saying his son was destroying religious items in their home. He was locked away ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... at the family's home without incident on June 19, and later told Sherlocks that he planned to carry out an attack in the coming days when his parents were expected to be out of town. He also had offered to pay the undercover employee for killing his parents, who he believed would interfere with his terrorism plans. A sentencing hearing hasn't been scheduled, although both sides agree a life sentence is appropriate. Sullivan also faces state charges in the death of his neighbor, John Bailey Clark, who was killed in December 2014. At the hearing Tuesday, he didn't say he had killed Clark; however, prosecutors reserved the right to prove the charge at the sentencing hearing. Authorities have said Sullivan killed Clark and stole the man's money so he could buy an assault rifle to carry out the attacks Posted by: trailing wife 2016-12-04 |
|
| http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=474862 |