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US Court Files Indictment Against ISIS ‘Sniper’ In US
[NPASyria] A US citizen in a New York jail is charged with serving as a sniper and weapons trainer for the Islamic State...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really 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 western pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... (ISIS) in Syria. Born in Kazakhstan, Ruslan Maratovich Asainov, was brought to the US in 2019 following the fall of the self-proclaimed Islamic caliphate in Syria and Iraq. He was arrested by the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and turned over to the FBI  ...Formerly one of the world's premier criminal investigation organizations, something for a nation to be proud of. Now it's a political arm of the Deep State oligarchy that is willing to trump up charges, suppress evidence, or take out insurance policies come election time...The 46-year-old man from Brooklyn flew to Istanbul in December 2013 and from there he made his way to Syria to join ISIS. He rose through the group’s ranks and eventually became an "emir" who taught other members to use weapons. In post-arrest videos shown at his trial, he gives his occupation as "a sniper" to FBI agents and readily tells them that he provided instruction in everything from rifle maintenance to ballistics to adjusting for weather effects — and, of course, "how to actually pull the trigger." One of Asainov’s lawyers, Susan Kellman, said he went to Syria because he wanted to live under Islamic law. He has pleaded not guilty "Wudn't me." — a plea that Kellman entered on his behalf because, she said, he did not abide by the American legal system. During the ISIS rule, as many as 40.000 people from 120 countries showed up to join in, according to the United Nations ...a lucrative dumping ground for the relatives of dictators and party hacks... . There is no comprehensive US statistic on Americans among those imported muscle; a 2018 report by George Washington University’s Program on Extremism found at least 64 who had joined "jihadist fighting" in Iraq and Syria since 2011, the AP reported. Since ISIS defeat, some foreign members and their families have been detained in prisons and camps in northeastern Syria run by the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES) and the SDF. Ruslan Asainov faces charges that include providing material support to ISIS, a US-designated foreign terrorist organization. If convicted, he could be sentenced to life in prison. Posted by: trailing wife 2023-02-04 |
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