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Home Front: WoT
New Year's Eve terror attack thwarted in NY
2016-01-01
[Ynet] The US Justice Department arrest a man who planned to attack a restaurant in upstate Western New York on New Year's Eve; he is charged with providing material support to ISIS.

A 25-year-old man who planned to attack a restaurant in upstate Western New York on New Year's Eve has been tossed in the calaboose
You have the right to remain silent...
and charged with attempting to provide material support to 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....
, the US Justice Department said on Thursday.

Emanuel L. Lutchman, "claiming to receive direction from an overseas ISIS member, planned to commit an armed attack against civilians at a restaurant/bar located in the Rochester, New York, area today," the department said in a statement.
Seeing the below, one wonders if the director exists on the same physical plane as the rest of us...
A criminal complaint against Lutchman, who appeared in US District Court for the Western District of New York on Thursday, described him as a "self-professed Muslim convert with a criminal history dating back to approximately 2006... as well as previous state mental hygiene arrests."
Goodness, he has been busy, poor man.
It said Lutchman expressed support for Islamic State in telephone conversations with a paid informant in November and December. It said that this month he was in contact with someone who identified himself as a member of the Death Eater group in Syria.

On Tuesday, he went to a Walmart store in Rochester with another informant and bought two black ski masks, zip-ties, two knives, a machete, duct tape, ammonia and latex gloves for the planned attack, the complaint said. He had no money, and the confidential source paid about $40 for the supplies, it said.
The Times of Israel adds the following, without mentioning the hospital stays:
Prosecutors announced Thursday that 25-year-old Emanuel Lutchman has been charged with attempting to provide material support to terrorists. He was snared in an FBI sting, the prosecutors said.

The FBI said Lutchman had an accomplice who was actually working for the agency. It said they bought knives and a machete for the attack.

According to the International Business Times, court documents claim that Lutchman had been in contact with an IS member abroad, who had urged him to "do operations and kill some kuffar" -- a plural term for non-Muslims.

The report said that Lutchman told his interlocutor that he hated the US and and was prepared to "give everything up" for the Islamic State. He reportedly recruited two friends to help him carry out the attacks. One of the two reportedly dropped out; the other was cooperating with the FBI, unbeknownst to Lutchman.

The report said the two allegedly considered placing a bomb inside the location and kidnapping and killing people, and urged wearing masks to avoid identification. According to the report, the pair purchased masks, gloves, zip ties, knives, duct tape, a machete and ammonia at a Walmart store on Tuesday night.

The report said that on Wednesday, the day of his arrest, Lutchman made a video on his phone swearing loyalty to IS chief His Supreme Immensity, Caliph of the Faithful and Galactic Overlord, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi
...formerly merely the head of ISIL and a veteran of the Bagram jailhouse. Looks like a new messiah to bajillions of Moslems, like just another dead-eyed mass murder to the rest of us...
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