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Brownsburg man arrested, accused of traveling to support ISIL
2016-06-22
[WTHR] A Brownsburg, Indiana, man was tossed in the calaboose
Please don't kill me!
Tuesday for attempting to join 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....
of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS).

FBI agents arrested Akram Musleh, 18, as he tried to board a bus from Indianapolis to New York. The FBI believes Musleh was going to fly to Morocco in transit to ISIS-controlled territory.

The arrest was announced by Assistant Attorney General for National Security John P. Carlin, U.S. Attorney Josh J. Minkler of the Southern District of Indiana and Special Agent in Charge W. Jay Abbott of the FBI’s Indiana Division.

Musleh is accused of planning to provide support to ISIS by fighting for the terrorist group.

FBI agents were on the scene at Brownsburg Pointe Apartments in connection with the investigation.

Musleh attended Brownsburg High School
According to the criminal complaint, when Musleh was a student at Brownsburg High School in 2013, he posted three videos of Anwar Al-Awlaki to YouTube. Al-Awlaki was a radical holy man assassinated in a drone strike several years ago, and his videos encouraging Moslems to kill Americans have been associated with the radicalization of several suspects in domestic terror attacks.

The complaint says the school worked with the FBI to dissuade Musleh from "engaging in radical extremism."

In September 2014, Musleh bought an ISIS flag online. In June 2015, he was seen in a photo posing in front of the flag.

Musleh allegedly asked youths if they wanted to join ISIS
In April 2015, Brownsburg Police investigated an incident in Williams Park in Brownsburg to look into allegations that certain people at the park were asking juveniles if they wanted to join ISIS (another name for ISIS). The FBI determined that Musleh was one of the people asking juveniles about joining ISIS.

First attempt to travel to The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
It's believed Musleh traveled to Istanbul, Turkey in June 2015, booking at least three separate one-way tickets from reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown
... home of Al Capone, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel,...
to Istanbul. Musleh allegedly told U.S. Customs and Border Protection that he was going to Istanbul to visit family. Then he explained he was traveling to get married, and would be meeting his fiancee and her family there. But the FBI says Musleh doesn't have family or friends in Turkey - and they say that the alleged fiancee is an ISIS sympathizer living in Sweden.

Musleh was not allowed to travel to Turkey in June 2015 because his passport was set to expire that August. Turkey requires a minimum of six months of validity on passports for visitors.

Journal, online statements in support of ISIS
When the FBI conducted an authorized search of Musleh's checked baggage, they found a journal containing quotes from Al-Awlaki, the late Osama bin Laden
... who was laid out deader than a mackerel, right next to the mackerel...
and others associated with terrorist groups.

The FBI says Musleh posted statements supporting ISIS on social media and found evidence of that activity online.

One-way ticket
Investigators say Musleh bought a one-way ticket on April 4, 2016 for June 23, 2016, from John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York to Casablanca, Morocco, and then on to Nador, Morocco. On April 21, 2016, he bought a one-way Greyhound bus ticket from Indianapolis to New York, to depart on June 21, 2016.

Musleh researched terror targets in Indiana
The FBI found that in May 2016, Musleh looked at a 2006 news article with the headline, "Indiana tops lists for terror targets," which details the Indiana Department of Homeland Security's list of 8,500 terror targets in the state. He also looked at commercial websites for pressure cookers a few days later and conducted extensive research on kabooms like dynamite, flash powder, explosive precursors, along with instructions about explosive chemical recipes.
Posted by:Fred

#1  should've done a Tony "The Ant" Spilotro on him.
Posted by: Frank G   2016-06-22 08:55  

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