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| Minn. man who survived bridge collapse used settlement to join Islamic State, FBI says |
| 2016-08-26 |
| [NOLA] One night in August 2007, 10-year-old Mohammed Roble was riding on a school bus when it pulled onto a Minneapolis bridge during the evening commute. Officials said that Roble, 62 other children and the bus driver were traveling on the Interstate 35W bridge when it began to crumble into the Mississippi River below. The disaster would become the deadliest bridge collapse in modern U.S. history, killing 13 people and injuring 145 others. Roble's parents filed a lawsuit after the collapse against Minnesota and others and eventually reached a settlement. In 2014, Roble began to receive money from this settlement, initially getting more than $91,000, according to a court filing this week. Federal authorities said in the filing that not long after Roble got that money, he left the country, making his way to China, ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... and, ultimately, Syria, where they say he joined 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.... The FBI says that once there, he has been using the money from his settlement to pay for things like cars and weddings, showing "financial generosity" once he got there. According to an FBI affidavit, filed with a criminal complaint in the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota on Tuesday, Roble joined the myrmidon group, also known as ISIS or ISIS, and is fighting in Syria. In the affidavit, an FBI agent states that the bureau came to this conclusion based on an investigation that included comments from an unnamed "confidential human source" and financial evidence and social media postings. |
| Posted by:Fred |