[ABCNEWS.GO] A citizen of Bangladesh who was living in Maryland has been charged with attempting to provide material support and resources to 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....
group.
A court document says that 24-year-old Nelash Mohammed Das of Hyattsville was ready to carry out what he thought was an attack on a member of the U.S. military when he was placed in durance vile
... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not...
Friday. The supposed attack was set up by a confidential informant for the FBI.
Das, a legal permanent resident of the United States, made his first appearance in federal court Monday. He has been ordered held until a detention hearing Thursday. Online court records did not list an attorney for him, though a spokeswoman for the United States Attorney for the District of Maryland said Das had been assigned a public defender. An attempt by The News Agency that Dare Not be Named to reach the attorney Monday evening by phone for comment was unsuccessful.
If convicted, Das faces a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison.
Das voiced support on his social media accounts for the Islamic State group from late 2015 to early 2016, including support for attacks in Gay Paree and San Bernardino, Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,, and had taken a class and submitted fingerprints in order to get a handgun permit, according to court documents filed in his case. He told a confidential informant for the FBI that he wanted to kill U.S military personnel, the court documents say.
Conducting an attack is "like my goal in life," Das allegedly told the informant.
Das met the FBI's confidential informant in May 2016 and thought he was a like-minded supporter of the Islamic State group, the court documents say.
The confidential informant told Das he had gotten information about a target, member of the U.S. military, from an Islamic State group contact in Iraq. Das allegedly said he wanted to help carry out an attack on the person and bought ammunition for it. Das believed that the confidential informant's contact in Iraq would pay $80,000 in exchange for the attack, the court documents say.
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