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Home Front: WoT
Iraqi refugee pleads guilty to aiding Islamic State in US
2016-10-19
[IsraelTimes] 5 years after immigrating to Houston in 2009, man allegedly hoped to bomb 2 malls; faces up to 20 years in prison

Omar Faraj Saeed Al Hardan admitted as part of a plea deal that he pledged his loyalty 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 Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
in November 2014 and almost immediately trained to use tactical weapons, including an AK-47. He faces up to 20 years in federal prison when he is sentenced January 17 on a charge of attempting to provide material support or resources to a designated foreign terrorist organization.

The 24-year-old came to Houston from Iraq in 2009. Beginning in June 2014, Al Hardan developed a relationship with a confidential informant, discussing hopes to travel overseas to fight with the Islamic State group, according to authorities.

Homeland Security Special Agent Herman Wittliff testified days after Al Hardan’s indictment in January that the suspect had been learning how to make electronic transmitters that could be used to detonate explosives. Wittliff said Al Hardan hoped to bomb two Houston malls, including the popular Galleria mall, and wanted to use cellphones -- a collection of which were found in his apartment -- to detonate the devices.

An FBI statement at the time assured that Al Hardan never had an "active or planned plot targeting a specific location in Houston or elsewhere."

Prosecutors alleged Al Hardan was coordinating efforts with another Iraqi refugee living in Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,, Aws Mohammed Younis al-Jayab, and that the two men discussed getting weapons training and eventually sneaking into Syria to fight alongside the Islamic State.

Al-Jayab is locked away
Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages!
in Chicago on allegations of trying to support a terrorist group. The 23-year-old Iraqi-born Paleostinian man also is charged in California with lying to Sherlocks about traveling to Syria.

Al-Jayab flew from Chicago to The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
on November 9, 2013, then traveled to Syria, federal prosecutors said. Authorities say he joined a group later affiliated with the Islamic State, though he told Sherlocks he was just visiting his grandmother in Turkey.
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