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| Ohio man gets 20 years prison for Islamic State-linked attack plot | ||
| 2016-11-24 | ||
| [FINANCIALEXPRESS] A southwest Ohio man who admitted to having plotted to execute a U.S. military base employee and then attack a local cop shoppe in support of 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.... was sentenced on Wednesday to 20 years in prison, the U.S. Department of Justice said. Munir Abdulkader, 22, from the Cincinnati suburb of West Chester, had pleaded guilty on March 24 to attempted murder of a government employee, attempted material support of a foreign terrorist organization and illegal firearm possession. U.S. District Judge Michael Barrett in Cincinnati imposed the prison term, and ordered that Abdulkader remain under supervision for life. Prosecutors had sought a 25-year prison term. A federal public defender representing Abdulkader did not immediately respond to requests for comment. Abdulkader, who became a U.S. citizen in 2006 and had been a student at Xavier University, had begun by July 2014 expressing support for the Islamic State on Twitter, including a desire for martyrdom, according to prosecutors. The defendant also communicated electronically with Junaid Hussain, an Islamic State member who encouraged him to conduct a violent attack in the United States, prosecutors said. Hussain was a British hacker who U.S. and European officials had regarded as a top computer expert for Islamic State in Syria and a supporter of "lone wolf" attacks, before he was killed in an August 2015 U.S. dronezap. Prosecutors said Abdulkader planned to murder the military official at home, videotape the killing so it could be used in Islamic State propaganda, and then use firearms and Molotov cocktails to attack a cop shoppe in the Cincinnati area. Abdulkader was nabbed Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! on May 21, 2015, the same day he acquired an AK-47 assault rifle, court papers show. The case is U.S. v. Abdulkader, U.S. District Court, Southern District of Ohio, No. 16-cr-00019.
"I don't know how I let myself get to that extent," said Abdulkader, who graduated from Lakota East High School and spent two years at Xavier University. He spoke confidently, sounding more like a college student than a would-be terrorist. He also apologized to the family of the unnamed U.S. military veteran who Abdulkader's "handler" for the Islamic State terror group had identified and targeted. "I apologize to the soldier and his family, if I caused them any sort of panic or fear," he said, standing at a lectern, wearing an orange-and-white-striped jail uniform. Abdulkader’s family is originally from Eritrea in eastern Africa. Officials have said he was born there and became a citizen in 2006, although his mother told an interviewer that Abdulkader was born in the United States and has never left the country. She said they moved to West Chester from New York City in 2009.
On Twitter, he posted a training video and lamented that his cousin had died fighting for ISIL, the documents say. The Twitter posts began in 2014 and continued into 2015. He became a citizen in 2006, when he was 11 years old, officials said. When he graduated from Lakota East High School in 2013, his name was Munir Abdulkadir Mohammed. Officials did not explain why his name is different in court documents. | ||
| Posted by:Fred |