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North Carolina man gets life in prison for plotting Islamic State attack
2017-06-29
[Rooters] A North Carolina man accused of murdering his neighbor and offering to pay an undercover agent to kill his parents was sentenced to life in prison on Tuesday for plotting mass shootings in the name 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 Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
, U.S. prosecutors said.

Justin Sullivan,
...known in full as Justin Nolan Sullivan, a jihadi wannabe who asked an undercover FBI agent to kill his parents so they couldn't interfere with his mass murdering fun...
21, of Morganton, was sentenced in federal court in Asheville on one count of attempting to commit an act of terrorism transcending national boundaries, the Justice Department said in a statement.

Sullivan had pleaded guilty in November 2016, and the agreement with prosecutors called for the life sentence.

Prosecutors said Sullivan conspired with Junaid Hussain,
...also cleverly known as "Abu Hussain", the young former Birmingham, Englander was briefly the proud husband of well-wrinkled, former punk rocker Sally Jones and one of ISIS' team of long-distance jihad coaches. He was all of 21 when a drone dun him in...
a British hacker who was an online recruiter of people to carry out attacks on behalf of the Death Eater group Islamic State. Hussain was killed by a U.S. air strike in Syria in 2015.

Islamic State has carried out or inspired attacks in the United States, Europe and elsewhere.

Sullivan had discussed his plot online with an undercover federal agent, making plans to buy a semi-automatic rifle at a gun show and discussing potential targets.

Sullivan said he would use the rifle at a concert, bar or club in an effort to kill as many as 1,000 people, the Justice Department statement said.

At Sullivan's request, the undercover agent sent a homemade silencer to his home.

Sullivan's mother opened the package. When his parents questioned him about the silencer, Sullivan offered to pay the agent to kill them so they would not interfere with his plans, the statement said. He was jugged
Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please!
in June 2015.

At the sentencing hearing, U.S. District Judge Martin Reidinger likened Sullivan's plan to the deadly nightclub attack in Orlando in 2016. But he said his plot to use a silencer to kill as many people as possible made it even more sinister, prosecutors said in their statement.

Sullivan told the judge he was not "a cold-blooded killer," the Charlotte Observer newspaper reported.

Sullivan also faces a murder charge in state court in the 2014 death of his neighbor, John Bailey Clark. Prosecutors, who plan to seek the death penalty in that case, have said Sullivan told Sherlocks he stole his father's rifle for use in that crime.
Posted by:Anguper Hupomosing9418

#1  So does he get to wear a little hat in prison,
and get down on his knees 5 times a day?
Posted by: Skidmark   2017-06-29 23:56  

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