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2018-12-11 Home Front: WoT
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FBI: Ohio man arrested in Toledo synagogue plot, said he was inspired by Pittsburgh shooting
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[USAToday] A 21-year-old Ohio man accused of planning to attack a Toledo synagogue told undercover FBI agents that he was inspired both by Islamist propaganda and the suspect in the Pittsburgh synagogue massacre that killed 11 people, authorities said Monday.
"I admire what the guy did with the shooting actually," Damon M. Joseph wrote to an undercover FBI agent on Oct. 30, three days after the Pittsburgh attack, agents wrote in an affidavit filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio.
He added: "I can see myself carrying out this type of operation inshallah," he said, using the Arabic word for "God willing."
A gunman shot and killed 11 people at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh in October. Robert Bowers, a 46-year-old Pittsburgh man with social media ties to the white nationalist movement, has been charged with 44 counts of murder, firearms offenses and hate crimes in that incident.
Joseph, of Holland, Ohio, was charged Monday with one count of attempting to provide material support to ISIS. Police locked away
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him Friday after he took possession of two semi-automatic rifles to carry out the attack, authorities said.
Agents said Joseph, who also used the name "Abdullah Ali Yusuf," drew their attention earlier this year by posting his support of Islamic snuffies on social media accounts ‐ including images that originated from ISIS propaganda.
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Undercover FBI agents made contact with him, they said, and outlined their communication in an affidavit filed in court Monday.
In September, they said, Joseph made an ISIS recruiting video and sent it to the agents. He complained that the mosque he attended was critical of ISIS.
He also gave the agents a shopping list that included AR-15 and AK 47 rifles and ammunition, they said.
Joseph continued to plan the attack, they said, and told the agents last week that he was deciding between two synagogues, depending on "which one will have the most people, what time and what day."
"Go big or go home," he told the agents, they wrote in the affidavit.
The undercover agents met with Joseph, gave him a duffel bag with two inoperable rifles and arrested him.
U.S. Attorney Justin Herdman described Joseph as "a calculated man fueled by an ideology of hatred and intent on killing innocent people."
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Joseph is at least the second suspect accused of taking inspiration from the Pittsburgh attack.
Jeffrey R. Clark Jr., 30, was arrested in Washington, D.C., last month and charged with illegal possession of a firearm. Authorities said relatives became concerned by his support for Bowers.
In one social media post, they said, Clark called the Pittsburgh attack "a dry run of things to come."
Clark and his 23-year-old brother, Edward, followed Bowers on the social media site Gab, which has become a haven for white supremacists who have been banned from more mainstream social media networks.
Edward Clark shot himself to death in a national park Washington hours after the Pittsburgh shooting, authorities said.
FBI charge 2 in Ohio accused of plotting separate attacks
[Ynet] The FBI and Department of Justice said Monday that both attacks were in the planning stages and that there was no immediate threat to the public.
Federal authorities say the other arrest involved a woman who wanted to shoot up a bar and also blow up a pipeline.
An Ohio woman who corresponded with Charleston, South Carolina church shooter Dylann Roof was charged on Monday with planning to bomb a Toledo, Ohio, bar, prosecutors said.
Elizabeth Lecron, 23, was accused of purchasing gunpowder and screws that the FBI said she intended to use in an “upscale mass murder” at the bar, U.S. Attorney Justin Herdman said in a statement.
Lecron came to the attention of police this year after an associate expressed a desire to conduct an attack. Investigators found a number of social media posts by Lecron glorifying mass murderers, including Roof and the Columbine High School shooters.
She visited Columbine High School this year and exchanged letters with Roof, attempting to send Nazi literature to the avowed white supremacist, according to an affidavit filed in the case.
Roof was sentenced to death for the 2015 killing of nine worshipers at an African-American church in Charleston.
In discussions with undercover FBI agents, Lecron also talked about an attack to free farm animals, bombing a pipeline and attacking her workplace.
On Friday, she purchased two pounds (0.9 kg) of a muzzle-loading gunpowder and 665 screws at stores in Perrysburg, Ohio, after which police arrested her. 
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