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A New York State man has been charged with allegedly aiding terrorist organization Islamic State (IS). He is accused of helping three individuals travel to Syria to fight with IS and also plotted to murder US troops returning home from the Middle East.
US citizen Mufid Elfgeeh, 30, who lives in Rochester, but is originally from Yemen,
helped the three jihadists travel to the Syria in 2013 and early 2014, while he also provided material support and resources to the IS, formerly known as ISIS."Elfgeeh also plotted to shoot and kill members of the United States military who had returned from Iraq," a statement by the Justice Department said as quoted by Reuters. "As part of the plan to kill soldiers, Elfgeeh
purchased two handguns equipped with firearm silencers and ammunition from a confidential source," Reuters reported.
Elfgeeh was charged with seven offenses in total, which also include wanting to kill Shiite Muslims. The FBI had been investigating him since early 2013, which included searching his personal computer, where they found he expressed
support for Al-Qaeda and Sunni militant groups in Syria, according to AP.
If convicted, the accused is set to spend a long time behind bars. The three charges of providing material support to Islamic State each carry a maximum sentence of 15 years in prison, and the attempted murder charge carries up to a 20-year sentence.
"With today's indictment of Mufid Elfgeeh, the government demonstrates that it will use all available tools to disrupt and defeat ISIS,"
William Hochul, US attorney for the Western District of New York, said in the statement.© www.democratandchronicle.comA Yemen-born man who had been living in Rochester is accused of recruiting for and supporting the terrorist organization, the Islamic State.
Elfgeeh was arrested on May 31. A government informant had also taped a conversation with him, in which he said that he planned to act alone.
"It could be right now in the daytime, and I could be ... like this guy here or something ... I could just go back and wait for him to when he leave to go to his garage, and just walk up slowly, boom, boom, boom, inside his garage," he said.
When an informant asked him whether he was going to release a video message of his attacks, Elfgeeh responded, "Once we do five or 10 already, 15, something like that ... then we gonna say something," according to the affidavit, according to AP.
Over 300 Americans are fighting for ISThe United States government said in late August, it is tracking as many as 300 Americans supposedly fighting with the IS.
"We know that there are several hundred American passport holders running around with ISIS in Syria or Iraq," a senior US official said. "It's hard to tell whether or not they're in Syria or moved to Iraq."
However, it is not just male fighters who have left America to fight in the Middle East.
US authorities are investigating a
"curious case" of US women joining the IS. At least three families of Somali origin in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area said that women from their community had gone missing in the last six weeks. According to relatives, they joined the jihadists in Syria and Iraq.
Another example shows a 19-year-old US-Somali woman who joined the Islamic militants. She first traveled to Turkey, and then joined the IS militants in Syria.
Mia Bloom from the Center for Terrorism and Security Studies at the University of Massachusetts Lowell told RT that
"ISIS is recruiting these women in order to be baby factories. They are seeing the establishment of an Islamic state and now they need to populate the state."
"A lot of young people have been recruited in a very exploitative way.
The recruiters are like predators, so they are looking for young people who very often may be seeking out some involvement, and may not necessarily know what their individual obligation is to their religion," she added.
On Tuesday, US Defense Secretary
Chuck Hagel said the
US Central Command has a plan to take "targeted actions against ISIS safe havens in Syria," including striking infrastructure. Hagel also unveiled a plan to boost Iraqi forces by 1,600 US "military advisers."The US will also train and equip 5,000 members of the Syrian opposition to fight the militants from the Islamic State group, previously known as ISIS and ISIL. However, Hagel said that
this number will not be enough to turn the tide at this stage and might be boosted later.
The plan to strike Syria was confirmed by General Martin Dempsey, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
"We will be prepared to strike ISIL targets in Syria that degrade ISIL's capabilities," General Dempsey said during Wednesday's hearing before the Senate Armed Services Committee.
Comment: In [a] news release, U.S. Attorney William Hochul Jr. said, "With today's indictment of Mufid Elfgeeh, the government demonstrates that it will use all available tools to disrupt and defeat ISIL. The case also demonstrates that
by working with the community, law enforcement is able to identify those who would harm our country or our returning soldiers." In other words, neighbors encouraged to become informants as in the 1940s.
Some chronology:
A Grand Jury indictment,
dated April 2014, charges Elfgeeh with four counts for Attempt to Provide Material Support to a Foreign Terrorist Organization, one count Possession of Firearms and Silencers in Furtherance of a Crime of Violence, and two counts Possession of Unregistered Firearm Silencer.
On
May 31, 2014, an undercover informant (Confidential Human Source - CS-1, CS-2) used Elfgeeh's Visa card to purchased two guns and silencers for Elfgeeh. When the informant and Elfgeeh met for delivery, the investigative team arrested Elfgeeh holding the box containing handguns, silencers and ammunition. In addition, his residence and workplace were searched on that date. In conversations with an informant, Elfgeeh said he had a bullet-proof vest. It was not found during the search.
In
July, 2014, a fire seriously damaged his apartment and the store he managed next door which is still under investigation.
An additional search warrant application, dated
August 6, 2014, was issued for WhatsApp Messenger. WhatsApp is an instant messaging subscription service for smartphones that uses the Internet for communication. Whats App is required to disclose all identity and personal contact info, accounts, passwords, all contact lists and their personal information, images and photos, geolocations, all links-senders-receivers, undelivered messages, net browsing, third-party websites, funds info, address books, etc.
On
Sept. 16, 2014 the
indictment was filed and the story is just now making big news (the arrest was carried June 2 in minor news outlets), curiously a few days after Obama declared war on the Islamic State, providing a threat example and validating the Pres's decision to turn the tables (follow the plan) on its devil creation to "protect Americans at home."
This is fascinating...contains all Elfgeeh's conversations with the two undercover informants and the case of evidence for the arrest (do read the footnotes):
http://documents.latimes.com/mufid-elfgeeh-search-warrant-application/
Step 1: ISIL = Pretext to bomb/invade Eastern Syria
Step 2: ISIS = Pretext to bomb/invade Syria as a whole, probably when a US plane is shot down by Syria!!!
Step 3: IS = Pretext to finally getting rid of the Al'CIA'da name and creating a name that it much easier to scare sheeple with for many years to come.
You may ask why they are all used now in the MSM? well to use classic brainwashing techniques you always drop names in early when you plan to use them later.