Ibraheem Ahmed al Bayati, 19, admitted to interrupting a class to threaten to bomb the university during an online lecture being taught via Zoom on Wednesday. Bayati told the class that he would bomb the university and praised the Islamic State, saying, "Islamic State will remain."
"What does any of this have to do with the fact that UH is about to get bombed in a few days?" Bayati told the class, according to court documents.
The FBI tracked Bayati down by tracing his IP address to the home of one of his relatives on Friday. Bayati admitted to interrupting the class and said that he meant the incident to be a joke. He showed the officers a text message from a friend that had a link to the Zoom class with a message that said: "Say some Arabic shit and leave lmaooooo."
Authorities do not believe that Bayati was acting on a one-off joke. They said they found other text messages on his phone in which he discussed recruiting for ISIS.
Bayati was charged with two counts for making the threat against the university. The charges carry a maximum prison sentence of 15 years. His first court appearance is on Tuesday.
Reader Comments
Will they ever become that? I doubt it.
R.C.
Why the selective prosecution against ISIS sympathizers but not against the BLM/Antifa sympathizers????????????????
For the record, my first comment was intended to be off hand satirical.
2) I fear that your hypothetical BLM member would never be arrested, much less prosecuted. I KNOW that government has the ability to listen* through every cell (and smart) phone, 24/7/366 although such is brutally unconstitutional. They keep doing so and preventing the word from getting out by offering 'a plea deal' that their arrestees can't refuse. Research Stingray Technology, et al.
3) The lower level cops don't even become aware of what cell intercepts can do until they are too deeply involved and are themselves 'part of the conspiracy.' *
R.C.
* (and, likely see, out of any cameras);
**I recently, due to lack of other options, reread the essential and typically egregious Grisham book, The Firm. (NOT a fan.) Anyway, in that novel he does a fair job of describing how such a process is typically carried out.
P.s., I just ogled Stingray Technology , and there is, even on ogle, lots of stuff about it. You have to go to 'crazy conspiracy sites' (like SOTT ), which are ALWAYS way down the results in order to learn much.
RC