Chicago: Muslim convert worked on bomb plans and helped to preserve Islamic State propaganda on social media

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He developed what he would call the “highest form of jihad.” “No more than 10 brothers know how to do this kind of jihad.”

Will the islamophobia never end?

Chicago man accused of helping preserve Islamic State propaganda on social media

Thomas Osadzinski, a 20-year-old college student, has been charged in a criminal complaint with one count of attempting to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization

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By Jon Seidel, Chicago Sun-Times, Nov 19, 2019:

Thomas Osadzinski said he couldn’t just “sit in the chair while Muslims are dying,” so he allegedly studied bomb-making and promised he would not be stopped “once I get my gun and explosive belt.”

But the 20-year-old Lake View resident and DePaul University student also studied computer science. And that’s where the feds say he found his calling. Osadzinski allegedly went on to develop what he would call the “highest form of jihad” — a computer program that used social-media bots to save and help disseminate Islamic State propaganda online.

“No more than 10 brothers know how to do this kind of jihad,” Osadzinski allegedly once boasted.

Now Osadzinski is in federal custody, charged in a 38-page criminal complaint with attempting to provide material support and resources to the Islamic State. Also, despite once allegedly claiming, “I will never go to their false man-made court,” Osadzinski found himself Tuesday in the courtroom of U.S. Magistrate Judge Jeffrey Cole.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Barry Jonas labeled Osadzinski a risk of flight and a danger to the community. Cole ordered Osadzinski held in federal custody until a detention hearing could be held. The hearing is set for Friday.

Steve Greenberg, Osadzinski’s defense attorney, later insisted his client “is a young man who was acting lawfully.”

“He is not writing code to support ISIS,” Greenberg said in a text message to the Chicago Sun-Times. “While we understand the government has to be vigilant, they have overreached here, and seek to criminalize religious beliefs and free speech.”

The case against Osadzinski is believed to be the first of its kind — a terrorism case brought against a U.S.-based defendant involving computer code. Seamus Hughes, deputy director of George Washington University’s Program on Extremism, agreed and pointed to the computer skills credited to Osadzinski.

“The FBI was fortunate to have online covert employees who connected with him,”
Hughes said in a message to the Sun-Times. “He was punching above his weight in terms of skills compared to other ISIS American supporters.”

The investigation of Osadzinski, a Park Ridge native, dates back at least to June 2018 and involved undercover FBI employees and someone working confidentially with law enforcement.

Osadzinski allegedly used social media to seek help with instructions for manufacturing a highly unstable explosive in June 2018. The feds say he believed he was on the “terrorist watch list.” And he once sent someone a series of emojis that authorities took to mean he would commit a car-bomb attack if ever drafted by the U.S. military.

Then, in March, Osadzinski allegedly sent someone a message to say he was starting “a new and very valuable project.” He sent the message to an online persona used by federal investigators to portray a member of a pro-Islamic State media organization.

By August, Osadzinski allegedly had begun sharing computer code with that online persona, as well as a document entitled “Operation: Heralds of the Internet.”

The feds say the document described, in detail, Osadzinski’s plan to use the computer script to “sort, copy, organize, and redistribute large volumes of content from ISIS official media and other pro-ISIS” social media channels.

He allegedly said he wanted to “spread it everywhere.”

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0349 JAT
0349 JAT
4 years ago

New converts to islam are the worst and the dumbest.

MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
4 years ago
Reply to  0349 JAT

The six million assorted kufar slaughtered in the 20th century (in places like E. Timor, Armenia/Turkey, Bangladesh) by muslums were mostly slaughtered by muslums born into the death cult and very few recent converts. Similarly the ongoing genocide of Christians in Nigeria isn’t being carried out by recent converts to the religion of death and destruction.

Francis
Francis
4 years ago

I doubt he ever got time in FB Jail. Mark Goebbelsberg probably has a medal for him.

mjazzguitar
mjazzguitar
4 years ago

Look at how they are sneaking them in here. Starting new shell agencies and using our tax dollars to lobby for them.

Who is Representing Federal Office of Refugee Resettlement at Mosque Meeting?

Dave Glynn
Dave Glynn
4 years ago

Universities and colleges are riddled with dangerous traitors such as this.
The only way to clean the system is close the whole lot down for a year or three and start again after vetting the educators and the board that employs them.
If the radicals behind the scenes are not exposed and eliminated then the downward spiral will continue into the abyss.

Liatris Spicata
Liatris Spicata
4 years ago
Reply to  Dave Glynn

I would not agree to close down the system of higher education in the USA. While overall, I think government should not be in the business of providing “education” to adults, the reality is, it does. While government should err on the side of permissiveness, it should not shrink from using its power of the purse to vet the programs it supports.

Unfortunately, particular program this young thug was pursuing is not one for which government should curtail its support.

Dave Glynn
Dave Glynn
4 years ago

RIP it up and start again

Roma Mikhasev
Roma Mikhasev
4 years ago

religion of peace

Liatris Spicata
Liatris Spicata
4 years ago
Reply to  Roma Mikhasev

it’s pieces, Roma, pieces. Gotta watch your spelling!

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4 years ago

Islamic Recruitment Drives and Voter Registration Drives are up in 2019,….. America’s at WAR within Her own borders,… and most Americans are oblivious to it !!!

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Francis
Francis
4 years ago

It shouldn’t be long before he is elected to congress.

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