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“I’m in NY and trying to do an Op,” Saleh told a confidential source in an intercepted conversation. Federal authorities said that Saleh, a resident of Flushing in the New York City borough of Queens, spent hours online researching how to build a pressure-cooker bomb and reading accounts of the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing. And he spent successive days casing the George Washington bridge.
Saleh’s father said he had been conducting simple internet searches. He defended his son, saying that it was a misunderstanding and he had been set up by informants. The father is blaming authorities. He should have been arrested, too, for lying and obstructing justice in the cause of jihad terror.
A college student will serve 18 years in prison after he admitted to plotting a bomb attack in New York for ISIS.
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College student is jailed for 18 years after helping ISIS plot a pressure-cooker bomb attack on New York City
- Munther Omar Saleh was sentenced on Tuesday in federal court in Brooklyn
- The 22-year-old pleaded guilty last year to charges that he planned to help ISIS
- ‘I’m in NY and trying to do an Op,’ Saleh told a confidential source in an intercepted conversation
- In March of 2015, a police officer observed Saleh on successive days on foot at the George Washington Bridge seemingly looking around
- The behavior prompted officers to interview Saleh, who denied sympathizing with ISIS
By Associated Press and Reuters and Dailymail.com Reporter, 7 February 2018
A college student will serve 18 years in prison after he admitted to plotting a bomb attack in New York for ISIS.
Munther Omar Saleh, 22, admitted to scheming to help the terror group hit New York landmarks, including the Statue of Liberty.
He was sentenced on Tuesday in federal court in Brooklyn.
The 22-year-old pleaded guilty last year to charges of supporting terrorism.
As part of his guilty plea, Saleh admitted that he had sought to communicate with and support the group and assaulted a federal officer.
Prosecutors said he escorted a co-defendant to an airport for a planned trip to join the Islamic State group overseas (the co-defendant was arrested before he could join the group), researched how to build a pressure-cooker bomb and discussed potential landmarks as targets with an Islamic State recruiter.
‘I’m in NY and trying to do an Op,’ Saleh told a confidential source in an intercepted conversation, according to court papers.
Later, Saleh charged, while armed with a knife, at a federal officer who was watching him, prosecutors said.
‘Saleh attempted to turn our city into a staging ground for violent attacks,’ William Sweeney, the assistant director in charge of the FBI’s New York field office, said in a statement.
Brooklyn US Attorney Richard Donoghue said Saleh’s sentence would deter ‘those who contemplate waging violent jihad in New York City at the direction of a foreign terrorist organization.’
Saleh’s lawyer, Deborah Colson, said her client was relieved that the case was concluded.
‘Mr. Saleh is sincerely remorseful, and he is committed to making amends,’ she said in an email.
Saleh, an American citizen, was a college student when he was arrested in 2015.
His case was linked to five other conspirators in New York and New Jersey.
At least four of them have also pleaded guilty.
In a letter to the judge earlier this year, Saleh said he was drawn to the Islamic State group because he saw it as an ‘Islamic resistance movement’ amid the Syrian civil war.
He said he became alarmed and ‘started exercising very bad judgment’ when he noticed law enforcement following him.
‘I am sorry for my shameful behavior,’ he wrote.
In March of 2015, a police officer observed Saleh on successive days on foot at the George Washington Bridge – which connects New Jersey and New York – seemingly looking around, court papers said.
The behavior prompted officers to interview Saleh, who denied sympathizing with Islamic State and also granted them permission to examine his computer, authorities said.
Investigators found the computer contained Islamic State propaganda, according to court filings.
Saleh’s father defended his son, saying that it was a misunderstanding and he had been set up by informants.
The father said Saleh had been conducting simple internet searches.
Federal authorities said that Saleh, a resident of Flushing in the New York City borough of Queens, spent hours online researching how to build a pressure-cooker bomb and reading accounts of the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing.
Before his arrest, Saleh was enrolled at Queens College, which specializes in aeronautics. He was studying electrical circuitry.
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26 Comments
6 years ago
Knowing our justice system, he will probably be let out long before that. “Sincerely remorseful, committed to making amends”? Give me a break.
6 years ago
Reply to
R. Arandas
Agree. This will happen As long as Left/Liberal pro-jihadis loons are voted to power they will appoint pro-jihadis in admin and judiciary.
Here’s some great news from fast turning Jihadi hellhole Australia . Judge bans Muslima from court for wearing the Burkha and Left/Liberal pro-jihadis howl in protest http://bit.ly/2nRdtgd
6 years ago
Important to bear in mind, however, that Saleh misunderstood Islam, which is a religion of peace. The idea of a caliphate in the USA is simply laughable, and likely being driven by Zionists, who control the US government.
/sarcoff
6 years ago
Reply to
Liatris Spicata
Agreed:
Radical Leftist Jews are pushing for mass immigration of Muslims to the USA and Europe to extinct Christianity and the White race.
Communist division within a society is propagandized by Jewish groups (which hide their identities) such as:
— Southern Poverty Law Center https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k41PI54ExFc,
— American Civil Liberties Union,
— Black Lives Matter (funded by Soros),
— Antifa (funded by Soros),
— BAMN (funded by Soros),
— Anti-Defamation League,
— (Hebrew) Immigrant Aid Society,
— International Rescue Committee etc.
Bibliography of the Jews as the destroyers, via Communism, of White, Christian societies as revenge for historical anti-Semitism and the Holocaust:
— After the revolution : studies in the contemporary Jewish American imagination https://lccn.loc.gov/85045977
— Cultural insurrections : essays on Western civilization, Jewish influence, and anti-semitism https://lccn.loc.gov/200703…
— The culture of critique : an evolutionary analysis of Jewish involvement in twentieth-century intellectual and political movements https://lccn.loc.gov/98014905
— Cutting through the mountain : interviews with South African Jewish activists https://lccn.loc.gov/98131433
— The devil that never dies : the rise and threat of global antisemitism https://lccn.loc.gov/2016303225
— The devil’s pleasure palace the cult of critical theory and the subversion of the West http://www.worldcat.org/ocl…
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— Essential papers on Jews and the Left https://lccn.loc.gov/97003723
— Followers of the trail : Jewish working-class radicals in Americahttps://lccn.loc.gov/88027766
— The impact of the 1919-20 Red scare on American Jewish life https://lccn.loc.gov/74007029
— The international Jewish Labor Bund after 1945 : toward a global historyhttps://lccn.loc.gov/201101…
— Jewish and Russian revolutionaries exiled to Siberia, 1901-1917https://lccn.loc.gov/90028796
— Jewish radicalism: a selected anthology https://lccn.loc.gov/72003714
— Jewish radicals : from Czarist stetl to London ghetto https://lccn.loc.gov/74026194
— The Jewish revolutionary spirit : and its impact on world historyhttps://lccn.loc.gov/201027… (discusses Rothchild and Soros-type sponsorship of subversive activities against European / Christian countries throughout history)
— Jews and the left https://lccn.loc.gov/78020871
— Jews and the left : the rise and fall of a political alliancehttps://lccn.loc.go…
— Jews and revolution in nineteenth-century Russia https://lccn.loc.gov/94001919
— Jews, labour and the left, 1918-48 https://lccn.loc.gov/00105496
— The making of Jewish revolutionaries in the Pale of Settlementhttps://lccn.loc.gov/2014019729
— Of Moses and Marx : folk ideology and folk history in the Jewish labor movement https://lccn.loc.gov/98031941
— On socialists and “the Jewish question” after Marx https://lccn.loc.gov/91016630
— Pale of the Settlement : working-class Jewish youth and adoption of revolutionary identity during the 1905 revolution https://lccn.loc.gov/2010291693
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— The triumph of Israel’s radical right https://lccn.loc.gov/2012006847
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— While Messiah tarried : Jewish socialist movements, 1871-1917https://lccn.loc.gov/75007769
6 years ago
As muslums increasingly infiltrate/subvert/co-opt NYC’s finest what are the odds of such attacks not being investigated at all or such investigations being deliberately sabotaged from within?
6 years ago
Deport the criminal’s father immediately, He will also serve as a good bad example of why lying is not acceptable.
6 years ago
Reply to
Mahou Shoujo
Why should we do all that when we can USE THE BRIDGE?
Get two ropes, tie one end of rope A to the neck of the son, one end of rope B to the neck of the dad, and tie the other end of both ropes to the bridge
All the father and son pair have to do is jump
No need to bury them either — the seagulls can finish scraping clean their corpses
6 years ago
Reply to
Kalambong Kalambong
Agreed. It was the fate of North Korean collaborators in South Korea during the Korean War. The late Senator Daniel Inouye of Hawaii wrote of witnessing such.
6 years ago
Reply to
Drew the Infidel
There were mass executions of Nazi collaborators in France following WW2 — some of them extra-judicial.
6 years ago
Reply to
IzlamDownpressesHumanity
Agreed. Get a copy of “The Resistance in World War II” by Miller. It is a Time-Life book with many graphic photos.
D
6 years ago
Muslim Demons should not be allowed into the country.
6 years ago
And self-loathing Jewish Kapos will shed a river of tears for his justified imprisonment !!!
6 years ago
They must extend somehow charges on the families of these radical recruits. That would be an even better deterrent. If these nutjobs knew their families would be in jeopardy, like at least be deported it might make them think twice!
6 years ago
Reply to
Christine McRae
I thought that is what “conspiracy” charges were for?: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conspiracy_(criminal)#United_States
Or “Providing Material Support in Aid of Terrorism”?: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Providing_material_support_for_terrorism
6 years ago
Reply to
John D. Horton
It would be nice if our laws were actually utilized. Have you heard of any family
members of such individuals facing charges of conspiracy in the past? because I haven’t. They attest that they were unaware, and that’s where it stops.
6 years ago
Only 18 years?! Send the little muzz-Zzzie prick to Gitmo for life!
6 years ago
My hope is that he will not live long in prison and that he will meet his 72 nonvirgins after his cellie introduces him to the other cellmates and passes him around. This animal does not belong with the rest of society; he would not have cared how many people he would have killed…….
Maybe (if he survives prison) when he gets out he can still formulate his plan and go to Chuckie Schumer’s house and practice his ‘pressure cooker bomb making’ there. No one will miss that moronic jackass- Schumer.
6 years ago
Despite his admission of guilt, he could at the very least, be charged with conspiracy which, in legal parlance, means you thought about it.
What is it with these raghead sympathizers? I have visited some of the foreign sh*tholes and would not trade nor endanger my life here for anything.
6 years ago
Reply to
Drew the Infidel
I think he is a rich Jordanian American and instead of playing Dungeons and Dragons like normal White teenage boys he wants to do Jihad?
6 years ago
This snake will convert all inmates to islam. He is spreading plague.
6 years ago
The student has 18 years time to finish his studies and probably comes out as a gay. And then topped off a roof in Manhattan. Well done you muzzrat plonker. The father should be shipped of to the nearest pislamic hell hole, probably that is today’s Britain.
6 years ago
Is this guy of Jordanian descent since the article skips over his ancestry? I guess the writer does not want to upset the Jordanian community in the USA since Jordan is considered an allied nation in the Middle East?
Islam needs to be declared a totalitarian political movement like Nazism and Communism and banned in the USA. All Muslims must be deported to Africa (my dumping ground for all problem people in the USA) or to any other country that will accept them. This is a military problem and not a civilian law enforcement problem. President Franklin Roosevelt interred the Japanese, Italians and Germans in the USA as potential subversives and all Muslims in the USA are all potential subversives. “Roosevelt authorized the deportation and incarceration with Executive Order 9066, issued on February 19, 1942” — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internment_of_Japanese_Americans
— German American internment: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internment_of_German_Americans
— Italian American internment:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internment_of_Italian_Americans
6 years ago
A major problem is that he will find like-minded people in prison. They feed their own rhetoric, back and forth, and radicalize each other into a frenzy. They share this with unindoctrinated prisoners and the problem worsens. Of course, one could hope and pray they don’t live long enough to finish their sentence, but you can’t depend on that.
It is one thing to commit a crime for opportunist reasons, and still another to harm people for Nationalistic reasons. While I consider Islam a theology, others consider it a religion. I submit that a legitimate religion stands for moral correctness and the furtherment of mankind. Our Ten Commandments teach us not to harm others, but we are allowed to kill to defend ourselves. But we cannot murder, or go to war just to plunder somebody else’s riches or take slaves. I know of only one group who does all of this, and is still called a “religion.” That is not right, and we can’t even begin to assume that they will change, or try to fit in. They are not interested.
6 years ago
As I stated before, there are ONLY two types of muslims…jihadists and dormant jihadists. islam and it’s excessive baggage in the form of muslim zombies and their two Tango Oscar India Lima Echo Tango article books, hadith and quran are the enemies of mankind. .
6 years ago
Send him to Canada! I’m sure our retarded Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, could hold his hand and read him some poetry and cure him on his ISIS obsession just like he’s going to do with our returning ISIS warriors! What a F***ing whack job Trudeau is! Absolutely no concept of reality!!
6 years ago
Hey Tiffany, PISS OFF!
