Undercover FBI agent who urged jihadis to “tear up Texas” claims he didn’t know they were going to attack Garland free speech event

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Erick Jamal Hendricks is on trial for his role in plotting the jihad attack on our AFDI Muhammad Art Exhibit and Cartoon Contest in Garland, Texas on May 3, 2015. This undercover agent was posing as a Muslim and communicating with Hendricks, as well as with Ibrahim Simpson, who along with Nadir Soofi attempted to attack the event.

Hendricks is another American Muslim who is on trial for plotting to kill Americans for exercising their free speech and violating the sharia. How many does that make? How many Muslims have been captured, convicted or killed in plots to slaughter me? Yet the left crucifies me as “too toxic” and carries water constantly for the likes of actual hatemongers such as Louis Farrakhan.

This undercover agent’s story defies belief. He claims that when he told jihadi Ibrahim Simpson to “tear up Texas,” that he was only saying what a mujahid, a warrior of jihad, would say, and that he wasn’t encouraging Simpson to “tear up Texas” himself.

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“Steven Jane” is apparently hoping that everyone will forget that Ibrahim Simpson and Erick Jamal Hendricks thought he was a Muslim who was interested in waging jihad against unbelievers. They didn’t know he was an agent. So when he said to “tear up Texas,” Simpson likely saw it as confirmation.

And then “Jane” wants us to believe that he didn’t know that Simpson and Nadir Soofi had traveled from Phoenix to Garland, Texas to attack the event, and he was shocked when they got out of the car and opened fire. He was right behind them. Did he not notice their Arizona license plate? Did he not know what these men he had been communicating with for so long looked like, and was not able to recognize them from the back? And all this time he was communicating with them and telling them to “tear up Texas” and he didn’t know that that’s exactly what they were planning to do?

“Jane’s” testimony is absolutely beyond belief. It is the FBI covering up its complicity in this attack. If they were telling Simpson to “tear up Texas,” they had every reason to suspect that just that would happen. Yet they had no agents in place to repel a jihad attack. And they refuse to answer questions about why. We can only hope that “Jane” will be subjected to withering cross-examination that will tear his flimsy story to shreds.

Hendricks made it clear that he was an ISIS supporter and spoke of using acres of land to train recruits, the agent said.

“My work is for Allah. It is my full-time job,” said Erick Jamal Hendricks, making it clear once again what jihad violence is all about. It’s ironic that he said it to an FBI agent, with the FBI committed to the claim that Islam is a religion of peace that has nothing to do with terrorism. Did the agent try to convince Hendricks that he was misunderstanding Islam?

“Undercover FBI agent testified he was unaware of plans for 2015 ISIS-inspired attack in Texas,” by Eric Heisig, Cleveland.com, March 9, 2018:

AKRON, Ohio – An undercover FBI agent who testified Friday against a terrorism suspect on trial in Akron said he was driving behind a car in a city outside Dallas when two men got out of the car and opened fire in an Islamic State-inspired attack in May 2015.

The agent, who testified under the pseudonym Steven Jane, said he went to Garland, Texas near “The First Annual Muhammad Art Exhibit and Contest” to develop his relationship with Erick Jamal Hendricks, then the target of an FBI investigation.

While Jane had previously talked to one of the attackers, he said he didn’t know Elton Simpson and Nadir Soofi also were in Garland. He said he had no advance knowledge of the pair’s plans and was as surprised as anyone when he saw gunfire being exchanged.

Simpson and Soofi wounded a security guard and died after a police officer shot them.

Jane’s testimony lasted all day Friday as he detailed his interactions with Hendricks and Simpson, all of which took place through Twitter and various encrypted messaging apps. He is a key witness in Hendricks’ trial, in which testimony began Thursday in U.S. District Judge John Adams’ courtroom in Akron.

Hendricks, 37, of North Carolina is accused of conspiring to provide support to ISIS. Authorities say his mission was to recruit and train ISIS sympathizers to carry out attacks on U.S soil.

Adams approved a set of unusual measures to protect the undercover agent’s identity, which included having the agent use a pseudonym and wear a light disguise. He also closed the courtroom Friday to everyone other than the himself, the jury, attorneys, defendant and essential court personnel.

Others, including a cleveland.com reporter, sat in another courtroom and listened to the agent’s testimony through a laptop connected to a TV. When prosecutors showed exhibits, the images appeared on the TV screen.

Hendricks’ connection to the Garland attack is a key piece of the government’s case against him. Justice Department attorney Rebecca Magnone told the jury Thursday that Hendricks was “unequivocally tied” to the attack.

Hendricks’ attorney David Doughten argued in his opening statement that the government cannot prove the social media handles it cites as belonging to Hendricks were actually his.

Jane rarely used the defendant’s name on Friday, but the FBI has said Hendricks was behind all the online handles the agent referenced.

The vast majority of Jane’s testimony pertained to his online conversations with Hendricks, which took place between March and May 2015. Jane said Hendricks showed a deep-seated sense of paranoia, frequently changed his handles on various messaging apps and told the agent to do the same.

The agent also said Hendricks took other measures such as putting spaces between letters when he texted certain Islamic terms in order to avoid detection by any software the apps contained to find and flag certain words. Screenshots of the conversations between Hendricks and the agent showed that this was a pattern.

“This person clearly demonstrated they were concerned about spies early in the conversation,” Jane testified.

Hendricks made it clear that he was an ISIS supporter and spoke of using acres of land to train recruits, the agent said.

The agent said Hendricks’ messages were constant. At one point, Jane said he asked Hendricks if he worked, and Hendricks said “my work is for Allah. It is my full-time job.”

Hendricks had the agent reach out to potential recruits to vet them. Several were actually FBI informants, Jane testified.

But Hendricks also had Jane reach out to Simpson, a little more than a week before the attack in Garland, the agent said.

It was during that conversation in April 2015 that Simpson asked Jane whether he was aware of the then-upcoming event in Texas.

Simpson told the agent that he had tweeted about it and received many responses, including from a “muj,” a reference to a muhajed, or a person of Muslim faith willing to die to defend their religion.

“And you can assume what the muj said about such event,” Simpson messaged the undercover agent.

“Tear up Texas,” the agent said he responded.

That statement has been the source of some controversy, as some have interpreted it as the FBI appearing to push Simpson toward the attack he eventually carried out.

Jane, however, said it was his response to posit “what somebody else, a third party, what a mujahed would say.”

He said he never spoke to Simpson again and didn’t know Simpson and Soofi would be in Garland.

Instead, he traveled to Texas at Hendricks’ urging. The trip was approved by the FBI and the agent was in contact while there with a Garland police officer assigned to an FBI task force in Dallas, he testified.

Jane drove near the event and told Hendricks what he saw, including security measures, the agent said.

To further the conversation, Jane said he texted Hendricks that law enforcement doesn’t realize “a lion starring them down from behind the tall grass and in the woods.”

Hendricks responded by saying, “Alla h akb ar!”, something terrorists say before an attack, the agent said….

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James Scanlon
James Scanlon
6 years ago

FBI is totally trustworthy lol

MAS
MAS
6 years ago

I wonder just how many of these FBI undercover stings have gone too far (by omission or commission) and gotten people killed. Too bad the layers of Top Secret won’t allow us commoners to find out…

Suresh
Suresh
6 years ago
Reply to  MAS

Its not sting but deliberate attempt to kill Pamela , Robert Spencer as they were few voices left that exposed jihadi facts/News and that was subverting Obama’s Islamisation of America Project , so FBI was used to do a hit job, but she has personal security that saved her and other attendees.

Hillary Left/Liberal media/Mafia runs fake investigation. Nobody is touching the mafia itself. And Hillary mafia killed another witness to email investigation http://tinyurl.com/y8p9cv5l

Nobody even investigates it bcoz Hillary gang is running FBI/DOJ/state dept/NSA.

robert v g
robert v g
5 years ago
Reply to  Suresh

Yeah,back in 2015 I believe Pamela was interfering w.O’s plan.So she & Spence.were F bi targets.

Ziggy46
Ziggy46
6 years ago
Reply to  MAS

Ironic isn’t it? In America, denying the truth to the taxpaying citizens is supposedly Constitutional. More appalling is, we the people must have faith in the biased, falsifying MSM to provide the facts. That is why I, and so a myriad of others are grateful for The Geller Report and others of its fortitude.

Dagonet
Dagonet
6 years ago
Reply to  MAS

I wonder why Stormy Daniels is getting more media attention than this.

Dave from San AntonioD
Dave from San Antonio
6 years ago
Reply to  Dagonet

A ‘couple of things’, I think…;)

Drew the Infidel
Drew the Infidel
6 years ago

Two reasons to remember her, no?

SK
SK
6 years ago
Reply to  MAS

We still know absolutely nothing about Stephen Paddock or his girlfriend. Very strange. Definitely a cover up.

Ex Nihilo
Ex Nihilo
6 years ago
Reply to  SK

Oh a huge one. It’s amazing citizens involved have dropped caring about it. They are utter fools

Mahou Shoujo
Mahou Shoujo
6 years ago

More evidence of muslim infiltration of the f b i, they think every one is as stupid and naive as they and their fellow muslims are.

Ziggy46
Ziggy46
6 years ago
Reply to  Mahou Shoujo

The FBI is only one of out institutions permeated by the Filth, Islam. America, Hell, the West is playing Russian Roulette while the Religion of Peace (not Peace but a Cult of Doom) is howling, giggling with laughter. When will Trump, especially Sessions not only drain the swamp but eradicate it? I wouldn’t place a wager on Sessions; the race has begun but he is standing gormless waiting for a push.

John Nosser
John Nosser
6 years ago
Reply to  Mahou Shoujo

It is not just the FBI, it is the entire federal government in at least at the middle levels if not the highest levels. McMasters is likely helping keep these Muslim infiltrators in place. The swamp needs to be drained. MAGA!

Thorsten
Thorsten
6 years ago

OT: 2 min, ‘… interprete’(?) -> ‘… the Prophets ordered that their
hands and legs should be cut off and that their eyes should be branded
with heated pieces of iron
, and that their cut hands and legs should
not be cauterized, till they die.’
http://cmje.usc.edu/religious-texts/hadith/bukhari/082-sbt.php

… in accordance with allah 40/2 -> ‘… kill them wherever you find them’ (‘turn away’, ex-Muslims) https://quran.com/4/89

… or ‘amputate hands’ https://quran.com/5/38-40 ‘lash them’ https://quran.com/24/2https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fo_N7eZOzog

Phil McDonald
Phil McDonald
6 years ago

If FBI thinks jihadists are so peaceful why the Hell were they following them? Liar liar pants on fire .

Ziggy46
Ziggy46
6 years ago

I recall as a kid, many moons ago when the FBI was deemed iconic in its fight against crime. As the decades slipped away to present day, this institution has rightly, plummeted from the pedestal from which it perched.

The FBI’s motto, Fidelity, Bravery, and Integrity is now a joke, contrary to those three words. ‘Tear Up Texas’ fits snugly as proof positive this agency is being eaten-up from the inside out. This travesty of injustice, treachery involving Islamic Jihad and the FBI an anomaly; it is, however, definitive in betraying the sedition within the agency from its hierarchy, overlords to the in the field agents. Nor is the FBI flying solo; there is an inner-circle of collaborators, insurgents who for some ‘unknown’ reason are enabled, protected by some self-appointed, despotic leech. The intent of this malevolent cabal, gangsters if preferred, is to suck the lifeblood out of this Constitutional Republic. I, as do others, have theories, but they are just that, suspicions.

Ex Nihilo
Ex Nihilo
6 years ago
Reply to  Ziggy46

Spot on.

robert v g
robert v g
5 years ago
Reply to  Ziggy46

Those F bi collaborators are not unknown.They are M ueller’s all-Dem. team.Also O’ & Jas.Homely.

Levon River
Levon River
6 years ago

Thanks to Pamela Geller and to all who spread the facts. If the world doesn’t wake up to this, and take ACTION, the world is going to die from this cancer:

“Islam: Political Totalitarianism Disguised in the Robes of ‘Religion’”
http://www.chaletbooks.com/chaletreports/?p=1049

Rocinante44
Rocinante44
6 years ago

the fbi and our trillion dollar federal government just can’t seem to kill this pesky jewess…God works in mysterious ways

IzlamDownpressesHumanity
IzlamDownpressesHumanity
6 years ago

Yeah the semi-automatic rifles the two f’ing muslums were carrying all the way from North Carolina(?) to TX were just for target shooting. It’s quite evident the F_I-B needs to be disbanded, they can no longer be trusted to support the US Constitution they swore to uphold.

Harry_the_Horrible
Harry_the_Horrible
6 years ago

Like we believe anything the FBI tells us any more?
Used to watch “Tales of the FBI with Efram Zimbalist Jr.” when I was child. That’s twenty-thirty years of good will the FBI has squandered in the last decade or so.

Ziggy46
Ziggy46
6 years ago

HtH, you are so right. i remember the good old days when the FBI was the benchmark of Law and Order. Efram, Robert Stack and others playing the roles of the agency’s icons. Now, the agency’s reputation is down the tubes and into the bog of shame and treason. Those of a right political bent are deemed the Enemies of the State while the Islamist scourge and progressives attempt to gut the Constitution are enabled by the FBI and other agencies.

Warmac9999
Warmac9999
6 years ago

Obama’s FBI. Its corruption and illegalities go quite deep.

Achmed Mohammedan
Achmed Mohammedan
6 years ago
Reply to  Warmac9999

It ain’t just obimbo’s fbi … The VAST (special emphasis added) of fbi “special agents” have been corrupt, lying thieves for decades./

Phil Copson
Phil Copson
6 years ago

None of that “we only met up by accident” story covers explains why local police weren’t warned of the impending assassination attempt.

Drew the Infidel
Drew the Infidel
6 years ago

If you are going to disgrace yourself by telling a lie, do not tell something on the order of a fairy tale which insults the intelligence of all who hear it.

Q: What is the difference between a lie and a fairy tale?
A: A fairy tale starts off with, “Once upon a time” while a lie starts off with, “This ain’t no sh*t.”

Dagonet
Dagonet
6 years ago

“My work us for allah.” GUILTY!!! Fry the POS along with his hire up for not knowing where this turd was and what he was doing. Get rid of FBI, DHS, DoJ, holdovers still working for HRC and BHO. They’ve commited treason and should be hung by the neck until dead, frankly, so should BHO for sending billions of $ to Iran.

Dave from San AntonioD
Dave from San Antonio
6 years ago

“claims he didn’t know they were going to attack Garland free speech event”
“Right”.

RM
RM
6 years ago

Given the FBI’s lousy record for truthfulness, I have difficulty believing a single word that comes out of “Steven Jane’s” mouth. The FBI is really only interested in protecting the FBI.

phillyroll
phillyroll
6 years ago

FBI muslim sympathizers were setting up and allowing the assasination of Geller. Thank God for the security and police that weren’t in on this devious treachery.

IzlamDownpressesHumanity
IzlamDownpressesHumanity
6 years ago
Reply to  phillyroll

Geert Wilders and Robert Spencer were also there and many, many other islamofauxbs.

Gene Kinney
Gene Kinney
6 years ago

Never trust the Federal Bureau of Islam….They are all liars…just like Comey!…and work for the State …their jackboot on the neck of American Citizens …whom they despise!

Ruvy
Ruvy
6 years ago

Pamela, get your ass out of exile! COME HOME!

Andrew Sears
Andrew Sears
6 years ago

undercover slimeball muslim terrorist murdering raping pig poop is a lying sack of camel semen. drain the swamp.

schmetz
schmetz
6 years ago

This is why I grit my teeth in smoldering rage when a Fox News commentator says the rank and file of the FBI can be trusted. The FBI needs a complete overhaul & a new direction putting the lives of innocent Americans ahead of these violent minorities.

IzlamDownpressesHumanity
IzlamDownpressesHumanity
6 years ago
Reply to  schmetz

I think it was Trump who said something to that effect.

whoselineisitanyway
whoselineisitanyway
6 years ago

All the Real Citizens know
who’s at fault here. OBOZO, SOROS, NWO AND MOST DIMWITS.
Do not trust muslims.

IzlamDownpressesHumanity
IzlamDownpressesHumanity
6 years ago

I’ll bet the F_I-b agent in question is a f’ing muslum.

Ex Nihilo
Ex Nihilo
6 years ago

The leFtBI has wanted citizens dead for decades. Every Govt agency is for replacing free thinking citizens with illiterate, filthy, obedient, lib chattel.

dfw63
dfw63
6 years ago

The agent “didn’t know that Soofi and Simpson would be in Garland” – but he ended up on the same street and driving by them when they started shooting.
What a liar, typical of today’s FBI.
If you gave similar testimony in court, the prosecuting attorney would remind you that you were under oath.
I hope the Garland PD was rough on him when they took him into custody.

MerchantseamenD
Merchantseamen
6 years ago

Al senior personnel should be kicked to the curb. Rebuild the FBI invoke the oath and make sure it is adhered to. The ones that go out the door are fair game to lose benefits and go to jail. JUST LIKE THE REST OF US.

John Nosser
John Nosser
6 years ago

One of the most lame excuses I have ever heard. It is worse than someone encouraging criminals to rob any bank, and then acting surprised after they rob a bank that advertised it had large sums of money on hand. I hope the judge is rational enough not to believe it. The agent must think the judge is a moron to offer such an excuse. He should be prosecuted for incitement to violence!

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