[ May 12, 2024 ]
A Muslim in Maryland who pleaded guilty to plotting a terror attack on American soil in the name of ISIS was just sentenced to 20 years in prison.
Mohamed Elshinawy, 33, was also found guilty of trying to help ISIS develop weaponized drones.
He pleaded guilty to several charges, including supporting ISIS, financing terrorism and making false statements to law enforcement authorities about a terror-tied investigation.
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The Washington Post has more:
Mohamed Elshinawy, 33, of Edgewood, pleaded guilty to supporting ISIS, terrorism financing and making false statements in connection with a terrorism matter, according to a statement from the U.S. attorney’s office in Maryland.
Between February and December of 2015, Elshinawy conspired with others to support ISIS and provide the terrorist group with financial services, material support and other resources, the government said.
“In various other conversations, Elshinawy pledged his allegiance to ISIS, described himself as its soldier, committed to making violent jihad, and asked that others convey his message of loyalty to ISIS leadership,” the statement from federal prosecutors said.
A company based in the United Kingdom also transmitted about $8,700 to Elshinawy to pay for a terrorist attack on U.S. soil, according to his plea agreement.
The owner of the company was a person from Bangladesh who went to Syria to help ISIS develop weaponized drone technology, according to Elshinawy’s plea agreement. The company also sent money to Elshinawy to buy drone technology and parts to ship to ISIS members in Turkey and Syria, he admitted in his plea.
When FBI agents confronted him in July 2015, he told authorities that he was planning to use the money to defraud ISIS and concealed his involvement with the designated terrorist organization, prosecutors said.
Elshinawy, a U.S. national of Egyptian descent, had also tried to recruit his brother to join ISIS, his plea agreement stated. Elshinawy deleted his social media messages with the U.K. business owner and with his brother. He also told his brother to warn the business owner that he had been “revealed and uncovered.”
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10 Comments
6 years ago
Bit of news from Australia on attempted bomb attack Ipswich, Queensland.
Sounds like Muslim couple, all covered up by media to identity, could have been far worse if couple drove vehicle into shopping centre and exploded bomb.
6 years ago
Reply to
knightsstrength
“Their motives ‘at this stage were totally unknown and subsequent to further investigations’.” Bomb in a car …. just a junior high science experiment .. they were taking it to the science fair, for their nephew.
6 years ago
Reply to
knightsstrength
The thing is, the numbers you are thinking of are WAY off in regards to the inquisitions, and those who DID rape, kill, ransack, and flat out MURDER people, were excommunicated from the Catholic church regardless of them being Crusaders or not. And in response to your first paragraph in the article that you wrote on the thirty first of March, you clearly cannot ID a satanic worshipper, because you sure as the Good Lord Himself seem like a satanic worshiper.
miserere animae tuae sit Tibi Deus.
Now on the Muslim things I agree.
P.S. this message is to Knightsstrength.
6 years ago
Has Imam Keith Ellison been notified about this conviction? He ain’t gonna be happy.
6 years ago
If he is a “good prisoner” he’ll be out by his early 40’s. Still plenty of time to commit mass murder, thereby gaining his ticket to 72 virgins (renewable ones at that- still trying to figure out how that one works) in the only manner the Koran guarantees admission to paradise.
Of course, if CAIR gains influence in this country, he’ll be out sooner. That could easily happen if SHE’s baaaaaaaak.
6 years ago
Put him in a jail that does not cater to muslim superstition, jail should be an equally unpleasant experience for everyone, especially muslims.
6 years ago
“A company based in the United Kingdom also transmitted about $8,700 to
Elshinawy to pay for a terrorist attack on U.S. soil, according to his
plea agreement.” 20 years for taking $8700. Guess he planned on being a budget terrorist. Like blowing up his underwear, or something.
6 years ago
The twenty year sentence should rescinded and the sentence changed to Death.Otherwise he will get out good behavior in 3 to 5 years and revert back to what he was doing before.
6 years ago
these people are are absolute libtards and idiots
