[ April 23, 2024 ]
All in the cause of Islam, but that is never mentioned in this ABC report. And that, my fellow Americans, is the very definition of “fake news.” Five reporters on this one story; not one had the integrity to report the story. They didn’t bury the lede; they deny its existence.
Northwest Side Chicago man charged in ISIS terror case
By Chuck Goudie and Marissa Isang, Barb Markoff, Chr, istine Tressel and Ross Weidner, ABC7, October 19, 2018:
CHICAGO (WLS) — An Iraqi-born Chicago man is in federal custody, charged with using ISIS social media platforms to recruit violent jihadists.
Ashraf Al Safoo, 34, was arrested on Wednesday morning following a raid on his home in the 5200-block of North Virginia Avenue. Al Safoo had been held by FBI agents assigned to the bureau’s Joint Terrorism Task Force.Story continues below advertisementA lengthy criminal complaint unsealed Friday afternoon provides details of Al Safoo’s alleged campaign to find fighters via the internet who were interested in committing terror attacks in the U.S. and elsewhere. Although not named or charged, authorities say he worked with others in the alleged terror support plot.
Federal investigators said that the web developer, whose bio states he was trained in Malaysia, used written social media posts, audio clips and videos to recruit terrorists.
Among the internet screen grabs of Islamist propaganda allegedly used by Al Safoo is a gruesome, full-color illustration of a headless Santa Claus accompanied by the line: “The Khilafahs presents are on their way.” Other freeze frames allegedly from the Chicago man’s recruiting efforts show apparent terrorists with guns, imminent attacks on Christmas celebrants and a time bomb inside a gift box.
Al Safoo appeared in federal court Friday where he was ordered held without bond until a detention hearing Oct. 25.
Prosecutors said he was a danger to the community and a flight risk. They described him as the lead writer of a group that distributed ISIS propaganda. Authorities said he told followers to “Participate in the war. Spread fear.”
The criminal complaint states that Al Safoo works for a Chicago software company BlueBolt Solutions on North LaSalle Street. His LinkedIn profile states that he has worked as web developer for BlueBolt since 2013, specializing in Microsoft Technologies. Late Friday the company’s CEO David E. Risner told the I-Team that they are “deeply shocked, saddened, and in complete disbelief to learn of this situation. We are fully cooperating with the FBI and local authorities on the investigation.”
Al Safoo’s profile also claims that he obtained an undergraduate degree in 2006 from Al-Hussein Bin Talal University in Jordan and a master’s degree in 2007 from Universiti Sains Malaysia.
Investigators say he is a naturalized U.S. citizen who was born in Mosul, Iraq and moved to the United States in September 2008.
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16 Comments
5 years ago
People who are clueless about Islam are always …..”shocked…..shocked I tell ya”…….what ignoramuses.
5 years ago
Reply to
Jerry Dobson
Crooks and pro-jihadi criminals all around.
CNN and MSM canonises Mc Cain while Egyptian media expose him for being Leading supporter of Muslim Brotherhood in America and Middle east https://tinyurl.com/y9hk3dpk
Its absurd and farcical how MSM Lies and brainwashes American citizens
5 years ago
How many thousands of them remain hidden in our cities?
5 years ago
What a pleasant smile he has. Proof, once again, that mass murder can wear a happy face and wish you a good day behind the counter of that convenience store…
5 years ago
He has a face that would be perfect for gun range targets.
5 years ago
Wait a damn minute. Chicago has this element in its presence, along with rampant gun violence committed with illicit weapons, yet wants to tighten the screws on law abiding gun ownership?
A gun is like a parachute. If we need it but don’t have it, chances are we will never need it again.
Be safe, be trained, be alert.
5 years ago
If you arrest this Moslem you must arrest them ALL because ALL of them are the same way.
5 years ago
Surprised they didn’t arrest the idiot liberal mayor for the same thing.
5 years ago
Confiscate all of his earthy goods and finances to pay for his DEPORTATION. Along with him, ship his family members, close friends and mosque teachers and associates.
Those that choose not to live with the freedoms and under OUR SUPREME LAW of the LAND – – the CONSTITUTION – – should be DEPORTED with HASTE!
5 years ago
ENFORCE MC CARREN WALTERS ACT
OF 1952.
NO MUSLIMS TO BE ADMITTED TO THE U.S.A.
5 years ago
Deport all muslims, citizens or not!
5 years ago
He’s got a face that not even those 72 heavenly virgins could love
