[ April 16, 2024 ]
Alaa Mohd Abusaad told the FBI that money “is always needed. You can’t have a war without weapons. You can’t prepare a soldier without equipment.”
Cue terror-tied CAIR’s caterwauling about “Islamophobia” and “entrapment.”
Toledo Woman Arrested for Directing Financial Support to Al-Qaeda
By Patrick Poole, PJ Media, October 26, 2018:
Story continues below advertisementA Toledo, Ohio-area woman, Alaa Mohd Abusaad, was arrested Tuesday on charges that she directed an undercover FBI employee to send money to al-Qaeda in Syria.
Abusaad, 22 years old, had recently lived in Birmingham, Alabama, where the charges were filed. She was introduced to the undercover operative earlier this year through an associate while still in Birmingham.
A Justice Department press release summarized the charges:
As set forth in the complaint, Abusaad instructed an FBI undercover employee (UCE) about how to send money to the mujahedeen — fighters engaged in jihad. Abusaad told the UCE that money “is always needed. You can’t have a war without weapons. You can’t prepare a soldier without equipment.”
Abusaad also advised the UCE on how to send money in a manner that would avoid detection by law enforcement, including by using fake names and addresses when conducting electronic money transfers. Subsequently, Abusaad introduced the UCE to a financial facilitator who could route the UCE’s money to “brothers that work with aq” (meaning al-Qaeda).
Abusaad faces up to 20 years imprisonment and a $250,000 fine if convicted.
The FBI affidavit filed with the criminal complaint records the discussions and direction that Abusaad provided to the undercover operative. They used a mobile messaging application, where she provided direction on sending money to al-Qaeda by using a fake name and keeping the amounts between $300-400 to avoid detection.
After Abusaad introduced the undercover operative to an overseas financial intermediary, Abusaad offered assurances that the money could be directed towards al-Qaeda, and that the preferred type of support could be specified:
Okay. He can say where he wants it to go specifically. Like for instance if he wants it to be zakat money [a charitable contribution under Islamic law] it can go to the Widows’s of mj [mujahedeen]. Or if he wants it could be for weapons. Bullets. Clothing … Or you can give it to the widow and orphans. Supporting a mujahids family is like taking part in jihad.
In speaking with the financial intermediary — identified in the affidavit as Individual A, who directed her to send the money to a Mustafa Yelatan in Istanbul, Turkey — the undercover operative asked for assurances that the money would go to fighters killing infidels:
UCE: ” … it’s not going to the groups killing innocent women and children … it’s going to the groups that are killing the kufar [infidels] right?”
Individual A: “Yes in sha Allah. Infact should try to give it specific to bros who go for the cause of fighting the clear enemies only.”
After the undercover operative transferred $50 to the recipient in Turkey on April 5, Abusaad assured the operative that there was no problem:
And remember they can’t do anything to you. You were completely covered. May Allah protect you. And plus it’s a fake name … Just be confident and don’t stress.
Individual A also gave assurances that the money would be given to al-Qaeda:
… the 50 reached as 35. So in sha Allah should give it to an aq bro in sha Allah.
At some point after the April 8 money transfer, Abusaad relocated from Birmingham to the Toledo area. Earlier this year, two Toledo men, Sultane Roome Salim and Asif Ahmed Salim, pleaded guilty to transferring money to al-Qaeda leader Anwar al-Awlaki in Yemen in 2009.
Birmingham has seen terror recruiting as well, namely the case of Hoda Muthana, who traveled to Syria in November 2014 to join ISIS. There she married an Australian jihadist and was living in Raqqa, the ISIS capital in Syria that fell to coalition forces a year ago.
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21 Comments
5 years ago
Just deport her ass to the Muslim turd pile of her choice and save the money we’d have to spend on food and board for twenty eight years.
5 years ago
Reply to
tom
They are equal opportunity killers.
They don’t even spare christian aid workers in America who help settle them http://bit.ly/2rr9tGh
No other immigrant groups are so ungrateful as jihadis.
5 years ago
That’s a woman? And you wonder why muslims prefer their their goats and camels.
5 years ago
All traces of Al-Qaeda must be destroyed completely. And all Muslims who support it, male or female, must be sentenced to life in prison without parole.
5 years ago
Reply to
R. Arandas
And just why do we want to maintain them in prison if eventually they’ll die there?
5 years ago
There’s no doubt that this incident will not be on most media outlets since they do not want to offend islam. This is one of the reasons why most media outlets show more and more that they are propaganda mouthpieces for islam and Antisemitism.
5 years ago
This stupid girl doesn’t understand that adult muslim men cut out her clitoris so she could never have pleasure from sex. Then after they made her a consistent hole to hit they warped her mind into thinking that the best thing she could do was aid more men that would take everything from women. Hillary should pay attention to the kind of world that her party is helping Soros to create.
5 years ago
What is happening in the UK and the USA is no different from the past.
Arab armies have invaded, raped and pillaged much of europe and have been defeated and pushed back. Their sole aim, was for booty of any kind human or monetary. The battle of Poitiers 733 is a classic where the arab armies under the control of the Quran, came across the pyrenees to conquer france. they were met by Charles Martel and his army. They were Defeated and sent packing.
Now they are invading by stealth and deception. Many of us, see this but our government in the UK refuses to acknowledge it. Except for Lord Pearson of Rannoch.Hopefully Donald Trump won’t let the same happen to America that is happening in the UK, Australia,Europe and Canada.
5 years ago
Always those cold, dead eyes. Incidentally, being able to see an area of white under the iris is a physical indicator of pathology – seems to be more than a co-incidence.
5 years ago
Deportation Now!!!!
5 years ago
Pretending to fight terrorism while not only allowing muslims and muslim groups to form inside our country, but giving them creditibility, money and political power is like trying to fill a bucket that you know has a large hole in the bottom. The federal government and it’s corrupt policing agencies bring terrorism to us. They are not working in our stead but have made themselves the enemy. Whenever an official gets on TV and tells you that they are fighting islamic ‘Extremism”, it’s a cover for ‘no we’re not’. Whenever an official gets on TV and tells you they have no ‘Choice’ but to bring jihadis into your neighborhoods to kill you and your children, they are dirty lowdown filthy liars using fake law to subjugate their own people.
NO LAW tells our leaders to invite/bring foreign enemies inside our country, change our laws to their laws, and allow them to kill us. That’s exactly what’s happening.
5 years ago
HANG HER!
5 years ago
She’s an attractive young lady isn’t she? Has her Halloween costume on already too. I wonder if she knows the girl that posted this a few years go?
5 years ago
See the full force other conviction take place, report her family. When her time is complete report her.
Hope she does not serve a short time and released.
5 years ago
They’ll give this fken Muslum enemy a pass.
5 years ago
“As set forth in the complaint, Abusaad instructed an FBI undercover employee (UCE) about how to send money to the mujahedee….” So, it’s clear that for her to have any interactions with the FBI, she was on their radar for a long time before that. How many more are there like her “relocating” all across the country?
5 years ago
“Abusaad faces up to 20 years imprisonment and a $250,000 fine if convicted.” Why pay to deport her (see just below)? Take her and her buddies in the States out behind the barn and eliminate them. We have to stop importing these fine people and export the ones that are here. In WWII, we interned people of Japanese backgrounds just for being of Japanese background. NOW, we import these slime and are shocked when some of them are fifth columnists. We is kinda dum.
5 years ago
How does a woman get that ugly in only 22 years ???
