Only 15 years? He plotted to slaughter countless innocents in the cause of Islam.

California ISIS supporter who bragged of bomb plots gets more than 15 years in prison

This image from video shows Amer Alhaggagi riding with an undercover FBI agent. (U.S. Attorney’s Office/FBI via KQED and KTVU/Brooks Jarosz)

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By Fox News, February 27, 2019:

A California man who admitted to setting up social media accounts to support the Islamic State (ISIS) and told an undercover FBI agent that he wanted to attack bars and nightclubs in the Bay Area was sentenced Tuesday to 15 years and eight months behind bars by a federal judge.

Amer Alhaggagi, 23, pleaded guilty in July to one count of attempting to provide services and personnel to ISIS, one count of possessing an identity theft device, one count of unauthorized identity theft and one count of aggravated identity theft. U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer ordered Alhaggagi to serve 10 years of supervised release in addition to his prison term.T

he Justice Department said in a statement that Alhaggagi admitted to creating Facebook, Twitter and Gmail accounts for two ISIS supporters he met online in the fall of 2016, and created similar accounts for other people that “he believed were ISIS supporters.”

Prosecutors said Alhaggagi posted a series of threats online in which he promised to “redefine terror” and vowed that “the whole Bay Area [gonna] be in flames.” Authorities say one of his plans called for the detonation of a car bomb outside a gay nightclub in San Francisco and the planting of backpack bombs on streets used by emergency vehicles in a bid to kill first responders.

On another occasion, Alhaggagi was driving with an undercover agent when he pointed out bars and clubs in Berkeley “where all the students are.”

“It’s a nice area to attack,” Alhaggagi allegedly told the informant. “It’s like, everybody’s in their own world, just doing their thing. … It’s not hard to target places, because there’s people everywhere. But I was trying to target, you know, like clubs, you know, like dance clubs, bars … stuff like that.”

“Alhaggagi wanted to carry out deadly terrorist attacks in the United States in the name of ISIS,” Assistant Attorney General John Demers of the Justice Department’s National Security Division said in a statement. “Today’s sentencing shows the dedication of the National Security Division and our partners to hold accountable those who seek to provide material support to foreign terrorist organizations and to conduct violence on their behalf.”

Alhaggagi and his attorneys tried to portray the Berkeley High School graduate as an out-of-work, pot-smoking internet “troll” seeking only to provoke and annoy with violent, anti-American claims. Attorney Mary McNamara called the oldest son of Yemeni-born parents a “class clown.” Federal probation officials recommended a four-year prison sentence, and 150 members of Oakland’s Yemeni community signed a letter given to Judge Breyer that urged leniency. The letter said the community was creating an educational program to teach children about online behavior and speech and how to properly respond to online strangers advocating terrorism

“I find it hard to look and listen to all the horrible things I said to the undercover agent,” Alhaggagi told the court before he was sentenced. “I made myself look like a crazy person.”

However, Breyer rejected the defense’s portrayal of Alhagaggi.

“Words matter,” the judge said. “The most disturbing thing in Alhaggagi is the lack of empathy for others. That is chilling.”

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felix1999

5 years ago

He should be stripped of citizenship and sent back to the country of his ancestry.
Why let him poison more minds in prison at our expense. In the old days that would have been quickly applied.

As our border is deluged with everything imaginable, keep this in mind.
Muslims don’t have to be from the middle east or look middle eastern.
ISLAM is the fastest growing religion in the U.S. and elsewhere!

EXCLUSIVE: Terror Cells on US Doorstep
Published February 27, 2019
By Clarion Project

Hezbollah terrorists, cells and activists are operating in, or were recently active in, more than a dozen countries across Latin America, including Mexico on the U.S. border. Clarion Project researchers discovered an actual Hezbollah presence in at least 14 states, with clear involvement in others. ( I wonder if the FBI has a clue about this.) This post focuses on those 14 countries, but in several additional states Hezbollah is working with drugs cartels, and in the case of Suriname, the president’s son was jailed for 16 years for inviting Hezbollah to operate on Surinamese territory.
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Washington maintains Hezbollah is one of the top five threats to U.S. national security.

Iran is 100 percent behind Hezbollah actions – funding, training and arming its terror cells. Beyond Hezbollah terrorists in Latin America, Iran itself is heavily involved in countries to the south of the United States, politically, economically and militarily.
….
https://clarionproject.org/exclusive-terror-cells-on-us-doorstep/

Notice these are the countries literally walking into our country at our southern border with their FAKE claims.
If you were a terrorist, wouldn’t you take advantage of that? Bring a kid and increase your chances and even if that doesn’t work, catch and release after 20 days releases you into the country to do whatever you want to do. We have miles and miles of WIDE OPEN LAND where they literally just walk into our country. You can’t tell where Mexico begins and the U.S. ends and there is NO patrolling there. Nothing!

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ConnectingDots

5 years ago

“Alhaggagi and his attorneys tried to portray the Berkeley High School graduate as an out-of-work, pot-smoking internet “troll” seeking only to provoke and annoy with violent, anti-American claims.”

Ah, so pot-smoking leads to evil? Then can we agree to criminalize marijuana again?

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Halal Bacon

5 years ago

buh bye

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Halal Bacon

5 years ago

buh bye

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patd

5 years ago

Hopefully karma will catch him in prison!!!!!

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Bakka ja nai

5 years ago

I commend Judge Charles R. Breyer, a Clinton appointee (yes, there are some who uphold the law) for not being swayed by defense attorneys and community activists who tried to get the sentence watered down to 4 years. Instead, he gave him the max of 15 years. Kudos, Judge Breyer. I would even support your appointment to the 9th Federal Appeals Court where we could use some Democratic appointed judges with your steadfastness in upholding the law.

PS I am a lifelong Republican and a Vietnam veteran.

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vespertine

5 years ago

You a racist T-Laibia. Your religion cut out your clitoris and labia when you a little girl. T minus labia. That why you hate everybody and you a racist.

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MAS

5 years ago

Sedition and espionage should get a firing squad, not 15 years to recruit more like himself…

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santashandler

5 years ago

“I find it hard to look and listen to all the horrible things I said to
the undercover agent,” Alhaggagi told the court before he was
sentenced. “I made myself look like a crazy person.” Gee, it’s amazing how he developed 20/20 in hindsight. Oh well, he’ll have a great time making new friends at one of California’s ‘rehabilitation’ facilities. He’ll get plenty of exercise out on the yard and three nutritious meals a day. Why, he might even want to consider “transitioning” to a woman while enjoying his stay. Because Ca prisons now offer that option to prisoners, compliments of the CA taxpayer.

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John Acord

5 years ago

This man is not a serious terrorist. Yes, he was caught and imprisoned but there are hundreds,if not thousands more who are far more discreet and clever than this loon, and I fear that soon they will devise an attack that will dwarf 9/11.It is essential that we be proactive and intern these muslims and return them to the hell holes from which they came; otherwise, we are doomed! While In Prison he will be fully trained and indoctrinated and when he emerges in about 10 years will be a far greater threat than he is today.Muslims use prisons as training facilities.

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Alleged-Comment

5 years ago

HOW do you stop this??

Easy! Release him and offer an award. Anyone who SOS’s this basturd wins a MILLION dollars.

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sodacrackers2

5 years ago

Now what accommodations will they make for him in prison? He’ll come out worse than he went in.

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notislam

5 years ago

Why is this criminal for islam allowed to exist? He qualifies for extinction –

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Stephen Honig

5 years ago

It couldn’t happen to a nicer guy.

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