[ April 25, 2024 ]
A multiday sentencing hearing began Monday in Chicago and focused on whether FBI agents manipulated a mentally fragile teenager to participate in a terrorist plot or whether he had long before shown an eagerness to kill. The defense is going for “mental illness”. They want the Judge to release him as soon as a mental health treatment plan can be developed for him. The agent said he saw nothing in Daoud’s postings indicating he suffered from mental illness. He said Daoud showed initiative, suggesting to undercover agents that fitting butcher knives to a truck and driving it into a crowd would be a way to kill many people at once.
Daoud pushed a button on a remote he believed would detonate a 1,000-pound (454-kilogram) bomb outside a crowded Chicago bar. Prosecutors want a 40-year prison term for Daoud, who entered an Alford plea in November.
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FILE – This undated file photo provided by the U.S. Marshals office shows Chicago terrorism suspect Adel Daoud. Prosecutors and defense lawyers have recommended starkly different sentences for the 25-year-old convicted terrorist whose multi day sentencing hearing starts Monday. In Friday, April 26, 2019 court filings, prosecutors requested a 40-year prison term for Daoud for trying to detonate what he believed was a real bomb by a crowded Chicago bar.
Agent: Daoud asked about attacking non-Muslims before sting
CHICAGO – A multiday sentencing hearing began Monday in Chicago and focused on whether FBI agents manipulated a mentally fragile teenager to participate in a terrorist plot or whether he had long before shown an eagerness to kill.
Prosecutors called an FBI agent to the witness stand to tell Adel Daoud’s sentencing judge that Daoud posted social media comments inquiring about attacking non-Muslims more than a year before undercover agents ever engaged him as part of a sting.
Authorities arrested Daoud in late 2012 after he pushed a button on a remote he believed would detonate a 1,000-pound (454-kilogram) bomb outside a crowded Chicago bar. Prosecutors want a 40-year prison term for Daoud, who entered an Alford plea in November.
Defense attorneys say the now-25-year-old, who grew up in the Chicago suburb of Hillside, is a textbook example of how the agency often snares the psychologically vulnerable in such stings. They want U.S. District Judge Sharon Johnson Coleman to release him as soon as a mental health treatment plan can be developed for him.
The agent who took the stand first, Jeff Parsons, read postings Monday in which Daoud expressed admiration for al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden, described himself as an aspiring terrorist and even typed keywords like, “I am a terrorist” and “download terrorist magazine,” on search engines.
Defense attorney Thomas Durkin suggested during cross-examination later Monday that Daoud’s overt and clumsy online chat about being a terrorist should have been a strong sign he was no such thing.
“How many terrorists do you know who have literally proclaimed online that, ‘I am a terrorist?'” Durkin asked Parsons. The agent answered he hadn’t heard of others.
The agent said he saw nothing in Daoud’s postings indicating he suffered from mental illness. He said Daoud showed initiative, suggesting to undercover agents that fitting butcher knives to a truck and driving it into a crowd would be a way to kill many people at once.
Durkin mentioned another idea of Daoud’s — to stage attacks by deploying “flying cars.” He said that idea should have been one of many red flags.
“Did it ever occur to you … that the person you were dealing with was unstable?” Durkin asked the agent.
“I didn’t see anything indicating he was mentally unstable,” Parsons answered.
The agent also read comments Daoud posted admitting he may not have the qualities for a militant, saying, “I got asthma and flat feet. … And I have never even held a gun before.” He added: “I have a terrible case of procrastination and laziness.”
In 2016, Coleman temporarily deemed Daoud mentally unfit after ruling that he seemed sincere about assertions that Illuminati and “reptilian overlords” were out to get him.
On Tuesday, prosecutors intend to call an undercover agent who played a central role in the sting against Daoud. Prosecutors say the agent’s life would be in danger if his identity is revealed public, so he will either testify in a disguise or from behind a screen.
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24 Comments
4 years ago
1,000 pound bomb, did he try to make it with the Bahama mamma?
4 years ago
When he has fulfilled his murderous mission with a grin, he will
win the current version of Saudi Barbaria Seeks The Superstar.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutschland_sucht_den_Superstar
4 years ago
How about this part?
Defense attorneys say the now-25-year-old, who grew up in the Chicago suburb of Hillside, is a textbook example of how the agency often snares the psychologically vulnerable in such stings.
So, we should just hope that he doesn’t kill somebody? Who’s worse? Lawyers or terrorists?
4 years ago
Reply to
John Mitchell
I know, right!?
So… basically if it had been a real terrorist working with Daoud then they, the terrorists, could have gotten him to do just about anything evil. That sounds to me like Daoud should NEVER get out of Prison.
That Lawyer is just as bad as terrorists! He wants Daoud to be let out of Prison & then eventually they will find treatment for him or whatever fits him!? Is his Lawyer insane?
GOD HELP Us ALL!
As Christians we STAND UP for & NEXT to our J£wish Brothers & Sisters. GOD warned us to NEVER turn our backs on Israel.
4 years ago
Execute the savage
4 years ago
Reply to
Fred
The righteousest thing would be to stuff his 1000 pound bomb
directly into his anus and let it go off in the open air by remote
ignition. But our cuddly society will again whip him up at our all
expense, until his next attack plan, which presumably succeeds.
4 years ago
How is he not getting death penalty?
4 years ago
Reply to
Joseph David Flynn
Because the left is saying he was just bullied and misunderstood by the evils of American society!
4 years ago
Maybe it’s time to line up other “mentally fragile” people and see if they wanted to engage in Muslim terrorist activities. I’d bet the majority if not all, weren’t temped to pursue putting a 1,000 pound bomb in a club. Again this is abusing our laws and exploiting “mental illness”. The truth is you re mentally ill if you are a Muslim.
4 years ago
https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1118314/sri-lanka-attack-burka-ban-IS-islamic-state
“Don’t be fooled, Sri Lanka’s burqa
ban is pure Islamophobia.” WHAT!?
4 years ago
Good example of how bonkers such types are. People who don’t have experience with them often project sanity onto them.
4 years ago
Recently, a Muslim convert attempted to bomb a white pride rally in California, and he apparently wanted to kill Jews as well:
https://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2019/04/29/terror-investigation-los-angeles/
4 years ago
If I were the prosecutor I would recommend him for medical experiments. Like lobotomy, live pineal test (look for TURD eye), see if can do a brain transplant by removing all “wires” and reassemble.
Stuff like that.
4 years ago
The defense is going for “mental illness”. Not guilty by reason of Islam.= The defense is not wrong. Islam accepted in a muslim’s psyche is indeed a mental illness
4 years ago
Reply to
Norbus
If islam is a legal religion in the USA the all the tenents, principles, beliefs, doctrines, must be accepted as well.
Daoud was ONLY implementing islam and the FBI denied him his right to practice his religion.
Daoud is innocent! Free him, return his bomb and pay him damages of 333 million!
4 years ago
ordinary islam
4 years ago
Where is the line between stupidity and insanity?
4 years ago
Sounds like the TYPICAL ravings of those who will DEFEND “radical Islamic terrorists”, NO MATTER WHAT!
