While in Prison on Terrorism Charges, Federal Inmate Is Convicted of Aiding, Abetting Islamic State (ISIS)

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Prisons are a hotbed of jihad recruitment. Who better to target than the violent, broken and disenfranchised. So why would prison authorities give a violent jihadi access to the general population? Terrorists should be sequestered – apart from the GP. Terrorists should be apart from the GP – like GITMO. How many have to die in jihad terror attacks for us to take this existential threat seriously?

Federal Inmate Convicted of Attempting to Provide Material Support to ISIS

A 45-year-old international terrorist imprisoned in the U.S. Bureau of Prisons has been convicted of additional offenses in the Eastern District of Texas.

Department of Justice, December 14, 2019:

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Mohamed Ibrahim Ahmed, an Ethiopian national born in Eretria, was found guilty by a jury of attempting to provide material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization (ISIS) and making a false statement to the FBI, following a seven-day trial before U.S. District Judge Marcia A. Crone.  The jury acquitted the defendant of two other charges and did not reach a verdict on another.

“This defendant is a repeat offender.  While in prison on terrorism charges, Ahmed continued to recruit fellow inmates to join ISIS to train them and to help them plan future attacks,” said Assistant Attorney General for National Security John C. Demers.  “As long as terrorists keep offending, the Department will continue to bring them to justice.  We have done so in this case.”

“This terrorist has shown that he was committed to his ideology and to violence,” said Eastern District of Texas U.S. Attorney Joseph D. Brown.  “It was important to pursue these charges not only to keep him in prison, but to deter others who would recruit in jail cells.”

“The threat posed by individuals like Ahmed is real and one we cannot afford to underestimate or ignore,” said Special Agent in Charge Perrye Turner of the FBI Houston Division.  “The threat from ISIS continues to evolve to include sustained radicalization online, loss of the physical caliphate, and inspiration for individuals to conduct attacks in their home countries using any means possible.  It is with any means possible and using all tools available to us that the FBI will continue to investigate criminal and national security threats to the United States, wherever they originate.”

According to information presented in court, in 2013 Ahmed was convicted in the Southern District of New York of conspiring to provide material support to and receive military-type training from a foreign terrorist organization.  Ahmed had attended an al Qaeda training camp in Afghanistan in 1996 and was a member of the Brandbergen Mosque network, which financially and logistically supported other terrorist groups.  A federal judge in New York sentenced Ahmed to 111 months in federal prison and he was transferred to the Federal Correctional Institute (FCI) in Beaumont, Texas, to serve his sentence.

Ahmed continued his terrorist activities while serving his sentence at FCI-Beaumont.  He recruited at least five inmates to join ISIS and to conduct terrorist acts in the United States after their release from federal custody, telling them that he was aligned with ISIS and supported al Shabaab and al Qaeda.  From prison, he celebrated a bombing at a concert in Manchester, England, and other acts of terror in the news, telling an inmate, “They kill kids, we gonna kill kids.”  Ahmed wanted the inmates he was recruiting to either travel abroad to join ISIS, or create “sleeper cells” within the United States to carry out attacks.

Ahmed provided would-be recruits with a training manual on how to carry out violent jihad, including topics such as “how to carry out guerilla war,” “selection of human targets,” and “how to carry out assassinations.”  He even held physical training exercises with other inmates in the prison yard to get them in shape to carry out the acts of terror he was plotting.  Ahmed also discussed a plot with fellow inmates to bomb the Federal Detention Center in New York City as revenge for his prosecution there.

Ahmed faces up to 25 years in federal prison at sentencing.  The maximum statutory sentence prescribed by Congress is provided here for information purposes, as the sentencing will be determined by the court based on the advisory sentencing guidelines and other statutory factors.  A sentencing hearing will be scheduled after the completion of a presentence investigation by the U.S. Probation Office.

This case was investigated by the FBI and prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Christopher T. Tortorice and Trial Attorneys Alicia Cook and Katie Sweeten of the National Security Division’s Counterterrorism Section.

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felix1999
felix1999
4 years ago

Will we ever learn?
Segregate him to serve his time, strip him of citizenship and deport him.
Ideally a bullet though the head would be the best way to go.

felix1999
felix1999
4 years ago

Look how FAST they are in announcing the RACE of the person!

Police Investigate Vandalism of Synagogue in California
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15 Dec 2019

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — Beverly Hills police are investigating the vandalism of a synagogue Saturday after an employee arrived at the place of worship to discover an open door, overturned furniture and damage to several relics.
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Police said in a statement that they are investigating the incident at the Nessah Synagogue as a hate crime. But police added there is no evidence to suggest that the attack was anti-Semitic in nature. The synagogue’s main scrolls were undamaged.

Police described the suspect as a white male, 20 to 25 years of age, with short dark curly hair, a thin build and possibly wearing prescription glasses, shorts and low-top shoes. He carried a backpack and pulled a rolling suitcase.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/12/15/police-investigate-vandalism-of-synagogue-in-california/

tedlv
tedlv
4 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

I haven’t seen anything about the race of the three teenagers that killed the female college student in a New York City park.

livingengine
livingengine
4 years ago
Reply to  tedlv

“The 13-year-old attends MS 180 on West 120th Street, and detectives believe two others teens suspected of being involved in the crime likely do as well.” https://abc7ny.com/13-year-old-arrested-in-murder-of-barnard-student-tessa-majors/5751275/

“Minority enrollment is 91% of the student body (majority Black)” https://www.publicschoolreview.com/p-s-180-hugo-newman-profile

West 120th Street is in Harlem about 5 blocks from the Apollo Theater. He doesn’t have a mother or father, he is raised by his Auntie and uncle. His aunt is saying he didn’t do anything.

He’s black.

ar05076
ar05076
4 years ago
Reply to  livingengine

Nation Of islam piecesofshit ..!

ed
ed
4 years ago
Reply to  livingengine

He DINNDOOONUFFFIN’ !!!!

felix1999
felix1999
4 years ago
Reply to  tedlv

They are black so they don’t want to mention it.
In fact one confessed and turned on the other ones.

Larkenson
Larkenson
4 years ago

Imagine how much brainwashing it would take to convince the Japanese to flood Japan with NON-Japanese until they themselves become a minority.

To convince them to force affirmative action AGAINST THEMSELVES with all those NON-Japanese.

That this “diversity” is a strength.

And to convince them that it would be “racist” to NOT do this to themselves.

No need convincing WHITE anti-whites of this in EVERY white country, they’re already convinced.

Anti-Racist is a codeword for Anti-White.

GonadTheRuffian
GonadTheRuffian
4 years ago
Reply to  Larkenson

The Looney Left loath everything about their own countries, culture, religions, skin colour, heritage, language; everything! They are much more dangerous enemies than the Death Cult itself.
The brainwashing you speak of comes straight from the propaganda mills (universities and schools) as well as the MSM/Fake News, and so-called celebrities. All these groups are any conservatives sworn enemies.

John Acord
John Acord
4 years ago
Reply to  Larkenson

I couldn’t agree more. Why should any white take offense at the manufactured canard “white supremacist”? The scum hurling this charge is simply stating a fact, i.e., whites are supreme builders of civilization and have built a western civilization that all peoples regardless of race are enjoying today. Whites are entitled to enjoy the supreme achievements of their ancestors and those who aren’t white should express profound gratitude that God put on this earth the white race with the intelligence and fortitude to build a civilization for all races to enjoy and cherish. The Japanese are certainly brilliant people who immediately upon contact with the West realized they were exposed to a superior civilization and sent out to modernize their society in just a few short decades. Other races should and have done the same, namely the Koreans and the Chinese. Let us whites be proud of the achievements of our antecedents and ourselves and not bow to these fools who are bent on replacing us with the same primitive societies from which they sprung.

John Acord
John Acord
4 years ago

Adding another 25 years to his sentence will have little noticeable effect. He will continue his efforts to recruit for ISIS regardless of the consequences. Far better he simply be deported.

Meg
Meg
4 years ago

Time to start sending these people back to their home countries.

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