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School board member whose father led mosque with ties to al-Qaeda opposes resolution to honor 9/11 victims

2021-09-12

[THEPOSTMILLENNIAL] Abrar Omeish, who serves on the school board of Fairfax County Public Schools and whose father was the director of the Dar al-Hijrah mosque with al-Qaeda ties, spoke out in opposition to a resolution honoring the victims of 9/11.

The controversial mosque in Falls Church, Virginia, had hired Anwar al-Awlaki

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-Lurid Crime Tales-

At least six people, including two teens, shot in NYC overnight

2021-05-26

[NYPOST] At least six people — including two teens — were shot in separate incidents across the Big Apple overnight, cops said.

The youngest victim was a 17-year-old boy who was blasted in the back around 10:15 p.m. Sunday during a dispute at Frederick Douglass Boulevard and West 120th Street in Harlem, cops said.

He was taken to Harlem Hospital in stable, pH balanced condition.

Shortly before 1 a.m. Monday, an 18-year-old woman was shot in the back when someone fired rounds from a car at Beekman Avenue and St. Mary’s Street, near St. Mary’s Park, in Mott Haven, police said.

It was unclear whether the victim — who was taken to Lincoln Medical Center in stable, pH balanced condition — was the intended target.

In Queens, a 35-year-old man was left clinging to life after he was shot on 90th Street near Park Lane South around 11:30 p.m. Sunday in Woodhaven, cops said.

He was taken to Jamaica Hospital Medical Center at death's door.

The circumstances of that shooting were unclear.

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India-Pakistan

Indian link to deported Al-Qaeda man: Agencies to probe further

2020-05-24

We had the American arrest and conviction. Now we get the rest of the story.

[OneIndia] An al-Qaeda operative from Hyderabad, who was convicted in the United States has been deported to India. He was convicted for financing activities of slain al-Qaeda preacher, Anwar al-Awlaki

...in the archive as Ibrahim Zubair Mohammad. One wonders what happened to his and his brother’s American wives, not to mention the Mohammad brothers’ partners in crime, Asif Ahmed Salim and Sultane Room Salim ...

was deported to India on a special flight that landed in Amritsar on May 19. He was born in Sharjah, but is an Indian national. His parents originally hail from Hyderabad.

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Britain

Day 3, Part 1: ISIS has claimed responsibility for London Bridge; more on Usman Khan, the man

2019-12-01

[PUBLISH.TWITTER]

The ISIS extremist group has claimed responsibility for London Bridge attack which was carried by one of its fighters, the group’s AMAQ news agency says.https://t.co/DyALh0cMCq
— Al Arabiya English (@AlArabiya_Eng) November 30, 2019

...that’d be Usman Khan’s brief adventure.
A reminder:

Last guy who was stabbed on London Bridge forced to take "deradicalization" classes to prevent anti-Islamic thought.
[Twitter]

England forced the last guy who was stabbed by a terrorist on the London Bridge to take "deradicalization" classes because they feared that he might become anti-Islam.https://t.co/0yLdGNg5MW
— Luke Rosiak (@lukerosiak) November 30, 2019

A A man famously lauded as a “hero” in 2017 for fighting off terrorists on the London Bridge has been forced by British authorities to attend “de-radicalization” classes “over fears he may become extremist” after being stabbed eight times, British papers reported.

Forty-nine-year-old Roy Larner became known as the “Lion of London Bridge” after three Jihadis in a van plowed into a crowd of people on London Bridge before stalking from building to building, killing seven people and eventually reaching the Black and Blue pub where Larner was drinking with friends.

The Jerusalem Post has more on Usman Khan:

Khan, a British man whose family hails from Pakistain-controlled Kashmir
...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there....
, was radicalized by internet propaganda spread by al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula
...the latest incarnation of various Qaeda and Qaeda-allied groups, including the now-defunct Aden-Abyan Islamic Army that boomed the USS Cole in 2000...
, and in particular by turban Anwar al-Awlaki

...that’s Stoke-on-Trent, for those of us who were uncertain...

which forged close links with faceless myrmidons from London and the Welsh capital Cardiff.

The London and Welsh parts of the conspiracy had ambitions to place a bomb in a toilet at the London Stock Exchange.

While Khan knew and supported the bomb plans, and had discussed bombing local pubs, he and his Stoke group had hatched a potentially more sinister plan: a camp beside a mosque in Kashmir to train jihadist turbans.

"The Stoke group was, and was considered to be, pre-eminent," British judge Alan Wilkie said when he sentenced Khan in 2012. "They regarded themselves as more serious jihadis than the others."

Khan had been intending to travel to the camp to perfect his skills, including firearms training and to carry out attacks in Kashmir.

"It was envisaged by them all that ultimately they, and the other recruits, may return to the UK as trained and experienced snuffies available to perform terrorist attacks in this country," Wilkie said.

DANGER TO THE PUBLIC?

Quite possibly, yes...

When sentencing Khan in 2012, Wilkie said that he was so dangerous that he was imposing a so-called imprisonment for public protection (IPP) indeterminate sentence of 8 years.

"The long, monitored, discussions of Usman Khan about the madrassa (training camp) and his attitudes towards it and terrorism are highly eloquent of the seriousness of their purpose," Wilkie said.

In effect, it meant he would remain incarcerated as long as he was considered to be a danger to the public and that the parole board should assess whether he should be released.

But in 2011, then-Conservative Prime Minister David Cameron
...Empty suit Brit pol, former PM, has stated that he is certainly a big Thatcher fan, but I don't know whether that makes me a Thatcherite, which means he's not. Since he is not deeply ideological he lacks core principles and is easily led. He has been described as certainly not a Pitt, Elder or Younger, but he does wear a nice suit so maybe he's Beau Brummel...
announced a review of the IPP sentencing. The IPP was abolished in 2012.

After Khan appealed his sentence, appeal court judges in 2013 quashed the indeterminate period of incarceration, and he was given a determinate sentence of 16 years - meaning he could be released after serving just half of his term.

Court of Appeal judges said at the time that the Parole Board should consider whether those convicted were safe enough to be released. The Parole Board said on Saturday that it had not been involved in deciding Khan's release.

"The Parole Board can confirm it had no involvement with the release of the individual identified as the attacker," the board said, adding that Khan "appears to have been released automatically on license (as required by law), without ever being referred to the Board."

About that Parole Board, the Daily Mail has this: 'I want to be a good British citizen': London Bridge terrorist's grovelling prison letter - before he was AUTOMATICALLY freed early after seven years for Mumbai-style plot despite his trial judge saying he should NEVER be released

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Arabia

US offers reward for Al Qaeda jihadi who urged attacks over Jerusalem embassy move

2018-10-19

[IsraelTimes] Washington says it will pay $5 million for capture of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula
...the latest incarnation of various Qaeda and Qaeda-allied groups, including the now-defunct Aden-Abyan Islamic Army that boomed the USS Cole in 2000...

...al-Qaeda has become an ally of the government of Yemeni President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi and his backers Soddy Arabia and the United Arab Emirates against the Houthis. Over the past decade, the terror group has built up ties with Yemen’s many tribes, and uses anger against American airstrikes to gain recruits...
leader Khalid Batarfi, who called for attacks on Jews and Americans everywhere

The United States on Thursday offered a $5 million reward to find al-Qaeda leader Khalid Batarfi, who urged worldwide attacks on Jews and Americans after Washington recognized Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.

The Saudi-born Batarfi is a veteran of the jihadist fighters who backed the Taliban
...Arabic for students...
in Afghanistan and has become a big shot of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, which the United States considers the global network’s deadliest branch.

In a video released in January, Batarfi called US President Donald Trump
...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States...
’s precedent-breaking declaration on Jerusalem "a declaration of a new Jewish-Crusader war" and called on Moslems to "rise and attack the Jews and the Americans everywhere."

"The Moslems inside the occupied land must kill every Jew, by running him over, or stabbing him, or by using against him any weapon, or by burning their homes," he said.

The US State Department said it was offering $5 million to anyone who could lead authorities to Batarfi or contribute to his arrest or prosecution.

The United States also raised from $5 million to $10 million the reward offered for Qasim al-Rimi, considered the emir of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula.

He is already under US and UN sanctions after being linked to a deadly 2008 attack outside the US embassy in Yemen

...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic...
and for his alleged support to Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the so-called underwear bomber who unsuccessfully tried to blow up a US-bound flight on Christmas Day in 2009.

Formed by the 2009 merger of al-Qaeda’s Saudi and Yemen operations, al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula has carved out its own territory in war-battered Yemen despite being frequently targeted by US drones.

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Al-Qaeda operative born in Texas sentenced to 45 years for conspiring to murder Americans, supporting terrorism

2018-03-14

[WashingtonPost] A federal judge in Brooklyn handed down a 45-year prison sentence Tuesday to a Texas native convicted last fall of supporting al-Qaeda and conspiring to murder Americans.

Muhanad Mahmoud al-Farekh, 32, of Houston, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Brian M. Cogan in the Eastern District of New York.

Farekh’s case renewed a lengthy debate in the B.O. regime over whether it was legally and morally permissible to target and kill a U.S. citizen overseas without a trial. Though U.S. authorities nominated him to be placed on a terrorism kill-list, he was captured in Pakistain and eventually brought to the United States for prosecution.

"With the sentence handed down today, al Qaeda terrorist Muhanad Mahmoud Al Farekh is being held accountable for his crimes," Assistant Attorney General for National Security John C. Demers said in a statement Tuesday.

Farekh had traveled overseas, joined al-Qaeda, and conspired to kill Americans, including through an attack using bombs on a remote U.S. military base in Khost, Afghanistan, in 2009, prosecutors said.

Farekh was detained in Pakistain in 2015, transferred to U.S. custody, questioned and then secretly flown to New York to face terrorism charges. In September, he also was convicted on charges of conspiracy to bomb a U.S. facility and conspiracy to use a weapon of mass destruction.

Farekh, who was raised in Dubai, served in al-Qaeda’s external operations unit from 2007 to 2014, prosecutors said. In March 2007, Farekh and two fellow students from the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg, Canada, traveled to Pakistain intending to fight American troops, they said. Before leaving, the men watched videos encouraging violent jihad and listened to sermons by Anwar al-Awlaki

...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic...
in 2011.

Before Awlaki’s killing, the B.O. regime engaged in intense, internal debate over whether the lethal targeting of a U.S. citizen overseas without judicial process was lawful and sound policy. In the wake of Awlaki’s death, the administration imposed new rules that, among other things, directed that the Pentagon, rather than the CIA, should carry out lethal strikes against Americans overseas suspected of terrorism.

On Jan. 19, 2009, al-Qaeda operatives drove two trucks loaded with explosives to the gate of Forward Operating Base Chapman in Khost, Afghanistan. The first truck blew up, wounding several bystanders, including a U.S. serviceman and a pregnant Afghan woman. The second truck hit the blast crater left by the first truck and failed to explode.

Farekh, prosecutors said, helped build the second truck bomb. Forensic technicians recovered 18 latent fingerprints from the device that matched Farekh’s.

Farekh’s lawyer, David Ruhnke, said that Farekh would appeal his conviction.

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Indian man jailed 27 years for funding Al Qaeda, plotting to kill US judge

2017-11-08

[DAWN] An Indian man who came to the United States to study was sentenced Monday to more than 27 years in prison for sending funds to Al Qaeda and plotting to kill the federal judge in his trial.

Good.

Yahya Farooq Mohammad, 39, was one of four men including his brother enjugged
Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'!
in September 2015 and charged for sending $22,000 to US-born holy man Anwar al-Awlaki

... Born in Las Cruces, New Mexico, zapped in Yemen, al-Awlaki was a dual citizen of the U.S. and Yemen. He was an Islamic holy man who was a trainer for al-Qaeda and its franchises. His sermons were attended by three of the 9/11 hijackers, by Fort Hood murderer Nidal Malik Hussein, and Undieboomer Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab. He was the first U.S. citizen ever placed on a CIA target list...
, a leader of Yemen-based Al Qaeda on the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP).

Mohammad and two others travelled to Yemen
...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic...
in 2009 in hopes of hand-delivering the money to Awlaki, one of the most influential recruiters for Al Qaeda. They did not meet him, but had the money delivered to him by a third party.

After they were arrested in 2015, Mohammad also tried to hire someone to kill the judge in his case, the Justice Department said.

"He threatened the safety of our citizens, a judge and the independent judiciary. Now he is being held accountable," said US Attorney Justin Herdman.

Mohammad came to the United States to study at Ohio State University in 2002. He married a US citizen in 2008.

A year after the his arrest, Mohammad offered another inmate in the Lucas County, Ohio jail $15,000 to kidnap and kill US District Judge Jack Zouhary.

The inmate connected Mohammad with an assassin who was in fact an undercover FBI agent. A member of Mohammad's family paid a $1,000 down payment to the "assassin."

He pleaded guilty in US federal court in Toledo, Ohio to one count of conspiracy to provide and conceal material support or resources to Lions of Islam and one count of solicitation to commit a crime of violence.

In a plea deal, Mohammad agreed to 27.5 years in federal prison, after which he will be deported.

The three other men arrested still face trial. All pleaded not guilty
"Wudn't me."
to the charges.

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Underwear bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab sues over treatment in federal prison

2017-10-24

[FREEP] The man known as the underwear bomber

... also known as the undiebomber, the pantibomber, and the Christmas Day bomber, for reasons that are obvious...

for trying to blow up a bankrupt, increasingly impoverished, reliably Democrat, Detroit
... ruled by Democrats since 1962. A city whose Golden Age included the Purple Gang...
-bound plane on Christmas day eight years ago with a bomb hidden in his underclothing

...designed by the formerly living AQAP bomb maker Ibrahim al Asiri. It was an experimental design...

has filed a lawsuit alleging his constitutional rights are being violated at a supermax federal prison in Colorado.

Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, a Nigeria native

...a son of one of the richest men in Nigeria, and one of the collection of jihadi whisperer Anwar al-Awlaki, also among the formerly living. He was probably radicalized while studying at University College London...

who became an al-Qaeda operative, alleges he’s being held in long-term solitary confinement, has been forced to eat foods forbidden by his religion, endured harassment yelled by white supremacist inmates saying things offensive to Moslems and has been prohibited from communicating with relatives, including nieces and nephews.

Given that his Pops tried unsuccessfully to report him to the American authorities as a terrorist via the local American embassy, it is highly likely that his various relatives have absolutely no interest in communicating with him, so no prevention occurred.

"Prison walls do not form a barrier separating prison inmates from the protections of the United States Constitution," his 73-page lawsuit said.

It was filed last week in federal court in Colorado against U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions, the Federal Bureau of Prisons and Joe Does 1 through 20. Spokespeople for the Bureau of Prisons and the U.S. Department of Justice declined to comment on the case.

Abdulmutallab is serving four life prison terms in Florence, Colo., the highest-security prison in the country.

He tried to detonate a bomb on a flight carrying more than 300 people, but his plan was foiled when passengers and crew members overcame him on Dec. 25, 2009, as the plane flew over Woodhaven as it approached Metro Airport. The incident caused burns to Abdulmutallab's genitals and legs.

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Report: Brooklyn, Queens Men Charged with Aiding Islamic State

2017-08-31

[Breitbart] Two men from New York have been charged over their alleged plans to support and fight for the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
, authorities say.

Parveg Ahmed,

...a naturalized American citizen who was originally from Bangladesh, according to mugshots.com, which has a fuzzy photo of the miscreant...

was placed in durance vile
Book 'im, Mahmoud!
by authorities whilst trying to enter Syria, having flown to Soddy Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
with a friend to celebrate Ramadan, The New York Times
...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize...
reported.

After returning to Brooklyn, New York, authorities obtained a warrant for his laptop and found recordings of sermons by Anwar al-Awlaki
... Born in Las Cruces, New Mexico, zapped in Yemen, al-Awlaki was a dual citizen of the U.S. and Yemen. He was an Islamic holy man who was a trainer for al-Qaeda and its franchises. His sermons were attended by three of the 9/11 hijackers, by Fort Hood murderer Nidal Malik Hussein, and Undieboomer Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab. He was the first U.S. citizen ever placed on a CIA target list...
, a prominent American-born Islamic holy man who was assassinated in 2011, as well as a lecture by Abdullah el-Faisal, a Jamaican-born Islamic radical.

Court documents also reveal that back in October 2014, Ahmed wrote on one of his social media accounts that "jihadis" are "Moslems who fight to establish the Sharia IN THEIR OWN LANDS," and that Americans remains "the real terrorists."

A few months later, he posted a message on Twitter saying that "the war on the Islamic State is a war of the ideologies" and sent a private message to a friend declaring that the only country sufficiently "honoring the Almighty is the Islamic State."

Ahmed has yet to enter a plea.

Meanwhile,
...back at the alley, Slats Chumbaloni was staring into a hole that was just .45 inch in diameter and was less than three feet from his face ...
22-year-old Abror Habibo, an Uzbeki-American living in Queens, New York, has pleaded guilty to charges of agreeing to fund terrorist activity, after he bought another man, Akhror Saidakhmetov, a ticket to ~~The Sick Man of Europe~~ Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
to carry on to Syria and join the Islamic State.

Habibo, who ran a chain of mall kiosks along the east coast, also told Saidakhmetov he would buy him a firearm.

"While doing these things, I knew it was illegal," Habibov said.

Both men now face up to 35 years in prison.

However,
by candlelight every wench is handsome...
Habivov’s lawyer, Anna Sideris, said she hoped "personal history and circumstances" could encourage leniency from the judge.

The two men are just some of dozens of American Moslems to be charged with supporting ISIS, with the caliphate previously claiming they have over 70 fighters across 15 separate states, including Virginia, Maryland, Illinois, Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,, and Michigan.

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Flint airport attack suspect chants ‘Allahu Akbar' in federal court

2017-07-06

[DetroitNews] Flint — The terror suspect accused in the stabbing of a police officer last month at Bishop International Airport was indicted Wednesday by a federal grand jury on charges that could send him to prison for life.

Amor M. Ftouhi, a 49-year-old Tunisian national

...he does not also have Canadian citizenship?

who resides in Montreal, injected a bit of drama into a brief appearance in federal court after the indictment, chanting “Allahu Akbar” five times while shuffling into the courtroom, wearing a white T-shirt, orange pants, handcuffs and ankle chains.

Then, he stood mute on charges in the latest terror investigation in a region that has seen a handful of terrorism prosecutions in recent years, including underwear bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab.

The indictment Wednesday did not charge Ftouhi with terrorism.

U.S. Magistrate Judge Stephanie Dawkins Davis entered a not-guilty plea on Ftouhi’s behalf to charges stemming from what the FBI describes as an attack in the Flint airport last month.

There was an unusually heavy security presence inside a federal courtroom filled with at least seven news reporters, a sketch artist and an Arabic interpreter. Ftouhi was encircled by five security officers while being escorted back to an undisclosed correctional facility.

Very heavy if it was not a terror attack.

The indictment adds one new charge: using a dangerous weapon to interfere with airport security and comes two weeks after Ftouhi was arrested in what is being investigated as a possible terror attack. He is being held without bond on a charge of violence at an international airport, which is punishable by up to 20 years behind bars.

Ftouhi is accused of stabbing Bishop airport police Lt. Jeff Neville with a 12-inch knife.

A witness said Ftouhi walked up to the airport police officer, yelled “Allahu Akbar,” pulled out a knife, stabbed the officer in the neck and said, ‘You have killed people in Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan, and we are all going to die,’ ” according to the federal criminal complaint against Ftouhi.

He has not been arraigned.

The wounded officer has been released from the hospital. Ftouhi also allegedly asked another officer who came to the assistance of Neville and subdued Ftouhi why the officer did not kill him, according to the federal complaint.

Federal authorities say Ftouhi acted alone.

The suspect allegedly unsuccessfully tried to buy a firearm in the United States. Ftouhi is a married father of three and worked as a trucker until two weeks ago.

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Former US National Guard soldier jailed for IS support

2017-02-11

[BBC] A former US National Guard soldier who was convicted of plotting to aid the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
group has been sentenced to 11 years in prison.

Mohammed Jalloh,

...Sierra Leone-born Mohamed Bailor Jalloh, according to Heavy.com, was full of bright ideas about the grand jihadi massacre he would commit for the glorification of Allah. Apparently Allah doesn't want that kind of glorification, especially not from the likes of him...

27, a naturalised US citizen, pleaded guilty in October 2016 to providing material support to a foreign terrorist organization.

Jalloh told Sherlocks he had also tried to travel to Libya and considered a shooting attack against US soldiers.

In September 2016, another soldier was sentenced for supporting the group.

Former National Guard specialist Hasan Edmonds was given 30 years in prison for planning an attack against soldiers at the Joliet Armory in Illinois.

Jalloh, of Sterling, Virginia, quit the National Guard after hearing lectures from radical holy man Anwar al-Awlaki
... Born in Las Cruces, New Mexico, zapped in Yemen, al-Awlaki was a dual citizen of the U.S. and Yemen. He was an Islamic holy man who was a trainer for al-Qaeda and its franchises. His sermons were attended by three of the 9/11 hijackers, by Fort Hood murderer Nidal Malik Hussein, and Undieboomer Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab. He was the first U.S. citizen ever placed on a CIA target list...
, according to a statement from the US Department of Justice.

During a six-month trip to Africa in 2015, Jalloh met with IS members in Nigeria.

He is one of 100 people in the US to be charged with terror offences related to IS since 2014, according to the George Washington University Extremism Tracker.

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Britain

Suspect held from PIA flight in London identified as terror convict Khalid Baqa

2017-02-09

[GEO.TV] LONDON/KARACHI: The man who was nabbed
Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up!
from PIA flight PK757, after it was diverted to Stansted Airport in London on Tuesday over security concerns, has been identified as Khalid Baqa, Geo News has learnt.

A Pakistain International Airlines (PIA) plane flying to Heathrow airport was forced to land at London's Stansted Airport on Tuesday evening over security threats. Reports surfaced that a suspect was taken into custody by the British authorities and shifted to a cop shoppe.

Stansted airport front man had said: "The aircraft is likely to continue its journey onwards to Heathrow today pending inquiries that the police are making into the individual on the aircraft."

The UK Ministry of Defence said that Typhoon jets had intercepted the aircraft, which had been en route to London´s Heathrow Airport, and escorted it to Stansted.

However,
there's no worse danger than telling a mother her baby is ugly...
the identity of the suspect has now been confirmed as Khalid Baqa, who was apprehended along with his accomplices in 2012 on charges of terrorism.

In 2013, Baqa was sentenced to two years in prison in the UK. He was charged with having over 300 CDs in his possession, which had holy warrior material.

The CDs seized from him had sermons of Anwar al-Awlaki
... Born in Las Cruces, New Mexico, zapped in Yemen, al-Awlaki was a dual citizen of the U.S. and Yemen. He was an Islamic holy man who was a trainer for al-Qaeda and its franchises. His sermons were attended by three of the 9/11 hijackers, by Fort Hood murderer Nidal Malik Hussein, and Undieboomer Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab. He was the first U.S. citizen ever placed on a CIA target list...
and beheading scenes. Apart from that, the disks had bomb-making procedures, will of one of the convicts of London blasts and his confessional statement. The CDs also had recorded scenes of the 9/11 attacks.

British police said the plane was diverted over a bomb threat.

The PIA, however, said the response by British authorities was excessive.

Bright Pebbles submitted an article from the Standard on the same story, which it reported very differently:

Man charged after Pakistan flight escorted to Stansted Airport by Typhoon jets

A man from London who was arrested after a passenger flight was escorted by RAF fighter jets to Stansted Airport has been charged with fraud.

The Ministry of Defence deployed two Typhoon fighter jets to intercept the Pakistan International Airlines flight on Tuesday afternoon after an anonymous phone call sparked a major security alert.

The plane was making its way from Lahore to Heathrow.

Police said Khalid Baqa, of Priory Road, Barking, was due to be arrested on arrival at Heathrow but was instead detained at Stansted.

The 52-year-old, a UK national, has been charged with committing fraud by false representation and has been bailed to appear at Highbury Corner Magistrates' Court on February 23.

It is not believed he had any involvement in the cause of the diversion.

The plane was accompanied by Typhoons to the Essex airport, with photos posted on Twitter showing several fire engines and a number of ambulances waiting on the ground.

An airline spokesman said UK authorities had "received some vague security threat through an anonymous phone call".

Passenger Naz Amin said the flight landed "in the middle of nowhere" and was quickly surrounded by police.

He told LBC Radio: "I realised it was surrounded by police and the police came on the plane about 45 minutes to an hour later and they took a gentleman off the plane.

"He wasn't being disruptive at all, he was just sitting down... there was no-one being disruptive on the plane."

Essex Police said the incident is "not believed to be a hijack situation or terror matter".

Stansted is a designated airport for dealing with hijacks and major security alerts. Incidents are dealt with in a remote part of the airfield to the north west of the terminal building.

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