The FBI said Friday it disrupted a New Year’s Eve plot to attack a grocery store and fast-food restaurant in North Carolina, arresting an 18-year-old man who authorities say pledged loyalty to the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
group.
Christian Sturdivant
…a good Moslem name…
was charged with attempting to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization after Sherlocks say he shared plans for the attack with an undercover FBI employee posing as a supportive confidant.Another idiot whose very bestest BFF is the FBI. Thank God wannabe jihadis in general are as dumb as a box of rocks. There is the occasional exception, to be sure, but most of those caught before they execute are fools.
Sturdivant was arrested Wednesday and remained in jug after a federal court appearance Friday. An attorney representing him Friday did not immediately respond to an email seeking comment. Another hearing was scheduled for January 7.The alleged attack would have taken place one year after 14 people were killed in New Orleans by a US citizen and Army veteran who had proclaimed his support for ISIS on social media.
The FBI has foiled several alleged attacks through sting operations in which agents posed as terror supporters, supplying advice and equipment. Critics say the strategy can amount to entrapment of mentally vulnerable people who wouldn’t have the wherewithal to act alone.
Searches of Sturdivant’s home and phone uncovered what Sherlocks described as a manifesto detailing plans for an attack with knives and a hammer, FBI Special Agent in Charge James Barnacle said at a news conference Friday.
"He was willing to sacrifice himself," Barnacle said.
Then he shouldn't whine he gets sentenced
US Attorney for western North Carolina Russ Ferguson said the planned attack in Mint Hill, a bedroom community near Charlotte, targeted "places that we go every day and don’t think that we may be harmed."
Worried he might attempt violence before New Year’s Eve, the FBI placed Sturdivant under constant surveillance for days, including on Christmas, Ferguson said. Agents were prepared to arrest him earlier if he left his home with weapons, he said. "At no point was the public in harm’s way."
Unless, of course, they looked like a nail.
The fact that Sturdivant encountered two undercover officers while allegedly planning the attack should reassure the public, Ferguson said. He declined to identify the grocery store and restaurant cited in the complaint, citing the ongoing investigation.
If convicted, Sturdivant faces up to 20 years in prison, according to court documents.
An FBI affidavit says the investigation began last month after authorities linked Sturdivant to a social media account that posted content supportive of ISIS, including imagery that appeared to promote violence. The account’s display name referenced Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the former leader of the murderous Moslem group.
Some experts argue that ISIS is powerful today partly as a brand, inspiring both turban groups and individuals in attacks that the group itself may have no real role in.
Precisely.
The affidavit says Sturdivant had been on the FBI’s radar in January 2022, when he was a minor, after officials learned that he had been in contact with a person in Europa ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
the FBI says was an ISIS member, and had received instructions to dress in black, knock on people’s doors and commit attacks with a hammer.
Direct orders from ISIS, not merely a generic inspiration.
At that time, Sturdivant did actually set out for a neighbor’s house armed with a hammer and a knife but was restrained by his grandfather, the affidavit says.Go, Gramps!
The FBI in Los Angeles last month announced the disruption of a separate New Year’s Eve plot, arresting members of an murderous Moslem anti-capitalist and anti-government group who federal officials said planned to bomb multiple sites in southern Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,.