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| Alleged NY ISIS terror plotter was roommate from hell who threatened to blow up home | |
| 2026-08-23 | |
The NY Post gets into the lady’s history. Crazy can go either to jihadi or Antifa, but the impulse to destroy is the same. This one came out of the combination of schizophrenia and fighting heroin addiction. [NYPost] A converted radical Moslem charged with plotting an ISIS-linked bombing at the New York State Capitol was the roommate from hell who allegedly threatened to blow up their apartment building, her housemates told The Post.Jessica Bowie, 35, went on a monthslong reign of terror in her Albany apartment that only ended when she was kicked out for not paying rent, roommates Zephyr Brennan and Ivory Thomas said.
"Looking back, the Arabic hymns at 2 a.m. should’ve been a red flag," Brennan said. Chillingly, in her last two weeks at the home, Bowie never took off the head-to-toe Islamic garb — and concealed her identity entirely from Brennan, who she had known for years prior to converting to Islam, the roommate said. Thomas, 23, told The Post she called police seven times since January on Bowie, including to report death threats, but that Albany City Police did nothing to halt the terrorizing. Always get video with full sound. He said/she said is not evidence police can use to act. She tortured me for like six, seven months," said Thomas, who moved into the apartment on the same day as Bowie in January. "I could be dead right now."Thomas recalled what she said was the first time she was threatened by the accused jihadi Jane. "I was sitting in the living room area, I was on the phone with my boyfriend, and she walks past me and says, ’I’ll bomb this whole place down,’" Thomas said. In another instance, a squabble over garbage ended with Bowie threatening to kill Thomas, who once again called police. Officers responded to the home but were unable to speak to Bowie, who refused to come out of her room, according to Thomas. The Albany Police Department declined to comment on any potential calls made to Bowie’s home. Thomas said she also called a child protective service agency once after Bowie’s 11-year-old son, who did not live at the house and who she claimed Bowie allowed to smoke marijuana and Black and Mild cigars during his visits, allegedly harmed her cat. As tensions between the roommates grew, the building’s landlord in May attempted to offer Bowie a room in another apartment nearby, where she would be living with fellow Moslems. Those tenants refused to live with the convert, who they knew from the local mosque Masjid As-Salam, after claiming that she had went kaboom!with anger after hearing a joke she did not like, according to the landlord. "She would go down to the mosque and they would turn her away. When does a mosque turn people away?" said Thomas. A palpable point… Brennan, who moved into the apartment just two weeks before Bowie was asked to leave for not paying rent on July 14, was friends with the alleged terrorist in the years before she converted to Islam.From 2016 to 2019, Brennan knew Bowie as a talented Schenectady, New York-based prose and poetry writer, visual artist, and a loving mother of two boys. She was also a recovering heroin addict who had been diagnosed with schizophrenia, said Brennan. "I had spoken with her about her [schizophrenia diagnosis]. She was very candid at that point. It was like a throwaway line," said Brennan. "There were moments where you could definitely tell she was unwell." But Brennan, 35, was not aware she was living in the same house as an old friend because Bowie, who joined Islam five years ago, did not take off her niqab at home. The two had virtually no interaction as Bowie would "tunnel to her bedroom" whenever she came home during that two week span. Bowie — who Brennan knew only as "Jessica" — sinisterly revealed her identity the night she was forced out of the home after not paying rent. "She turned around and she called me by my dead name," said Brennan, who is transgender. "I had a moment of recognition and my face had dropped. For me to see her full black garb, basically assuming a cosplay of sorts, it was very weird. And she got very very aggressive." Instead of packing her things and leaving the apartment, Bowie allegedly started breaking plates and making threats at Brennan and her partner, Faye Savage. Savage immediately texted the Albany Police Department that Bowie had become After getting tossed out, Bowie left behind a mess of items in garbage bags, including a book called "Artificial Terrorists and Moslem Entrapment After 9/11." She used black marker to blot out the faces of the US Marshals and presumed turbans who were on the cover of the book. Many of Bowie’s belongings, including a cache of notebooks, were seized by the FBI on Thursday after her arrest, the roommates said. Court documents showed that Bowie — who is accused of plotting to attack the state capitol building with a bomb hidden in a DoorDash food delivery bag — told an FBI informant she believed to be an ISIS handler that she would kill her roommates if they got wind of her plan. | |
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