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...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 Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... snuffies has been sentenced to four years in prison on Friday. Wearing a black and tan headscarf with her jail uniform, she tearfully told the judge that she has disavowed jihad and that the people who influenced her misconstrued the Koran. Conley pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization in September under a deal that requires her to divulge information she may have about other Americans with similar intentions. FBI agents say Conley wanted to marry a suitor she met online who told her he was fighting with the murderous Moslems. She repeatedly told them she wanted to fight alongside him or use her skills as a nurse's aide to help.
The duo got engaged and worked together to have Conley travel to Syria to join her new fiance. Before going, Conley trained to be able to fight and even joined the U.S. Army Explorers (USAE) to be learn about military tactics and firearms. She also had first-aid training. FBI special agents met her several times to persuade her not to carry out her plans to travel overseas to fight but she refused to listen and was arrested when she attempted to board a flight to Turkey from Denver on April 8. | ||
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| FBI: American Girls May Have Tried To Join Jihadis |
| 2014-10-22 |
| [Ynet] The FBI in Denver says it is investigating the possibility that three girls from the Denver area were trying to travel to Syria to join 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 Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... Death Eaters. An FBI spokeswoman says agents helped bring the girls back to Denver after FBI agents stopped them in Germany. Spokeswoman Suzie Payne says they are safe and reunited with their families. She didn't give the identity of the girls or any other details. The announcement comes one month after 19-year-old Shannon Conley of Denver pleaded guilty to charges that she conspired to help |
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| At least THREE young Minnesota women have traveled to Syria to aid ISIS |
| 2014-09-12 |
| [DAILYMAIL.CO.UK] At least three young Minnesota women are now believed to have traveled to Syria to give aid to the ISIS terror group responsible for the brutal beheadings of American journalists, MailOnline has learned. Another pair of jailbait jihad hookers. The trio left some three weeks ago, Omar Jamal, a leader of the Somali community in the state capital, St. Paul, tells MailOnline. They said they intended to become nurses tending to fighters injured in ISIS' violent surge in Syria and Iraq. The news comes as 19-year-old suburban Denver woman Shannon Conley who federal authorities say intended to wage jihad has pleaded guilty to trying to help the Islamic State murderous Moslem group in Syria. Abroad, police fear two maidens of tender years who fled Austria are inspiring other teenagers to join Islamic State ranks after they successfully fled the country saying they were going to Syria. Samra Kesinovic was aged just 16 and her friend Sabina Selimovic 15 when the two vanished this year from their homes in the Austrian capital Vienna. The case of one of the Minnesota girls, a 19-year-old, has already been widely reported, after the girl's family called the FBI, but Jamal said he believes at least two more girls have gone to the Middle East hotspot. 'Their identity is not known because their families have not contacted the authorities,' said Jamal. 'They have gone to Syria but as there are no official reports of them we do not know who they are.' The shocking new revelation comes as MailOnline can reveal that the FBI has subpoenaed the 19-year-old girl's family to appear before a Grand Jury later this month, as authorities attempt to discover who bought her ticket, gave her money and provided her with a false passport. There is no suggestion that the family is under criminal investigation, said one law enforcement source with knowledge of the subpoena. 'They are looking for evidence on exactly what the family knows,' said the source. Included in the subpoena is a demand for cell phone records as the girl called her brother from Turkey and later, after she crossed the border, from Syria. |
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| US Teen Pleads Guilty To Aiding Islamic State |
| 2014-09-11 |
| [IsraelTimes] DENVER, Colorado -- A 19-year-old US woman who federal authorities said intended to wage jihad despite their repeated attempts to stop her pleaded guilty Wednesday to trying to help the Islamic State group in Syria under a plea deal that requires her to help authorities who are investigating others with the same intentions. Shannon Conley, appearing in a striped jail jumpsuit and a brown and black headscarf, entered her plea to one count of conspiracy to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization. She said nothing in federal court other than acknowledging that she understood the plea and its ramifications. She could face up to five years in federal prison and a $250,000 fine. The agreement says she must cooperate with the FBI and other law enforcement agencies and provide information about people in Colorado and elsewhere looking to help terrorists abroad. If she cooperates, prosecutors promised to ask a judge to reduce her sentence. After the hearing, Conley's public defender, Robert Pepin, that she has been horrified by the atrocities committed by the Islamic State group and offered her condolences to those who have been caught up in its "slaughter and oppression." "The fact that she was arrested may very well have saved her life," he said of Conley, whom he referred to as Halima, the name she adopted after her conversion to Islam. Conley was arrested in April while trying to board a flight at Denver International Airport on her way to Syria, authorities said. The nurse's aide from Arvada previously told the FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force that she hoped to use her nursing skills to help the extremists, if she couldn't fight with them, according to court documents. In several meetings over eight months, FBI agents repeatedly tried to discourage Conley, suggesting she explore humanitarian work instead. But Conley, whose traditional headscarf stood out in her neighborhood, told them she planned to marry a suitor she met online whom she believed was Tunisian and fought with the Islamic State group that controls parts of Syria and Iraq. FBI agents encouraged Conley's parents to talk to her about finding more moderate beliefs. Her father refused to let her marry her suitor and then discovered a one-way airline ticket to Turkey with her name on it. Authorities have said they are still investigating the suitor, identified in court documents only as Y.M. During a visit to the Denver field office in August, FBI Director James Comey said stopping homegrown terrorists who radicalize through the Internet is a priority for the agency. He called Syria a safe haven and training ground for Westerners, who emerge with "the worst kind of relationships and the worst kind of training." A Minnesota man recruited to fight for the Islamic State group was killed in Syria last month -- five years after his high school friend died fighting for the terror group al-Shabab in Somalia. It is unclear how Conley became interested in jihad, or holy war. After her arrest, authorities say they found CDs by US-born radical cleric Anwar al-Awlaki among her belongings. FBI agents became aware of her growing interest in extremism in November after she alarmed employees of a suburban Denver church by wandering around and taking notes on the layout of the campus, court documents say. The church, Faith Bible Chapel in Arvada, was the scene of a 2007 shooting in which a man killed two missionary workers. Judge Raymond P. Moore ordered a full psychiatric evaluation of Conley that he said should include more details about what happened with her at the church last year as well as her character. |
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