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2025-11-08 Home Front: WoT
More pumpkin plotters: Alleged yuppie jihadis, 19, from Montclair, NJ, plotted Boston bombing-style attack, planned to join ISIS
[NYPost] Two upper-crust student athletes from tony Montclair, New Jersey, are accused of participating in an ISIS-inspired terror ring — with one of the suspects allegedly plotting a Boston bombing-style attack, the feds said Wednesday. Tomas Kaan Jimenez-Guzel and Milo Sedarat, both 19, were arrested on Tuesday, with both teens living in $1 million-plus Victorian houses in the manicured New York City suburb. The accused yuppie jihadis both grew up in privilege before allegedly turning to ISIS.

Jimenez-Guzel’s mother, Meral Guzel, serves as head of the United Nation’s Women’s Entrepreneurship program, and Sedarat’s father, Roger Sedarat, is an award-winning Iranian American poet and a professor at Queens College in New York City. Guzel has been with the UN for more than a decade working on women empowerment projects, according to her LinkedIn account, with the mother previously working in the finance sector. Roger Sedarat, who teaches poetry and literary translation for Queens College’s MFA program, is best known for his works celebrating the written history of his father’s native Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
and Persian poetry.

Neither parent could be reached for comment on Wednesday.

Both attended Montclair High School, one of the most prestigious public schools in the region. Jimenez-Guzel, who is a hulking 6 feet 1 and 235 pounds, was a defensive end on the football team. Sedarat was on the wrestling team. Montclair is a sought-after suburb outside Newark. New Jersey’s new Gov.-elect Mikie Sherrill and her banker husband are among its notable residents.

Milo Sedarat was arrested at his father’s tidy three-story house in Montclair on Tuesday, sources told The Post, with records showing that the family’s three-story home is valued at $1.2 million. He was charged with two counts of transmitting threats to interstate and foreign commerce.

Acting US Attorney for the District of New Jersey Alina Habba said the complaint "describes a pattern of antisemitic messages advocating violence, along with images and purchases consistent with preparation for attack, including a knife and sword collection, tactical gear, and images of him practicing at a gun range."

Jimenez-Guzel, meanwhile, was arrested in a food court in Terminal B at Newark Liberty International Airport on Tuesday, where police said he was waiting for a flight to visit family in The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor...
with the goal of reaching Syria and training with ISIS, law enforcement sources said. oThe suspect was allegedly set to travel on Nov. 17, but moved the date up after news broke about the bankrupt, increasingly impoverished, reliably Democrat, Detroit
... ruled by Democrats since 1962. A city whose Golden Age included the Purple Gang...
raids against the terror suspects, officials said.

The feds said they found numerous ISIS-inspired messages on Jimenez-Guzel’s phone, including a statement he made online about conducting a "Boston bombing-like attack."

Habba said the messages "also included photographs of Jimenez-Guzel standing in front of the ISIS flag holding a knife." He is charged with attempting to provide material support to a foreign terror group.

Sedarat arrived at the federal courthouse in Newark on Wednesday evening shackled at the wrists and ankles, and sporting a gray hoodie, tousled hair, and a faint mustache. The suspect flashed a smile at someone in the gallery during his brief appearance in front of Magistrate André Espinosa, who ordered him to be held at Essex County Jail.

Jimenez-Guzel, who towered over the US Marshals leading him into the Newark courtroom in shackles, remained silent during his appearance, except to confirm to Espinosa that he understood the charges against him and potential penalty, which prosecutors said includes up to 20 years in prison per count, plus a $250,000 fine and lifetime supervised release.

Sedarat and Jimenez-Guzel were allegedly part of a chat group where several members discussed plans for a Halloween attack that they codenamed "Pumpkin."

The New Jersey arrests come just two days after a pair of Dearborn, Michigan, men were charged with supplying weapons for the ISIS-inspired attack allegedly taking aim at gay bars in Detroit.

Police also arrested Ayob Nasser, 19, also of Dearborn, on Wednesday for his alleged role in acquiring the weapons and supporting ISIS.

The court document names Mohmed Ali, 20, as one of the main co-conspirators aiming to unleash a mass shooting on Halloween night, prosecutors said.

The criminal complaint ultimately refers to five unidentified co-conspirators and a minor, labeled "Person 1," the latter of whom was allegedly assigned to carry out the attack along with Ali, while the rest of the group made their way to join ISIS in Syria.

But before Ali and his associates could carry out the alleged terror attack, authorities raided their homes and a storage unit rented by Ali in nearby Inkster. In all, Sherlocks recovered three AR-15-style rifles, two shotguns, four pistols and more than 1,600 rounds of ammunition — as well as GoPro cameras, tactical vests and additional gear. Along with the weapons, police found images and messages on the suspects’ electronic devices that demonstrated their obsession with ISIS.

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Posted by trailing wife 2025-11-08 2025-11-08 01:04|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [1877 views ]  Top
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1 Montclair is heavy on rainbow people and Pali protesters.
Posted by Ulailet+Thud3602 2025-11-08 08:09||   2025-11-08 08:09|| Front Page Top

2 Suspected suburban jihadis fueled by social media, assimilation lapses in homegrown terror plot, expert warns
Posted by Skidmark 2025-11-08 09:28||   2025-11-08 09:28|| Front Page Top

3 Key bits from Skidmark’s link:

Three of the suspects are from Dearborn, Michigan, a Detroit suburb near where the alleged plotters are accused of planning to attack gay bars on Halloween. Another comes from Kent, Washington, where a judge said he had "strong family ties [and] stable housing." At least one is a New Jersey college student whose mom works for the United Nations. Another, who lived in the same upscale Montclair community, is the son of an English professor.

While authorities have not said any of the suspects are immigrants or naturalized citizens, at least two have familial ties overseas, and the alleged plot included contacts in the United Kingdom, Sweden and Nigeria.

"For decades, we've seen a problem of immigrants or first-generation [citizens] not assimilating into Americans," Ries told Fox News Digital. "This is partly on the government, civic organizations, etc. — but also social media is aggravating all of these."

In a series of encrypted chats and voice calls intercepted by the FBI, members of the group allegedly used code words, including "vacation" to mean jihad, "pumpkin" as a reference to a mass shooting on Halloween, "unalive" instead of kill, "pew" as a reference to guns and "Thanksgiving land" to mean Turkey, where some of them are accused of planning to fly to before moving on to Syria.

At least two of the suspects had been previously interviewed by the FBI. One, living in Washington state, had alleged ties to a juvenile terror suspect in Canada. The other lives in New Jersey and is accused of talking about a potential terror attack in Boston during a livestream. A third allegedly looked up bodycam and GoPro-style videos of multiple mass shootings.

Also named: Ayob Nasser, the fifth man to be charged, is the younger brother of Mohmed Ali, and Saed Mirreh.
Posted by trailing wife 2025-11-08 12:01||   2025-11-08 12:01|| Front Page Top

4 For decades the West has politically rewarded attacks, including massive attacks like 9/11 and 10/7.

This is the logical consequence of that strategy of appeasement, bribes and concessions.
Posted by Elmerert Hupens2660 2025-11-08 14:51||   2025-11-08 14:51|| Front Page Top

5 The problem with the arrests is that they don't close down and deport any mosque these wanters of 72 piglets have attended.
Posted by Woodrow 2025-11-08 20:01||   2025-11-08 20:01|| Front Page Top

03:43 trailing wife
00:29 Clyde Thaviling6482
00:14 Besoeker
00:13 Skidmark
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