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Home Front: WoT

Radical Muslim leader convicted of recruiting ISIS supporters

2023-01-28

[NYPOST] A radical Islamic holy man was convicted of recruiting and providing support for ISIS, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg announced on Thursday.

Sheikh Abdullah Faisal,

... Abdullah Ibrahim al-Faisal, whose mother named him Trevor William Forrest, is also in our archives as Abdullah el-Faisal. After converting to Islam and training in Saudi Arabia, he preached murder and mayhem across England to a laundry list of bad guys for eleven years, until the Brits jailed him for it in 2003. They deported him to Jamaica four years later. After he spent 2009 touring Africa, Kenya deported him back to Jamaica. In between and since, he was very active online guiding eager young minds toward the jihadi life...

59, an 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 Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
recruiter and marriage broker was found guilty of "far reaching crimes" of terrorism following New York state’s first ever terrorism trial, according to the DA’s office.

Faisal, a Jamaica native who prosecutors described as "one of the most influential English speaking Death Eaters of our times," preached ~~violent~~ mostly peaceful jihad and pushed for ISIS recruitment on his social media platforms and tried to inspire others to commit acts of terror themselves in ISIS’ name.

He additionally provided instructions on how potential fighters could best travel to Syria and Iraq undetected and worked as a matchmaker for women looking to get hitched to Islamic Death Eaters.

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Radical cleric held without bail in Manhattan for ‘trying to recruit NYPD cop’

2020-08-20

August 14th.

[NYPost] A radical Islamic holy man was ordered held without bail in Manhattan on Friday — after encouraging a female undercover NYPD cop to carry out terror attacks, authorities said.

Sheikh Abdullah Faisal,

56, pleaded not guilty
"Wudn't me."
to five counts — including conspiracy as a crime of terrorism, soliciting or providing support for an act of terrorism and other raps.

At the prosecution’s request, Justice Maxwell Wiley ordered Faisal held in jug without bail.

Faisal was arrested in 2017 in Jamaica and finally brought to New York on Thursday after fighting extradition.

The krazed killer holy man — born Trevor William Forrest — allegedly communicated with a female undercover NYPD officer by e-mail, text and video chat to encourage her to join ISIS and carry out attacks abroad from 2015 to 2017.

"The indictment and arrest of Sheikh Faisal nearly three years ago put a stop to the prolific, radical Islamic propaganda and terror recruitment alleged in this case — delivering a major blow to ISIS’ overall recruitment capabilities," said District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. in a statement.

"The effects of his arrest have been felt across the counterterrorism community worldwide, which has gained actionable intelligence thanks to our seizure of numerous electronics from his home."

A popular online figure, Faisal has overtly supported ISIS and the establishment of an Islamic caliphate through ~~violent~~ mostly peaceful jihad.

In one of his online lectures, he declared, "The way forward is not the ballot. The way forward is the bullet," according to the indictment.

In recorded conversations with the undercover cop, Faisal encouraged her to take a Moslem groom and offered to arrange the marriage for her.

On Jan. 26, 2015, Faisal sent the undercover an e-mail stating, "a brother in the dawla wants to interview u for marriage. Pls whatsapp him," court papers allege.

"Abdullah El Faisal has spent two decades inspiring the murderous Moslems behind plots and attacks in London, New York, and onboard airplanes in flight," said NYPD Police Commissioner Dermot Shea in a statement.

The NYPD and Manhattan DA began their pursuit of Faisal in 2014.

Faisal was previously convicted of similar charges in England for inciting murder and using inflammatory language "in furtherance of terrorist ideologies," according to prosecutors.

He’s due back in Manhattan Supreme Court on Oct. 7.

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Southeast Asia

Singapore hands down first conviction for terror financing

2019-10-19

[DAWN] A Singaporean man became the first of the country's citizens to be tossed in the clink
Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please!
for financing terrorism after he was convicted of sending money to a radical Moslem preacher.

There have been a steady stream of arrests in Singapore related to support for extremism, and the affluent city-state's leaders have warned it is a prime target for an attack.

Ahmed Hussein Abdul Kadir Sheik Uduman was tossed in the clink
Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please!
for two and a half years for donating Sg$1,146 ($840) to Sheikh Abdullah al-Faisal,

... Abdullah Ibrahim al-Faisal, whose mother named him Trevor William Forrest, is also in our archives as Abdullah el-Faisal. After converting to Islam and training in Saudi Arabia, our miscreant preached murder and mayhem across England to a laundry list of bad guys for eleven years, until the Brits jailed him for it in 2003. They deported him to Jamaica four years later. After he spent 2009 touring Africa, Kenya deported him back to Jamaica. In between and since, he apparently has been active online guiding eager young minds toward the jihadi life...

a Moslem preacher living in Jamaica, according to court documents seen by AFP Friday.

Hussein reached out to Faisal after watching videos on his website and YouTube channels in which he preached support for the turban 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 Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
(IS) group.

In the old days it was Al Qaeda, with much the same effect.

Faisal was tossed in the clink
Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please!
for nine years in Britannia in 2003 after calling for the murders of non-Moslems and was deported to his native Jamaica after serving four years of his sentence.

Hussein, who was handed a prison term on Thursday, was arrested in July 2018 under Singapore's Internal Security Act, which allows for detention without trial for up to two years.

He had been radicalised and "wanted to undertake armed violence in Syria in support of the IS group in Iraq and Syria," court documents said.

The prosecution recommended jail time to send "a strong message to other like-minded individuals that supporting terrorist propaganda through financial means will attract uncompromising punishment", they said.

In September, authorities detained three Indonesian maids without trial over allegations they donated funds to support the IS group. And in July, two Singaporeans accused of intending to join the Death Eaters were arrested.

The IS group lost the last scrap of its self-declared "caliphate" this year but remains influential. There are fears that imported muscle returning from the Middle East could rejuvenate terror networks elsewhere, including in Southeast Asia.

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U.S. Citizen Found Guilty of 'Attempting To Provide Material Support to ISIS'

2018-06-22

[Daily Caller] Parveg Ahmed, 22, of Queens, New York, went to Saudi Arabia in order to "celebrate an Islamic religious holiday" but was deported back to the U.S. after he was caught trying to cross the border into Syria in an attempt to join ISIS.

Ahmed, a U.S. citizen, was also apprehended for posting about his support for the Islamic Extremist group on Facebook. After a search warrant was acquired for his personal computer, additional materials about his attempts to join were discovered.

"... the defendant had viewed or listened to recordings of radical Islamic clerics Anwar al-Awlaki and Abdullah el-Faisal," said the DOJ. "Al-Awlaki was a U.S.-born cleric and prominent leader of the foreign terrorist organization al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula who was killed on or about Sept. 30, 2011. El-Faisal, a Jamaican-born cleric, was found guilty in the United Kingdom of, among other things, solicitation to commit murder, for preaching to followers to kill individuals, including Americans, because he deemed them to be enemies of Islam."

Ahmed faces a statutory maximum of 20 years in prison after decisions are made by Assistant U.S. Attorneys Craig R. Heeren and Margaret E. Lee of the Eastern District of New York with assistance from Trial Attorney Joshua Champagne of the National Security Division’s Counterterrorism Section.

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U.S. Treasury Designates Jamaica-Based Islamic State Recruiter as Terrorist

2017-12-10

Yet another thing that seems to have required the ascent of Donald Trump to the presidency in order to be done.

[Breitbart] U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration has added a prominent jihadi ideologue based in Jamaica to the American government’s list of specially designated global terrorists for recruiting prospective militants for the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) in Iraq and Syria.

Referring to the ISIS jihadist in Jamaica—Abdullah Ibrahim al-Faisal, also known as Trevor William Forrest

...who is in our archives as Abdullah el-Faisal. After converting to Islam and training in Saudi Arabia, our miscreant preached murder and mayhem across England to a laundry list of bad guys for eleven years, until the Brits jailed him for it in 2003. They deported him to Jamaica four years later. After he spent 2009 touring Africa, Kenya deported him back to Jamaica. In between and since, he apparently has been actively guiding eager young minds toward the jihadi life on line.

—John Smith, the director of the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), declared:

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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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Radical July 7 preacher arrested in undercover sting trying to recruit jihadis

2017-08-27

[Telegraph] A radical Moslem holy man who influenced one of the July 7 London bombers has been incarcerated
Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out!
after officers in the US caught him allegedly trying to recruit jihadis in an undercover sting operation.

Abdullah el-Faisal, who was deported to Jamaica from Britannia in 2007 after serving a sentence for soliciting murder and causing racial hatred, is now facing extradition to New York.

According to the Manhattan district attorney, el-Faisal offered to help an undercover officer travel to the Middle East and join Isil.

El-Faisal, who was arrested on Friday in Jamaica, was a mentor of Jermaine Lindsay, who detonated a bomb on a Tube train near King's Cross, killing 25 passengers.

He was arrested after a month long sting carried out by an undercover New York Police Department officer who communicated with him by email, text and video chat.

According to the Manhattan district attorney, el-Faisal offered to help an undercover officer travel to the Middle East and join Isil.

El-Faisal, 53, was sentenced to seven years after becoming the first person for a century to be prosecuted under the 1860 Public Order Act.

Lindsay, also from Jamaica and also a convert to Islam, attended at least one lecture by El-Faisal and listened to tapes of his sermons. During the preacher's trial, he was heard telling audiences to kill Hindus, Jews and other non-Moslems like "cockroaches".

El-Faisal arrived in the UK in 1992 and married a British biology graduate, establishing himself as a lay preacher at Brixton Mosque, often preaching to crowds of up to 500 people.

His preaching came to the attentions of police when tapes of his sermons were found in the car of a suspected rapist in Dorset in late 2001.

During subsequent searches of specialist Islamic bookshops and El-Faisal's rented house in Stratford, East London, police found other recordings in which he exhorted young Moslems to accept the deaths of women and kiddies as "collateral damage" and to "learn to fly planes, drive tanks... load your guns and to use missiles".

He told young British Moslems it was their duty to kill non-believers, Jews, Hindus and Westerners, urging them to adopt a "jihad mentality".

He also promised schoolboys that they would be rewarded with "72 virgins in paradise" if they died in a holy war.

The jury watched a video of El-Faisal after the Sept 11 attacks telling up to 150 young Moslems that the Koran justified attacking "kaffirs", or unbelievers.

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Olde Tyme Religion

Radical Muslim cleric returns to native Jamaica

2010-01-23

A radical Muslim cleric who served time in a British jail for inciting murder and stirring racial hatred has arrived in Jamaica, the second time he was deported to his native country. Abdullah el-Faisal arrived in Kingston by private jet Friday night after he traveled from Burkina Faso to Antigua via Cape Verde, authorities said.

El-Faisal once led a London mosque attended by convicted terrorists, and Britain has said that his teachings heavily influenced one of the bombers in the 2005 transport network attacks in London that killed 52 people.

In 2007, Britain deported him to Jamaica after he spent four years in jail for urging the killing of Americans, Hindus, Jews and Christians.

In 2009, el-Faisal toured several African countries until he was arrested last month in Kenya. Muslim youth demanded his release during a deadly protest Jan. 15 at a downtown Nairobi mosque that led to the arrest of 400 people. The Muslim Human Rights Forum said at least five people were killed when police shot at demonstrators, while the government says only one person died.

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Caribbean-Latin America

Jamaica: Muslim cleric to face no extra scrutiny

2010-01-07

It is unclear when Sheik Abdullah el-Faisal might arrive in Jamaica, where he lived before departing for Africa in early 2009 on a Jamaican passport, Minister Kenneth Baugh told Nationwide News Network radio. He did not know what route el-Faisal would take to Jamaica.

"As far as monitoring him, that will be left to the Ministry of National Security who have their program in place to maintain surveillance," said Baugh, without revealing specifics.

Kenya deported El-Faisal was to Gambia on Thursday after several countries, including the United States, denied him a transit visa. Kenya's immigration minister said Gambian authorities have agreed to help el-Faisal find his way home.

El-Faisal once led a London mosque attended by convicted terrorists, and Britain has said that his teachings heavily influenced one of the bombers in the 2005 transport network attacks in London that killed 52 people.

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Europe

UK: Terror convicts to be released fom prison early

2008-07-16

Dozens of inmates convicted of terrorism offences will be released after serving half their sentences under rules introduced by the Government. Those released early are likely to include family members who knew about the July 21 bombings but failed to tell the police and others who helped the bombers escape.

One radical cleric, Abdullah el-Faisal, who influenced both the July 7 and July 21 bombers, has already been released, deported back to his native Jamaica, and is now preaching in South Africa.

The most recent Criminal Justice Act brought in rules which mean prisoners serving determinate sentences are automatically eligible for release midway through their jail terms. No exemption has been made for those who have committed terrorism offences, although the early release does not apply to those who are serving life sentences or remain a danger to the public.

Two convicted terrorists have been released under a separate "end of custody licence scheme," which allows inmates to be released three weeks before the halfway point of their sentence in order to free up jail space.

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Caribbean-Latin America

Jamaican Muslims reject terror preacher . . . or do they?

2006-08-27

Convicted in Britain three years ago for inciting racial hatred through his doctrine, Sheikh Abdullah el-Faisal, a son of Point, St. James, now faces deportation to the land he departed 26 years ago. The Jamaican Government last week said British authorities have not contacted them about a possible deportation. However, it seems that the Jamaican expatriate will soon be forced to pack his luggage and head home.

The local Islamic community has said they may embrace Sheikh el-Faisal as a brother but that is the furthest they would go if the accusations against him are true. "If it is true, every Muslim in Jamaica condemns it. We won't associate ourselves with anyone like that," Sheikh Musa Tijani, head of education and Dawah [which means calling people to the religion] at the Islamic Council of Jamaica said. Sheikh Tijani, however, has asked for Sheikh el-Faisal's side of the story.

"I want to hear the truth - his side, the other side." Sheikh Tinaji said he has never heard any of 'the brother's terror speeches. He said that what he has to rely on media, largely biased toward Christians, to present information on the case. "If he said it is true then we are not going to accept him. In fact, we would demand a public apology because what he did was wrong."

Sheikh el-Faisal was convicted on three counts of racial incitement and three of 'soliciting murder' (under a 1861 Offences Against the Person Act) by a unanimous verdict from the jury. In his preaching, recorded on audio and video cassettes and DVDs, el-Faisal urged, not just pronounced, death and destruction on unbelievers. In one of his tapes, el-Faisal urged Muslim women to "bring up your male children in the jihad mentality."

"So when you buy your toys for your boys you buy tanks and guns and helicopter gunships and so forth. The way forward can never be the ballot. The way forward is the bullet. How wonderful it is to kill the Kuffar [unbeliever]. You crawl on his back and while you push him down into hellfire you are going into paradise." Another of his jihad tape contains the words: "So you go to India and if you see a Hindu walking down the road you are allowed to kill him and take his money, is that clear?"

One local Muslim, Abdul Basear, said he believes Sheikh el-Faisal was "a bit enthusiastic and overzealous." Basear, however, is not convinced that el-Faisal preached racial hate. "He might say some things which are not acceptable by other Muslims but he does not preach racial hatred." Basear said jihad should not be viewed as something bad. He said jihad, which may take many forms, means striving for the pleasure of Allah [God] to empower yourself. This jihad, he said, may be either physical or spiritual.

His argument is not something the British authorities would buy. el-Faisal is said to have influenced at least one terrorist attacker. Richard Reid, the shoe bomber who is of Jamaica descent, is said to have visited mosques where el-Faisal gave speeches. It is also believed that Jamaican-born bomber Germaine Lindsay, a 19-year-old Muslim convert, was influenced by el-Faisal.

Sheikh Tijani has said that the impending deportation of Sheikh el-Faisal will only help the cause of those who have turned the microscope on the religion of Islam. "This definitely make things more difficult for Muslims. The spotlight is already on us and it is going to get brighter. But we don't have anything to hide. We don't teach our followers to accept terrorist or extremist ideals," Sheikh Tijani told The Sunday Gleaner.

Sheikh el-Faisal was christened 'Trevor William Forrest' and later earned the name 'Dictionary' from his friends because of his tendency to used jaw-cracking words. His parents were Salvation Army officers who introduced him to Christianity. However, at age 16 he left for Saudi Arabia where he traded his early country-boy Christian lifestyle for a combative Islam belief.

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Britain

Jailed Muslim cleric to be deported from UK

2006-08-21

Abdullah el-Faisal, a Jamaican-born convert to Islam, has been informed he will be expelled from Britain on completion of his current jail term, the Home Office said. The cleric was sentenced to nine years jail in 2003 on charges of incitement to murder and stirring racial hatred after he urged followers to kill Hindus, Jews and Americans. Prosecutors said that in study group lectures and on audio tapes, the cleric had also attempted to recruit British youths for terrorist training.

El-Faisal, who had his sentence cut to seven years on appeal, is eligible to apply for parole after serving half his jail term, but has been informed he will be deported to Jamaica immediately following his release from prison.

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