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Accused bike-path terrorist Sayfullo Saipov tells judge he only answers to Allah

2019-11-20

Ass.

[NYPOST] Accused bike path terrorist Sayfullo Saipov told a Manhattan federal court judge Monday he doesn’t respect his authority ‐ while prosecutors said they want to empanel an anonymous jury to oversee the death penalty

case.

"The orders issued here have nothing to do with me," Saipov told Judge Vernon Broderick through an Uzbek interpreter. "I am following orders of Allah, who gave me life."

The comments followed a hearing regarding jury selection ahead of the alleged ISIS bad boy’s trial for driving a truck down a crowded bike path on Halloween 2017, killing eight people.

Saipov stood as he spoke, wildly gesticulating as he asked Broderick why he was sitting in judgement of him "for the eight people killed" and "not those who are killing thousands and millions of Moslems over the world."

Broderick eventually cut off the 31-year-old, and told him a judge’s role was more like that of a "referee."

"I recognize that you don’t recognize me, or recognize my authority," Broderick added. "This isn’t the time or place to be making statements."

Meanwhile,
...back at the palazzo, Count Guido stepped from behind the suit of armor, rapier in hand. Ciccolini snarled and reached for his own weapon...
Manhattan federal prosecutor Matthew Laroche said the government plans to seek an anonymous jury to sit on the case.

Defense attorney David Patton said his team would be opposing that request.

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‘Chelsea bomber’ convicted in attempted murder trial stemming from New Jersey shootout with police

2019-10-09

[PIX11] A New Jersey man already serving a life term for planting bombs in New York City has been convicted of attempted murder and assault stemming from a shootout with police three years ago.

Ahmad Khan Rahimi

...the naturalized Afghan known wolf (who came as a result of chain migration, after his father received asylum) who didn’t die a martyr in a hail of bullets as planned, after planting bombs in Manhattan and New Jersey. He was inspired by ISIS and Al Qaeda, and trained in a Taliban feeder madrassa in Pakistan. After his second stay there, his father reported him to the FBI, who, sadly, were not suffciently impressed. In the early days of the investigation his name was given as Ahmad Khan Rahami and Ahmad Khan Rahmani...

sat quietly during the reading of the verdicts Tuesday

Rahimi engaged police in a shootout after they found him in Linden, New Jersey. He fired at several officers and was maimed himself.

The jury deliberated over two days before convicting the Afghanistan-born naturalized U.S. citizen of all 30 counts.

Rahimi’s attorney argued his client acted in self-defense.

A New York jury convicted Rahimi last year of setting off a bomb, injuring 30 people. A second bomb failed to go off.

Rahimi also is charged in New Jersey with placing bombs in two locations.

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Al-Qaeda Recruitment Lectures Offered in Google Play Store App

2018-04-19

[PJMedia] An app that has been dowloaded more than a thousand times on Google Play hooks up users with a selection of audio lectures and video addresses from American al-Qaeda recruiter Anwar al-Awlaki.

Al-Awlaki, the New Mexico native who remains a powerful recruitment force spanning terrorist group loyalties, was killed in an airstrike in Yemen in 2011. ISIS fighters frequently quote the leading al-Qaeda member online. Lone jihadists are often found to have consumed al-Awlaki lectures, including 2016 Chelsea bomber Ahmad Khan Rahimi and Abdul Razak Ali Artan, the Ohio State student who rammed pedestrians on campus in 2016.

In a November anti-extremism crackdown, YouTube pulled tens of thousands of videos of al-Awlaki's myriad sermons and Q&As that had been uploaded to the site. A search on the site now finds al-Awlaki videos that were posted 3 to 4 months ago, after the company's purge.

The Google Play app titled "Anwar Al Awlaki Lectures" is filed under "entertainment" and rated E for everyone.

Goody.

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Chelsea bomber gets multiple life prison sentences for New York blast that injured 30

2018-02-14

[FOXNEWS] The convicted terrorist who planted two pressure-cooker bombs on New York City streets -- including one that injured 30 people with a rain of shrapnel when it detonated -- was sentenced Tuesday to multiple life terms in prison.

Ahmad Khan Rahimi

...the naturalized Afghan known wolf (another who came as a result of chain migration, after his father received asylum) who didn’t get to die a martyr in a hail of bullets as planned after planting bombs in Manhattan and New Jersey. He was inspired by ISIS and Al Qaeda, and trained in a Taliban feeder madrassa in Pakistan. After his second stay there, his father reported him to the FBI, who were not suffciently impressed. In the early days of the investigation his name was given as Ahmad Khan Rahami and Ahmad Khan Rahmani...

, 29, was convicted in October of planting pressure-cooker bombs in New York and New Jersey on Sept. 17, 2016.

The blast in New York City happened hours after a small pipe bomb went off during a Marine Corps 5K run in Seaside Heights, N.J. No one was injured in that kaboom because the race had been delayed. A subsequent two-day manhunt ended in a shootout with police in New Jersey, where Rahimi was shot several times. No police were maimed.

Federal prosecutors said Rahimi has not shown remorse since his arrest, and has tried to radicalize fellow prisoners at the federal jail in New York.

"He is proud of what he did, scornful of the American justice system, and as dedicated as ever to his terrorist ideology," they wrote.

When asked to speak at his sentencing Tuesday, Rahimi said he doesn't "harbor hate for anyone."

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Chelsea terrorist bomber Rahimi tried to radicalize inmates, prosecutors say

2017-12-25

(CNN)The man convicted in the 2016 bombing in New York's Chelsea neighborhood that injured 30 people has been trying to radicalize other inmates, federal prosecutors say.

Ahmad Khan Rahimi

...the naturalized Afghan known wolf (another who came as a result of chain migration, after his father received asylum) who didn’t get to die a martyr in a hail of bullets as planned after planting bombs in Manhattan and New Jersey. He was inspired by ISIS and Al Qaeda, and trained in a Taliban feeder madrassa in Pakistan. After his second stay there, his father reported him to the FBI, who were not impressed. In the early days of the investigation his name was given as Ahmad Khan Rahami and Ahmad Khan Rahmani...

also told a judge he is on a hunger strike.

Rahimi provided inmates with copies of terrorist propaganda and jihadist materials, including speeches by Osama Bin Laden and the late militant cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, bomb making instructions, books on jihad and issues of the al Qaeda-backed magazine Inspire, prosecutors said.

Rahimi "has been attempting to radicalize fellow inmates in the Metropolitan Correction Center by, among other things, distributing propaganda and publications issued by terrorist organizations," according to a letter from Acting US Attorney Joon H. Kim to US District Judge Richard Berman.

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‘Chelsea bomber’ convicted of attack that injured dozens

2017-10-17

[NYPOST] A homegrown Islamic terrorist was convicted Monday of detonating do-it-yourself time bombs in Manhattan and New Jersey last year ‐ setting him up for a mandatory sentence of life in a federal prison.

A Manhattan federal jury found Ahmad Khan Rahimi,

...incorrectly named in news reports in the early days of his adventures as Ahmad Khan Rahami. The Guardian reported he spent time in a religious seminary in Pakistain closely associated with the Afghan Taliban.....

29, guilty as charged on eight counts following a two-week trial over the twin blasts in Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood and in Seaside Park, N.J,. on Sept. 17, 2016.

"Rahimi’s crimes of hate have been met with swift and resolute justice," acting Manhattan US Attorney Joon Kim said in a prepared statement.

"Today’s verdict is a victory for New York City, a victory for America in its fight against terror, and a victory for all who believe in the cause of justice."

The feds alleged that Rahimi’s Internet searches and writing found in notebook he kept showed he was obsessed with the late Osama bin Laden

... who used to be alive but now he's not...
, al Qaeda and ISIS, but the Elizabeth, N.J., resident ‐ who immigrated from Afghanistan at age 7 ‐ wasn’t accused of formal ties to any terrorist groups.

The fiend remained ~~dead-eyed~~ composed as he heard the verdict against him, which followed less than four hours of deliberations over two days, and tried in vain to make eye contact with members of the eight-man, four-woman jury.

He then chatted and chuckled with his defense lawyer as Judge Richard Berman met in the jury room with the panel.

Laughter from the group was heard through the door in the courtroom.

As he left the courtroom, the jury’s foreman said: "It’s never easy to part of something like this."

Berman scheduled sentencing for January 18. Rahimi has been tossed in the slammer
Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un!
without bond since his arrest following a bloody shootout with cops in Linden, N.J.

Defense lawyer Sabrina Shroff said she would seek a sentence of less than life on counts 1 through 6, on hopes that an appeals court overturns the remaining counts, which carry mandatory life sentences.

No one was injured by Rahimi’s first blast ‐ in Seaside Park ‐ because the bomb went kaboom! ahead of a charity race that had been delayed.

But the pressure-cooker bomb he later planted on West 23rd Street injured dozens of people and caused millions of dollars in property damage.

A third device, left on West 27th Street, didn’t go off ‐ and Rahimi’s lawyer last week threw the prosecution for a loop when she told the jury it was because Rahimi got cold feet after hearing the blast on West 23rd Street.

In a bid to dramatically reduce Rahimi’s chance of spending the rest of his life in prison, she asked the jury to acquit him of three counts tied to the unwent kaboom! device.

The feds tied Rahimi to the attacks through purchases he made at Home Depot and on eBay for parts used to make the bombs, as well as through fingerprint and DNA evidence.

Victims of the West 23rd Street bombing offered dramatic testimony, with Chelsea resident Cort Cheek describing a "double boom" so loud "it was like the end of the world."

The feds also played dozens of damning surveillance videos that showed Rahimi walking around Manhattan while pulling a pair of roller suitcases, each of which held a homemade bomb.

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Accused bomber Rahimi seeks reduced charges in New Jersey case

2017-05-16

[OANN] An Afghan-born U.S. citizen accused of planting bombs in New York and New Jersey fired on police in New Jersey to evade arrest, but those crimes fall short of attempted murder as charged, his defense lawyer argued on Monday.

Ahmad Khan Rahimi,

...the probably Taliban-trained Afghan-American whose various bombs in New York and New Jersey caused havoc, though not nearly as much as he planned, and who for some reason is mostly in our files as Ahmad Khan Rahami. His writings show he was also inspired by Al Qaeda and ISIS...

29, faces a 30-count indictment in New Jersey’s Union County in relation to a kaboom in New York City’s Chelsea district last September that maimed about 30 people. Another bomb in New Jersey injured no one and other devices he is accused of planting did not detonate.

Rahimi also faces a host of federal charges brought by U.S. prosecutors in New York and New Jersey, who have portrayed him as a jihadist who bought bomb components on eBay, praised Osama bind Laden and kept a journal expressing outrage at the U.S. "slaughter" of mujahideen fighters in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria and Paleostine.

Rahimi, who has pleaded not guilty
"Wudn't me."
to all charges, appeared in court shackled at the feet and hands while wearing a blue prison uniform, white skullcap and beard. He appeared to be mouthing verses of the Koran while seated at the defense table.

His state-appointed defense attorney, Peter Liguori, has asked Union County Superior Court Judge Regina Caulfield to dismiss all charges, but in oral arguments he focused mostly on getting three attempted murder charges reduced to aggravated assault in the instances where the coppers were unhurt.

Two other officers were maimed in the shootout, which erupted on the streets of Linden, New Jersey, two days after the bombs detonated. Rahimi was shot between eight and 12 times, Liguori said.

The defense lawyer also asked the judge to drop so-called lesser included offenses, arguing that prosecutors "overcharged" his client.

Turning and firing at a distance and while running to evade arrest did not constitute attempted murder he because it does not show an intent to kill, Liguori said, though he admitted it was criminal conduct more worthy of an aggravated assault charge.

"This is a case where there is emotion, where there is possible prejudice," Liguori said. "His intent was to get away. His intent was to avoid police pursuit ... Running and firing back over your shoulder? Come on."

Twenty-nine shell casings from Rahimi’s gun were recovered at various scenes following the pursuit, prosecutor Ann Luvera said.

The judge said she would issue a written ruling on the defense requests before the end of the month.

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Lawyer concerned about Ahmad Khan Rahimi's medical care in jail

2016-11-11

[Newsday] A lawyer for accused Chelsea bomber Ahmad Khan Rahimi complained that his medical condition might be too fragile for him to get adequate care in a federal jail as Rahimi made his first appearance on terrorism charges in Manhattan federal court on Thursday.

Federal defender David Patton said that Rahimi, who was transferred by New Jersey authorities into federal custody at 5 a.m., still had an open wound on his leg, a disabled hand and serious liver damage as a result of gunshot wounds suffered during his September arrest, and had experienced repeated infections.

"We have some real concerns about Mr. Rahimi’s medical condition and the ability of the [Metropolitan Correctional Center] to provide adequate medical care," Patton said.
Cont'd.

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NJ terror bombing suspect moved from hospital to prison

2016-10-20

[AlAhram] A man accused of setting off bombs in New Jersey and New York, injuring more than 30 people, has been moved from a hospital to a state prison.

Ahmad Khan Rahimi

...the probably Taliban-trained Afghan-American whose various bombs in New York and New Jersey caused havoc last month, and whose last name is also spelt Rahami, for some reason...

was transferred to a state facility on Tuesday instead of a county jail for his safety and security, New Jersey Corrections Department front man Matt Schuman said. Schuman would not identify the facility.

The Afghan-born U.S. citizen had been hospitalized with gunshot wounds following a police shootout that led to his capture in Linden on Sept. 19.

He remains held on $5.2 million bail.

Rahimi, 28, has pleaded not guilty
"Wudn't me."
to five counts of attempted murder of a police officer and weapons offenses.

During a video court appearance on Oct. 13, he was read his rights by Judge Regina Caulfield and answered "yes" in a faint voice to a series of questions.

He is accused of detonating a pipe bomb along the route of a scheduled Marine Corps charity race in the New Jersey shore town of Seaside Park and a pressure cooker bomb in New York City on Sept. 17. No one was injured in the New Jersey blast, and 31 people were hurt in the New York blast. A second pressure cooker bomb did not explode.

Rahimi has not made court appearances on federal charges in either state.

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