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Denver Tries Uzbek Refugee on Charges of Wiring Money to ‘Islamic Jihad Union’

2018-03-24

Justice delayed... One wonders why it took so long to go to trial. [Breitbart] The trial for a refugee from Uzbekistan charged with providing material support to a terrorist organization by wiring money to the "Islamic Jihad Union" (IJU) ...on the American list of terror groups hosted by Pakistan for use in Afghanistan and elsewhere... began in Denver, Colorado, on Thursday. Prosecutors claim Bahktiyor Jumaev developed a closeness with fellow Uzbek Jamshid Muhtorov when the pair shared an apartment and that the two men discussed joining the IJU through phone calls and emails by using code words such as "wedding" to describe jihad. "It’s a crime to send money or property to a terrorist organization," said prosecutor Gregory Holloway at a courthouse in Denver. "That’s why we’re here." In 2011, prosecutors say Jumaev sent $300 to Jamshid Muhtorov and later admitted to FBI agents that he knew it was going towards the IJU. However, nothing needs reforming like other people's bad habits... Jumaev’s attorney David Barry Savitz argued that the FBI illegally extracted a false confession from him by arresting him after a night’s work and interrogating him for three hours. He went on to claim that his client merely intended to pay back Muhtorov for a $500 bond required to get Jumaev out of jail and was not related to the IJU. "He considered himself trapped. He was scared. He was exhausted," Savitz said in his opening statement. "It was strictly intended to pay his debt and has nothing to do with the IJU." The FBI’s tough questioning allegedly reminded Jumaev of an experience he had in 1999 where Uzbekistan National Security agents questioned him before severely beating him. In January, Jumaev’s lawyers asked a judge not to allow the prosecution to show jurors a video showing the beheading of FBI agents found on Muhtorov’s computer. "There is no evidence that Mr. Jumaev viewed any or most of the Muhtorov electronic evidence, particularly the most violent ones," the motion read. Muhtorov was first locked away Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! before boarding a flight in reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown ... home of Al Capone, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel,... back in 2012 and is currently being tried separately. He has already served five years in jail without trial, and a decision last year to release him on bail was eventually reversed by a federal judge. The men are two of a number Uzbek migrants colonists charged with terrorism-related offenses in the past year. Last August, 22-year-old Uzbek-American Abror Habibo pled guilty to charges of agreeing to fund terrorist activity, after buying another man a plane ticket to Syria in order to join 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.... Uzbek migrant Sayfullo Saipov also faces charges of terrorist after carrying out a truck attack that killed eight people and injured at least a dozen others in the city’s deadliest attack since 9/11.

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Philly man arrested on charges of supporting Uzbeki terrorists

2012-03-16

A Philadelphia man accused of being a member of an Islamic terrorist bad boy group seeking to overthrow the government of Uzbekistan has been tossed in the calaboose on charges of conspiracy to provide support to a terror group. The U.S. Attorney's Office for Colorado said that Bakhtiyor Jumaev, 45, was tossed in the calaboose on Thursday in Philadelphia on charges filed in federal court in Denver of supporting the Islamic Jihad ...created after many members of the Egyptian Mohammedan Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the liquidation of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah... Union. According to federal authorities, Jumaev was a close friend of Jamshid Muhtorov, a 35-year-old Uzbek refugee living in suburban Denver who was tossed in the calaboose in January at Chicago's O'Hare Airport on a similar charge. Documents filed in court said Muhtorov was nabbed as he headed overseas to fight for the Islamic Jihad Union, which opposes the U.S.-backed Uzbek government. An FBI affidavit for Jumaev's arrest said German authorities disrupted an Islamic Jihad Union plot in 2007 and tossed in the calaboose three members of the group targeting unidentified facilities with explosives. It said Turkish authorities had seized weapons and jugged faceless myrmidons Islamic fascisti with ties to the group in 2009. Court documents said the organization took responsibility for attacks in 2008 and 2009 that targeted U.S.-led forces in Afghanistan, including a suicide kaboom against a U.S. military post. The group conducted simultaneous suicide kabooms in 2004 of U.S. and Israeli embassies, as well as of a Uzbek government office, all in the capital Tashkent, according to the same documents. Jumaev and Muhtorov pledged support the IJU, and Jumaev sent money to Muhtorov, intended for the organization, the U.S. Attorney's Office said on Thursday. Jumaev was tossed in the calaboose without incident and faces up to 15 years in prison if convicted.

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