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D.C. Metro Cop Sentenced for Islamic State Support

2018-02-25

Yet another idiot whose best jihadi buddy turned out to be an FBI informant. [Breitbart] Nicholas Young, ... the connected Muslim convert who was proud of the skills he developed torturing small animals as a child, and friend of convicted Al Shabaab supporter Zachary Chesser, among others. Mr. Chesser was famed for his threats against the cartoonists of South Park... the disgraced D.C. Metro Transit Police Department officer convicted of providing support 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.... (ISIS) in December, was sentenced to 15 years in prison Friday. Judge Leonie M. Brinkema of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia handed down the sentence on federal charges of attempting to provide material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization and obstruction of justice. Young was fired in 2016 after coming under surveillance in 2010 for associations with other terrorism suspects. In 2011, he traveled to Libya and allegedly pursued links with the Jihadists fighting dictator Muammar Qadaffy ...a proud Arab institution for 42 years, now among the dear departed, though not the dearest... . Court documents allege Young traveled with "body armor, a kevlar helmet and several other military-style items" and told the FBI he had been with rebels in Libya. As a result, he no doubt had a great many more jihadi buddies than the two that have been reported. Eventually, Young was locked away You have the right to remain silent... in July 2016 when FBI informants, posing as U.S. military reservists of Middle Eastern descent who supported ISIS, got him to send them gift card codes for use to bolster the brutal terror group’s jihad. At trial, prosecutors revealed that, in addition to Islamist ties, the Moslem-convert Young also sought out Nazi materials and links online. The obstruction charges stem from him advising the informant on how to avoid detection as he went to the Middle East to join ISIS. It was after an informant was supposedly with ISIS overseas that he requested Young send money through the gift cards. Young was convicted in a jury trial in Alexandria, Virginia, in December. At the time, prosecutor Dana J. Boent said, "Nicholas Young swore an oath to protect and defend, and instead violated the public’s trust by attempting to support ISIS." According to the Justice Department (DOJ) blurb, The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Virginia teamed up with prosecutors from Main DOJ’s National Security Division Counterterrorism Section to pursue the case against Young. Young faced up to 60 years on the terrorism and obstruction charges. His 15-year sentence means we will serve at least 12 and a half years in federal prison. He is reportedly the first American law enforcement officer convicted for trying to assist ISIS, having joined the Metro Transit Police in 2003. Are transit cops real police?

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Iraqi refugee jailed 16 years in the US for supporting ISIS

2017-12-19

[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] A refugee from Iraq was sentenced by a Houston court Monday to 16 years in prison for seeking to join ISIS and learn bomb-making skills. Only sixteen? Originally it was twenty-five....and he was arrested less than two years ago, so the decrease isn’t compensation for an overly long trial. Omar Faraj Saeed al-Hardan, ...who appears in our archives without the hyphen, thusly: Omar Faraj Saeed Al Hardan, which explains why the Homeland Security no-fly lists are such a mess... a 25-year-old of Paleostinian origin who was born in Iraq and lived in refugee camps in Iraq and Jordan, was accepted into the United States in 2009. He earned his permanent residency two years later and, according to US law enforcement, in 2013 began communicating with another refugee in Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,, ...another young gentleman of the Palestinian persuasion who grew up in so called refugee camps in Iraq... discussing traveling to Syria to fight for the al-Nusra ...formally Jabhat an-Nusrah li-Ahli al-Sham (Support Front for the People of the Levant), also known as al-Qaeda in the Levant. They aim to establish a pan-Arab caliphate. Not the same one as the Islamic State, though .. ... h group. The next year, he discussed with an FBI informant his hopes of traveling to fight with 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.... group and a desire to be trained in making detonators for improvised bombs. He and the FBI informant also practiced shooting with an AK-47, and Hardan posted statements in support of ISIS online, according to the Justice Department. He was tossed in the calaboose ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... in January 2016 and charged with providing material support to ISIS. "Any person who provides material support to a foreign terrorist organization will be investigated and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law," said Acting US Attorney Abe Martinez. President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... has slashed by more than half the country's annual intake of refugees and placed restrictions on other immigrants colonists, saying it is a conduit for potential turbans to enter the United States. So it would seem. Separately, a former Washington-area transit police officer ...a thirteen year veteran at the time in question... who converted to Islam was convicted of trying to help ISIS. Nicholas Young, 37, had tried to help another man join up with ISIS, only to find that the other man was an undercover FBI informant. That happens quite a bit, oddly enough. Oddly, Young was also called a neo-Nazi by prosecutors, ...both are violently supremacist worldviews, but Islamofascism is more respectable nowadays, as well as more violent. Mr. Young (his nom de guerre was no doubt Abu Idiotullah al Amriki) is treading a path long ago made wide and smooth by real Nazis who found sanctuary in the Arab world... while his lawyers defended him as simply someone with quirky hobbies. Trying to get to Syria to murder and rape is a quirky hobby? The lawyer is definitely operating on the “throw it all up against the wall, and hope something sticks” philosophy. He faces up to 60 years in prison.

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D.C. Metro Transit Cop Charged with Trying to Aid ISIS

2016-08-03

A 13-year veteran of the police force charged with security of the Beltway's Metro system has been arrested on charges that he tried to assist ISIS. A fair, honest trial. Then a fair, honest hanging. The complaint details a years-long investigation into the cop as he remained employed with the transit police. Nicholas Young, 36, of Fairfax, Va., was taken into custody this morning at police headquarters and is scheduled to appear before a magistrate in the the Eastern District of Virginia this afternoon. According to the FBI, law enforcement first interviewed Young in September 2010 as an acquaintance of his, Zachary Chesser, had been arrested. Chesser, known for threatening the creators of the South Park series after they depicted a cartoon Muhammad, admitted that year to trying to aid Al-Shabaab. For a short time, the Charlottesville native worked as a caretaker at the Islamic Center of Northern Virginia in Fairfax. He's now incarcerated at the Supermax prison in Colorado. "Over the next several years, Young allegedly had numerous interactions with undercover law enforcement personnel and an FBI confidential human source (CHS) regarding his knowledge of and interest in terrorism-related activity. Many of these interactions were recorded," stated an FBI press release. "Law enforcement also interviewed Young’s family and co-workers. In 2011, Young met with an undercover law enforcement officer, and several of these meetings included another of Young’s acquaintances, Amine El Khalifi, who later pleaded guilty to charges relating to his plan to conduct a suicide bombing at the U.S. Capitol Building in 2012." The criminal complaint states that in March 2011 Young told an undercover officer that he "used to torture animals as a child" and "despised the FBI," musing that someone with his skills "could attack an FBI establishment." Somehow that information never made it to the Metro coppe shoppe? "Young said that firearms are not allowed to be brought into the federal courthouse in Alexandria, but described a method that Young could bring multiple guns into the courthouse undetected in order to distribute them to others inside." The affidavit filed with the criminal complaint alleges that Young traveled to Libya in 2011 with "military-style items" and in 2014 met with the FBI informant, who was posing "as a U.S. military reservist of Middle Eastern descent who wanted to travel overseas to join ISIL," about 20 times. That didn't make it to the coppe shoppe either... Young allegedly gave the informant tips on how to travel without raising suspicion from law enforcement and how to be discreet about his plans. The source pretended that he left the country to join ISIS, and further email communications between Young and the source were actually between Young and undercover FBI officials. The Metro transit cop allegedly sent an email in June 2015 asking how to sent money to ISIS "Unfortunately I have enough flags on my name that I can’t even buy a plane ticket without little alerts ending up in someone’s hands, so I imagine banking transactions are automatically monitored and will flag depending on what is going on," Young wrote. The FBI interviewed Young in December, pretending like they were trying to figure out the whereabouts of the informant. On July 28, Young sent $245 worth of mobile-messaging gift card codes to the FBI posing as the informant, allegedly writing: “Respond to verify receipt . . . may not answer depending on when as this device will be destroyed after all are sent to prevent the data being possibly seen on this end in the case of something unfortunate.” Young faces up to 20 years behind bars. It's the first time a law enforcement officer in the U.S. has been charged with terrorism. Won't be the last... His Fairfax neighborhood was blocked off with crime-scene tape today as police searched his townhome. Paul J. Wiedefeld, the general manager and CEO of D.C.'s Metro system, said in a statement that "since I received my first briefing on this matter, [Metro Transit Police] Chief [Ronald] Pavlik and I have worked hand-in-glove with the FBI in the interest of public safety and to ensure that this individual would be brought to justice."

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Red Cross neutrality jeopardised by US action in Iraq, British chief says

2004-12-15

The chief executive of the British Red Thingy Cross has warned that the international movement's neutrality is fast becoming a casualty of the global "war on terror". Sir Nicholas Young told the Guardian that the US-led coalition's defiance of international law in Iraq threatened to obliterate the capacity of the Red Thingy Cross and Red Moon-Shaped Thingy Crescent movement to operate in areas of conflict. In an interview in today's Society Guardian, he says: "The respect the Red Thingy Cross relied on, the sense that when we're wearing our emblem and doing our work we are protected, we are sacrosanct, is under threat. "We are able to work across the frontline for only as long as we are seen as neutral. The moment that sense of impartiality is lost, our mission is lost. "We might as well pack up and go home. We'll be seen as part of the war machine and we'll be unable to operate." I recall we at Rantburg have been making this very point to you for quite a while now. Driving through the streets of Baghdad in a clearly marked Red Thingy Cross vehicle last year, Sir Nicholas says, he was acutely aware that local people did not recognise the agency's neutrality. "I had a very strong sense that we were regarded as Saddam's collaborators the occupying powers," he says. "And this was something I hadn't felt before." He adds that the Red Thingy's Cross's mission was severely jeopardised when Colin Powell, the former US secretary of state, called humanitarian aid "an important part of our combat force" in Iraq. "The humanitarian space that we operate in has been narrowed; on one side by the sense that the white guys in the white Land Rover must be part of the coalition force because we seem to be doing the same kind of job as them; on the other by the sense that the non-state groups don't understand international humanitarian law, don't understand the role of NGOs in the region." Last month the US forces breached international law when they publicly snubbed the Iraqi Red Moon-Shaped Thingy Crescent by denying it access to Falluja after weeks of heavy bombardment. It was a "hugely significant" gesture, Sir Nicholas says. "It sets a dangerous precedent. The Red Thingy Cross had a mandate [under the Geneva convention] to meet the needs of the local population facing a huge crisis and, given their neutrality, they should have been allowed to meet those needs." The Moon-Shaped Thingy guys have a credibility problem. Something about ambulances in Paleostine. The International Federation of Red Thingy Cross and Red Moon-Shaped Thingy Crescent Societies incorporates national societies in more than 180 countries, with almost 300,000 staff. The worst prospect for the Red Thingy Cross is having to pull out of an increasing number of conflict zones round the world, Sir Nicholas says. "We pride ourselves on building a more civilised world, yet are we doing that if we allow this sense of help to people in vulnerable situations to just disappear? "It's an incredibly dangerous situation for the Red Thingy Cross Red Moon-Shaped Thingy Crescent to be in."

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