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North Carolina: Two Muslims face charges for planning to go to Syria and Yemen to wage jihad

Mar 20, 2014 8:42 pm By Robert Spencer

Akbar Jihad JordanThe names Akbar Jihad Jordan and Avin Marsalis Brown sound as if they are converts to Islam. And so here again the same question arises: where did these newcomers to the vaunted Religion of Peace get the crazy idea that jihad had something to do with waging war against unbelievers? Were they involved with a mosque in Raleigh? Does anyone know? Does anyone care? Or would caring about such questions be “Islamophobic”?

“Wake terrorism investigation built over weeks,” from WRAL.com, March 20:

Raleigh, N.C. — Planes linked to a company with FBI connections circled a north Raleigh neighborhood for weeks before a Wednesday raid that resulted in terrorism charges against two men.

Authorities said in court documents that Akbar Jihad Jordan and Avin Marsalis Brown planned to travel to Syria and Yemen to fight for Islam. Federal law prohibits conspiring to kill or maim people outside the U.S.

FBI agents seized several weapons, including an AK-47 rifle and a sword, along with ammunition from the apartment off Gresham Lake Road that Jordan, 21, shared with his mother.

Airplanes equipped with electronic monitoring equipment have been circling the area where Jordan lives for about a month, flying the same path for up to eight hours a day.

WRAL Investigates tracked the planes’ registrations to a company known to have ties to the FBI. Airplanes belonging to the company and its known affiliates were also spotted in Boston in the days following the marathon bombing last April.

Radar records for every plane connected to or owned by the companies with FBI connections were searched, and two clearly showed a circular flight path. It’s unclear whether those flights are connected to ongoing investigations.

FBI agents moved on the alleged conspiracy involving Jordan and Brown this week because Brown, 21, was about to leave the country, court records show.

Brown was arrested Wednesday at Raleigh-Durham International Airport, and he told investigators that he planned to fly to Turkey and then travel to Syria, according to court records. He made his first court appearance Thursday morning.

One person was taken into custody during the north Raleigh raid, but it’s unclear whether it was Jordan.

A motion filed in federal court noted that Jordan, who is listed as Akba Jordan, is in a hospital, but it’s unclear what he’s being treated for and which hospital is treating him.

Confidential informants told the FBI that Brown and Jordan, a 2011 Millbrook High School graduate, began talking last May about going overseas to engage in jihad. Jordan “functioned as a type of physical fitness, firearms and tactics instructor to Brown” and often displayed a cache of weapons and ammunition in his apartment, records state.

Jordan even stated at one point that he slept on his kitchen floor with an AK-47 and a Quran to empathize with Muslims in Syria.

The pair planned to use a charity as a cover for their travels, saying the government would have a hard time making a terrorism case against them if they argued they were on a charitable mission overseas, according to court records.

WRAL Investigates discovered that Jordan visited at least two Facebook pages about humanitarian work in Syria, asking how difficult it would be to travel there.

The case is similar to that of Basit Javed Sheikh, a Cary man accused of planning to fight in Syria for a group linked to al-Qaida. The FBI arrested him at RDU in November after he told people he wanted to be a martyr for Islam.

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  1. Stephen Poole says

    Mar 20, 2014 at 8:51 pm

    … You see folks, this is what we (… The West …) do … We protect ourselves from Death with all o’ the means @ our disposal … … It was Ever thus … Just sayin’ … SP OX …

    • Jan says

      Mar 21, 2014 at 3:50 pm

      Your stupid, irrelevant, boring, pointless and consistently off topic posts *say* absolutely nothing of any interest to anyone with a functioning brain.

      Go and troll somewhere else.

  2. Veracious_one says

    Mar 20, 2014 at 9:18 pm

    Jordan even stated at one point that he slept on his kitchen floor with an AK-47 and a Quran to empathize with Muslims in Syria.

    probably dreamed of slaughtering Christians and other Muslims deemed to be insufficiently Muslim enough….

  3. enwhitenment says

    Mar 20, 2014 at 9:19 pm

    I trust the mother is in chains as well ?
    Of course all this began in a mosque because that is what mosques are for.
    That is why disbelievers may not enter
    Because you would be horrified to learn just what they are teaching.
    In fact it is unbelievable what they teach

  4. Bezelel says

    Mar 20, 2014 at 11:17 pm

    I can’t help thinking they should give these guys ONE WAY tickets to their war of choice, with no return here ever. It’s absurd how the Boston bombers were able to go back and forth to get training to use against us.

  5. Salah says

    Mar 20, 2014 at 11:53 pm

    “The FBI arrested him at RDU in November after he told people he wanted to be a martyr for Islam.”

    Only the gullible wants to be a martyr for Islam. How come we never hear Imams, Ayatollahs or Muftis rushing towards “martyrdom”?

    Muslim leaders are cowards, just like their “prophet”.

    http://crossmuslims.blogspot.com/2011/03/muhammad-coward.html

  6. CaoMoo says

    Mar 21, 2014 at 9:08 am

    Let him go to Syria just don’t let him come back it’s a simple solution where everyone wins. doubly so if he eats a bullet over there. Now people have to pay to support him in jail.

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