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Muslim from Chicago arrested at O’Hare Airport, was trying to join the Islamic State

Oct 6, 2014 2:06 pm By Robert Spencer

Islamic State of Iraq and the LevantThe idea of the caliphate holds tremendous appeal for Muslims around the world, including Muslims in the West. This is why Muslims from the U.S., the U.K., Canada and Europe are traveling to Syria and Iraq to join the Islamic State, despite the condemnations of it by Muslim leaders in the West.

“Feds: Illinois man wanted to join Islamic State,” Associated Press, October 6, 2014 (thanks to D. C. “All Who Sent This In” Watson):

CHICAGO (AP) — Federal prosecutors on Monday charged a suburban Chicago man with trying to travel overseas to join the Islamic State group.

Members of the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force arrested Mohammed Hamzah Khan, a 19-year-old U.S. citizen from Bolingbrook, on Saturday evening at O’Hare International Airport, prosecutors said. Khan is charged with attempting to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization, and a federal judge has ordered him held until a detention hearing Thursday.

According to prosecutors, Khan was trying to fly to Istanbul, Turkey, by way of Vienna, Austria, when law enforcement saw him go through security at O’Hare’s international terminal. Agents then executed a search warrant at Khan’s residence and found documents expressing support for the Islamic State group.

According to the criminal complaint, one page in a notebook had a drawing of what appeared to be an armed fighter with an Islamic State group flag and the words “Come to Jihad” written in Arabic.

FBI agents questioned Khan at the airport. On Monday, the slight, bearded Khan appeared in a federal court in orange jail clothes as he spoke with his attorney before the hearing started in his case.

There are about 12 Americans believed to be fighting in Syria right now, FBI Director James Comey said Thursday. There are more than 100 Americans who have either tried to go to Syria and were arrested, or went and came back to the U.S., Comey said without offering more details.

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  1. tpellow says

    Oct 6, 2014 at 2:28 pm

    “For Western jihadists, path to ISIS runs through Turkey.”

    http://www.foxnews.com/world/2014/10/06/for-western-jihadists-path-to-isis-runs-through-turkey/?

  2. Peter Buckley says

    Oct 6, 2014 at 2:40 pm

    Let him go and be a martyr……..

    • mike says

      Oct 6, 2014 at 2:58 pm

      And let him get away with potentially murder innocent people? In my opinion any American proven to have fought for ISIS should be executed.

  3. mariam rove says

    Oct 6, 2014 at 3:06 pm

    what a surprise!! Like Erdogan is not a jihadist himself. M

  4. mortimer says

    Oct 6, 2014 at 3:09 pm

    65% of Muslims want a caliphate. This is the majority of Muslims…not a ‘tiny minority’.

  5. c matt says

    Oct 6, 2014 at 3:29 pm

    I thought Obama said no American boots on the ground?…Oh, wait.

  6. PRCS says

    Oct 6, 2014 at 3:43 pm

    “”FIRST and FOREMOST, PLEASE MAKE SURE NOT TO TELL THE AUTHORITIES.””

  7. Cherianne says

    Oct 6, 2014 at 9:52 pm

    I say…let him go but explain his citizenship in the US is revoked the second he gets on the plane and he will never be allowed on US soil again.

  8. gravenimage says

    Oct 7, 2014 at 10:20 pm

    The idea of the caliphate holds tremendous appeal for Muslims around the world, including Muslims in the West. This is why Muslims from the U.S., the U.K., Canada and Europe are traveling to Syria and Iraq to join the Islamic State…
    …………………………

    All of this is true.

    And just look what Muslims consider the ideal state: a place that forces Infidels into sex slavery, that “marries” off 9-year-old girls, that stones women to death, that commits genocide, that beheads journalists and aid workers—*this* is the Muslim ideal of the Caliphate. *Ugh*.

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