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Florida: Muslim gets 40 years prison for planning jihad mass murder attacks in Tampa

Nov 8, 2014 8:53 am By Robert Spencer

Sami-Osmakac3“We still believe in his innocence. We still believe this crime was initiated by the government. The government provided the money on the front end, the explosives on the back end, and it was a totally manufactured crime.” What would it take to get you to plot “to kill hundreds of people by targeting several densely populated areas”? Would you do it for love or money? One thing these people who claim entrapment in jihad cases never explain is why the poor victim was capable of being entrapped. What did Sami Osmakac believe that made him susceptible to this wicked FBI plot?

“Sami Osmakac gets 40 years in prison for plotting terrorist attacks in Tampa,” by Anna M. Phillips, Tampa Bay Times, November 5, 2014 (thanks to Larry):

TAMPA — Sami Osmakac, the Kosovo-born man who threatened to stage a series of terrorist attacks in Tampa, was sentenced Wednesday to 40 years in prison.

Convicted in June of possessing an unregistered AK-47 and attempting to use weapons of mass destruction — a reference to the car bomb, six grenades and suicide vest he planned to use — Osmakac faced the possibility of spending the rest of his life in prison. But federal prosecutors did not aim for the harshest sentence. Rather, they asked for and received from Judge Mary S. Scriven a lengthy prison term, followed by a lifetime of probation. Under this sentence, Osmakac, a 27-year-old Pinellas Park resident, will not emerge from a prison cell until he’s in his 60s.

Federal prosecutors had accused Osmakac, an American Muslim who held extreme views on Islam, of plotting to kill hundreds of people by targeting several densely populated areas in Tampa. His plans, which never came to fruition, included bombing a South Tampa pub and then traveling to another location where he would detonate a suicide vest packed with explosives. Recorded in a series of incriminating conversations with an undercover FBI agent, he railed against Muslims who refused to join his crusade and expressed hope that he would wake up in heaven.

Osmakac’s attorneys, George and Peter Tragos, argued that he deserved, at most, 20 years — a sentence in keeping with other U.S. terrorism cases. Seated at the defense table, Osmakac looked gaunt; he has not been eating, a psychologist testified. He declined to address the judge.

Throughout Osmakac’s trial, the defense team argued that their client was mentally ill and had been steered toward radical and violent ideas by FBI agents and a confidential informer whose identity and motive were never revealed. Moreover, Osmakac was essentially broke and would have been unable to buy weapons if the FBI had not given money to the informer, who then gave it to Osmakac, they said.

The weapons he bought were also provided by the FBI. And in the ultimate sign of the agency’s regard for Osmakac’s know-how, the car bomb came with instructions telling him how to detonate it.

“We still believe in his innocence,” George Tragos said following the sentencing. “We still believe this crime was initiated by the government. The government provided the money on the front end, the explosives on the back end, and it was a totally manufactured crime.”

Calling Osmakac “particularly dangerous,” prosecutor Sara Sweeney dismissed the claim that the government had entrapped him. “The defendant’s intent here was so strong and so corroborated,” she said….

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  1. KrazyKafir says

    Nov 8, 2014 at 10:50 am

    The people who make excuses for this soldier of the Allah/Satan are either soldiers themselves, or hate America equally, but for different reasons.

    • Alissa says

      Nov 8, 2014 at 2:22 pm

      I hope they keep him in isolation and unable to infect other inmates with his satanic doctrine.

  2. saturnine says

    Nov 8, 2014 at 11:52 am

    “… he railed against Muslims who refused to join his crusade …”

    Somehow I doubt he used the term crusade.

  3. Eunice Cary says

    Nov 8, 2014 at 12:26 pm

    Why wasn’t he sentenced to execution? Why does the public have to support him for 40 years, when he wanted to murder the public? The 40 year sentence punishes the public, who have to pay to keep this bastard alive.

  4. livingengine says

    Nov 8, 2014 at 2:06 pm

    Thanks to Maxwell “Super Max” Hoffman!

  5. livingengine says

    Nov 8, 2014 at 2:19 pm

    Sami Osmakac Goes Nuts Attacking Americans in Florida https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRvCL6-Z3Lg

  6. Darren says

    Nov 8, 2014 at 2:34 pm

    What if he gets out at 60 full of righteous anger and wants revenge besides waking up with 72 kindergarten girls in his pedophile paradise? This sub human should be given life without parole. He made his intentions known he wants to kill innocent people in cold blood in the name of jihad and islam. Why give this sub human another chance to do just that? Jihadists just like pedophiles can’t be reformed.

  7. Dan says

    Nov 8, 2014 at 2:54 pm

    All he had to do was go to the cops and say, “Hey. These nut jobs want to sell me a bunch of bombs.”

    Then the law would probably have left him alone as “Just talk” because, let’s see, talk is protected under the 1st Amendment.

  8. Arthur says

    Nov 8, 2014 at 7:48 pm

    Maybe next time the FBI undercover agents should first recommend a practice run with the suicide vest in an isolated area? Seems like a win-win solution to me.

  9. Nicu says

    Nov 9, 2014 at 1:22 pm

    Great !

    In Germany he would get probation and a new flat probably paid by the tax – payers 🙁

  10. Ruslan Tokhchukov, EnragedSince1999 says

    Nov 10, 2014 at 7:03 pm

    Yet another “thank-you” from a Kosovar Muslim for Bil Clinton’s bombing of Serbia to make the rabidly eacist, sadistic, genocidal Kosovar Albanian KLA terrorists the rulers of Kosovo. Others:
    – Dritan and Eljvir Duka, the Kosovar Albanians who led the Fort Dix plot to cut down hundreds of American GI’s with automatic fire. Ironically, it was in Ft. Dix where the Clinton administration sociopaths staged the pompous ceremony of welcoming Kosovar Albanian “refugees”. congratulating themselves on bombing and destroying Serbia for the Kosovar Albanians;
    = Arid Uka who shot 2 USAF servicemen dead in 2011. His pistol jammed, this is why he could not shoot the entire busload of them in that Frankfurt airport. Ironically, ISAF is the same branch of the US military who bombed Serb Christians and burned them and their children alive for the Kosovar Albanian Muslims.

    Ruslan Tokhchukov, EnragedSince1999.

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