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Florida convert to Islam gets 20 years; made videos on how to build “homemade weapons of mass destruction”

Jan 16, 2015 11:21 am By Robert Spencer

Yet another convert to Islam misunderstands his new religion as somehow obliging him to commit treason and strive to kill and destroy. Where are the programs in U.S. mosques to teach against this sort of thing? “Video shows ‘would-be’ Jacksonville terrorist making bombs,” by Travis Gibson, First Coast News, January 14, 2015:

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — A Jacksonville man who made video tutorials on how to construct homemade bombs and attempted to join extremist groups in Yemen was sentenced to 20 years in federal prison for supporting terrorists Wednesday.

Shelton Thomas Bell, 21, will also receive a lifetime of supervision following his conviction for conspiring and attempting to provide material support to terrorists. Bell pleaded guilty on March 19, 2014.

The State Attorney’s Office released a series of videos and photos that it obtained as part of its investigation. In the videos, Bell, a former student at Englewood High School can been seen making bombs, burning an American flag, and firing guns during target practice in the Florida woods…all with the goal of recruiting others to fight with him in the Middle East.

“This is bomb making 101. Homemade weapons of mass destruction,” Bell says in a video where he constructs a small pipe-bomb.

According to court documents, Bell conspired to train and prepare as a combatant for overseas violent jihad for two months in 2012. He then planned to travel from Jacksonville to the Middle East to provide skills to terrorists. Once overseas, the plan included receiving further training and deadly weapons from Ansar al-Sharia.

More from the State Attorney’s Office:

In May 2012, Bell recruited a juvenile for the purpose of engaging in violent jihad and inspired him with the teachings of an Al Qaida spokesperson, Anwar al-Awlaki. Bell suggested traveling to Yemen to fight because of al-Awlaki’s teachings – that all young people should travel to Yemen to “take up the fight.” Bell and the juvenile subsequently agreed to travel to Israel and then make Hajj. As part of the plan, the conspirators told others, including their parents, that they were traveling overseas to make Hajj, to study, and to get an education. By July 2012, the conspirators began taking actions to train for their unlawful activities by conducting mental training that included watching al-Awlaki videos and looking at images of dead Muslims.

Bell also conducted a late-night “jihadi training mission” that involved the destruction of religious statues cemetery located in Jacksonville, according to the State Attorney. He also recorded himself at shooting at an homemade firing range and impromptu battlefield lessons intended for recording and uploading to the Internet, to be used in the recruitment of others in the “the actions of jihad.”

Ultimately, Bell and the juvenile were deported from Jordan to the United States in 2012 after they flew from Jacksonville in an attempt to join Ansar al-Sharia, an Islamist militia group that advocates implementing strict Sharia law, in Yemen. The group has taken responsibility for attacks on Yemen forces, including a suicide bombing during a parade in May 2012. That attack killed more than 100 Yemen soldiers….

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Filed Under: American jihadis, converts to Islam, Featured, Jihad in the U.S. Tagged With: Shelton Thomas Bell


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  1. Andrew GB says

    Jan 16, 2015 at 11:30 am

    FFS it would be laughable if it wasn’t so serious.

    Thank god he’s a jihadist and not a peaceful muslim!

  2. Ashley says

    Jan 16, 2015 at 11:42 am

    “In May 2012, Bell recruited a juvenile for the purpose of engaging in violent jihad and inspired him with the teachings of an Al Qaida spokesperson, Anwar al-Awlaki.
    __________________

    Um…where the hell is this “juvenile”? Hopefully not loose on the streets…

    • Oliver says

      Jan 17, 2015 at 8:32 pm

      More important:

      Where the hell are their (both this 21 year old psycho’s and the juvies) parents?

      Letting a juvenile travel- with (2012-so probably 19) year old to the Middle East to study?

      And make Hajj?

      The parents are probably (of both- but especially the juvenile) are probably brain dead. (AKA Democrats; aka Progressives, aka total assholes)

  3. Jay Boo says

    Jan 16, 2015 at 11:53 am

    Maybe this was who Obama was referring to
    THEY CLING TO GUNS OR RELIGION

    “[ …. Obama was explaining his difficulty with winning over working-class voters in Pennsylvania and the Midwest, saying they have become frustrated with economic conditions:
    “And it’s not surprising then that they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations,” Obama said.]”
    Reference at http://www.christianitytoday

  4. Alarmed Pig Farmer says

    Jan 16, 2015 at 12:11 pm

    Home bomb making 101… I do indeed like it, very much.

    These are good times to be a mujahidin. People cried racist and Islamophobe when it was brought up that Barack Hussein attended madrasas in Jakarta and chose two globo-socialism terrorists as his political mentors, but here we are seeing the mujahidin enjoy latitude and even some respect when deemed “war” allies or even negotiating partners .

    Bell will do may half of his time, and enjoy the Holy Ko-Ran and occasional hidden pearl action while in the joint. When he gets out as a parolee, he’ll be a factor once again, a solider in the Cause. Because.

  5. Lamont Cranston says

    Jan 16, 2015 at 12:13 pm

    STOP THE PRESSES! Jihadist builds small bomb using thousand year old technology that is available everywhere,including the U.S. government printing office.

  6. duh_swami says

    Jan 16, 2015 at 12:36 pm

    A 21 year old convert, not smart enough to not get caught…Allah really knows how to pick them…

  7. mortimer says

    Jan 16, 2015 at 1:27 pm

    Guantanamo is needed more than ever for such incorrigibles. The government will get nowhere with Islamic terror until it admits it is normative Islam and begins the process of deprogramming Muslims in detention.

  8. katnis says

    Jan 16, 2015 at 2:02 pm

    I see a healthy young man, who was educated on tax money, who used roads built on taxpayer tax money, who remained healthy on tax payer tax money, who is now turning against the tax payers who gave him a good life in the first place. He will now go to jail and will continue to be supported by tax payer tax money. I’m disgusted.

    islam is the cancer of western civilization.

  9. Angemon says

    Jan 16, 2015 at 3:01 pm

    Shelton Thomas Bell, 21,

    I doubt that’s what he call himself…

    will also receive a lifetime of supervision following his conviction for conspiring and attempting to provide material support to terrorists.

    You mean he’ll get to engage in financial jihad even if he sits with his thumbs up his ass until the end of his days (which, hopefully, are just a blunder away).

  10. Stephen Rohaty says

    Jan 17, 2015 at 8:59 am

    This idiot has no idea that friction or static electricity can set off his black power. Let him continue in his ignorance. His stupidity is sure to martyr him.

  11. Christopher Farrell says

    Jan 17, 2015 at 7:31 pm

    http://ppsimmons.blogspot.com/2015/01/liberal-fascists-and-islamo-fascists.html

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