“I believe that we should just wage jihad under our own orders and plan attacks and everything. I believe we should meet up and make our own group in alliance with the Islamic State here and plan operations ourselves.” There will be many other young Muslims acting on the same belief.
“Ohio Man Arrested for Alleged ISIS-Inspired Plot on US Capitol, FBI Says,” by Pierre Thomas, Jack Date, Mike Levine and Jack Cloherty, ABC News, January 14, 2015 (thanks to Anne Crockett):
The FBI has arrested an Ohio man for allegedly plotting an ISIS-inspired attack on the U.S. Capitol, where he hoped to set off a series of bombs aimed at lawmakers, whom he allegedly considered enemies.
Christopher Lee Cornell, 20, of Green Township, was arrested today on charges of attempting to kill a U.S. government official, authorities said.
According to government documents, he allegedly planned to detonate pipe bombs at the national landmark and open fire on any employees and officials fleeing after the explosions.
The FBI first noticed Cornell several months ago after an informant notified the agency that Cornell was allegedly voicing support for violent “jihad” on Twitter accounts under the alias “Raheel Mahrus Ubaydah,” according to charging documents. In addition, Cornell allegedly posted statements, videos and other content expressing support for ISIS — the brutal terrorist group also known as ISIL — that is wreaking havoc in Iraq and Syria.
“I believe that we should just wage jihad under our own orders and plan attacks and everything,” Cornell allegedly wrote in an online message to the informant in August, according to the FBI. “I believe we should meet up and make our own group in alliance with the Islamic State here and plan operations ourselves.”
In the message, Cornell said that such attacks “already got a thumbs up” from radical cleric Anwar Awlaki “before his martyrdom.”Awlaki was killed in a U.S. drone strike in 2011, but his online messages calling for attacks on the West live on.
U.S. officials considered Awlaki an operational leader within al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, the Yemen-based terror group tied to the deadly assault on a satirical magazine in Paris last week.
Cornell and the informant met in Cincinnati over two days in October, and then another two days in November. During the last meeting, Cornell told an FBI informant that members of Congress were enemies and that he wanted to launch an attack on the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., according to charging documents.
Cornell then allegedly saved money to finance the attack and researched how to build bombs, the FBI said.
Earlier today, while also taking “final steps” to travel to Washington for the attack, Cornell allegedly bought two semi-automatic rifles and 600 rounds of ammunition from a store in Ohio, authorities said….
Ross says
Kudos to the FBI and the informant. It’s time to clean up the mess we have ignored for so long.
Angemon says
Angemon says
Ups, messed up the quotes. First paragraph is a quote from th article, second paragraph is my comment.
Emmm says
Of all the places it could have started, it has to be my home state. 🙁 Not feeling too safe right now.
Bezelel says
http://www.wnd.com/2015/01/22-terror-camps-verified-inside-u-s/
There is a map in this article. I don’t see Ohio marked wit one but keeping up with the Jones’s means sooner or later your state can have it’s own Gaza. Isn’t that special?
katnis says
This isn’t the first time we’ve seen reports coming out of Ohio. The Columbus airport had an incident about two weeks ago. It’s really sad. Our beautiful midwestern state. It’s hard to believe, isn’t it?
Keep the muslims out of Ohio, and keep them out of the US!!!!!!
pumbar says
What? And do without all the “cultural enrichment”? ™
11B40 says
Greetings:
It seems that your observation of the media not stating the Islamic names of converts is holding up well.
Lesley says
On the bright side… the article does state that the young militant saved up a pretty penny for his weapons, which is no easy feat in this economy…
Had he been able to execute his dastardly plan, I could see the Obama administration spinning that as a sign of economic improvement…
bento says
Islam is not a religion as the others, Islam is a totalitarian political ideology and must change or destroyed….as was nazism and comunism….
Elton Braun says
Actually, no articles on this story that I’ve seen have said that this guy was actually a Muslim. Maybe he forgot about that part or just hadn’t got around to it yet. Interesting though how it seems these kids who grow up in western countries in normal families who feel the urge to kill someone convert to Islam so they have an excuse and justification to go act their fantasy out. Nowhere else would they find approval.