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California: Two Muslims get 25 years for jihad plot

Feb 23, 2015 9:38 pm By Robert Spencer

Gojali Kabir Deleon Santana“‘This case demonstrates the need for vigilance and swift action to counter the false allure of violent extremism,’ U.S. Attorney Stephanie Yonekura said in a statement.” That allure will continue, however, since American authorities are determined to ignore and deny what makes it so alluring in the first place, rather than be honest about it and try to formulate realistic strategies to counter it.

“Two men sentenced to 25 years in plot to attack Americans in Afghanistan,” Reuters, February 23, 2015 (thanks to James):

(Reuters) – Two men convicted of seeking to join al Qaeda and training to carry out attacks on Americans in Afghanistan were sentenced on Monday to 25 years in federal prison, the U.S. Justice Department said.

U.S. District Judge Virginia Phillips sentenced Sohiel Omar Kabir, 37, and Ralph Deleon, 26, who prosecutors said trained at firearms and paintball facilities in Southern California to prepare for their mission.

The two were found guilty in federal court in September of conspiring to provide material support to terrorists and conspiring to murder U.S. military and government personnel.

Deleon was also convicted of conspiracy to commit murder, kidnapping or maiming overseas.

Prosecutors said trial evidence showed that Kabir introduced Deleon and another defendant, Miguel Alejandro Santana Vidriales, to militant Islamist theology in 2010 and, after traveling to Afghanistan in 2012, encouraged them to follow him there to join al Qaeda.

Later that year, Deleon and Santana recruited a fourth defendant, Arifeen David Gojali, to join them overseas to commit violent jihad, according to prosecutors….

“This case demonstrates the need for vigilance and swift action to counter the false allure of violent extremism,” U.S. Attorney Stephanie Yonekura said in a statement.

The Justice Department said the men were heavily influenced by Anwar al-Awlaki, a U.S.-born spokesman for al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula who was killed in a CIA drone strike in 2011.

Kabir, who was born in Afghanistan, is a naturalized U.S. citizen. Deleon is a Philippines citizen.

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Filed Under: Afghanistan, American jihadis, converts to Islam, United States Tagged With: Ralph Deleon, Sohiel Omar Kabir


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  1. LOL says

    Feb 23, 2015 at 9:45 pm

    Maybe they can get their 72 virgins in Cal State Pen?

    • mortimer says

      Feb 24, 2015 at 8:45 am

      derby wrote “Soon every prison/jail or gaol will be full of them…” (i.e. full of jihadists)

      Indeed. They will need to be segregated from other prisoners and quarantined. That’s why a Devil’s Island for jihadists is required where they may spend the rest of their lives quarantined from society and especially from other convicts.

      • MIke Reed says

        Feb 24, 2015 at 10:54 am

        Cesspool of infection contaminates other thugs. No solution in California prisons. We got a big problem because of denial and rationalization, liberal judges.

        More “kickin’ the can down the road-let the next guy worry ’bout it; I am outta here when I retire.”

    • M S case says

      Feb 24, 2015 at 8:10 pm

      Great good God in heaven!!!! Only 2… Mercy……….Oh this is California Now I know the rest of the story.

      Wake up get out there start investigating check out the mosques send undercover people use listening post. Get busy before it is too late

  2. Jay Boo says

    Feb 23, 2015 at 10:32 pm

    Were they all born with the disease Islam or were some of them converts?
    Why do people convert to Islam?.. Part 1 of 2

    • mortimer says

      Feb 24, 2015 at 8:53 am

      Converts to Islam suspend their critical thought. About 75% leave within 2 years after discovering jihad and Arab racial discrimination.

  3. Nicu says

    Feb 23, 2015 at 10:37 pm

    Well done , USA !

    Not like these idiots here in Europe – who are scared to sentence them !

  4. pumbar says

    Feb 23, 2015 at 10:48 pm

    They just wanted to rename the state Caliph-ornia in honour of Al-Baghdadi.

  5. katnis says

    Feb 24, 2015 at 3:21 am

    We don’t have enough room in prison as it is. Where are we going to put these people, knowing that we are going to continue to catch them?

  6. Angemon says

    Feb 24, 2015 at 7:15 am

    Should have been 25 to life…

  7. Mirren10 says

    Feb 24, 2015 at 8:12 am

    ”Kabir, who was born in Afghanistan, is a naturalized U.S. citizen. Deleon is a Philippines citizen.”

    Deleon at least can be deported back to the Philippines ! Why should American taxpayers have to pay for *him* ?

  8. mortimer says

    Feb 24, 2015 at 8:26 am

    The sentence are after-the-fact and therefore, do nothing to prevent subsequent jihad-seekers.

    The allure of 72 virgins and the endless luxuries of the Islamic playboy palaces in the sky will be more influential than 25 years in penitentiary.

    The only way to stop jihad is to debunk Islam per se.

  9. mortimer says

    Feb 24, 2015 at 8:34 am

    Anyone reading Anwar Awlaki’s sermons and actually BELIEVING them is so imbued with DELUSIONAL ideation and magical thinking that they are VIRTUAL ZOMBIES.

    This is the effect of Islam: the brainwashing and hypnosis of jihad is similar to a lethal form of schizophrenia. Muslims under the influence of jihad are in a deathly, eyes-open dream state.

    • TNT says

      Feb 26, 2015 at 6:28 am

      Talk about zombies , look into Sufi Islam, it’s creepy.

  10. mortimer says

    Feb 24, 2015 at 8:48 am

    The death penalty is not an option and will be resisted by every religious body. They must be deprogrammed one by one from Islam. Governments have a duty to do it.

    Islam is a form of self-induced mental illness or delusional-obsessive ideation.

    • TNT says

      Feb 26, 2015 at 6:25 am

      Yup one the prophet dreamed up with the aid of the devil to kill human beings.

  11. Ed says

    Feb 24, 2015 at 8:56 am

    It is a freaking war.
    Now we taxpayers have to room and board these terrorists while they get to recruit more terrorists in jail.
    I am afraid that we are losing this war.

  12. TNT says

    Feb 26, 2015 at 6:23 am

    They need a new island far away to throw them there for life, that way they can’t get back, maybe another planet be even better. That way they can’t return and pick where they left off.

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