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Attorney: Muslim who plotted to plant nail bomb on Florida beach “not a terrorist”

Jul 29, 2015 7:28 am By Robert Spencer

Tunisia beach jihad attack“Suarez ‘may be a troubled and confused young man but he is certainly not a terrorist.'” He “comes from a very good, hard-working family,” you see, a family that “raised their son to love this country.” Meanwhile, the troubled and confused lad himself says: “American soil is the past, we will destroy America and divide it in two, we will rais(e) our black flag on top of your white house and any president on duty (cut head).”

An update on this story. “Attorney: Islamic State Sympathizer Is Not a Terrorist,” by Curt Anderson, Associated Press, July 29, 2015:

A man arrested by the FBI on charges of plotting as an Islamic State sympathizer to detonate a nail-filled bomb on a Florida beach is no extremist, his attorney says.

A criminal complaint unsealed Tuesday charges 23-year-old Harlem Suarez of Key West with attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction in the U.S. If convicted, he could face a maximum punishment of life in prison.

After Suarez made his first court appearance Tuesday in Miami, his temporary attorney, Richard Della Fera, said in an email that Suarez “may be a troubled and confused young man but he is certainly not a terrorist.”

“He comes from a very good, hard-working family that arrived here from Cuba in 2004 because they yearned for freedom. They raised their son to love this country,” Della Fera said.

Suarez is being held without bail pending a detention hearing next week.

Authorities say Suarez came to the FBI’s attention through his Facebook posts praising the Islamic State group and containing extremist rhetoric.

In April, Suarez allegedly posted, “Be a warrior, learn how to cut your enemies head and then burn down the body learn how to be the new future of the world Caliphate” — a reference the Islamic State goal of building a regional fundamentalist entity.

The FBI says he later added a request “from any brother. How to make a bomb send me a video or something, what do I need to make it.”

The complaint says Suarez told an FBI informant he wanted to make a timer bomb, bury it on a Key West beach and detonate it remotely. Suarez was arrested Monday after taking possession of an inert explosive device provided by an FBI informant. Suarez had given the informant some bomb supplies, including two boxes of galvanized nails, the backpack and a cellphone to be used as a detonator, according to the complaint.

“I can go to the beach at the night time, put the thing in the sand, cover it up, so the next day I just call and the thing is gonna, is gonna make, a real hard noise from nowhere,” Suarez told an FBI source in a recorded call, according to the complaint….

Among other things, the FBI says Suarez also sought to make an Islamic State recruitment video using a script he wrote himself. It eventually was made under FBI surveillance at a motel in Homestead, according to the complaint, with Suarez dressed in a black tactical vest, black shirt, mask and yellow-and-black scarf.

“American soil is the past, we will destroy America and divide it in two, we will rais(e) our black flag on top of your white house and any president on duty (cut head),” Suarez says in a script for the video.

The FBI says Suarez also ordered an AK-47 assault rifle on the Internet and intended to have it delivered to a Key West pawn shop. Although he could legally purchase the weapon, the FBI says, Suarez incorrectly filled out paperwork and it was returned to the seller….

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Filed Under: American jihadis, converts to Islam, Featured, Jihad in the U.S. Tagged With: Harlem Suarez, Richard Della Fera


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  1. duh_swami says

    Jul 29, 2015 at 8:59 am

    The boy is obviously not a terrorist…he came from a good home.
    It’s not unusual for boys from good homes to behead people, and burn down the bodies. Planting bombs on beaches in normal behavior for ‘good boys’…happens all the time. Most likely he was perfectly normal until he started listening to Rush, the ‘great deceiver’…Few realize that Rush and Marl Levin are the two most evil kuffar on the planet…deceiving many, while literally, ‘causing’ jihad…Limbaugh must be stopped. No beach will be safe as long as Rush and Mark are allowed to deceive good boys from good homes.

    • Karen says

      Jul 29, 2015 at 11:27 am

      Yes, the dear is just going through a phase.

  2. MoMeetsAisha says

    Jul 29, 2015 at 9:15 am

    Its getting so obvious the way the media and governments are trying to hide Jihad.

    In the UK a guy bought enough Ricin to kill 1400 people, on the dark web. The defence? might have mild Aspbergers syndrome, curiosity, a sociological experiment to see how far he could push the dark web?

    But Jihad… Noooooooo. It was a long time before the press revealed his name, and the case got scant coverage.

    http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/594428/Mohammed-Ammer-Ali-Dark-Web-Ol-Bailey-Ricin-Breaking-Bad-Liverpool-Chemical-Weapon-FBI

    Then we have the Graz, Austria jihadi who drove people over in a car then jumped out and stabbed some more (marriage problems)

    Then there was the guy in North London who beheaded a granny, then screamed Allahu Akbar at a police helicopter. No mention of the latter in most of the press, nor that he was a recent convert. Instead – ‘clearly had schizophrenia’.

    The list is endless…. how long do they expect the people to buy this BS?

    • EYESOPEN says

      Jul 29, 2015 at 9:52 pm

      Sounds like a “twinkie” defense to me…

  3. Jayke says

    Jul 29, 2015 at 9:44 am

    His also-known-as name is Almlak Benitez. We know why the media doesn’t like to use those AKA names.

  4. vlparker says

    Jul 29, 2015 at 10:22 am

    Poor confused guy.

  5. wildjew says

    Jul 29, 2015 at 10:55 am

    It seems like every day or every so many hours there is another arrest of a local jihadist. I listen to a fair amount of conservative talk radio. Hannity talks about this problem some. Levin talks about this problem some. Limbauagh rarely. Mostly there is silence day by day on regional talk radio even though I am here in Florida. These people are going to slaughter Americans one day yet there is virtual silence.

  6. wildjew says

    Jul 29, 2015 at 10:57 am

    There will be a mass-slaughter here one day and people will wonder, “What happened? Why weren’t we warned?”

  7. Voytek Gagalka says

    Jul 29, 2015 at 11:30 am

    Since his (defense) attorney must be Mohammedan as he himself (he would NEVER hire “infidel,” would he?), I am not surprised at all that he does not consider his client as “terrorist.” Doubtless, that attorney must be also big enthusiast and fan of Democrats who assure us that “terrorists” can be only Tea Party members, or Bible lovers, or any other opponents of their semi-god, Obama the First.

    • gravenimage says

      Jul 29, 2015 at 3:47 pm

      Actually, Jihadists hire Infidel lawyers all then time. While it *might* be a “revert” name, Della Fera probably is her name.

      Defense lawyers do occasionally defend completely innocent people, but much of the time they’re dealing with scumbags of one sort or another, and will say almost anything to make their clients look good (or at least less bad).

      This is especially appalling with violent Jihadists, but they just see it as more of the same.

  8. Angemon says

    Jul 29, 2015 at 11:58 am

    After Suarez made his first court appearance Tuesday in Miami, his temporary attorney, Richard Della Fera, said in an email that Suarez “may be a troubled and confused young man but he is certainly not a terrorist.”

    The reason he is not officially a terrorist but a wanna-be is because he was stopped prior to doing the deed. You can claim that he’s “troubled” or “confused”, but the truth is that he was focused on a goal and willing to plan and plot to achieve it. That’s what he should be judged on, what he did and tried to do, not on how hardworking, law-abiding or America-loving his family is.

    • RG says

      Jul 30, 2015 at 6:29 pm

      Our courts and justices have long had a problem figuring out what should and should not be relevant as evidence. So what the hell does his family situation have anything to do with anything? Jim Jones was a Christian minister (before he became Satan incarnate) and most people described his wife as a very compassionate and loving lady! SO WHAT!!!! THIS KID IS DEMENTED AND EVIL!!!! Let the facts speak for themselves!!!!

  9. Edward says

    Jul 29, 2015 at 12:41 pm

    A Jihadi Think Tank

    The Center for Muslim-Jewish Engagement (CMJE), that is housed at the very liberal University of Southern California LA, focus’ it’s attention to the Jihad movement and just by reading the Jihad content PDF one garners their thoughts that Jihad is a noble struggle for survival effort that is being considered by the Muslim majority and their collaborators, the American left!

    Home link: http://www.usc.edu/org/cmje/

    Here is an excerpt of the present take within the Muslim world that is causing great chaos:

    “Reading A Muslim Terrorist’s Mind:
    The Muslim terrorist mind- in my simple view- has been constantly possessed with tragic erroneousness in two areas: one is related to the past, and the other is related to the present.”

    “Erroneousness about the Past:
    The Religious Sources and History Such a mind is seriously erroneous about the true meaning of jihad in Islam. There is no distinction in such a mind between what was history and related to a certain time and place with all their distinctive circumstances, that can never be kept frozen and unchangeable, and the rules of which must be applied transiently in such given circumstances. Besides, there is serious erroneousness about what consists the permanent law “ Shari’a” which embodies the legal rules for Muslims in any time and place…….[ ]”

    Reference:
    http://www.usc.edu/org/cmje/articles/jihad-struggle.php
    or
    http://www.usc.edu/schools/college/crcc/private/cmje/pluralism_issues/Chapter_9_Jihad__RD.pdf

    In a way CMJE has some productive/providing thoughts for us to ponder on, but still they consider the Muslim’s the (las probre victimas) poor victims…..the usual liberal mantra! As always reminding us about the past inquisitions or the crusades. In contrast the Semites have suffered much more and we rarely hear about their personal inconvenience or their reparation demands.

    A side note: I wish that well versed academics on Arab/Muslim issues like Messrs. Robert Spencer or Raymond Ibrahim, et al, would critique the CMJE Jihad PDF more thoroughly for all of us who are very interested in knowing more about the current Middle East events compiled truths..

    ———————————————————————–

    Here’s some important info and advisory for Stan_InUSA says:

    Hey fella, the lab called saying the new brain for your transplant is ready for you!

    Please stop reading the 2015 Jihadi version (“we are the victims” present interpretation of their Jihad practice) propaganda or you are going to screw up your new brain transplant as well 🙁

  10. Michael Copeland says

    Jul 29, 2015 at 1:29 pm

    “Troubled and confused”? Maybe also “warped, twisted, and perverted”, one of those oh-so-many “misundertanders” who have got it all wrong, as Cameron knows.
    Islam is running to be the world’s worst-taught subject with the most hopeless students. We never hear about “misunderstanding” Buddhists, or Methodists.
    See what Cameron says:
    http://libertygb.org.uk/v1/index.php/news-libertygb/6828-a-perverse-warped-interpretation

    • Charli Main says

      Jul 29, 2015 at 2:43 pm

      Never heard of any Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists or Jews that have misunderstood their religion and gone off on a murder rampage against women and children.
      Seems that ONLY muslims consistently misunderstand their religion.

  11. gravenimage says

    Jul 29, 2015 at 3:12 pm

    Attorney: Muslim who plotted to plant nail bomb on Florida beach “not a terrorist”
    …………………

    Well, of course not! He just wanted to emulate an Islamic State Jihad terror attack on Infidel tourists in Tunisia, behead the American president, and raise the Black Flag of Jihad over the White House! What could any of that *possibly* have to do with terrorism? sarc/off

  12. Champ says

    Jul 29, 2015 at 5:10 pm

    Soooo sick of these lies …

    Here we have the usual smoke ‘n mirrors campaign, presented by another enabler-for-evil-islam, to cover for this would-be **TERRORIST** …otherwise known as LYING, but smoke ‘n mirrors offers a certain something, don’t you think?

    C’mon no one’s falling for these ridiculous lies anymore! Not unless you have shit for brains and then I don’t know what to say …

  13. Uncle Vladdi says

    Jul 30, 2015 at 6:14 pm

    There’s a difference between raising valid doubts, and outright blatant lying (perjury).

  14. RG says

    Jul 30, 2015 at 6:20 pm

    Someone please correct me if I’m wrong, but aren’t most of these pathetic defense attorneys being funded by US tax dollars??? OMG! OMG!!!

  15. Bc says

    Jul 31, 2015 at 3:30 am

    Planning to murder innocent people indiscriminately is the very definition of terrorism. Defence lawyers will say anything no matter how outlandish to try to defend their clients.

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