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New York: Propagandist for lone wolf jihad attacks gets 22 years

Aug 12, 2015 7:05 pm By Robert Spencer

Lawal-Olaniyi-Babafemi-Bella-Naija“AQAP leaders trained Babafemi in the use of weapons, including AK-47 assault rifles, and taught him the importance of AQAP’s English-language media operations to its mission of inspiring “lone-wolf” style attacks abroad in the name of AQAP. Babafemi assisted in AQAP’s English-language media operations, which include the publication of the online Inspire Magazine, and worked closely with Samir Khan, the founder of Inspire and a U.S. citizen. Babafemi’s photograph, alongside Khan and other AQAP members, each holding an AK-47, was published in Issue 5 of Inspire; he also wrote rap lyrics on behalf of the group, hoping to extend its appeal to young Westerners.” We might be experiencing the repercussions of Babafemi’s work for a long time to come.

“Terrorist Sentenced to 22 Years for Providing Material Support to al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula,” U.S. Department of Justice, August 12, 2015:

WASHINGTON—Lawal Olaniyi Babafemi, 35, a Nigerian citizen, was sentenced today to 22 years in prison for conspiring to provide and providing material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization, al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP). The sentence was imposed by the U.S. District Judge John Gleeson of the Eastern District of New York.

Assistant Attorney General for National Security John P. Carlin, Acting U.S. Attorney Kelly T. Currie of the Eastern District of New York, Assistant Director in Charge Diego G. Rodriguez of the FBI New York Field Office and Commissioner William J. Bratton of the New York City Police Department (NYPD) made the announcement.

Babafemi pleaded guilty to providing and conspiring to provide material support to AQAP on April 29, 2014. According to previous court filings, between approximately January 2010 and August 2011, the defendant traveled twice from Nigeria to Yemen to meet and train with leaders of AQAP, the Yemen-based branch of al-Qaeda that has been linked to a number of plots targeting the U.S. homeland over the past decade. AQAP leaders trained Babafemi in the use of weapons, including AK-47 assault rifles, and taught him the importance of AQAP’s English-language media operations to its mission of inspiring “lone-wolf” style attacks abroad in the name of AQAP. Babafemi assisted in AQAP’s English-language media operations, which include the publication of the online Inspire Magazine, and worked closely with Samir Khan, the founder of Inspire and a U.S. citizen. Babafemi’s photograph, alongside Khan and other AQAP members, each holding an AK-47, was published in Issue 5 of Inspire; he also wrote rap lyrics on behalf of the group, hoping to extend its appeal to young Westerners. At the direction of the now-deceased senior AQAP leader Anwar al-Aulaqi, AQAP provided Babafemi with the equivalent of almost $9,000 in cash to recruit other English-speakers from Nigeria to join the terrorist organization. Babafemi attempted to recruit other Nigerians to join AQAP, but was arrested before he could complete that mission and conduct further activities on behalf of the organization.

“With this sentence, Lawal Olaniyi Babafemi is being held accountable for conspiring with members of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula and providing material support to the foreign terrorist organization,” said Assistant Attorney General Carlin. “Babafemi travelled to Yemen to receive weapons training and to learn how to contribute to AQAP’s English-language media operation, in addition to receiving money to recruit others to join AQAP’s ranks. Counterterrorism is the National Security Division’s highest priority and we will continue our efforts to detect, deter and hold accountable those who provide material support to designated foreign terrorist organizations.”

“The defendant traveled to Yemen twice to seek out and commit himself to the goals of the radical terrorist organization AQAP,” said Acting U.S. Attorney Currie. “He undertook this journey soon after his fellow countryman’s failed attempt on behalf of AQAP to detonate a bomb concealed in his underwear in U.S. airspace and made clear his support for the organization’s goal of causing mass devastation in the West. He sought and received weapons training and worked with AQAP’s English-language media organization to recruit Westerners to its murderous mission. The investigation, prosecution and conviction of Babafemi exemplifies the tireless efforts of the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Forces in New York and San Diego to identify and bring to justice those intent on joining and supporting violent terrorist organizations around the globe. This case is especially important as it relates to efforts to prosecute individuals who both engage in physical violence themselves and who create and disseminate violent terrorist propaganda worldwide in an effort to convince others to do so.”

The case is being prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorneys Zainab Ahmad and Hilary Jager of the Eastern District of New York, with assistance from Trial Attorney Annamartine Salick of the Justice Department’s Counterterrorism Section.

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Filed Under: Al-Qaeda, American jihadis, Featured, Jihad in the U.S. Tagged With: Lawal Olaniyi Babafemi


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  1. Oliver says

    Aug 12, 2015 at 7:25 pm

    If this scumbag hated/hates the US so much, and his friend, Samair Khan– why the hell didn’t they just leave.?

    And move to that lovely place called Yemen.

    Perhaps, the US will get lucky, and this creep will fall in the showers, and crack his skull.

    • Shane says

      Aug 13, 2015 at 9:44 am

      He is just being a good Muslim in trying to be like Muhammad the Warlord!

    • Alarmed Pig Farmer says

      Aug 13, 2015 at 1:19 pm

      Perhaps, the US will get lucky, and this creep will fall in the showers, and crack his skull.

      What’s that dark spot in the middle of his forehead?! He better have a doc look at that, it could be a cancer.

      • Oliver says

        Aug 13, 2015 at 4:33 pm

        Islam is a cancer–on the entire planet.

        The hell with giving these pieces of crap medical care.

  2. RonaldB says

    Aug 12, 2015 at 10:34 pm

    It wasn’t so clear whether Lawal Olaniyi Babafemi was actually in the US. I suppose he was, but would like more information how he came to be here. Was it a tourist visa, business visa, or was he a legal resident?

  3. mortimer says

    Aug 12, 2015 at 10:57 pm

    Everyone in the government should be trained to recognize the standard jihad doctrine, especially police and intelligence services. When all government employees understand how to spot jihad, we’ll have a fighting chance of stopping more jihadists.

    Obama’s misguided ‘see-no-jihad-hear-no-jihad-speak-no-jihad’ method has caused thousands of unnecessary causalities in this war against ISLAMIC SUPREMACISM.

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