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Virginia: Two Muslims arrested in attempt to join the Islamic State

Jan 16, 2016 6:46 pm By Robert Spencer

Not to worry. John Kerry is no doubt on his way now to explain to Joseph Hassan Farrokh how the Islamic State has nothing to do with Islam. But why Muslims keep misunderstanding Islam, all in the same way, remains something about which Kerry and his colleagues are completely incurious.

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“Two Men Arrested in Attempt to Travel to Syria, Join ISIL,” NBC Washington, January 16, 2016 (thanks to Patrick):

A Virginia man who was allegedly attempting to travel to Syria to join the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and a man accused of helping him have been arrested, according to a press release from the U.S. Department of Justice.

Joseph Hassan Farrokh, 28, of Woodbridge, Virginia, was arrested Friday afternoon at the Richmond International Airport as he attempted to board a flight to Chicago. Officials said once he reached Chicago, he intended to board a flight to Amman, Jordan, with an ultimate destination of Syria.

Mahmoud Amin Mohamed Elhassan, 25, also of Woodbridge, was arrested Friday evening after returning from driving Farrokh to Richmond.

Farrokh, who is a U.S. citizen originally from Pennsylvania, has been charged with attempting to provide material support and resources to a designated foreign terrorist organization.

Elhassan, who is a legal permanent U.S. resident originally from Sudan, has been charged with aiding and abetting Farrokh’s attempt to provide material support and resources to a designated foreign terrorist organization.

According to the criminal complaints, Farrokh been trying to leave the United States and join ISIL in Syria since Nov. 20, 2015. Farrokh purchased an airline ticket on Dec. 21, 2015, for flights departing on Jan. 15 from Richmond with an ultimate arrival destination of Jordan, and would then travel to Syria.

The complaints state Elhassan introduced Farrokh to a person who Elhassan believed had connections to individuals engaged in jihad overseas. The person was an FBI informant cooperating with law enforcement as part of a plea deal for a reduced sentence in a criminal case, according to the complaint.

Elhassan also knew of Farrokh’s plans to travel to Syria to join ISIL, a journey Farrokh believed was facilitated by the informant, and two other associates — also FBI informants. Farrokh told the informants that he lied to his family and had informed them that he intended to travel to Saudi Arabia to study.

In a taped conversation between Elhassan and one of the informants, the Sudanese-born man reported that Farrokh was close to leaving for Syria, and that his route would be through Jordan, not Turkey as previously planned.

According to the complaint, Farrokh told Elhassan that he “wanted to go right away and ‘chop their heads.'” Elhassan called his attitude as that of an “extremist,” to which Farrokh responded that he just “belongs on the battlefield and would rather go by himself.”…

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Filed Under: American jihadis, Featured, Islamic State (aka ISIS, ISIL, Daesh) Tagged With: Joseph Hassan Farrokh, Mahmoud Amin Mohamed Elhassan


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  1. billybob says

    Jan 16, 2016 at 7:35 pm

    I don’t understand why they don’t just let them go. We are at war with the Islamic State. Why not just put trackers on them and follow them to their sponsors and organizers. Then take them all out.

    • SoCalMike says

      Jan 16, 2016 at 8:08 pm

      That should be the official policy.
      And if they miss or fail to take them out abroad, then simply don’t let them back in.

      But government attracts the worst and dimmest; not the best and brightest like they are so fond of telling us.
      If someone actually informed and taught them how to properly vet, they would refuse.

      IN a tangible way they are more dangerous than the 9/11 terrorists because of their tenacious need to cling to their brainwashed PC crap.

    • Shane says

      Jan 17, 2016 at 10:21 am

      The problem with that is that they will return with new terrorism skills and with pals to form a terror cell in the USA. We should imprison them, take away their citizenship and passports, and then send them to a Muslim country.

  2. Voytek Gagalka says

    Jan 16, 2016 at 8:11 pm

    Their curiosity was aborted deep in their childhood. Otherwise they could not be the ones they are right now. Yes, aborted! Isn’t it curious that a very word “abortion” has become a part of their very souls and explaining why they are so “pro-abortion”?

  3. Jack Holan says

    Jan 16, 2016 at 8:42 pm

    Robert, I can understand Jeh Johnson not piecing a 5 Piece puzzle together and FBI Comey must have squad of sharp shooters aiming if he tells the truth again. Profiling is out as in the EU, Israel profiles and doesn’t have every 85 yo turn in their nail clippers or stand one 1 foot yet produce results. No security is 100% but mark my words either on BOs watch or 3 months into the next Presidency something big will probably happen and BO will scream it didn’t happen in his term he just allowed it to be set up like Clinton/Bush. I pray I’m wrong but we can’t continue to be lucky and apprehend the bottom rung idiots thinking we got them.

  4. Angemon says

    Jan 16, 2016 at 9:36 pm

    Two Men Arrested in Attempt to Travel to Syria, Join ISIL

    Traitors, spies, saboteurs, etc.

  5. Paul says

    Jan 16, 2016 at 9:57 pm

    Question all their friends and family…search their computers..arrest everyone

    • dumbledoresarmy says

      Jan 17, 2016 at 4:13 am

      Even before doing *that*… **find out what mosque or mosques they attend/ed…and their families or friends attended**…and…conduct surprise searches of said mosques and all associated business and residential and other premises and properties (e.g. rural acreages). Suddenly and with use of overwhelming force and not forgetting to use sniffer dogs trained to detect explosives, and illegal drugs, and cadavers.

      Turn said mosques upside down and inside out and see what…falls out.

      Search the mosques!

      And if anything ..*anything* at all, er, untoward, is found…shut them down, permanently, and after gathering up all the incriminating evidence…raze them to the ground.

  6. mortimer says

    Jan 16, 2016 at 10:13 pm

    Western governments need to get their heads together to find a way to deprogram jihadists. The resulting protocol can then be used to deprogram the rest of Muslims.

    Deprogramming is the only way to arrest, then stop, then prevent jihad.

    • Azacque says

      Jan 17, 2016 at 1:39 am

      deprogramming wont work. Try them for treason or tag them and let them lead to their contact. Follow them with a predator drone.

    • Vlad says

      Jan 17, 2016 at 1:53 am

      The ONLY way to fix the problem……

      Heard about General Pershing? The smart guy used it.
      [HOW TO STOP ISLAMIC TERRORISTS…… it worked once in our History…
      Once in U.S. history an episode of Islamic terrorism was very quickly stopped. It happened in the Philippines about 1911, when Gen. John J. Pershing was in command of the garrison. There had been numerous Islamic terrorist attacks, so “Black Jack” told his boys to catch the perps and teach them a lesson.

      Forced to dig their own graves, the terrorists were all tied to posts, execution style. The U.S. soldiers then brought in pigs and slaughtered them, rubbing their bullets in the blood and fat. Thus, the terrorists were terrorized; they saw that they would be contaminated with hogs’ blood. This would mean that they could not enter Heaven, even if they died as terrorist martyrs.

      All but one was shot, their bodies dumped into the grave, and the hog guts dumped atop the bodies. The lone survivor was allowed to escape back to the terrorist camp and tell his brethren what happened to the others. This brought a stop to terrorism in the Philippines for the next 50 years.

      Pointing a gun into the face of Islamic terrorists won’t make them flinch.

      They welcome the chance to die for Allah. Like Gen. Pershing, we must show them that they won’t get to Muslim heaven (which they believe has an endless supply of virgins) but instead will die with the hated pigs of the devil.]

      If you want to stop the muslims, the best way is to inject all suspected terrorists with pig’s blood. Those bombed into pieces will be burnt together with pig carcasses and buried with dog faecal matter. Those in prisons will have their faces covered in soiled women panties

      Sounds bad? Sounds terrible? Well, you have to be a terror to deal with terrorists.

      Do this, and I GUARANTEE THE TERRORISM WILL COME TO AN ABRUPT STOP.

      Make it public, make it known, make every secular government forces adopt this. And I assure you, the muslims will do a 180% turn around and kneel down to you.

      But then you will have to handle the arab muslim diplomats who will be pounding on your door forcing you to make apologies. 🙂

      • WedgeLeft says

        Jan 17, 2016 at 3:16 pm

        Knowing that will never happen, I like your spirit. I fear the West no longer has any stomach for this fight. but I pray I’m wrong.

      • robert says

        Jan 19, 2016 at 7:29 pm

        i like your thinking-a great solution, i also think the present leaders in the west are a bunch of wimps- Trump might also like this idea,

  7. Dan Jones says

    Jan 16, 2016 at 10:54 pm

    Enemies from within… the trojan horse…

  8. Vlad says

    Jan 17, 2016 at 1:34 am

    Utter stupidity on our part!!

    Just let them go, BUT stamp their passport “NEVER TO RETURN TO USA, ENGLAND, GERMANY FRANCE, AUSTRALIA, etc. whatever the case may be.

    Maybe even put a brand on their forehead “Sickle Moon with Star” 🙂 just in case they come back with a forged PP.
    That should clarify things a bit, I hope.

  9. citycat says

    Jan 17, 2016 at 2:05 am

    I wonder that if there were no girls to rape then would he be so keen to go voluntarily into a sex and death scene.
    Islam gives religion a bad name. Attention that is upon the current horrors of Islam also reveals past horrors of other religions.
    This overshadows positives all round.
    What is positive in Islam apart from the tyrannical sex for the Islamic Muslims, who were born innocent and were made to be like they now are?
    Islam with the Qur’an and the Vampire is hiding behind the scenes.

  10. Mark says

    Jan 17, 2016 at 7:55 am

    Please view share and give a thumbs up to the following documentary, https://youtu.be/t_Qpy0mXg8Y. It reveals how treacherous Islam is.
    If western governments collapse, the only people with any hope of a comfortable retirement are the ones with enough children to take care of them. Children use to contribute to the family income. Now they are an expensive time consuming hobby and are getting replaced with gadgets and toys.

  11. Doug says

    Jan 17, 2016 at 4:04 pm

    There will soon be more people in jail for attempting to join isis than are actually in isis, then what?

  12. sidney penny says

    Jan 17, 2016 at 9:27 pm

    “But why Muslims keep misunderstanding Islam, all in the same way, remains something about which Kerry and his colleagues are completely incurious.”

    you mean;

    But why Muslims, from all around the world ,keep misunderstanding Islam, all in the same way, remains something about which John Kerry (Vice President of USA) and his colleagues are completely incurious.

    yes from all around the world.

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