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Islamic State in Buffalo: Muslima had kill list of Air Force, FBI, govt officials

Feb 24, 2016 11:48 pm By Robert Spencer

“Lane reported that Yassin tweeted a list of town of residence and phone numbers of approximately 150 U.S. Air Force personnel with the following quote: ‘Rejoice, O supporters of the Caliphate State, with the dissemination of the information to be delivered to lone wolves … God said: “And slay them wherever you may come upon them.”‘”

That phrase is in the Qur’an three times: 2:191, 4:89 and 9:5. Not that this has anything to do with…uh…

Safya Yassin

More on this story. “ISIL comes to Buffalo,” Buffalo Reflex, February 24, 2016 (thanks to Pamela Geller):

When 15 to 20 FBI agents gathered early Thursday morning at the Hunte Pet Company parking lot, people wondered what was going on.

A couple of hours later, the agents arrested Safya Roe Yassin, 38, Buffalo, and she was later charged with communicating threats of violence over the Internet. Federal investigators said Yassin made a post on Twitter in August with the names, cities and phone numbers of two FBI agents, with the words “Wanted to Kill.”

She also allegedly made threats against government officials and members of the military, recommending that many needed to be beheaded.

Stacie Lane, special agent for the FBI, wrote a 17-page affidavit outlining a criminal complaint against Yassin, who had moved to Buffalo from Bolivar a few months earlier.

In the affidavit, Lane stated that on Aug. 24, 2015, Yassin tweeted a link containing photographs, addresses, other contact information and even credit-card information of United States service men and women and State Department employees. She also allegedly said that a media personality “would be better off without her head.”

Lane reported that Yassin tweeted a list of town of residence and phone numbers of approximately 150 U.S. Air Force personnel with the following quote: “Rejoice, O supporters of the Caliphate State, with the dissemination of the information to be delivered to lone wolves … God said: ‘And slay them wherever you may come upon them.’”

The FBI agent pointed out that it is against the law to transmit in interstate or foreign commerce “any communication containing any threat to kidnap any person or any threat to injure the person of another.” Also, the law prohibits aiding, abetting, counseling, commanding, inducing or procuring the commission of an offense against the United States.

The FBI first identified Yassin through a complaint call on Jan. 30, 2015, from a person who had befriended Yassin on Facebook several years ago. According to the complainant, Yassin was nonthreatening at first, but later Yassin was convinced that ISIL is going to save the world and was trying to rally support for the radical Islamist organization.

According to the affidavit, Yassin told the complainant that he/she would go to hell if he/she did not divorce his/her non-Muslim spouse and get rid of his/her non-Muslim friends. Yassin also allegedly told the complainant that he/she would go to hell for his/her beliefs in God.

The complainant said that although Yassin’s beliefs are disturbing, she has not directly advocated violence to the complainant.

On May 29, 2015, Yassin allegedly made a Twitter post referencing a “Freedom of Speech Rally Round II,” which was scheduled to take place in Phoenix that night. The posts stated the following: “They are only getting bolder because no one was killed at their last event, but if it goes the other way …” and “They have courage now, but if a backpack was left at the scene with nothing in it, you would have a stampede. lol.”

In an interview with two FBI agents in June 2015, Yassin stated that she is not pro-ISIL, does not intend to travel to Iraq or Syria, would never encourage anyone else to do so, and has never sent financial support to ISIL. She said she simply reports the news, and she advised she would be willing to answer any further questions, the report said.

Later, the original complainant reported that Yassin believes she is seeing the end of times and wonders if ISIL is the end-times army described in Islamic prophecy.

The complainant also said Yassin said she knew he/she was the one who “snitched” on her, and that Yassin was going to expose the complainant to Muslims everywhere.

At one time Yassin reportedly had more than 90 Twitter accounts, and Twitter later suspended the accounts for violating the company’s terms of service. On Feb. 5 of this year, Twitter suspended more than 125,000 accounts that it deemed to be extremist.

On June 23 Yassin allegedly posted a message that said, “Twitter suspends thousands of Muslim accounts in 48 hours. Billions being spent to silence Muslims on Twitter, trolls trolling day and night. Then … everyone comes right back within 2 minutes.

“They’re very proud of themselves, they really felt like they won some battle on the frontlines. Meanwhile, everyone is back within a few minutes. Honestly, this increases Twitter’s “worth” temporarily because it shows an increased number of new users.”

On July 18, 2015, according to the FBI, Yassin stated, “Americans aren’t even smart enough to know where to cut on a neck.” This was followed by a picture of a torso and neck with a superimposed dotted line around the base of the neck with the superimposed words “cut here.” Below the dotted line, written on the torso, is a superimposed word in Arabic. Those directly involved in this investigation recognized the Arabic word to be the spelling of the word “kuffar,” which means non-Muslim….

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Filed Under: American jihadis, Featured, Islamic State (aka ISIS, ISIL, Daesh), Jihad in the U.S. Tagged With: Buffalo, New York, Safya Yassin


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  1. Charli Main says

    Feb 25, 2016 at 4:23 am

    If your husband preferred having sex with his goats, rather than you, you would probably look like her as well.

    • Spot On says

      Feb 25, 2016 at 3:34 pm

      LOL! The original dragon lady.

  2. Well Done says

    Feb 25, 2016 at 4:25 am

    Note this disgusting saboteur uses the term “lone wolf”. Or, misuses it, I should say. A lone wolf would be acting alone, not with information and advice from other operatives. Trump is right. All Western countries need to stop allowing moslems in until we know exactly who they are. Not only that, we need to stop treating weeds like this woman as we do bank robbers and car thieves. She has committed an act of war, not a crime. Send such subversives to Gitmo for a few years, until they’re no longer relevant, then ship them back to the country they came from before they landing in a Western country. We shouldn’t be too concerned if that country give its “permission”.

  3. Angemon says

    Feb 25, 2016 at 7:29 am

    Federal investigators said Yassin made a post on Twitter in August with the names, cities and phone numbers of two FBI agents, with the words “Wanted to Kill.”

    Haul her ass to Guantanam…oh, wait…

    • Jay Boo says

      Feb 25, 2016 at 10:39 am

      Better yet

      What is her home address?

      Just kidding (sort of)

  4. ElderlyZionist says

    Feb 25, 2016 at 8:33 am

    Safya Roe Yassin, nee Sally Roe. Hair looks like a bad dye job; she wanted it darker. She looks like one of our gals, who chose a Muslim husband and Islam instead of a pimp and Oxycontin. About the same net effect, in the end. Somewhere in that lost woman is my own daughter.

    For all our freedom, prosperity and accomplishments, we in the west are creating too many broken, empty people, who seek fulfillment and wholeness in terrible places like Islam. We need to find out what causes that, and change it.

    • TruthWFree says

      Feb 25, 2016 at 10:29 pm

      I agree but we have let people like the ACLU take God and Jesus Christ out of public discourse. Following Jesus Christ is the answer for me…no hate or exhortations to kill unbelievers. Muhammad had no witnesses to his claimed revelations…and they are full of hate for the unbeliever. This woman look demon possessed…and as far as I am concerned, Islam’s allah god is Satan.

  5. Fatts says

    Feb 25, 2016 at 8:49 am

    Please explain the discrepancy between this article and the earlier one:http://www.jihadwatch.org/2016/02/misso … -upon-them.

    One presents the suspect as being a “Missouri Woman” and this article gives the impression she is a Buffalo resident.

    Thank you.

    • gravenimage says

      Feb 25, 2016 at 10:46 pm

      Good catch, Fatts. The above story is from the Buffalo Reflex; the other story is from KSPR in Springfield, Missouri:

      “Missouri Muslim woman promoted the Islamic State, quoting Qur’an: ‘Slay them wherever you come upon them’”

      http://www.jihadwatch.org/2016/02/missouri-muslim-woman-promoted-the-islamic-state-quoting-quran-slay-them-wherever-you-come-upon-them

      The above story says, “Stacie Lane, special agent for the FBI, wrote a 17-page affidavit outlining a criminal complaint against Yassin, who had moved to Buffalo from Bolivar a few months earlier.”

      I looked it up; Bolivar is a town in Missouri not far from Springfield. So it sounds as though Yassin moved from Missouri to upstate New York.

      In the Missouri article, it also mentions Yassin threatening a local reporter in Texas with beheading–so she may have had links there, as well.

      This does not surprise me–it is the same with JIhadists in Europe, who often have links in multiple states or even different countries.

  6. Ashley says

    Feb 25, 2016 at 2:09 pm

    I, too, was perplexed.

    I did a little digging…this rodent haled from Buffalo, Missouri.

    Never heard of Buffalo, Missouri myself.

    But there you have it. Mystery solved.

    • gravenimage says

      Feb 25, 2016 at 10:49 pm

      True. She was probably extradited from New York to Missouri, if she committed most of her crimes there.

      Good to see you posting again, Ashley.

  7. mortimer says

    Feb 25, 2016 at 2:58 pm

    Military members should start looking around them and asking if their neighbors are truly their friends.

    Any suspicious person such as Safya Roe Yassin should be mentioned to military police and the FBI preferably.

    Threats to the life of military members should receive the highest priority in police work. Our finest citizens are those who voluntarily risk their lives to defend our freedom. God bless our military members.

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