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Arizona jihadi targeted Jewish center; lawyer asks for closed hearing due to family’s safety concerns

Jul 25, 2016 7:55 am By Robert Spencer

“You will surely find the most intense of the people in animosity toward the believers to be the Jews…” (Qur’an 5:82) In practice, this often means that Muslims are the most intense in animosity toward Jews.

“One of Khan’s attorneys, Robert Ditsworth, tried unsuccessfully to get a judge to close the hearing to the public and pointed out the safety concerns faced by three of Khan’s family members who sat in the courtroom gallery.”

Always the victim card. Where have the family members of jihad terrorists ever been targeted? Does Mahin Khan’s family think they will be targeted by vengeful Jews? This is just more victimhood posturing to deflect attention away from the reality of jihad terror, and is particularly disgraceful in this case, given the abundant evidence that Mahin Khan was a deeply committed jihadi who was determined and out for blood.

Mahin Khan

“Arizona man charged with plotting terror attack also eyed Jewish center, FBI says,” Associated Press, July 20, 2016 (thanks to Daniel Greenfield):

A Tucson man charged with plotting a terrorist attack on a motor vehicle office in metro Phoenix also expressed to an undercover FBI employee that he wanted to target a Jewish community center in his hometown in a violent attack, a federal agent testified Tuesday at a court hearing.

Agent Benjamin Trentlage said Mahin Khan eventually focused on plans to attack a motor vehicle office in Mesa and instructed the undercover employee to start building homemade grenades.

The agent said the 18-year-old wanted to inspire an insurgency in the United States to carry out the sort of attacks that had occurred in Paris and Brussels and had online exchanges with a person believed to be a member of the Islamic State terrorist group.

“He described the MVD (Motor Vehicle Department) as a soft target. He said it would have a lot of people and relatively low security,” Trentlage said, adding Khan decided against attacking a motor vehicle office in Tucson because there was a sheriff’s office located nearby.

The agent was the only person to testify Tuesday at a bond hearing for Khan, who has pleaded not guilty to state charges of with terrorism, conspiracy to commit terrorism and conspiracy to commit misconduct involving weapons.

Khan was denied bail after his July 1 arrest because he was accused of terrorism, but he is still entitled to another hearing to examine whether there’s proof to back up the charges before bond can be denied. His bond hearing will continue on Wednesday, when Khan’s lawyers will have a chance to question the FBI agent.

One of Khan’s attorneys, Robert Ditsworth, tried unsuccessfully to get a judge to close the hearing to the public and pointed out the safety concerns faced by three of Khan’s family members who sat in the courtroom gallery. “This is a touchy subject,” Ditsworth said.

Outside the courtroom, the defense lawyer and Khan’s family members declined to comment on the allegations.

Trentlage said Khan revealed his desire to attack the Jewish community center in an October 2015 exchange with an undercover FBI employee. During the exchange, Khan referred to a 2015 attack on a reserve center in Chattanooga, Tennessee, that killed four Marines and a sailor. The agent also said Khan wanted to use pressure cookers to make homemade bombs, as had been done in the Boston Marathon bombings.

On the day of his arrest, Khan left a voicemail for an undercover FBI employee in which he expressed admiration for attack that killed 49 people and wounded 53 others at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, Trentlage said.

It’s unclear whether the undercover FBI employees in question were investigators or paid informants.

Authorities said Khan also had written emails to a suspected member of the Pakistan Taliban seeking weapons and instructions for a homemade explosive. It’s not clear if Khan was corresponding with an actual member of the group, but court records show that the FBI examined the emails.

In the emails, Khan said he backed the Islamic State and was looking to carry out an attack. Court records show the person responded that he would have to pay for two rifles and a pistol he requested, so Khan said he wanted instructions for a bomb itself….

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  1. Richard Paulsen says

    Jul 25, 2016 at 8:01 am

    What can you say? The U.S.A. on and on stating it supports Israel and then this happens on and on towards enemies according to islam.
    Lack of words, like others lacking common sense.

    • Myrtle Linder says

      Jul 25, 2016 at 12:47 pm

      What can we expect with the anti-CHRIST at the head of the country? How did this happen? Christians were asleep and not doing their job!!

      • John spielman says

        Jul 25, 2016 at 1:28 pm

        It’s not Christians fault but the nonChristians, who follow the antichrist. political leaders like the Obamanation in the Oval Office and his ilk: Hitlery Clinton, Nancy Pelosi, and Harry Reid who allowed Islam to flourish and refuse to even name the enemy of our souls -allah ( Satan) and his doctrine called ISLAM!!!!

        • Annak says

          Jul 26, 2016 at 9:30 am

          True but Christians have nor protested enough.
          As Edmund Burke said :
          ” evil triumphs when goid men do nothing”

          We witness Muslims protesting about everything. Something our democratic societies are not used to in such vocal / violent ferocity, and therefore muslims and other groups exploit this. They then get all the attention and fear, and are ‘ placated.’
          Our turn now to really demand, sue ,protest and not give up.

  2. Angemon says

    Jul 25, 2016 at 8:23 am

    “This is a touchy subject,” Ditsworth said.

    How? Why?

    • miriamrove says

      Jul 25, 2016 at 11:44 am

      Any thing that has to do with muslim committing an act of terrorism is a touchy subject. That how the PC elite wants us to think. m

  3. the renegade says

    Jul 25, 2016 at 8:28 am

    Getting tired of Islamic insanity so much that I burst laughing after seeing the below video posted by these two beautiful girls.. enjoy.

    https://youtu.be/GPt79fVRNI4

    Morale of the story: Yes, if you want to have fun, LEAVE ISLAM. If you want free speech and to offend people… US is the last place left on Earth to enjoy this freedom.

  4. c matt says

    Jul 25, 2016 at 9:39 am

    He described the MVD (Motor Vehicle Department) as a soft target.

    Don’t know how they run things in Arizona, but every DMV (or MVD, in AZ) I’ve been in is crawling with armed sheriff deputies.

    • Donovan Nuera says

      Jul 25, 2016 at 3:56 pm

      …and the Citizens who are there are not in the best mood either……they would be jumpin’ at the chance to take out some frustration in a constructive way when they gang-tackle this dooshie-loser asshat. (The registrar at the front desk would then have to issue those “take a number” tickets for those people in line who want to get a good lick in before the cops haul out his carcass)

  5. JP says

    Jul 25, 2016 at 9:59 am

    Renegade, the vid was funny and some of the comments were even funnier. “God could send angels to fight humans, hey, it could happen. ” LOL. Some people are unclear on the concept of angels. Moslems are.

  6. JOHN SPIELMAN says

    Jul 25, 2016 at 1:03 pm

    the perp ‘s families HEALTH CONCERNS??? what about the “health ” concerns of those he plotted to KILL??

  7. De Doc says

    Jul 25, 2016 at 2:10 pm

    Wow! Right in my backyard. And I’m pretty sure which Jewish community center he was targeting.

  8. JawsV says

    Jul 25, 2016 at 2:17 pm

    Islam – the Jew-hating “religion.”

  9. Keys says

    Jul 25, 2016 at 2:18 pm

    We need Congress to declare war on Islamic terrorism. Is this a war on terror?

    This violent hearted jihadi needs to be quickly tried as a war combatant by a military court. He then needs to be held in a prisoner of war camp, like Gitmo, until the war is over, which will be when Islam ends. He does not need to be in a civilian prison where he can recruit.

    Some of the enemy soldiers do not wear uniforms in this war on terror, and they live among us. If we follow Geneva convention rules could he be executed as a spy for not wearing a clearly marked uniform? Maybe their uniform could be a black hoodie with ISLAM in white on the back.

    • Keys says

      Jul 25, 2016 at 2:20 pm

      We need a plan to win the war or it will go on and on and on …..

  10. Guy Jones says

    Jul 25, 2016 at 7:33 pm

    Maybe Obozo counts this type of conduct (plotting and carrying out terrorist attacks) as one of the alleged “innumerable” (Obozo’s word) “contributions” that Muslims have made to American society?

  11. Heather says

    Jul 26, 2016 at 1:36 pm

    The breed this rabble then pretend they don’t know why he becomes a terrorist. They know damn well.

  12. Western Canadian says

    Jul 26, 2016 at 8:50 pm

    Looking at that idiots face, the absolute lack of intelligence (as well as decency and integrity), virtually screams to any with ears, and even the totally deaf.

    Morons like him, suggest a means of limiting muslim murder bombings…..

    Require muslims to chew gum, their every waking hour. That way, they ain’t going anywhere….

    (bad joke, serious subject, tasteless, I know….)

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