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Ohio Muslim pleads guilty to jihad plot to attack US Capitol for the Islamic State

Aug 2, 2016 4:48 am By Robert Spencer

Yet another convert to Islam gets the idea that treason and murder are required by his new religion. Authorities continue to ignore this phenomenon entirely, no matter how often it happens.

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“Ohio Man, ISIS Sympathizer Pleads Guilty to Charges He Planned U.S. Capitol Attack,” by Ginny McCabe, Reuters, August 1, 2016:

CINCINNATI (Reuters)–An Ohio man pleaded guilty on Monday to charges he plotted to attack the U.S. Capitol with guns and bombs and that he sympathized with Islamic State militants.

In an appearance in federal court in Cincinnati, Christopher Cornell, 22, shackled and dressed in black-and-white striped jail clothes, admitted to the charges of attempted murder of government officials, possession of a firearm to commit a crime, and attempting to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization.

Cornell, who mainly answered the judge’s questions with “yes ma’am” and “no ma’am,” faces up to 30 years in prison and a lifetime of supervision, according to officials at the hearing.

Cornell, of Green Township, Ohio, near Cincinnati was arrested in January 2015 and accused of planning to travel to Washington to attack the U.S. Capitol during President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address on Jan. 20, 2015, prosecutors said, citing the plea agreement.

Cornell initially pleaded not guilty. His sentencing hearing was scheduled for Oct. 31.

A lawyer for Cornell, Martin Pinales, said the guilty plea was in the best interest of his client. Cornell’s father, who previously told Ohio media he felt his son was set up by an FBI informant, declined to comment on the plea.

“We love Christopher very much and we all support him,” John Cornell said.

Cornell researched the construction of pipe bombs, purchased two semi-automatic rifles and 600 rounds of ammunition, and made plans to travel to Washington to carry out the plot, according to the original indictment.

After his arrest, he posted statements online that included a call for others to join him in violent jihad against the United States on behalf of Islamic State, prosecutors said, citing the plea agreement. Islamic State militants control parts of Iraq and Syria and have sympathizers and supporters around the world who have carried out bombings and shootings of civilians….

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Filed Under: converts to Islam, Featured, Islamic State (aka ISIS, ISIL, Daesh), Jihad in the U.S. Tagged With: Christopher Lee Cornell


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  1. Yorkshire Kufir says

    Aug 2, 2016 at 5:10 am

    When will US and European authorities realise that the war against islam is a war against an ideology and makes its appeal to the inadequate with entitlement issues. This is just a phase in the war by Islam on free thinking people. However, the war will not end until the maximum conmcentration of muslims in any area, region or locality is 1% or less, and its youth given a secular and science/empiricaly-based education.

  2. Angemon says

    Aug 2, 2016 at 5:17 am

    Cornell, who mainly answered the judge’s questions with “yes ma’am” and “no ma’am,” faces up to 30 years in prison and a lifetime of supervision, according to officials at the hearing.

    A slap on the wrist for treason…

    • Yorkshire_Kufir says

      Aug 4, 2016 at 8:51 am

      true punishment would be to make him work for jewish charities

  3. sahani says

    Aug 2, 2016 at 5:30 am

    when we have 10 millions muslim thanks to mr obama these will become hourly news.

    • eagle says

      Aug 2, 2016 at 7:44 am

      Obama will be thanking his Muslim followers for putting Hillary in office.

      • Yorkshire_Kufir says

        Aug 4, 2016 at 8:53 am

        Come on? Having A self serving Billionaire in charge of the treasury is less frightening!

        • eagle says

          Aug 4, 2016 at 5:12 pm

          Really one good thing to mention among many, Trump is not a Muslim and doesn’t want to destroy America from within by infiltrating thousand of Muslims into America through executive order, jamming Muslim refugees into America with Democrat voting rights as soon as their feet touch the ground. Encouraging no voter IDs, Making and breaking laws by executive order. Obama deliberately breaks the immigration laws on the books for his gain. Hillary will be another Obama, she is owned by foreign governments through her Hillary fund deposits. Hillary and Obama is all Taqiyya. Trump has a heart and a soul. Something Muslims and their followers do not have, nor do they want one. Muslims pray to Satan (Allah) five times a day. Obama says it is the sweetest sound he has ever heard. No mention about the sound his daughter made when she was born. I would trust Trump with my wife and family while I was away. I would not trust some Muslim to watch my children while I was away. That would be akin to putting the fox in the hen house. Would you know anything about that?

    • David says

      Aug 2, 2016 at 3:58 pm

      CNN will love having this to report on hourly. But don’t expect them to give you any facts.

      • eagle says

        Aug 3, 2016 at 12:31 pm

        I understand from Obama’s demeanor, Obama would enjoy the ISIS flag on the Capital of the America. I think this is where it is going. This and a $100 million mosque only 13 miles away, Obama could spend more time at the capital and jog over to the mosque five times a day. What a wonderful dear Muslim Leader we have. The sweetest sound he has ever heard, the call to prayer. I guess he hasn’t heard his children at child birth. Did you know the Muslims will kill their own children to show allegiance to Allah. What a mentally sick perverted cult.

  4. sahani says

    Aug 2, 2016 at 5:32 am

    SAUDI THE GREAT, THEY DON’T SEND THEIR ARMY TO DEFEAT YOU . THEY SEND MUSLIM PREACHER TO CONVERT YOUR FOOLS AND POOR TO ISLAMIC FORCE.

  5. dumbledoresarmy says

    Aug 2, 2016 at 6:13 am

    A lost soul.

    His father should have been the first person to notify authorities.

    but then, one wonders how much the father (or other family members) actually knows about Islam.

    Where, when and how did Christopher Cornell – why are we not being told his new Shahada name, the Arabic alias he will have chosen for himself? – convert to Islam?

    All Islamosavvy parents have a duty to warn their children to stay away from Islam; to inform them about it; to tell them about the apostasy law, at the very least.

  6. JOHN SPIELMAN says

    Aug 2, 2016 at 7:59 am

    if he had blown up the Capitol building , perhaps the govt would begin to take notice of the danger of islam

  7. eagle says

    Aug 2, 2016 at 8:06 am

    I have a call to all the Muslim want-to-bees, Obama’s Muslim followers, the Democrat Muslim refugees and their supporters. Look up in the sky, see the wonderful entrails behind the pretty planes flying way up above. These entrails are pig by products mixed with the jet fuel raining down all over America. The air is full of it, all things grown here in America have these products growing inside the food. Mothers milk has this product thru her ingestion of her daily Muslim food. Soon you will be piglet-tized. Muslims will come to a Christian church and beg god for forgiveness. All Muslims will convert to Christ our savior and be forgiven by god. All Muslims will burn their Satan Quran and use the unused pages for toilet paper. There will be peace in the valley again. There will be peace here in America and America will be great again.

  8. eagle says

    Aug 2, 2016 at 8:17 am

    I had a dream!! I can still dream can’t I? The Democrats continue lying over and over and soon the American people think it is the truth, however, true Americans believe everything that is said by the Democrats and the Muslims is Taqiyya.

  9. Jay Boo says

    Aug 2, 2016 at 11:20 am

    Break his trance. Shave his head and beard.
    Narcissism is a major fixation inside the Muslim mind.
    That self-absorbed Islamic stare of his comes from staring in the mirror for hours while fondling his MO beard.

  10. James Dante Wood says

    Aug 2, 2016 at 6:58 pm

    Muslim attacks will continue if this scam of a “war on terror” continues, it’s all about money, and revenge, the oldest motive in the book. Muslim radical groups are best served though Internet threats and hacker attacks where no one is physically attacked, but they can be disruptive and draw attention to a Muslim and tax revolt here on American soil, as the only good news, the system will eventually collapse as they are losing tax money in Washington.

    http://www.AnarchyForever.com now e-mails 1,000 people a day from mostly Muslim-interest sites encouraging a legal, peacefully Jihad, with tax audit lottery tickets, and threats with technology to mask the threat maker, or reward his actions.

  11. gravenimage says

    Aug 2, 2016 at 10:26 pm

    Ohio Muslim pleads guilty to jihad plot to attack US Capitol for the Islamic State
    ………………………

    More Jihadists in the heartland…

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