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Arizona: Converts to Islam had jihadi publications, conspired to bomb prison

Oct 13, 2016 3:25 pm By Robert Spencer

“According to the statement, an unnamed individual told the Arizona Department of Corrections in May that Thomas Bastian, who is in prison for a 2007 first-degree murder conviction, was planning to build a bomb to kill people, possibly including the prison warden. The individual told officials that Thomas Bastian had converted to the Muslim faith and ‘became a radicalized.'”

Once again, converts to Islam get the idea that their new religion commands them to commit treason and mass murder. Authorities continue to show no interest in investigating this phenomenon.

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“Court documents: Terrorism suspect had ISIS, al-Qaida publications,” Arizona Republic, October 13, 2016 (thanks to Robert):

Arrested terror suspect Michelle Bastian is accused of providing her incarcerated husband with publications distributed by al-Qaida and ISIS, and conspiring with him to bomb the prison where he is incarcerated, according to the Arizona Attorney General’s Office probable-cause statement released Thursday.

According to the statement, an unnamed individual told the Arizona Department of Corrections in May that Thomas Bastian, who is in prison for a 2007 first-degree murder conviction, was planning to build a bomb to kill people, possibly including the prison warden. The individual told officials that Thomas Bastian had converted to the Muslim faith and “became a radicalized.” The plan was for him to build a bomb to either kill the warden or plant it in a vending machine in the prison’s visitor section, according to the statement. The individual reported that his wife, Michelle Bastian, 49, of Florence, was going to provide him with the materials.

According to the statement, the Arizona Department of Corrections searched Thomas Bastian’s cell and found “known terrorist publications” distributed by al-Qaida and ISIS.

“The objective of these publications is to provide detailed instructions on how to commit acts of terrorism and to praise those that have successfully carried out attacks,” according to the statement.

According to the statement, the mail made it past prison security because it was labeled as legal documents.

The search also turned up handwritten notes on how to build a bomb. The statement does not indicate whether any bomb-making equipment was found.

Police searched Michelle Bastian’s Florence home and Urban Oven, the Chandler bakery where she works as a bookkeeper. According to the Attorney General’s Office statement, letters from her husband where found, including letters requesting that she send him “radicalized materials.” Some of the documents he requested were later found in his cell, according to the statement….

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Filed Under: Al-Qaeda, converts to Islam, Featured, Islamic State (aka ISIS, ISIL, Daesh), Jihad in prisons, Jihad in the U.S. Tagged With: Michelle Bastian, Thomas Bastian


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  1. Jack Diamond says

    Oct 13, 2016 at 3:43 pm

    Let me guess, the bomb was going to be in the cake she had baked for him. Did those “radicalized materials” just include “ordinary” verses from the Qur’an? (Why can’t these people join normal cults like Heaven’s Gate?) Let me also guess, Thomas Bastian converted from prison da’wa.

  2. Billy Lynch says

    Oct 13, 2016 at 5:35 pm

    Is this POS a man or woman? Send this filthy transgender bastard to a Muslim nation and let them do the dirty work of executing this filthy gender-bender.

    • Kepha says

      Oct 13, 2016 at 6:03 pm

      He may be a natural son of Muammar Qaddafi.

    • Vfrg says

      Oct 13, 2016 at 9:30 pm

      According to the file name, it is the woman. Look at the pink lips.

  3. Mickey says

    Oct 13, 2016 at 8:44 pm

    They convert to Islam in prison and then are released into society after their sentence is over. I read this somewhere: 80% of converts in prison convert to Islam. This is not good. What happened to the Christian conversions in prison?

  4. bc says

    Oct 14, 2016 at 8:34 am

    How can one build a’bomb’ in jail where ones every move is watched and possibilty of getting materials hardly possible.
    Looks like mad person out of central casting

  5. Laura says

    Oct 14, 2016 at 10:58 am

    As Mike Broomhead said this morning, this is a face just asking for a burka! Good grief! These people are out there being given every advantage, but Arpaio is being persecuted by the DOJ for going after identity theft!

  6. Angemon says

    Oct 14, 2016 at 11:46 am

    Police searched Michelle Bastian’s Florence home and Urban Oven, the Chandler bakery where she works as a bookkeeper. According to the Attorney General’s Office statement, letters from her husband where found, including letters requesting that she send him “radicalized materials.” Some of the documents he requested were later found in his cell, according to the statement…

    They didn’t magically materialize there, that’s for sure…

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