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Two Muslims plead guilty to jihad plot to set off pressure-cooker bomb in New York City for the Islamic State

Feb 12, 2017 3:03 am By Robert Spencer

There is no indication in this article of any official interest in where or from whom Saleh and Mumuni learned their understanding of Islam. Probably such questions were, as always, waved away with the claim that they were “radicalized on the Internet.” Could they have picked up allegiance to the Islamic State in any New York City mosque? Preposterous! Unthinkable! Inconceivable!

“Two New York men plead guilty in ISIS-related terrorism case,” by Chandrika Narayan, CNN, February 11, 2017:

(CNN)Two New York residents accused of conspiring to support ISIS and plotting to set off a pressure-cooker bomb in the city have pleaded guilty to all charges, federal prosecutors and New York officials said.

Munther Omar Saleh, 21, of Queens, and Fareed Mumuni, 22, of Staten Island, were charged with “conspiring and attempting to provide material support” to ISIS and with assaulting and conspiring to assault federal officers, the US Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York said in a statement.

Mumuni also was charged with “attempted murder of federal officers.” That charge resulted from an incident in which Mumuni repeatedly stabbed an FBI agent as law enforcement officials carried out a search warrant at his home about two years ago, officials said.

Saleh, a US citizen and a former aeronautics student, faces up to 53 years in prison. Mumuni’s immigration status is not clear; he faces up to 85 years in prison.

Both men are scheduled to be sentenced May 16.

“Today’s guilty pleas show just how close the threat of homegrown terrorism exists for New York City,” William F. Sweeney, Jr., assistant director-in-charge of the FBI’s New York field office, said in a statement.

“From their respective homes in Queens and Staten Island, Saleh and Mumuni conspired to place a pressure cooker bomb in the New York metro area on behalf of ISIL,” he said, using another term for ISIS.

“Mumuni even attacked an FBI agent when a court-authorized search was being conducted by the Joint Terrorism Task Force at his home in Staten Island. Threats like this are exactly why protecting the United States from a terrorist attack remains the FBI’s No. 1 priority.”

FBI agent attacked

Saleh and another individual were taken into custody on June 13, 2015 in Queens after they charged at a federal officer who was performing physical surveillance of Saleh, according to Friday’s statement.

Both men were armed with knives, the statement said.

Mumuni was arrested in the same month after he repeatedly stabbed an FBI agent in the torso with a large kitchen knife after FBI agents arrived at his Staten Island home to execute a search warrant, officials said.

“During his arrest, Mumuni stabbed an FBI agent numerous times, but thankfully the agent’s body armor protected him from the defendant’s attack and the defendant was safely apprehended by law enforcement,” acting Assistant Attorney General for National Security Mary B. McCord said Friday….

Mumuni also said an ISIS fighter had sanctioned his planned suicide attack on law enforcement officials following him, according to the statement….

Electronic surveillance revealed that Saleh had emailed himself information about the construction of pressure cooker bombs and that he had also conducted Internet searches of notable New York landmarks and tourist attractions, according to a federal complaint.A pressure-cooker device was used in the Boston Marathon bombings in 2013.

Saleh and Mumuni werearrested [sic] in 2015, a year that saw a record 54 arrests in ISIS-linked cases in the United States. By contrast, there were 14 arrests in such cases last year and 13 in 2014….

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Filed Under: American jihadis, Featured, Islamic State (aka ISIS, ISIL, Daesh), Jihad in the U.S., New York City Tagged With: Fareed Mumuni, Munther Omar Saleh


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  1. mortimer says

    Feb 12, 2017 at 4:32 am

    “Saleh, a US citizen and a former aeronautics student, faces up to 53 years in prison” !!!

    How can someone who studies aeronautics BELIEVE a 7th century HIGHWAYNAB, RAPIST and EXTORTIONIST was a messenger of GOD???

    • Phil Copson says

      Feb 12, 2017 at 5:00 am

      Be fair – he was probably just studying the aeronautics of how to fly to the moon on a horse……

      • john spielman says

        Feb 12, 2017 at 8:51 am

        or to fly the next ROCKET into the White House or the Capital building

      • Jerry says

        Feb 14, 2017 at 3:18 am

        Just to prove that the Trump ban on entry of some Muslims
        into the USA is totally inadequate. It should include a ban on
        any Muslims remaining in the USA unless they all irrevocably
        renounce all the violent misogynist and genocidal aspects
        of Islam and remove all offending portions of the Qur’an
        and the Hadith, but then Islam will no longer be Islam.

        It also proves that the Federal Judges bent on protecting
        Muslims “Freedom of Religion” are insane as Islam
        denies that freedom to all non-Muslims.

    • Angemon says

      Feb 12, 2017 at 7:04 am

      “Studied”, not “studies” – maybe his faith was the factor that made him quit.

    • Stan Lee says

      Feb 12, 2017 at 8:29 pm

      The question, “How can any U.S citizen and former aeronautics student …………..?” is asked by contributor “Mortimer.”
      I feel quite sure that he remembers that key hijackers on 9/11 were aeronautical. school students, however not citizens of USA, but learned sufficient aviation experience, to take the controls of passenger liner planes, do basic piloting sufficient to fly courses to target areas, aim planes, and crash into the Twin Towers, Pentagon, and the last plane was prevented by doomed passengers who wrested the plane from its terrorist crew.,
      For all we know, and with the pitiful vetting, if any, done by the Obama regime, at this very time there could be more Muslims in U.S. aeronautics schools in the event that another type hijack like 9/11 is in planning process tight now.
      Hopefully, the Trump administration is sifting through aeronautical schools student records since taking over government, in order to prevent hijacking of passenger jet liners.

  2. mortimer says

    Feb 12, 2017 at 4:34 am

    How can someone who studies aeronautics BELIEVE a 7th century HIGHWAYMAN, RAPIST and EXTORTIONIST was a messenger of GOD???

    Islam destroys the mind.

  3. abad says

    Feb 12, 2017 at 11:32 am

    Deport both of them.

    They need to understand why they are not welcome in the United States.

  4. Terry says

    Feb 12, 2017 at 2:05 pm

    In answer to where did they learn about Islam? how about DiBlassio and his minions? Schmuck Schumer and his leftist followers? Cuomo and his wife’s family ( his wife is a blood relative to Ted Kennedy-I think a niece, don’t think a daughter); or virtually any member of the NY City (especially) Dem party? they are all lefties- even the ones in currently incarcerated.

    Then, of course, the mosques.

    And DeBlassio feels that NY DESERVES TO BE A SANCTUARY CITY, and he (is supposed to have) told pres. Trump this.

  5. John says

    Feb 12, 2017 at 6:56 pm

    Where were these people born? Where were their parents born?

  6. Buford says

    Feb 13, 2017 at 7:57 am

    53-85 Years for attempting to create a horrendous act like that it should have been Death an hour after the verdict this vermin P O S does not deserve to
    live

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