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Lawyers: Muslim who plotted jihad massacres “unfairly arrested,” has “addiction issues” and “bi-polar disorder”

Oct 11, 2017 7:20 pm By Robert Spencer

“Edney’s involvement suggests the family may intend to question the fairness of arresting a young person with addiction issues and possible bi-polar disorder in a scheme an FBI agent helped co-ordinate.”

Of course. El Bahnasawy’s jihad mass murder plot was simply part of the global outbreak of mental illness.

“Canadian in NYC terror trial met with Omar Khadr’s lawyer in prison,” by Glen McGregor, CTV News, October 10, 2017:

A Canadian teen who pleaded guilty to terrorism-related charges in connection with a plot to attack New York City landmarks has met in prison with Alberta lawyer Dennis Edney, who previously defended Omar Khadr, CTV News has learned.

Nineteen-year-old Abdulrahman El Bahnasawy’s parents asked Edney, who represented Khadr, a former Guantanamo Bay prisoner, to look at the case, CTV’s Glen McGregor reported Tuesday.

Edney’s involvement suggests the family may intend to question the fairness of arresting a young person with addiction issues and possible bi-polar disorder in a scheme an FBI agent helped co-ordinate.

Newly released letters from defence lawyers and a New York prosecutor, filed with a U.S. court, show El Bahnasawy suffered from drug addiction and mental health issues.

The letters say the teen from Mississauga, Ont., suffered a relapse in prison and tested positive for a prescription drug used in opioid-addiction treatments.

“He has a long history of drug use, drug treatment, and relapse,” his lawyers, Sabrina Shroff and Clay Kaminsky, wrote in a letter to a judge as they argued for the court to restore his family visits.

El Bahnasawy has been in U.S. custody since the FBI arrested him in New Jersey in May, 2016.

Details of his guilty plea in what has been described as an ISIS-inspired plot to target New York City landmarks only recently came to light, after American court records were unsealed.

The other two accused in the case have been identified as Talha Haroon, a 19-year-old U.S. citizen residing in Pakistan, and Russell Salic, 37, from the Philippines.

U.S. authorities allege the three men plotted to carry out bombings and shootings in heavily populated areas of New York City during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan in 2016.

The documents allege El Bahnasawy purchased and arranged to have bomb-making equipment, including 18 kilograms of hydrogen peroxide, shipped to an undercover FBI agent posing as an ISIS supporter online.

Despite mentions of his mental health issues in court documents, El Bahnasawy told a judge he felt well mentally and physically when he pleaded guilty. He was deemed mentally competent to enter the plea….

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  1. Paul says

    Oct 11, 2017 at 7:24 pm

    yet MORE head problems caused by their inability to have sex outside of incestuous behaviour no doubt..

    • Anti-jihad says

      Oct 11, 2017 at 7:35 pm

      Lots of Muslims are inbred, so they’re not too bright and have mental health issues, but if he was planning mass murder, he shouldn’t just get off because of his mental health issues.

    • Barb says

      Oct 15, 2017 at 8:23 pm

      Keep him in jail and throw key away!!! Alberta lawyer Dennis Edney, was previously defended Omar Khadr.
      The secret how Omar Khadr got BIG CHUNKS TAXPAYERS Money lay down in old family connection…..the Khadr clan, once called “Canada’s First Family of Terrorism” are connected to Patrick J. Boyle, a well-known judge of Canada’s tax court. The media don’t want to mention it but this Canadian man is Omar Khadr’s Ex- brother in law..https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2009/04/02/a_breakin_slaying_and_khadr_marriage_mystery.html
      Boyle was once married to Zaynab Khadr, the older sister of former Guantanamo Bay detainee Omar Khadr and the daughter of a senior al-Qaida financier. Her father, the late Ahmed Said Khadr, and the family stayed with Osama bin Laden briefly when Omar Khadr was a boy.

  2. David E munson says

    Oct 11, 2017 at 7:28 pm

    More lone wolf comments and excuses for jihad.

  3. Voytek Gagalka says

    Oct 11, 2017 at 7:31 pm

    He certainly was “bi-polarly disordered” toward one particular direction which puzzles all investigators to this very moment: Mecca. Does it have anything to do with Islam? Nay! Can’t be! That would be ISLAMOPHOBIC!

    • Terrence22 says

      Oct 12, 2017 at 12:04 am

      Well, yes! After all, he is a VICTIM.

      And his “lawyer” was not able to find a fire hydrant to sue.

      • john vieira says

        Oct 13, 2017 at 2:09 am

        Ambulance…nay! Jihadi stricken ‘chaser’….

  4. SBay says

    Oct 11, 2017 at 7:51 pm

    During WW2 he would have been shot or hung by the Allies. He should have been tried in military court and executed when he pled guilty. instead the Canadian govt gave him a $10M settlement. This is political correctness. And political correctness kills.

  5. Lydia says

    Oct 11, 2017 at 8:00 pm

    Awww!!!
    Poor baby!
    Modern psychology to the rescue…

    only the true diagnosis is:

    SIN!
    And mind control by evil.

    • PaulM says

      Oct 11, 2017 at 8:10 pm

      Yes, the poor baby, just get him to Canada right away. So that he can be properly paid a few million dollars by the gutless, spineless, muslim prime minister of Canada and his fascist, globablist ilk. After all, we have to understand that he was just practicing his religion, as sick, evil, twisted and perverse as it is.

  6. mortimer says

    Oct 11, 2017 at 8:49 pm

    The WORST unfairness is if unsuspecting people are MURDERED BY TERRORISTS.

  7. Hugo Hackenbush says

    Oct 11, 2017 at 9:02 pm

    If someone is mentally ill that does not absolve them of responsibility for their actions unless they are psychotic and disconnected from reality (such as a schizophrenic). If anything one should ask why the “mentally ill” seem so attracted to Islam. Perhaps it just might have to do with giving them sanction for their violent tendencies. I would love to see a study that randomly selects recent converts to different religions and has them undergo IQ and personality testing in a blinded fashion. Let’s just say that I predict a shift of distributions towards aggression and psychopathy among the converts to a certain politico-religious ideology.

    • mortimer says

      Oct 12, 2017 at 8:43 am

      HH, agreeing with much of your post. The ‘ESSENTIAL’ doctrine of Islam called Al Walaa wal Baraa is complete programming of hate. Once on the path of Al Walaa wal Baraa, a Muslim enters a world of sociopathy. A kafir deserves to suffer and Muslims are BOUNTY HUNTERS and VIGILANTES for Allah raining Allah’s so-called punishment on the dirty KUFAAR. This is indeed an alternate psychological reality. The REWARD is SADOMASOCHISM.

  8. Flavius Claudius Iulianus says

    Oct 11, 2017 at 9:40 pm

    Hey Dennis Edney,
    Please leave Canada and go back to the UK (Scotland) where you belong you virtue signaling, sanctimonious, self-serving ambulance chaser!

    • Bob says

      Oct 12, 2017 at 6:06 am

      Hey, Flavius – how d’you know that Edney is from Scotland?! The UK can well do without him, too. We’ve more than enough mucklim-defending lawyesr of our own!

      • mortimer says

        Oct 12, 2017 at 8:40 am

        Agree… AMBULANCE-CHASER, indeed. It made Edney a multimillionaire compensating a terrorist with JIZZYA.

      • Flavius Claudius Iulianus says

        Oct 12, 2017 at 4:56 pm

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Edney

        Your priggish culture made him, you suffer the result – not us. As far as I’m concerned Canada’s got enough pompous expat Brits and Scots.
        Every single Scot I’ve ever been forced to interact with here was a sanctimonious prig. Why? I don’t know. When I visited Britain all the Brits were super nice and polite but as soon as they emigrate to the new world … you would think they were from the upper echelons of the Royal Family!?!?

  9. gravenimage says

    Oct 11, 2017 at 10:37 pm

    Lawyers: Muslim who plotted jihad massacres “unfairly arrested,” has “addiction issues” and “bi-polar disorder”
    ……………………..

    *Of course* Muslims believe that it is “unfair” to arrest a Mohammedan simply for plotting to slaughter us.

  10. More Ham Ed says

    Oct 11, 2017 at 10:45 pm

    The unholy ko ‘ran is producing alot of mental illness.
    31879 deadly DOCUMENTED islamic terror attacks since 9/11.
    http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/pages/site/the-list.aspx

  11. Older Canadian says

    Oct 11, 2017 at 11:29 pm

    Dennis Edney is more of a threat to Canada than any jihadist.

  12. mummymovie says

    Oct 12, 2017 at 1:38 am

    On behalf of anti-nazi punx:

    DISCHARGE: FREE SPEECH (for the dumb)

    • mummymovie says

      Oct 12, 2017 at 11:43 am

      -principles, rather.

      For the sake of humanity, itself, we cannot let this Grand Betrayal play out to its full extent. It will be the end of us.

      GET INFORMED:

      https://refugeeresettlementwatch.wordpress.com

      GET INVOLVED:

      https://www.numbersusa.com

  13. mummymovie says

    Oct 12, 2017 at 1:44 am

    These are our principals; We have been after it for years.
    Nobody’s gonna call me a bigot.
    No more beating up 75 year-old ladies. No more state-sanctioned child rape.

    I’m not going away. You’ll have to take my head.

    LAN ASTASLEM

    STOP THE HIJRA

    END REFUJIHAD

  14. FYI says

    Oct 12, 2017 at 4:31 am

    Maybe it needs to be considered as an illness.Converts to islam appear to be the most seriously affected.

    ISLAMOPHRENIA

    symptoms:-

    Cognitive Dissonance…caused by the inability to differentiate between God and allah.

    Irony deficiency…when a muslim/islamic mob is on the rampage and they don’t get the fact that they are proving that the islam is the ” religion of peace” nonsense to be false.
    That is called Irony deficiency..

    irrational verbal statements in public..shouting .”allahu akbar”…see Tourette’s syndrome.

    narcissism,sociopathy.psychopathic behaviors

    Delusions of piety{also found in other religions}

    Delusions of freedom to violate God’s commandments(very common in converts to islam) and amazingly be rewarded in some carnal paradise …for doing EVIL!!

    Extreme swinophobia

    Humorlessness,spitting at people who say that “islam is the religion of peace”,sentencing people to death by Fatwa whilst failing to understand that this is a command to commit murder and do evil which is condemned by God in the Sixth Commandment.
    {see Ayatollah Khomeni syndrome}

    • john vieira says

      Oct 13, 2017 at 2:19 am

      The ‘prophet’ condemned their entire issue to Hell…and the sixth commandment does not apply to these ‘illegitimate’ children of Abraham as they are not ‘bound by the Jewish God’s Laws…they are only 1/2 JEWISH…but they sure as heck are breaking the 2nd of the two Great Commandments that precede the Bible…

  15. Emanuele Ciriachi says

    Oct 12, 2017 at 4:56 am

    He has a disorder, all right – the Sudden Jihad Syndrome.

  16. John Forbes says

    Oct 12, 2017 at 6:48 am

    No DOUBT DENNIS EDNEY will see if MUSLIM JUSTIN will cough up another few Million CA$ for this POOR SOUL !

    It may be a little harder this time around & MUSLIM JUSTIN may actually have to call a JUDGE to see what can be arranged !

    Wonder what the excuse will be this time around ???

  17. David says

    Oct 12, 2017 at 12:31 pm

    How apt that he should be flashing the sign of satan, for that’s what it originally was and still is, regardless of the misguided, modern belief.

  18. Del says

    Oct 12, 2017 at 12:35 pm

    It is clear that most Muslims have mental problems. That in itself is a basis for refusing their migration.

  19. Elizabeth L. says

    Oct 12, 2017 at 2:13 pm

    The ‘mental health’ excuse is wearing thin. Time to stop it. Firstly it is an insult to people who are battling with real mental health problems. They are not out in the community attacking people.
    Secondly, jihadis minds are controlled by the unholy spirit of real evil.

  20. Flavius Claudius Iulianus says

    Oct 12, 2017 at 5:02 pm

    Another jihadi attacker goes on trial in Canada (Vancouver):

    http://bc.ctvnews.ca/suspect-s-interrogation-video-played-at-attempted-murder-trial-1.3628764

    • Benedict says

      Oct 12, 2017 at 7:10 pm

      Yes, and he is probably not the last one. The hypnotic recitations of the Koran are quite likely an appeal to the killer instinct. As the devout Muslim Almestadi explained during his interrogation, “Because, I don’t know. I just try to kill somebody,” – But of cause it would be islamophobic to suggest that this is a pattern and that devout Muslims all over the world are inclined to “try to kill somebody” because their “holy” book enjoins them to do so. Only a natural human disposition and sympathy prevents Muslims from heeding the vicious insinuations they are bombarded with daily from their “sacred” scriptures.

  21. gfmucci says

    Oct 13, 2017 at 12:08 am

    That’s the perfect alibi for every Muslim committing an atrocity: “Hey, man, we’re all insane. We got this insane “religion” going on and we must follow it, man. And our insane “religion” is protected by your first amendment, SUCKER!!!!

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