The Washington Times reported in December 2016 that Thompson was arrested for “alleged ties to the Islamic State group and a plan to target midnight Masses in Phoenix,” and that “his Google account has been used as recently as October 2016 to search for midnight mass.”
Only a year? What do they think this man will do in a year? Become a loyal, stable, productive citizen? It is much more likely that, once his jihadist sentiments are reinforced in prison, as they will be, he will come out more determined to kill in the name of Allah than he ever was.
“Phoenix man sentenced to prison for planning ISIS-inspired attack,” KTAR.com, January 22, 2018 (thanks to Creeping Sharia):
PHOENIX — A Phoenix man who was accused of planning an ISIS-inspired terrorist attack in Arizona was sentenced to one year in prison and four years of probation on Monday.
Derrick Thompson, aka Abu Talib al-Amriki, pleaded guilty to two felony charges: Assisting a criminal syndicate and solicitation to commit misconduct involving weapons.
Thompson was first arrested in 2016 after he allegedly took steps to commit an ISIS-inspired, lone-wolf attack in the state. Court documents at the time showed Thompson tried to buy a semi-automatic weapon online the year prior “with the intent to use that weapon to promote or further the objectives of a criminal syndicate.”…