“Beginning in May 2015, Yassin communicated over Twitter with a person identified in court documents as ‘Individual A,’ whom she believed was an ISIS operative located outside the United States. They discussed ISIS’s publishing of personally identifying information of U.S. government employees and others, to threaten violence against those persons on behalf of ISIS.”
Twitter, meanwhile, was busy hounding and persecuting foes of jihad terror, while leaving up ISIS accounts to operate freely.
“Woman From Buffalo Pleaded Guilty To Supporting ISIS Through Twitter,” by Nancy Simpson, KTTS, February 28, 2018:
A woman from Buffalo has admitted to sending threatening tweets to FBI employees and former military members on behalf of ISIS.
Timothy A. Garrison, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Buffalo, Mo., woman pleaded guilty in federal court today to using Twitter to transmit threatening communications against several persons, including two FBI employees and two former members of the military and their families, on behalf of the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham, also known as ISIS.
Safya Roe Yassin, 40, of Buffalo, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge M. Douglas Harpool to two counts of transmitting threatening communications across state lines, contained in a July 19, 2016, federal indictment.
By pleading guilty today, Yassin admitted that she maintained a series of Twitter accounts under the pseudonym “Muslimah” that she used to post, or tweet, messages in support of ISIS, a designated foreign terrorist organization. Yassin also re-posted, or re-tweeted, messages she knew were authored by ISIS operatives residing overseas.
Beginning in May 2015, Yassin communicated over Twitter with a person identified in court documents as “Individual A,” whom she believed was an ISIS operative located outside the United States. They discussed ISIS’s publishing of personally identifying information of U.S. government employees and others, to threaten violence against those persons on behalf of ISIS. From May 2015 through at least October 2015, Yassin and Individual A routinely communicated about promoting new pro-ISIS accounts to like-minded followers before Twitter suspended them….
elee says
WRONG STATE, this happened in Missouri.
Mark Spahn (West Seneca, NY) says
Yes, Buffalo, Missouri, is not the same as Buffalo, New York. (I saw the headline and wondered, How come I haven’t heard about this?)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo%2C_Missouri
John says
I cannot recall where I saw this quote; “Not all terrorists are Muslim but all Muslims are terrorists.” I did not want to believe this, yet, they have convinced me daily it is the truth.
gravenimage says
Certainly, most terrorists are Muslims.
Jack Diamond says
From the linked article:
“Several hacker groups, including Anonymous, have rallied against ISIS under an online campaign they call #OpISIS. While most participants keep their identities hidden, most of their activities are public. They often publish lists of ISIS supporters and recruiters, and call on the community to report the accounts…
“Who suspended 125,000 accounts? Anonymous, Anonymous affiliated groups, and everyday citizens,” says a statement from WauchulaGhost, an anti-terrorist hacker with the hacker collective Anonymous, but was formerly with GhostSec.
“You do realize if we all stopped reporting terrorist accounts and graphic images, Twitter would be flooded with terrorists,” WauchulaGhost says.
“While Twitter is telling the public it’s working to stop ISIS recruitment on its services, it has been suspending accounts of the community who are doing the actual footwork.”
A few years back I tracked a commentator-of-interest all the way to his Twitter and discovered a nest of people “following” and “followed” several of whom claimed to be english speaking members of ISIS in Syria. Everything about their pages passed the smell test. There were more than a dozen accounts I reported to someone I knew who was an online “terrorist hunter” with connections to the FBI. Likely others were aware of them too and my report was redundant, still, the next time I checked all those accounts were gone. It wasn’t because of anything Twitter was doing. Twitter was (and clearly still is ) flooded with jihadis while “hounding foes jihad terror.”
Jack Diamond says
The message Safya Roe Yassin retweeted contained the phrase “wanted to kill” followed by the name, status with the FBI, city of residence, and phone number of the intended victims.
Regarding the serviceman, she retweeted his address, the names of his wife and children, and the phrase: “Once again I leave these details online to cause havoc in his life & for my brothers and Al-Qaeda in the U.S. to eventually hunt him down & kill him.” There was a fourth, a serviceman she called ISIS’s “number one target.”
More:
On June 4, two FBI agents interviewed Yassin at her home along Highway 32 in Bolivar. Yassin acknowledged making the posts when agents showed her screenshots, according to the FBI, but said her intentions had been misunderstood.
Asked about pictures she posted of children with flags associated with the Islamic State, Yassin said it was a traditional Islamic flag that had been co-opted by the extremist group, the complaint says.
“She stated that she posted the pictures with happy emoticons because she thought the children were cute, rather than to signal her support for ISIL,” the FBI wrote.
According to one tweet archived by the Program on Extremism, on the December day that 14 people were killed in San Bernadino, California, one account associated with Yassin posted: “Munafiqeen are holding their breath right now, hoping it was not a Muslim who did mass shooting in USA, while I am hoping it was.” Munafiqeen is an Arabic term for a religious hypocrite…
The unnamed complainant who called the FBI about Yassin in January 2015 stated that he or she had befriended Yassin on Facebook, according to court documents. The individual said Yassin introduced him or her to Islam and was “unexceptional in her teachings” in the early part of their relationship, a fact that prompted the individual to convert to Islam.
But at some point, according to the FBI, Yassin’s tone began to change.
The individual told the FBI that Yassin directed him or her to divorce a non-Muslim spouse and to get rid of all dogs and non-Muslim friends, according to the FBI. But “the complainant stated that while Yassin’s beliefs are disturbing, Yassin has not directly advocated violence to the complainant,” the FBI wrote. *{disturbing but absolutely orthodox}
The individual also said he or she regretted calling authorities and did not believe Yassin posed a danger. According to the FBI, the day prior, the individual told Yassin he or she wanted to stop communicating and Yassin said she knew that person was the one who “snitched” on her.
https://www.thespectrum.com/story/news/crime/2016/02/25/safya-roe-yassin-well-known-isis-twitter-scene-fbi-arrested-buffalo-missouri-terrorism-woman/80621154/
Walter Sieruk says
This wicked jihadist scheming of that demonic jihad entity, ISIS is always wicked and dangerous Moreover, the cruel, brutal and murderous ISIS jihadists are so extremely deluded about themselves that they can’t be honest and acknowledge that the Bible verse found in Psalm 30 2,3. Does, very much, describe them. For it reads “Surely I am a brute, not a man; I do not have human understanding. I have not learned wisdom, nor have I attained to the knowledge of the Holy One.” [N.I.V.] Likewise, the jihadists who compose ISIS in such an Islamic delusional and irrational state of mind in their mad Islamic quest to establish a caliphate that they are further described in the Bible book of Ecclesiastes 9:3. This reads “The hearts of men are full of evil and there is madness in their hearts while they live, and afterward they join the dead.”
Sam says
Her family was shocked too or we did not ask them any questions about being a muslim and a terrorist as it would offend the family members?
gravenimage says
What a good little Muslimah, wanting to have US government employees murdered.
dumbledoresarmy says
Was she born in the USA to Muslim immigrant parents, or did she migrate and then take out citizenship?
Either way, she’s an enemy combatant and should be treated as such. And her American citizenship, if she possesses it, should be annulled. If born in the USA, she’s a traitor. If not born in the USA, she’s an enemy agent, a fifth columnist.
Jail her; then, sentence served, *deport* her, with her citizenship (if she had it) publicly and humiliatingly stripped from her.
And.. what mosque did she – and does her family/ extended family – attend? Shouldn’t it have been surprise-raided and searched, like, yesterday?