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Chicago: Islamic State jihadi quietly released after FBI intervention found in minimum security jail

Aug 11, 2018 12:30 pm By Robert Spencer

Emad Karakrah was “the ringleader of a sophisticated narco-terror operation, and in 2014 he was arrested after leading police on a high-speed chase through Chicago streets with an ISIS flag waving from his car. When police finally captured Karakrah, he told officers his car was rigged with explosives that would detonate if searched. Bomb disposal units secured the vehicle without incident, but Karakrah’s arrest helped expose a huge narco-terrorist network with roots and financing in El Paso, Texas.”

It is not wise that he is now in a minimum security jail. What if he escapes? But why did the FBI intervene on his behalf in the first place? “Karakrah reportedly became a confidential informant for the FBI, but went rogue and broke contact with his bureau handlers.” So what do they owe him? What do they have on him? This whole story seems to be more evidence of the corruption and incompetence of the FBI.

“ISIS Militant Quietly Released after FBI Intervention Surfaces in Minimum Security Jail – Judicial Watch,” Judicial Watch, August 10, 2018 (thanks to the Geller Report):

An ISIS operative jailed in Chicago and mysteriously released after FBI intervention, has surfaced in a minimum security prison about 165 miles south of the Windy City. His name is Emad Karakrah, the ringleader of a sophisticated narco-terror operation, and in 2014 he was arrested after leading police on a high-speed chase through Chicago streets with an ISIS flag waving from his car. When police finally captured Karakrah, he told officers his car was rigged with explosives that would detonate if searched. Bomb disposal units secured the vehicle without incident, but Karakrah’s arrest helped expose a huge narco-terrorist network with roots and financing in El Paso, Texas. Karakrah also lived in New Mexico, the border state where authorities just raided an extremist Muslim compound that trained kids to commit school shootings.

Judicial Watch uncovered Karakrah’s terrorism record and has reported extensively on his extremist activities, including a 2009 plot to bomb talk-show host Oprah Winfrey’s Chicago studios and the iconic Sears Tower. Judicial Watch also produced an investigative documentary about the narco-terrorist cell that Karakrah and other jihadists—including two of the FBI’s most wanted terrorists (Jaber A. Elbaneh and Adnan Gulshair el Shukrijumah)—operated from El Paso. Karakrah was a logistics and transportation operative for militant Islamists in the United States, according to high-level law enforcement sources. He moved people, weapons, explosives, drugs, money, and other materiel to terrorist cells operating in Chicago, Brooklyn, New York and Saddle Brook, New Jersey, among other locations across the U.S. More than a decade ago Karakrah smuggled drugs and weapons for the renowned Juárez drug cartel in Mexico.

At some point, Karakrah reportedly became a confidential informant for the FBI, but went rogue and broke contact with his bureau handlers. This appears to be the reason that the FBI got involved in his state case, which was veiled in secrecy. Legal proceedings against Karakrah in Chicago were delayed at least twice because of FBI “equities,” sources close to the case confirmed. An FBI agent was present during Karakrah’s proceedings in Cook County Court and the agency facilitated his release in 2015, which was kept from the public record. Judicial Watch followed the case closely and verified that Karakrah was no longer in custody of Cook County Jail. The Illinois Department of Corrections subsequently confirmed in writing that Karakrah was not in custody. Judicial Watch’s efforts to independently ascertain Karakrah’s whereabouts were unsuccessful until recently. Karakrah has surfaced at the Lincoln Correctional Center, a minimum security facility in a town of about 14,000 residents. Karakrah’s Illinois Department of Corrections profile lists his “projected discharge date” as July 13, 2020.

The pending release is frightening considering Karakrah’s disturbing history, criminal record and documented ties to some of the world’s most dangerous jihadists. The collaboration between Mexican drug cartels and Islamic terrorists practiced by Karakrah and his cohorts has become a monstrous national security issue for the U.S. Judicial Watch has exposed a number of the enterprises as part of an ongoing investigation into the critical national security threats along the porous southern border. Among the most distressing is that Islamic terrorists joined forces with the Juárez drug cartel years ago and the partnership has resulted in ISIS operating in a region controlled by the cartel, just a few miles from El Paso in a border area known as “Anapra” in the Mexican state of Chihuahua. Other Mexican drug cartels have smuggled nationals of terrorist countries into the U.S. for years, records uncovered by Judicial Watch show….

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  1. somehistory says

    Aug 11, 2018 at 12:59 pm

    In a word, “corruption.”

    When studying terrorism and other criminal actions, it is not uncommon to find that this kind of thing happens often. Once the FBI decides someone is an “informant,” they don’t like to turn on that one with prosecution. No matter the danger or kind of crimes committed or likely to be.

  2. Mary says

    Aug 11, 2018 at 1:30 pm

    Could this be part of his cover story. He was arrested and jailed now maybe he won’t be killed by Islamics, but can I form on their activities.

  3. utis says

    Aug 11, 2018 at 1:38 pm

    Regardless of their motives, drug dealers practice “soft terrorism.” They poison their clients (sometimes literally, with bad drugs), their clients’ families, their clients neighbors and co-workers. They poison the offspring of their clients, conceived by incompetents, who become incompetent parents. The higher up the hierarchy of dealers, the worse the punishment should be.

    I wonder if this perp is going to have a “miracle” helicopter rescue by his flunkies or handlers. Just like that punk in France recently.

  4. brane pilot says

    Aug 11, 2018 at 2:30 pm

    Eight years of B Hussein Obama have hopelessly compromised the FBI and Federal security agencies.
    Under 8 years of Obama, any recognition of the linkage between Islam, Jihad, and Islamic Terrorism was a thought crime punishable by dismissal.
    Those people are all gone.
    Those who remain have been thoroughly indoctrinated in the disconnect between Islam and Jihad.
    Active personnel now sincerely believe that ‘Islamic Terrorism’ is a fantasy that falls under the categorys of racism, xenophobia, islamophobia and bigotry.
    It will take another 8 years to fix that.
    Maybe longer; until they retire.

  5. Kevin Orts says

    Aug 11, 2018 at 3:03 pm

    As we become more like Great British-Stan

    Or is it Traskanistan?
    After so many Jihads I’ve forgotten

  6. rooare says

    Aug 11, 2018 at 3:27 pm

    These jihadi’s play the FBI just like Whitey Bolger did, feed authorities a few crumbs of info and carry on with murders, drug trafficking, and other nefarious activity all under the protection of the FBI who are supposed to protect the public not criminals.

  7. Sam says

    Aug 11, 2018 at 7:09 pm

    FBI is more interested in protecting criminals than the tax paying American infidel.

  8. terry says

    Aug 11, 2018 at 7:51 pm

    Test

  9. gravenimage says

    Aug 11, 2018 at 8:14 pm

    Chicago: Islamic State jihadi quietly released after FBI intervention found in minimum security jail
    ………………..

    More suicidal insanity.

  10. Jack Holan says

    Aug 11, 2018 at 10:13 pm

    If the FBI did there work from the Fron + Profilethey wouldn’t have to rely on Drek like this one. Why why why would they honor an agreement with him but to not hero’s for minor infractions compared to this. He sees himself as a soldier fighting for Allah against the Infidel and he can use Taqqiya or even turn in other Arabs if it will project him higher within the Bureau to gather names, functions, operations and even so much as an internal phone Director. In the 70s the EvGermans got there hands on one. They flipped the Executive admin to the Chief Of NATO and knew everything going on unting she was caught with EGerman lover. This terrorist should be in prison for the rest of his life w:out parole or until he’s unable to lift a Twinkie. In WW2 the German American sabetours sent the US and were caught 2 or 3 of the 8 were executed in the electric chair and the others spent many years a Leavenworth. Yet these FBI clowns think the most of him to give almost no sentence. Why not pay big bucks too? Why do you think in WW2 these Traitors got no quarter? They were tried, convicted and sentenced by a military tribunal for a team and no ACLU RUNNING AROUND LIKE A CHICKEN WITHOUT A HEAD CONCERNED about their Rights. However, Obama treated -2-turncoats like. A Prince after release

  11. SaneHumanity says

    Aug 12, 2018 at 9:58 am

    So disheartening.

  12. Keith W. Jordan says

    Aug 12, 2018 at 1:21 pm

    I thought Islam was against narcotics. What is the point of this behavior, if not to promote Islam?

  13. Giacomo Latta says

    Aug 12, 2018 at 2:18 pm

    The FBI has more than its share of gullible idiots. Please, FBI, share some of them with the rest of society.

  14. Garfield says

    Aug 12, 2018 at 11:46 pm

    The beheadings the cartels do are what Isis did. Same M.O., Same people.
    I think Iran funded Hezbollah is part of a huge drug running scheme. Iran and the Lebanese seems involved in the so called “tri border area” in South America. Crazy! Crazy how it ballooned up during obama, isn’t it?

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