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Muslim from Dearborn, Michigan went to Iraq to wage jihad for the Islamic State and fight Americans

Aug 1, 2019 11:00 am By Robert Spencer

“I haven’t killed any civilians so I don’t know what ur talking about all I see in the battle place is (a derogatory term used by ISIS to refer to Shia Muslims) army with Iranian and u.s. flag,” Musaibli wrote in August 2016

Nowhere in this article is any hint given of how Ibraheem Musaibli of Dearborn, Michigan got the idea that it would be pleasing to Allah if he waged jihad for the Islamic State. Did he hear something at his mosque that led him to take this path? Has his mosque been investigated? Why not?

“Dearborn man’s jihad journey to Syria chronicled in federal court,” by Robert Snell, Detroit News, July 30, 2019:

Detroit — A Dearborn man captured overseas and charged with supporting the Islamic State fought in two countries, fired on Syrian forces and trained in religious and military camps, federal prosecutors said.

Prosecutors provided new details about Ibraheem Musaibli’s journey to jihad and the nearly three years he spent in Yemen, Iraq and Syria before he was captured by Syrian Democratic Forces in July 2018….

The investigation started in July 2016 when the State Department received a tip that Musaibli was engaged in jihad in Iraq, according to the filing. The emailed tip included a photo of Musaibli with what appeared to be a rifle.

The FBI learned that Musaibli had left the U.S. a year earlier and traveled to Yemen, where he lived for six months before leaving for Syria to join the Islamic State, known as ISIS, prosecutors wrote.

“By late October or early November 2015, (Musaibli) was with ISIS in Raqqa, Syria, the capital of ISIS at that time,” according to the government.

While in Raqqa, Musaibli spent 10 days at an Islamic State religious training camp and traveled with other ISIS members to Mosul, Iraq, where he attended an ISIS military training camp, prosecutors said.

“The military camp included training on traversing terrain with a machine gun, shooting a machine gun, and conducting ambush techniques,” prosecutors wrote. “Upon graduation from the ISIS military training camp, the defendant swore allegiance to ISIS and its leader, Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi.”…

FBI agents searched his Facebook account and found postings and communications that confirmed his role as an Islamic State fighter and Musaibli told several people he was conducting “jihad,” according to the government.

“I haven’t killed any civilians so I don’t know what ur talking about all I see in the battle place is (a derogatory term used by ISIS to refer to Shia Muslims) army with Iranian and u.s. flag,” Musaibli wrote in August 2016, according to the court filing….

In February 2017, military forces in Mosul, Iraq, recovered an Islamic State personnel roster written in Arabic that contained Musaibli’s birthday and nom de guerre, Abu ‘Abd-Al-Rahman Al-Yemeni, prosecutors said.

A recorded conversation from March 2017 indicates Musaibli knowingly joined the Islamic State, prosecutors said. That contradicts comments from Musaibli’s relatives who told The Detroit News that he was tricked by fellow Muslims into traveling overseas and became trapped in war-torn Syria.

By November 2016, Musaibli was with the Islamic State in eastern Syria, prosecutors said.

“The defendant admitted to law enforcement that he conducted armed guard duty and fought on behalf of ISIS against the Syrian Army…,” prosecutors wrote. “He claimed to recall only firing his weapon twice at Syrian military positions.”…

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  1. mortimer says

    Aug 1, 2019 at 11:22 am

    It will be a travesty of justice if Ibraheem Musaibli of Dearborn does not go to jail, after spending three years conducting jihad-terror in Yemen, Iraq and Syria.

    What a liar.

    • Rufolino says

      Aug 2, 2019 at 4:16 am

      Not investigated because any enquiry into his Dearborn mosque would be Islamophobic !

  2. TKF says

    Aug 1, 2019 at 12:20 pm

    Firing squad.

    • keith says

      Aug 1, 2019 at 4:46 pm

      Need someone to clean the rifles when the job is done?

  3. Walter Sieruk says

    Aug 1, 2019 at 12:36 pm

    That Dearborn, Michigan Muslim man who traveled to Iraq to join ISIS and likewise engage in jihad with that Muslim terrorists organization is still another example of a jihad-minded Muslim male who is as committed to his Islamic quest as he is also dangerous and deluded inhis firm but blind and unquestioning faith in Islam and Islam’s violent and murderous jihad.

    This Muslim man from Michigan as well as other ISIS /Muslims are extremely deluded about Islam and also about themselves that they can’t be honest and acknowledge that they are wrong and terribly lack a clear understanding of reality about the falseness and errors of their religion and their own delusional ignorant, irrational Islamic mindset

    Such a primitive way of thinking is described in the Bible , in Psalm 30 2,3. 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 condition of mental madness 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.”

    • Amitzah Mitzvah says

      Aug 1, 2019 at 3:31 pm

      I have read and studied the Christian bible, long before the fake perverted and deviant versions that because the bible didn’t read how they wanted the bible to read so they write bs lies such as the following:
      Psalm 30 2,3. 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.]
      Only another slam from on females from a womam hating man …☝

      • gravenimage says

        Aug 1, 2019 at 7:32 pm

        Is this the Muslim claim that the Bible was “perverted” by Jews and Christians? There is, of course, no evidence for this at all.

        Then, the passage quoted above is not Psalm 30 2,3.

        Then, this passage is about a person lamenting their shortcomings–this is not about proto-feminists hating men. Self-criticism is actually very common in the Bible, as is the urge for personal improvement–something this poster does not appear to understand.

        • Kepha says

          Aug 2, 2019 at 12:06 pm

          While I agree with you, Graven, cut these poor people some slack. They’ve grown up in a culture that revels in self-congratulation and narcissism, so when face with the personal and societal self-criticism evident among the writers of the Bible, they simply don’t know what’s going on.

  4. Joh Bari says

    Aug 1, 2019 at 2:28 pm

    He was involved with “some people who did something.”

  5. lisa says

    Aug 1, 2019 at 2:39 pm

    His family should be arrested for supporting the enemy.

  6. Walter Sieruk says

    Aug 1, 2019 at 3:29 pm

    As for that Muslim from Michigan, the more fool him. For in his Islamic desire to wage jihad ,he would be only destroying

    For he and other violent jihadists , as those of ISIS, are effective only in destroying .That is they destroying ideas and things are what many jihadist /Muslims do best. As revealed in this following essay.

    The Muslims who make up the jihadists of that heinously murderous and destructive jihad entity ,ISIS ,with all their awful violence are best at one things which creating inflecting death on humans and disaster and destruction The ISIS /jihadists never create or make anything of value, or that is good and worthwhile . They are only destructive and not ever constructive. The jihadists of ISIS destroy people, buildings , both religious and non-religious building , They destroy other kinds of architecture , both ancient and modern architecture, Thy destroy music, they destroy literature and manuscripts .Those jihadists of ISIS with their jihad for Islam only destroy .

    As for the last two items of value on this above list which the ISIS/ Muslim destroy. Which are literature and manuscripts this is an example of who history can repeats itself. In this case with ISIS and Muslims the jihad for their religion . For in ancient history and for years after the close of ancient history there was the grand and wonderful Library of Alexandra in Egypt which building that contained much literature and many manuscripts of great value and worth . Then in the year AD 642 came the zeal- filled Muslim warriors who then destroyed building that was that library and all the valuable manuscripts and literature contained in the building. As was in those destructive jihad-minded Muslims in the year 642.who destroyed it all . So it is with the jihad –minded Muslims of ISIS in the twenty -first century .They just destroy.

    To become more clear regarding the history of warrior /jihadist Muslims with their closed Islamic minded and which now is reflected by the destructive actions of the warrior/ jihadists of ISIS is the following .
    “The Library of Alexandria was he center of intellectual life in the Hellenistic and Roman periods, holding scrolls of all Greek literature and thought, joined by the Latin works once the Romans started writing anything worth reading. In AD 642 shortly after the founding of Islam ,a Muslim army captured Alexandria , and their leader said “If those book are in agreement with Koran, we have no need of them: and if those are opposed to the Koran , destroy them.” [1]

    [1] The Greeks by Diane Harris Cline , pages 212,213.

    • Kepha says

      Aug 2, 2019 at 12:12 pm

      It is an open question when the library at Alexandria was destroyed. Julius Caesar, an earthquake, Christians, and Muslims have all been blamed.

  7. Angemon says

    Aug 1, 2019 at 5:12 pm

    “I haven’t killed any civilians so I don’t know what ur talking about all I see in the battle place is (a derogatory term used by ISIS to refer to Shia Muslims) army with Iranian and u.s. flag,” Musaibli wrote in August 2016, according to the court filing….

    Off his rocker, that guy is…

    • Joe says

      Aug 2, 2019 at 7:55 am

      ISIS killed people, and he was fighting for them and against us. He has no remorse for his crime, because he thinks his actions were holy. That is a problem that needs to be addressed.

  8. Senor Doeboy says

    Aug 1, 2019 at 6:51 pm

    the defendant swore allegiance to ISIS and its leader, Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi.”…

    The moment he swore allegiance to another power he renounced his US citizenship.

  9. UNCLE VLADDI says

    Aug 2, 2019 at 3:16 am

    So, what is this Ibraheem Musaibli’s mob-name, “AL-FLINTSTONEI”?

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