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Missouri: Muslim US Army vet targeted military bases, federal buildings, Wall Street for jihad massacres

Sep 26, 2019 2:00 pm By Robert Spencer

Yet another convert to Islam gets the idea that his new religion commands him to commit treason and mass murder. We never see converts to other religions behaving in this way. But no one cares. It’s a religion of peace, and if you believe otherwise, you’re a hateful racist who must be shunned by all decent folk.

“Mo. man pleads guilty to attempting to provide material support to ISIS,” by Amber Ruch, KFVS, September 24, 2019 (thanks to Robert):

COLUMBIA, Mo. (KFVS) – A Missouri man pleaded guilty to trying to provide material support to people he believed were members of the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham.

They were actually undercover law enforcement.

Robert Lorenzo Hester, Jr., 28, pleaded guilty on Monday, September 23.

Hester has been in federal custody since his arrest in February 2017. He is a U.S. citizen and was enlisted in the U.S. Army for less than a year, receiving a general discharge from service in mid-2013.

By pleading guilty, Hester admitted that from October 2016 to February 2017, he tried to provide material support to ISIS, knowing that it was a designated foreign terrorist organization that engages in terrorist activity.

According to the plea agreement, multiple confidential sources reported to the FBI that Hester had posted a variety of material on multiple social media accounts. He said he had converted to Islam, expressed animus toward the United States and posted photos of weapons and the ISIS flag, among other material.

In order to assess whether Hester was a security threat, the FBI began investigating, starting with an examination of whether and to what extent he would engage directly online with confidential sources working for the FBI, and later with FBI employees working undercover.

FBI employees working undercover communicated with Hester via social media, texting and personal meetings on several occasions.

They say he would say the U.S. government should be “overthrown” and he suggested “hitting” the government “hard,” while noting that it would not be “a one man job.”

Hester identified categories of potential targets for attack, including “oil production,” “military bases,” “federal places,” “government officials” and “Wall Street.”

He specified that “[a]ny government building in DC would get attention of everyone.” He said he wanted a “global jihad.”

Citing his brief enlistment in the Army, Hester also claimed proficiency with “assault weapons” and said that his favorite firearm was the AK-47 rifle. He talked about the perceived ease in which one could gain access to a military base.

According to investigators, Hester had a willingness to act on the statements he made online. An undercover FBI employee talking to him offered an in-person meeting with a like-minded “brother.” Hester agreed to meet and did meet on several occasions with a person who was described as, and Hester believed was, a terrorist operative. In reality, the person was an undercover employee of the FBI….

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Filed Under: American jihadis, converts to Islam, FBI, Featured, Islamic State (aka ISIS, ISIL, Daesh), Jihad in the U.S. Tagged With: Missouri, Robert Lorenzo Hester


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  1. Walter Sieruk says

    Sep 26, 2019 at 2:18 pm

    This Muslim man,Robert Lorenzo Hester, had had targeted military bases, federal buildings, Wall Street for jihad massacres posted photos of weapons and the ISIS flag, among other material..

    Such is the terrible reality that Muslims, as Lorenzo, who as well as other jihadist of SIS with their vicious, Islamic mindset which schemes brutal and murderous jihad attacks against the USA are still plotting future Islamic terror/murder attacks against American citizens and this nation as a whole.

    Nevertheless, we ,as Americans , should not live in fear nor be afraid to go to different places or do different things out of being afraid of an ISIS jihad attack . For to live in fear would make the jihadists of ISIS happy.
    Still, even though we need not live in fear we should be alert and aware of our surrounding as likewise be on the lookout for anything appears wrong or out of place. As in “What’s wrong with this picture?” Then if anything is seen that doesn’t seem right then go and inform and right person about it.
    For example , that tee -shirt vendor in New York City , at times square, who saw some smoke come out of a parked van .So he went a told police officer about it.

    As it has been said “If you see something, say something.” This may be put in another way, be the words of a former US President, Thomas Jefferson, For his wise words apply, even more now, then they did in his own time. For Mr. Jefferson declared “Let the eye of vigilance never be closed.”

  2. tom parry says

    Sep 26, 2019 at 2:21 pm

    here is a reason why, thankyou Mortimer

    mortimer says Nov 4, 2018 at 11:18 am

    Why should I respect believers in a BRONZE-AGE, MISOGYNISTIC DEATH CULT who HATE me ‘for the sake of Allah’, want to ENSLAVE me, ROB ME and turn my children into SEX SLAVES and CASTRATOS?

    What is there in Islam that is worthy of respect? Name one thing?

    THERE ARE MANY things in Islam that NO ONE can respect …

    1 No Golden Rule 2 No free speech 3 No democracy 4 Jihad – holy war of supremacism 5 Honour killings 6 Taqiyya – sacred lying 7 Taqlid – group think 8 Circular reasoning 9 Misogyny – repression of women 10 Rape of kafirs as jihad prizes 11 Genocide 12 Ethnic cleansing 13 Al-Walaa wal-Baraa – Islamic apartheid 14 Torture 15 Plundering 16 Cruel and unusual punishments 16 Backwardness – stagnation 17 Violence against women 18 Slavery 19 Discriminatory Sharia law 20 Hatred of the arts 21 No music 22 Pedophilia disguised as child marriage 23 Fifty generations of cousin marriage and genetic defects 24 Cruelty to animals 25 Extortion tax to humiliate disbelievers 26 No historic basis 27 Anti-intellectual obscurantism 28 FGM 29 Arab racism 30 Theocratic totalitarianism 31 Vigilantism 32 Amoral, opportunistic character of Mohammed that all Muslims must imitate 33 Hatred of non-Muslims as an essential doctrine 34 History of Islam includes the genocidal murders of 270 million non-Muslims in Islamic holy wars, terrorism, persecutions and enslavement directed against non-Muslims. 35. Holy books of Islam contain more calls for violence than all other foundational religious texts.

    • Just Another Important Person says

      Sep 30, 2019 at 7:31 am

      Gotta Love the Aloha Snackbar, if not youre a racist, evil person lol

  3. JW_Reader says

    Sep 26, 2019 at 2:53 pm

    Hester is obviously a convert. He had previous run-ins with law enforcement. He is more like a stupid criminal. I have noticed that Muslims always target low life semi-literates for conversion. These people are easy to manipulate to engage in Jihad. No wonder they are caught. Reminds me of Jeff Dunham’s Akmed – the incompetent suicide bomber. Akmed blowd up half of his own face. (His son sent him half bottle of face cream as Ramadan gift.)

  4. FYI says

    Sep 26, 2019 at 2:55 pm

    The Convert to Christianity or Judaism:
    The Moral imperative is to OBEY God’s Commandments
    {2 chief ones ‘Love God,Love Others’+the ten Exodus 20 laws}

    Not free to hate or do evil.

    The Bible preaches OBEDIENCE to God’s laws and LOVE{see 2 chief commandments}

    versus

    The Convert to islam;
    “Commandments,what commandments?”
    Why bother when al LAH,the pagan Arab god of islam teaches in his ‘holy’ koran that it is ok to murder k2:191,to steal k48:20,to bear false witness etc?

    Freedom to hate,do evil.

    The koran preaches DISOBEDIENCE to God’s laws and HATE
    {remember:there is no second chief commandment in islam,no ‘love thy neighbor’,no Golden rule.There is a doctrine of HATE,al walaa wal baraa}

    The koran is an instruction manual to do evil and violate God’s Commandments.

    It is not hard to figure out the truth:the god of islam is “the BEST of deceivers” k3:54
    The fact that allah teaches the OPPOSITE to God’s laws shows you allah isn’t God.
    {if allah was the same as the Judeo-Christian God,the law would be the same:it isn’t!
    the koran and islam flout God’s Laws}

    al LAH is the pagan Arab god of islam
    al LAH is baal

  5. John Hawk says

    Sep 26, 2019 at 3:55 pm

    Here we go with the jihadi eyes again. If eyes are windows to the soul, then these are the gates to Hell.

  6. Angemon says

    Sep 26, 2019 at 4:42 pm

    Another traitor…

    • gravenimage says

      Sep 26, 2019 at 8:44 pm

      Yes–we unwittingly provided him with Jihad training.

  7. Old Fat Bald Socially Inept Ron says

    Sep 26, 2019 at 6:58 pm

    John Allen Muhammad (Beltway Sniper)
    Nidal Malik Hasan (Fort Hood Jihadist)
    Robert Lorenzo Hester, Jr. (Latest example of why practitioners of Islam probably shouldn’t be permitted to serve in our military)

    • gravenimage says

      Sep 26, 2019 at 8:50 pm

      Spot on, Ron. Of course, he may have converted after he left the service.

  8. infidel says

    Sep 27, 2019 at 12:57 am

    To enlist the services of animal Muslims in the armed forces and police of the host infidel nation… IS ONE OF THE BIGGEST OXYMORON.. It comes back to bite nastily in the most vulnerable and inopportune moments of the infidel land

  9. J D S says

    Sep 27, 2019 at 10:42 am

    Yes just look at those murderous eyes…….

  10. OLD GUY says

    Sep 27, 2019 at 12:04 pm

    Yes look at him, he fits the perfect match for a Muslim nut job. Funny how islam fits in so well with insanity.

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