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Florida: Muslim deported from Saudi Arabia for waging jihad buys weapons and plots jihad massacres in Tampa Bay

Jun 29, 2020 11:00 am By Robert Spencer

“He and his father, Momtaz, visited Saudi Arabia in 2015. During that time, they were both convicted of planning to travel to Syria to participate in a jihad and join the terrorist group, Jaysh al Case, to fight the Syrian government. He served three years in a Saudi Arabian prison before he was deported back to the United States in December 2018.”

Why was he let back into the United States? This jihad plot is squarely the responsibility of flawed policies.

“Tampa Man Indicted On Charges Of Planning ISIS Terrorist Attack,” by D’Ann Lawrence White, Patch, June 26, 2020 (thanks to the Geller Report):

TAMPA, FL — A federal grand jury has indicted a 23-year-old Tampa man accused of purchasing guns and bomb-making materials and planning terrorist attacks at various locations in Tampa Bay on behalf of ISIS.

United States Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez announced the return of the indictment against Muhammed Momtaz Al-Azhari in the U.S. Courthouse in Tampa Friday.

On May 27, Al-Azhari was charged with attempting to provide material support or resources to the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham and violations of the National Firearms Act.

The charges were handed down after the FBI, Homeland Security and other law enforcement agencies concluded an extensive investigation in which they discovered chat room conversations and emails in which Al-Azhari discussed carrying out mass shootings and bombings. The U.S. Justice Department said Al-Azhari researched and scouted such targets as Honeymoon Island in Dunedin, the Tampa FBI field office, Bayshore Boulevard in Tampa and the Seminole Hard Rock Casino in Tampa where he told one informant he hoped to kill more people than Omar Mateen did at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando June 12, 2016.

Two days after the charges were announced, Al-Azhari’s 22-year-old sister, Heba Momtaz Al-Azhari, was shot to death after she attacked a Temple Terrace Police officer with a knife.

According to family members, she was distraught after learning about the charges against her brother.

According to the FBI, Al-Azhari is a U.S. citizen who grew up in Brea and Garden Grove, California.

He and his father, Momtaz, visited Saudi Arabia in 2015. During that time, they were both convicted of planning to travel to Syria to participate in a jihad and join the terrorist group, Jaysh al Case, to fight the Syrian government.

He served three years in a Saudi Arabian prison before he was deported back to the United States in December 2018. He lived with his grandmother in California for more than a year, then relocated with family members to Florida in June 2019….

Investigators said he was obsessed with the Pulse nightclub shooter, even visiting his grave at one point. He rented an apartment in Temple Terrace just minutes away from the Seminole Hard Rock Casino & Hotel, so he could conduct surveillance of the casino in preparation for a mass shooting.

The FBI affidavit said he made comments about his desire to kill more people than Mateen killed during his mass shooting at the Pulse nightclub. Mateen killed 49 people and wounded 53 others….

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Filed Under: Featured, Jihad in the U.S. Tagged With: Florida, Heba Momtaz Al-Azhari, Muhammed Momtaz Al-Azhari, Tampa


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  1. elee says

    Jun 29, 2020 at 11:12 am

    It never ends, does it? Well, good catch this time, oh and, if you aren’t infiltrating and surveilling this guys mosque(s), why not?

  2. Walter Sieruk says

    Jun 29, 2020 at 11:20 am

    In spite of that jihadist being deported ,maybe sent ?, from kingdom of Saudi Arabia, that Islamic nation not actually a real friend of the USA .For it has not and will not spare any of its vast oil wealth as to use its financial resources to fund and promote the advancement of Islam by and through the jihad. By this it means both the stealth jihad and even the subtle support violent jihad.

    As explained, for example in the book HOW ISLAM PLANS TO CHANGE THE WORLD by William Wagner. For on pages 109, 110. The reader is informed that “The Wall Street journal on April 15, 2003 published an article titled ‘In law Seminars, A Saudi Group Spreads Extremism.’ The article began by saying ‘In late February more than 300 young men from across Europe gathered for a weekend seminar on Islamic Law put on by Al-Waqf al-Islaami Foundation.’ The article went on to explain that the most famous graduates from the seminar were half a dozen members of the group of young men from Hamburg, Germany, who plotted the September 11, attacks. The language of the was Dutch, but ‘the message was imported from Saudi Arabia, via Saudi books and lecturers who taught a strict orthodox interpretation of Islam.’ “

    Further on the very same page of 110 the information is given that “TIME MAGAZINE , in an article on Saudi Arabia: Inside the Kingdom,’ stated ‘Apart from channeling money to foundations that have assisted terrorist groups, Saudis have for years supported institutions abroad the propagate Wahhabism.’”

    In addition to all this, in the book of the title of THE HISTORY OF JIHAD FROM MUHAMMAD TO ISIS, by Robert Spencer on pages 333 through 337.Mr Spencer provides valid information of the subject of “ The Saudi involvement in September 11.”

    So with that Islamic regime of Saudi Arabia and its oil money support the different type of the jihad, both stealth and the violent kind, with its Islamic agenda advancement and spread , influence and infiltration of the Western nations ,this kingdom of Saudi Arabia is no friend at all of America or any other country of the West.

  3. Beneath the Veil of Consciousness says

    Jun 29, 2020 at 11:42 am

    The United States is Saudi Arabia’s garbage bin?

    • GuyGadbous says

      Jun 29, 2020 at 6:11 pm

      It would appear……

    • gravenimage says

      Jun 29, 2020 at 8:02 pm

      Notice the Saudis–our supposed “allies”–don’t appear to have notified us.

  4. Mario Alexis Portella says

    Jun 29, 2020 at 1:41 pm

    When are we going to realize that the Saudis are not are friends? Neither are countries like Qatar and the UAE and yet we keep providing weapons to them! http://www.faithfreedom.org/u-s-weapon-commerce-in-the-islamic-world/

    • gravenimage says

      Jun 29, 2020 at 8:02 pm

      Spot on, Mario.

    • LytchZam says

      Jun 29, 2020 at 10:58 pm

      I wouldn’t trust the Saudis with a dull box cutter.

      • gravenimage says

        Jul 1, 2020 at 12:00 am

        +1

  5. OVER it says

    Jun 29, 2020 at 1:59 pm

    The DEMOCRATS just found their new house speaker….

  6. spiro says

    Jun 29, 2020 at 3:11 pm

    If I read this correctly he was deported
    Back go the US so my question is who let this family into the US in the first place
    Who is opening the doors to our stayed enemies and it’s not just policy there’s a name to policies

    • Mario Alexis Portella says

      Jun 29, 2020 at 4:51 pm

      +1

    • Mario Alexis Portella says

      Jun 29, 2020 at 4:52 pm

      Indeed!

  7. gravenimage says

    Jun 29, 2020 at 8:03 pm

    Florida: Muslim deported from Saudi Arabia for waging jihad buys weapons and plots jihad massacres in Tampa Bay
    ……………….

    Why did we ever let him back in? Glad he was caught–this time. But how many others just him are there in the US and the rest of the West?

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