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Florida: Muslim who plotted jihad massacre served three years in prison in Saudi Arabia for attempting to join ISIS

Jun 2, 2020 4:00 pm By Robert Spencer

He should never have been allowed back into the United States after that. The fact that he was shows how dysfunctional the present system really is.

“Tampa Islamic State supporter rehearsed attack, tried to buy gun before arrest, FBI says,” by Kavitha Surana, Tampa Bay Times, May 29, 2020 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):

TAMPA — In the month before his arrest Sunday, federal agents says Muhammed Momtaz Al-Azhari was preparing for a bloodbath.

The 23-year-old Tampa man ordered a bullet-resistant vest, a long sleeved hooded coat, an animal balaclava face mask and a drone. He bought an Uzi submachine gun and tried to order firearm parts and a silencer from eBay, according to a criminal complaint filed in the Middle District of Florida.

In his free time, he surfed Islamic State chatrooms that offered training on making suicide belts and bombs. He looked up details of Omar Mateen’s 2016 shooting attack on Orlando’s Pulse nightclub and googled “Bayshore Boulevard” and “busy beach.” One day, he drove out to Honeymoon Island in Dunedin, then turned around and drove straight back to Tampa.

And, the FBI said, he filmed a mock rehearsal of himself carrying out a massacre:

“Hey you, get on the floor. Get on the floor now. Don’t you move, don’t you move, I’m telling you, I will kill you,” he said in the April 30 cell phone video that FBI agents said they obtained. He was wearing a mask and holding a weapon that agents believe was the Uzi. “This is revenge for my brothers.”…

Al-Azhari is no stranger to Islamic State ideology. He served three years in prison in Saudi Arabia for attempting to join the organization in Syria with his father and two others, according to the criminal complaint. He returned to the U.S. in late 2018 — first to California, where his grandmother lives, and then he moved to Tampa.

An undercover FBI agent started talking to Al-Azhari after he tried to order a pistol frame and jig kit from an eBay seller in Texas, the complaint said. The FBI learned of the sale — the complaint doesn’t say how — and asked the eBay vendor to let an agent take over their account. The vendor agreed.

The undercover agent began calling Al-Azhari on April 25 to discuss possible gun sales. Over the next week, the FBI said it recorded Al-Azhari pressing the undercover agent for help to obtain firearms and a silencer and tried to arrange a cross-country shipment of illicit weapon parts. The criminal complaint included recorded statements from Al-Azhari encouraging the agent to buy a gun from a pawn shop, wipe the serial number and sent it to him….

While he was talking with the agent, the FBI said text messages from Al-Azhari’s phone show he bought a Uzi submachine gun from a local seller. After his arrest, agents retrieved the Uzi….

FBI agents interviewed Home Depot employees, according to the complaint, and they said Al-Azhari often conveyed “passionate and aggressive” views, saying things like Americans got what they deserved in the 9/11 attacks. Several employees also said Al-Azhari had asked them to help him obtain a gun….

“I want to join ISIS,” the complaint said he told the informant. “They are the real followers.”

The two agreed to pool their money to buy a Glock pistol and a silencer from the informant’s cousin, the complaint said. They met Sunday in Tampa, the FBI said, and the informant gave Al-Azhari a bag containing the gun, an extended magazine, a regular magazine and a silencer….

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  1. rubiconcrest says

    Jun 2, 2020 at 4:05 pm

    What happened to extreme vetting Mr. President? He returned to the USA under your watch.

    • AdaptivelyEmergent says

      Jun 2, 2020 at 5:03 pm

      Good point!

    • Wellington says

      Jun 2, 2020 at 5:07 pm

      Trump is being undermined daily by sundry Deep State nincompoops. Even in his own White House he has enemies (e.g., the rube who conveyed to news sources and Democrats his innocuous phone call to the new Ukrainian President which led to the bogus impeachment of Trump).

      The man has done a lot but it is imperative to understand how much of the entire federal government apparatus despises Trump for wanting to drain the fetid swamp which is Washington DC. Even many Republicans have nothing but contempt for Trump. Those two puny excuses for the Presidency and Vice-Presidency back in 2012, Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan, come to mind, as do many ex-Republican politicians (e.g., John Boehner) who have become filthy rich lobbyists and don’t want Trump, as Trump already has for a five-year period after you leave office, interfering with their right to sell their souls to some foreign power.

      I still think that even most Trump supporters don’t fully realize what he is up against. He has enemies everywhere in the federal government and the entire Russian collusion hoax followed by the Ukrainian phone call hoax serve as only two examples of what Trump has been up against.

      He is virtually alone minus a few very good people like William Barr and Mike Pompeo. Proceed from this assumption and, guaranteed, you will be gentler on this flawed but still great man.

      • gravenimage says

        Jun 2, 2020 at 10:20 pm

        +1

      • Seeking Deliverance says

        Jun 3, 2020 at 4:16 am

        Pure truth Wellington. PoTUS Trump has been attacked and undermined by the crooked “two party system” entrenched with the globalist profiteers.

      • Kilauea says

        Jun 3, 2020 at 9:58 am

        You nailed it. We have several enemies in government working to destroy the country.

  2. Rarely says

    Jun 2, 2020 at 5:41 pm

    To quote Marx, that great philosopher:

    “There he is, my ENTIRE argument to restrict immigration”.

    P.S. It was Groucho of course, not Karl.

    • Rarely says

      Jun 2, 2020 at 5:42 pm

      It’s OK to be a Marxist as long as it’s a Groucho Marxist.

  3. gravenimage says

    Jun 2, 2020 at 10:20 pm

    Florida: Muslim who plotted jihad massacre served three years in prison in Saudi Arabia for attempting to join ISIS
    ……………

    We should have known this.

    • Wellington says

      Jun 2, 2020 at 10:42 pm

      I fully agree, gravenimage, but then by now a lot of people should know a lot more about Islam than they do. I regularly ask people basic questions about Islam in a low key kind of way—neighbors, friends, acquaintances, even strangers and my overwhelming experience is that people haven’t bothered to learn diddly squat about the worst religion ever devised by man.

      All of which proves I think that just about the best ally of Islam is ignorance of Islam.

      • gravenimage says

        Jun 2, 2020 at 10:57 pm

        Spot on, Wellington.

      • Kilauea says

        Jun 3, 2020 at 10:00 am

        Islam was more likely devised by Satan, not man.

        • roberta says

          Jun 3, 2020 at 10:18 am

          Islam is not just evil, but is perfectly evil. I marvel at how well it achieves its goals.

      • James Lincoln says

        Jun 3, 2020 at 10:37 am

        Wellington says,

        “I think that just about the best ally of Islam is ignorance of Islam.”

        You are, of course, 100% correct.

        If current so-called “journalists” of the mainstream media, along with our country’s leaders, conducted due diligence and sought – and told – the truth about islam, the general public would eventually wake up.

        Instead, imams and muslim apologists go about largely unchallenged – except by the very brave and staunch anti-jihadists featured on this and similar websites…

  4. Seeking Deliverance says

    Jun 3, 2020 at 4:15 am

    If the population of the United States had any doubt as to their government’s direct alliance with Islam… this story should vanquish such.

    • gravenimage says

      Jun 3, 2020 at 6:53 pm

      I think this has more to do with inexcusable improper vetting than the United States waging violent Jihad.

  5. OLD GUY says

    Jun 3, 2020 at 10:12 pm

    And why did this pice of shit get into our country? And what great humanitarian value did he bring to us? Not a dam thing but a cost to the tax payer to have him here.

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