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Pennsylvania: Muslim migrant tells feds he wasn’t in jihad group, posts on Facebook pics of himself in it

Aug 29, 2020 1:00 pm By Robert Spencer

The Houthi movement, whose motto is “Allah is the greatest of all, Death to America, Death to Israel, Curse upon the Jews, Victory to Islam.”

It is funded and supported by the Islamic Republic of Iran.

He was caught due to his own carelessness. But how many other migrants with his beliefs are walking around in the United States today because of lax scrutiny by ignorant and politically correct officials?

“Yemeni Man Indicted on Charges of Lying to Joint Terrorism Task Force About Supporting Anti-American and Anti-Semitic Armed Insurgency,” Justice Department, August 19, 2020:

PHILADELPHIA – United States Attorney William M. McSwain announced that Gaafar Muhammed Ebrahim Al-Wazer, 25, of Altoona, PA, was charged by Indictment with three counts of making false statements to Task Force Officers with the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Philadelphia Joint Terrorism Task Force. The defendant was previously arrested at his home in Altoona on November 7, 2019, pursuant to a Criminal Complaint, and has been detained since then, following a finding by U.S. Magistrate Judge Marilyn Heffley that he presented a risk of flight and danger to the community.

According to the Indictment and Criminal Complaint, FBI counterterrorism investigators questioned Al-Wazer, a Yemeni citizen, on May 17, 2016 about his affiliation with the Houthi movement, known formally as Ansar Allah. Ansar Allah is the armed rebel group that toppled Yemen’s government and has fought in an ongoing civil war there for years. Al-Wazer allegedly denied to the FBI that he was aligned with the Houthi movement, whose motto is “Allah is the greatest of all, Death to America, Death to Israel, Curse upon the Jews, Victory to Islam,” and further denied that he had ever fired a weapon or participated in military or militia training.

To the contrary, however, the court documents allege that a search of Al-Wazer’s Facebook account revealed numerous postings and photographs in which he extolled and praised Ansar Allah, its objectives and its fighters who were killed in battle against the Yemeni government and its Saudi and U.S.-backed forces. In these postings, Al-Wazer was armed with automatic weapons (including a rocket-propelled grenade launcher). Al-Wazer’s Facebook account allegedly included a posting of a photograph of him and others bearing automatic assault rifles and pledging that they would stay on the path of jihad and wishing death to the United States and Israel and victory to Islam. In another posting, Al-Wazer again bears a machine gun in a photograph, which is accompanied by a pledge to Ansar Allah to the death.

“Just as when Al-Wazer was arrested and detained in November 2019, today’s Indictment demonstrates that lying to counter-terrorism officers in the course of their official duties is a crime,” said U.S. Attorney McSwain. “Al-Wazer was welcomed into our country for the educational opportunities available here, and he is entitled to hold and express his political and religious beliefs as freely as anyone else in this country — no matter how vile and disgusting they are. But what he cannot do is lie to federal officers when directly questioned about his activities and beliefs. I want to thank our partners in the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force for their continued vigilance in this case.” …

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Filed Under: FBI, Featured, immigration, Yemen Tagged With: Altoona, Ansar Allah, Facebook, Gaafar Muhammed Ebrahim Al-Wazer, Houthis, Pennsylvania


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Comments

  1. Billy Chickens says

    Aug 29, 2020 at 2:01 pm

    The trouble with Muslims is that they think everyone else is as stupid as they are.

    • elee says

      Aug 29, 2020 at 2:30 pm

      Too often they’re right.

      • DavidR says

        Aug 29, 2020 at 4:37 pm

        😂😪

  2. James Lincoln says

    Aug 29, 2020 at 3:43 pm

    Any person with a name like “Gaafar Muhammed Ebrahim Al-Wazer” that has – count them – 28 letters and contains the name of Muhammad (or different spelling variations) should be very carefully vetted.

    Of course that would be “islamophobic”…

  3. Keith O says

    Aug 29, 2020 at 7:29 pm

    This guy is a shining example of the benefits of inbreeding.I just wish all of these cretins were this stupid.
    It would make the task of eliminating them sooo much easier.

    • Nicole Allio says

      Aug 30, 2020 at 1:55 pm

      I agree.

  4. gravenimage says

    Aug 29, 2020 at 9:49 pm

    Pennsylvania: Muslim migrant tells feds he wasn’t in jihad group, posts on Facebook pics of himself in it
    …………

    D’oh!

    • mortimer says

      Aug 29, 2020 at 10:43 pm

      Oh, officers … you mean THOSE pictures? I can explain.

      • gravenimage says

        Aug 29, 2020 at 10:53 pm

        🙂

  5. mortimer says

    Aug 29, 2020 at 10:42 pm

    American Jewry is not paying attention even when jihadists come out in the open displaying their vicious anti-Semitism. They insist on accepting the deceptive Leftard narrative of a supposedly benign Islam.

    No supremacist ideology is ‘benign’. Islam is supremacist by constitution.

    • Red Pill says

      Aug 30, 2020 at 4:58 am

      +1

  6. OLD GUY says

    Aug 30, 2020 at 3:15 pm

    He’s just part of the muslim/islamic migration invasion of our country. They have no intension of becoming Americans they want to destroying and takeover this country turning it into another islamic shit hole country. Stop the migration invasion and close he border to all islamic people.

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