• Why Jihad Watch?
  • About Robert Spencer and Staff Writers
  • FAQ
  • Books
  • Muhammad
  • Islam 101
  • Privacy

Jihad Watch

Exposing the role that Islamic jihad theology and ideology play in the modern global conflicts

New Jersey woman charged with transferring money to jihad terrorist in Syria with whom she had ‘relationship’

Nov 27, 2020 5:00 pm By Robert Spencer 21 Comments

It was all for love: “The FBI affidavit alleged that Bell regularly used encrypted apps to communicate with a Nusra member with whom she had an online relationship.”

“American woman charged with transferring money to Syria-based terrorists,” Reuters, November 25, 2020:

U.S. federal prosecutors have charged a New Jersey woman with concealing multiple efforts to transfer money to Islamist militants in Syria connected to the Nusra Front, a onetime al Qaeda affiliate based in Syria’s Idlib province.

Maria Bell, 53, of Hopatcong, New Jersey, was accused in a criminal complaint of knowingly concealing her involvement in providing material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization, namely al-Nusra….

The U.S. Attorney’s office in Newark alleges in court filings that starting around February 2017, Bell used mobile phone apps to communicate with, advise and facilitate money transfers, to al-Nusra, also known as Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS).

An affidavit signed by FBI agent Matthew Hohmann says Bell also used encrypted apps to provide information to al-Nusra which could “support acts of terrorism.” This included advice on operational security, communications and gun purchases….

The FBI affidavit alleged that Bell regularly used encrypted apps to communicate with a Nusra member with whom she had an online relationship. It said she allegedly exchanged “thousands of encrypted communications” with the alleged Nusra member.

The FBI said that she planned to meet him in Turkey and sent at least 18 payments totaling $3,150 to his associates via wire transfer.

Share this:

  • Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window)
  • Click to print (Opens in new window)
  • Click to email this to a friend (Opens in new window)
  • More
  • Click to share on Skype (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Telegram (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Pocket (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)

Follow me on Facebook

Filed Under: Al-Qaeda, American jihadis, Featured, Jihad in the U.S., Syria Tagged With: Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS)., Hopatcong, Maria Bell, New Jersey, Nusra Front


Learn more about RevenueStripe...

Comments

  1. livingengine says

    Nov 27, 2020 at 5:20 pm

    Reply
  2. eduardo odraude says

    Nov 27, 2020 at 5:30 pm

    The “Love jihad.” Jihadist scouts out lonely single Western woman. Jihadist woos lonely single Western woman. Jihadist gains various jihad advantages (such as citizenship, financial support, etc.) by being in relationship or marriage with lonely Western woman. This happens not only with jihadists. Sometimes a Muslim who is not a jihadist but is a traditional Muslim who likes the Sharia ethos, including its subjection of women, at first treats the Western woman with respect, but once she has gone with him to his home country, she finds herself living in a virtual hell where she is greatly restricted in what she may do and is subject to various kinds of abuse. She may find it difficult then to escape.

    Reply
    • mortimer says

      Nov 28, 2020 at 9:36 am

      The ‘Love Jihad’ ticket will be her ticket to prison.

      Women fall for ‘love jihad’, because they don’t know the bait-and-switch technique of normative, Islamic jihad.

      Reply
  3. Yogi says

    Nov 27, 2020 at 5:48 pm

    What a stupid brainless woman, that’s all …

    Reply
    • Keith O says

      Nov 28, 2020 at 3:16 am

      Got it in one Yogi.

      Reply
    • b.a. freeman says

      Nov 28, 2020 at 11:18 am

      Yogi, what she *did* was certainly brainless and stupid, but she was raised and trained to be that way. do U remember learning about islam is primary school or secondary school? no? neither do i, because the f***ing leftists who run the indoctrination centers that used to be public schools HID IT FROM US. and they hid it from this woman as well. remember, forewarned is forearmed; had she understood islam, she would have sent the al-nusra dude a box of pigs**t instead of money.

      we who *do* understand this poisonous piss-pot of a death cult welded onto the world’s largest gang need to be understanding of the 98% or more of non-muslims who do not. for this woman, it is too late, and she may never be able to recover her rationality. there are *millions* of others though, like the deluded, uneducated christians at christianity today, who need to be shown the truth. we cannot do that if we get all in their face, but if we befriend them and then slowly, gently expose them to how this s**t-eating cult works, we may gain allies and be able to save civilization.

      Reply
    • Doris Frech says

      Nov 29, 2020 at 3:40 am

      10000000000 times Yes!Greetings from Germany

      Reply
  4. Wellington says

    Nov 27, 2020 at 5:53 pm

    Been to Hopatcong in Sussex County, New Jersey. I’m going to be deliberately cruel here and state that Hopatcong is not a bad place, and much of Sussex County is beautiful farm country, but this woman is a dog.

    Woof. No wonder she had to stoop to an online relationship with a Muzzie. Let’s face it, she was running out of options.

    Reply
    • gravenimage says

      Nov 27, 2020 at 11:05 pm

      Oh, I think she could have found someone better than a Jihad terrorist bent on using her–of course, that’s setting the bar pretty low…

      Reply
    • mgoldberg says

      Nov 28, 2020 at 8:07 am

      The dog comment…. That’s rather unnecessary and it is cruel Wellington. But choosing a jihadi for a relationship details the ability to tunnel vision oneself into a deadly ignorance, and to become a moral and ethical reprobate and or worse… an enabler of homicidists. That is all our right and duty to delineate and detail her actions and it’s consequences.

      Reply
  5. Patriot1776 says

    Nov 27, 2020 at 6:45 pm

    He took advantage of her. She was probably lonely and vulnerable . Then again I can be wrong.

    Reply
  6. somehistory says

    Nov 27, 2020 at 7:19 pm

    Using her knowledge of how to encrypt, make money transfers, buy weapons, and hide these actions…for an evil group who would then use them to murder innocent people.

    Too bad she didn’t use her knowledge for good and not for evil. Stupid and desperate for male attention she is.

    Had she managed to get to turkey to meet up with her honeybun, she would have found out it wasn’t going to be the paradise she expected. Soon, the burka bodybag, the beatings, the insults coming from a filthy multiple murderer. And if she had lied to him about her age, maybe abandoned to die of starvation or attack. moslim terrorists like the females young…the younger, the more they lust for these.
    She’s better off in an American prison.

    Reply
    • Peter WF says

      Nov 28, 2020 at 8:51 pm

      Hi, thanks, gave me a laugh. “Too bad she didn’t use her knowledge for good and not for evil.” Reminded me of a commonly used phrase in “Get Smart”.

      Reply
      • somehistory says

        Nov 28, 2020 at 10:12 pm

        I’m glad I could add a little humor. I loved Maxwell Smart and his famous lines. “Would you believe…” and “Don’t worry” changed to “Worry” and this one that seemed so apropos.

        Reply
  7. gravenimage says

    Nov 27, 2020 at 11:00 pm

    New Jersey woman charged with transferring money to jihad terrorist in Syria with whom she had ‘relationship’
    …………………

    Either evil or bone-headedly stupid. No other possibilities.

    Reply
    • mgoldberg says

      Nov 28, 2020 at 8:20 am

      Being tenaciously stupid is not that rare. Especially when there are so many forces working to convince people that they are being righteous thru following corrupted principles such as the Jihadi hides behind his cooing affections for the lady. I think we should be aware that it’s an ongoing effort by Jihadi’s to convince people that islam means peace- and yet if anyone drills down into that, they come to understand that there is no peace according to Islam unless all are ‘submitted’. And many people are driven to believe only that Islam means peace and this women no doubt was also drilled into believing that myth.

      Reply
  8. eduardo odraude says

    Nov 27, 2020 at 11:48 pm

    Reply
  9. Jayell says

    Nov 28, 2020 at 2:49 am

    In times past, UK newspapers occasionally featured ‘romantic’ stories about British teenage girls (usually the not-particularly-attractive ones) who went to Turkey on holiday with their families and ended up in ‘relationships’ with waiters at the hotels they were staying in. The ‘waiters’ in question would then sometimes strangely end up in the UK, having impregnated and then possibly married the girl, but what happened after that we never seemed to know apart from the obvious fact that the UK population had acquired two extra members, one of which would probably be on the local unemployment register. One particular ‘happy young bride’ proudly presented herself to the cameras in full islamic gear, no doubt blissfully unaware that she’d probably find herself as part of a harem/muslim production line in a short space of time. But, before the time of the Twin Towers and Manchester Arena events, this was just Mills & Boon romantic novel stuff on a par (sort of?) with ‘Lawrence of Arabia’, no one knew about things like Jihad. and everyone thought that islam was just like going to church with added spices. The difference between that sort of thing and Ms Bell’s adventure here is that everyone, including Ms. Bell, should now be well aware of the not-so-hidden underlying agenda in countries where the Prophet Mohammed is venerated; and our heroine isn’t quite what you’d call a ‘gullible teenage girl’ who perhaps should have known a little better anyway?

    Reply
  10. Brenrod says

    Nov 28, 2020 at 8:16 am

    The whole narrative appears fishy: a total of $3150 divided by 18 transfers is about 170$ per transfer, hardly plot numbers. Sounds like a typical romance scam. It’s hard to imagine she had any “advice” to give terrorists. Also, what’s the big deal with using “encrypted apps, isn’t “WhatsApp” encrypted and used by billions? I would have thought the fbi had bigger “plots” to follow, but then they also pushed the fake trump Russia plot.

    Reply
  11. OLD GUY says

    Nov 28, 2020 at 10:11 am

    Poor woman falls in love on-line with a terrorist from Syria. Warning signs she missed. He’s from Syria, he’s muslim, he follows Islam, he asked her to send money and to try to send the money so it couldn’t be traced. DUMB

    Reply
  12. nossuk says

    Nov 28, 2020 at 7:39 pm

    But the wealthy criminals continue to skate

    Reply

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

FacebookYoutubeTwitterLog in

Subscribe to the Jihad Watch Daily Digest

You will receive a daily mailing containing links to the stories posted at Jihad Watch in the last 24 hours.
Enter your email address to subscribe.

Please wait...

Thank you for signing up!
If you are forwarding to a friend, please remove the unsubscribe buttons first, as they my accidentally click it.

Subscribe to all Jihad Watch posts

You will receive immediate notification.
Enter your email address to subscribe.
Note: This may be up to 15 emails a day.

Donate to JihadWatch
FrontPage Mag

Search Site

Translate

The Team

Robert Spencer in FrontPageMag
Robert Spencer in PJ Media

Articles at Jihad Watch by
Robert Spencer
Hugh Fitzgerald
Christine Douglass-Williams
Andrew Harrod
Jamie Glazov
Daniel Greenfield

Contact Us

Terror Attacks Since 9/11

Archives

  • 2020
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2019
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2018
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2017
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2016
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2015
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2014
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2013
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2012
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2011
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2010
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2009
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2008
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2007
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2006
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2005
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2004
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • September
    • August
    • July
    • June
    • May
    • April
    • March
    • February
    • January
  • 2003
    • December
    • November
    • October
    • March

All Categories

You Might Like

Learn more about RevenueStripe...

Recent Comments

  • Mount Zion on Iranian Kurdistan: Muslim brothers behead their sister in honor killing over her romantic relationship
  • James Lincoln on Islamic Republic of Iran: Turkey’s Erdogan champions Islam only as a tool to further his own interests
  • James Lincoln on Canadian Mental Health Association studies Muslim women’s mental health due to ‘discrimination’ and ‘hate crimes’
  • terry sullivan on Greece, Cyprus, Egypt, France and UAE conduct joint military exercises amid rising Turkish threat
  • Keith O on India: Police make first arrest for ‘love jihad’ under new law

Popular Categories

dhimmitude Sharia Jihad in the U.S ISIS / Islamic State / ISIL Iran Free Speech

Robert Spencer FaceBook Page

Robert Spencer Twitter

Robert Spencer twitter

Robert Spencer YouTube Channel

Books by Robert Spencer

Jihad Watch® is a registered trademark of Robert Spencer in the United States and/or other countries - Site Developed and Managed by Free Speech Defense

Content copyright Jihad Watch, Jihad Watch claims no credit for any images posted on this site unless otherwise noted. Images on this blog are copyright to their respective owners. If there is an image appearing on this blog that belongs to you and you do not wish for it appear on this site, please E-mail with a link to said image and it will be promptly removed.

Our mailing address is: David Horowitz Freedom Center, P.O. Box 55089, Sherman Oaks, CA 91499-1964

loading Cancel
Post was not sent - check your email addresses!
Email check failed, please try again
Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email.