Murder suspects arrested
Turkey arrests three suspects in Jerf’s murder. The trio have been remanded into custody by a judge in the city of Gaziantep and await trial there.
Two suspected ISIS terrorists held
Two Malaysians with suspected links to the terrorist group Islamic State are arrested for plotting to launch attacks in the country. National police chief:
The fresh arrests, which involve locals planning to launch attacks after communicating with senior members of IS in Syria, is a new trend that is most worrying.
Suspected Malaysian ISIS militants arrested
Malaysian police arrest 12 people, just one day before the country hosts a summit, for planning a terrorist attack by ISIS. Police also seize 20kg of ammonium nitrate, potassium nitrate, kerosene and remote-control devices. National police chief:
The suspects are believed to be planning to cause civil unrest in the country. They had planned to launch attacks in Malaysia on April 25 and April 26.
‘Seduced’ by ISIS
A 16-year-old South Carolina boy is sentenced to five years in juvenile prison on a gun charge related to plans to join ISIS. A solicitor with the 16th Circuit describes the teen as
. . . wholeheartedly sincere in his beliefs, and we are very concerned for the safety of the community and the country . . . He had a plan to randomly shoot American soldiers. [The boy] embraced the ideology [of ISIS]. [He was] seduced by the radical ideology known in the Middle East as ISIS. He wanted to join.
The teen apologizes in court.
I just regret it. If I get out, I will be a completely different person. I want to change everything I did and go back and have a nice life.
ISIS plotters charged
Six Minnesota men are charged in a plot to travel to Syria in order to support ISIS. The men are charged with conspiracy and attempting to provide materials to support a foreign terror group. They are associated with three other Minnesota men recently charged with similar crimes. Federal prosecutors state ISIS and other terror organizations actively recruit from the Somali community in Minnesota, the largest such community in the United States.
We have a terror recruiting problem in Minnesota.
The six men are Zacharia Yusuf Abdurahman, 19; Abdurahman Yasin Daud, 21; Adnan Abdihamid Farah, 19; Mohamed Abdihamid Farah, 21; Hanad Mustafe Musse, 19; and Guled Ali Omar, 20.
What this case shows is that the person radicalizing your son, your brother, your best friend may not be a stranger. It may be their best friend right here in town.
Found innocent
Henning’s wife says an ISIS court has found him innocent. Barbara:
I have been told that he has been to a Sharia court and found innocent of being a spy and declared to be no threat. I implore Islamic State to abide by the decisions of their own justice system.
14-year-old ‘jihadi’ girl arrested
French authorities arrest a 14-year-old girl in the western city of Quimper on suspicion that she is planning to conduct jihad in Syria. She is moved to Paris to be questioned by an anti-terror judge on possible connections to the disappearance of another 14-year-old girl from the Paris area in June, as part of an enquiry that has also led to the arrests of a 15-year-old and 17-year old girl a week earlier.
Texan pleads guilty to terror support
Texas native Michael Todd Wolfe, also known as Faruq, pleads guilty to ‘attempting to provide material support and resources to a foreign terrorist organization.’ Wolfe was caught in an FBI sting as he sought a contact to help him enter Syria and join ISIS. A court complaint describes how he and his wife watched a video of ISIS activities with an FBI agent posing as a contact:
While watching the video, Wolfe occasionally stopped the video to explain the current allegiances of the various groups fighting in Syria. They include ISIS, al Qaeda affiliate Jabhat al-Nusra, the Free Syria Army, and Dawla
Teen girls arrested for jihad plans
France arrests two girls aged 17 and 15 in Lyon, Rhone, and Tarbes in the Hautes-Pyrenees for alleged involvement in jihad. The arrests form part of a broader enquiry into jihadism in the country. Around 900 French citizens are implicated in jihad – meaning that they have either taken part in a conflict, plan to participate in one, or are returning from one. Both girls are reported to have been planning to travel to Syria to join militant activities there. Paris-based international security consultant Samuel Laurent:
Obviously this is proof of how appealing caliphate ideology is for French and European citizens
‘Death to Jews’ arrests
Two 32-year-old men are arrested in connection with an investigation into chants at a Hague protest. The public prosecutors office says the men, one from Amsterdam and one from the Hague, are suspected of inciting violence against a population group on the basis of their beliefs and race after it determines that they chanted ‘Death to Jews’ at the protest. Dutch-language tweet from Israel information center CIDI:
People who made themselves unrecognisable, Isis flags, death to Jews and journalists take to safety. The Netherlands 2014.
Texas man pleads guilty to terror support
University of Texas student Rahatul Ashikim Khan, 23, of Round Rock, Tx., pleads guilty to charges of supporting terrorism after investigators say he had been recruiting jihadi fighters through an online chat room under the user name AuthenticTauheed19. He faces up to 15 years in prison. No sentencing date has been set. A statement by U.S. Attorney Robert Pitman:
Rahatul Khan’s admissions during this morning’s guilty plea should serve as a sobering reminder that we need to remain vigilant in our efforts to detect and root out terrorism, even in our own back yard
California man arrested
Authorities arrest 20-year-old Orange County native Adam Dandach, also known as Fadi Fadi Dandach, as he is about to board a flight bound for Istanbul. A detention order shows that under questioning, he says that he planned to travel to Syria:
[…] that he would assist ISIS with anything the ISIS asked him to do, and that he believed the killings of U.S. soldiers are justified killings.
He is detained as a flight risk and a danger to his community, and indited on two felonies relating to his replacement passport, after authorities discover that his mother hid his original passport to prevent him flying overseas. The detention order:
Dandach stated that he was more disappointed that he did not get to go to Syria than in getting in trouble with law enforcement
Colorado woman arrested for conspiracy
Colorado resident Shannon Maureen Conley, 19, is arrested and charged with conspiracy to provide material support to terrorists as she attempts to board a flight out of Denver airport. She has allegedly admitted to authorities that she is planning to travel to the Turkish border to meet an ISIS member that she met over the internet. Conley, a certified nurse’s aide, allegedly told authorities that she planned to become the man’s wife and serve as a nurse in an ISIS camp, during a series of seven interviews conducted during the five months before her flight after she was reported for suspicious behavior. She faces up to 15 years in prison if found guilty.