Yahoo News – by Jennie Matthew
New York (AFP) – Three New York residents have been arrested for plotting to join extremists fighting in Syria and two threatened to carry out attacks within the United States, officials said Wednesday.
Abdurasul Hasanovich Juraboev, 24, Akhror Saidakhmetov, 19, and Abror Habibov, 30, have been charged with attempt and conspiracy to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization.
The teenage Saidakhmetov, a Kazakh citizen, was arrested Wednesday at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport attempting to board a flight to Istanbul, before traveling onto Syria.
US prosecutors said he recently expressed intent to buy a machine gun and shoot US police officers and FBI agents if thwarted in his plan to join the Islamic State (IS) group fighting in Syria.
They also accused Juraboev of being prepared to attack within the United States, and said he posted a message online in August 2014 offering to kill the US president if ordered to do so by IS.
All three are Brooklyn residents.
The arrests come a month after IS spokesman Abu Mohamed al-Adnani called on Muslims in the West to carry out new attacks and amid growing concern about the homegrown extremist threat in the West.
“The flow of foreign fighters to Syria represents an evolving threat to our country and to our allies,” said Loretta Lynch, US attorney for the eastern district of New York.
“We will vigorously prosecute those who attempt to travel to Syria to wage violent jihad,” she said.
“Anyone who threatens our citizens and our allies, here or abroad, will face the full force of American justice.”
Federal prosecutors in New York said Juraboev bought a plane ticket to travel from New York to Istanbul next month, also planning to make his way to Syria and wage war on behalf of IS.
The third suspect, Habibov, is accused of helping to fund Saidakhmetov’s efforts to join the Syrian jihadists and is scheduled to appear in a court in Florida later on Wednesday.
In late January IS spokesman Adnani called on Muslims in the West to carry out new attacks after 17 people were killed in assaults on January 7-9 in Paris against a magazine and a kosher supermarket.
“We promise that in the Christian bastions they will continue to live in a state of alert, of terror, of fear and insecurity… You have seen nothing yet,” he said in a recording posted online.
Of the three attackers in France, only one appeared to have pledged allegiance to IS, but the group endorsed the killings in the message.
Juraboev and Saidakhmetov are due to appear before a US judge in Brooklyn later on Wednesday, officials said.
If convicted each of the three defendants face a maximum sentence of 15 years in prison, US officials said.
US intelligence officials warned earlier this month that more than 20,000 volunteers from around the world, including more than 150 Americans, had gone to Syria to link up with extremist groups.
“The rate of foreign fighter travel to Syria is unprecedented,” said Nicholas Rasmussen, director of the National Counter-Terrorism Center (NCTC) on February 10.
“It exceeds the rate of travelers who went to Afghanistan and Pakistan, Iraq, Yemen, or Somalia at any point in the last 20 years,” he said.
http://news.yahoo.com/york-residents-arrested-planning-join-181335772.html
“Authorities identified the men, all residents of Brooklyn, as Abdurasul Hasanovich Juraboev, 24, Akhror Saidakhmetov, 19, and Abror Habibov, 30. Juraboev and Habivov are citizens of Uzbekistan, and Saidakhmetov is a citizen of Kazakhstan, according to the release.”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/02/25/brooklyn-isis-arrests_n_6753034.html
Statements from Bratton and the director of the FBI:
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/26/nyregion/3-men-in-brooklyn-charged-supporting-isis.html?_r=0
“”This is real,” William J. Bratton, the New York City police commissioner, said at a news conference. “This is the concern about the lone wolf”
Aaaaaaand that’s how you know its bs and NOT real.
He’s an EXTREMELY reliable source, Martist.
Anna Nicole Smith married for love, too.
Belly laughing #1!! The comedic genius of ISISowitz and al-quaidaberger just keep on comin, don’t they? Oy vey! Er, I mean Allah Akbar?
I’ve been told there are people who actually believe this cr@p.
3 out of 4 is it?! Hey#1, congratulations on a good move! 😀 The next good move that happens is they’re leaving and we get our Nation back but I’ll share in your gloating meanwhile.
Thanks, Martist. I’m actually not hating life for a change.
Think my blood pressure’s dropped at least a half-dozen points.
“US prosecutors said he recently expressed intent to buy a machine gun and shoot US police officers and FBI agents if thwarted in his plan to join the Islamic State (IS) group fighting in Syria.”
Intent?
Lame.
Do you suppose Homeland Security dimbos will ever glean the connection between liberal immigration policy and the threat of terrorist attacks on US soil?
“We’re fighting them over there, so we don’t have to fight them over here!”
No dimbos! If you don’t want to fight them over here, don’t let them over here to begin with!
Ted, please understand, ISIS is neither Islamic nor invading US. It’s the infiltrated, co-opted, zionist commie joo US govt run fake boogeyman false-flag heading faux terror brigade,so you pay for more war and go broke and send your kids to die for isrealhell, designed to make Christians hate Muslims for the joos creating division for personal gain, they ain’t comin here unless the commie joo govt brings em here. Not WE.
Nothing of the sort happened
Isis is all fabrication and so is this pile of BS
Hmmm…just a few days before Netanyahu comes here…JUST LIKE I PREDICTED…there would be some kind of domestic “terrorist” story. Maybe there will be more between now and March 3rd.
Now, let’s wait for the stories to come out that these guys had previous contact with the FBI, etc…the whole formula.
I’m sick of this BULLSHIT and so should everyone else be sick of it.
The Informants
The FBI has built a massive network of spies to prevent another domestic attack. But are they busting terrorist plots—or leading them?
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2011/08/fbi-terrorist-informants
Love the comment martist. You sir are wide awake. Wish the rest of fkn humanity would also wake up. But then again. We can do without the low IQs.