US charges three men with conspiring to support Islamic State

[Jazzy]

Three men from former Soviet Central Asian republics were arrested in the United States on Wednesday and charged with conspiring to support the Islamic State, also known as IS or ISIL. Two of the men were planning to travel to Syria, authorities say.

The three men arrested were Akhror Saidakhmetov from Kazakhstan, Abdurasul Hasanovich Juraboev from Uzbekistan, and Abror Habibov, also from Uzbekistan. All three men were residents of Brooklyn, N.Y., according to authorities, and two were legal permanent residents of the US, said New York City Police Commissioner William Bratton during a press conference Wednesday.

Mr. Juraboev was first noticed by law enforcement in August 2014 after he posted a message on an Uzbek-language website that promulgated IS ideology, the Federal Bureau of Investigation said in a statement, referencing the criminal complaint against the men. A subsequent investigation found that Juraboev and Mr. Saidakhmetov planned to travel to Turkey and then to Syria to wage jihad on behalf of IS, the FBI said. Investigators recorded conversations between the two men using an informant who posed as a sympathizer and approached Juraboev at a mosque.

The men were not arrested in August because the FBI wanted to collect additional intelligence about the hierarchy and organizational structure of IS supporters in the US, said Diego Rodriguez, assistant director in charge of the FBI's New York field office.

Saidakhmetov was arrested early Wednesday morning at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport after attempting to board a flight to Istanbul, Turkey. Juraboev had previously bought a plane ticket to travel to Istanbul, and his flight was scheduled for March, the FBI said. He was arrested at his home in New York. Mr. Habibov was arrested in Florida and is accused by FBI of helping to fund Saidakhmetov’s attempt to join IS.

In the August message posted on the Uzbek-language website, Juraboev said he would kill the president of the United States if IS ordered him to do so, according to the FBI. Saidakhmetov also intended to commit an act of terrorism in the US if he couldn't travel abroad to join IS, the FBI said.

"I will just go ... buy a machine gun, AK-47, go out and shoot all police," Saidakhmetov said during a recorded conversation, according to Reuters, which cited the criminal complaint.

The arrests come about a month and a half after a September 2014 message from IS was rereleased, calling for supporters to “rise up and kill intelligence officers, police officers, soldiers, and civilians” in the US, France, Australia, and Canada.

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Thoughts?

 

[DrLeftover]

Only Three?

 

[+paradox]

where's the proof that these people were "conspiring to support the islamic state"? and what does that even mean?

 

[Webster]

Only Three?

That's what I was thinking...

 

[WHO IS SERAFIN]

Do not fret there are plenty more where these losers came from in waiting.