Facebook chats alert authorities to Va. man's bomb threats [Muslim?]

An Arlington man is accused of threatening to set off bombs around D.C., including in the Metro system, but was caught through messages he sent on Facebook before a plot was developed.

Awais Younis, who also goes by Sundullah "Sunny" Ghilzai as well as Mohhanmed Khan, was charged in federal court in Alexandria with making threatening communications.

Younis, who was born in Afghanistan, used Facebook to threaten to set off explosives, according to an affidavit for his arrest by Joseph Lesinski, a special agent with the FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force.

Authorities were tipped off to Younis by an unidentified person who corresponded with him on the social networking site, court documents say.

The documents say Younis described how to build a pipe bomb and advocated placing bombs on the third and fifth cars of Metro trains because they "had the highest number of commuters on them and he could place pipe bombs in these locations and would not be noticed."

Awais Younis, who also goes by Sundullah "Sunny" Ghilzai as well as Mohhanmed Khan,

So who is he and how did he get here? Or how many prison Muslim names did he take after his boyhood in the projects?

Muslim terrorists always seem to have at least a dozen names to choose from.

Let’s not forget about Ezekiel “Mad Mohammed” Smith! You know all those pockets on those overalls are there for a reason and it ain’t to carry foolish earthly possessions!

Now if you’ll excuse me I have some cows that need milking ...wink wink

I can answer many of your questions, I went to school with Sunny for many years, and he was my friend for a few of them. His parents immigrated to America from Afghanistan when he was 3 years old if I remember right, settled in Arlington, and proceeded to work their asses to the bone to feed Sunny and his little brothers. They eventually became citizens, bought a restaurant, then a house, and had enough on the tail of it all to send him to college. Sunny, himself, is a belligerent and an idiot, traits that grew as he did (and the reason we haven’t spoke in several years). He did what he could to try to scare people, make them think they were unsafe around him, he got off on that. Though I never considered him a threat personally(or nationally, for that matter), it really doesn’t surprise me to hear about this, he had this beavis-and-butthead-esque obsession with war and stuff that blows up, and wasn’t afraid to go off at the mouth about it. I’m glad he’s in in federal, and I hope he stays there a good long while, cools his heels. I really do feel bad for his folks though, they are decent, honest, hardworking Americans whose son said something incredibly stupid because he heard of some other incredibly stupid people doing it, and they’ll suffer for it. What a way for that one to go, hope nothing like that happens when I have children. Glad his ass is locked up, have a good evening, and don’t let your assumptions substitute for intelligent commentary, we need that more than ever these days. Adios.

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