Posted on 04/20/2013 3:33:19 PM PDT by EBH
An 18-year-old Aurora man was arrested Friday night before he tried making his way to Syria to join a ‘jihadist militant’ group, federal authorities said.
Abdella Ahmad Tounisi was taken into custody without incident late Friday at O’Hare Airport by members of the Chicago FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force as he attempted to board a flight destined for Istanbul, Turkey, according to the FBI’s Chicago office.
Tounisi, a U.S. citizen, appeared before U.S. Magistrate Judge Daniel G. Martin Saturday for allegedly attempting to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization. He appeared on Saturday before U.S. Magistrate Judge Tounisi, who is reportedly friends with another suburban man charged with trying to bomb a Chicago bar, was ordered held in custody until his next court appearance, on April 23.
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Another future democrat congressman after he serves his six months in some minimum level jail.
Another wannabe in the satanic cult of Islam.
Nice thinking, BG. BTTT. Thanks for posting, EBH. Very interesting.
With all due respect that’s NOT an Amish name.....it’s Mennonite.
I feel super safe now. All terrorists have been caught. The government is doing its job.
“FBI Arrests Aurora Teen On Charge Of Supporting Terrorism Overseas”
April 20, 2013 2:41 PM
CHICAGO (CBS) —
SNIPPET: “The FBI says it has been investigating Tounisi since 2012. The FBI claims he was a close friend of of Adel Daoud, who was arrested in September 2012 for attempting to detonate a bomb outside a bar in Chicago.”
SNIPPET: “The FBI claims Tounisi conducted online research on overseas travel and violent jihad from January to April 2013, focusing on the Jabhat al-Nusrah terrorist group. In late March 2013, the FBI claims he made contact with a man he believed was an undercover agent posing as a recruiter for the terrorist group and exchanged a series of emails in which Tounisi shared his plan to get to Syria by way of Turkey and willingness to die for the cause.
Tounisi purchased an airline ticket for a flight from Chicago to Istanbul on April 10 and the undercover agent provided him with a bus ticket from Istanbul to Gaziantep, Syria, according to the FBI. He was arrested after passing through airport security.”
Linen, cotton or silk sheets?
Previously...
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2931732/posts
Jihad Teen Arrested for Plotting to Blow Up Chicago Bar
Associated Press via The Gateway Pundit ^ | 9-15-12 | Jim Hoft
Posted on September 15, 2012 6:11:47 PM PDT by STARWISE
A Chicago teen was arrested in Chicago for trying to blow up a bar with a car bomb. News 9 reported:
Undercover FBI agents arrested an 18-year-old American man who tried to detonate what he believed was a car bomb outside a downtown Chicago bar, federal prosecutors said Saturday.
Adel Daoud, a U.S. citizen from the Chicago suburb of Hillside, was arrested Friday night in an undercover operation in which agents pretending to be extremists provided him with a phony car bomb.
The U.S. District Attorney’s Office in Chicago announced the arrest Saturday and said the device was inert and that the public was never at risk.
Daoud is charged with attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction and attempting to damage and destroy a building with an explosive.
The FBI began monitoring him he allegedly posted material online about violent jihad and the killing of Americans, federal prosecutors said.
In May, two undercover FBI employees contacted Daoud in response to the material and exchanged several electronic messages with him in which he expressed an interest in engaging in violent jihad in the United States or abroad, according to an affidavit.
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For The Record - The IPT Blog
“Chicago Teen Vows to Fight Bomb Plot Charges”
by Abha Shankar • Sep 17, 2012 at 5:57 pm
SNIPPET: “He also registered with an online jihad-related Internet forum and e-mailed individuals a PowerPoint presentation titled “The Osama bin Laden I Know.”
“Osama wasn’t crazy for wanting to destroy America,” he wrote. “This superpower killed millions of people.”
Daoud also praised American-born al-Qaida cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, writing that “those people insulting awlaki can go kill themselves” and prayed that Awlaki, who was killed in a U.S. drone strike in Yemen last year, would be accepted as a martyr.
Court records indicate Daoud’s desire to carry out a terrorist attack was spurred by instructions from al-Qaida’s Inspire magazine: “I live in the United States of America/hypocrisy. I want to in the future insha’Allah go for jihad in the Cause of Allah….i hate the oppression of the USA and i would love to do something that would hurt it from the inside.”
American civilians were “legal targets” for attack, he wrote, because Americans “pay their taxes which fund the government’s war against Islam” and they “VOTE for the leaders who kill us every day.””
www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/chi-fbi-aurora-man-wanted-to-join-al-qaida-in-syria-20130420,0,6035401.story
“FBI: Aurora man wanted to join al-Qaida in Syria”
By Carlos Sadovi
Tribune reporter
5:15 p.m. CDT, April 20, 2013
SNIPPET: “Tounisi had hoped to eventually join a jihadist militant group operating inside Syria called Jabhat al-Nusrah, according to the complaint. The organization is an alias for al-Qaida in Iraq, according to the complaint.
Since November 2011, Jabhat al-Nusrah has claimed nearly 600 terrorist attacks – ranging from more than 40 suicide attacks to small arms and improvised explosive device operations – in major city centers in Syria, officials said.”
Why?
So some little unknown town in Syria has to deal with the consequences of his insane and openly stated murderous intentions to kill some of their neighbors for them?
I know our exports are down, but this is not the way to fix the imbalance.
SNIPPET: “The FBI says it has been investigating Tounisi since 2012. The FBI claims he was a close friend of of Adel Daoud, who was arrested in September 2012 for attempting to detonate a bomb outside a bar in Chicago.”
ADDING to post no. 29:
http://www.longwarjournal.org/tags/Al%20Nusrah%20Front/common/
LONG WAR JOURNAL: “Results tagged “Al Nusrah Front”
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http://www.longwarjournal.org/tags/Al%20Qaeda%20in%20Iraq/common/
LONG WAR JOURNAL: “Results tagged “Al Qaeda in Iraq”
Business is our business madam. The choices are wide and varied and the cost is only limited by what the market will bear. Spandex might serve for a few select individuals in high positions. Although my recommendations hold no weight against a customers desire and or need.
I thank you for your support.
Or, like Bill Ayers, he could get a $150,000/year job teaching how to teach at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
I guess it beats having a drone slammed up his a$$ - of course that will be reserved for those who speak against tyranny and the aspiring terrorists will be Mirandized...
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24 April 2013, 10:39
USA vs ABDELLA AHMAD TOUNISI
This is the young man who was recently arrested at O’Hare on his way to join al-Qaida in Syria. This was not his first involvement in terrorism related activity, nor his first encounter with the FBI. Suffice it to say he suspected the undercover agent of being an undercover agent, but was done in by the “terrorist website” operated by the Bureau.
Whatever it takes. Here’s the Complaint and Affidavit:
http://page4free.biz/20130424/USAvTOUNISI.pdf
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www.fbi.gov/chicago/press-releases/2013/fbi-arrests-suburban-chicago-man-on-charge-of-supporting-terrorism-overseas
FBI Arrests Suburban Chicago Man on Charge of Supporting Terrorism Overseas
FBI Chicago
April 20, 2013
Special Agent Joan Hyde
An alleged attempt by an Aurora, Illinois man to travel to Syria in order to join a jihadist militant group operating inside Syria led to his arrest Friday evening. The arrest was announced today by Cory B. Nelson, Special Agent in Charge of the Chicago Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and Gary S. Shapiro, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois.
Abdella Ahmad Tounisi, 18, a U.S. citizen, was taken into custody without incident late yesterday at O’Hare International Airport by members of the Chicago FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force as he attempted to board a flight destined for Istanbul, Turkey. He was charged in a criminal complaint filed today in U.S. District Court with one count of attempting to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization, a felony offense. Tounisi appeared earlier today before U.S. Magistrate Judge Daniel G. Martin and was ordered held until his next court appearance, which is scheduled for 9:30 a.m. on April 23, 2013.
In making today’s announcement, Mr. Nelson stated that the investigation that culminated in Tounisi’s arrest began in 2012 and that there is no connection between this case and the events that occurred over the last several days in Boston.
The complaint states that Tounisi is a close friend of Adel Daoud, an individual arrested in September 2012 for attempting to detonate a bomb outside a Chicago bar and that Tounisi and Daoud appeared to share an interest in violent jihad. While Tounisi allegedly discussed attack techniques and targets prior to Daoud’s arrest, Tounisi did not participate in Daoud’s attempted attack.
According to the complaint, from January to April 2013, Tounisi conducted online research related to overseas travel and violent jihad, focusing specifically on Syria and the Jabhat al Nusrah terrorist group. Jabhat al Nusrah is listed by the U.S. Department of State as an alias for al Qaeda in Iraq (AQI), a designated foreign terrorist organization. The complaint alleges that Tounisi searched online for information about travel from Chicago to Syria, obtained a new passport, and, beginning in late March 2013, made online contact with an individual Tounisi believed to be a recruiter for Jabhat al Nusrah. That individual was in fact an FBI employee acting in an online undercover capacity. The complaint further alleges that Tounisi and the undercover employee exchanged a series of e-mails in which Tounisi shared his plan to get to Syria by way of Turkey, as well as his willingness to die for the cause. During the exchanges, Tounisi also sought advice from the undercover employee on travel from Istanbul to the Turkish city of Gaziantep, which lies near the border of Turkey and Syria.
The complaint states that on April 10, Tounisi purchased an airline ticket for a flight from Chicago to Istanbul and on April 18, the undercover employee provided Tounisi with a bus ticket for travel from Istanbul to Gaziantep. Tounisi arrived at O’Hare International Airport’s international terminal Friday evening, and after passing through airport security, he was arrested.
If convicted of the charge filed against him, Tounisi faces a maximum penalty of 15 years in federal prison.
The JTTF is composed of special agents of the FBI, officers of the Chicago Police Department, and representatives from an additional 20 federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies. The Justice Department’s National Security Division assisted in the investigation.
Mr. Nelson expressed his gratitude to U.S. Customs and Border Protection for the significant support provided by its officers during the arrest of Tounisi.
The public is reminded that a complaint is not evidence of guilt and that all defendants in a criminal case are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
“Feds appeal order to release teen allegedly tied to terror group”
BY KIM JANSSEN Federal Courts Reporter
May 2, 2013 2:42PM
Updated: May 3, 2013 2:30AM
SNIPPET: “Prosecutors say Abdella Ahmed Tounisi is a potentially dangerous terrorist who’s been caught on tape saying he wants to die a martyr.”
SNIPPET: “Arrested on April 19 as he tried to board a plane to Turkey at O’Hare, Tounisi is accused of plotting to join up with the al-Qaida group Jabhat al-Nusrah to fight in Syria.
He’s also accused — though not charged with — helping his best pal, Adel Daoud, select a South Loop bar as a bombing target last year.”
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