Sources: ISIS poster boy Boston-trained techie (Ahmad Abousamra)

A 32-year-old computer whiz who was raised in Stoughton is suspected of using the high-tech skills he honed at Hub colleges to spread the bloodthirsty message of ISIS terrorists on social media, according to a Herald source and news reports.

Ahmad Abousamra — who was educated at Northeastern University and UMass Boston — had already been placed on the FBI’s Most Wanted Terrorists list last year with a $50,000 reward offered for information leading to his capture and return.

The FBI said Abousamra “has shown that he wants to kill United States soldiers.”

He is now believed to be a social media warrior for the heartless terrorists behind the recent beheadings of two Americans.

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FBI Seeks Assistance in Locating Wanted Fugitive Ahmad Abousamra
FBI - Boston - Press Release ^ | October 3, 2012 | n/a

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www.fbi.gov/boston/press-releases/2012/fbi-seeks-assistance-in-locating-wanted-fugitive-ahmad-abousamra

FBI Seeks Assistance in Locating Wanted Fugitive Ahmad Abousamra

$50,000 Reward is Being Offered for Information Leading to His Arrest

FBI Boston October 03, 2012

BOSTON—FBI Boston Special Agent in Charge Richard DesLauriers announced today that the FBI is seeking the public’s assistance to locate wanted terrorist Ahmad Abousamra, a U.S. citizen from Mansfield, Massachusetts who left the United States in 2006. He may be living in Aleppo, Syria, with his wife, at least one child (a daughter), and extended family.

A reward of up to $50,000 is being offered for information leading to his arrest.

Abousamra was first indicted in 2009 after taking multiple trips to Pakistan and Yemen, where he allegedly attempted to obtain military training for the purpose of killing American soldiers overseas. He also traveled to Iraq with the hope of joining forces fighting against the United States. The exact nature of his activities in Iraq is unknown.

On November 5, 2009, a federal arrest warrant was issued for Abousamra after he was charged with conspiracy to provide material support to terrorists, providing material support to terrorists, conspiracy to kill in a foreign country, conspiracy, false statements, and aiding and abetting. In 2010, he and his co-conspirator were charged in a superseding indictment with an additional single count each of conspiring to provide material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization, namely al Qaeda. In total, Abousamra was indicted on nine charges.

In 2011 Abousamra’s co-conspirator, Tarek Mehanna, was convicted by a federal jury on four terrorism charges and three charges related to providing false information to the government. In April 2012, Mehanna was sentenced to 17.5 years in prison.

“Conspiring to use force or violence to achieve a political or social goal violates our cherished ideal of peaceful dissent. Our goal is to find and arrest Abousamra so he can be tried by a jury of his peers,” said Special Agent in Charge DesLauriers. “We believe publicizing Abousamra’s photo and characteristics will lead to a tip about his whereabouts and, ultimately, to his arrest.”

Abousamra is of Syrian descent and has dual citizenship in the United States and Syria. He was born in France on September 19, 1981, and is currently 31 years old. He is 5’11” tall and at the time of his disappearance weighed approximately 170 pounds, had a slim build, dark brown hair, and brown eyes. He speaks, reads, and writes fluently in English and Arabic. He has a college degree related to computer technology and was previously employed at a telecommunications company.

His known aliases include Ahmad Abou-Samra, Ahmad Abou, Ahmad Abou Samira, Ahmad Samra, Ahmad Abu Samra, and Ahmad Abou Samra.

“Since one of the FBI’s earliest terrorism investigations—the 1920 anarchist bombing that killed more than 30 people on Wall Street—the FBI has known that combining the reach and power of the media with alert citizens is a successful formula for identifying suspects and catching fugitives,” said Special Agent in Charge DesLauriers. “Knowing that the public is the FBI’s best ally in finding fugitives, we’re requesting their assistance to locate Ahmad Abousamra.

Today’s announcement is part of a comprehensive publicity campaign using traditional media as well as the FBI’s 673,000 Facebook and Twitter social media followers to generate tips from the public. The FBI will also use limited advertising on a social media site to reach an overseas demographic.

For more information regarding our search for Ahmad Abousamra, including his Wanted poster, radio podcast, audio clip, and video, visit www.fbi.gov/boston.

Anyone with information is asked to contact the FBI by calling 1-800-CALL-FBI or (617) 742-5533, submitting at tip online at https://tips.fbi.gov, or by calling their local FBI office or the nearest U.S. Embassy or Consulate.

The details contained in the charging documents are allegations. The defendant is presumed to be innocent unless and until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law.

- See related story for more information, including video, audio, podcast, and Wanted poster

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/04/23/boston-mosque-radicals/2101411/

Mosque that Boston suspects attended has radical ties

Ahmad Abousamra, the son of a former vice president of the Muslim American Society Boston Abdul-Badi Abousamra, was identified by the FBI as Mehanna’s co-conspirator. He fled to Syria and is wanted by the FBI on charges of providing support to terrorists and conspiracy to kill Americans in a foreign country.

http://pamelageller.com/2009/10/boston-muslim-terrororist-son-of-mas-muslim-american-society-leader.html/

Ahmad
Abousamra is the oldest son of Abdul-Badi Abousamra, former vice president of the Boston branch of the Muslim American
Society, which operates the largest Islamic center in the Northeast. The MAS has
branches in 34 cities within 23 states.
The Muslim American Society, according to Federal prosecutors, “was founded as the overt
arm of the Muslim Brotherhood in America.” The Muslim Brotherhood is considered to be the first truly
modern Islamic supremacist movement. As such, it has spawned or aided most of the Islamic terrorist
organizations functioning around the globe today, including Al Qaeda, Hamas, and
Lashkar-e-Taibah.
In December of 2006, Abdul-Badi Abousamra suddenly left Boston and moved to
Detroit, just weeks after his son was questioned by the FBI.
In the 1990s, Abdul-Badi Abousamra became the president of the Islamic
Center of New England (ICNE).
In 1998, Abdul-Badi Abousamra hired Hafiz Mohammed Masood as a new Imam at the Islamic
Center of New England. At that time, Hafiz Masood was in the United States illegally.
By 1999, Abdul-Badi had also become president of the Islamic Academy of New England
(IANE), a parochial school run by the ICNE. (He is still listed as the school’s
president in filings with the MA Secretary of State.) By then, Hafiz Masood was
teaching classes at IANE.
Hafiz Mohammed Masood has since been deported for filing a fraudulent religious worker visa sponsored by the
ICNE.
Hafiz Mohammed Masood is the brother of Hafiz Saeed, the founder of Lashkar-e-Taibah
(LeT). Lashkar-e-Taibah is the terrorist group responsible for the 2008 Mumbai massacre, carried out by
machine gun wielding LeT terrorists against civilians in the city’s public
places.
After the Mumbai massacre, The Times of India reported that Hafiz Masood was, while in his role as Imam
at the Islamic Center of New England, promoting extremism, raising funds, and
recruiting for LeT.
LeT was the first terrorist group, according to the criminal complaint,
which Abousamra contacted when he decided to seek terrorist training.
Abdul-Badi himself is briefly mentioned in the Mehanna criminal complaint:

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