I am sure they will stand out in prison...
Posted on 04/02/2015 2:07:12 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Two women living in Queens have been charged with planning to build a bomb that they wanted to detonate in the United States.
The women, Noelle Velentzas, 28, and Asia Siddiqui, 31, who until recently were roommates, were named in a complaint unsealed on Thursday in Federal District Court in Brooklyn, and were expected to appear in court on Thursday afternoon.
Ms. Velentzas and Ms. Siddiqui, who are American citizens, appeared to be interested in jihad, according to the complaint, which said that they had been communicating with Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula and had been viewing violent videos made by the Islamic State, also known as ISIS.
In the complaint, the government said the plot advanced to the point that Ms. Siddiqui bought four propane gas tanks and stored them in a stairwell outside her apartment. Earlier, the women had bought potassium gluconate at a Queens pharmacy, bought the fertilizer Miracle-Gro, which can be used as a bomb component, and read about and discussed making bombs.
The complaint does not indicate whether the women had a specific target. During the inquiry, investigators deployed an undercover agent, who appeared to be play a significant role in helping the women with the plan, according to government documents.
In conversations recorded by the government, Ms. Velentzas expressed “a preference for attacking military or government targets, rather than civilian targets,” the complaint says. The women “implied that their goal was to learn how to blow up a bomb from afar rather than conduct a suicide bombing,” it says.
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very awkward title.
Two queens and New York women? How many New York women? The two queens don’t surprise me. They’re all crazy anyway.
Viewing violent videos. Ouch. That includes almost all movie goers over the last five years. In certain instances it involves people going to the movies for the last 25 to 35 years, easily.
The authorities knew about these two for the better part of the last two years. Why arrest them today? Answer: To bolster US Attorney Lynch’s credentials.
Can’t they say ‘women who live in Queens? They weren’t from there, have no loyalty to it.
‘Interlopers’ would work
RE: Two queens and New York women?
Queens,NY. Queens is one of the 5 Boroughs of NYC.
RE: Can’t they say ‘women who live in Queens?
They did say ‘Two women living in Queens’
Sequel to the jihadi comedy Four Lions?
A very bizarre film. Don't see it.
Oh. The headline, c’mon
I’ll see your 2 queens and raise you three kings!.............
potassium gluconate vitamins and Miracle-Gro ...
yep, mix those two right up and you’ve got yerself one hellova a bomb! Oh, I forgot the fuse! Just stick a firecracker fuse in the mix to light off your bomb and yer ready fo some big time terroism!
i guess we’re lucky so many mooselums are dumber than camel patties. hate to think what would be going on if those clever Japanese or Chinese were after us instead of mooselums.
Let the punishment fit the crime.
Put them both in a cell and do to them what they wanted to do to innocent victims.
Thanks for sharing the recipe, NYT. Well done.
“Ms. Velentzas seemed to home in on “whether a police funeral was an appropriate terrorist target”
Probably a SMART TARGET in New York, as the mayor probably wouldn’t care much.
The media shill who swilled this out made sure to emphasize that these two jihadist subhumans are citizens.
Yeah, real bright lights there.
I find most liberals think that one can just grab some glass containers and mix some explosives right up. It is not as easy as that and many would kill themselves either from the fumes or premature detonation if they followed the recipes found on the internet.
Further, most never even give a though about how to set off the explosive. They think that they can just use a firecracker to set it off. Some explosives are sensitive to heat, others impact, some require both.
For those of us who have received training in the use of explosives, these amateurs are really scary because they dont know what they are doing. The good news is that they are more likely to blow themselves up instead of their targets.
“The good news is that they are more likely to blow themselves up instead of their targets.”
Fortunately for them, it’s pretty hard to blow themselves up with vitamins and Miracle Grow.
“The good news is that they are more likely to blow themselves up instead of their targets.”
Fortunately for them, it’s pretty hard to blow themselves up with vitamins and Miracle Grow.
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