Posted on 04/04/2015 6:11:25 AM PDT by UMCRevMom@aol.com
Two women in New York City have been arrested over their ties to the ISIL terrorist group and allegedly planning to carry out a "terrorist attack" in the United States, federal prosecutors say.
Noelle Velentzas, 28, and Asia Siddiqui, 31, plotted to hit government, police or military targets, according to the complaint filed Thursday at a US federal court in Brooklyn.
The complaint said Velentzas and Siddiqui had praised the al-Qaeda terrorist group and were "citizens” of ISIL.
"We are committed to doing everything in our ability to detect, disrupt and deter attacks by homegrown violent extremists," Brooklyn US Attorney Loretta Lynch said in a statement.
The women, former roommates in the New York City borough of Queens, had researched how to build a bomb, the complaint said. When they were arrested, agents found bomb-building materials including propane gas tanks and pipes.
The women had also expressed support for the brutal beheadings carried out by ISIL terrorists in Iraq and Syria, the complaint said.
They are both charged with conspiracy to use weapons of mass destruction in the United States and face the possibility of life in prison if convicted.
Last month, US Air Force veteran Tairod Pugh was charged with attempting to join and aid ISIL terrorists in Syria.
Also in March, a US Army National Guard soldier and his cousin were arrested on charges of conspiring to support ISIL and attack a military installation in Illinois.
The ISIL terrorists, many of whom were initially trained by the US Central Intelligence Agency in Jordan in 2012 to destabilize the Syrian government, now control parts of Iraq and neighboring Syria.
They have been carrying out horrific acts of violence such as public decapitations and crucifixions against all communities, including Shias, Sunnis, Kurds, and Christians.
VOICE OF AMERICA: In New York, arrested two women allegedly were preparing to carry out attacks Victoria Kupchinetskaya
04/03/04/2015
The hero of one of them was Osama bin Laden
The White Mosque is the biggest threat to America,
the US Constitution .... and Freedom worldwide.
It ONLY exists because the absolute, complete abdication
of the US Congress (cowards,selfserving, and -ofcourse- EXEMPT).
I thought we were the good guys. Why are we trying to destabilize the governments of other countries? I guess it's our tradition.
Would attempting to destabilize the government of Nazi Germany in 1936 have made us “bad guys”?
VOICE OF AMERICA GOOGLE TRANSLATION: Two residents of New York City was arrested on suspicion of preparing a terrorist attack
http://www.golos-ameriki.ru/content/nyc-arrests/2705860.html
Victoria Kupchinetskaya
04/03/2015 18:27
NEW YORK-
In New York, arrested two young women, an American citizen who is suspected that they were going to “administer jihad” in the United States - namely, using improvised explosive devices to carry out attacks, the objectives of which were police, military and government facilities. 28-year-old Noel Velentsas and 31-year-old Aisha Siddeki eve appeared before a federal judge in Brooklyn, where the judge explained to them the reason for his arrest. In disclosing the alleged terrorist intentions of two women participated confidential informant authorities.
Alexander Panov: in touch with us from New York, our correspondent Victoria Kupchinetskaya. Vic, what is known about these two women and which illegal actions they allegedly committed?
Victoria Kupchinetskaya: On the personal lives of these two women know very little. It is known that together they rented an apartment in Queens that they - Muslim. Young women were committed to the ideology of jihad, they were interested in acts of terrorism committed by earlier in the US. Velentsas hero was Osama bin Laden, on her mobile phone was a picture of him with a Kalashnikov assault rifle. She was also very interested in the pressure cooker, especially after the terrorist attacks in Boston. It expressed its commitment to the ideology of the LIH, linked through jihadist websites and offer their help, and when the US began bombing LIH to make, she said that it’s like being bombed its own state. Both young women, along with a secret informant - who or which we do not know half the man they considered a member of his “team” - they went shopping in New York and take a look, if they can buy accessories and chemicals for to make explosive devices at home. Siddiqui bought a few bottles of propane, for their alleged use in the commission of terrorist acts. They have not yet been formally charged. If they are found guilty - they face life imprisonment.
Siddiqui’s lawyer, Thomas Dunn, left to journalists and quite succinctly stated the innocence of his client: “My client does not plead guilty, even when it will be officially charged. I and my client will challenge it in court guilty on all counts. I know that you like to hear more details, I will not say more now. This is serious business. And we will defend her innocence in court. “
As for the real action - in addition to buying a propane tank they had not made real. And then there is the question of the role of a secret informant in this case - how active he was “lured” women in this situation, and if they would resort to such actions, if the informant they were not “worked”? This question, I’m sure, will be very carefully considered judgment.
Alexander Panov: Recently, we often hear about young men and women who go or fight on the side of the LIH, or support their ideology. What is the reason?
Victoria Kupchinetskaya: Indeed, it is becoming some kind of trend. Only in March in the United States, several US citizens were brought to trial for their alleged support of LIH or real intention to go and fight on their side. And in February, were arrested three young men from Brooklyn - citizens of Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan, which were going to go to war on the side of LIH. Apparently, these people have a certain dissatisfaction with the surrounding society, a certain bitterness on society. They probably feel isolated. Jihadist websites LIH romanticize jihad violence, the image of a martyr - these young people think that they have found a vent, aim. LIH propaganda works very smoothly, very deeply penetrates into these “lost” his head. And lately LIH especially actively trying to recruit women is in the West. Of them are police units, cruel enough to see to it that the inhabitants of the conquered territories comply with LIH postulates Sharia.
If the trainees joined the communists then yes. America plays with fire pal.
Folks: this is Iranian state-controlled Press TV. The part about CIA training is made up from whole cloth.
If they were trained by CIA, it wouldn’t be in a news report anyway.
Press TV should not be posted here on Free Republic.
This story was covered extensively in the US media. Not sure why UMCRevMom@aol.com didn’t see it.
Hindsight is 20/20. At that time, supporting the communist variety of national socialist over the fascist variety was not an obvious way to prevent a hypothetical future world war, although there were quite a few American communists who would have supported such a move.
“The ISIL terrorists, many of whom were initially trained by the US Central Intelligence Agency in Jordan in 2012 to destabilize the Syrian government, now control parts of Iraq and neighboring Syria.
They have been carrying out horrific acts of violence such as public decapitations and crucifixions against all communities, including Shias, Sunnis, Kurds, and Christians.”
See? Obama succeed at something.
They are both charged with conspiracy to use weapons of mass destruction in the United States and face the possibility of life in prison if convicted. ........................................... LOL!!! LOL!!! Kinda like Ayres and Dorn Right?? Maybe they’ll end up as advisers to Hillary.
I don’t believe we should be trying to destabilize any government.
Obama has destabilized the entire Middle East.
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