Posted on 05/14/2015 6:38:39 PM PDT by Enlightened1
A Mesquite, Texas, man who pledged allegiance to ISIS and lied to the FBI about it was arrested on Thursday, according to a criminal complaint.
Bilal Abood, 37, a licensed security guard, is charged with making a false statement to the FBI. He faces up to eight years in prison.
Abood was born in Iraq and migrated to the United States in 2009. He was a naturalized U.S. citizen, prosecutors said.
Abood tried to travel to Iraq from D/FW International Airport on March 29, 2013, but was not allowed to board the flight. He was interviewed by FBI agents, claimed he was going to visit family, and denied that he planned to fight for ISIS, the complaint said.
He later admitted he planned to go to Syria to fight with the Free Syrian Army against the government, the complaint said.
The following month, he left DFW for Mexico and traveled through various countries to get to Syria. When he returned in September 2013, he admitted to FBI agents that he had stayed in a Free Syrian Army camp and fought with the group, the complaint said.
In July 2014, the FBI obtained a search warrant to search his computer. The search found that Abood had pledged allegiance to ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi on June 19, 2014 and had viewed videos of atrocities such as beheadings and had tweeted information on al-Baghdadi, prosecutors said.
In his interview with FBI agents, he denied he had pledged allegiance to ISIS, and that denial was the basis of his charge.
It was not clear why agents waited nearly a year to arrest him.
Abood does not face a terrorism charge and there is no allegation he was planning any attacks in the United States.
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He sent a tweet and watched a video!!!!!!!
He did more than that. He actually went over there and did some fighting. Oh and he pledged allegiance to the ISIS leader.
Hey came here from Iraq in 2009 and was already a naturalized U.S. citizen? I thought the process to become a citizen took longer than that? Am I mistaken?
If you serve in the U.S. Military, then it speeds up the process. Think 4 years?
It is extremely difficult for Federal Corrections facilities to permit conjugal visits by goats and camels at this time. Therefore to incarcerate Muslim terrorists would deprive them of prisoner's rights and could be conscrued by the SCOTUS to be 'cruel and unusual punishment.'
Earlier today, our leader, Barack Hussein Obama, Jr., issued residence permits to Mr. Abood's family. When he pulled out of Iraq, he was forced to leave his brothers behind. They will join the President, Mr. Abood, and Pentagon officials for a medal ceremony in the Rose Garden, Alhumdoolillah!
He was a terp in Iraq for our military. That probably sped up the process, and got him over here. He repays it by taking another oath of allegiance.
o.k. Thanks for the info.
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