Posted on 06/17/2015 10:52:23 PM PDT by nickcarraway
An ISIS-inspired Mariner's Harbor man suspected of being part of a terror plot tried to stab an F.B.I. agent searching the man's home Wednesday morning, officials said.
Fareed Mumuni, 21, lunged at the agent with a large kitchen knife when he and other members of the Joint Terrorism Task Force showed up with a search warrant about 6:30 a.m. at his home on Mersereau Avenue, according to the Brooklyn U.S. Attorney's office.
Mumuni continued to try to stab the agent in the torso and also attempted to reach for another law enforcement officer's gun during the melee, according to a federal complaint.
FBI agents and police officers eventually disarmed Mumuni and arrested him.
The officers only suffered minor injuries, according to prosecutors.
Mumuni told inspectors that he had planned to go to ISIS-controlled territories in order to join the terror group but if that did not pan out, he had intended to attack members of law enforcement. He also told them that Wednesday's attack was premeditated and that he kept a knife wrapped in a T-shirt by his bed to use on law enforcement agents.
The officers also recovered a duffel bag with another kitchen knife in Mumuni's mother car, which he sometimes used, according to the criminal complaint.
Mumuni was in touch with Munther Omar Saleh, a Queens College student, who was arrested on June 13 after he also tried to attack law enforcement officers with a knife.
Saleh had been watched for several months when he was arrested for planning a terrorist attack in the city and pledging allegiance to ISIS, prosecutors charged.
In May, Saleh emailed himself information on how to build a pressure cooker bomb and researched what tools were needed to build an explosive device, prosecutors said. He then researched for the city's most notable landmarks and tourist attractions, according to court documents.
Saleh and Mumumi met several times including in lower Manhattan and in Staten Island last May, law enforcement officers said. On June 2, they discussed their plan to attack law enforcement members.
Saleh told Mumuni that the best option would be "to use a bomb and then run over members of law enforcement with a vehicle, seize the weapons of any victims and use the weapons to shoot at other victims," according to the federal complaint.
Ten days later, on June 12, Saleh wrote to Mumuni he had told his parents he would be gone in "much less than a year."
"You have two choices," Saleh wrote to his parents according to the criminal complaint, "either you let me go to Darul Islam [ISIS-controled territories] or you watch me kill nonMuslim here."
Early the next morning, Saleh tried to attack a police officer with a knife at 20th Avenue near the Whitestone Expressway. The police officer escaped and Saleh was arrested.
Saleh, 20, told inspectors he had pledged allegiance to ISIS and was "full-fledged" member of ISIS. He told prosecutors Mumuni was also a supporter of the terrorist organization and that he had told him he planned to attack law enforcement members too.
Mumuni was scheduled to be arraigned in Brooklyn Federal court on Wednesday and charged with attempted murder a federal employee, which carries a maximum sentence of 20 years of imprisonment, according to court documents.
Neither Mumuni nor Saleh's lawyers' information were immediately available.
Is Staten Island an ISIS hub?
Is Staten Island an ISIS hub?
“Fareed Mumuni”
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I knew it, I knew it, it was a f’n muzzie monster who wanted to return to his roots.
I wish they all would.
“Fareed Mumuni”
What a nice Jewish name. /s
That piece of @@@@. They should have dropped him off on the South Shore and yelled with a microphone what he did.
I dont know what goes on on the dark side of the Island.
I know obummer wants to force them on us by withholding funds if we dont build “affordable housing”, whatever the !@$#@# that means. He can go straight to hell.
He puts those !@@@@s in my neighborhood they wnont last two days.
Piece of garbage traitor.
Whoa there! Author is mighty close to saying this is a ROP terrorist attack when she quotes him as telling mom and dad he wants to kill mom-Muslims. She needs to take remedial journalism classes to make sure she doesn’t make this mistake again.
If we would only be reasonable and let them build a majestic monument to Muhammad (no pictures, please) on the WTC site, they wouldn’t always be trying to kill us!
money sez he is a registered Democrat.
Attacking armed federal agents with a kitchen knife is inviting suicide by cop. This guy was so hyped up by moslem ideology that he thought attempting to kill a federal agent in these circumstances was a good idea. One kaffir for each martyr is, seemingly, a good deal for these guys.
We are engaged in a war with a death cult. These people are more than willing to die in pursuit of their cult like goals: conversion of the kaffir or death to him. The last time the west was confronted with a death cult, the overwhelming armed forces that had been amassed in the western Pacific were temporarily stunned. It required the application of a new superweapon to settle the issue once and for all.
This time around the cult has infiltrated virtually every section of our domestic society. Rooting it out and defeating it is still possible today but becomes more difficult tomorrow.
This will not end well.
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