Posted on 12/17/2015 2:50:39 PM PST by jazusamo
The owner of a Rochester, N.Y., pizza parlor pleaded guilty on Thursday to trying to recruit people to join Islamic extremists in the Middle East.
The man, 31-year-old Mufid Elfgeeh, used the Internet to find potential supporters of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), send them propaganda and support their efforts to join the extremist group in Syria, officials alleged.
To spread his message, Elfgeeh used a combination of three Twitter accounts, 23 Facebook accounts and one WhatsApp account, which he used to seek out funding and support radical fighters, according to details in his plea agreement.
From late 2013 to early 2014, Elfgeeh. a naturalized U.S. citizen from Yemen, began communicating with two people who appeared willing to travel to Syria and join the jihadist fight.
Among other steps, Elfgeeh connected the two people with overseas contacts and bought them a laptop computer and a high-definition camera to use on their journey. He also gave one of the travelers $1,000 in cash to buy two handguns, and paid money so that one of the two people could obtain a copy of his birth certificate.
Unbeknownst to Elfgeeh, both people were cooperating with the FBI.
In other cases, Elfgeeh sent $600 to someone in Yemen to help them get into Syria, and communicated with different groups of fighters in Syria to get them to join ISIS.
"Thanks to today's convictions, one of the first ISIL recruiters ever captured in this country stands convicted of terrorism related charges," U.S. attorney William Hochul said in a statement, using an alternate acronym for ISIS. "While our case against this defendant will conclude with a very long jail sentence, our ongoing efforts to defeat ISIL and other terrorist groups will continue until all are brought to justice."
He was arrested in May of 2014, after retrieving the two handguns purchased with his $1,000.
Under the terms of Elfgeeh's plea agreement, prosecutors recommended that he be sentenced to more than 22 years in prison.
“Treason in a time of war.
Firing squad or the hangman’s noose.”
These are the obama years.
He’ll get a job within the department of homeland security and a six figure salary.
One down, hundreds or thousands of apparently “assimilated” Muslims to go, who knows how many American lives lost as Hussein and Congress bring more in.
I hope the other inmates knock his teeth out.
Exactly.
He’s a traitor. He deserves the strongest possible punishment.
Amen to that!
It may be located in the state of New York, but a Yemeni-Muslim-owned place in Rochester is most certainly not a "New York pizza parlor" by any reasonable definition of the term.
If we had a real president this slug would be held in Gitmo as an enemy combatant until his bleached bones were cast into the sea.
In http://www.democratandchronicle.com/story/news/2015/12/17/alleged-terrorist-scheduled-plea-mufid-elfgeeh/77471906/ is listed as having a pizza place on ‘north clinton avenue.’
Could it have been ‘halal mojoes?’
http://www.frontpagemag.com/point/236607/new-yorks-worst-terrorist-pizza-shop-burns-down-daniel-greenfield
You couldn't figure out how his pizzas were better, bigger, with more meat and cost less than the franchise place down the street.
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"From late 2013 to early 2014, Elfgeeh. a naturalized U.S. citizen from Yemen, began communicating with two people who appeared willing to travel to Syria and join the jihadist fight."
Probably not treason. We haven't declared war on ISIS even if they have declared war on us, so not giving aid and comfort to the enemy. And not levying war against the United States, just against Syria and its factions.
Mufid Elfgeeh-hmmph doesn’t sound italian to me.
That traitor ain’t gonna enjoy prison, wonder if he’ll survive it?
Wonder if related somehow to this....”http://www.pennlive.com/news/2015/12/fbi_stages_raid_makes_arrest_i.html"
Thanks...Sure looks like it was mojoes from the story.
Where can I get a slice?
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