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Clues to how a young man went from ‘classic teenage boy’ to accused Islamic State sympathizer
Washington Post ^ | January 1, 2017 | Terrence McCoy

Posted on 01/03/2018 4:40:21 AM PST by rightwingintelligentsia

A skeletal portrait of the Sterling, Va., man federal authorities have accused of obstructing a terrorism investigation began to come into focus on Monday — that of a directionless youth who converted to Islam at the end of high school, married a significantly older Muslim woman, had a child who died as an infant, and became increasingly religious until an arrest Friday that allegedly included him destroying a computer thumb drive that authorities suspect may have contained evidence of terrorism-related activity.

In the months before that arrest, court filings allege, Sean Andrew Duncan, 21, who will appear in federal court on Tuesday, acted in a manner that was “indicative of an individual planning and researching how to conduct an attack,” including research into materials relating to the Islamic State, terrorist attacks, weapons, surveillance tactics and body armor.

Now, family members are struggling to reconcile the man they had believed Duncan to be with the one federal agents say he had become.

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TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: domesticterrorism; duncan; isis; isisinamerica; isisrecruitment; islam; islamicimperialism; kualalumpur; proterrorist; seanandrewduncan; seanduncan; syria; terrorism; waronterror; whywefight; wot; zakiyasadeq
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1 posted on 01/03/2018 4:40:21 AM PST by rightwingintelligentsia
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

only clue needed: islam.


2 posted on 01/03/2018 4:41:55 AM PST by Cyclops08
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

He believed Obama and the left, that he should hate America and Christianity.


3 posted on 01/03/2018 4:42:12 AM PST by G Larry (There is no great virtue in bargaining with the Devil)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Commie parents?


4 posted on 01/03/2018 4:43:36 AM PST by albie
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To: G Larry

> He believed Obama and the left... <

He also believed George W. Bush: “Islam is peace”.


5 posted on 01/03/2018 4:48:32 AM PST by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Buinch of quivering chickens in the article, either that or not real refused to give name due to safety concerns


6 posted on 01/03/2018 4:49:33 AM PST by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia
“Sean is a very good kid. And that’s all I can really say at this point. I’m floored,” said his mother, Laurie Duncan, a real estate agent in Ocean City. “Sean is a very honest and sincere child, and that’s all I can say, is that he’s a child. He’s 21.”

There's part of the problem right there. He is a "child" at the age of 21...

7 posted on 01/03/2018 4:53:18 AM PST by WayneS (An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. - Winston Churchill)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Unless they had no contact with him whatsoever, it is impossible that his family was unaware that:

1) He converted to Islam at the end of high school,
2) He married a significantly older Muslim woman,
3) He had a child who died as an infant, and
4) He became increasingly religious

This did not come out of left field.


8 posted on 01/03/2018 4:55:45 AM PST by WayneS (An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. - Winston Churchill)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

I blame liberalism.

“Islamists are misunderstood”
black supremacist NOI rappers
Americans were NAZIs in Iraq
Christianity is to be rejected
Celebrate diversity
9-11 was a fraud the US/Jews did it

on and on

Mind full of mush did what the culture told him was superior.


9 posted on 01/03/2018 4:56:27 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Did Barack Obama denounce Communism and dictatorships when he visited Cuba as a puppet of the State?)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

“He seemed normal” as he voiced approval of the beheadings of Westerners.

Something does not compute.


10 posted on 01/03/2018 5:05:04 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Did Barack Obama denounce Communism and dictatorships when he visited Cuba as a puppet of the State?)
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My daughter has a pretty little cat named Angus. He spends a lot of time stalking the other cats, taking their favorite sleeping spaces, attacking them when they are least suspecting... One day, when my daughter was about 8, she started referring to Angus as Abdul Gazazi.

An 8 year old understands, yet it is somehow incomprehensible to the left.


11 posted on 01/03/2018 5:06:14 AM PST by small farm girl (....)
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“She was in her 30s, ...and why is she interested in him?”

Permanent residency via a green card........

12 posted on 01/03/2018 5:09:47 AM PST by Hot Tabasco (My cat is not fat, she is just big boned........)
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To: Leaning Right

He wasn’t aware of Bush at age 11 or 12.


13 posted on 01/03/2018 5:12:52 AM PST by G Larry (There is no great virtue in bargaining with the Devil)
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To: a fool in paradise

He is such a good boy!


14 posted on 01/03/2018 5:14:27 AM PST by The_Media_never_lie
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A “child” at 21?

I was a soldier at 17, a commissioned officer at 20.

What the hell were you thinking as you raised this waste of oxygen, Woman????


15 posted on 01/03/2018 5:21:44 AM PST by Redleg Duke (Build KateÂ’s Wall! Never Forget!)
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To: G Larry
“He believed Obama and the left, that he should hate America and Christianity.”

He swallowed the lie propagated by his leftist teachers, the Liberal Left, and the MSM that Communism/Socialism is good and the American Republic is bad.

Islam has always allowed bad actors to continue their criminal acts, with the excuse that they are now doing the act on behalf of Allah.

16 posted on 01/03/2018 5:22:50 AM PST by Yulee
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To: The_Media_never_lie

He’s such a good boy that his parents took him out of one school where he had friends and moved him to another school where he met some Islamists.

Allegedly he was having problems at that other school. Doesn’t say if it was studying or fighting.

But the “good kid” bit doesn’t pass muster.


17 posted on 01/03/2018 5:27:45 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Did Barack Obama denounce Communism and dictatorships when he visited Cuba as a puppet of the State?)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

PAY ATTENTION TO ME!!!!


18 posted on 01/03/2018 5:29:31 AM PST by AppyPappy (Don't mistake your dorm political discussions with the desires of the nation)
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To: Hot Tabasco

Patsy. ISIS is looking for white perpetrators who can “pass security” profiling.

His almost second wife (from Syria) was listed as an un-named co-conspirator.


19 posted on 01/03/2018 5:29:45 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Did Barack Obama denounce Communism and dictatorships when he visited Cuba as a puppet of the State?)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

The first and only clue: “converted to *slam”. Conversion to the death cult is ipso facto rejecting American citizenship and must be met with immediate confiscation of passport and deportation to the m*slim country of one’s choice.


20 posted on 01/03/2018 5:29:50 AM PST by I want the USA back (Lying Media: willing and eager allies of hate-America savages.)
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