Posted on 08/20/2022 12:19:36 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo
A Pakistani doctor formerly employed by the Mayo Clinic in Rochester as a research coordinator has pleaded guilty to attempting to provide material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization, namely ISIS.
Muhammad Masood, 30, a licensed medical doctor in Pakistan, was formerly employed at the clinic in Rochester, Minn., under an H-1B Visa.
Charges say between January 2020 and March 2020, Masood made several statements to others pledging his allegiance to the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (“ISIS”) and its leader, and expressing his desire to travel to Syria to fight for ISIS.
Masood also expressed his desire to conduct “lone wolf” terrorist attacks in the United States.
On Feb. 21, 2020, Masood purchased a plane ticket from Chicago, Ill., to Amman, Jordan, and from there planned to travel to Syria. On March 16, 2020, Masood’s travel plans changed because Jordan closed its borders to incoming travel due to the coronavirus pandemic. Masood then planned to fly from Minneapolis to Los Angeles to meet up with an individual who he believed would assist him with travel via a cargo ship to deliver him to ISIS territory.
On March 19, 2020, Masood traveled from Rochester to Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport (MSP) to board a flight bound for Los Angeles, Calif. Upon arrival at MSP, Masood checked in for his flight and was subsequently arrested by the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force.
Masood remains incarcerated in federal custody to await sentencing at a later date.
the false idol of diversity strikes again
We have to stop charging our best and brightest with terrorism. The horror.
“under an H-1B Visa”
Another scam run by Big Business and the Chamber of Corruption.
Keep letting these murderous Third World mutts in here. “ I want a better ‘life’’.
Yeah. Sure you do.
*spit.*
Bring out the Helmans and bring out the best.
Only known to locals who live in Rochester, MN.
There is a 4 block area that is done to the max in downtown.
There is a special hotel within that area.
The entire area was funded by money from Saudi Arabia.
The hotel is for Saudi patents.
Toasted potato bread, garden tomato slice and cracked pepper is where I’d begin my research.
Just love American immigration policy.
Another scam run by Big Business and the Chamber of Corruption.
It has been run this way from the end of the Cold War. US scientists and technologists were tossed aside for immigration of at least 65,000 per year each year. Some years it went to 185,000. Bill Gates testified before Congress about the need for H1b visas in the mid 1990s.
The great leaders of the USA should be proud of importing true enemies to develop, research and work the latest technologies. It is a shame that the consequences of such an ahistorical policy will not be limited to the morally corrupt "great leaders" who deserve those consequences.
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