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Chicago man convicted of helping Islamic State spread violent message, encourage terrorist attacks
Chicago Tribune ^ | June 27, 2025 | Jason Meisner

Posted on 06/27/2025 3:56:45 PM PDT by PBRCat

Nearly seven years after the feds raided his Northwest Side home, a Chicago IT specialist was convicted Friday of helping the Islamic State terrorist group through a media campaign that encouraged attacks, celebrated beheadings and other gruesome violence and taunted Western culture with memes like a headless Santa delivering a bomb.

U.S. District Judge John Robert Blakey issued his verdict following a rare bench trial that began last month, convicting Ashraf al Safoo on 11 counts, including providing material support to a terrorist organization, conspiracy to transmit threats in interstate commerce, and computer fraud.

Al Safoo faces up to 130 years behind bars when he’s sentenced on Oct. 9.

(Excerpt) Read more at chicagotribune.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: Illinois; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: chicago; isis; islamterrorism
This is Illinois... no comments from Johnson or Pritzker.
1 posted on 06/27/2025 3:56:45 PM PDT by PBRCat
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To: PBRCat

hmmm, isn’t that what abrego garcia or whatever his name is is accused of?


2 posted on 06/27/2025 3:58:17 PM PDT by Bob434 (Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana)
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To: PBRCat

ALL muslims need to be deported.

We cannot take the risk of ones like him being here and until we can figure out some foolproof way of vetting them, it’s not worth the risk.

Lives are at stake.


3 posted on 06/27/2025 3:59:59 PM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon." Amen. Come, Lord Jesus)
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To: PBRCat

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcROhOrc5bBlw_3fG8aympbSv8NvhgEs0FYjIg&s


4 posted on 06/27/2025 4:07:52 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in thays of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: PBRCat
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This is the dork...Maybe a convert to Islam?

5 posted on 06/27/2025 4:14:05 PM PDT by dennisw (💯🇺🇸 Truth is Hate to those who Hate the Truth. 🇺🇸💯)
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To: PBRCat

Nearly seven years after


?


6 posted on 06/27/2025 4:20:58 PM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued, but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere)
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To: PBRCat

He’s running for mayor.

There’s a good chance he’ll win................


7 posted on 06/27/2025 4:24:20 PM PDT by Tzimisce ( )
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To: dennisw

Most likely.


8 posted on 06/27/2025 4:34:56 PM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: metmom

Exactly.


9 posted on 06/27/2025 4:35:05 PM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: metmom

Agreed.


10 posted on 06/27/2025 4:44:59 PM PDT by Bigg Red ( Lord, make me an instrument of your peace.)
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To: PBRCat

“Chicago man” who is naturalized from Iraq.

Denaturalize him and deport him back after he serves his time here.


11 posted on 06/27/2025 4:54:39 PM PDT by TheDon (Remember the J6 political prisoners! Remember Ashli Babbitt!)
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To: PBRCat

He should have ran for Mayor. Then he wouldn’t have been
Arrested.


12 posted on 06/28/2025 5:43:15 AM PDT by midwest_hiker
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