FBI Foils Idaho Church Attack by ISIS Sympathizer

Newsmax ^ | April 9, 2024 | Peter Malbin

[Navy Patriot]

The FBI arrested a man on Saturday who pledged his alliance to ISIS and planned to attack churches in Idaho.

Alexander Scott Mercurio, 18, was charged with attempting to provide material support or resources to a designated foreign terrorist organization, according to the Justice Department. The FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force conducted the investigation, CNN reported.

Mercurio planned to attack churches in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, on Sunday “using weapons, including knives, firearms, and fire,” according to court documents cited by the Justice Department.

“Thanks to the investigative efforts of the FBI, the defendant was taken into custody before he could act...

[Othniel77]

Knowing the people of Coeur d’Alene I think he would have hardly gotten his gun up before being taken down by some hero.

[Eagles6]

Like the “Draw Mohammed” cartoon contest, in Garland, TX, where the FBI agent / handler accompanied the terrorists, to the scene, encouraging them.

[existentially_kuffer]

A recent islamic convert?

[steve86]

Uh, no.

[Paladin2]

Sounds like a case where the FIB are grooming the groomable in order to score a save.

[Owen]

Is there some reason media reports about anything at all should be believed?

[Navy Patriot]

Sounds like a case where the FIB are grooming the groomable in order to score a save.

Yep, .... the last time the Feds were in Idaho, they tried to Entrap and Blackmail someone who could not be intimidated, with disastrous results:

Ruby Ridge - United States history

[Organic Panic]

My default position is to not believe a single word from the Stasi. I mean FBI.

[blackdog]

Groomed by the feds.

[null and void]

Good police work or good Grooming?

Unknowable.

But at least this time they didn't show up after the slaughter and blandly say he was on their radar...

[existentially_kuffer]

>>>”I am going to perform a martyrdom operation very soon,” he allegedly wrote in one recent message.

Uh, no? Now why would non-muslim say ‘martyrdom’?

[MtnClimber]

I suspect moron implicated for pre-election propaganda to influence other morons who have not seen this game before.

[Seruzawa]

It’s easy to find the guy you entrapped in the first place.

[zeugma]

Good police work or good Grooming?

I just wonder how long the FBI has been grooming this idiot. How long have they been encouraging him and providing him with assistance?

[Ajnin]

FBI has become just like the ACLU. Let a thousand corrupt cases go and take a stand on a couple cases to try and maintain credibility.

[bray]

Fake.

[bray]

Most churches in ID he would be dead before his second shot.

[metmom]

Sure.

After reading the headline that the deliberately set people up to destroy them, I’m supposed to believe this?

[BiteYourSelf]

Exactly!🤔

[BiteYourSelf]

I suspect that he’s mentally handicapped.🤔